process. that is really all that i can say today. >> martha: that man is no longer in his position. the officer involved, kim potter, has also resigned. so has the police chief now ang the police chief. he immediately released the video that you see in the center as soon as it was available to him. here he was yesterday talking about how much he loved his job and his work. >> this is what i'm here for. okay? i'm the leader of this department. they expect me to lead, create a safety. that's what i'm trying to do. that's it. yeah, i'm emotional. >> that chief as well out of his position, out of his job. today a lot of emotion on all sides on this story and then it's the white house on the left-hand side of your screen moments ago, president biden sat down with members of the congressional black caucus saying "a lot can be done on policing" after another night of anger on the streets of minneapolis. >> they just killed duante wright. if i make a mistake, you going to kill me, too? you can make mistakes and kill people. it's okay. >> martha: with us former minneapolis city councilman, don samuels and former d.c. homicide detective ted williams. first, to senior correspondent mike tobin. mike? >> martha, things are calm in front of the police head quarters here in brooklyn center. another demonstration is expected tonight. it's been a day in which the developments have been coming fast. less than 24 hours after we learned the identity of kim potter, the officer at the center of all of this controversy, the 26-year veteran of the brooklyn center police force and with mayor elliott calling for her firing, she and the chief resigned. potter's resignation letter reads in part "i have loved every minute of being a police officer, but i believe it is in the best interest of the community, the department and my fellow officers if i resign." last night, there was more unrest. a delegation was sent to negotiate with protesters in front of police headquarters to try to get them to comply with the curfew without conflict. the respect was rocks and fireworks. please used tear gas and arrests to clear the streets. there was looting. the family dollar was among those ransacked. brooklyn center has an acting police chief. tony gruning is his name. he's a 19-year veteran of the force. martha? joining me first, former t.c. detective ted williams. good to have you with us. your reaction to the resignations, the firings of how this case is being handled so far. >> i got to tell you, it's a mess and a circus from what i've seen. i listened and watched the press conference from the mayor. it will just unfortunately out of control. as you have said, there's three people that have been fired. we look at one of them. the city manager. he was here yesterday saying the police woman that shot this guy with her gun, she deserved due process. he's gone. he's absolutely right. she deserves due process. and then you had the chief of police that said that he wanted to be there for his men and women and he was very emotional, as you remember, martha. and now he's gone. and then you have kim potter, the young woman, 26-year veteran of that police department that did the accidental shooting of duante wright. she submitted her resignation. after 26 years, she's in a position to actually retire from the force, martha. >> martha: you go back to that video and look at what was taking place. a couple of things that stand out. obviously you hear her yelling taser, taser, taser. and then she realizes according to what we can hear on the audio and i would emphasize that we're still waiting to get the whole play by play here, and that's when it's appears she accidentally shot him. but you say they should have brought him to the back of the squad car. explain. >> it's standard police procedure that once you got the occupant, specifically the driver of the automobile out of the automobile, you don't leave him right by the driver's door because he can do just what mr. wright did, and that is he broke loose, just as they were about to handcuff him and jumped back into the automobile. so the standard procedure for police officers is to take the person to a safe area and the same area is normally between their police car and the back of the person who they have stopped. that's what i think should have happened in this instance. >> martha: and you can see the wrestling that happened at the open door when it appears that he tried to go back in. one of the questions on my mind, when you look back at what appears to be the record of events here with regard to duante wright is that he had an april 2, i believe, appearance in court for an unlicensed gun and he didn't show up at that appearance. now, would that -- if that is indeed the case, which is what it appears to be -- when they see that license -- he's gotten a lot of attention around the fact that he had expired tags. so when they ran the number on the expired tag, would they be made aware that he had run before from the police? >> yeah, absolutely. if he had an outstanding warrant and they ran his tag, it's more likely than not that it came up that there was this bench warrant. that in and of itself would have led to them actually putting the handcuffs on him to attempt to arrest him. >> martha: yeah. and also it might go to his motive for trying to get away, right? >> well may very well go for his motive trying to get away. i have to tell you, martha, i'm deeply concerned about the actions here of officer kim potter. this young man is now dead. he's someone -- she pulled what she thought was a taser and she actually pulled her service resolver. i got to tell