What resources are asked of this agent. I can see them, congress and others, subpoenaing the correspondent between the agent obs the ground and headquarters, what are they asking for, did they get what they asked for. That s the second component. Did the agent on the ground get what they asked for, did they get the manpower that they needed. Then the next step s going to be what happened the day of the event. Did everybody perform as they were supposed to perform? did countersnooiper do their job, what was missed? was it local police? it s so early to tell, because i know the finger pointing theg agency that has responsibility, yes, it is the u. S. Secret service. The thing is, they t don t do it alone, and so they have other entities in place, local law enforcement, state police that also help them. So there will be an assessment there. Did something happen there? it s going to be all these different layers, so the director s going to have to come in prepared and ready but a they re g
alarm warning the u.s. could be primed for another spike, not just an increase, but a spike in new infections. jeremy diamond is at the white house this morning with more on president biden s actions on gun control. jeremy, there s a limited amount the president can do via executive order. what exactly does he plan to do? yeah, no question that the steps that we re seeing from president biden coming out today. these are limited steps. they fall far short of what he promised to do during the 2020 campaign. but senior officials have been telling us over the last 24 hours or so that these steps the president is going to announce today are just the beginning of his efforts to tackle the issue of gun violence in america and, obviously, his ultimate goal would be to see legislation passed through congress. something that is a hurdle, a very steep one at that, given the filibuster requirements and democrats slim majority in the senate. we ll hear from president biden later this m
homicide. at no point did the m.e. talk or mention or write anything about asphyxiation. and we know the prosecution has been hammering asphyxiation point saying that floyd s ability to breathe was cut offer when shoef ychauvin s knee was neck and heard him pleaiding saying he couldn t breathe. we ll see how they lay out the theory and stitch together as fix asphyxiation when the m.e. never mentioned it. the first day, the prosecution said they will prove that asphyxiation is the cause of death and they also said they will show evidence to prove that asphyxiation is difficult to detect. jim? adrian, open question still as to whether the man who was in the car with george floyd, when he was initially confronted by police, will testify. his lourz saying he does not want to. that it may incriminate him. the judge was considering this. do we know what s going to happen and when? we re still waiting to hear what will happen. there was that hearing on tuesday. after the hearing
its case in the murder trial of former police officer derek chauvin. a use of force expert testifying that he believed chauvin s actions in the arrest of george floyd were justified. that assessment in stark contrast to multiple prosecution witnesses who said chauvin used deadly force in violation of policy. also a cdc panel is preparing to meet tomorrow to review johnson & johnson s covid-19 vaccine, the agency joining with the fda to recommend a pause in j s&p j shots after six reported cases of a rare and severe type blood clot. much more on that at this hour. miguel marquez in brooklyn center for us. the officer who shot daunte wright has resigned and the prosecutor hopes to have a decision on possible charges as early as tomorrow. what s the latest? reporter: yeah, that is the possibility over in washington county. right now we re at the police station in brooklyn center where a few dozen protesters have shown up. a lot of national guard have shown up as well. they a
what did he establish in that line of questioning, laura? nothing because he wasn t offered as an expert witness. nobody presented him as an expert witness. this is a term of art in a trial when you have an expert witness. they have to be qualified first to do so, they have to have the idea whether opinion testimony is based on scientifically provable data, in the scientific community, he s not offered for that. he s bringing in his personal opinions and observations based on what he saw happen that day as an eyewitness. and what you see the defense there trying to do, rather than attack the actual krebltd of his vantage point, attack the credibility of what he saw, his comments, imploring, repeatedly the officers to intervene, even approaching another officer thao as he mentioned trying to get him to intervene to render aid they couldn t attack any of that but they re attacking the very thing he was never offered to present testimony on. but also look at this idea of how t