Important for all the reasons you have been covering. Does et get the country to take a look at how the senate operates today or is that hard to do? so, all i have is history in my own reporting on this. History shows mitch mcconnell obliterated the filibuster to push through judges. His political power rose in his state. The idea that there is political apparel, there is political peril of democrats going out to voters in two years and say guns, i know, we have 80% of the public crying of mass shootings. Infrastructure we have to go small. Voting rights, and i am sorry the drop box that you left your ballots in the middle of the pandemic sorry. I think they are choosing between bad and worse. Today the worse is levering the filibuster in place. It is striking when you lay it out like that because sometimes the arguments only seem to run in one direction. What if we do this and what if they do this. If it does not work, you are saying what if you don t do it, what s the cost to that. E
former minneapolis police officer eric schopp and charged the death of george floyd. we did hear some announcements from the judge. while we wait for the jurors to bc we will take a look back at some of the testimony from friday. good morning, everyone. we will proceed with our next witness. good morning, your honor. i keep it before i call the states next witness i would like to offer to make exhibits into the record that were published yesterday, exhibit 75 and 267. no objection. those are received. thank you, your honor. the state calls john edwards. my name is jon edwards. thank you, your honor. good morning sir. good morning. would you please tell the jury your occupation? minneapolis police sergeant. how long have you held that position? 2007, so approximately 14 years. not as a sergeant but as a police officer for 14 years? yes, sir. so you stored as a police officer in 2007. in 2007. did you start with the minneapolis police department?
welcome, everyone, to our second class. this is for the people who are here for the first time tonight, the making of the president 2020, better known as the political circus of the century. i m going to be talking about two different and yet related topics the first has to do with the factors that are considered when we look at presidential effectiveness. the second part, i d like to look at a few of the more recent presidential elections. so we re going to start with this, and i m calling on the work of professor robert dahlic, a well known presidential historian. he writes, the 20th century saw an unprecedented expansion of presidential powers, primarily due to the vision and leadership skills of nine men who served in the office theodore roosevelt, woodrow wilson, franklin dellano roosevelt, harry truman, dwight eisenhower, john kennedy, lyndon baynes johnson, richard nixon and ronald reagan. now, professor dahlic s analysis only looks at the 20th century. i m going to
everyone he wants us and our country in the right direction. i thought i d say little bit about my story following up on what steve said. by telling you a little bit about where my strongest challenges have been. when i was in middle school i went to elementary and is a tiny town with about a hundred people then. it s gotten smaller since. and i went to a consolidated middle school in afton iowa and i had a long bus ride, 45 minutes each way on a good day. and one day i was in middle school and the bus was driving through afton and it s a very small town. and has a little tiny town square, and the bus came to a stop because there is an honest to god traffic jam. [laughter] in afton iowa. and the bus was stopped and kids started to get rowdy. they re saying let s go let s go, where we stopped. let s move let s go. and the bus driver, she shouted back the bank is closed. in some smart alec at the back of the bus who may have been me, shouted of course it s closed, it s 4:00 o c
he s launching his candidacy on saturday night in delaware saying he has the most progressive record of anybody running but quickly to correct himself to say i didn t mean that. we ll talk to chuck todd aboutn bind beto. a new entry to the field this morning. plus, rising floodwaters across the midwest and this week s melting snow are forcing residents to theirme a sunday sit-down with woody harrelson in austin texas. the legendary career that began in a dare in his high school s library. talend i am like i can t do my elvis here,oo many people. before you know, they convinced me. i just started singing. still got it though. oh, thankou. a sunday sit-down with woody harrelson that you don t twoowao miss and harry smith on this stunning college admission scandal. let s begin with the latest in new zealand where the deaas toll risen over night after the attack onwo mosques in the city chris church on friday. one woripper is being hailed as a hero for confronting the