you, those two different weapons have different shapes. so they need a full and thorough investigation to determine what happened here. >> martha: absolutely. ted, thank you very much. ted williams, former d.c. homicide detective and a fox news contributor. also joining me now, former minneapolis city councilmember, don samuels. i'm sorry this tragic story unfolded since the last time that we met. what is your reaction to what's going on in your city right now, sir? >> of course, this is in brooklyn center, not minneapolis. but it is in the metro area. we're pretty much neighbors. so this is very troubling. philandro castille was not killed in minneapolis. it was close enough. another suburb. so there's a pattern here that is very disturbing. >> martha: yeah. go ahead. >> people are very -- there's a lot of sadness and a lot of fear. we have a 17-year-old young man living with us, as you know. just on thursday, there was a young man that was shot in the back just a year younger than he by someone who came up and asked if he was in a set. he said no. he got shot in the back. right across from the gym where our young marcus works out. then on thursday, this thursday -- well, a couple days ago, we had this incident with the police. so there's a sense in the african american community that there's really a siege both internally and externally. >> martha: one of the things that you and i discussed when i was with you to cover the derek chauvin trial, which is going on in the backdrop of this and make things more tense, you were concerned that the police had backed off in communities like yours because of what happened with george floyd. does this incident make it a bigger problem to keep the neighborhoods safe and to have that community presence of police when things like this happen? >> well, my wife and i drove out the night of the shooting because we heard that there was some criminal activity, some stores being broken into. so we drove around along west broadwick on the north side. we found three or four cell phone stores that were broken into. otherwise, there were adequate amount of cops. either they came too late or too focused on specific targets. those cell phone stores were broken into. the main stores, the supermarket, the pharmacy and a couple other stores and a bank that had been badly damaged were all guarded by one, two or three police squad cars. and then there were cars driving a long and patrolling the main corridor. so the cops did engage this time. i think they were prepared. we were promised that we would have extra support. seems to work in minneapolis. not so much in brooklyn center. i don't think that they had been prepared for this. so they had quite a bit of damage done there. >> martha: thanks, don. don samuels from north minneapolis. thanks, don. we wish your community the best during these tough times. the next chapter in the derek chauvin trial begins its case. now you have the defense. it's their turn to lay out their case in defense of that police officer whose face america knows so well. we'll take you there live after this. traded with a touch. the gold standard, so to speak ;) introducing colliders. ♪ if you love it, spoon it. ♪ your favorite candy flavors twisted, ♪ chopped or layered into cool, creamy desserts that are made to spoon. new colliders desserts. find them near the refrigerated pudding. bike shop please hold. bike sales are booming. 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 our resume database. claim your $75 credit when you post your first job at indeed.com/bike. it's a new day for veteran homeowners. with home values high and when ymortgage ratesirst job at near record lows. great news for veterans who need money for their family. that's me. refiplus from newday usa lets you refinance at near record lows plus get an average of $50,000. that's me. that's money for security today or retirement tomorrow. that's me. refiplus. i signed up because i was curious. i learned about my grandfather's life on ancestry and it was a remarkable twentieth-century transformation. he did a lot of living before i knew him. bring your family history to life like never before. get started for free at ancestry.com >> martha: so now it is the defense's turn in the trial of derek chauvin. the state did not call maurice hall, george floyd's alleged drug dealer after his later said he would plead the fifth. that didn't happen. matt finn live at the courthouse with the highlights of what has happened today, this hour. hi, matt. >> hi, martha. a short while ago in court for the first time, we got to see new video. it shows george floyd being arrested about a year before his death. the defense is arguing that this video shows that george floyd had the inclination not to fully comply with police. he had the history of taking drugs while in police custody. george floyd complied by taking off his seat belt. then things escalate. an officer told floyd to spit out what is in his mouth. >> keep your hands where i can [bleep] see them. put them on the dash. put them on the dash. i'm not going to shoot you. put your hands on the dash. put your hands on the dash. last time i'm going to tell you that. it's simple. he keeps moving his hands around. he won't listen to what i have to say. put your hands on your head. >> open your mouth. spit out what you got. spit out what you got. i'm going to days you. >> floyd, come out. hand on your head. okay. relax then. >> today in court, a paramedic that treatmented floyd after that arrest testified that floyd told her he took eight or nine oxycodone or percocet pills. he was taken to the hospital for what