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hello to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm john king. thank you for sharing your day with us. it's an important day for us, ground zero at a day of reckoning. you see george floyd being removed from the hearse on the day of his funeral service. people are calling for change in policing across the country. four officers have now been charged with his death and three
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will appear in court for an arraignment. derek chauvin who held his knee on floyd's neck, is now charged with second-degree murder. the other three were charged with aiding and abetting. you're looking at live pictures. this is harlem. let's listen for a second. >> "black lives matter" among the chants there as we watch these pictures unfold across the country. omar jimenez is with us in minneapolis. >> reporter: today's memorial service will essentially be the first in what will be a series of goodbyes that will play out over the course of the next few days and will culminate in his
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funeral on tuesday in houston, texas. it was just a few moments ago that the hearse did arrive and the casket was taken out of that hearse and transported inside for the memorial service again set to start in a few hours from now. we're expecting to hear from multiple family members, likely the attorney for the family as well, and will be eulogized by reverend al sharpton in this. the family is waking up with a mindset where basically we are seeing all four of the former officers in this case arrested and charged. this was something that the family had been pushing for. this is something that the family had wanted to see. it will likely be part of trying to process the pain that they have gone through with floyd's death now over a week ago. and also some insight into their mentality in regards for that. the attorney for the family, benjamin crump, said it doesn't just stop with the arrests of these officers. they want to see it go through to full convictions, so in
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regards to that, there is an air of cautious op timism there. but the day today will be remembering floyd, the man that he was, and trying to begin a series of long and hard goodbyes. >> i want to say charges for all four, as omar noted, some hope for those who have been coming to the makeshift memorial, that these charges will lead to convictions in the end. it is the first court hearing for three of the now-fired plip is police officers. the charges for derek chauvin was upgraded yesterday. josh tracking the procedure for us. the charges succinct, but in this case they are incredibly important. >> reporter: that's right, john. we're half a mile from that memorial here in downtown government city plaza. just a remarkable scene playing behind me right now. i want this to sink in for our
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viewers. we are here at the city jail. inside that jail are three of the officers who are accused of involvement in the death of george floyd. as you can see, outside that jail, members of the minnesota national guard. they are now protecting that building. these soldiers were called in to protect this city in the wake of violent protests that were sparked, john, by the alleged actions of those officers. just remarkable what we're seeing. as you mentioned, these officers are charged. they will have their first appearance today. those charges include second-degree murder for derek chauvin. we're also told that the three officers that are also seen in that video have now been charged with accessory, aiding and abetting second-degree murder. it's those three officers who will be in court today for that appearance. we expect it to be brief. we're told by the attorney's office that this case will take time, the prosecution will be lengthy. we're learning one piece of information overnight. this is involving a witness, john, who was at the scene when
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george floyd was killed. this is a friend of his. we have cct footage where you can see him in the passenger seat of this vehicle. he was there with george floyd, and the reason why his comments are so important, he spoke to the "new york times," is because prosecutors have been asking for anyone with information about this case to come forward. what he contends is that george floyd was not resisting. in fact, he said in his quote to the "new york times," floyd was, from the beginning, trying in his humblest form to show that he was not resisting in no form or way. i could hear him pleading, please, officer, what's all this for? people are relieved. those who were seeking justice, these officers are now being presented in court. still to determine how this trial will go, whether there will be a trial at all, whether they will plea. still unanswered questions but
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we're at the next milestone as they appear in court, john. >> josh campbell, appreciate your reporting on the scene there. being charged is one thing, getting a conviction is quite another. freddie gray in baltimore, just one reminder. gray was taken in what police called a rough ride. he had been shackled, handcuffed and he was not strapped in. he later died of his injuries, including a partially severed spine. in an op-ed for the "washington post," marilyn wrote this. the people of minneapolis need answers. their protests echo those experienced in baltimore. they should know that when the dust settles on this incident, their city may never be the same. to say that things have been tumultuous is an understatement. however, the decision that i made in 2015 to charge six police officers for the death of
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freddie gray led to accountability. that accountability l-- marilyn mosby is here today. >> that power of justice is what everyone is screaming for. treat police the same way you would treat anyone else regardless of race, sex and religion, and that's your obligation. when you don't do that, there is a lack of faith in the system, and that's what we've seen with the independent autopsy, the protests where people want justice. so i'm happy that the prosecutor attorney general ellison has looked at the evidence and made a determination that this is requiring charges. what happened in baltimore city, i do believe that that accountability led to exposure. a week after i charged those officers, the department of justice exposed police practices in many parts of the country.
