Example of criminal conduct that we lawyers studied in law school. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then eight minutes of video must be worth one word. Guilty. The complaint filed yesterday is as difficult to read as the video is to watch, quote, bwc, thats body worn video camera showed mr. Floyd continued to move and breathe at 8 24 24 mr. Floyd stopped moving. At 8 25 31, the video appears to show mr. Floyd ceasing to breathe or speak. Lane said, want to roll him on his side. Keung checked mr. Floyds right wrist for a pulse and said i couldnt find one. None of the officers moved from their positions. At 8 27. 34, the defendant moved his knee from mr. Floyds neck. The defendant had his knee on mr. Floyds neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds in total. Two minutes and 53 seconds of this was after mr. Floyd was nonresponsive. The result has strained relations and bent the boundaries of lawlessness for the past four months. But when the smoke clears in minneapolis, the communities wil
And we have a lot of work and we will keep doing all we can to prevent tragedies like this from happening. Sandra following this breaking story for us from cleveland. Matt . Reporter sandra it turns out the cell phone did ping in erie, pennsylvania. Around 11 00 a. M. , someone called in a tip that they saw that white ford fusion he was driving around. A short while after police pursued him, they say there was a short chase and then he stopped. When an officer approached the car, he shot himself. Now, we are in the neighborhood where stephens grew up, his childhood home behind me. A short while ago his mother came loam. She told us she find out her son died on the radio and then said shes not surprised this happened because her son stephens came to her last weekend before Easter Sunday and said that he was involved in a relationship that ended, that he had an extreme gambling problem, and that this was likely going to be the last time they saw each other. Basically telling his mother g
Lastminute compromise with moderates they think theyre there. Late last night house leader Kevin Macarthur confident while leaving this meeting. Listen. To me its a very big amendment that helps close the bill. And close it. Youre not quite there yet . Very close. Shannon peter doocy is live outside the meeting of house republicans. Do they feel confident they have the votes . Leader macarthur was as confident as he has been in weeks. He said were going to pass it after spending several hours huddling in speaker ryans office to see if there are enough members of their own party to back the American Healthcare act. Not just members of congress. The white house put pressure on republicans yesterday as well. Mike pence was here for the third day in a row. He was joined by the hhs secretary tom price in some of those meetings. Price and pence have known some of these skeptical republicans for years. They appear to be some of the more moderate members. They didnt make big public announcemen
Counsel now has the president s written answers to some two dozen questions on russian collusion, the allegation of such. And on this thanksgiving eve the president tells us one thing he is thankful for. Less than a day after shrugging off a cia report, a high confidence one implicating the Saudi Crown Prince in the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, the president writes thank you to saudi arabia for lower oil prices. Is g that he is ook actuactual. But lets start on what were digging into here, and that is c cnn at the Justice Department. The president pressuring the Justice Department which is meant to be by law independent of the president to prosecute his political enemies. What do we know . Well, jim and poppy, good morning. For months we have seen the president on twitter publically calling on the Justice Department to investigate clinton and comey. But were now learning that behind the scenes in private he was actually serious, and that he actually had conversations with his then White
What are you learning tonight about following up on that . He had a conversation earlier this year in the spring when he made clear that he wanted to prosecute Hillary Clinton along with james comey. He was told in definitive terms by the White House Office that he could face a range of outcomes, among them, impeachment if he went ahead with this. As far as we know it was dropped. But it is pretty remarkable the degree to which hes repeatedly returned to the levers of power of the executive branch as way to solve personal problems and personal vendettas. This was the spring of 2018. Hed been in office a long time and learned about what it meant to be president. Do you know what he wanted to prosecute them for . I think a range of things. In the case of comey, i believe it would have been about handling of information when he was the fbi director in the case with Hillary Clinton, it was a range of things. There was the email server issue and the constant being around the approval by u.