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we ll see you again on monday provided i still have a job. now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. good evening, rachel. and who needs commercials? come on. the audience is very grateful for that move. rachel, i listened to your interview with attorney general keith ellison who managed the prosecution of derek chauvin, so fascinating to hear his perspective on it. he of course, among many other things, really great moves, hired the dream team of special prosecutors. he brought two attorneys out of private practice to prosecute this case, the lead prosecutors. they ll join us in this hour. they wouldn t have been there, they wouldn t have been in that courtroom without keith ellison calling the plays and putting them in that courtroom. and to have had not only the conviction but to have had this landmark sentence today, i mean, that number is going to mean something different to everybody who is looking at it, but to have th ....
[laughs] but i do it all the time, sorry. that does it for us tonight. we ll see again on monday, provided i still have a job. now is time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. good evening, rachel. and who needs commercials? come on. the audience is very grateful for that move. rachel, i listened to your interview with attorney general keith ellison, who managed the prosecution of derek chauvin. so fascinating to hear his perspective on it. he of course among many other things, really great moves, hired the dream team of special prosecutors. he brought two attorneys out of private practice to prosecute this case. the lead prosecutors. they re going to join us in this hour. but they wouldn t have been there. they would have been in that courtroom without keith ellison calling the police and putting them in that courtroom. yeah, and to have had not only the conviction, but to have had this landmark sentence today i mean that number is g ....
methamphetamine. we know from ms. ross that in march of 2020 mr. floyd was seen for a drug overdose. she described how he felt in that instance. she said his whole body hurt. his stomach hurt. we know, based again from ms. ross, that he was clean and sober for some time while they were in quarantine. we know that ms. ross again described taking about a week before a similar pill to the one they had back in march. kept her up again all night. she said she felt like she was going to die. we know, again, from ms. ross, that those pills were purchased from morty s hall. she described going to the hotel while mr. floyd, while george floyd was on the phone with him. she heard his voice. we know mr. floyd was with maurice on may 25, 2020. we know from the store clerk, he described mr. floyd as being high. his responses were delayed. he may have been, you know, standing around. he may have been standing up. he may have been able to have communications, but mr. martin clearly de ....
year after he lost bigly to now president joe biden. arizona, interesting things are happening there. you know about that. and we just had a great ruling, actually the senate, state senate of arizona had a great ruling. let s see what they find. wouldn t be surprised if they found thousands and thousands and thousands of votes. we re going to watch that closely. after that we ll watch pennsylvania and georgia and you can watch michigan and wisconsin. watching new hampshire, found a lot of votes up in new hampshire just now, just saw that. cover band was like can we start playing 80s pop songs now? it s sad, isn t it? frankly embarrassing for someone who once held title of president of the united states. but that rather undignified figure, fading and decrepit though he is, is still supported by a vast swath of the republican party. and those republicans are waging war on congresswoman liz cheney, third ranking house republican. for now at least. she s faced huge bac ....
rebuttal flipping that narrative. you were told, for example, that mr. floyd died that mr. floyd died because his heart was too big. you heard that testimony. the reason george floyd is dead is because mr. chauvin s heart was too small. as jury deliberations play out, the nation is bracing for the possibility of unrest. law enforcement agencies in minneapolis and in other cities around the country are preparing for any violence that could be sparked by the outcome of the trial. this as lawmakers are facing renewed pressure to act finally on police reform in some sort of bipartisan compromise. cnn s josh campbell is in minneapolis and will be in the courtroom today. josh, we don t know how many days the jury will deliberate. they ll start later this morning. tell us how things will play out. i think it s important first for those who may not have served on a jury to understand just how personality driven this process is. think about it. you have 12 members of the ....