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president biden held his first cabinet meeting today. a complete 180 from the previous four years. no constant fawning over the president. everything about it was different. to start, the diversity, as many women as men, and more nonwhite attendees than white. black, latino, asian, native american, all represented. this took place in the east room rather than the cabinet room because it's bigger due to social distancing constraints the news continues. let's head over to chris for "cuomo prime time." >> hey, jimmy, best to you and the family for easter. i'm off tomorrow night. >> you too. >> i'll catch you this weekend, but always a pleasure to work with you. be well, brother. i am chris cuomo. welcome to "prime time." tonight, we're going to unpack

the most uniquely bizarre scandal i have ever seen in politics, and the criminal consequences seem to grow by the hour. now first it was gop congressman matt gaetz is under federal inquiry for six months. gaetz says there is nothing to even inquire about. he denies any and all allegations. okay. then we learn it's not just an inquiry, it's an investigation, and that investigation is into gaetz's dealings with a potentially underage woman. and it was then that the allegation was that he was involved in the trafficking of that underage woman. now, it is that there might be multiple minors involved, cash and drugs involved as well in that behavior. the latest, investigators may be trying to tie a sitting congressman to a fake i.d.

scheme in which someone he apparently knows well was indicted. here is what we know. a witness has reportedly provided evidence linking him to a man named joel greenberg in seminole county, florida, who was an odd sort. he was arrested, indicted, charged in criminality, including sex trafficking of a minor and fabricating fake ids in furtherance of the same. in a text message that was shared with a cnn source, greenberg confirms he was in his office, quote, showing congressman gaetz what our operation looked like. they have video of this meeting on a weekend evening. we are also learning the federal investigation of the representative includes whether campaign funds were used to pay for travel and expenses for child sex trafficking.

and get this. everything i just said is merely half of the equation. the other half is one of the most bizarre extortion schemes, if that's what it is, i have ever heard of. it is unlike anything a member of congress has been tied to in recent memory. the other half we will talk about makes even less sense. we have the former deputy director of the fbi here to dissect the case, and i'm betting he has never seen anything like this either. but we have to start tonight with the case that is all too real and true. and it is about george floyd's murder. it was a damning day for derek chauvin. the former officer accused of murdering floyd. the biggest exposure was chauvin's supervisor saying he was not immediately aware of the knee choke chauvin used on floyd. why is going to be the obvious question. also two paramedics who were on

the scene and said they could see from afar that george floyd wasn't breathing and likely dead. if so, the question is why couldn't four officers who were up close see the same? why didn't they make efforts to reduce the pressure or to revive? one of the emts literally had to ask officer chauvin to get off of floyd in order to treat him, and said he had no pulse when he arrived. and he was the one who had to remove handcuffs on a man with no pulse so that he could treat him. very disturbing video shown in court of floyd put in the ambulance after paramedics came. but as i mentioned, in terms of the criminality and the trial, what chauvin's supervisor did not know could be the biggest clue of the day. listen to this recording played of chauvin taking a call from that sergeant in his squad car, asking him about what just happened. this was played at trial today.

>> yeah, i was just going to call you and have you come out to our scene here. um, not really, we just had to hold the guy down. he was -- he went crazy. he wouldn't go in the back of the squad -- >> what will the jury make of the demeanor and tone of chauvin and what you just heard? set against everyone saying they knew floyd was dead. does he sound like he was aware that the man he was just holding on the ground under his knee is dead or may be dead? so that is the accused murderer himself, leaving out very important details to his boss. he didn't tell him i had my knee on floyd's neck for nine and a half minutes and they think he is dead. listen to what the sergeant expounding on the rest of the call had to say. >> i believe he told me they

had -- tried to put mr. floyd -- i didn't know his name at the time. tried to put mr. floyd in the car. he had become combative. i think he mentioned he injured his nose or his mouth, a bloody lip, i think, and eventually, after struggling with him, he suffered a medical emergency. >> is that the extent of what you remember the defendant telling you about the incident? >> i think that was basically it. >> did he mention anything about putting his knee on mr. floyd's neck or back? >> no. >> so nothing about the knee. so for those out there saying chauvin shouldn't be smeared as a cop until it's over. he was already fired about being a bad cop. it's not about that. that issue was decided by the police force. it's whether or not what chauvin did was a causal factor in why

