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what entity gets to the bottom of whether there s a real conflict here as it pertains to fox news? right, and that s a good point. it s a tucker program, not fox s newsroom, it wasn t like a fox journalist assigned to go to kenosha who was work on this. it was tucker carlson who accommodation with incendiary opinion and commentary, and is really operating on his own within the fox universe. they are trial to build up a streaming service, and this is u ultimately about trying to get people to sign up far documentary and pay money on a streaming service. you think about some of the commercial interests in effect here. commercial interests apparently from these donors who want to see what happened with their money and commercial interests for fox news, and what we see more broadly, fred, as you have been talking about is this valorization of kyle rittenhouse, not that he is innocent but he s being valorized and promoted and celebrated by many in right wing
media, and what you see with the documentary promoted for next month is this is going to go on for a while, that this trial is over, but rittenhouse is not going away, and as i said, no comment yet from fox. the official word is no money changed hands. i have a lot of questions and i think others do too, about the circumstances around this. among those questions about, you know, how knowing that there was this attention or documentary effort around kyle rittenhouse, i mean, that s not typical for any defendant, and i wonder how that also played into the posture of the defendant during the trial knowing that there was this interest, there was this pursuit of a documentary even well before there was a verdict. right. that s right. that s very interesting. it s sort of, we have only seen now on the surface, and i guess in the days and weeks to come, we ll see the rest of it. all right. thank you so much, brian stelter, fascinating stuff, appreciate it.
when it was revealed a tucker carlson crew was embedded with the defense team and filming a documentary the entire time. here s rittenhouse himself reacting to the verdict in part of that footage. the jury reached the correct verdict. self-defense is not illegal. and i believe that i will came to the correct verdict, and i m glad everything went well. it s been a rough journey but we made it through it. rittenhouse s attorney said he didn t like the tucker carlson crew being there but was basically powerless to stop it. i did not approve of that. i threw them out of the room several times. they were and i m not suggesting that fox or some other network, i don t think a film crew is appropriate.
also out here before the verdict was read. jacob blake was the black man that kenosha police shot, and he is now paralyzed from the waist down. that incident is what spurred these protests where rittenhouse clashed with protesters to begin with. and the family of jacob blake called the whole verdict very emotional and disheartening. of course they re also calling for blake s case to be reopened. so a lot here. it s still very tense in the community, a lot of local leaders, including the president himself asked for people to express their views in a peaceful way, and at least in the kenosha community, they definitely followed that, and it s been pretty quiet since yesterday. natasha chen, thank you so much in kenosha. a lot to talk about here. we re joined by larry sidelin, a former florida circuit court judge who presided over the anna