hearing michael. let me go to elise while we get michael s sound straight. elise, i want to move on oh, am i hearing michael now? i think i hear michael. go ahead. i would say to you that the rittenhouse verdict is a horrific miscarriage of justice. you had a trial where the judge was often could be confused with someone on the defense team. and this is someone who has built his entire career on being tough on crime and being tough on defendants. but in this particular situation, he could have been confused for being the grandfather of the defendant or someone on his team and i think that s a sad situation to be in, given that two lives were lost. i would also say to you that the justice department has to examine the trial and how this entire situation was carried out, in that you had a man who had an illegal weapon and lived in another state and travel today wisconsin and shot two
people all over the world have come together to condemn this execution as a horrific miscarriage of justice. this afternoon i was at the prison we were almost stopped from conducting a prayer vigil. you re not going to stop me no more. just moments ago we saw police at the scene getting ready for a possible disturbance at the prison. joining me now, nbc news correspondent tom trong reporting from outside the prison. tell me what the scene is like now? reporter: well, al, i can show you, as we get closer to 7:00, take a look at the show the force. i would imagine this is going to be kind of a preventative measure at this point. you can see the guards and multiple riot police, prepared for any possible outbreak of