and in the nation s capital, president biden talking about this, and affirming the american jury system after this controversial acquittal. watch. i stand by what the jury has concluded. the jury system works. we re expecting to hear more from him later in the hour as he celebrates the house passing his social spending plan this morning, but his jnt isn t quite over the finish line yet. i m hallie jackson in washington. but we start with our team in and around kenosha, wisconsin. ellison barber, who is there. i m also joined by former u.s. attorney, rachel paulus, barbara mcquade, former prosecutor, paul henderson, and brittany pat nick cunningham. ellis, i have to start with you. you re on scene. we just heard from the defense attorney who i assume spoke not too far from where you are now. what do you expect in the next hour or so. have we heard from everybody that we expect to hear from at this point? given that we just got that statement from the prosecutor, i would
The prosecutor released a statement, i won t read the whole thing, but he did say, while we are disappointed with the verdict, it must be respected. julious kim, alana i m so sorry, i wasn t able to get back to you alana odoms. we will get you on the next case that we end up covering. that ll do it for me today. hallie jackson picks up our breaking news coverage right now. so we roll on with this rolling coverage here. not guilty on all counts for kyle rittenhouse, as you know. just hearing now from his defense attorney for the last 25 minutes or so. the jury finding kyle rittenhouse should be acquitted on all charges for shooting and killing two people and seriously hurting somebody else during that racial justice demonstrations in kenosha, wisconsin, last year. the defense had said rittenhouse was acting in self-defense and the jury has agreed. we re live in kenosha with the latest along with analysis from our team of legal experts.