they re suffering and you know it feels wrong to them. the republicans could say unemployment is x percent. someone would say i don t have a job. democrats say you re right, things are bad. regan would say i understand but you re going to have a job soon and that s the difference and i think especially with the republican party that has no optimism left that has no positive message left, that biden needs to step forward and to be that happy warrior because that s who joe biden used to be and the office clearly weighs on it. he could make that case, i think. and here is the thing, dean, i think that tom is right. democrats are sort of weighed down by their empathy where they re like if one person is down, they go my god, everything is terrible and go down and start to do the beans and start to fix the beans and make it work. other than bill clinton going i know things seem bad right now but let me play this saxophone and they would be like oh, and everybody would be distracted. democr
number of documented lynchings in this country, second only to mississippi, it turns out you cannot chase someone just for being a black man jogging down the street. you cannot lynch a black man in broad daylight in 21st century america and expect to walk free. instead, a nearly all white jury sent a powerful rebuke of anti black terrorism a repudiation of georgia law steeped in racism and used as a justification for lynching black people. but as much as this was an open and shut case, it was pins and needles for those advocating for arbery and justice. the defense argued arbery was the one to blame, scorned his appearance. pushed to bar black pastors from the courtroom using race far more than the prosecution while suppressing evidence of their client s racism and we need to remember this case almost didn t happen at all. remember a previous prosecutor declined to even arrest the
lose his life in vain. jennifer, that murder was caught on tape. we saw it on video. how important do you think that video was to this case? what it have happened at all without it? that s hard to say. it certainly didn t happen without it for some time and in fact, we have a prosecutor under indictment herself for obstructing the case. i think it s fair to say that without a videotape, it s very, very unlikely that we would have seen this case brought. it s crucial. oftentimes nowadays with the cameras around, much more is being captured than ever before. here on a rural road, that wasn t the case. it was due to mr. bryan and his cell phone. you re right. without the tape, we would have nothing, so it s a good thing we did. so much more on this saga still to come. we know you ll be watching closely. elliot, jennifer, thank you and happy thanksgiving. thank you.
so she didn t do that. this is what she did argue. this is linda argued the right to liberty in america. guess what? we re citizens of the united states, right? we live here. we have liberty. this is a free country. other people can t stop us and hold us and detain us. they have to have actually seen us commit a crime to make a citizens arrest so you go around and stop stopping people, you re doing that in violation of their personal liberty. that s what actually worked, elie. look, the judge at the beginning of the case said that he saw evidence of racial bias in the jury selection but the judge declined to do anything about it. so going into that courtroom, you have to meet the jury where it is. you have to know what you re up against and here the prosecutor knew what she was up against and
mcmichaels calling the shooting perfectly legal. which is all to say that today is indeed a victory, a partial victory. partial since arbery s family will still have to have thanksgiving tomorrow without him. it was a fight because with a case of this with video of the actual murder for all the world to see, it was still a question of which way the jury would go and that perhaps says more about america s criminal justice system than seeing these three men behind bars. katie phang, charles coleman junior, civil rights attorney and former prosecutor, elie and jelani cobb. i want to do a round robin. is this verdict what you expected, i ll start with you, elie? yes, it s what i expected. it s illegal to lynch a black man in this country as long as you catch it on video. as long as you catch it on video and the dumb defendants leak