we are all waiting for justice to come by way of holding the actions of jackie johnson accountable for trying to obstruct the case. >> ck, we have the audio ficked. i want you to finish your thought. >> i just have to say this. the conduct is reprehencible. she obstructed the investigation. gregory mcmichael said my son killed someone. what should we do? she instructed them to go home and wash. get washed, showered and then go to the police station. she also told two police officers to stand down and not arrest the mcmichaels or mr. bryan. there was no investigation at the scene of the shooting. this is highly unusual. she injected in that. and then because of the conflict by the community that greg mcmichael was an investigator she recused herself and polluted the case before that and referred it to someone that worked in her office and worked with mr. mcmichaels the father so that person had to stand down and ultimately sent to cobb county. she also with the attorney general failed to disclose the conflict of interest. there's so many things. that's just a tip of the iceberg. the con

. >> after the shooting occurs, gregory mcmichael calls his former boss, jackie johnson. >> jackie johnsonrney down in brunswick. >> jackie, this is greg. can you call me as soon as you possibly can? um, my son and i have been involved in a shooting, and i need some advice right away. could you please call me as soon as you possibly can? thank you. bye. >> greg mcmichael calls his former boss, district attorney jackie johnson, saying, i've been involved in a shooting. i need some advice. please call me. we don't know for sure if they ever actually connected and talked. there's nothing in the records that they actually talked in person. >> jackie johnson told law enforcement officers that day that they should not arrest travis mcmichael. for the murder of ahmaud arbery. >> so, the process was influenced by persons that had relationships with the mcmichaels. >> the mcmichaels are brought down to the police station, interviewed, and released. >> there were no arrests. it was as if there had been a traffic accident. and after questioning, greg mcmichael and travis mcmichael went home. >> it's

she couldn't find justice in the glynn county -- on february 23, there was a prosecutor named jackie johnson. wanda cooper prayed and she made criminal charges herself. when she came to glynn county, when she was looking for justice and glynn county, she was faced with a corrupt legal system that did not investigate her sons death during the course the child. -- trial. she did her own investigation and hired her own attorneys. can you all join me in giving around of applause? [applause] >> amen. >> i just want to thank you guys. thank you. thank you to everyone of you. you fought the fight with us. it has been a long fight. it is been a hard fight. but god is good. >> yes he is. early in, i never thought this day would come. back in 2020. i never thought this day would come. but god is good. i was going to tell everybody thank you. thank you for those who marched, those who prayed, most of all the ones who prayed. thank you god. thank you. you know him as ahmad, i know him as my son. he will rest in peace. >> amen. [applause] [inaudible] >> you all heard what came out of marcus aubrey when t

on february 23, there was a prosecutor named jackie johnson. standing in our way. wanda cooper prayed and she made criminal charges herself. >> that's right. >> when she was looking for justice in glynn county, when she came, she was faced with a corrupt legal system that did not investigate her son's death during the course of the trial. she did her own investigation and hired her own attorneys. can you all join me in giving a round of applause for this mother? [applause] wanda, do you want to come forward? come on. >> i just want to say, thank you guys. thank you. thank you to each and every one of you. you fought the fight with us. it has been a long fight. it has been a hard fight. but god is good. >> yes, he is. >> early in, i never thought this day would come. back in 2020. i never thought this day would come. but god is good. i just want to tell everybody, thank you. thank you, for those who marched, those who prayed, most of all, the ones who prayed. thank you god. -- thank you, god. thank you. you know him as ahmad, i know him as my son. he will now rest i

remember the first da, jackie johnson, essentially ordered that there not be an arrest, right?ow she's facing an indictment on her own. then after that, another prosecutor, jordan barnhill, wrote a memo ranrandum saying is perfectly legal. saying something's wrong here and the people coming together, getting a look and getting that measure of justice. just an incredible civics lesson all the way around. the power lies always with the people. >> it is incredible to think we almost didn't get to this point, but for so many other things happening. people rising up and saying something is wrong here and there needs to be justice. marilyn, joey there talked about the federal charges and the federal trial that's going to be moving forward soon. a key piece of evidence from the first trial was the 911 tape from greg mcmichael and the operator asks, what's your emergency. mcmichael replies a black male is running down the street. in your opinion, may rrilyn, is this a pretty cut and dry case of the fact this was racially motivated or you know, how will they expand on that? moving forwa

