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i m john berman, in for anderson. we will get to the men charged for killing ahmaud arbery in a moment but we begin with breaking news on a pair of legal cases that involve a violent right wing extremism in this country s recent history. first, in charlottesville, virginia, where a partial verdict was announced just hours ago in a civil case brought against some of those involved with that 2017 unite the right rally that left one woman, heather heyer, dead. in a moment, we ll hear reaction from her mother. first, though, cnn s elle reeve joins us now. elle, what can you tell us about the verdict? reporter: well, the jury was hung on the question of federal conspiracy charges relating to a law passed in the 1870s to fight the kkk but they did find these guys liable under a virginia conspiracy law. and that s really interesting because they the other defendants took great pains to say they never had any contact with james alex fields, who is convicted of first-degree ....
of violent right wing extremism in this country s recent history. first charlottesville, virginia where a partial verdict was announced hours ago in a civil case against some of those involved with the 2017 unite the right rally that left one woman dead. in a moment we ll hear reaction from her mother. first though, what can you tell us about the verdict. reporter: the jury was hung on federal conspiracy charges relating to a law passed in the 1970s to fight the kkk but did find these guys liable under a virginia conspiracy law. the other defendants took great pains to say they never had any contact with james alex fields convicted of first-degree murder for driving his car into a crowd and killing heather heier and is serving a life sentence. the jury found in some part the leaders of the group who glamorized violence or planned for it at the event are in some way responsible for those who came to the event and participated in the violence. you were there in 2017. ....
russia. a cnn exclusive on how the country is bolstering its troops. also ahead three, two, one and liftoff on the falcon nine. a mission that might one day save the planet. why nasa wants one of their spacecrafts to crash. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. thank you very much for joining us. just hours from now, jurors in brunswick, georgia, will begin their second day deliberating the case of three white men charged with killing ahmaud arbery, an unarmed black man. the jury spent just over six hours on tuesday deliberating the racially charged case, garnering international attention. defense attorneys argue the men acted in self-defense and were trying to make a citizen s arrest for suspected burglary when arbery was fatally shot last year. prosecutors claim the men were acting more sinister and pursued arbery because he was a black man running down the street in the defendant s neighborhood. all sides are striking an ....
what did he tell you? reporter: yeah, i was able to speak to kevin goff as he was outside of court, wanted to ask him a few questions just about the pressure of this moment, so as we were going through and just talking about this close, you got to think, this is the man who s been at the center of so much controversy. he s the one who talked about black pastors, he s the one talking about people coming into court so you really wanted to ask him questions about what his thought process was when it came to that. he did tell me he did not want to talk about that just right now because he believes it should be focused on the jury so i said to him, tell me about the pressure that you feel right now. he says, actually, he feels like all the attorneys in this case have no pressure. he believes it s the families involved in this case that have all the pressure on them at this point. and even said he feels for ahmaud arbery s family and that gave us a little bit of a pause. do ....
intentional homicide for the deaths of these victims, four of them grandmothers. and now a doorbell camera is giving us a look at the final moments before brooks surrendered to police on sunday. hey, i caught an uber and i m supposed to be waiting for it over here. the homeowner says he did not know about the mass casualty, and let brooks inside to use his phone. he asked him to leave when he spo spotted parole units riding up and down the street. the camera recorded the moments police closed in. whoa, whoa, whoa. cnn s adrienne broaddus is on this story for us. we know there is this hearing in a few hours, but the man who let that suspect into his home just talked to cnn, so what did he say? reporter: he s a 24-year-old. it was sunday. he was at home sitting in his recliner watching sunday football. he had no idea in regards to what was unfolding here on main street, and moments before brooks showed up at his door, he said his family had shared with him a sermo ....