took in his grandparents and his family. that was a moment, no question about it. and it was a genuine moment. what senator booker was trying to do was to harness what we saw all summer, the anger, the protests, the demands for changes in the justice system from top to bottom to make it so that the disparaities that he talked about would be changed. now there is a chance, more of a chance than before, to do that. so what booker was doing was trying to get the likely soon-to-be attorney general to make that promise, that he wouldn't just pay lip service to it but make it part of his mission to change the laws that discriminate, intentionally or not, against people of color. >> laura coates, on that point, part of it is trying to change laws, but a lot of it, judge garland, soon to be general, why change it? where do you put your emphasis? why are people put in jail for marijuana possession? why don't you put our time and resources in violent crime. it shows that elections do have consequences and when this attorney general we expect a very different approach when it comes to issues of sentencing and racial equity under the law. >> well, what he was explaining was the idea that the dirty little secret that prosecutors are supposed to be human beings and humane. that dirty little secret was that lady justice, she may have a blindfold on, but we know time and time again either, a, she's peeking, or she's able to see right through it. a lot of decisions that are made by prosecutors have little to do with what the black and whitish use are of the actual topography of those rules. it's about how the power is wielded. it refers back to his opening statement about how at best prosecutors can be such an asset. at the worst, if they're motivated by evil or some mechanism and means, they can be an injustice to society. i think he is a testament to the need to restore not only this notion about what the integrity means in terms of being politically independent, but also the idea that it was founded in part to address the extraordinary inequities and extraordinary racism experienced by black americans in this country and how far away from that stdecision to come. he would not even admit there was extreme racism. he was able to do it as a judge and the reason you've got this impact. he's confronting it head on and there is a great deal of optimism among prosecutors who are both humane and acknowledging what the shortcomings of our justice system are. if he's going to address it head on, i think there is an immediate boost and morale and an immediate elevation of our country in that prospect of equal justice under the law. >> and the decency of the man just comes through in every question and answer he takes there. elie honig, just a reminder that this is one of the most complicated, one of the most difficult jobs in the united states government. so many issues will cross the new attorney general's desk, and in the exchange with senator cotton, senator cotton noting that when merrick was a prosecutor, he supported the death penalty for timothy mcvey. judge garland says in 20 years his position has evolved. he's not the president's lawyer, but he does have to implement biden administration policy. there was an exchange there, senator cotton was trying to get him to commit to banning the death penalty, and number one, he said he has personal reservations, and number two, he does have a boss when it comes to policy. >> merrick garland prosecuted the case that resulted in the rightful execution of timothy mcvey. look, it's fair game. we want prosecutors so say i'm open to thinking about the broader implications of the death penalty. he talked about his own family's experience. those of us who are justice department alums, we care about doj because it's a great job, but it means more. it's the best of our government and what our government stands for, so i thought that was an important moment to watch judge merrick garland express that. >> elie honig, dana bash, laura coates, i appreciate your insight. brianna keilar picks up our coverage right now. i am brianna keilar and i want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. today we are a nation suffering an infathomable loss. almost half a million americans have died from the coronavirus, almost 500,000 lives. it is, unfortunately, a uniquely american cost that has been paid in this pandemic. it's more than any other country on earth. it is the number of people that could fill six of the nfl's largest football stadiums in new jersey. it's roughly the population of atlanta or kansas city or sacramento or miami. it is 100,000 more than the population of tampa or new orleans. it took the u.s. five months to reach 100,000 deaths, then another four months to reach 200,000 deaths. but since november, we lost 100,000 people a month for three months in a row. those are the official numbers. they do not fully communicate the loss and the grief of our fellow americans. they are but a small window into the pain of our country. a cemetary worker profiled by the "washington post" a week and a half ago says, quote, they can't get the graves dug fast enough. in january he said he knew the graves that he was digging were from christmas when