school. that day i put my boys on the bus and my friend was calling and she said nick ole, it s a shooting and it s at our school. it was the day after thanksgiving i was in my family s home in chicago. my son was with his father in florid florida. i picked up the phone and there was just this dead silence and i said where is jordan? what happened to jordan? and that s when jordan s dad said jordan has been shot. you re 25 times more likely to die from gun violence in the united states of america than any other developed nation in the world. what does this say about us as americans? we re just willing to let people die because we re afraid of the nra? there is no other single issue in the lobby in the united states that had as much success against the wishes of the majority of the country. gun vie lepsolence is taking at a historic rate. it s only getting worse and worse and we re focused on the right to bear arms and not the right to live. the nra had managed to convin
it is pretty incredible. let s go outfront. good evening, i am erin burnett. on the day republican party kicking liz cheney from telling the truth. the first time a republican leader is being removed in modern history. kevin mccarthy came out to speak and he said something unbelievable even by his current standards. i don t think anybody is questioning the legitimacy of the presidential election. that s all over with. does he think that we are living on mars. does he think that we have not been paying attention to anything he have said or his peers have said for months and months and months? president trump won this election so everyone who s listening do not be quiet. do not be silent about this. we can t allow this to happen before our very eyes. if i believe there are serious questions with respect to the presidential election, i believe those questions exist. we know that this has been a stolen election. an election that was stolen as a consequence of illegal
expert to testify that neither drugs nor health problems caused floyd s death. and we re also standing by for public remarks from the embattled congressman matt good faith s faith gaetz. let s get to senior national correspondent, sara sidner. she s covering the chauvin trial for us in minneapolis today. we heard important testimony from the medical examiner who conducted george floyd s autopsy. reporter: this is one of the most important witnesses. he s going to testify he was the one who did the autopsy on george floyd. and he was unequivocal in what he said how george floyd died, why george floyd died. no matter whether the prosecution or defense was asking him the questions. one of the most important witnesses in this case for both the prosecution and the defense took the stand today. you conducted the autopsy on mr. george floyd. i did. reporter: unlike the other medical experts, medical examiner andrew baker is the only person to testify that he did an autopsy o
churning story we have been covering for about a week now. gaetz is a republican congressman from florida. as that headline alludes to. he was a staunch supporter of trump. it was first reported the new york times that matt gaetz is currently under federal investigation for allegations of alleged sex trafficking of an underage girl. now, this is an investigation that started during the trump administration when bill barr was running the justice department. bill barr, as attorney general, was himself reportedly personally briefed on the matt gaetz investigation on multiple occasions. the federal investigation into congressman gaetz is reportedly examining whether federal campaign funds may have been used to facilitate the child sex trafficking ring, whether drug use may have been involved. congressman gaetz repeatedly denied the allegations. he said they re all made up. this breaking news in the times tonight puts those denials in a different light. here s the lede. quote,
congressman gaetz repeatedly denied the allegations. he said they re all made up. he did nothing wrong. this breaking news in the times tonight puts those denials in sort of a different light. ear here is the lead from the new york times. michael schmidt is the lead on this article. along with maggie haberman and nicholas fandos. quote. the times reports it s unclear whether congressman gaetz or the white house knew at the time he was under federal criminal investigation for child sex trafficking when he asked for this pardon, but the times does note that if he was aware at the time he did not tell the white house when he made the request. congressman gaetz didn t get any such pardon from trump, at least one that we know of. the times is reporting tonight that the white house thought that kind of preemptive blanket pardon in the absence of any charges is something that might set a precedent, not that s not the thing they cared about in other scandals. the times r