Outfront tonight, grief and anger not far from where george floyd took his last breath. The community around minneapolis again gathering, this time for daunte wright, the 20yearold black man shot by a police officer. Officer kim potter yelled taser, taser, taser at wright before firing her gun. The police chief says she mistook her gun for her taser. At one point, wrigt s mother was on the phone with her son. That, of course, would be the last time she ever spoke to him. And today, she spoke about him by his casket. I never imagined that i would be standing here, the roles should be reversed. My son should be burying me. My son had a smile that was worth a million dollars. When he walked in the room, he lit up the room. He was a brother, a jokester. He was loved by so many. He s going to be so missed. Wright s family was surrounded by other families, who also have lost loved ones at the hands of police. The families of george floyd, or lando castillo and jamal clark were all there, alo
pushing to get the 50 votes needed for the legislation to pass. we are determined to get the american rescue plan across the finish line. we don t care how many amendments they have, how many hours, how many days, we re going to get this done because this is about, you know, getting vaccinations in people s arms and financial help to people and kids back in school safely. we re going to be talking to that senator stabenow ourselves. in the meantime, if successful, the bill will head back for one final vote and on to president biden s desk for his signature. the final version of this bill includes a third round of stimulus checks, $1,400 for those who qualify, billions of dollars in funding to state and local governments and, again, $300 a week in jobless benefits until september, with a tax relief provision, 11th hour compromise that sparked this heated exchange on the senate floor overnight. suddenly, if you re on unemployment insurance, you don t have to pay taxes but
now on bbc news, donald trump was the first president to be impeached twice by the lower chamber of congress, and the first to be put on trial after leaving office. christian fraser reports on an unprecedented moment in us history. it was an unprecedented moment in us history. donald trump, the first president to be impeached twice by the lower chamber of congress, was also the first to be put on trial after leaving office. they were the gravest charges everfaced by a us president incitement of insurrection. the former president was alleged to have made false allegations of election fraud, and onjanuary 6 to have encouraged his supporters to storm the capitol. we fight like hell, and if you don t fight like hell you re not going to have a country any more. conviction would require a two thirds majority in the upper chamber of congress, the senate. 17 of the 50 republican senators would need to break with donald trump. new evidence brought the actions of his supporters that
what s that? what s that i can t hear i m having yeah. mm-hm. maybe not, maybe not. no. might not have to. no. so, rachel, we have adam schiff, andrew weissman this hour and blumenthal who got to ask one of those questions today in that trial today. so, we re going to have the full coverage here of what went on with some really great legal minds. get to it. get to it. thank you, lawrence. thank you, rachel. we have new reporting tonight on what donald trump angrily said to kevin mccarthy while the invasion of the capitol was going on, while it was actually happening. but two days after the attack on the capitol, it was reported that house minority leader kevin mccarthy got into a screaming match on the phone with donald trump while the capitol was being invaded. mccarthy, quote, demanded that trump release a statement denouncing the mob. initially trump would not agree to do it. trump, also under pressure from top aides to act, finally relented and sai
what it all means for whatever happes next. my judgment? who asked that? i did. all in with chris hayes starts now. tonight on all in. this is about the most miserable experience i ve had down here in d.c. day four of the trump impeachment trial is in the books. there was a claim that they did not share the evidence with the defense ahead of time. on wednesday, this week. they repeated the phrase, never before seen footage. let me ask you this, why wasn t the footage seen before, shouldn t president trump have the right to see the new evidence against him? that would be quite a claim if it were true, but it is not. every piece of evidence, including new videos were given to the defense team before the trial. in fact, the rules of the trial agreed upon before it started said everything had to be shared ahead of time. trump s lawyers were not stretching the truth. they were just lying about that. including as i mentioned, an 11 minute long montage of democrats