he said no one paid attention to guidelines and gathered together. a coroner who explained how to notify families that their loved ones were gone said correspond ner -- coroners had to, quote, hit them between the eyes to start the grieving process. six empty hooks were keys for the vans that usually hang. they turned down three families whose loved ones died over one weekend, something it has never had to do before. then there are those on front lines who stand between life and death, the doctors, the nurses, the hospital workers. >> we've had a lot of people who have passed away, and it's hard to see, and a lot of them are, you know, aware, and they know they're not going to get out of here alive. >> when they're wiping them down and putting them in the body bag, it's, you know, it's gutting, almost. they go out and you're on to the next. >> in many cases hospital staff and family members recall the fear of their patients or loved ones struggling with covid. >> i told my mom, do not be afraid for the lord is with us. i love you and may god bless you. keep strong for me, mom. and all she answered me was, yes, mija. yes, mija, with that voice with fear. >> another matriarch of a family, may bungess, was with a family member when she died. another family member never got the chance. >> she called me nettie. she said, nettie, am i going to die? i said, mom, you know, you're this fighter. you defy the odds all the time, and you're not going to die. >> it's horrible to sit there and watch my mom gasp for air as she's dying, and when they took out that tube, it's horrible. and we couldn't do anything for her. >> what were your last words to me? >> i love you. i want you to come home. but it never happened. >> an icu nurse in oklahoma lost her mother and then three days later her husband to the virus. >> this is so rough. sometimes i'm grieving for my husband and then i realize my mom is gone, that i'm grieving for my mom, and i just think, i'm going to go tell dennis and dennis is gone, so the two people that would have been so supportive theatrat the other os gone, they're both gone. >> almost 500,000 lost. young americans who leave their young families behind. zena rose, a 42-year-old nurse, got covid and died after giving birth. her husband nick shared a message for her. >> i could tell her anything. i said, babe, i love you so much. i know that the lord has you, but i got this. i'll take care of the family. >> another young mother died from covid after giving birth to a healthy baby boy. doctors induced erica bocero when her deteriorated and her brother described her last moments. >> i know she heard us. we prayed for her. we comforted her until the last moments. she was like, mom, i don't feel good. i don't feel like myself. it's hard to breathe. the weekend came along. the doctors saw that she wasn't getting any better and they gave birth to her son. she had a normal labor. she gave birth to her son but didn't get to hold him. right after she gave birth, that's when they put the tube in. and then from there, you know, all me and my sister wanted was the best for everybody. she cared about lives. she didn't deserve to go through what she went through. god needed her more than we did. with open arms we gave her to god last night. >> even as a nation where many have become numb, this astronomical loss, i know that these stories of our fellow americans puncture that armor that is natural to have accumulated over the past year, and that's okay. we need to remember the people that we have lost even if we didn't know them personally. i know it is hard. i hear it from so many of you. i know you're tired, i know you're tapped out. it has been more than a year since the first reported coronavirus case. the quarantining, the hoping that this would subside only to realize that it wouldn't any time soon, the struggling to make ends meet, the worrying that if this is the day you might spike a fever or start to cough, the juggling your job while you're home-schooling your kids, being afraid to see your grandparents, being afraid to see your grandkids, knowing that there is a vaccine that you and your loved ones can't yet get, struggling with mental health. for almost 500,000 americans this past year losing their lives, this is a collective loss. we're taking this moment to acknowledge that. you are not alone. and if you are lucky enough to still have a little fuel in your tank today, it is a good day to remind someone in your life that you are there for them. and just a reminder that you can join cnn tonight. we are going to be honoring the lives of americans who were lost to the coronavirus. jake tapper is doing "we remember 500,000" 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sentence allowed this to go forward, and interestingly enough, there were no noted dissents here. the documents, as you said, are several years of documents from his long-time accounting firm, and they are including these tax returns. and as you said, the original part of the investigation had to do with these alleged hush money payments. keep in mind it was last term that the supreme court 7-2 did rule against trump's broad claims of immunity, but then they sent the case back to the lower court