Chauvin, a painful reminder that the verdict is only one small victory in the long road to meaningful police reform. Something another mother underscored today during a memorial for daunte in new york city. Gwen carr lost her son, keric garner, to Police Violence seven years ago and felt a familiar pain when she saw george floyd crying out, i cant breathe. Those same words, i cant breathe, were uttered by her son 11 times after an nypd Police Officer grabbed him around the neck with his forearm and pressed him to the ground. We cant only sympathize with these families, we have to empathize with them. Put yourself in this situation, like i have been in this situation. I know how it feels to lose a child. I know how it feels when they come and then nobody is saying theyre sorry. Those Police Officers who killed my child, we never hear from them. In fact, they try to protect them. So this just has to stop. We are just not going to take it. We, the george floyd verdict, good, but we need m
Barring some crazy unforeseen variant that none of us are expecting to happen, well not see the kinds of sufferings and death that we have seen over the holidays. I think we are in a much better shape going forward. The rate of new weekly covid19 deaths, look at the charts. It hit a record low for the year. The number of hospitalizations from this virus is also way down since january. And new cases are also dropping significantly across the country. Most experts say this is largely thanks to vaccines. And the white house is expecting in the United States theyre now fully vaccinated. Just as the u. S. Is beginning the recovery, the situation in it india is the exact opposite. Bodies are piling up faster than workers can cremate them as the death toll is climbing there daily. Overwhelmed hospitals are running out of essential supplies. Down to oxygen and beds theyre out of. So what impact will that countrys downward spiral have on the global fight against the pandemic and any hope of the
Heenan has been watching this process all day long she brings us up to date with the latest details catherine yeah, well yes, a a history making second impeachment. And remember only 7 days left in President Trumps term just a little while ago the president released a video message it was a calm carefully scripted play for unity and and to violence and no reference to the impeachment vote. Heres part of what he said. Mob violence goes against everything i believe in and Movement Stands for. No true supporter of mine could ever indoors political violence. No true supporter of mine could ever disrespect Law Enforcement or our Great American flag. No true supporter of mine could ever threaten or harass their fellow americans. If you do any of these things youre not supporting our movement. Youre attacking it. Course the reaction from just about everybody why didnt he say this a week ago, meantime the house reach the threshold needed for impeachment this afternoon meaning a senate trial of
Will bring you everything that is happening in washington, dc on another hysterical day. Democrats have begun laying out their case for convicting donald trump in his second Impeachment Trial in the senate. Hes charged with incitement to insurrection over the capitol hill riots onjanuary 6th. Leading the prosecution is jamie raskin. The evidence will show you that x President Trump was no innocent bystander. Donald trump surrendered his role as Commander In Chief and became the inciter in chief. As donald trump connected a massive crime against our constitution and as donald trump connected a massive crime against our constitution and our people and the worst violation of the president ial Oath Of Office in the history of the United States of america. He was impeached by the House Of Representatives and he must be convicted by the United States senate. The democrats had 16 hours to present their arguments. The democrats had 16 hours to present theirarguments. In the democrats had 16 ho
50 republican senators, some who, along with trump, perpetuated that big lie, some who acted as shells for President Trump as he tried to toss aside democracy. Big question today for House Democrats, will their prosecution of the former president include witnesses . Another big question, what will the president s defense look like . This morning there is rare consensus across both aisles that the president s legal team blundered its way through their opening presentation, rambled, disor disorganized, embarrassed, terrible. Those are how republican senators label the performance of the president s two lawyers and their performance reportedly enraged the former president. Also breaking news into cnn this hour, prosecutors in georgia have opened a criminal investigation into then President Trumps phone call to Election Officials there. In that call the president tried to strongarm officials to, quote, find sufficient votes to reverse his loss in georgia. Well have more on that in a moment