the anger is, the reaction is going to be and you don t want people to be influenced by the notion there are going to be riots. that s wrong. i think from a larger perspective and from the legislative perspective, i think this will have a huge impact. on capitol hill we saw two very well-respected members of congress, tim scott, cory booker, fail at their attempt to get criminal justice reform passed. these incidents put together, the charged nature of both of thome will make it more different. we re about to see. waukesha is i think about to become the issue in every wisconsin race at a minimum, if not nationally. it s going to feed into this whole debate over cash bail, over the fact that again, you look at every individual case, and in this anecdotal instance, this guy was out on a $1,000 bail for committing serious offenses. we can see the tv ads are being made. in fact, we saw them made in 1988. exactly.
of, which is kyle rittenhouse and the verdict there, which angered so many. some would argue on the right, jury trials worked in both cases. look, the thing about the justice system is you have to look at the facts of any one case, and you also we also saw the trial unfold, and were the prosecutors in the rittenhouse case as good as the prosecutors in the arbery case? no, i don t think they were. and the judges explained the law to the jury in a different way. the judge in the rittenhouse case was well known for favoring the defense side over the prosecution side in almost every case. i don t want to say that a thumb was on the scales of justice there.
way down from its summer peak in late august. the cases there have begin to bump up a bit again. governor reeves, welcome to meet the press. i know for what it s worth we invited you to talk about the mississippi abortion case, and i do want to get to that, but let me start with covid. you let your state of emergency on covid expire last week. given the news of the last week, do you have a metric in mind in your own head of when you might reinstitute that state of emergency? well, chuck, thanks for having me on this morning. i really do appreciate it. i hope you did have a happy thanksgiving as well. we re certainly monitoring this new variant. we certainly don t have all the data we need to make decisions at this time. obviously as dr. fauci was very clear and pointed out directly, our cases are down significantly. we re at a seven-day moving average of about 235 cases. that s down over 90% from where we were in mid to late summer. you look at total hospitalizations in mississip
million fully vaccinated mississippians. we re doing about 50,000 vaccines a week. we want to continue on that trend. i m going to continue to encourage it. you know, the only thing i know to do, i ve encouraged vaccines from the beginning. i actually took my shots on facebook live. i don t like shots very much. that was my way in which to tell the people of mississippi i think this is the best way for you to protect yourselves. i also believe in individual liberties and freedoms and i believe people can make their own decisions on what s best for them after they talk to their physicians. let me switch gears, speaking of individual freedom that i think people might have a difference of opinion on. this week the supreme court will hear oral arguments on a case of a mississippi law that would ban all abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. do you hope that the supreme court makes this law legal within the framework of roe v. wade or over turns roe v. wade completely? i know your views o
widely. the first da in brunswick, georgia has been indicted. the state had to appoint a special prosecutor to prosecute the case because the original da is indicted for obstruction of justice for knowingly and purposefully not bringing the case to trial. thankfully, one of the defendants released a video, i don t know why he did, he released the video for whatever reason we learned about it and that s how this case came to trial. the jury system won. your thoughts? i agree with the last thing that harold said. first of all, there was shameful coverage and commentary, especially on the rittenhouse case. but in the end, i think a fair observer of both trials would look and say that the jury system works in both cases. regardless of what your ideological predispositions were, i think both of the juries reached the correct verdicts. all right, we asked our esteemed panelists for their predictions on president biden s unexpected blind spots between now and the end of the year. howie,