was considered a potentially fatal blood pressure rate of 216 over 160. the prosecution examined that paramedics testified that despite his drug abuse his heart rate was fine and he did not die of a heart attack. also in court today, george floyd's ex-girlfriend, who was with him in the car on the day he died, she was visibly irritated on the stand, rolling her eyes and adjusting her hair. here's new video of the ex-girlfriend on the day that he died. she was yelling saying that he was going to go to jail. >> he still won't get in the car. just sit down, george. they're going to push him in the car. he's fighting to get out. what is he doing? now he's going to jail. >> a short while ago in court, a defense brought a use of force expert that testified on the stand that george floyd died from an accidental death. martha? >> martha: a lot happening in there today, matt. thank you. matt finn in minneapolis. mercedes colon is here with us. good to see you today. >> great to see you. >> martha: it's interesting to watch that year-old video. you can see an interaction that is reminiscent in some ways of what we saw a year later. you also see that floyd takes a number of pills and puts them in his mouth. you can hear the police officer saying spit it out, spit it out. they later recorded there were eight or nine oxycodones that he was trying to swallow. what is the relevance to this case? >> the defense is trying to to move away from the devastating 9:29 video as promised in the opening statement to the jurors that this case is beyond those nine minutes. that he has to go through what has been done in the past. with respect to the 2019 arrest. here's an instruction the judge gave to the jury. it's not just the day that floyd acted in conformity to the way that he acted in 2019. but what the defense is trying to introduce, this was a man that had a drug problems and non cooperative. the judge is telling the jurors that he acted this way in 2020 but bringing in the message to the jurors that he said is a very opening -- this is beyond the 9:29. >> martha: he's saying it's not about the character or the drug use. it's about the impact of the drugs on this individual, on george floyd. how does he act while on the drugs. that's what they were trying to establish. you can watch yolanda hill also in the car, this is an exchange that happened shortly after. watch this. >> he's already gone. he doesn't need -- >> put the phone back. >> he's gone. went to the hospital. >> tell him where it is. >> are you sure? 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what was the extent of the damage do you think? >> the damage was extensive. anybody that served in iraq and afghanistan had experience with them. the one in iraq, camp victory, probably the biggest one was ten acres. this thing was smoldering. it's a low burn. burns like leaves. they use jet fuel to ignite the human waist, hazardous waste, hazardous radiation like -- it's this toxic brew and this thick black smoke that would pour over 24/7 the soldiers that lived there, slept there, ate there and were exposed. now many of them are suffering the effects of these kind of toxic exposures. >> martha: what kind of effects are they saying? >> it's runs the gamut. it parallels the 9-11 community almost almost identically. you have rare cancers like blastomas and pancreatic cancer in very young, healthy individuals. you have permanent modules and long damage. neuro muscular immune. the whole gamut. it's the reason why we can't do it in america, martha. that's the whole point of this. to delay and to deny -- the v.a. exists to abdicate for the veteran's care. they shouldn't be operating as an insurance company that has a barrier of entry to deny service-related diseases. we couldn't do it here, believe me. if senator or a representative is unsure of the science, let's go dig a ten-acre burn pit in their town, light it on fire with jet fuel and see how quickly the health effects come to the forefront. >> martha: it's a great point. you have attached yourself like you did to the 9-11 fund. it's so heart breaking to see these people that have sacrificed so much, to fight for us or to go up the towers, to go up the buildings on that day and then we leave them hanging when they have longer term effects. you've been so personally invested in this. how is the response on capitol hill, how is this going? do you think you'll get something past that will help these heros? >> so i feel like we have more momentum now than we had. we've been add this. so people like rosy torrez and leroy torrez. they've been working at this for 10 years, 15 years. and our foundation has been involved for two years, which is helping right the legislation, the war fighter's bill. we feel like there's mow men to you do something. we don't want them to take the easy way out. we don't want these veterans another clerical procedure. they need to immediately be placed into a program that mirrors the 9-11 program, which has medical screenings that tend towards what are the illnesses that come from these sorts of toxic exposures and the healthcare an benefits from come from the diseases. so it's a simple program. we have the blue print. it's going to come down to money. my feeling about the money is, this is the cost of war. this is the total cost of war. you don't get to pay for one aspect of the car and not the other. you don't get to leave people hanging. so you know, you ordered the meal and ate the meal and you don't get to haggle about not paying for a part of it. >> martha: before i let you go, you see the trillions that we're talking about spending for a lot