a little bit for the credibility.

Now, did they make a wise decision? Well, let's look at some of the outcomes. So we don't know if it's wise, but I do feel like they were credible and tried. And here's one of the outcomes. According to Axios reporting, senior Democrat and Republican aides, so both Democrats and Republicans, this is important to the story, the aides say they would have never let their bosses say it on the record. But privately they told Axios that a guilty verdict in the Chauvin trial has lessened pressure to act on police reform.

So one of the outcomes of this verdict is less likely there will be police reform because it looks like, you know, this was police reform, right? It made sure that police know not to do this. Might have made a big difference. But it may not turn into legislation and we don't know what the net of that is. So there's that.

We also didn't have much in the way of riots last night. I think Portland had a little action. There was a police officer who was assaulted. Some windows got broken. But basically there were no riots, right? I mean, I think Portland was just going to be Portland no matter what. But is that fair to say or is it just not being reported? I'm looking at your comments to see if I missed it. Well, I would say that is mostly peaceful.

So does that mean that the outcome was right? Well, as I've told you, it feels like we can't confirm this. Maybe someday we can. It feels like the jury sent a message to the world which is there's something wrong with this police officer. We're going to sacrifice him and we're going to send you a message by making him guilty on all counts, which even the experts didn't really think was going to happen, did they? So I think the jury is sending a message that they're making a, let's say, not according to the letter of the law decision. I feel like that's the message. Could be wrong. Could easily be misinterpreting it. But it feels like it to me. So I'm just telling you what I'm receiving. I'm not telling you what they sent.

And it feels like, well let me tell you why I'm not disappointed in any way about the outcome even though with what I knew it would have gone the other way if they'd used the letter of the law. But that's just based on what I know, incomplete.

All right. So it seems to me that there was something wrong with Derek Chauvin. And did anybody else get that? No matter whether you thought he was technically guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, no matter what you thought about that, there was something wrong with him, wasn't there?

You know how humans, this has been proven, humans can actually detect if somebody is physically ill by looking at their face. I think people could probably detect if people are, I've heard this, tell me if I'm wrong, you can detect if somebody is likely to be gay by their face. Not every time of course, but better than chance would suggest. So there are a lot of things about us that just sort of come out that people can recognize.

And I was trying to think yesterday what is it about Derek Chauvin that bothered me and maybe somebody, maybe everybody else so much. Because it wasn't exactly what he was doing, right? Because what he was doing, there was enough of an argument that it was part of the policy and hadn't hurt people before and maybe he didn't know how bad he was doing it. You know, it was part of the argument. But beyond the argument there was something wrong with his attitude or he seemed a little bit too happy. Did anybody get that? Like was anybody feeling... Somebody says it's called prejudice. Yeah, of course.

So we're not talking about science here. I'm talking about how you felt about him. Did you have a bad feeling about him? I'm looking at your comments now to see if anybody had that. I'm seeing some yeses, some nos. Some people signing off because of that.

Are you trying to persuade? Fear yet fear? No. There was, I'll tell you what it looked like to me. There was a lack of empathy that has gone all the way through the trial. What, should there not have been some point in which we heard a statement from Derek Chauvin? And maybe we did. If he made the statement, let me know. Should Derek Chauvin have not said at some point, you know, once he knew he was going to be tried for it, couldn't he make a statement that says, "My God, I certainly didn't intend this. I feel sorry for the family. I never would have done this had I been aware that the danger was so much." You know, something like that.

No. Somebody says no, don't do that because it would imply guilt. But you don't have to have guilt over a death, do y