george floyd died. the sergeant believes chauvin and the other officers used excessive force. listen. >> do you have an opinion as to when the restraint of mr. floyd should have ended in this encounter? >> yes. >> what is it? >> when mr. floyd was no longer offering up any resistance to the officers, they could have ended their restraint. >> let's take today the better mind former prosecutor elliott williams. good to see you, brother. is that the biggest moment of the day? >> that was pretty big. look, a lot of people have weighed in, witnesses, people at the scene. you and me have weighed in on what should have happened. what you now have is an insider in the minneapolis police department, a uniformed officer. that was very powerful. the question was should they have. if you notice, his answer was a little more conditional say

thanksgiving could have. but still, that was probably the biggest. and moreover, chris, this question of the reasonableness of the actions of the officers is the first big factual dispute in this trial. everything else is in agreement. george floyd was there, derek chauvin was there, and george floyd died and they are filling in the gaps around there. but this question of what constitutes reasonable police force, the force to be used by a police officer, this is the first salvo in that debate, and i think we're going see some more on the defense on it as well. >> the apparent indifference in chauvin's tone, could that mean as much to the jury as i'm suggesting it may? it portends that they'll have to put him on the stand? >> well, i don't know if anything portends it should put him on the stand. just because that is an incredibly risky decision particularly in a case like this. so it's an open question. so no, i -- i just -- you want

to avoid the question of putting a defendant on the stand in a controversial case. i just -- probably not. >> even though, you will expose the jury only to him showing no panic, that the guy is dead, no regret, no remorse. >> put it this way, chris. it's not slam dunk evidence but prosecution will certainly use to it argue evidence of intent, number one that he wasn't fully forthcoming. it's not that he is lying -- well, i'm not going to characterize his statement, but he certainly wasn't being fully forth coming to his supervisor when he talked on the phone. what the prosecution will say is that he will was in an attempt to conceal his actions, what he did not do is present full information to his supervisors, which goes to intent. it goes to the question of whether he knew he was doing something if not wrong, unlawful, now it's a question whether the jury believes it. juries are all over the place.

i dealt with them. you just never know what's going to resonate with them. so what you see the prosecution doing is putting forth a number of arguments and hope a number of different factual bases for them to agree on and seeing what sticks. >> having george floyd's girlfriend on the stand to talk about their addiction. i want to play some of it for the audience. okay. when they get it, we'll put it up. but the prosecution did this. >> yep. >> why would they have the former girlfriend get on and say very emotional things about floyd, but yes, we both struggled with opioid addiction. here is the sound. i think they have it. >> okay. >> we both suffered from chronic pain. addiction in my opinion is a life-long struggle. so it's something we dealt with every day.

>> going forward to may of 2020, was there a time when you thought he might be using again? >> yes. >> george floyd's not on trial. why bring it up as the prosecution? >> i think it's two different things. number one, it's going to come out any way because there's a significant question as to what the cause of death was, and were there substances in his system? it's far better for the prosecution to do it. it's almost again like saying mom, i broke the vase as opposed to having mom come home and see the vase. it's called fronting it or letting out the sting. you can control putting it out there. that's point one. point two, it's almost a more human thing. there is a big shift in america or in the world about how we talk and think about addiction right now. seeing it almost as a quickness sickness far more than something to be criminalized. what the prosecution is doing is

humanizing george floyd. there are jurors i assure you who are either struggling with addiction themselves or at a minimum have members of their family, loved ones, friends, family who have struggled with alcohol or opioid addiction or whatever. and this makes george floyd seem real and human to them. it's almost a two-prong strategy, and it very well may work. >> last interesting point. the defense tried to play off the urgency of why you would put a knee on somebody's neck, raising the question with the paramedic, sometimes when you get a call and someone is coming out of a drug haze, an excited delirium faze phase, you want a cop there to use a suppressive measure just like this, don't you? and the paramedics said yeah, sometimes you could want that. what's the play there and did it work? >> it worked for a second. they sort of drew blood because they suggested maybe he did have an overdose and could have

emerged thereafter and become violent or so on. then on redirect, the prosecution brought up another witness who said, hey, could this actually happen? could someone emerge from an overdose and be violent? and she said, yes, however, the guy was dead at the time. she didn't use those words, but she said did he have a pulse? and the question was no. so the odds he would have awakened and become violent is incredibly slim. so in that split moment, the defense succeed on making the point, but it got blown out of the water by the prosecution on the redirect examination. and that, chris, the very purpose of redirect examination. it's sort you have clean up the mess after the defense has dirtied up your witness a little bit. and they did and the prosecutor did it beautifully right there. >> what did his condition appear to be to you overall? in lay terms, is the answer, i thought he was dead. elliot williams, thank you very much. i'm not going see you tomorrow.

