Well, George Floyds brother went to washington today with a simple message stop the pain. He delivered that message in a historic hearing of the House Judiciary Committee which is now considering the most comprehensive Police Reform legislation ever introduced to congress. He described the pain that he is now trying to stop other families from feeling, but he knows the pain will be with him for the rest of his life. Floyd described what its been like for him and what its been like for the rest of George Floyds family to watch his big brother murdered on video with a police knee on his neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds. I just think about that video over and over again. Felt like 8 hours and 46 minutes. Hurt seeing my brother plea for his life, watching that officer just put his knee on his neck. Just every day just looking at him, being like anywhere, thats all people talk about. The rest of my life thats all ill ever see somebody. Just look at the video. Kids have to watch the video.
It has been terrific to watch because even in all of this turmoil there has been a lot of it. Theres been music. Theres been art. Well see what this looks like when were through it, but there is some creativity going on in all this mess. Thanks. All right, lawrence. Thank you. Well, George Floyds brother went to washington today with a simple message stop the pain. He delivered that message in a historic hearing of the House Judiciary Committee which is now considering the most comprehensive Police Reform legislation ever introduced to congress. He described the pain that he is now trying to stop other families from feeling, but he knows the pain will be with him for the rest of his life. Floyd described what its been like for him and what its been like for the rest of George Floyds family to watch his big brother murdered on video with a police knee on his neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds. I just think about that video over and over again. Felt like 8 hours and 46 minutes. Hurt seein
Room. This is cnn breaking news. As george h. W. Bush is laid to rest here in texas, President Trump is taking a cue from bush 41 to fill a very critical opening his cabinet. Sources now tell cnn that bushs former attorney general william barr is emerging as a leading candidate to lead the Justice Department once again, potentially replacing Jeff Sessions and inheriting oversight of the russia investigation. The president weighing his options right now at a very sensitive moment in Robert Muellers probe. The special counsel is poised to reveal new information tomorrow involving two central figures, Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen, and tonight mr. Trump and his legal team, they are bracing for impact. This hour ill speak with congressman eric swalwell. He is a democrat who serves on the intelligence and judiciary committee. And our correspondents and analysts are also standing by. First, lets go to our senior White House Correspondent jeff zeleny. Jeff, after a lot of speculation about
Thats already been promising. If they didnt like what was there, thats the proper way that legal positioning should go with subpoenas and how you got it. This is nothing but political theater, and especially naming five of their closely administration. All of those names are going to get subpoenas. All of them have participated. Harris Catherine Herridge there today as all of the action is unfolding. Catherine . Thank you, here is pretty good afternoon. The session this morning lasted about 90 minutes. Republicans accused democrats of forcing the timeline on the subpoena because they are up against a hard stop. Wednesday next week, theyve got a party recess. Or retreat, if you will. Republicans democrats, pardon me boy, theres a lot going on here today democrat said theres about full transparency and getting all the underlying records. Lets listen. Speak of the constitution charges congress holding the president accountable for misconduct. That job requires us to evaluate the evidence
Trying to get him to do that he doesnt want to do, in order to really figure it out, you got to go back and look at the history of, like, Harriet Myers as white House Counsel or janet reno for bill clinton and the eric holder contempt controversy in the barack obama presidency. I mean, you have to go back to George Washington and the whole idea of executive privilege in the first place. I mean, its it is the exact kind of rabbit hole that i fit perfectly inside. I could live the rest of my life plumbing the depths of this kind of political confrontation, right. If you are a constitution nerd, if you are a civics nerd, confrontations like this, votes like this today, this drama around this in the house today, its like christmas, birthday, first day of school and first day of Summer Vacation all wrapped up into one. Its exciting. Its exciting thing to cover. Its an exciting thing to unfold. There is so much uncertainty in terms of how its going to, you know, proceed through all the vario