with 1/4 moisturizing cream dove is the number one bar dermatologists use at home. it is the libel trial of the century, that s what one legal scholar told cnn as we await a verdict in sarah palin versus the new york times. this trial is under way in lower manhattan, it s now in the jury s hands, palin s lawyers claims the times libelled her because of a long-standing political vendetta against conservatives. this is all about an editorial from 2017. she argues the times acted recklessly by trying to connect her to a 2011 mass shooting in arizona. the times says it screwed up, it was sloppy, it made mistakes, it ran corrections but it wasn t guilty and isn t guilty of actual malice or reckless disregard for the truth. that s the legal standard that palin has to prove or the jurors have to believe. so jurors were handed the case
that play out in our justice system now? yeah. well, a, good to be back. missed you, buddy. it s one of those situations where we are prejudged all the time. we don t get the benefit of the doubt that you re just simply jogging in a nice neighborhood. you know, you re casing it. we don t get the benefit of the doubt that we re just shopping and we re not going to shoplift or that we re lawfully carrying as i do as a second amendment advocate but you know, there may be something wrong. kyle rittenhouse clearly got that benefit of the doubt. and that s the dichotomy that we see playing out in these trials. as you know, i ve been there in these cases. when i had walter scott, there was an air that we were fighting to prove he wasn t guilty, not that the cops were guilty. same thing with george floyd. when i was there in court every day. we were fighting to prove george floyd wasn t guilty of his own death. same thing with ahmaud arbery. but with rittenhouse we see
and that we re not going to shoplift, or that we re lawfully carrying, as i do as a second amendment advocate, but, you know, there may be something wrong. kyle rittenhouse clearly got that benefit of the doubt and that s the dichotomy we see playing out in these trials. when i had walter scott, there was an error that we were fighting to prove he wasn t guilty, not that the cops were guilty. same thing with george dpfloyd when i was there in court every day. we were fighting to prove george floyd wasn t guilty of his own death. same thing with ahmaud arbery. but with rittenhouse, we see there s an air of innocence watching it, and that s the dichotomy. and also it being made out to be a hero in some corners, with some media. chris, in the ahmaud arbery in the killing of ahmaud arbery, it wasn t until video surfaced that the three defendants were even arrested and faced charges.
type of selfish type of what can you do for me type of mentality. manipulative. manipulator, self-centered, and arrogant. maybe that s why derek never shied away from talking with the cops and why he never asked for a lawyer, or maybe he just wasn t guilty. definitely he thought he was smarter than we were, anyways. i mean, you know, what did we have. when derek was briefly arrested, detectives asked him who he was with at anderson park on the day crystal was murdered. remember, detective williams thought later it was probably c-styles, but cops had no way to prove it. and then under questioning, derek gave them one. he said he goes, i saw a woman in the back seat.
hillary clinton emails, that fact was important in opening this investigation. some conspiracy theories, well maybe an fbi informant and it wall w this is rigged. no report of that. stuff like that. on the other hand problems on the paperwork level, coordination level, sloppy, unprofessional conduct. so this one guy referred for criminal charges. i expect this is going to give both sides something to seize upon and say, see we re vindicated. either the fbi wasn t guilty of all of this stuff but did all this other bad stuff and in particular that attorney who s in trouble now is one of those people sending text messages suggesting he did not like the fact trump had been elected president. that s going to be a big thing we hear about. okay. both sides will have something to talk about after this report. charlie savage joining us, thank you. former new york city mayor michael bloomberg is spending more than $30 million in an