host: you are right on the term, a batson challenge. thanks for the call. some background. in 1986, the supreme court issued an opinion that formally acknowledge the importance of a jury that represents the accused peers as well as a community decided by a 7-2 vote, that was batson v kentucky. this article came out about the time of the ahmaud arbery trial. the batson case that the community is entitled to juries that represent the diversity of itself. when juries don't, it is devastating to the community and undermines the fairness of the community of justice, is what justice lewis powell wrote. it is wrong to strike or remove a potential juror because that juror is black. if the opposing side raises a batson challenge, then the attorney must articulate a race neutral reason for the strike. it also works the same way, striking white jurors because they are white. time for just a couple more calls in this segment have we been asking the question, does the jury trial system work? rachel, franklin, massachusetts, good morning. caller: good morning. and for taking my call. i'm

step batson has more from amsterdam. one of the free countries in europe no has district is locked down since 5 o'clock this morning, only essential shops are allowed to remain open and only 2 visitors are allowed at home. the decision came as a surprise to many here in the netherlands, and is specifically dramatic for business owners and the busy weeks before christmas and governments. and even though infections the army, crumbs vary and not as widespread as in other countries, yet they are concerned that in the next few weeks, hospital will be flooded. but the main reason, according to experts, is madeline performed poorly during the last outbreak. and many patients with a doubt that very and still in hospital also, and adults with one of the last countries to start and boost the campaign. so many people are not protected here. and the netherlands has refrain from taking unpopular mashes like for example, one or 2 g policy like in germany, the only people with vaccinations or tests can enter shops, restaurants, and bar

to have all these experts pushing elvis information but they are not talking about the vax foul batson what kind of trick in your fellow author. it's the thing they are not talking about it, that's the thing. >> a very nice example of that where they described the spike protein right at the start of the pandemic in this virus. and they just don't point out that it has got a feature that no other sars-like virus has ever had ended. and it's like describing the unicorn and not mentioning the horn. and that when you find out what that feature is, which it takes us a long time to explain in the book, it is a feature they've been putting into viruses deliberately in various places in order to make them easy to grow and laboratories. and they had a plan to do exactly that with sars-like viruses and wuhan. and that is disturbing because they knew western scientists knew about this plan, back in 2018. when the pandemic started, they didn't tell us. we found that out from leaked information just a couple of months ago. >> greg: you come away believing that this was a cover-up in a way. in -- th