hey there i m stephanie ruhle live at msnbc headquarters here in new york city. it is tuesday, november 23rd. and we begin this morning s broadcast with breaking news. all eyes on brunswick, georgia, where closing arguments are resuming right now. in the trial of the three men accused of killing ahmaud arbery. this is the prosecution s rebuttal to the defense s closing argument from yesterday. let s listen in. so don t leave the house. here s an alternative. call the police. don t chase down strangers to confront them. don t go after pedestrians in your truck. common sense tells you, you go in a truck after a pedestrian, have you ever had a strange truck with people start yelling at you? would that startle you? i don t know. we don t know what was in the mind of ahmaud arbery. i mean, what do you think? these strange men pulling up in a truck, then not relenting and not backing off. how about some empathy. remember, listen, emphasize. where is the empathy, where did they go
True and honest. and capable. kids are capable of understanding contradiction. school groups are going to sand creek. they re looking at the word massacre, hearing this thing and going, that s too bad. how did that happen? we re just asking questions. nobody is saying this group is bad. this group is good. they re saying bad things happen amidst the extraordinary things that have occurred in the story of the united states, which has been my beef for 50 years. it has. and you ve done it better than anybody in these documentaries. you know, i love this country so much, and that means i love facing down our failings. and celebrating our greatness and, ken burns, you help us do both. thank you so much. you can watch the new opinion documentary at washingtonpost.com. that does it for us this morning. stephanie ruhle picks up the coverage right now.