brent: mark jacobson, as always, we appreciate your time and your insights tonight. thank you.he american r&b star r. kelly has been convicted of bleeding a decades long sex crime scheme -- leading a decades long sex crime scheme, exploiting his stardom to lower women and girls into his orbit into them sexually abused him. he was found guilty on all nine charges including the most serious, racketeering. he faces a sentence between 10 years and life in prison. >> after two days of deliberations, the jury found r. kelly guilty of running a sex trafficking ring targeting black women and children. this followed weeks of disturbing testimony from victims, describing sexual degradation and violence at the hands of the superstar singer. the details might've been shocking, but allegations of r. kelly abusing women and girls. are not new stories of sexual misconduct back to the 1990's. to the world, he was the king of r&b. out of public view, a manipulator sex abuser and pedophile. prosecutors, told of how he used his entourage to lure and traffic his victims. >> i've been practicing la

also joining us, mark jacobson, a combat veteran who served in afghanistan in 2006.e deputy nato representative and was a senior advisor to defense secretary asharter. and helene cooper is here. helene, i want to start here and broaden it out to the totity of what really amounted to an extraordinary day of public testimony today. i want to play h.r. mcmaster, donald trump's, i don't know, second of four national security advisors and he did an ierview with barry weiss describing the surrender reement, in his wos, that the last administration, mi pompeo, entered into. let's listen. >> our secretary of state signed a surnder agreement to the taliban. >> you're talking about mike pompeo? >> yes. thisollapse goes back to the catulati agreement of 2020. mean, y know the taliban didn't defeat us. we defeated ourselves. >> so, helene, i play that to broaden the lens around which we examine what happened on capitol hill today. what did you think of the sort of this line of questioning and responses up there today? >> well, hi, nicole. thanks for having me. i think you're rig

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