about what this investment means for her state. meanwhile, a rare day of protests expected in cuba today, but will demonstrators be allowed to take to the streets? nbc s morgan radford spoke to organizers in cuba about the intimidation tactics they are facing from the regime. at any moment, the judge in the kyle rittenhouse trial will deliver instructions to the jury. shortly after, the prosecution and the defense will give their closing arguments. and as the jury prepares to deliberate the case, kenosha, wisconsin, is on edge, with the governor putting 500 national guard members on standby. joining me now is nbc news correspondent, gabe gutierrez outside the courthouse. also joining me, nbc news legal analyst, maya wiley. gabe, let me start with you. you spoke with rittenhouse s mother ahead of closing arguments. what did she tell you? reporter: hi, there, jose, good morning. she says that knowing what she knows now that her son probably should not have gone to kenosha
all right, thank you very much for watching. it s time for the big show. don lemon tonight with its big star, d. lemon. and we ve got a lot of news. you do have a lot of news. you have all the heavy aspects of the rittenhouse trial. the judge wouldn t let him be questioned about why he may be given can we talk about this judge? sure. so i ve been sitting back longest serving judge on the wisconsin bench. okay, fine. just sitting back and watching just as a lay person, right, just kind of watching this, watching this, watching this. and i think the legal analysts because they are legal analysts and they want to keep, you know, their composure and they re used to being they re paying deference to the judge. he s ridiculous. his antics are absolutely ridiculous. and today, chris, saying that someone who writes for a biased publication that has been favorable to kyle rittenhouse and that has spoken out against black lives matter, that that should not be brough
the backdrop of this trial from the defense tenth witness drew hernandez on the streets of kenosha on the night of the shooting. have you ever posted anything on social media in support of kyle rittenhouse? one could argue, yes. reporter: it was a recurring theme brought about by the prosecution. your videos you ve captured of these incidents you call riots, they re very slanted against the people who are rioting. you characterize them as antifa, black lives matter rioters, correct? because they re rioting in the footage, yes. reporter: hernandez was called by the defense largely to draw contrast between joseph rosenbaum, the first killed by rittenhouse in august 2020 in the aftermath of protests in kenosha. rosenbaum was charging kyle rittenhouse from that. did you hear that realtime? hear it and saw it in realtime. reporter: compared with kyle rittenhouse. did you observe him acting in an aggressive manner to anyone you observed? in no way, shape or