in september a grand jury indicted a former district attorney, jackie johnson, on charges of violating her oath of office and obstructing police. state prosecutors accuse her of delaying the arrest of the three men using her past work with gregory mcmichael as motivation. johnson has denied any wrongdoing and she has yet to enter a plea. >>> yet another smash-and-grab robbery in california overnight. this time thieves targeted a nordstrom in l.a. one suspect was wearing an orange wig. district attorneys in the northern part of the state are forming an appliance to hold thieves accountable after a string of these smash and grabs in which more than a million dollars of merchandise has been stolen. experts say organized crime rings are to blame. critics of local leaders say criminals are being allowed back onto the street allowing this streetri commonplace. >>> a mystery in northern alabama, as many as 400 fedex packages were found apparently thrown into this ravine. fedex has sent trucks to the scene. the company says the packages will be recovered as soon as possible. police are trying

use his office to ensure that the prosecutors in south georgia were doing their job, and when jackie johnsonney general's office indicted for that failure, in texas there's a lot of that cleanup work that we need to do. you know, we believe in law enforcement. we believe in law and order, but if the enforcement mechanism is lacking, if we -- like we have in texas, if we have one of the deadliest police coaches in the modern world and one of the most incarcerated state in the nation, we know there's real reform work to do to ensure that the system is being fair to all. that's what we're looking forward -- what i'm looking forward to doing as the next attorney general in texas. >> well, and i wish you a lot of luck, lee merritt. you go for it, and we'll be watching closely. thank you so much for your time. >>> holiday shoppers are facing a new reality when they hit the stores, what was missing on black friday may be even more telling, though, and millions of americans are hitting the road this weekend encountering something they haven't seen in years. years. no, he's not in his room. ♪♪ ♪♪ dad

. >> reporter: in september the georgia attorney general indicted the first prosecutor, jackie johnson of violation of oath of public officer and obstruction and hindering of a law enforcement officer, alleging she showed favor and affection to gregory mcmichael. the a.g. also alleges johnson told officers not to arrest gregory's son travis. she has pled not guilty. system is, it needs some work. some major work. >> what goes through your mind when you sit in court and you see the people who are accused of killing your son? >> i often sit there and i stare at the three individuals that are responsible for ahmaud leaving. i try to get closure looking into their eyes. once they see me looking, they look away. >> reporter: for the remainder of this trial, the nation will not look away. >> people across the country, many parts of the world, will be watching this trial. what do you want people to know about your son? >> ahmaud arbery wasn't just a young black male that decided to go for a jog on a sunny sunday afternoon. ahmad was actually my son. ahmaud was a brother, uncle, grandson. ahma

also, we have brought a civil action against the district attorney, jackie johnson, who conspired, we allege, to prevent ahmaud arbery from ever having his day in court, his family. we also have sued the homeowners association, reverend al, because we believe this was a group effort to get this young black man, who was presumed guilty just from exercising. had this been a white man, nobody would have presumed him guilty, reverend al. they would have just said he's exercising. but they thought the worst of ahmaud arbery. >> now, marcus, let me go to you. and i know as happy as you was with the verdict, that yesterday was tough for you. your son used to call you every day and you didn't get that call on thanksgiving. i remember you came on this show right after it happened, one of the first national shows you were on. and i promised you national action network and i would fight for justice, this before we even knew that video existed. a lot of people thought we came in late, we were there when there wasn't a camera. i happened to have lunch with you and reverend bakery and attorney crum

