It be . It would be i miss you and i love him. What was going through your head . When you had your knee on my brothers neck. When you knew that he posed no threat anymore, yet he was handcuffed, why didnt you at least get up . My sons identity has also been reduced to that as of that as a racist. I want this court to know my none of these things are true. When you sentence my son, you will also be sentencing me. The court then heard briefly from Derek Chauvin himself. At this time due to some additional legal matters at hand, im not able to give a full formal statement at this time. But very briefly though, i to want to give my condolences to the floyd family. There is going to be some other information in the future that would be of interest, and i hope things will give you some peace of mind. Thank you. No one quite knows what that inference was to other information he was talking about. Late this afternoon President Biden, who has become close to members of the floyd family, host t
Weeks. And in georgia, the county judge just rejected efforts by trumps legal team to toss evidence in that criminal investigation. Were ready to go. The work is accomplished. The former Business Associate of Hunter Bidens testified before a closed door congressional hearing. Devin archer said that hunter biden sold the, quote, Illusion Of Access to his father. Everyday this Bribery Scandal becomes more credible. Theres a lot of smoke and where theres smoke theres fire. Theres no evidence linking joe biden to anything related to hunter biden. Russian officials are accusing ukraine of launching a new wave of Drone Strikes in moscow. One crashed into a highrise tower. Ukraine is getting stronger, gradually the war is returning to the territory of russia. Quite why the russians are fighting so hard for here is that these are their last lines of defense . Well, no. They think theres far more fighting to be done. The wife of suspected Serial Killer Rex Heuermann revealing her two Adult Chil
money payments to stormy daniels. remember that? now, that could come back to haunt him. his former attorney and fixer, michael cohen, says trump can t hide from the paper trail. calling the new grand jury convened by the manhattan d.a. his biggest legal threat yet. and there are many. meanwhile, the former president is suing journalist bob woodward for $50 million. we ll explain what that is all about. plus, more fallout and firings in the aftermath of tyre nichols death. we ll go live to memphis for the latest in that case. for the second time in three years, lawmakers on capitol hill are talking about police reform following a high-profile murder case involving officers. we ll look at whether these discussions have a real chance at being successful. and president joe biden announces a major policy shift on covid in response to strong opposition from house republicans. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is tuesday, january 31st. joe will be back tomorrow.
interest. fani willis fund raised off of this case. she has used subpoenas in this case to say, hey, everyone. i just subpoenaed lindsey graham, a republican senator. donate to me. donald trump doing what he is doing is distasteful, perhaps manipulative as errol and phil pointed out people donating to him don t quite realize this is not going for yard signs, going for lawyers for people don t flip. another candidate that raised a ton of money and used to be the totem for quick burn rate was ron desantis to some degree. he released his economic plan. you re a fellow nerd and also ohio guy, by the way. point that out. the desantis economic plan a lot of was very very well known, republican, conservative policies, trump era republican policies. stuff on crypto i thout was
crimes. harvey weinstein, bill cosby. most people say, they re rich. they have great lawyers, and that s why they win. you say there s a lot more to it. yeah, that s a small part of it. what i was able to do in this book was take my experience as a prosecutor, particularly of mafia cases. that s what i did at the southern district of new york. i kept seeing these parallels. that s a good example, willie. we all know rich, powerful people hire rich, powerful lawyers. i don t always think the more expensive lawyers are better at what they do. but a lesser known thing i used to see all the time is really savvy players will pay for lawyers for the other people around them, right, to make sure those people don t flip. i saw it all the time in my mob cases. where do we see it recently? cassidy hutchinson. she delivered devastating testimony against donald trump at the january 6th committee, but she wasn t able to do it until she got rid of her original lawyer, who was picked and paid for b