so that trump could make more arguments about it. the lower courts again ruled against the president. it came back to the supreme court and the court acted today. this is a major victory for cy vance now, because he will be able to now continue with his investigation. we talked about how it had to do with alleged hush money payments, but there is some indication that they could also be looking into tax issues or insurance fraud, so this is exactly what he wanted, and the supreme court today is dealing this big loss to former president trump. >> all right, big implications here. ariane, thank you for that report. i want to bring in gloria borger and carrie cordero to talk about this with us. carrie, what do you think this ruling could lead to? >> what it really does, brianna, is it enables the new york d.a. to be able to conduct their investigation. the former president fought this as much as he could throughout the courts, as ariane reported, and now they actually will be able to obtain the records, the new york d.a. will be able to obtain the records they sought in the course of their investigation and then they'll review them. i don't want to get too far ahead of the facts. this doesn't necessarily mean donald trump will be prosecuted, it doesn't necessarily mean that people will see him going to jail. all it means is that the new york d.a. can do their job, they can review the tax records he has tried to prevent them from seeing, and they can conduct the investigation to their satisfaction. >> we have to note, gloria, that for years former president trump fought having these tax returns made public. >> well, he did -- >> not just public, being revealed to prosecutors, i should say. these will not be made public, just to be clear. >> if you really want to wind back the clock, remember during the campaign he said, oh, sure, i'd be happy to release my taxes but i'm under audit and i can't release my taxes. of course, he could release his taxes if he were under audit. we're not sure if that's true or false, he just didn't want to. then we have the "new york times" reporting that for ten years or so donald trump paid no taxes, and for 2016 and 2017 he paid $750 a year in taxes, and then you have what carrie is talking about, which is this question raised by michael cohen, his former lawyer, in testimony that perhaps the president and the trump organization is guilty of tax and insurance fraud, which may indeed be what they're looking at. and so, you know, it opens a pandora's box for the president. he wanted to keep it shut, but he can't, and so he'll complain about the supreme court again. >> you know, the supreme court issued this ruling, carrie, without comment or noted dissent. what does that say to you? >> well, it means that it was straightforward for the court. they didn't feel the need to write an opinion. there were not members of the court who disagreed. it shows unanimity amongst the court members, so this is the final decision of that court, and the new york d.a. will now have access these records, so it means they'll be able to look at whatever they think might be in those records, but then also once they ehave the records, if that does lead to other potential avenues of investigation, other potential violations that they might see, they will have that information available to them. >> you know, it's interesting to note, gloria, and we've seen reporting even though we had not been privy to donald trump's tax returns, we had known from the "new york times" what was in his tax information, i guess you could say, in some tax documents. we also know from the "new york times" that his family had a practice of kind of fudging reporting values on things. there is a long history of things that would probably not pass the smell test if it came to very close scrutiny of, you know, a prosecutor. >> donald trump is in real estate in new york, and so that, in and of itself, you have to kind of look at that closely. and i think that, you know, he gets a lot of tax breaks that you and i would not get as somebody in that business. so they'll surely take a close look at that. and what donald trump is going to say, maybe, as he goes to the conservative group and speaks is that he is being persecuted by the supreme court which, by the way, did not accommodate the big lie for him, so he's upset about that already. and at this point is handing over documents that he doesn't want to hand to a democrat. so he's got a lot he's 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>> reporter: brianna, at this point looks precarious. on very rocky ground. just heard from white house press secretary jen psaki in the last few minutes saying they still believe this is a viable nomination, believe they can get the votes to get her confirmed, but as you just laid out, the question now is, where does that vote come from if minchin is out and more moderate republicans like senator mitt romney and susan collins won't confirm her, all talking about her inflammatory tweets and language. jen psaki asked about that by our kaitlan collins and wouldn't condone the language and simply said tanden had been chosen by president biden because she's qualified. here's what what pa sasauk -- psaki had