it doesn't bring ahmaud arbery back but to the original prosecutor, jackie johnson, on this case. was removed. the georgia bureau of investigation took it over. not only did she lose reelection but she was brought up on charges by a grand jury related to her handling of it because again -- >> dana: she said she wasn't going to prosecute. then there was legitimate outrage about it and eventually you get to this result. one thing that's also interesting is we are celebrating thanksgiving tomorrow as a country and we give thanks for our nation and our system. trial by jury, sometimes it's a slow and it takes a long time. but you know it, it works. if you are someone who says it worked in one case and not the other. you can't do that. we have a lot to be grateful for and that the system works. >> dagen: to that point, jessica, after the verdict, you had representatives for the prosecutor and a monitor breeze family and everyone standing around her cheering the mention of law enforcement, cheering the mention of the prosecutor. that's refreshing and different. >> jessica: it's always b

in fact, the first prosecutor, jackie johnson, which is the prosecutor for glenn county, she has now been indicted for misconduct based on abusing her power as a prosecutor, in the sense that she was in contact with greg mcmichael and also advised the police officers not to arrest them. >> and we were just looking at pictures there. most people were shocked by the racist and offensive closing argument from one of the defense lawyers, who was in that image just there, who tried to denigrate arbery my making references to his toenails. what should the consequence be of her racist words, and would she have gotten away with saying those things in a court say in the northeast. >> it was so despicable. for her to revictimize the family of ahmaud arbery and also for us that are affected, because we were listening to that. for her to make out ahmaud arbery as he is the bad person, that he call -- in fact, she put ahmaud arbery on trial. the message that it sent was one of disgust. we hope that at some point, maybe there will be some claims to the judicial bar to determine whether she should

so jackie johnson is facing criminal accountability. we'll do everything that we can to ensure that there is accountability across the board. >> should americans tonight have more faith in our justice system do you think? >> i think that what we witnessed was an anomaly. all the media and people around the world are stopping to say oh, my god, they got justice in this case. so that is not a good sign, that people think that case that is open and obvious, one recorded on a bright sunday day and just last year, that it was a big question mark. and there was a strong doubt that we would get justice. and so it represents how far we have to go. and of course you know getting here wasn't easy, that we had to dig through prosecutors before we landed on someone who was willing do their job. and so it tells us where we are, but that where we are is not where we ought to be. and so there is still a lot of road ahead of us. >> lee, wanda, we'll take that anomaly tonight. happy thanksgiving to you and our hearts are still with you. thank you for yo

former glynn county police officer and investigator for the brunswick judicial circuit prosecutor jackie johnsono was indicted for directing police not to arrest travis mcmichael and then steering the case to a sympathetic prosecutor. it was a third prosecutor who ultimately filed the murder charges in the case after the video evidence became public, sparking widespread outcry. more than a quarter of glynn county is black, but after a long and grueling process, just one single black man was chosen to serve on the jury in the case along with 11 white people. judge timothy walmsley declined to change the jury's racial makeup after prosecutors asked him to reinstate eight black potential jurors, arguing defense lawyers struck them because of their race, which is unconstitutional. >> the court has found there appears to be intentional discrimination in the panel. that is a prima facie case. before i get into this, one of the challenges that i think counsel recognized in that case is the racial overtones in the case. quite a few african-american jurors were excused through print three strikes exercis

jacky johnson on a felony charge of violating her oath of office.tion to discourage the police from making arrests in arbery's killing. so don't let this verdict fool you into thinking that we've somehow reached the end point of the criminal justice reform movement in this country. there is still so much work to be done. joining me now is opinion columnist zach stafford. it's great to see you. great to have you with us. let's talk a little bit about this verdict. what was your reaction to the guilty verdicts for arbery's killers, even with all the video evidence that emerged. did the verdict surprise you and did they bring you a sense of relief, as they did for me? >> yeah, you are know, it surprised me because we never see verdicts like this. we rarely see these verdicts they're very, very rare for black men in america to have any semblance of justice when it comes to be shot in the streets by police or pedestrian folks out and about. i do have a glimmer of hope. i know the judge said he hoped this verdict would allow us to be on the path of healin

