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First, at this hour, Vice President Kamala Harris finally visiting the southern border. 93 days after she became the point person on the crisis. Her trip comes during a record surge in illegal crossings in the United States. Hello. Im john roberts in washington, this is america reports. Good to be back with you again today. Seems like we have a busy news day every day. Today is. Im Gillian Turner in for sandra smith. Vice president harris is on the ground in el paso. Thats where youll recall that we saw one of the most heart breaking videos from this Currents Iteration of the border crisis. Yo...

Aggravating factor in this case. fact that it happened in front of a group and there were children. the judge has said it's abuse of office a because of the badge, abuse of your position in the community are aggravating factors. these will be big components when he looks at how much time he believeses that derek chauvin should serve in this crime. >> john: we should mention, we're expecting the prosecution and defense to make their arguments for a long sentence on the part of the prosecution and for no sentence other than probation on the part of the defense. >> yeah, that's correct. judge pet...

Community impact statements. if i may, john as well keep going one more point further. my colleagues have discussed the appeal versus motions. what we heard in front of judge cahill involved the defense moving for a new trial and possible jury misconduct. those are separate than the appeal. both of those motions were denied by judge cahill. in terms of the sentencing, you guys, another bird's eye perspective. a reminder that chauvin is facing a federal indictment for an unrelated event and also he's been indicted with three other officers there that day of a federal civil rights infringement t...

You think he will get. ted williams said a moment ago he believes he could get 25 years in jail. what are you thinking? >> right. i echo my colleague's comments here today. they provided sound brilliant analysis. take it a step further. the reason why defense attorney eric nelson is arguing against this prison time, the underlying argument, he argues that the prosecution did not prove that the four aggravating factors exists at the time of george floyd's arrest. so there's a very specific argument. if i can bird's eye view here. in the larger collective conversation around activist da's that w...

He has no criminal record. they believe that clearly he would be a target in prison. so they are also looking at something else that they're going to have to explain meaning the defense in this case. that is that he is a product of a broken system. i don't know what that means. they're going to have to explain it. the thing i think that is going to hurt chauvin today is that he has not shown any remorse. martha is right. it would be in chauvinist best interest if he could because he's facing an appeal, if he could get up and he remorse for this serious murder and would show some empathy for th...