jordan has been. i want to play what you said about that. not many people talking about michael jordan. you know, michael jordan hasn t done anything, nothing for the black community in america besides just giving them money. i feel like we need to call out these athletes. i at least lebron james is going out there and, you know, being the voice of all this people who are oppressed in america. now, that was a pretty serious swipe at jordan there. you did say he s used his money to be clear. you know, significant contributions to the naacp defense fund, the national museum of african american national history, boys and girls clubs, two health clinics in charlotte. are those fair comments about jordan? you know, silence is violence. and you know what is so crazy, not many people knows about this, but the black athletes in nba are the one reaching out to me and telling me that to talk about michael jordan. because besides giving any money, he hasn t done much. you know,
hey there i m stephanie ruhle live at msnbc headquarters here in new york city. it is tuesday, november 23rd. and we begin this morning s broadcast with breaking news. all eyes on brunswick, georgia, where closing arguments are resuming right now. in the trial of the three men accused of killing ahmaud arbery. this is the prosecution s rebuttal to the defense s closing argument from yesterday. let s listen in. so don t leave the house. here s an alternative. call the police. don t chase down strangers to confront them. don t go after pedestrians in your truck. common sense tells you, you go in a truck after a pedestrian, have you ever had a strange truck with people start yelling at you? would that startle you? i don t know. we don t know what was in the mind of ahmaud arbery. i mean, what do you think? these strange men pulling up in a truck, then not relenting and not backing off. how about some empathy. remember, listen, emphasize. where is the empathy, where did they go
take a look at this. he told you he s not going to chase or investigate someone who is armed. and yet all he talked about was, well, he kept reaching in his pants, he kept reaching in his pocket. well, did you think he was armed or not? then what d he tell you? this is what i was thinking. mr. arbery may have run by, maybe matt had seen him. maybe he has broken in. maybe larry english is over at 220. i don t know. maybe ahmaud arbery was caught. maybe ahmaud arbery is running from the police. these are all maybes. he doesn t know anything. these are all the maybes he testified to. he said he assumed he was committing a crime. that s what he said on the stand. remember, i wrote it out. you said, you assumed you were committing a crime. i went down there to see if it was him. then he said, i don t know. i don t know what he did that day. i don t know. then he wanted to talk about his totality of the circumstances and all that stuff that he knew that was going to allow him to do
rittenhouse took the witness stand in his own defense, and this is what the jury saw. sobbing. the defendant appearing unable to speak at times as he explained how he fatally shot two people and wounding a third during unrest in kenosha, wisconsin. there were three people right there take a deep breath, kyle. that s what his mother also appeared to cry as she looked on. rittenhouse testified that he was acting in self-defense while protecting private property and providing first aid, even though he said he knew one of the men he killed was unarmed. prosecutors repeatedly questioned his motives, saying he was just looking for trouble that night. the fireworks didn t stop there. the other moment came from the judge in this case. throughout the day he unleashed on the prosecution, accusing them of a grave constitutional violation as they cross-examined the teenager. and at one point, the judge s cell phone rang out loud, playing the patriotic anthem, god bless the
Do you see the second person come out and go around the truck? greg mcmichael. where s greg mcmichael? greg mcmichael is sitting this-in that car seat, right? second person comes around. then what happens? then mr. albenze walks down the street. he s walking. he s walking. he s walking. he s walking. truck pulls out. wow. truck pulls out. mr. albenze does his pointing when the truck is already pulled out and going down the street. want to see it again? back it up. here we go. there s mr. albenze. there s the black car. there goes ahmaud. running down the street.