with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. i ve been waiting for that kind of lawsuit out of this, including a possible wrongful death lawsuit by brian sicknick s family directed against donald trump, and one of the questions about civil litigation is where are the deep pockets? sometimes if there s no money on the other side of the case, you can t really mount the case, but donald trump has been accused by congress and convicted in the house of representatives, anyway, of creating this entire event that created all of this damage in these people s lives. they obviously have a very direct litigation line to donald trump, defendant, in this situation. uh-huh. and we saw the strategy around that, first with a suit brought by congressman benny thompson, then with the suit brought by congressman eric swalwell. we expect there will be additional suits like that from the congressional side of it, but from the physically injured parties, as you say, these officers, it s a
including a possible huge wrongful death lawsuit by officer sicknick s family directed against donald trump, and one of the questions about civil litigation is where are the deep pockets? sometimes if there s no money on the other side of the case, you can t really mount the case, but donald trump has been accused by congress and convicted in the house of representatives, anyway, of creating this entire event that created all of this damage in these people s lives. they obviously have a very direct litigation line to donald trump, defendant, in this situation. uh-huh. and we saw the strategy around that, first with a suit brought by congressman benny thompson, then with the suit brought by congressman eric swalwell. we expect there will be additional suits like that from the congressional side of it, but from the physically injured parties, as you say, these officers, it s all the more acute as a cause of action. and imagine what a jury trial would be like in that case. it
transgender official to ever be confirmed by the u.s. senate, the highest ranking transgender u.s. government official in history. she will be the number two official at hhs. all republicans, except two, voted against her nomination. only susan collins and lisa murkowski voted for her. so, she ll be vivek murthy s boss. dr. levine s boss at hhs will, of course, be the new secretary at health and human services, xavier becerra. he was recently confirmed and will be sworn in soon. no republican senators voted for him at all, but democrats were nevertheless able to confirm him on a party-line vote. in order to become health secretary, mr. becerra had to leave his previous job, which was attorney general of the state of california. and there had been a bunch of discussion that congressman adam schiff of california, frequent guest on the show he had such a high-profile role, particularly in first impeachment of president trump. there had been lots of discussion that congressman
allocated but hasn t gone out to anybody yet. so this bill will pass with basically democrat support, so reconciliation that allows them to squeak it by on 51 votes. and the compromise and unity that we heard so much about are not a priority at this white house so far. republicans say this is a liberal wish list. president biden says that he will be the most progressive president in history. he told us that on the campaign trail and a promise that he s making good on and progresses are thrilled with it. here s one progressive senator that said biden has been very good at the ending the garden so far. so are these passages about covid or about expanding the government here in the united states over the longer term? as this plays out, in the background of all of this about the money, there s a shift going on in the country. take a look. cases have dropped 47% since the daily average peak january 8. very good news about where this virus is headed. think about this. the governors
this much we do. some closure for the family perhaps on the details of their daughter s tragic death. but so many questions besides. let s go to laura ingle with the latest. laura? as you mentioned, the cause of death made public by the coroner. he said she died by strangulation and explained how his team came to their conclusions on a zoom call. we look at the crime scene, the scene of the death, the scene of the body. the condition of the body. findings of autopsy and toxicology. that is how we arrived at the manner of death. so it depends on lots of circumstances. another key finding that petito had died three to four weeks before her remains were found, september 19th near the border of the grand teton national park in jackson, wyoming. this is a stretch of wilderness 30 miles down the road from where she was last seen, august 27 at a restaurant arguing with her before, brian laundrie. when asked about the condition of petito s remains, the doctor couldn t specify