And they are not written in plain english. Lets start with the most important legal phrase in this entire case, substantial causal factor. What does that mean . The jury has been told in order to find chauvin guilty, they must find his actions were, quote, a substantial causal factor in causing the death of george floyd. Its a mouthful, but substantial causal factor doesnt mean the only factor here. Remember, all that testimony the jury heard about drugs in floyds system, clogged arteries, those can all be contributing factors and chauvin can still be guilty if the knee on floyds neck was a substantial cause of his death. Now at the same time, if the jury finds that chauvins actions as a Police Officer were a reasonable use of force, then there is no crime in this case at all. And we heard a lot about that throughout the entire trial. Laura, can you take us through each of these charges against chauvin. This is very important for us to revisit at this point and what the jury is deliber
Military coup on february fast scott hyla has more from the thai capital and. It seems as though you know this might actually end up being a nightly event where the we cut the internet in obviously raises great concern because that means you know when they have these professionals when they have the round ups for the detentions for the arrests usually take place overnight so that raises the concern because now essentially there is really no communication with private communications citizen communication with the people on the ground in myanmar during that period during that 8 hour period so that is of great concern has been a series of rocket attacks on the Northern Iraqi city of bell some struck the airport area where u. S. Forces a station and the International Coalition fighting eisel says one civilian a foreign contractor was killed several others were injured including a u. S. Service member an iranian backed shia group has claimed responsibility at least 60 people have died and 2
Steve from Rockefeller Center in the heart of new york city, its the tonight show starring jimmy fallon tonight join jimmy and his guests Anthony Anderson, senator Elizabeth Warren, musical guest big boi and sleepy brown featuring killer mike and big rube, and the legendary roots crew and now heres your host, jimmy fallon [ cheers and applause jimmy thank you very much, everybody. Oh, thank you. Thank you very much. Hello oh, my goodness, thank you so much, everyone and welcome, welcome, welcome to the tonight show and the week that Everyone Wants to go away seriously, can we just skip this week . I mean no one wants this week. If 2020 was a week, this would be it, we dont want this week lets get to the news and jokes. Well guys, were almost there. We made it to the night before the election seriously, havent felt this stressed out since literally every day since march. [ laughter ] thats right its election eve, and everyone is nervous, President Trump is going to spend all night waiti
Virus which has claimed more than 207,000 american lives now reaches into the most powerful office in the world. Good morning, america. We want to get right to the major breaking news overnight. At 12 54 a. M. President trump announced he and First Lady Melania Trump have tested positive for covid19. The Stunning Development raises significant questions about the president s health, the stability of the country, our standing in the world and the state of the race for the white house just 32 days before the final votes. We will cover it all this morning, and we begin by wishing the president and the first lady a speedy and full recovery. We certainly do, and with that, we want to show you a live look right now at the white house where the president and first lady are in isolation at this moment. And there are so many Big Questions this morning after the president s jampacked schedule this week. We want to know who else in the white house inner circle could potentially be infected and wh
President ial hopefuls are here, to prove they have what it takes to defeat the president. Mayor Pete Buttigieg says the party needs new ideas. But he wins if we look like defenders of the system. He wins if we look like more of the same. Reporter others like Kristen Gillibrand took it further. Our president is a coward. Reporter senator Kamala Harris energized democrats with this. We need to begin impeachment proceedings, and we need a new commander in chief. And we will make everyone who runs for federal office post their tax returns online. Reporter political analysts say it is still unclear which democrat will rise above the rest. While conventional wisdom might dictate that Kamala Harris sort is of in the lead here, as a hometown representative. The field seems pretty wide open. And i think awful candidates here are really making all of the candidates here are really making an appeal to the base to swing the primary. We are in the middle of the nba finals and candidate Eric Swalwe