Call, we know there is a risk factor, we just dont know what level depending on the severity of the call. Stiger went on to say that you can hear on the video Derek Chauvin responding to what george floyd was saying which could indicate he was not distracted by the crowd. The defense also argued that use of force policies can differ among police departments. Not everything is in the training manual when you arrive on a scene. And sometimes he got stiger to agree that Police Actions caught on camera are, quote, awful but lawful, that it looked bad but officers couldnt control george floyd when they tried to put him in the police car. The defense attorney also played a body cam video in which he says george floyd is heard saying, i ate too many drugs. Listen for yourself. Did you hear what he said . No, i couldnt make it out. Does it sound like he says, i ate too many drugs . Listen again. More on that moment ahead with our panel. Heres what George Floyds brother told my colleague, gabe gutierrez, though, this morning about the defenses line of questioning in just the past few days. We have expert witnesses that are qualified in their field. The strategies theyre trying to use is to find a crack in these men and women who have testified about their expertise, all the training they had, and that just blows my mind, just the tactics they use to try to bring down a credible witness. The defense went on to argue that chauvins body weight appears tilted to the right to georges shoulder, not his neck. On redirect the prosecution argued that doesnt matter. Is the risk related to the pressure on the neck or the pressure on the body . Its the pressure on the body. Any additional pressure on the body complicates breathing more so than if there was no pressure at all. And so the placement of the knees, even if there can be shifting between the neck, the base of the neck, the placement of both of the defendants knees were on the victims body, correct . Yes. And then james ryersand interviewed chauvins partner about what happened that day. He will continue his questioning after lunch. Alabama law professor and former u. S. Attorney joyce vance and former defender mary moriarty. Gabe, you always come to us with interesting comments about how the jury is taking in the information. I know yesterday was a bit of a dryer day and the jury got antsy. What is the latest on their level of attentiveness today . Reporter hi there, katy. Apparently today, as you mentioned, one of the jurors yesterday at one point appeared to be sleeping, several others were yawning. Today, though, they seemed to be paying attention for the most part. Even though the testimony has been, as you mentioned, dryer than it was several days ago and last week, getting innocent testimony from bystanders. What i did notice today is, as you mentioned in your open, a more aggressive line of questioning, cross examination by the defense, and were really starting to see the defenses argument take shape here with the defense attorney eric nelson continuing to hammer that point that some legal experts are wondering how this will land with the jury about the bystanders, that some of that crowd distracted Derek Chauvin, and even though someone in the crowd was nine years old and the oldest was 61 and broke down on the witness stand. Some of that will resonate with the jury. As you played there today, the defense bringing up the idea of drugs, and were told that will likely be what continues to hit in cross examination over the coming days. Right now when we return from break, the agent from the Minnesota Bureau of criminal apprehension is expected to be back on the stand. You have to remember, katy, that is part of the state investigation. The defense is likely to bring up, well, why didnt they find the chewedup pills the defense has been talking about until months after the car was initially searched. This is all before we get to the medical side of this case, perhaps later in the week, katy. Gabe, im so sorry to interrupt you, but President Biden is now speaking on his infrastructure bill. Lets go listen to that. The second largest investment in american jobs since world war ii. And its a plan that puts millions of americans to work to fix whats broken in our country. Tens of thousands of miles of roads and highways, thousands of bridges in desperate need of repair. But it also is a blueprint needed for infrastructure tomorrow. Not just yesterday, tomorrow. For american jobs, for american competitiveness. Last week i said that once congress is back from recess, i would get to work right away because we have no time to lose. So here we are. Democrats and republicans will have ideas about what they like and what they dont like about our plan. Thats a good thing. Thats the american way. Thats the way democracy works. Debate is welcome. Compromise is inevitable, changes are certain, and in the next few weeks, the Vice President and i will be meeting with republicans and democrats to hear from everyone, and well be listening. Well be open to good ideas and good faith negotiations. But heres what we wont be open to. We will not be open to doing nothing. Inaction simply is not an option. Now, since i announced this plan, ive heard from my republican friends say that its many of them say its too big. They say, why not focus on traditional infrastructure . Fix what weve already got, the roads and highways as they exist, and the bridges. Im happy to have that debate. But i want to tell you my view. We are america. We dont just fix for today, we build for tomorrow. 