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muddying of the waters. you want someone to go on the stand and refuse to answer questions. why? because it makes it seem like they ve got something to hide. the prosecution on the other hand is saying to themselves, hold on. if it that person goes on the stand and has a legitimate basis to invoke the fifth amendment, we don t want them to assume that what they re hiding is w. respect to the prosecution s case. and only their own. so this optical discussion that how to compartmentalize is why the judge says we re not going to decide this this morning. you brief the issue. you tell me what you want to ask. i ll decide about whether this person should have the litany of questions to invoke or say this person would no longer be a useful witness. let s essentially provide them with a chance to not testify at all. which is not standard. laura, followup to that. you heard him say, look, if the state decides to prosecute my client in the future, this could hurt him. but she ....
least amount of force necessary and that chauvin s reresponse was, was not an authorized tactic and an ambitious new timeline from president biden to make all american adults, everyone over the age of 16 eligible for the covid vaccine by april 19th nearly two weeks this as california announced plans to fully reopen by june 15th. let s begin our coverage this hour with the derek chauvin murder trial. cnn s omar jimenez is just outside the courtroom in minneapolis. omar, the prosecution has been very carefully the case that chauvin violated policy when he restrained george floyd when he put his knee on his neck. they have, wolf, and for starters george floyd s brother rodney in the courtroom today has said it s like watching a movie. there are so many ideas of what is going to happen, and that s really the process we re in the middle of right now. today s testimony was law enforcement and law enforcement only. the vast majority of them coming from the minneapolis police ....
he is accusing 60 minutes of deceptively editing the piece. here s what the clip looked like when it aired on cbs. noting that you donated $100,000 to your campaign and then he rewarded them with the exclusive rights to distribute the vaccination. what you re saying is wrong. that is the safe narrative and that was the county mayor, the administrator and all of the folks at palm beach county and said, here are some of the options. we can do more drive through, we give more to hospitals, and they said we think that will be the easiest thing for our residents. melissa mckinley in the everglades told us the governor never met with her with the public deal. eight will go away, governor. it s a fake narrative. it just getting used to the narrative and you don t care about the facts because obviously i made it out for you in a way that is irrefutable. and here is what cbs came out including ron desantis deciding to choose public. we wanted to expand the distribu ....
chauvin s actions. what is your you know, your view of that use of force during that time period? totally unnecessary. what do you mean? well, first of all, pulling him down to the ground facedown and putting your knee on a neck for that amount of time is just uncalled for. i saw no reason why the officers felt they were in danger if that s what they felt, and that s what they would have to have felt to be able to use that kind of force. so in your opinion should that restraint have stopped once he was handcuffed and prone on the ground? absolutely. it appeared he had stopped putting up any resistance? absolutely, i would stop. cnn s josh campbell is covering the trial for us from minneapolis. josh, this may be some of the most devastating testimony yet for derek chauvin. yeah, absolutely, a devastating witness for the defense, and let s break down what we just heard there, and who this person was. this was a man who was the most senior police offi ....
new president, joe biden, is trying to turn the focus away from the former president and on to his agenda. especially his efforts to tackle the health and economic crises brought on by the pandemic. president biden is meeting with voters today during his first trip as president. he s headed to wisconsin where he s taking part in his first presidential town hall in milwaukee hosted by cnn and it begins tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern. we ll have much more on the town hall and more in a moment. but first the new lawsuit and the legal troubles now for donald trump. joining me now is jessica schneider. what is the congressman and the naacp accusing the president of here? reporter: they re accusing him and rudy giuliani of conspiracy. they re suing the former president along with rudy giuliani, accusing them of conspiring with far right groups to incite this insurrection at the u.s. capitol and this lawsuit really traces trump s words and actions in the months leading up to t ....