30 voted for the commission over in the house. mitch mcconnell said a commission would be inherently partisan and would only continue from president trump s second impeachment trial. senator cassidy said he supported the bill to prevent a partisan issue. are they more likely to trust a commission hand-picked by speaker pelosi or one picked by a bipartisan vote? after the vote today, majority leader chuck schumer took republicans to task about what he framed as fear of donald trump. i m just terribly disappointed that so many republicans refuse to even look at a bipartisan, down the middle look at it because they re afraid of donald trump. donald trump is a bane to our democracy. and unless people in his own party stand up to him, it s bad for the party, it s bad for those individuals, but most of all, it s bad for the country. schumer says he s reserving the right to reintroduce the legislation in the future. we re talking about all this right now with simon kippur. s
voting laws. i think the most chilling was this provision that was literally just introduced in the last 48 hours that would allow an election to be overturned based on the allegation of fraud, even if the alleged fraudulent votes would not have meaningfully changed the outcome of that election. when you connect that to the big lie, that there was widespread voter fraud in 2020 and somehow joe biden is an illegitimate president, you can see state legislators like the ones here in texas not accepting the results of future presidential elections. so that was ben o rourke on morning joe. he went on to say that you re more likely to get struck by lightning in texas than you will voter fraud. that s not stopping a wave of new voting restriction bills introduced in 47 states across the country. as many republicans continue to back donald trump s big lie. joining me now, political correspondent ali vitale, co-author and white house reporter eugene daniels. welcome on this memo
were essential workers. these vta employees helped us get through this horrific pandemic. they were showing up every day to operate light rail and buses to ensure people could still continue to go about their lives amid all the challenges of the pandemic and they were taking risks with their own lives in doing so. certainly our san jose police officers and sheriff s deputies responded immediately. obviously we ll learn more through this investigation about what exactly happened and how. but i can t help but think they may well have saved more harm from happening. and, of course, we ve got grief counselors already hard at work supporting families of loved ones who are suffering awful trauma at this moment. we re going to pull together. we re going to continue to work together and support our families of loved ones who have lost so much during this tragedy. we re going to continue to provide more information as this investigation unfolds. thank you. reporter: does anybody hav
before, but it s new every time. yeah. exactly. and this is now with four sustained days of protests as we head towards the end of the derek chauvin trial ten miles away as the defense heads through its part of that trial and we re heading towards a verdict there, it does feel like we re going to be there and our attention is going to be there for quite some time. yeah, it is. thank you, rachel. thanks, lawrence. well, we re just an hour away from the curfew tonight in brooklyn center, minnesota where once again protesters have gathered on the day when the police officer who shot and killed 20-year-old daunte wright while he was unarmed was arrested and charged with second degree manslaughter. curfews in neighboring minneapolis and st. paul were in place last night at the same hour but were lifted tonight. last night 79 people were arrested in brooklyn center, minnesota. joining us now from brooklyn center is nbc news correspondent ron allen. ron, you led us off last
david fowler testified that heart problems and drugs and possible carbon monoxide poisoning from being held down next to the suv s exhaust contributed to what he called george floyd s sudden cardiac death. that is something we haven t seen before. dr. fowler also said he would rule out asphyxia and derek chauvin s knee as the cause of death. is it your opinion that mr. chauvin s knee in any way impacted the structures of mr. floyd s neck? no, it did not. none of the vital structures. nor in the area where the knee appeared to be from the videos. in terms of the placement of the knee on the neck, could you determine based on your review whether it appeared his air way was obstructed? yes. the placement of the knee is towards the back and the back right side of his of mr. floyd s neck. the airway is around the front. it is nowhere close to his airway. the bottom line is moving air in and out, and speaking and making noise is very good evidence that the airway was not