200 years ago, trains werent traditional infrastructure, either. Until america made a choice to lay down tracks across the country. Highways werent traditional infrastructure until we allowed ourselves to imagine that roads could connect our nation across state lines. The idea of infrastructure has always evolved to meet the aspirations in the American People and their needs. And its evolving again today. We need to start seeing infrastructures through its effect on the lives of working people in america. What is the foundation today that they need to carve out their place in the middle class to make it . To live, to go to work, to raise their families with dignity . To ensure that good jobs will be there for their kids no matter who they are or what zip code they live in. Thats what infrastructure means in the 21st century. It still depends on roads and bridges, ports and airports, rail and mass transit. But it also depends on having reliable highspeed internet in every home. Because todays highspeed internet is infrastructure. It depends on the electric grid, a grid that wont collapse in a winter storm or be compromised by hackers at home or abroad. It depends on investing in made in america goods from every american community, including those that have historically been left out, black, latino, asianamericans, rural communities. Talk with folks around the country about what really makes up the foundation of a good economy. Ask a teacher or Child Care Worker if having clean Drinking Water, noncontaminated Drinking Water in our schools and Child Care Centers is part of that foundation where we know that the lead in our pipes slows a childs development when they drink that water. Ask the entrepreneur whose Small Business was destroyed by the second 100year flood in the last ten years in iowa. Or wildfires in the west that burned 5 million acres last year, an area roughly the size of the entire state of new jersey. More fires than ever. Or the devastating damage, seeing more frequent and intense hurricanes and storms on the east and gulf coast. Ask all those farmers and Small Business owners and homeowners whether investing in clean energy to fight the effects of Climate Change is part of infrastructure. Ask folks in Rural America who are more than 35 of the people lack a reliable highspeed internet, limiting their ability to conduct business or engage in Remote Learning for their schools. Ask whether investing in Internet Access will lead to better jobs in town, new markets for farmers, better opportunities for their kids. And im serious about this. Ask the moms and dads in the sandwich generation. The folks carrying enormous personal financial strains trying to raise their children and care for their parents, or elderly parents, or members of their family with a disability. Ask them what sort of infrastructure they need to build a little better life, to be able to breathe a little bit. Its expanded services for seniors. Its home care workers that go in and cook their meal, help them get around to live independently in their home, allowing them to stay in their homes, and i might add, saving medicaid hundreds of millions of dollars in the process. Its better wages and benefits and opportunities for caregivers who are disproportionately women, women of color and immigrants. Or ask our Wounded Warriors and military families. To my republican colleagues in congress, shouldnt we modernize v. A. Hospitals, update them . Many of them are more than 50 years old. How about the estimate 450,000 post9 11 veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder, who when they make that emergency call, or their husband, wife, son, daughter makes that emergency call to the v. A. Hospital, dad needs help, we have to bring him in. And they hear, you have to wait, we dont have room now. Come back, call me back in eight days, ten days, 12 days. More suicides in the military than people getting shot. Is it really your position, my friends, that our veterans dont deserve the most modern facilities . They can catch that cancer diagnosis quicker with access to better roads, cleaner water, highspeed internet that delivers information faster and more of it . Above all, infrastructure is about meeting the needs of a nation and putting americans to work and being able to do and get paid for having good jobs. Plumbers and pipefitters. Replacing those literally thousands of miles of dangerous lead pipes. Theyre still out there. Everybody remembers what happened in flint. Theres hundreds of flints all across america. How many of you know when you send your child to school fountain theyre drinking out of is not fed by a lead pipe . How many of you know the school your filed goes to has asbestos in the walls . Laying transition lines for a modern grid. Over 500,000 charging stations on the highways were going to build to accommodate electric vehicles so we can own the future. Construction workers and engineers, building modern hospitals and homes for american families. Health care workers, steel workers, folks who work in the cutting edge labs. Nearly 90 of the infrastructure jobs created by our american jobs plan can be filled by people who dont have a college degree. 75 dont need an associates degree. As i said last week, this is a blue collar blueprint for increasing opportunity for the American People. It also includes the biggest investment in nondefense research and development on record. I promise you, its not part of my speech, but i promise you youre all going to be reporting over the next six to eight months how china and the rest of the world is racing ahead of us in the investments they have in the future. Attempting to own the future. The technology, quantum computing, investing significant amounts of money and dealing with cancer and alzheimers. Thats the infrastructure of a nation. There is a new book out about how weve fallen behind. America is no longer the leader of the world because were not investing. It used to be we invested almost 2. 7 of our gdp in infrastructure. Now its about. 