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that exposure ultimately led to reform, that even despite the trump administration is still on record. and we have tangible reforms that have come about as a result of those charges. police officers are now mandated to seat belt all prisoners. they're mandated to call a medic when requested. there is an affirmative duty and responsibility for colleagues, if someone crossed the line, for them to go and inform folks about that, right? there is deescalation and use of force policies. but in addition to those tangible sort of reforms, there are still systemic reforms that have to take place in order to truly hold those officers accountsabl accountable. what we saw in freddie gray, when we talk about what systems are in place, first and foremost, i had a police
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department. when it comes to accountability cases, these cases should be independently investigated. i had a police department that was quite candidly working against us. witness statements where they weren't asking the most pertinent questions. you have a search and seizure warrant that weren't being effectuated and executed. you had witnesses in the case that were somehow assigned to investigate the case. these are all sort of issues that we have to look for in the prosecution of george floyd. >> as you mentioned, mr. ellison is now the attorney general in the state of minnesota. he's been named special prosecutor in this case. the attorney general would normally handle it, but he's not handling it. he will look at your case as well. he will look at other cases around the country where you had charges but not convictions. look how he explains the challenges ahead. >> winning a conviction will be hard. i say this not because we doubt our resources or our ability.
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in fact, we're confident in what we're doing. but history does show that there are clear challenges here and we are going to be working very hard and relying on each other and our investigative partners and the community to support that endeavor. >> in this case, ms. mosby, unlike what you just described in baltimore, the chief said he believes those officers are complicit. you seem to have a police chief who wants to cooperate the best he can. take us inside the courtroom. what is your most important advice for mr. ellison, or whoever the lead prosecutor is in the courtroom if it comes to trial to tell the jurors that this has to be different? >> we have to be sure that when it comes to the ability of holding police officers accountable to the community that they get a jury trial. what often happens in police
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accountability cases where you attempt to prosecute police is they circumvent the community and they take bench trials. that's what happened in the freddie gray case. the first officer we tried in front of a jury, the jury split. some believed he was guilty, some believed he was innocent. it was a hung jury. it entitled us to then try him again. but what happened was all three of the subsequent officers elected a bench trial where they felt there was possibly more def deferential treatment. so they could do that instead of being tried before a jury. when it comes to after this case and presenting evidence, some of the hurdles they'll be up against is there will be colleagues, what some call the blue wall of silence, and they're going to have to confront their colleagues and talk against them. i think one of the things that
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is in the benefit of the floyd case is that there is a broad sort of understanding now and recognition that this murder was committed on camera in front of everybody to see. in the freddie gray case, we didn't have this kind of concrete sort of evidence to suggest and to determine what happened with freddie gray. >> marilyn mosby, i'm grateful for your insight and expertise on this. let's keep in touch as this unfolds. >> thank you. more than 38 million peop-- americans filed for unemployment in the last week. >> we've gathered here in solemn reverence to not just mark his tragic death but to give honor to his life. so every touch is as comforting as the first
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first-time unemployment benefits have been declining since mid-march. that's a good sign. but the overall volume of these layoffs is still really hard to grasp. another thing to consider, continuing claims. the total number of people receiving jobless benefits. that rose a little bit last week. we want to see that number falling before we're sure that the hiring has begun again. this is just a weekly snapshot. we'll get a monday look tomorrow with the may jobs report. that's forecast to be jobless claims of 20%. john? president trump retweeting his own tweets today. he wants to make sure you know he's mad at his former attorney general, james mattis. president trump making clear he didn't like his leadership style when he served in the cabinet. don't allow yourself just to
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file this one away as another a musing or annoying but otherwise not very meaningful trump tantrum. the president is mad because secretary mattis delivered a stinging rebuke of how the commander in chief is reacting to the george floyd killing. in a statement posted in "the atlantic," james mattis described the president as, quote, the first president who does not try to unite the american people. we have jeremy diamond and barbara starr. barbara, i want to start with you. we know there was some bad blood, but for a four-star to use these words at this moment is startling. >> reporter: especially for jim mattis, john, because mattis, of course, a decades-long career that was absolutely devoted to loyalty to a commander in chief, whoever that might be, and now mattis is saying the country can unite without the president, and it should. he put this message out
