legal analyst, melissa murray, chuck rosenberg, brittany cunningham and natasha brown. thank you all for being melissa, let me start with you. we heard from the head of the naacp, the attorney for wanda cooper jones, the family attorney, reacting to this. it was nearly unanimous. that what we heard was celebration of relief, you could call it, and as we talked about earlier, the difference between being relieved and rejoicing. but the need for this to catalyze next steps moving forward. from a legal perative here, can you talk about the way the rhetoric we heard from the defense teams might have played into what we're seeing today and the way that the need for those next steps has been highlighted. >> sure. i think most lawyers looking at the defense lawyers would have been rightly appalled. i am someone who believes firmly in the right to counsel, but some of the tropes that were advanced by the defense team were frankly, deeply concerning. i think what we saw here was the jury being forced to confront whether or not they would be complicit is in advancing this narrati