Range was expected, now were waiting to hear the reaction from various parties including from the floyd family themselves because Derek Chauvin did speak today. Well give you the details of that. First to Matt Finn In Minneapolis that has been chronicling the case from the beginning and how things are going now. Matt . Hi, neil. Right now peaceful in the streets. Theres a semi large crowd outside the courthouse. People were chanting black lives matter no protests or any riots in minneapolis that weve seen. Moments before, judge cahill handed Derek Chauvin a 22 1 2 year sentence. The judge said that he did not make his ruling on emotions or on public demand. He said instead he based it on the rule of law. Hes releasing a 22page memo that will explain how he arrived at his sentencing. The big question is whether Derek Chauvin was doing to speak. In fact, he did for the firstime since George Floyds death. He never gave an interview and did not speak during the time and he did not testify.
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Cooperates but of course we know this track record is that he tends to stonewall and he tries to delay the 3 House Committee chairman have said that they sent a subpoena to the white house they want full details of the call with ukraine and the white house are going to object to that this is likely to end up in the Supreme Court this is happened before and its likely to be where pins this time round as well quite simply the house is frustrated with the stonewalling with the delays with. The failure to deliver documents that theyre asking and so that is why they have put forward this subpoena and also includes Mick Mulvaney who is the chief of staff some would argue often the 2nd most powerful job in washington is the president s chief of staff they want documents from him as well now what sort of public can the White House Point of view well they say that until the house has a full vote on impeachment then there are no impeachment proceedings ongoing and the know that if they did that
Down but to turn one of our top stories the impeachment investigation into u. S. President onil trump there have now been subpoenas issued lets go to our alan fisher is live in washington d. C. So allan President Trump is unary clear that theres at least net right now hes not going to cooperate so what are democrats doing about that. Of course donald trump has been famous throat to his administration for any time he gets requests for documents from the democrats who took over the house of representatives and therefore oversight responsibilities at the beginning of this year that he said no he has built that store and wall hes decided that hes not going to give them any information whatsoever now the democrats said they wanted details of the phone call with ukrainian president they wanted all the information surrounding that the white house is essentially seeing thats not going to happen and saw the subpoenas have been issued that means theyre legally obliged to do that now this is goin
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