have a very blessed easter, you and your family. rebirth and renewal. in this context. >> thank you, chris. >> i can't wait to you back to renew our analysis of this ongoing trial. be well. >> happy easter. >> happy easter. all right. so look, you got to stay on this trial. it's going to mean so much to this country, no matter what the verdict. but now when it comes to politics, these matt gaetz allegations, i've never even heard anything like this. and again, you have to -- every politician is saying let the investigation play out. yeah, you should say that every time. of course we have to have the investigation play out. well dent know anything for a fact. but of the acquisitions are of a character nature i've never heard before. the newest, and this is a real problem for gaetz politically, we'll talk about why in a second, misconduct involving nude photos. the problem is not just the photos. it's who made them known to the media and to other colleagues. we may be seeing something right now we haven't seen on the right

in a long time. we'll discuss next.

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i've really melted with. land o' frost premium. fresh look. same great taste. all right, we have to start unpacking this congressman gaetz situation. and it's not easy. he is definitely under investigation by the justice department, and we do know it certainly involves sex trafficking allegations, plural. sources tell cnn he showed nude photos of women he said he slept with two other lawmakers. he may have also shown the images on the house floor. now there is no sign that is part of the federal probe. i get why the media is all over it. it's incredibly salacious. you can argue maybe it's poor ethics. to me it means something totally different, okay. to me, it's about where his party may be on him. let's bring in two absolutely better minds on what is going on here. okay, because the politics of

this is getting very ugly very fast. let's bring in dana bash and former representative charlie dent who understands the party politics very well. dana, first, have you ever heard of anything like this, even on the suggestion level? >> well, depends on which part of the this you're talking about, chris. you said, there are different allegations now. one is, you know, probably the most serious. definitely the most serious for him and for his party, which is the criminal investigation that appears to be going on according to sources and a reporter at "the new york times". and tonight, our colleagues on capitol hill who cover capitol hill are reporting about the pictures of women he allegedly slept with, showing them to colleagues on the house floor, as you said. look, there are so many other

layers as you said to unpack. but here's the thing to remember. this is not a person who has a deep or wide reservoir of support, among his own republican colleagues, chris. so i would thought be surprised if this moves rather quickly. even in the trump world or post trump world where lack of shame doesn't really matter anymore. in this particular case, republicans in the leadership might think it's a different -- different kettle of fish because what we're talking about and who we're talking about. >> right, but look, they have said the right thing this time which is if there is a process going on, you have to respect the process. they have to respect the investigation. now the photos are something different. but charlie, this is my take on it. i'm not as impressed by the photos as some. i don't believe in the purity of our politicians the way some do.

but what i'm saying is this is proof that his own went bad on him. because he did not show those photos to people from the left. otherwise we would have heard about this a long time ago. and that's unusual in your party. what do you make of it? >> what i make of this -- i agree with dana. this man has very serious problems. the most serious of which is the department of justice criminal investigation on the sex trafficking. but these pictures are a problem in that this could force an ethics investigation, which would mean members of congress are going to be subpoenaed and deposed, called as witnesses to answer questions about these pictures. you may remember in the last congress, congresswoman katie hill resigned over pictures i believe that were revealed by an embittered ex-spouse that were very less serious, and she resigned over. this i think the time comes where yes, he is entitled to due process. but when a member becomes an embarrassment, pressure will build on kevin mccarthy to have a conversation with him to

resign. nancy pelosi had to force out people like anthony weiner, paul ryan forced out trent franks, i believe. >> it's much less common, though, charlie. you mentioned katie hill. that's the left. the left has a very different standard and a different level of aggression. you were okay with the qanon and there is a pretty high bar in what you guys will conduct from bad conduct to stupid conduct. dana, do you think that gaetz may end up paying for the qanon lady because that kind of used all all the energy the republicans had to deal with something this outlandish? >> they have probably a deeper well of energy for outlandish than we realize. maybe we do realize it given what we have seen over the past five years. but because we're talking about a couple things. we're talking about allegations,