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unexpectedly because everyone knew mattis had been thinking about what was going on in the country but did not want to say anything so as not to send mixed messages to the troop, not to make life harder for the current serving defense secretary. current secretary mark esper yesterday taking pains to say he did not support putting active duty on the streets of america, he did not support invoking the insurrection act, putting distance between him and the president. but mat sis said this is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the american people, does not even attempt to try. instead he tries to divide us. we are witnessing the consequence of three years of this deliberative effort, we're witnessing the consequence of three years without mature leadership. we can unite without him, drawing on the strengths
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inherent in our civil society. where are we today? the entire chiefs of staff have issued comments based on the simple concept of listening, paying attention to institutionalal racism in this country, talking about bringing people together. none of them are talking about invoking the insurrection act, none of them are talking about putting active duty military force on the streets of this country. john? >> all of them in their own way sending a message. barbara starr, i appreciate that. and jeremy, the president is mad at his former defense secretary, he's also mad at the current defense secretary. he's mad at anybody who doesn't just stand up and say, yes, sir, whatever you say. >> reporter: yeah, that's true. we have seen this as a pattern in the trump presidency throughout, and many cabinet members have been burned by either taking some distance from the president or not agreeing with him wholeheartedly. we have witnessed that time again, and just yesterday, barbara noted mark esper, the
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defense secretary, taking a serious chunk of distance between himself and the president over putting active military troops in american cities, saying as of now he is opposed to using the insurrection act, the 19th century law, which would allow the president to put troops in each american city. top white house officials were upset about the statement mark esper made from that pentagon briefing room, and not only were they upset by the statements, but they didn't get any heads up from it. that was also quite striking for some white house officials. three sources are telling us as of now, john, that mark esper is safe as defense secretary, at least for now, but it was striking that yesterday mark esper went to the white house after delivering those comments. we're told that he did meet with the president, and despite that, when the white house press secretary carol mcencenany gaver
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statements, she said as of right now mark esper is still the secretary of defense, but if that changes, we will certainly all learn about it. as we know, the president has filed many officials by tweet. john? >> yes, he has. analyst kimberly dozier with us as well. kimberly, i want to start with you. general dempsey, general john allen, if you add up the service of these gentlemen in afghanistan, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, admiral, all of them here, all of them american heroes, all of them to whom we owe an enormous debt for their service, and all of them say they're worried about the current commander in chief and how he's reacting to the death
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of george floyd, saying he will use the military to quell the protests. >> john, all of them are thinking domestically and internationally that militarizing the crackdown on protestors sends. the military has had trouble recruiting candidates to fill its ranks. it's one of the most integrated forces in the united states. it is sending the message right now from the white house, the trump administration is sending the message that these forces might be used against fellow citizens. that is not what the military wants to send out to young black people watching this who might be future candidates for recruiting. and internationally, the u.s. military on multiple fronts, whether it's an air force officer trained for pilots or whether it's a green beret working with special forces in
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afghanistan, they teach them that military forces are not the first ones you use against your citizens, it's the police that are supposed to do that. the president's words counteract all of that. >> and doug, it is really hard sometimes to get context, to understand the context because there's so much happening so fast, especially over the last ten days or so. if you listen to the president's words or read his tweets and you study history, you hear george wallace. where are we? >> well, we're in a very weird place. i mean, the idea of covid-19 mixed with donald trump's demagoguery combined with the unemployment rate, 40 million americans in desperate need of a job right now, it's really surreal and unlike any other. i think, however, we can read what donald trump's strategy of this is, and it's a page directly from richard nixon. nixon was the one who put down
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the whole law and order motif in 1968, and the idea is that you bring the bible and guns and you kind of make it a cultural war to get reelected. i think out of all the strange reality tv moments we've had, when donald trump walked across lafayette park spraying tear gas on protestors and standing and holding the bible in this weird photo op with military personnel with them, it was just a real bridge too far for people in the pentagon. for reasons kimberly just said, we are a highly integrated armed forces and that reeked of a wild, bizarre, kooky, reality tv moment. the fact that general mattis is speaking out, he has huge support in the marine corps and he is a leader among admirals and generals and top people in the air force. he goes across the boards. this is a big turning point on
