been signed. experts say those tests are weeks away if not longer. mike: peter doocy gets us started from the white house northline. good afternoon, peter. good afternoon. a lot of questions here at the white house today about backing up this big promise for half a billion tests by next month. the government telling us there s going to be a new website where people can go to request a test for free to be sent to their house, but so far we don t have much on timing. we don t know how many tests each person is going to be able to order for free. we also don t know exactly how they are going to back this up. because, as the new york times is reporting today, and as jen psaki confirmed in the clip you re about to see, they still haven t signed the contract yet. why is it you guys are promising 500 million tests next month if you haven t even signed a contract? we have no concern about the contract being finalized. we are working to finalize the
to do with it. i also think they are human and they want to be done with this. if they see they don t have a resolution, they ll call it before the holidays. if they can finally get others to join them in the unanimous decision, they re going to do it, too, and i think that s what we are going to hear soon. jacqui: market, do you believe the state picked the wrong charges when they approached this case? no, i think they picked the wrong arena. by that, i mean that this belongs in civil court. she should be sued civilly because she was negligent. criminal law requires culpable negligence, which is much higher than mere negligence. i don t believe, as tragic and unfortunate this action is, i m not excusing what she did. i am merely suggesting that they should not have brought criminal charges against her. mike: mark i clash, thank you for your time. fattening to hear your perspective. breaking news coverage here on
minneapolis police officer who shot and killed daunte wright during a traffic stop in april. she mistook her taser for a handgun, and she was convicted of both counts. first degree manslaughter, reckless handling of a firearm, punishable by a 15 years. she was found guilty. the second charge, second-degree manslaughter, that she caused daunte wright s death by culpable negligence, that carries a penalty of ten years. she is also found guilty on that count. now kim potter goes into custody. the judge refused to let her go out on remand by the fact that she is catholic, it s christmas time, the defense made the argut that she s never been in trouble before, and she has been sentenced yet, and the judge said she cannot treat this case differently than any other, and it is standard practice to send someone into custody. mike: jacqui, we saw protesters gathered outside the courthouse seeming to celebrate the conviction of this police
what she is talking about when the lawyers are going to be presenting information to the court. they are working off this scale for sentencing. an aggravating factor here is that she was a police officer. she was exercising official authority, and she did so with an unarmed individual in killing him. in terms of mitigating factors, there is the evidence in the case that this was clearly a mistake and that she is deeply remorseful. so the court kind of balance that, and obviously the court is going to sentence her two years in jail. the court was right. the vast majority of courts, because of the gravity of the crime, would take the defendant immediately into custody. mike: jonathan, we are the defense attorneys argued that she has posted $100,000 bail, that she has deep roots in the community, she s a devout
minneapolis area with the concern that we could see more of that unrest right before christmas. mike: let s hope and pray the reaction is peaceful. garrett, thanks very much. jacqui: joining us now, thank you so much for joining us. they still been a question, are we going to hear that there is a hung jury? granted, we don t know if that is the outcome that we have been told about, but it does beg the question, if it is a hung jury, that we release the right charges and why? how can both be true, if so? that is a really interesting point. from the get-go i thought the prosecution in this case did overcharge kim potter. remember, they came out sort of after-the-fact and added and added the first-degree manslaughter charge. and they were allowed to do that. to me, they made a critical error when they did that. also it probably led to some juror confusion now, which is why we ve had four days of deliberation and we are still