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0 for them. all right. our coverage also will continue. the breaking news, derek chauvin, former minneapolis police officer has now been sentenced to 22 and a half years for the murder of george floyd. our coverage continues now with jake tapper. this is cnn breaking news. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper, and we start with the breaking news in our national lead. just moments ago we heard former minneapolis police officer derek chauvin s sentence to 22 and a half years in prison for the second-degree murder of george floyd in may 2020. and announcing his sentence, the judge acknowledged the pain of the floyd family and their struggles over the last year. he also said his sentence was based solely on legal facts, not on emotion, not on sympathy, not on public opinion. prosecutors had asked for chauvin to serve at least 30 years, while chauvin s defense team argued that chauvin should get probation or a lighter sentence. chauvin, of course, was convicted on three charges in a ....
Robert jeffers was at the white house ceremony last night and he joins us with his reaction. thanks for joining us, appreciate it. you were in the room, tell us about the atmospheric? it was electric and if there was any feeling in that room it would be this, that good had triumphed over evil. last night was a huge political win for donald trump and we can talk about why but it was more than that. and decades to come we will look back on this and see that it was a cultural turning point in america. for decades conservatives have been tired of being bullied by the left, tired of told we have to bow before the gods of political correctness. we longed for a leader like donald trump who would stand up and not back down or somebody like brett kavanaugh who would not cave in to the attacks from the left and i think in many ways the confirmation of justice brett cavanagh represents conservatives finally standing ....
Press conference in helsinki rises to and exceeds the threshold of high crime and misdemeanors. in other words ground for impeachment. it was nothing short of treasonous. he is holy in the pocket of putin. republican patriots: where are you? what to make of this? joining us now is a man who covered several u.s.-russia summits and the professor emeritus and one of the pre-eminent russia scholars. professor, thank you for joining us. assess if you would the reaction today to the press conference and the summit between putin and trump? the reaction by the most of the media, by the democrats, by the anti-trump people is like mob violence. i have never seen anything like it in my life. this is the president of the ....
So what do you make? i do think you have a pretty nonaligned point of view. i don t even know what your politics are what you make of the most recent developments with lisa page? i also heard that she acquitted herself quite well. i think that is much to her credit. the problem is that we haven t seen the hearings that we have had. peter strzok r confused to answr on the insistence of the fbi. most of the material questions, it was quite surprising that anything actually came close to answering the questions that most of us wanted to hear. the fbi was well off the navigational map in terms of privileges. they spoke of all of these equities and having to follow the investigatory privileges. and none of that attracted very well to. me. this is an oversight committee. ....
Better witness in her own purposes, very careful, very poised. what we did see is things like and i can t speak to the questions and answers, as you can understand, she would look over and put her hand out for the fbi lawyer there to object any time she saw an opening for that objection. she was literally prompting for those, and i found that to be pretty reprehensible. she no longer works for them, and it s not her job to determine the so-called equity is that are being invented by the fbi as a some sort of a privilege. tucker: now most of us have seen a partial transcript of her text exchanges with her boyfriend or former boyfriend, so we have a pretty good idea of her political views. give us a picture of her involvement in the russianen investigation. how close was she, how meaningful was her participatio participation? this is something that she said in general. ....