Ahead of time, this from the New York times. The book reveals american intelligence showed that the chinese believed President Trump would launch a Military Strike to create an international crisis that he could claim to solve as a last Ditch Effort to beat Joe Biden. Milley convened a meeting with top commanders to remind them that the procedures for launching a nuclear called for his decision not just trump alone. A conversation between Milley And Nancy pelosi, pelosi said trump was, quote, crazy. Madam,he told her, i agree with you on everything. About Mike Pence struggled over what was publicly known about the election certification. Pence appeared open to going along with trumps plan to push the false claim that arizonas Voting Results were wrong and asked whether there was anyway he could delay certification. Finally, when pence said he planned to certify the results, trump told him, quote, i dont want to be your friend anymore if you dont do this. Youve betrayed us. I made you,
There was reporteding from you and from your colleagues at the time that barr s statements and performances were out of staff and didn t match up with what we were learning in real time about the mueller report, and you have two federal judges saying just that, but what happens next? i m not sure where the justice department goes from here or anyone goes from here. Is this simply that will simply play out when this memo comes out and we get a greater sense about things or, you know, would the justice department go back and investigate? that is farfetched at this point. I think the bottom line here putting all of the legal arguments aside and the nuances of this case, this matter that has come up, the at the heart of this issue is the fact that this judge is the third judge to go out and publicly criticize the attorney general and that s just something that s highly unusual. Judges criticize the justice department all the time. They disagree with the justice department all the time, but
than nine minutes. use of force expect, jody steiger, a sergeant with the lapd returned to the stand and made it clear that force should not have been used once george floyd was handcuffed and on the ground and that the risks were very well known. because at the time of the restraint period, mr. floyd was not resisting. he was in the prone position. he was handcuffed. he was not attempting to evade, not attempting to resist and the pressure that was being caused by the body weight could cause positional asphyxia which could cause death. two days ago the emergency room doctor who received floyd at the hospital said it was his belief that the causes of floyd s death was, in fact, a lack of oxygen. the defense is trying its best to dispews that. attorney eric nelson put the spotlight on george floyd. nelson played part of a police body cam video and can be heard floyd saying, quote, i ate too many drugs. after the next witness, james ryerson, the minnesota law enforcement ag
trafficking and we ll break down what we know and what gaetz is claiming and we begin the reidout with day three of the murder trial of former minneapolis police officer derek chauvin. george floyd s life mattered and that was the emotional crux of today s testimony and a day we haven t seen much of since george floyd died under chauvin s knee almost a year ago. today we got to see george floyd alive. here s surveillance video inside cup foods before he was stopped by police, footage that was unseen by the public before today. you can see george floyd in a black tank top dancing around and you can see him interacting with customers and cashiers. one of those cashiers testified today. his name is christopher martin and he s 19 years old. floyd bought cigarettes from him the day that he died giving him a $20 bill and martin testified today that he was suspicious, but because of a store policy that made employees pay for counterfeit bills out of their own paycheck, martin report
the dominican republic calling it fake news, the controversy of at least 11 people dead and dozens getting seriously ill after visiting the dominican republic. we dig into what s going on and what the fbi is doing by the. calls are growing in congress that the u.s. put mutt out a travel advisory safety warning right now for americans heading there. also tonight. a former top u.s. prosecutor weighing in on brand-new fbi emails revealing an unusually strange and cozy relationship between the new york times and the fbi during the trump-russia probe. critics are saying this is way out of the line for the new york times and what it did. it s a level of familiarity between these two organizations that few on the outside knew before. it included sharing information about trump team activity with the fbi with no indication a story was coming on that. the fbi emails show a lot about what the times was doing and much more. i m elizabeth macdonald. the evening edit starts right