7 . When we were investing it, we were the leader in the world. I dont know why we dont get this. Were one of the few Major Economies in the world whose Public Investment in research and development has declined as a percentage of gdp in the last 25 years. Declined. The United States of america that led the world. Why does this matter . Investments in research and Development Helped lead to lithium batteries, l. E. D. Technology, the internet itself. It helped lead the vaccine breakthroughs that are helping us beat covid19. To the human genom project that has led to breakthroughs and how we understand and fight cancer and other diseases. Government, meaning the taxpayers, funded this research. Government. If we stop investing in research, we stop investing in jobs of the future and we give up leading the world. If we do invest in research, what were really doing is raising the bar on what we can imagine. Imagine a world where you and your family can travel coast to coast without a single tank of gas or in a highspeed train close to as fast as you can go across the country in a plane. Imagine your children growing up to work in innovation, goodpaying jobs in fields that havent even been invented yet. Like the parents of every computer programmer, every graphic designer, every Renewable Energy worker once did. Imagine. We invest today so that these jobs will be here in america tomorrow. So america can lead the world as is historically done. Thats why i brought back scientists into the white house. We need to think. Look, do we think the rest of the world is waiting around . Were not going to make those kind of investments, the rest of the world is saying. Take a look. Do you think china is waiting around to invest in its Digital Infrastructure . Or in research and development . I promise you they are not waiting. But theyre counting on american democracy to be too slow, too limited, and too divided to keep pace. Youve heard me say it before. I think this generation can be marked by the competition between democracies and autocracies because the world is changing so rapidly. The autocrats are betting on democracy not having the kind of unity to make decisions to get in that race. We cant afford to prove them right. We have to show the world, but much more importantly, we have to show ourselves that democracy works, that we can come together on the big things. Its the United States of america, for gods sake. Of course, building the infrastructure of tomorrow requires Major Investments today. As i said last week, im open to ideas about how to pay for this plan with one exception. I will not impose any tax increases in people making less than 400,000 a year. If others have ideas out there on how to pay for this investment without violating that rule, they should come forward. Theres all kinds of opportunities. Just list all the tax breaks that i find difficult to explain. Wealthy deductions, 360 billion, top rate of 39 which it used to be for years all the way to the bush administration. Almost a quarter of a trillion dollars, corporate minimum tax in the fossil fuel giveaways of 40 billion. I said go on. But let me tell you what i proposed how to do it. Were going to raise the Corporate Tax rate. It was 35 for the longest time, which was too high. Barack and i thought it was too high during our administration. We all agreed five years ago that it should come down somewhat, but the Trump Administration put it down to 25 . What im proposing is that we meet in the middle. 28 would still have lower corporate rates than any time between world war ii and 2017. And well generate over a trillion dollars in taxes over 15 years. A new independent study put out last week found that at least 55 of our largest corporations, you use the various loopholes to pay zero federal income tax in 2020. Its just not fair. Its not fair to the rest of the american taxpayers. Were going to try to put an end to this. Not fleece them. 28 . If youre a mom or dad, cop, firefighter, police officer, et cetera, youre paying close to that in your income tax. I would also propose the global minimum tax which is being proposed around the world for u. S. Corporations at 21 . Let me tell you what that means. It means that companies arent going to be able to hide their income in places like the Cayman Islands and bermuda in tax savings. Were also going to eliminate deductions used by corporations for offshoring jobs and shifting Assets Overseas. They offshore the jobs, shift the Assets Overseas and then dont have to pay taxes on all they make there. And well significantly ramp up irs enforcement against corporations and the super wealthy who fail to report their income or underreport it. That would raise tens of billions of dollars. It adds up to more than what i proposed in just 15 years. Its honest, its fair, its fiscally responsible. And it pays for what we need and reduces the debt over the long haul. By the way, i didnt hear any of our friends who were criticizing this plan say that the Corporate Tax cut which added 2 trillion to the debt, the trump tax cut, 2 trillion, 1. 9 trillion in debt, wasnt paid for. The vast majority of which went to the top 1 of the wage earners. I didnt hear anybody hollering in this recovery, socalled, before i became president , this kshaped recovery where billionaires made 300 billion more dollars during this period. Where is the outrage there . I am not trying to punish anybody. But damn it, maybe its because i come from a middle class neighborhood, im sick and tired of ordinary people being fleeced. Let me close by saying this. Whatever partisan divisions there are around other issues, they dont have to be around this one. The divisions of the moment shouldnt stop us from doing the right thing for the future. These arent republican bridges, democratic airports, republican hospitals or a Democratic Power grid. Think of the transcontinental railroad, interstate highway system or the space race where one nation united and connected. As i said last week, im going to bring republicans to the white house. I invite them to come. Well have good faith negotiations, and any republican who wants to get this done, i invite them. We have to get these things