We go out together. Welcome to The Beat. We Begin tonight with breaking news. A Trump Scandal is rocking the Department Of Justice. The doj has Been busted for Surveying Donald trumps political opponents and a twist that we will get into, the Surveillance Or Tracking of records of children. This is nixonian stuff. But it goes farther than what president nixon got away with. Searching the records of the house democrats in a coequal branch of government who had the authority to Be over seeing the doj and the executive branch. It is a huge story. Well get into it with our experts tonight. I want to Be clear about what were discussing. This is abusing some of the most serious powers of search of Fourth Amendment constitutional oversight and abusing them. Now, congress is the one that is supposed to oversee the Justice Department under Donald Trump what we were seeing is a politicization to get to a point where the Justice Department, with some judges involved, which well get to, was trying
newton and this is cnn news newsroom . so the ninth day of testimony is just hours away in the trial of former police officer derek chauvin for the alleged killing of george floyd. witnesses yesterday detailed what floyd may have said just moments before he died, both the defense and prosecution asked the lead investigator what he believes floyd was saying in a clip of police body cam footage. the answer wasn t all that clear. cnn s omar jimenez is following the case from minneapolis. you are still under oath. yes, sir. reporter: today s testimony, more cops taking the stand against former officer derek chauvin. in your opinion does defendant s use of force during that time period need to be reasonable within the entire time period? yes. reporter: but one of the more significant exchanges came when special agent james ryerson took the stand that led the investigation into the events of may 25th. the defense played him video from the scene. publish exhibit 1
law enforcement. the house ethics committee announced it has launched an investigation into congressman gaetz for a laundry list of potential violations. i ll bet unless he s actually convicted and behind bars, this will be a badge of honor for him. they aren t really coming for me. they re coming for you. i m just in the way. this is new day weekend with victor blackwell and christi paul. beautiful morning here in atlanta, even with the low clouds it still looks pretty, doesn t it? welcome to saturday morning, we re grateful to have your company. gop congressman matt gaetz says, guess what, he s not going anywhere. the florida congressman is defiant in the face of two separate allegations. last night, he denied all allegations of sex trafficking and prostitution. he said this in his first public speech since the allegations came to light. the smears against me range from distortions of my personal life to wild, and i mean wild conspiracy theories. i won t be
ainsley. ken dilanian, what do we know about this investigation? they appear to have seized his electronic devices. as you said, this marks a major escalation in a long-running federal investigation of the former mayor of new york city and president trump s personal lawyer, because it means that the fbi and the justice department convinced a judge that there was probable cause to believe that a crime had been committed and that evidence of that crime could be found at these locations. now, giuliani s lawyer has been saying that this was what he called legal thuggery, because he said his client had offered to talk to the justice department and provide them documents. we have not been able to reach rudy giuliani or his lawyer, robert costello, but the backdrop of this, katy, is a long-run investigation that started from if you remember those two characters, those soviet-born men, lev parnov and igor freeman, pardon me, but we re working with rudy giuliani to dig up informat
removed from his role in afghanistan. the state department his views do not reflect those of the department, which embraces diversity and inclusion. brianna? appreciate that report. thank you. it is the top of the hour. i am brianna keilar and right now the senate is taking up president biden s $1.9 trillion pandemic relief bill. it appears that all 50 democrats are onboard, while republicans know that, it won t stop them from dragging the whole process out. we are talking hours here no. we re talking days. cnn political director david chalian is with us now. this is a stunt by republicans. it will certainly get attention. reporter: yeah. what you see here, brianna, republicans trying to prolong the process that this debate over this bill is on the floor before it can actually move to a final vote. so as you said, senate democrats are moving ahead on to this bill to begin the process of debating this bill. ron johnson of wisconsin, a republican senator, has said when th