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votes. a landslide. i did it. very impressive. then vice president walter mondale finding the humor with speaker tip o neill in the landslide defeat in the 1980 presidential election. in just a moment, we re going to speak with presidential historian michael beschloss about the extraordinary legacy of the former vice president who passed away yesterday at the age of 93. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is tuesday, april 20th, along with joe, willie, and me. we have former chairman of the republican national committee, now an msnbc political analyst, michael steele. good to have you with us, michael. we re going to begin with the case against former minneapolis police officer derek chauvin for the death of george floyd. now in the hands of a sequestered jury. the panel of six white and six black were multi-racial jurors began deliberating at 4:00 central time yesterday and ended the day without a verdict following hours of closing and rebuttal argum ....
they re calling for peace and tranquility, no matter what that verdict is. i am praying the verdict is the right verdict, it is overwhelming in my view. i wouldn t say that unless the jury was sequestered now. meanwhile, controversy continues over comments from maxine waters for protesters to get more confrontational if chauvin was acquitted which the judge said didn t provide reason for mistrial but could eventually be used for appeal. congresswoman waters dismissed the suggestion she was calling for violence saying i am nonviolent. in the white house briefing room minutes ago, press secretary jen psaki faced questions about it. does the white house condone the congresswoman s comments? well, first, i would say again, the congresswoman clarified her own comments. does the white house believe those kinds of comments are helpful in the middle of a trial everybody knows could lead to more violence and unrest? again, i can speak to what the president s point of v ....
yeah, both the prosecution and defence focusing on the concept of reasonable doubt in the last few hours. the prosecutor arguing that there was no doubt. that derek chauvin had killed george floyd. let s just listen into some of the deliberations from the judge. deliberations from the “udge. council made h deliberations from the judge. council made a mistake misstatement when argued that the defendant had to apply when argued that the defendant had to apply unlawful force. as in he had to to apply unlawful force. as in he had to attend that the force he was applying had to attend that the force he was applying to be unlawful. that s not applying to be unlawful. that s not a correct applying to be unlawful. that s not a correct statement of the law pursuant a correct statement of the law pursuant to doran. that 87 west second pursuant to doran. that 87 west second eight 26 the state need not show second eight 26 the state need not show that second eight 26 ....
information. authorities were warned about this suspect s potential for violence in the past. we also know cops believe the gunman used a rifle. a home is being searched in connection with the suspected shooter and the sequence of last night s events are starting to be posed together. there was no confrontation with anyone that was there. there was no disturbance. there was no argument. he just appeared to randomly start shooting, and that began in the parking lot, and then he did go into the building, into the facility for a brief period of time. before he took his own life. my understanding is that everything by the time that officers entered that the situation was over. the estimates that we have heard are just a couple minutes, that it was it did not last very long. just a couple of minutes. and about the time it s taken me to read this story, the gunman took eight lives. this morning a heart wrenching scene as some of the workers reunited with loved ones. ....
prove. did they? yeah, brianna. big, big day. this will be the culmination of this trial that the world has really been watching for the last three weeks. the prosecution will close first. i think they re going to start by bringing the jury right back to the events of may 25th of 2020 outside of cup foods. the way they ll do that is reminding the jury of the eyewitnesss, those who witnessed george floyd s last moments as he was being held down by the knee of derek chauvin. those eyewitnesss have delivered clear and compelling testimony. and then there s the video showing derek chauvin kneeling on george floyd s neck. we ve only seen short snippets. we ll see longer snippets. the second is going to be the police used excessive force against george floyd. we heard from a whole succession of prosecution witnesses. former police officers including the minneapolis police chief testified what derek chauvin did was excessive use of force and finally the prosecution is going ....