the scandal surrounding congressman matt gaetz offer very rare and surprising aspects today. gaetz, as you heard coop say, wrote an opinion piece denying he s paid for sex, denying he s slept with a minor as an adult himself, and vowing to stay in office. while he was busy invoking drain the swamp language and playing the victim of the media, including me, what was very surprising is what he barely mentioned the extortion plot against him. he said that was what this situation is really all about. tonight, you may learn why he s gone quiet about the extortion case. in a tv exclusive, we have the man accused by congressman gaetz of extortion. that man s name is bob kent. and he tells a very different story about his dealings with the gaetz family and about how serious the allegations are against the representative. that s coming up. and you will want to hear what he says. first, we already heard and saw something shocking today. it happened in the george floyd murder trial. t
minneapolis police chief takes the stand in the trial of derek chauvin, his former officer. do you have a belief as to when this restraint, restraint on the ground that you viewed should have stopped? once mr. floyd had stopped resisting and certainly, once he was in distress and trying to verbalize that to continue to apply that level of force to a person proned out, handcuffed behind their back, that in no way, shape or form is anything that is by policy and is not part of our training and it is certainly not part of our ethics or values. reporter: in late may, the chief fired chauvin and three other officers involved a day after the incident. he wrote a letter weeks later saying chauvin knew what he was doing and what happened to mr. floyd was murder. is it your belief that this particular form of restraint, if that s what we ll call it in fact violates department policy? i absolutely agree it vie lates our policy. reporter: then the defense asked questions as
reid wiseman added we can see the artemis 2 mission take off late next year that does it this hour, our coverage continues with alex witt right now very good to be with all of you. i m alex witt in for katy tur. we begin this hour in tennessee where any minute now the state s republican-led house will hold a vote to remove three democratic lawmakers from office. those lawmakers are currently making their opening statements. you see one of them right there doing so state representatives gloria johnson, justin jones, and justin pierson participated in a protest on the house floor where they held signs, led chants demanding stricter gun laws. the protest was in response to last month s shooting at a nashville school that left six dead, including three 9-year-old students those three democrats were stripped of their committee assignments, they were hit with three separate filings for their exp expulsion. it is a step that the tennessee state house has only taken twice since t
Government funding plan, is there any chance at all that they defund the flederal police? if jim jordan had his way, they would, they would have to convince kevin mccarthy to get something like that through the house of representatives, which is far from certain given the slim majority, and it s dead on arrival in the democratic senate, and president biden is not going to sign a bill that defunds federal law enforcement, he s a proponent of increasing funding for the fbi, doj and local police this is a question of if donald trump comes back to power as president, this is the kind of thing they would pursue down the road. the new subpoena to mark pomeranz, so jim jordan first requested him to cooperate it was voluntarily, he did that on march 22nd. pomeranz politely declined, but this subpoena has he responded to that, and could he fight it, and if so, under what circumstances? he has not responded to the subpoena yet, alex, at least that we re aware of. it s a new subpoena in whi
Local law enforcement and immigration officials. i think people don t understand what at what point, what does the offense need to be before you will alert federal authorities that you have somebody in your custody? it s a great question. here s the way it works, christi. when somebody is apprehended, caught for a crime, when they are arrested and their fingerprints taken, that information is already shared with federal authorities. and if somebody is flagged as having an immigration detainer out on them, the flederal authorities will let states and local tees know that and they have the opportunity to have those folks turned over. we regularly assist and cooperate with them. that system is already working. so donald trump s order doesn t change that. well, there is one case in particular that a lot of people have honed in on and that s the case of katie steinly.