of criminal justice reform. more with andy mccarthy and rafael coming up. sandra: president biden, no good, horrible, very bad week. first year of his presidency, major set backs to his agenda and plummeting approval numbers. hello and welcome everyone, i m sandra smith in new york. and here we made it to friday, john. john: good to be with you on friday, nothing sounds as good as that word. john roberts in washington. the president facing a litany, criticizing election overhaul speech. approval rating sinking to 33% in a new quinnipiac poll. the supreme court blocking the vaccine mandate for large businesses. sandra: also, key democratic senators joe manchin and kir sten sinema opposing changes to the filibuster, and the president acknowledging it will likely fail and covid-19 hospitalizations at a record high, even though he campaigned on getting it under control. jacqui heinrich from theorth lawn. how is the white house taking all this, what is the mood around there?
protests following the police shooting of jacob blake. a juror today asked a very interesting question, got a more interesting answer from the judge. she said, can i take home the jury instructions? remember, they re not sequestered. the judge said yes. now, there s no reason to speculate about it, but it certainly raises an eyebrow. what s she going to do with them at home? is she going to ask somebody else about it? she s not supposed to. we have no reason to believe that this juror tends to do anything else. but that s a curious situation in that courtroom. in georgia the prosecution went after travis mcmichael on cross-examination for the killing of ahmaud arbery. here s a taste. so you re telling this jury that ia man who has spent five minutes running away from you you re now thinking is somehow going to want to continue to engage with you, someone with a shotgun, and your father, a man who s just said stop or i ll blow your [ bleep ] head off by trying to get in th
the kyle rittenhouse jury, they re going to go into a fourth day of deliberations starting tomorrow morning. they re done for the night. they ve already spent a combined 23 hours. what does that mean? it s proof of the complexity of the case. it s proof of the difficulty of deciding the killer s fate. even after he shot and killed two people and injured another in kenosha, wisconsin during the protests following the police shooting of jacob blake. a juror today asked a very interesting question, got a more interesting answer from the judge. she said, can i take home the jury instructions? remember, they re not sequestered. the judge said yes. now, there s no reason to speculate about it, but it certainly raises an eyebrow. what s she going to do with them at home? is she going to ask somebody else about it? she s not supposed to. we have no reason to believe that this juror tends to do anything else. but that s a curious situation in that courtroom. in georgia the prosecution
his own defense. he described his confrontation before the fatal shooting. he looks very angry. describe that. what do you mean. mad. it wasn t what i expected. for just coming up and talking to him. it was clinched teeth. he was mad. which made me think something something s happened. mcmichael will be back on the stand today as prosecutors resume their cross-examination. in charlottesville, virginia, jurors will hear closing arguments in the unite the right civil trial for the deadly violence that erupted in 2017. assistant professor of law alexis hogue and civil rights attorney and former new york prosecutor charles f. coleman jr. i want to start with the professor. one of the defendants on the stand, travis mcmichael, describing the moment that shots were fired there. his justification for self-defense. what s the defense trying to do here and do you think it worked? the defense has a massive hill to climb here. you can t have it both ways. you can t be an