knee into george floyd s neck for almost 9 minutes. he faces three charges but the biggest one carrying a penalty of 40 years in prison. our own martha maccallum on a steady buy with analysis but we begin with matt finn live near the courthouse in minneapolis. the first witnesses testifying about the 911 phone call. she is a 911 operator and an opening arguments a short while ago the prosecution did not waste a lot of time getting to that now viral video of former officer derek chauvin kneeling on george floyd s neck. the prosecution told the jury that former officer derek chauvin was on his neck for about 9 minutes without letting up. he was pleading for air, calling out for his mother and his own life. people were demanding that police check his pulse and get off his neck. prosecution showed that chauvin defied his oath to serve and protect and take care of people in his custody. mr. derek derek chauvin defied his badge by using excessive and unreasonable force upon the
that ruling came down hours after new york s attorney general hit the former president with a lawsuit accusing him, his family, their firm of years of fraud. now, in the mar-a-lago documents case the appeals court ruled the doj can now resume its review of classified documents seized from trump s home, and that overturns an earlier ruling that had paused the criminal investigation. let s go to cnn s jessica schneider. jessica, the appellate court, they had problems, several problems with arguments from the trump attorneys. yeah, they did. and this is a unanimous three-judge panel including two trump appointees. and they really did, victor, seem to take down the arguments from trump s legal team on every level. so the first thing they did is they said that by not allowing doj to incorporate these 100 classified documents into the criminal review the court said in their words it would impose real and significant harm on the united states and on the public since as the doj sai
Of individuals who through private acquisition of state assets amass great wealth especially in foreign accounts and properties. no clue. who met him on a period robber barons. that s two years. marianne rafferty. trace: kevin corke. oligarch? oligarch? trace: matt finn, do you have a guess? trace: everybody didn t quite get the question. how come if nobody quite got the question that kevin corke came up with the right answer. kevin corke with $2,000. fantastic. here s the thing, we ve got a little bit of time left. i want to know your word of the
so this is the plaintiff s case. the plaintiff has called him as a witness. you can see the contentious atmosphere involved. so this is going to keep going because the plaintiffs really have to establish his intent, his motive, because this is going to determine the amount of money that the jury deems is important and justified for defaming these people. they went through a lot. i didn t realize all this. i don t know if everybody didn t, but what they went through, being mocked on social media, being called liars, that it was a hoax, that your child is actually alive, your mother is actually alive and you re playing this, it s amazing. we saw one of the parents who said that he had been shown something online, that his name was there and he then was after not seeing any of this was his eyes were opened to some of the claims about his family. and he s having to grieve at the same point of time. we want to make sure everybody knows there s going to be cross
is there a specific area they are concentrating on right away or first off? we ve got teams. we broke it up into regions. we have teams going down into about eight regions. it s going to be coming down and they will meet up. we re getting information where there s problems. we ve already sent teams already started. local readiness based on what you ve seen. it came really fast. everybody didn t evacuate. i m still traying we didn t lose anybody. that was disappointing that everybody didn t evacuate. i think in every storm you have to assess after you get