seek to suppress coverage of that and the ioc will go along. the other problem though , is the corporate support that gives billions of dollars for the rights to advertise and to broadcast these games. truly extraordinary. you have a lot of companies that are not shy about speaking out. the coca-cola company headquartered in atlanta actually made a political statement about the georgia election law, but they have remained silent about the only bricks in beijing. arthel: i have 20 and back your point about the speaker telling the us athletes to keep it down i guess for safety purposes. we have freedom of speech here, but you saw what happened to the dutch reporter. your take? i agree with that and there is a concern and you don t want an american ending up in jail in china. i can understand, but on
end of the counts, kyle rittenhouse s jaw just starts shaking. he s hopeful and realizing that perhaps he has gotten not guilty verdicts on all of these. incredibly dramatic to watch. thanks, andy and bob. we re waiting for live events as they come throughout the hour as well. i want to bring in my next guest. she s a veteran jury expert and trial consultant. well-known for developing a jury profile of the 12 people that acquitted o.j. simpson in 1995. she picked the jury and worked for the rittenhouse defense, consulted with the attorneys and gave them here feedback on the witnesses. flew back early for the verdict for safety purposes and sat with kyle s mother, wendy in the courtroom. dr. joelle len joins us for the first interview.
0 rittenhouse has to get on with his life the best he can. the attorney said i don t think he will continue to live in this area saying it s too dangerous. he s had 24/7 security since this all happened. john, great to be covering this breaking news with you. i m sandra smith. john: and i m john roberts taking off next week so have a good thanksgiving. the story with martha starts now. martha: thank you very much, john and sandra. good afternoon. i m martha maccallum. breaking right now on the story, not guilty verdicts for kyle rittenhouse as we look at the live scene outside of the courthouse in kenosha, wisconsin. a place that we have all become much more familiar with over the course of this trial and over the remembrance last summer of the violence that spilled in to the streets and what we saw take place on that august evening in 2020. so we have just heard from his attorney moments ago. we heard some of what his take-away was in terms of this case and as we just watched
director is declaring a cold gun and handing it to the actor, when wouldn t the weapons person be the one to handle the gun at all times for safety purposes? or am i it certainly should have been. it it suggests they were rushed and replaced the crew earlier this day. one report i saw said that mr. baldwin was trying to get a dummy gun, a real gun for what he was doing and apparently didn t have one onset. and so, again, at every step there was a failure, you know? it s a small production maybe they didn t have the right things in place and trying to rush. there s know reason the assistant director should have done that. griff: and obviously as reported there had been incidences in previous movies and this one shocking hollywood and the film community. what does this tell you going forward about weapons onset? it s interesting, we have, this was an independent production, there s a done of production, new streaming services and a lot of folks putting content out there. this i think
questioning, but we re learning from court records today the person i told you about last night, the assistant director on the set, the person who actually handed alec baldwin prior to that shooting according to an interview with detectives in court records he actually indicated he failed to conduct a proper inspection of that firearm and ammunition in it before actually handing it to baldwin which of course gets us to that question of liability. that s something we ve been obviously focusing on. who is actually responsible? is it the person who handed the weapon to baldwin, is it baldwin himself? we re learning from that man himself he failed to properly inspect that weapon for safety purposes. as i said when we introduced you, you spoke with the santa fe district attorney today. this is a big investigation, hundreds of pieces of evidence to go through, lots more people to interview. did she give you any sort of time line? you know, she said this is something unlike anything they