rittenhouse not guilty. jesse: kyle rittenhouse is a free man. the 18-year-old breaking down in tears while hearing the jury find not guilty on all five accounts. he was accused of killing two men and injuring a third in the kenosha riots this year. things looking quite outside the courthouse. the city and the country hoping it stays that way when it gets dark. as for the verdict, the prosecutors in the case say they respect it but the defense is putting them on blast over how the played out. winning on the canary brothers when you know they are lying, changing your provocatiot my client chased him down and shot him in the back, calling him an active shooter when he is not. you know, justice is done when the truth is reached and i don t know that it is set up to do that but a prosecutor is supposed to seek the truth. it s not about winning in this case became about winning and that is probably why it got so personal. jesse: your reaction? greg: i wonder how joy reid f
we go now to kenosha where alexis mcadams is live on the ground with more reaction. alexis? good morning. there was a lot of emotion inside of that courtroom here in kenosha, wisconsin. but those emotions didn t really flood out here onto the streets like some people expected as they braced for that verdict here in the kyle rittenhouse trial. and getting to what we know so far. so after more than 20 hours of deliberations behind those closed doors here in wisconsin the jury finding kyle rittenhouse not guilty on all five counts. the illinois teen now free after shooting three men killing two during the unrest following the police shooting of jacob blake in kenosha, wisconsin last summer. as each count was read rittenhouse breaking down in court grabbing his knees and the family very emotional. i looked at kyle and he looked at me and it was just one of those, you know, finally, finally. like kyle gets to start his life as a young man as an innocent, an acquitted, as a n
end of the hour tonight we have california s assembly member marc berman, who is the guy who has put into law, got the governor s signature on this law, that now makes it law that in every election in california voters will be mailed a ballot. every single time you go to the mailbox for the election in california in the future. sober tour turner there has skyrocketed with the vote by mail. it may continue to. well california is not the first state to do this. we have other states that have done this, pretend damik, there are states that have been working this for using this policy effectively four years, to get some of the higher voter turnout in the country, not a controversial shooting at all. but a huge leap into the next century. as big as an important as california to be doing it. and of course leading off for us tonight senator, who had very big moments and had very big hearings today to probe pramila jayapal, is going to be here with the latest on what s happenin
definitely with anything that we are watching on capitol hill right now. this has never been done before which is the thing i have been saying from the start about it. it is remarkable to me how smoothly it went at the early stages. especially for, example, the budget resolution. every democrat voted for the 3.5 trillion-dollar budget resolution in the house and in the senate. they already voted for that number they are now saying maybe not that number the time to raise that was back when you cast your vote first vote on that number. they are tumbling up few order you re supposed to have that kind of confusion earlier in the bill, they are having it later in the. bill so i am a spectator, i am just here watching this one. i don t know what the next play is, we will see what happens. that is kind of the way things go in life, if things start of going easier than expect, you re like, don t jinx, at discount last. usually means this doesn t last. whatever seems easy now you
Listen, i want i m okay with people s businesses burning, people getting hurt. because it s going to fall on donald trump. and there is an election coming. so if i can say that donald trump is causing riots and burning and looting in america, that s good politically. right now though he has called in the national guard. rachel: it s in his political interest now. election in one year. lawrence: that s a good point. i want to get your reaction to this the prosecutor when he was speaking to the jury almost made fun of the people that businesses that were looted. he said oh rioters, as someone there on the ground how did you feel about hearing the prosecution do that? it s an outrage. people that night, those three nights lost everything. i mean, 100 businesses were affected. never reopened again. kenosha is not a big city. it s not new york city. it is a big hit. $50 million in damage. i m heart broken for everybody that was there. when i returned a year later there were still plac