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the speaker pro tempore: on this vote the yeas are 247. the nays are 178. the bill is passed. without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? mr. correa: mr. speaker, i seek unanimous consent to be removed as co-sponsor of h.r. 3093. the speaker pro tempore: the withdrawal is accepted. the chair will now entertain requests for one-minute speeches. for what purpose does the gentleman from virginia seek recognition? to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. the gentleman is recognized for one minute. thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, i rise today in recognition of michael paul williams, a columnist from the richmond towns dispatch, the primary newspaper record for the commonwealth, which is located in my district. mr. williams recently awarded was recently awarded the pulitzer prize for commentary. he s the first pulitzer prize recipi ....
they attorney for the right family joins me right live. plus, new revelations and fresh trouble for gates a. mid reports feds have sees his cell phone. and it s an announcement 20 years in the making. it s time to end america s longest war. it s time for american troops to come home. afghanistan veteran turn congressman jason crow and the president s decision to end our longest war. went all in starts right now. good evening from new york i m chris hayes today with a wrenching day in minneapolis where the trial of former police officer derek chauvin continues. as his lawyers put forward the defense for the killing of george floyd. all the while, in the streets, people are out warning. angry, protesting, chanting, promised ties about the police shooting and killing of daunte wright just a few miles away. and all of this happening as we approach the one year anniversary of george floyd s death. the inescapable context to this is not just floyd s death. it is the after ....
this means. i will talk to a minneapolis city councilman about what he hopes to see from this investigation. people across the world watched this city as judge cahill announced derek chauvin was guilty on all three charges, guilty of murdering george floyd. i talked to floyd s brother in the hours after he learned about the verdict. i feel like this is a day that we all have been waiting for. the floyd family tells me they feel relief but they also feel a sense of purpose. they do not want this verdict to be the end of their story. they very much want it to be a part a start of the new story. i will talk to george floyd s cousin about the mission in a few moments. i want to start with pete williams following the announcement from the attorney general last hour. and shaquille brewster outside the maximum security prison where chauvin awakened this morning. he is being held there. it s 30 minutes east of downtown minneapolis. pete, explain what this means. what wi ....
or complying with a traffic stop, or simply sleeping at home after a long day of work as a first responder. there is an awful poetry to this that echoes even today. just listen to the sweeping range of testimony from this week, the first week of the chauvin trial, including from the teenager who recorded the infamous death or the infamous video of floyd s death. it s been nights i stayed up apologiing and and apologizing to george floyd for not doing more and not physically interacting in not saving his life. what was going through your mind during that time period? disbelief. guilt. why guilt? if i would have just not tooken the do you need a minute? oh, my god. it s not just the range of emotion, it s the range of generations that you saw there that begs the question, what does the next chapter look like? one conviction certainly will not right all the past wrongs, but it will certainly help turn the page on an ugly history. joining me now is ....
let s turn to ashley banks standing by with the latest on the ground actually. not very monella i am here at the site where george boyd was killed by former officer derrick truant and as you can see behind me there are a large crowd of people were here just trying to remember his a life you can also hear music people are grilling and handing out free food they re handing out free water they re just happy that these 4 officers have been charged and of course they re waiting on at these convictions now just moments ago the city i m now so it will ban it troll cold and is basically requiring police to report and to intervene if they see any excessive use of force taking place now this is just one change that s come in the wake of george boyd s death but there are many more changes to come to go on. in the wake of george lloyd s death minneapolis city council has called an emergency meeting today to discuss possibly disbanding the police department. bricklin the block and o ....