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the american public, i think, turning against president trump's failed leadership. >> we have also seen, and i can show you a headline from the "washington post." i go to doug first, and then kimberly. i mentioned all the military brass, these distinguished leaders. all four of the living ex-presidents have issued comments these days. they don't criticize president trump, but you don't have to be a rocket scientist to read these statements. they're all four saying this is what a president should be doing. doug, can you remember a moment where an ex-president's exclusive club has tried to shake the incumbent? >> it's never happened before. there's such respect for the office, that's why most of them try to stay out of politics. george w. bush has been down in the dallas area. he doesn't like making news. barack obama is politically engaged, but he does it in incremental ways. bill clinton has put out a beautiful statement about what's going on now. they all see trump as a danger
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to democracy. they understand what authoritarianism is. yes, there's people that are center right, center left, but we are dealing with an extreme right wing authoritarian president in donald trump, so i was proud of our ex-presidents to start putting out statements. need to do it more to remind people that this isn't okay. this isn't a tv moment or that we like the personality of donald trump. he is destroying sacred institutions across the board, he's demonizing reporters and journalists as being the enemy of america. he's trying to behave like a dictator would, not like any other american president has ever acted. he now owns the field. there is no james buchanan with warren harding or nixon in watergate. he kind of owns trump trying to sledgehammer the institution of the american presidency to fit his oversized ego.
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>> kim, you talk to a lot of people around the world, diplomats and the like. how is the world looking at america and its president at the moment? >> they're shocked, they're worried, and to chime in on what david was saying, what those former presidents are trying to do is send the message that the america that you know is still here. and also to send a message to authoritarian dictators who are watching this and saying, well, what's good for you can be good for us in the future. they're saying, no, this is not the way the normal america operates. we respect the rights of our citizens to protest and we don't send our own military against them. >> kimberly dozier, doug brinkley, really respect your opinion at this important moment. up next, an example of what we do do in america? we march. people marching in harlem,
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looking at live pictures here, this is new york city. this is harlem, people marching in the street to remember george floyd. you see black lives matter, you see other signs calling for justice. alexandra is there with the protest. alexandra, explain the scene. >> reporter: john, everyone on the streets of harlem right now knows they are part of writing america's history, but the people tell me what they really want is part of a building block for the future, supporting policy, supporting change. this lady is from harlem. why is it important your boys are here? >> it's important in tthat my b are seeing the march for change. i want them to see how people are marching to change their lives, and they can't possibly see it on the couch. >> you are absolutely doing your
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job bringing your boys out here. >> thank you. >> i hope it's heartening to see the community turn out for this. john, they want to be heard. this is a community really coming together to show support. >> alexandra, if you have one sec, if she doesn't mind, if you could have the photojournalist show the sons' sign? i is a quick glimpse of did. >> reporter: you're asking to see some of the signs? >> yes, thank you. >> no problem. we've got the vote, black lives matter signs, we've hear chants that say we are to be respected, not feared. so many of the rallying cries we've been hearing in demonstrations across the country. >> thanks so much. i specialespecially liked the y man's sign. we'll hear drew brees'
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>> whenever i see kneeling for the flag, i think about my two grandfathers who fought for this country and tried to make this world a better place. >> coy wire here to walk us through this. that was a dramatic about-face. >> absolutely, john. drew brees' teammates, malcolm jenkins, one of the most respected players in the league has been outwardly trying to put an end to police brutality. jenkins never kneeled during the anthem himself, deciding instead to hold up a fist, but he believed drew brees' words could hurt the protest asking for change, and when he asked about his message, drew brees spoke about his comments. >> when the world tells you that you're not worthy, that your life doesn't matter, the last person you want to hear from are
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the guys that you go to war with and that you consider to be allies and to be your friends. >> we have a great amount of respect for those that have fallen in the military and have defended our freedom. i think that sometimes gets mixed up and it's a way of avoiding the issues and what people are really talking about. >> reporter: now, john, brees' commander davis commented for the first time on cnn's "new day" this morning. >> when we heard it the first time, we hoped drew would elaborate more on racism and the sentiments of the black community. he admitted he missed the mark. >> reporter: john davis went on to say that he believes drew brees' apology was a sign of leadership, admitting that he missed the mark. in general, he said, john, most of america has missed the mark.