to say. >> she's a leading policy expert, led a think tank in this, in washington that has done a great deal of work on policy issues but done a great deal of bipartisan work as well. won widespread support ranging from labor unions rolled up her sleeves and done the work. met with more than 35 senators, democrats and republicans themselves. this was a process. confirmation getting individuals confirmed, has two committee votes we're working towards that and continue to work supporting her nomen asian. >> reporter: the white house continuing to push tanden's background reminding everybody the first asian-american woman to lead the omb, talked about her lived experience growing up with a single mother and benefiting from the programs she would have a hand working with and talking how that experience would make her a strong person in this position. but the fact remains that the white house spent the weekend working the phones according to psaki trying to find these votes. it's what senate majority leader chuck schumer pledged to do, find the votes to get tanden over the finish line. but that remains to be seen. we just heard from senator dick durbin, the democrat, who told our manu raju it's too soon to say if the nomination should be pulled but it's something that continues to develop on the hill hour-by-hour today. >> it's not looking good for her, and this may not have been a nomination designed for a senate that is so narrowly divided here. there's also this history, right, between neera tanden and bernie sanders. we got a glimpse. there. many progressives think she boosted clinton's nomination for democratic presidential nominee in 2016 and sanders expense? >> reporter: right. there is this deep history within the democratic party, and you saw that clip. there was a long hearing there. it is a committee that senator bernie sanders ironically chairs. he was responsible for her, listening to her testimony, chairing that committee. you heard him say during that hearing, he said, these weren't just republicans that you attacked. you attacked people i worked with, you attacked me. we saw neera tanden apologize for that and promised senator sanders that her behavior would be different going forward, that it would be far more bipartisan and also welcoming to different points of view as they moved forward and she really tried to make amends for that within that hearing, but the fact remains, brianna, she's got adversaries w within the democrat and republican party. a lot of fractures there. >> yeah. indeed. jessica, thank you for that report live from capitol hill. next, a capitol hill officer breaks his silence saying rioters called him a racial slur. we will hear his chilling story. plus senators grilling the man president biden picked for attorney general. hear what made him emotional during his testimony. for as little as $25 a month. but it gets crazier. bring a friend every month and get every month for $5. boom! 12 months of $5 wireless. visible, wireless that gets better with friends. keeping your oysters business growing has you swamped. you need to hire. i need indeed indeed you do. the moment you sponsor a job on indeed you get a shortlist of quality candidates from a resume data base claim your seventy-five-dollar credit when you post your first job at indeed.com/promo tonight, i'll be eating the al pastor burrito from boca burritos right here in aurora. 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(trill sound) it is the top of the hour. ip am brianna keilar. we begin with a major legal loss for donald trump. supreme court saying trump's tax returns released not to the public but to new york city prosecutors who had to persevere through more than a year of legal wrangling to get these. the supreme court cleared the way for the manhattan d.a. to receive nine years of worth's trump's tax documents from 2011 through to 2019. the d.a. is seeking them in relation to a case over hush money payments made to stormy daniels and karen mcdougal. daniels and mcdougal claim to be have had extramarital affairs with trump before in office. allegations that trump denied. the president's former attorney michael cohen facilitated the payment to daniels and has been interviewed multiple times by the manhattan d.a. today cohen is saying this "the supreme court has now proclaimed that no one is above the law. trump will, for the first time, have to take responsibility for his own dirty deeds." turn now to tristen snell, who's former assistant attorney general and helped lead the prosecution of trump university and joined by john dean, white house counsel to president nixon and testified against him in the watergate investigation. tristen, first to you. can, what can prosecutors do with this information? >> well, part of the key here, though is that it's not about the taxes. it's about all the stuff that comes with the taxes. specifically the bank records. the "new york times" already got their hands on the taxes. we know a lot about that. the bank records are going to tell exactly where money came in and where it went out. so it's not just about the hush money. it's also about the other things that might be revealed a

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