chauvin s knee. video of his death sparked a national outcry, an international outcry, against police brutality. chauvin is now facing multiple murder charges. he has pleaded not guilty. omar jiminez has covered this trial. preparations for reactions to events inside that courtroom. omar, you witnessed the 8:46 just a couple minutes ago. i was, of course, watching it here as many of our viewers were. intended to highlight just how long chauvin s knee was on george floyd. i wonder as you re there in that city now and there watching this moment unfold, tell us what you heard. what is the mood? what is the tension? well, jim, i mean, you didn t have to look hard over the course of those 8:46 when kneeling to show how long of a time that actually was. and, of course, it was meant to be representative of the amount of time that chauvin s knee was on george floyd s neck. and right before that, we heard from members of george floyd s family and their attorneys about what this mome
to deal with the growing threat of white supremacists and domestic terrorism. director wray is defending his agency s actions and condemning the insurrection. that attack, that siege, was criminal behavior, plain and simple. and it s behavior that we the fbi view as domestic terrorism. it s got no place in our democracy. and tolerating it would make a mockery of our nation s rule of law. racially motivated violent extremism specifically of the sort that advocates for the superiority of the white race is a persistent evolving threat. it s the biggest chunk of our racially motivated violent extremism cases for sure. and racially motivated violent extremism is the biggest chunk of our domestic terrorism portfolio, if you will, overall. wray went on to back the fbi s handling of intelligence before january 6th, saying it was raw, unverified, and uncorroborated social media chatter. but it was shared in multiple ways, though not directly with him. some angry demented guy liv
handcuffed and on the ground and no longer resisting? correct. that contradicts the defense which said he was following police training. we ll have much more on that in a moment. plus this. booming economic numbers this morning. just booming. the u.s. economy added 916,000 jobs in march. nearly a million. the unemployment rate sinking to 6%. we expect to hear from president biden on that jobs report at 11:00 this morning. cnn s christine romans joins me now to break down the latest jobs report. christine, this is above expectations, and it shows accelerating job growth, does it not? it feels like the beginning of the great american comeback, right? 916,000 in one month. in any normal time would be just gangbusters, but remember, these are lost jobs we are adding back. when you look at the trajectory here, you can see there s still more work to be done. we re still in a jobs hole. that jobs hole is about 8.4 million jobs. so we still have a ways to go. not everyone is
already planning a comeback. former president donald trump taking center stage at cpac today set to announce intentions for the future of the republican party, possibly 2024 and his base is riled up. you can t brainwash 72 million people. republicans in congress better get with him and stand with him or they re going to be out. as a republican party widens, former trump aides will be here to talk about it. expect from donald trump his greatest hits. the media is out to get me. he probably will bring uphillry, because that s always a great winner with him for his base. he ll also try to try to revise history. arizona governor paul go sart defending himself after speaking at a white nationalist event hours before his cpac speech. the fda signing off on a third vaccine for emergency use as experts worn of a possible fourth wave. those johnson & johnson single-shot vaccines shipping from kentucky shortly. a lot going on on this sunday, february 28th. i m lindsey ris
joining us here in the united states and all around the world. you are watching cnn newsroom. i m rosemary church. just ahead, president joe biden orders 200 million additional vaccine doses, but can he achieve his am bichbitious goal beating back the pandemic. plus, a new vote shows republicans may be unwilling to convict president trump. we ll take a closer look at what democrats might do next. and 100,000 dead. the uk confronts a devastating toll from the coronavirus pandemic. good to have you with us. well, the u.s. is on a wartime footing against covid-19. and president joe biden will make a major offensive with the purchase of 200 million more vaccine doses. a white house official says the u.s. is increasing its order of both the pfizer biontech and moderna vaccines by 50%. the goal is to have enough to vaccinate 300 million americans, raising the numbers on this map significantly by the end of the summer. but getting the order in is only the first hurdle. right n