george floyd. the court is at lunch break. of course we will get back to trial the second they sit down. let me bring you up to speed. last hour we heard from the chief of police in minneapolis who really became a familiar face to all of us covering this story last summer. he is the man who fired derek chauvin. and he was asked about the department s training in terms of use of force. just remember this is all in the context that then officer derek chauvin knelt on george floyd s neck for nearly 10 minutes. this morning the jury heard from the emergency physician who initially treated george floyd when he arrived at the hospital. this doctor revealing he found none of the internal indicators that typically cause a heart attack and that this doctor says he believes georged floyd died from lack of oxygen rather than as we ve been hearing from the defense, that his own heart was failing him. mr. floyd had been in arrest for by this time 60 minutes. i determined that the likeli
minneapolis police chief said the acts that chauvin took were totally unnecessary. the witnesses on the stand this morning was the doctor who pronounced george floyd dead at the hospital. was your leading theory of george floyd s cardiac arrest oxygen deficiency? that was one of the more likely possibilities. i felt that at the time, based on the information i had, it was more likely than the other possibilities. and, doctor, is there another name for death by oxygen deficiency. asphyxia. it s well known that any amount of time a patient spends in cardiac arrest without immediate cpr markedly decreases the chance of a good outcome. none of the officers on the scene performed cpr on george floyd. the doctor said he believed floyd s death was not likely from drug use but instead from suffocation or asphyxia. the defense team tried to combat that conclusion. so when someone ingests fentanyl, it can cause them to feel very sleepy because of an increased carbon dioxide
chauvin s knee. video of his death sparked a national outcry, an international outcry, against police brutality. chauvin is now facing multiple murder charges. he has pleaded not guilty. omar jiminez has covered this trial. preparations for reactions to events inside that courtroom. omar, you witnessed the 8:46 just a couple minutes ago. i was, of course, watching it here as many of our viewers were. intended to highlight just how long chauvin s knee was on george floyd. i wonder as you re there in that city now and there watching this moment unfold, tell us what you heard. what is the mood? what is the tension? well, jim, i mean, you didn t have to look hard over the course of those 8:46 when kneeling to show how long of a time that actually was. and, of course, it was meant to be representative of the amount of time that chauvin s knee was on george floyd s neck. and right before that, we heard from members of george floyd s family and their attorneys about what this mome
we begin a brand-new week on america s newsroom, bill hemmer live in new york. how are you doing? dana: i m dana perino, america s newsroom. we were talking before the show if the administration s intent was to block senator ted cruz from taking video or any of the other senators, 17 others besides ted cruz, why would you ask that young woman to do that? you have to match fire power with fire power i think. she was put in a bad position and told to do what she did. she maybe disagrees with the policy an ted cruz handled it the best he could. i would have sent somebody there that could actually match him instead of making her try to do that. bill: that one from cruz and late on friday the press conference from all the republicans who had gone down to the border clearly with their own view about what they saw and clearly in the view of all of them. there were 17, maybe 18. this is a crisis on the border that continues to get worse. dana: senator cruz giving us a look
the fired veteran police officer pressing his knee on the neck of george floyd. it sparked months of nationwide justice and a reckoning on race. the trial a potentially defining moment for race relations here in the u.s. i m hallie jackson in washington and gabe gutierrez in minneapolis. paul butler, a federal prosecutor with the d.o.j., a professor at georgetown law. over the next 30 minutes until the opens statements again that we will bring you live, we will give you a preview of what to expect today and for the next month, more or less. the strategies of the prosecution and defense. a break down of the key players to watch. what we re hearing this morning from the family of george floyd and what they re hoping for, and context around the impact of floyd s death and the reckoning on race that came from it. here we are, gabe, 30 minutes away from opening statements. we expect in 15 minutes or so jurors will be seated. the trial expected to probably go around four weeks. tal