two republicans on the committee. his questions about some of the most damning revelations so far during this hearing. congress and kinzinger said the former president told him cummaquid, just say that the president was corrupt, leave the rest to me and the republican cupboard and. a short time ago i spoke with congress and kinzinger about today s hearing, whether he thinks the former president directed the justice department to break the law. members of congress leading up to generate six? this is about trump s attempted weapon is the justice department, but it ended with the panel revealing the names of republican members of congress, who, witnesses say saw preemptive pardons from president trump, they include congressman mo brooks, matt gates, andy biggs, louis gomer, scott berry, perhaps marjorie taylor, these are sitting members of as a preventative, should they be censured? should they be removed from committees? what do you think? i think that is i guess, a dec
that airs tonight on don s show . you specifically ask holder about that moment, what did he say? not to mention, anderson, that the reason they were angry was because he was telling them the lie. he was feeding the lie, that it was rigged and stolen. it was very interesting, because he said that he had never met the former president before, but then after sitting down with him, and interviewing him, he sort of had a reversal, a change of mind. watch this. my position was that it was a staggering answer to that question. the idea of trying to see whether or not he may potentially dilute his position or change it was not for me, you know i asked him a question, he gave me an answer, i m not allowed to persuade him. to i think he is wrong? of course. it s obviously a tragic event and the fact that he called them smart, and also, i thought the unresisting was the fact
far less than the life sentence he could have received. in court, prosecutors asked chauvin, as mr. floyd lay on the ground handcuffed and unresisting, you kept your knees on mr. floyd s neck and body even after mr. floyd became unresponsive, correct? correct, chauvin said. when asked if he agreed the offense resulted in floyd s death, he gave the same one-word response. afterwards, floyd s brothers had mixed reactions. i wish it would have happened on the first day we had the state trial. i wanted to hear that from the beginning. right now it don t mean nothing. it don t hold weight. to me this is big because a blue wall fell and it never falls. cops usually are silent, but they re opening up and they all say that that was wrong. reporter: josh campbell, cnn, minneapolis. on top of that story today. a florida school district paid $26 million to those killed in the parkland school shooting
in prison. cnn correspondent josh campbell has more. reporter: for the first time since the murder of george floyd last year, former minneapolis police officer derek chauvin is admitting responsibility. pleading guilty wednesday to federal civil rights charges that he violated floyd s constitutional rights. it is all part of a plea deal for the man convicted of killing floyd last year by kneeling on his neck for more than nine minutes. in addition to the more than two decades chauvin was sentenced to by the state, prosecutors have asked for a concurrence sentence of 25 years on federal charges. adding fewer than three years to his overall prison time. far less than the life sentence he could have received. in court, prosecutors asked chauvin as mr. floyd lay on the ground handcuffs and unresisting, you kept your knees on mr. floyd s neck and body even after mr. floyd became unresponsive, correct? correct, chauvin said. when skeed if we agree it resulted in floyd s death.
as he lay handcuffed and unresisting and they willfully failed to intervene. the indictment further accuses all four of leaving floyd lying on the ground in clear need of medical care and willfully failing to aid him. he had a constitutional right to life. if that wasn t a constitutional violation, we don t know what was. it is relatively rare for the federal government to charge police officers. reporter: chauvin also facing a separate federal charge in an unrelated case from 2017 involving a 14-year-old boy. according to court documents, chauvin allegedly struck the juvenile multiple times in the head with a flashlight and held his knee on the neck and the upper back of the teenager even after he was laying prone, handcuffed and unresisting. the family is very thankful to the department of justice for seeing this matter as a crucial