george floyd. in that video you could see him cry out for his mother as officer derek chauvin knelt on his neck for more than nine minutes. all over a pack of cigarettes. floyd allegedly paid for with a fake $20 bill. we would not see any of the police body cam footage for another 11 weeks. the lack of transparency there, the delay and the horror of floyd s death ignited a mass movement. i can t breathe was plastered across signs and social media posts as millions across the country protested. facing intense pressure, then president donald trump signed an executive order calling for police reform. at the ballot box, voters said yes to legislative policing reforms in at least 30 states. at least a dozen cities promised to slash police budgets and redistribute those funds to community programs. though not all followed through. then it was congress s turn. democrats introduced the george floyd justice in policing act. the bill passed twice in the house but died in the senate aft
before. federal legislation has to be done at a state and level local, and that s up to the leadership of that department and that state and community to make that happen. john burris, thank you so much for joining us today. we appreciate your opinion and given all the history that you have been involved with in this frankly awful, awful subject that we hate having to talk about again and again. thanks again. thank you. and still ahead, speaker mccarthy will head to the white house this week as washington stares down a debt limit deadline. what mccarthy just said is and is not on the table. plus, war with china. nbc news exclusively obtains an internal memo from a four star air force general. what he told his officers to get ready for and when. and what new polling tells us about what president biden stands ahead of 2024 and what