6th insurrection, let s go out front. good evening, i am erin burnett. heartbreaking testimony today from the youngest witness from the killing of george floyd. one witness only nine years old. it felt like he was stopping his breathing and kind of like hurting him. you can t see her on camera because she s nine, under age. the day george floyd lost his life and we heard the toll that floyd s death is taking on them. each of them testified about watching george floyd s final moment. derek chauvin was seen kneeling on floyd s neck for nearly 10 minutes. here is darnell frazier. she was 17. s this is the video she took. i heard george floyd saying i can t breathe, get off of me, i can t breathe. he cried for his mom. he was in pain. it seems like he knew it was over for him. the jury also hearing testimony from a firefighter who broke down after revealing the police would not let her check on floyd s condition. when you could not do that, how did it make you feel?
have time to start focusing on it, kind of weed out, you know, whether people are just wrong about it or it was something else. we ve got a long waying into g that. but it s good to keep talking about because it s what i hear about most. appreciate you bringing it up, anderson. i ll see you soon. i m chris cuomo, welcome to prime time. if congressman matt gaetz has nothing to answer for, if the federal investigation of alleged activities, maybe involving prostitution, even underage females, if it s all a sham, why would he ask trump for a pardon? that s what the new york times is reporting tonight, that gaetz privately asked trump and the white house, in the ugly final days of that presidency, for blanket, preemptive pardons for himself as well as for unidentified congressional allies. now, remember, a preemptive pardon means for any crimes that i may have committed, i m pardoned. cnn hasn t confirmed the story yet, but if true, you have to ask, do innocent people seek
else. we ve got a long way to go on that. but it s good to keep talking about because it s what i hear about most. appreciate you bringing it up, anderson. i ll see you soon. i m chris cuomo, welcome to prime time. breaking news from the new york times . if congressman matt gaetz has nothing to answer for, if the federal investigation of alleged activities, maybe involving prostitution, even underage females, if it s all a sham, why would he ask trump for a pardon? that s what the new york times is reporting tonight, that gaetz privately asked trump and the white house, in the ugly final days of that presidency, for blanket, preemptive pardons for himself as well as for unidentified congressional allies. now, remember, a preemptive pardon means for any crimes that i may have committed, i m pardoned. cnn hasn t confirmed the story yet, but if true, you have to ask, do innocent people seek out preemptive pardons? sources tell the times top white house lawyers and offic
going to 40 and older on monday, and 18 and older on april 5th. they re trying to get as many people vaccinated as possible but this comes as these states do see these surge of people just flooding in and when it comes to the number of states that are seeing this rise, let s take a look at these numbers here. you mentioned over half the states in our country are seeing this rise and a handful are seeing a massive rise of 25% to 30% or more. that includes, i want to take note of a couple states in particular, connecticut, north dakota, new hampshire, minnesota, and some other ones. now, that s going to be important later, which i ll mention, so keep those in mind. now, the cdc director says that overall, the national average of rising cases has hit 7%. she says this is a clear sign that we are starting to get this increase. does it amount to a fourth wave? listen to what she said about how close we are to that. i remain deeply concerned about this trajectory. we have seen ca
with the january 6th committee along with my colleagues ryan nobles and mike warren, we have learned that the committee subpoenaed short a few weeks ago. but that unlike some other trump officials, he s not fighting the subpoena. and, anderson, short s cooperation is a significant development because he is, as you say, a firsthand witness to so many critical events. he was with mike pence at the capitol on january 6th. he was also in the oval office on january 4th when former-president trump tried to convince pence not to certify the election results. so, um, all of these things our sources say add up to one thing. short s assistance signals a greater openness among pence s inner circle with one source telling me the committee is getting, quote, significant cooperation with team pence. just for context, short is considered one of pence s most loyal aides. it is hard to imagine that mark short would cooperate with the committee without pence s blessing. so, i mean, this is k