Really just want to see our mom again. It is heartbreaking. It is agonizing. We are live on the ground there. Were also live with the other big headline today, in a few hours the sentencing of Derek Chauvin for the murder of vladimir putin. George floyd. What we know about the judge, where he might land and what one viewer is telling nbc news with the attorney for the floyd family live on the show in a couple of minutes. Good morning, im Hallie Jackson in washington on this busy friday, along with our nbc news team in surfside, florida. Kerry, we heard from officials not too long ago this morning and i was struck by the notes of optimism they were hitting, that they still have hope even with some of these frankly pretty grim numbers that were getting, a jump in the number of people unaccounted for, up to 159. It is a get punch. Reporter it is a gut punch. The confirmation of four people who died inside the rubble and the rescue teams on this have been working round the clock are being
These had application to the issue that were here before your honor today. The first has nothing to do nothing related to the disqualification of anyone. Some of these are relating to aspiring for broad language of outstanding language to prosecutors. Point taken. If there are more keep going. As it relates to one of the cases referenced here earlier, and is also referenced in some of the briefing by Defense Counsel is georgia 542 and all of the cases that fall under this, what i would call cat category, is about an attorney who formally prosecuted a defendant is the same type of case or similar charges. That is why the courts found the disqualification would be necessary because of the relationship that existed between the former client and the person being prosecuted now. The next series of slides goes through what has been addressed as it relates to the standard that is required when dealing with the issue of disqualification and the state would submit to the court that the defense
Of the cases that Defense Counsel had cited within their brief that had absolutely no application to the issue that were here before, your honor, today. The first mciver be state has nothing to do. Has nothing related to the disqualification of anyone. I think some of these are just relating to kind of aspiring for broad language about standards to prosecutors. So point taken there but if theyre more all right. Keep it on so as it relates to one of the cases that was referenced here earlier. And as i was also referenced in some of the briefing by Defense Counsel, is the were just savy state, which is to 87 georgia, 542. And ill all of the cases that fall under this, what i would call category is about a attorney who formerly prosecuted a defendant in i guess the same type of case are the same case or similar charges. And that would be why of course, were using the courts found that disqualification would be necessary because of the Relations Kinship that existed between a former client
belonged to any member of the biden family, including hunter biden. those questions are not allowed. they were not here friday, not here saturday, sunday or monday. they come back tuesday. so to ask that question is incredibly irresponsible. so they were there friday actually, which we have reported here. so this as we re also told that despite more and more substantive information that comes out about biden s business dealings, shakedowns, bribes, the fbi director said you can t ask me about that. that s an ongoing investigation. can t talk about the intensity, the focus of it. can t talk about anything. so merrick garland, the attorney general face as deadline, which is now less than two hours away to allow congress to interview, to talk to the u.s. attorney, david weiss. you know, what is going on with this investigation. there s a lot of conflicting stories. can you tell us a little bit about what is happening? in moments,ly speak with the speaker of the house, kevin
that tweet, be there, we will be wild. it was a tweet that set up a violent chain reaction that resulted in a deadly attack on our government. cnn is not reporting the special counsel is asking witnesses about a contentious oval office meeting on december 18th, 2020. more than a month after the election, and mere days after the electoral college made official the decision of the american people. in short, that trump had lost the election. in that moment, the disgraced ex-president had two paths. he had door number one, admit head on that his campaign met the end of the line, keep in pace simple peaceful transfer of power. behind door number two, not just fall, but vaults into the abyss, commit to antidemocratic measures. of course, we all know the rest of the story. on this night in december, this crucial juncture, the six-hour cage match essentially unfolded deep inside the white house. on one side, it would summon trump s own white house team, quote, crazy. as you know, peo