life suggests he s a danger to society now, or will be a danger to society 30 years from now. reporter: in the end jaj wamsley pointed to the mcmichael s lack of remorse, pausing to reflect on ahmad s final moments, the 25-year-old was out for a jog when he was chased, shot and killed. the judge noted bryan who did express remorse earned a parole possibility because of it. as for arbery s family, relief to see justice. what will you go home with in your heart tonight? the day that i laid ahmad to rest i told him that we would get justice. i have finally fulfilled that promise to ahmad. we have just for you. we got justice today. will you sleep soundly? i will. reporter: this is not the final chapter for these three defendants. next month they will head to federal court, where they face hate crime charges, we re told, new racial motive, and social media evidence will take center stage in those proceedings.
people. yeah. dr. wen, thank you for that. i always appreciate your perspective. thank you so very much. and thank you all very much for being with us this hour. we re continuing to track developments out of washington, out of georgia with the sentencing for the murders of ahmaud arbery. we ll bring you all of those updates with inside politics with john king that starts right now. hello, everybody. twoum inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing your day with us. the cdc director under fire at a key pandemic moment. today dr. walensky holds her first solo briefing with reporters since the summer, that as new cnn reporting details frustrations with walensky at the white house and among some cdc scientists. plus, more covid economic disruption. the first jobs report of the new year is weak, but the unemployment rate sinks to a
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sweeping economic agenda, led by build back better, at least for now has been sidelined. what is going to happen? well, there is some great components of that bill and child care, adult care, looking at making sure training programs work, development programs, we look at where we are in society with some people going back to work, some people dropped out because they weren t getting fulfilled or weren t making enough money in their job. having the ability to train more people and working with private sector companies is important. as we move forward here, there will be many more conversations around the build back better bill as we move forward here. the president prioritized other bills in our country now. we re focused on a whole legislative package as we go into 2022. a lot going on, critically important assignments. mr. secretary, thanks so much for joining us. thank you. all right, minutes from now, a sentencing hearing will begin for the three men convicted of murder for
from the trial and the sentencing? well, i think that s a really important point, and i think we need to understand that the case of ahmaud arbery is not necessarily unique in that regard. there are so many different instances that we ve seen and covered, that we ve talked about where prosecutors have declined to even prosecute in the space of evidence that suggests that they should. prosecutors have declined to predict to the grand jury in cases where perhaps they should have. in that way ahmaud arbery s case needs to be a landmark in terms of changing the tide. viewers need to understand it is a number of different things that are going on in this case that involve future legal entanglements. we talked about those before the break. there is the hate crimes charge and trial that will take place on the federal level, of course. but there s also and the defense attorneys have said they are likely to appeal the convictions here. but most importantly, we also