Kyle Rittenhouse Claims Self-Defense in Kenosha Killings
Laura Coates Live
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🗓️ 11 November 2021
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | New's continues, the tenderate for Chris for Cuomo Primetime. |
| 0:04.3 | Chris? |
| 0:05.3 | All right, thanks, Anderson. |
| 0:06.3 | I'm Chris Cuomo. |
| 0:07.3 | Welcome to Primetime. |
| 0:08.3 | The Kyle Rittenhouse trial took a major turn today. |
| 0:13.0 | The 18-year-old who killed two injured a third with a semi-automatic rifle during a riot |
| 0:18.4 | in Kenosha, Wisconsin took the stand in his own defense. |
| 0:22.8 | It is a very rare choice. |
| 0:26.1 | And he put on one hell of a show. |
| 0:29.1 | However, he was almost upstaged by the sideshow of the judge fighting with the prosecutor. |
| 0:36.8 | This thing came close to a mistrial today, with the judge going right at the prosecutor's |
| 0:42.2 | line of questioning. |
| 0:46.2 | I was astonished when you began your examination by commenting on the defendant's post-arrest |
| 0:54.2 | silence. |
| 0:55.2 | That's basic law. |
| 0:59.2 | It's been basic law in this country for 40 years, 50 years. |
| 1:00.2 | I have no idea why you would do something like that. |
| 1:04.8 | Now the main moments we have for you, and we're going to go through because I think we |
| 1:10.8 | likely saw today what could influence the jury most. |
| 1:15.8 | And just to make sure we're all on the same page, this is the trial for what happened in |
| 1:19.3 | the wake of the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin in August 2020. |
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