We do have some breaking news to get to. Jonathan Majors found guilty of assault. A New York jury found actor Jonathan Majors guilty of assault in the third degree and guilty of harassment. That verdict, reached by a six person jury after roughly [00:00:16] over four hours of deliberation, spread across three days. Jonathan Majors, wearing a gray suit and black dress shirt and tie, sat with his attorneys, with family members and his loyal girlfriend Megan Good behind him as the verdict was read. He was found not guilty of one of the counts in assault in the third degree and [00:00:35] not guilty of aggravated harassment in the second degree. But again, the mixed verdict Jonathan Majors found guilty of assault. He did face four charges of assault, aggravated harassment and harassment after he called 911 March 25th when he said he found his ex-partner [00:00:53] Grace Jabari unconscious in their apartment. Police arrested Majors after finding apparent injuries on Jabari, including a laceration behind her ear and a bruised and fractured finger. Majors pleaded not guilty to all charges, the Hollywood reporter breaking the news. [00:01:09] The arrest has already had implications on what had been the biggest year of Majors career, which included starring roles in Ant-Man and the Wasp, Quantumania, Creed III and Loki season two. In the wake of his arrest, both his publicity firm, the lead company and [00:01:28] managers of management 360 dropped him, and the Disney owned searchlight features removed magazine dreams from its release calendar. So Majors senator, again, a mixed verdict found guilty of assault in the third degree, harassment, not guilty of two other charges. [00:01:47] He could spend up to a year in prison. What do you make of this? Some said he should have tried to settle this. Listen, we know who the lawyer is that he retained. I would suspect they tried to make this go away. [00:02:06] But I'm more curious about all the people who seem to have, listen, poor analogy, but a dog in this fight, people who weren't there, leaks different things as he tried to fight for his career. That's really why he said, I got to try to beat these charges here. [00:02:23] I still don't know what happened, but we all seem to have an opinion here, and it seems to be based on personal experience, perhaps our own view of the world through race and identity and how we see things. The black man at the top of his game, [00:02:40] Jonathan Majors could do no wrong and was just soaring and gifted. I think we have to acknowledge gifted. And suddenly you have this stereotypical two people, right? [00:02:56] Black man and a white woman involved in an altercation, and the prosecutor using words like a history of psychological abuse that Jonathan Majors had exhibited on the injured party as [00:03:13] the government saw this case, the jurisdiction saw this case. That struck me, again, I don't know what happened, and he's been found guilty, two of the four counts. But that struck me, because when I consider a black man in [00:03:29] psychological abuse in America, I'm just telling you stuck with me. I'm not making excuses, senator, and I know I'm not being very artful here, and perhaps you can clean it up. Do you understand where I'm going with it? It's just a bystander. >> Speaker 2: I do. I mean, you're doing a fine job. [00:03:45] Your journalistic integrity is showing. First of all, you read the four counts, and you made it very clear that they didn't hold him accountable for two of them, and two of them he was. And now we got to wait for sentencing. [00:04:01] Yeah, it is a complicated issue. We all sin and fall short of the glory of God. Some of us sin harder than others. That's a fact. We were not there. We don't know all the contours to this. Is it reasonable to assume that biases seeped in? [00:04:18] Absolutely, because it's called being human. That does not mean that Major did not do any of the things that he just got tried for. And the jury came back on two counts, they said, yeah, you did those things. And on two counts, we don't believe that you did those things. [00:04:34] And your point about him having to fight for his career and deciding, hey, I'm going to fight this thing out, well, he did. And sometimes my son sent me this interesting quote this morning that said something like, in life, sometimes you win and sometimes you learn. And hopefully this is a learning experience for Major. [00:04:52] And if he does need to get some anger management or whatever he needs to do to restore himself, I hope that he gets that. His career is not over. We need some time to pass. I think he's gonna be just fine because you're right, he is gifted in this world, [00:05:08] and I think ultimately is going to be all right for him. >> Speaker 1: Yeah, and I hate what about ism until I don't mind it. Okay, I'm just being honest with you. >> Speaker 1: Thats true. >> Perhaps I'm the hypocrite, because at the end of the day-. [00:05:25] >> Life makes a hypocrite of us all. I just wanted to say that, all of us. >> Thank you, senator, I just want to be honest. >> Speaker 1: No, all of us. >> I just want to be honest. And when we talk about canceling him for this event, we all have our view of the justice system too, right? And that's based on where we sit in this society. [00:05:43] I think of names like Depp and Sheen and others even, well, there's others, okay? And they were seen as Hollywood bad boys, and they never got canceled, okay? Even the fact that people say, well, Depp had to get his name back. [00:05:59] He wasn't ever really canceled. He wasn't destitute. He was still doing some things, okay? He is still black representation. And this whole thing where in two seconds, I just read you the verdict, this mixed verdict, in two seconds. PR firm dropped him. [00:06:16] Major management dropped him. And that's the double standard. Again, I'm not, and the senator is not making any excuses here. >> Speaker 1: No. We don't know what happened, but that's the rub. I'll give you the last word. >> Speaker 2: I mean, you're right, this is complicated. [00:06:32] And maybe we can unpack this a little more at another time. This is breaking news. So we're just giving it to people as we just received it. It's a lot more. But when you talk about who society allows to have mercy and who society does not allow oftentimes, and [00:06:47] we got all the receipts to back this up, it's not black people. And oftentimes, especially, it's not black mean. You talk about making a rebound, I mean, Bill Clinton, to be exact, with Monica Lewinsky, I were talking about that a little bit in a different [00:07:04] angle during the break, but the same thing, he missed a be. So who do we allow to have mercy? Who do we back up even when the evidence points clearly to them being wrong? So, Sharon Reed, you're right. We're not justifying anything. We were not there. [00:07:19] It's breaking news. But it is an immutable fact that black people, especially black men, don't get the same kind of mercy, especially when it comes to having relationships with white women. A lot of black men have gotten killed. [00:07:37] >> Speaker 1: Yeah, they have. >> Speaker 2: And been lied on too. >> Speaker 1: That part, I know one who would not have ascended to the presidency or been able to serve two terms had a fraction. >> Speaker 2: That's it. >> Speaker 1: A fraction of what's come out on some other presidents who may or [00:07:53] may not have been pretty decent in their tenure. He would not have, are you kidding me? He'd have been driven out of there and would have been some of the people who look like him provided with a narrative that allowed them to join in and say, here's your standard, you got to go. [00:08:09] So that's all I'm pointing out here,