It is good to be back with you on this second hour of chris jansing reports. At this hour, a story first reported by nbc news. The biden family, privately discussing what a possible campaign exit would look like stressing it needs to be on his terms. His timing. Plus, new reporting that the mood on capitol hill has shifted to when, not if biden drops out. As another eight lawmakers say the president can t win. And donald trump said his big theme was unity, but did the final version of his rnc speech deepen political divides instead of bridging them? and the global outage triggers havoc and blue screens of death around the world. From grounded flights to hospital outages, even billboards going blank in times square. We ve got the latest on what s being called history s largest i. T. Outage. Our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments, and we begin at the white house with nbc s monica alba. What more do we know about the conversations that are happening with joe b
Forjonny brownlee at his third olympic games. And, this is austin halewood at the bbc sports desk i ll have all the news on the medals, the records and the upsets in tokyo. Afghan security forces are battling to defend three key cities from advances by the taliban reports say militants have breached front lines in herat. Medical experts are warning that an oxygen monitoring device, called an oximeter, works less well for people with darker skin tones. Bbc news understands the government is no longer considering making it compulsory for students to be fully vaccinated to attend lectures in england. And coming up later this hour click takes a trip to iceland. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. Jamaica has secured a clean sweep first, second and third in the women s 100 meters this afternoon at the olympic games in tokyo. It comes as one of team gb s great medal hopes dina asher smith saw her bid for the podium come to an early end, afterfailing to qualify for the 100 m
Votes. A landslide. I did it. Very impressive. Then vice president walter mondale finding the humor with speaker tip o neill in the landslide defeat in the 1980 presidential election. In just a moment, we re going to speak with presidential historian michael beschloss about the extraordinary legacy of the former vice president who passed away yesterday at the age of 93. Good morning and welcome to morning joe. It is tuesday, april 20th, along with joe, willie, and me. We have former chairman of the republican national committee, now an msnbc political analyst, michael steele. Good to have you with us, michael. We re going to begin with the case against former minneapolis police officer derek chauvin for the death of george floyd. Now in the hands of a sequestered jury. The panel of six white and six black were multiracial jurors began deliberating at 4:00 central time yesterday and ended the day without a verdict following hours of closing and rebuttal arguments. What the defendant di
With over 800 hours of training. Not being distracted by the comments of a 17 year old or being filmed by some civilians. There is a policy around filming and they know that they can be film, they know that, this is not something new. This is not something earth shattering or even particularly noteworthy. Sergeant staggered your recall him, he s patrol and lapd, he said people used the rocks and bottles. They have phones, they are expressing concern, they are not doing anything. This is notjustification for an assault, for murder. sergeant stagger. The defence suggested in their cross examination that reasonable minds can disagree or that some of the witnesses don t line up exactly where the force began or what exactly should be done but don t get caught up in that, don t miss the forest for the trees. Consider a testimony as a whole. Officer after officer after officer got on that stand, raise their hand, and told you the chief of police, right, that this conduct, the nine minutes
Yeah, both the prosecution and defence focusing on the concept of reasonable doubt in the last few hours. The prosecutor arguing that there was no doubt. That derek chauvin had killed george floyd. Let s just listen into some of the deliberations from the judge. Deliberations from the “udge. Council made h deliberations from the judge. Council made a mistake misstatement when argued that the defendant had to apply when argued that the defendant had to apply unlawful force. As in he had to to apply unlawful force. As in he had to attend that the force he was applying had to attend that the force he was applying to be unlawful. That s not applying to be unlawful. That s not a correct applying to be unlawful. That s not a correct statement of the law pursuant a correct statement of the law pursuant to doran. That 87 west second pursuant to doran. That 87 west second eight 26 the state need not show second eight 26 the state need not show that second eight 26 the state need n