this is just the opening statements. it is the beginning. mr. jerry blackwell, the lead prosecutor i thought making an effective methodical presentation about the final nine minutes and 29 seconds of mr. floyd s life. essentially saying that whatever you think happened here what you see with your own eyes is indefensible. eric nelson the defense attorney saying this is a lot more than that, there floyd was there for a long period of time. he lied to police officers, he was high. he struggled with police officers and you have to take into account the officers were dealing with a crowd that they at least perceived to be a threat. just as a veteran attorney your sense so far of the opening statements. i give no weight to the defense s opening statement whatsoever because the bulk of their statements have to do with that very notion of a crowd, of information that they would have known perhaps about whether george floyd actually had illegal substances in his body. these are thi
different number, so the long numbers with all the zeros. that is a paramedic writing into the call. and it says rig 412 is requesting fire code 3 so we re adding additional agency to that. explain why, is ems different than fire? yes. how so? ems, we have two different ems companies we work with, north and then hennepin county, hennepin ems. and this is them writing in here adding the additional fire. fire is clearly firefighters but they are medically trained, they can be anywhere in the city close to within four minutes. so this is the paramedics calling in additional support. for support from the fire department? correct. and then if we skip down two lines to 20:31:12 tell us what s listed there. per engine or rig this is the paramedic rig 412 ems is now located at park and 36. so they no longer are on scene. and so for those last two lines we ve looked at, the ems people are sending information to you, or to this call center. everything s shared
knee into george floyd s neck for almost 9 minutes. he faces three charges but the biggest one carrying a penalty of 40 years in prison. our own martha maccallum on a steady buy with analysis but we begin with matt finn live near the courthouse in minneapolis. the first witnesses testifying about the 911 phone call. she is a 911 operator and an opening arguments a short while ago the prosecution did not waste a lot of time getting to that now viral video of former officer derek chauvin kneeling on george floyd s neck. the prosecution told the jury that former officer derek chauvin was on his neck for about 9 minutes without letting up. he was pleading for air, calling out for his mother and his own life. people were demanding that police check his pulse and get off his neck. prosecution showed that chauvin defied his oath to serve and protect and take care of people in his custody. mr. derek derek chauvin defied his badge by using excessive and unreasonable force upon the
derided as nothing more than cover for social spending. now, it s a $2.3 trillion plan dressed up as infrastructure with improvements to things like roads, highways, bridges. in fact the wall street journal says infrastructure like that accounts for a mere hundred $15 billion of this proposal after factoring and spending on air force, earmarked for transportation actually subsidies for green energy and payouts for unions, jobs climate regulation will kill. this is a plan to build government back bigger than has ever been, that is the view anyway. chances are, infrastructure where you are isn t really crumbling as mr. biden put it a couple of times today although yes, there are some places where it is troubled, no doubt about that. in 2019, the national bureau of economic research study offered by two academics from brown university and one from u penn noted that in fact most u.s. transportation infrastructure is not deteriorating. a careful examination of how spending is a
bill: in is the quote that strikes you. the border is secure. the border is closed. i don t know how you rate that based on what we are reporting so far. that doesn t seem to match up with reality. there has been very little, if any, access the media has been held out from it. the pictures you just saw from a democratic congress member whose district spans that area of texas. dana: we ll talk to local mayors on the front lines. the numbers are staggering. officials are encountering close to 600 unaccompanied minors every day. as of saturday 1,000 kids have been held by border patrol for more than 10 days. the biden administration says the situation is being handled but republicans call it a free for all. are you thinking of going to the border? i will at some time. i know what s going on in those facilities. the border is secure. the border is closed. we ve been unequivocal in that and we re operationalizing our processes, executing our plans. the border is wide o