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>> i appreciate that. another thing drew brees said in that apology was it was time for him to do less talking and more listening. coming up, dr. anthony fauci weighs in on whether it is time to reopen america's schools. but first some hospitals are struggling now with coronavirus. they look for help from medical and nursing students close to graduation. this week's impact your world highlights tiffany harris and dozens of classmates who answered the call in detroit. >> i knew as a nurse that's what they had prepared us for throughout my college cleareer, and that it was time for me to step up. it was a reality check of how quick life changes, how quick it comes and it goes. sometimes i'm numb and i'm just like, wow. you know, the things that i've seen, the things that i've heard. other daisy walk out feeling better because we may have saved more patients that day. we were able to discharge some
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all that red and orange are troubling signs of america reopening. that's the thing to watch. as i bring in our dr. sanjay gupta whether it is safe to reopen schools at the oendend oe summer into the fall. i want to read to you from dr. fauci. children can get infected. gout to be careful for them and they may not spread it. you should not open schools is a little bit of a reach. what dr. fauci if i am reading it there, if you prepare to do the right things, you can open schools? >> i think so. in some ways sort of reflects what he's been saying all along, drawing a bit of extinctions between colleges and primary schools. colleges, people are living there and we know other infectious diseases and meningitis and things like that have spread on college campuses.
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younger people are at lower risk of becoming critically ill although they can and we heard. we are not sure if how much they can spread it if they are harboring the virus in their bodies. the idea that schools can open but it will look a lot different. i will give you an examples of how it may look different here. kids are not going to the school at the same time and increase safety and physical distance and avoid common area like cafeteria, kids can eat in the classrooms or gyms or choir or things like that may not happen anymore. yes, all of our reporting and all the people we are talking object drawing an extinction between colleges making a decision on their own and primary school. the idea that people want primary schools to open. here is how it may look different.
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those plans are underway now. >> the white house put out this memo listing details of the president's health but they left a lot of what we see. your read of this? >> it was very basic. president had a first half of his physical before and we kept on hearing there is going to be a second half of his physical now. a qucouple of things that were significant. he has an issue with heart disease and high cholesterol and we know the cholesterol medication has increased and that is back down to a normal level. they mention that john recently about the fact that you can see 40 milligrams a day and other data from the president.
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would order the removal from the capitol capital of virginia. it was the center killing of heath heath heather heyer that prompted major backla flash at the time. let's listen. >> not in 2020. yes, that statue has been there for a long time. but, it was wrong then and it is wrong now. so we are taking it down. matt it is time to heal ladies and gentlemen, richmond is no longer the capital of confederacy. >> the mayor of richmond virginia, richmond is no longer the capital of the confederacy.
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on july 1st, a law in virginia goes into effect that has a local ordinances making a decision about statues. that was 2016 in charlottesville, the state law the city could not remove it. this is something we'll see across the commonwealth of virginia after july, cities being able to make decisions. >> john, a ripple effect of a significant one. we heard the former president obama said yesterday, the statues don't look the like as 1968. lavar stone is leading the way here in this case. small tsteps but certainly important. >> and proof if you demonstrate a protest peacefully, you can get positive results. >> jeff zeleny, appreciate it. >> sure. i am john king in
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washington. thank you for joining us today. minneapolis remembering george floyd today. you see live pictures there, that's the site of floyd's death. how his death is triggering a racial reckoning. memori memorial in minneapolis, floyd was ignored by a police officer's knee pinned him down for nine minutes. the three officers on the right side of your screen is charged as accessories to murder. we want to spend a good amount of time in minneapolis hearing from this important service. cnn's sara sidner is at the site of george floyd's senseless death. omar, let's begin with you as th
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