Votes. A landslide. I did it. Very impressive. Then Vice President Walter Mondale finding the humor with Speaker Tip Oneill in the Landslide Defeat in the 1980 president ial election. In just a moment, were going to speak with president ial 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. Were 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 multiracial jurors began deliberating at 4 00 Central Time yesterday and ended the day without a verdict following hours of Closing And Rebuttal arguments. What the defendant did
everyone over 16 in the u.s. can get one. and former u.s. vice president walter mondale is being remembered as a dogged politician. he passed away at the age of 93 and now many tributes are pouring in. our top story, jurors in former police officer derek chauvin s murder trial spent four hours deliberating but did not reach a verdict on monday. they will resume deliberations in minneapolis later today as the nation waits on edge. chauvin who is white is accused of killing george floyd, a black man, with excessive and unreasonable force by kneeling on his neck for more than nine minutes. floyd s death was caught in chilling video, it sparked protests across the u.s. and around the world and calls for police reform and racial justice. while the jury deliberates over the landmark case, minneapolis and other u.s. cities are bracing for the possibility that a not guilty verdict could bring anger and unrest to the streets. the national guard has even been deployed in parts of
former vice president walter mondale. his touching message before his death. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. this is early start, i m christine romans. i m laura jarrett. it s tuesday, april 20th, 5:00 a.m. here in new york and the most high profile criminal trial in a generation now in the hands of 12 people. the jury continues deliberations today in the case against derek chauvin for killing george floyd after roughly four hours of deliberations yesterday and for the first time during this trial the defendant sat unmasked at length yesterday during his lawyer s closing arguments. the jury finally able to see his expressions, his reactions and the prosecution and defense offering their final words to the jury as the nation prepares for a verdict. you can believe your own eyes. this case is exactly what you thought when you saw it first, when you saw that video. it is exactly that. you can believe your eyes. it s exactly what you beli
rebuttal flipping that narrative. you were told, for example, that mr. floyd died that mr. floyd died because his heart was too big. you heard that testimony. the reason george floyd is dead is because mr. chauvin s heart was too small. as jury deliberations play out, the nation is bracing for the possibility of unrest. law enforcement agencies in minneapolis and in other cities around the country are preparing for any violence that could be sparked by the outcome of the trial. this as lawmakers are facing renewed pressure to act finally on police reform in some sort of bipartisan compromise. cnn s josh campbell is in minneapolis and will be in the courtroom today. josh, we don t know how many days the jury will deliberate. they ll start later this morning. tell us how things will play out. i think it s important first for those who may not have served on a jury to understand just how personality driven this process is. think about it. you have 12 members of the publi
i wouldn t say that unless the jury was sequestered now. joining us now, cnn legal analyst, areva and elie hoenig. elie, the jury has been deliberating in its 11th hour. from your time in a courtroom, can you gather anything from that? still too early. i ve seen juries come back in a matter of hours and sometimes a couple of weeks. yes, it can happen that way. we haven t seen any notes. sometimes you get questions from the jury around this point but they re silent. there s not much we can read into it. they have to deal with the comments they don t know about it, but the president has made these comments. one thing that s important to keep in mind, we have to trust the jury to oe bide by their oaths. they have promised to judge this case by the evidence they hear in the court and nothing else. if they heard something else, they will raise it with the judge and it will be dealt with at that point. at this point we have to trust the jury and plow ahead with its job. the