of things, covid, infrastructure. how does that make you feel about what you're pushing for here? >> oh, the money that would handle this problem and implement is dwarfed by -- just even at the pentagon, you're talking $750 billion, $800 billion a year. there's an oco fund which is an overseas contingency operations fund that is probably $70 or $80 billion a year that is unaccountable. we're talking about a fraction of that to implement the care and benefits that these folks have already earned. >> martha: very true. thanks for what you're doing here again and getting involved in this. jon stewart, a new show in the fall. hope you come back when you get closer to that. good to see you. >> absolutely. appreciate you covering it. >> you bet. thank you, jon. coming up, prince harry is now back at home in london without meghan markle. the royal scoop on what is going on now with the family when we come back. ♪♪ y pay for what you need? just get a quote at libertymutual.com. really? i'll check that out. oh yeah. i think i might get a quote. not again! aah, come on rice. do your thing. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ here's huge news for veteran homeowners. introducing refiplus from newday usa. with interest rates near record lows refiplus lets you refinance to save money every month. plus you could get an average of $50,000 cash. that's money for security today and money for retirement tomorrow. refiplus, it's only for veterans and it's only from newday usa. >> martha: prince harry is back home in the u.k. for his grandfather's funeral. he's quarantining before he sees the rest of his family. he was once the most popular royal in the family and his standings have plummeted since the oprah interview. now he has to face the music about unclaimed views of racism. meghan markle stayed home in southern california. benjamin hall has the latest from windsor castle today. hi, ben. >> march that here in the u.k., tributes have been pouring in for prince philip. prince william said "my grandfather was an extraordinary man and part of an extraordinary generation. katherine and i will do what he wanted and support the queen in the years ache." prince harry is here and released a more informal message. "to me, like many of you that have lost a loved one, he was my grandpa. legend of banter and cheeky right till the end." world leaders have been offering their condolences. president biden saying -- >> he was a heck of a guy. 99 years old. never slowed down at all. which i admire the devil out of. >> president trump saying in part, he personified the quite reserve, stern fortitude and unbending integrity of the united kingdom. one place where prince phillip is being mourned, the tiny pacific islands of vanu atu. the last 50 years they have prayed for his blessing. the one person we have not heard from is the queen. her son andrew says she felt a huge void in her life. >> martha: no doubt. thanks, ben. let's bring in dan wooten for thedailymail.com. good to have you back on the program today. one of the things that stood out to me and to you as well is the statement that we just saw some of harry's statement. there's some sort of subtle digs to say that i believe in william's statement about the bigger situation that is going on, correct? >> oh, look, there's beef between these two brothers, martha. probably the first time they'll see each other in the full glare of the public spotlight for the funeral saturday. everyone will be analyzing the body language. i think we could tell from the statements that things remain very tense between william and harry. it was the final line in william's statement that was incredibly poignant. he said that him and kate would continue to do what their grandfather would have wanted. keep working and support the queen. who isn't working for the royal family and who isn't supporting the queen? it's harry and meghan and their california mansion, raking in the millions for netflix and leaving the queen and prince charles in their 70s and 90s do all the work and william is angry about it. >> martha: let's put that statement on the screen. he also says "i will always be grateful that my wife from so many years got to know my grandfather and for the kindness that he showed her. katherine and i will continue to do what he would have wanted, support the queen. i miss my grandfather but he knows we have to get on with the job." pointing out, dan, meghan markle didn't have that opportunity to get to know his grandfather because they left town four months after they months into their home. >> of course, she's not returning for the funeral. she's pregnant. it's understandable. there's medical orders that he will make the rift greater. she's accused of them of racism, that they didn't support her and she's not going to support them. >> martha: we'll be watching closely. thanks, dan. join me saturday. i'll be anchoring the special coverage of the funeral of prince philip. we have a great group of royal watchers to take you through that. that's the story. it goes on. we'll be here with you tomorrow at 3:00. have a great day, everybody. "your world" with neil cavuto starts right now. >> you want to make sure that safety is the important issue here. we are totally aware that this is a very rare event. we want to be get this worked out as quickly as we possibly can. that's why you see the word "pause." you want to hold off a bit and very well may go back to that and with some conditions or maybe not. we want to leave that up to the fda and the cdc. so i don't think it was pulling the trigger too quickly. >> neil: so a pause, not a stop. welcome, yb