then have you who i speak of as jackie johnson. she then recuses herself and gives her a memo saying there is nothing to see here and blaming ahmaud aubrey for being a criminal. it goes to another prosecutor who as you indicated doesn't have the appropriate resources. then we have the state step in. all of that is done against the backdrop of humanity, people crying for justice, people yearning for something to occur here and something is amiss. you have the videotape, the outraged public, 74 days, two-and-a-half months later, where finally, there are dimes made, arrests made and people brought to justice, then, of course, the process begins. not withstanding that process, which is somewhat broken but is it broken if you have people who can rise up, good people of good will and say you know what, something's wrong here. we have to take a closer look. then when you take a closer look, michael, you have a situation where you have a jury empanelled and a judge who says, this is intentional discrimination as it relates to 11 white juro

in ahmaud arbery's case, the attorney general filed criminal charges against jackie johnson, the original prosecutor in the case and this is the an ongoing investigation into another prosecutor, george barn hill. what we need across the country is active attorneys general who will begin to restore the clearly -- and again, it's difficult to call it broken, but the clearly malfunctioning aspects of our legal system. we need total reform. >> wanda, as we let you go -- and i appreciate you coming on. i remember when this case first was brought to me by lee merritt and ben crump, we did it before the video came out because we believed you, and we believed the father. as we head into this week, what do you say to the people around the country watching about your hopes, your prayers, and how you hope they will react when the verdict comes either way? >> i'm going into next week very confident. i do believe that the god that answered prayers 18 months ago will continue to answer my prayers. so we will get a guilty verdict and we will file to get justice for ahmaud. >> thank you so much for being

there was a prosecutor standing in her way, jackie johnson. wanda cooper prayed her out of the way, out of office and she's facing criminal charges herself. when she was looking for justice in glenn county, she was faced with a corrupt legal system, one that never fully investigated her son's murder as we learned during the course of this trial. wanda performed her own investigation. wanda hired her own attorneys and she woke up a nation. can you all join me in giving applause for this fighting, faithful mother. wanda, come forward. come on. >> yes, mama. >> i just want to say thank you, guys. thank you. thank each and every one of you who fought this fight with us. it's been a long fight. it's been a hard fight. but god is good. >> yes, he is. >> early in, i never thought -- to tell you the truth, i never thought this day back in 2020. i never thought this day would come. but god is good. >> yes, he is. >> and i just want to tell everybody thank you. thank you for those who marched, those who prayed, most of all the ones who prayed. >> yes, l

and we must remember the prosecutor jackie johnson and the police officer saw the video on day one, but as i said previously, it wasn't until we the people saw the video almost 70 days later that they finally were arrested and charged for the unjustified constitutional unnecessary killing, lynching of ahmaud arbery, and so the people had everything to do with that. the court of public opinion, the outrage, the righteous indignation of seeing a young man offered to humanity, hunted down like he's in the jim crow era and killed by a lynch mob. >> you noted the court of public opinion. of course, one of those things that happens with trials of this magnitude and high profile, what the public thinks and what people are saying outside and whatever the legal matters are in that courtroom presented to a jury that the jury has to evaluate. sometimes they sync up and sometimes they don't. your thoughts about this case, the jury which had 11 white members and the jury's decision and the case the prosecution put on to reach what i think a lot of people felt was the obvious conclusion and yet never

february 23rd, there was a prosecutor standing in her way, jackie johnson. wanda cooper prayed her out of the way. she's facing criminal charges herself. when she was looking for justice in glynn county, she was faced with a corrupt legal system, one that never fully investigated her son's murder as we learned during the course of this trial. wunder performed her own investigation. wanda hired her own attorneys as she woke up a nation. can you join me in giving a round of applause for this fighting, faithful, praying mother. i'm going to let wanda come forward. come on, wanda. speak i want to say thank you, guys. thank you. thank each and every one of you. who fought this fight with us. it's been a long fight. it's been a hard fight. but god is good. early in, to tell you the truth, i never saw this day back in 2020. i never thought this day would come. but god is good. i just want to tell everybody, thank you, thank you for those who marched, those who prayed. most of all the ones who prayed. thank you, thank you. you know him as ahmaud. he will rest in pea

first you have the brunswick da jackie johnson who the mcmichaels called after the shooting. since been charged. she allegedly directed officers not to arrest the men. an indictment says she showed favor and affection to the shooters and failed to treat aubrey's family with dignity. after her it goes to another da george farmhill, telling police he didn't see grounds for an arrest or even for the man that recorded it. more than two months passed before charges were filed. in his memo. he talked about aubrey's mental health, prior convictions. she under investigation. this shows this system that is the problem because you know you think about all the people where there was no cell phone or the da went unchecked where these murders have gone unpunished. can this system be changed? >> let's not even forget the first offense, which was ahmaud aubrey was ray live when the police first showed up at the scene and he was not tended to. so i mean that to me just even brings the point home even stronger. i have to remain optimistic about our system because i know that there are good pe

the local prosecutor, jackie johnson refused to arrest these three and she's now in charge facing jail 73, 74 days for these folks to be arrested. when these prosecutors came in they state right on the law and did not allow the defense to abate their consultations and the family took a high tone they have us coming in as ministers and they told us to be spiritual about it. the local activists set a tone. at the end of the day, the country have moved more than people want to admit and say look, we got to stop this us against them and the facts are the facts. i think all that you said, both can be right at the same time. it's some of the cultures changing and some of the activism have paid off but the facts are the facts and i think that's what worked of the strategy we used. that's not an excuse of the make up of the jury. we need to look at how that's possible because it could have gone the other way but thank god it did not. >> there is so many people to look at and you look at a judge that maintained order in his courtroom from the very beginning. jonathan lemire, let's talk to anoth

jackie alemany, steve sha submit, jason johnson, and claire mccaskill. jackie, this is your reporting. i want to ask you to take me inside of it. >> thanks for having me on to talk about it. we sort of touched on it on friday, although from that perspective, we were looking more at minority leader kevin mccarthy's bid to cement his speakership for next year in the case the house gop does take back the majority. but, you know n the meantime this, maga squad, which is the far right corner of the house freedom caucus, people like congresswoman marjorie taylor green, paul gosar, matt gates -- the biggest and louders voices in the house gop conference. they are the people who amplify a lot of trump's disinformation. they amplify disinformation of their own, along with anti-semetic and racist memes and conspiracy theories. they have at least in the past. two of them have been successfully censured by democrats and kicked off of their committees. instead of these members being disowned by the party they have been actually embraced and celebrated by the de facto

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kennedy won a little town of clarksburg west virginia where jackie kennedy came from and bobby kennedy and ted kennedy, hubert humphrey came lyndon johnson came. this is a town of 16,000 people in jack kennedy got on for half an hour and answered questions in clarksburg west virginia. i ask people on the historical society i say you know who else would come? what other presidential candidates have been there since and they checked and they said well we can't really find any except one, jesse jackson in 1986 and that's it. what happened was places like west virginia, places like clarksburg settled off the political map of the democratic party and it was not deliberate and it was not malicious but it was a huge factor and when that economy began to collapse and people said well who can i blame and who is going to help me and who is here for me, you have a guy like karl rove who spent that moment felt the electricity in the air and harvested it. i'm going to skip ahead 20 more years to 2020 because it's not just in most small towns of the industrial rust belt. we saw that here in urban south florida in different census tracts were voters re

kennedy won a little town of clarksburg west virginia where jackie kennedy came from and bobby kennedy and ted kennedy, hubert humphrey came lyndon johnson came. this is a town of 16,000 people in jack kennedy got on for half an hour and answered questions in clarksburg west virginia. i ask people on the historical society i say you know who else would come? what other presidential candidates have been there since and they checked and they said well we can't really find any except one, jesse jackson in 1986 and that's it. what happened was places like west virginia, places like clarksburg settled off the political map of the democratic party and it was not deliberate and it was not malicious but it was a huge factor and when that economy began to collapse and people said well who can i blame and who is going to help me and who is here for me, you have a guy like karl rove who spent that moment felt the electricity in the air and harvested it. i'm going to skip ahead 20 more years to 2020 because it's not just in most small towns of the industrial rust belt. we saw that here in urban south florida in different census tracts were voters re