which yes, have to go through due process of a minor and dealing with all kinds of -- >> maybe multiple minors. >> -- issues. maybe multiple minors. that's exactly right. i think what the former congressman is getting at is his leadership could be looking for an out. and by saying, oh, look, there could be ethics violations on the floor of the house of representatives, that could be their out trying to push him out. and charlie can tell you, he's had experiences -- >> on the ethics committee. >> yeah, right? watching leadership say you're out of here, and yes, it doesn't seem to be the kind of thing we have seen in recent years with republicans. but this does again feel different, especially since you alluded to this, chris. this is a time where republicans feel like when they're looking

at their number one goal, which is to take back the house and the senate. but obviously we're talking about the house right now, they feel that they are in good shape on the basics for conservatives. democrats are big spenders. too much money, big government, and the culture wars. this is a distraction, so the question is how long do they want to let this distraction play out in that ultimate goal, especially for somebody who really angered a lot of people in his caucus by going out to wyoming and talking about the fact that liz cheney should resign, taunting her in a very open, very theatrical way. >> charlie, let me give you the last word quickly about what you think it could look like in an ethics probe in congress if the behavior is limited to these photos, you were showing them on the floor of the house. could that be enough? >> that could be enough to get him to resign. again, there will be subpoenas and depositions and members of congress have to come in as

witnesses. but the whole probe goes away if matt gaetz resigns. and if your kevin mccarthy trying to reclaim the majority, the last thing you want to talk about is one of your members alleged to have engaged in this conduct when you will be talking about the issues of day. they had many resigned early for cases that were not even criminal in some cases. bottom line, they're going have to do deal with it and deal with it fast. this guy has no reservoir of goodwill among his republican colleagues. frankly they're experiencing schadenfreude moments right now. they're gleeful and want him out. >> we will see. charlie dent, dana bash, happy christmas, happy easter, happy everything. >> happy easter. >> all right, i'm going to bring

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let the investigation proceed. he may have given them an out with these photos. his party can now go bad on him and maybe force a resignation with nothing to do with the other investigations. that's a favor. but let's get some legal perspective on just what we're dealing with here. somebody who understands this kind of investigation very well. andrew mccabe. good to see you, brother. >> good to see you, chris. >> now first, you ever heard of a member of congress being attached to anything like any of the suggestions we have on the investigative side? >> no. this is -- this is a new low. and it's an incredibly bizarre story with so many facets here. i've never heard of one quite like this. >> so it went from an inquiry to an investigation about someone who may be underage because the federal age is 18 if that person is taken across state lines for sexual purposes. a lot of states at 16, whatever it, 18 federally. so if she is 17, it triggers it. then this other guy, greenberg

is put in the mix. the former tax solicitor from florida, he was indicted, arrested, indicted, charged with a trafficking scheme that was using fake ideas. and now somebody says from his office, yeah, gaetz was here on a weekend night looking at ids with him on video. how deep can the waters get? >> well, not only does that witness say that gaetz was seen on video, but then greenberg allegedly texted the witness and confirmed it in a contemporaneous text. that seems pretty credible to me. and interestingly enough, it's an allegation that was brought apparently to the authorities back as early as january of 2020. this is very, very serious. sex trafficking from a relationship with one minor is a serious offense in and of itself, one that if convicted could expose you to significant

prison time and registration as a sexual offender. but participating in some sort of conspiracy to manufacture licenses to facilitate that activity, god, it just makes it 100 times worse. this case is getting bigger and more comp indicated by the minute. >> if matt gaetz is right and says there is no 17-year-old, the person doesn't exist. if that is the case, wouldn't this investigation have ended at some point? it's been going on for a year. that may be gaetz. it is? we'll patch him right in. no. i like your ring tone, though. >> sorry. >> it's all good. you say, she doesn't exist. this person does not exist. it never happened. does it take this long to clear that up? >> no, not at all. in fact, chris, the allegation, wherever the information came to the fbi, maybe through the greenberg prosecution, maybe greenburg is providing information to the

investigators. who knows. one way or another they got the allegation about gates and this 17-year-old. they don't open an investigation on that allegation until they've identified who that person is and confirmed that they were in fact 17 at the time of the alleged relationship. so for congressman gaetz to come out and say that that person does not exist, he has really backed himself into a very uncomfortable corner that i think the authorities will probably be able to prove is false pretty easily. >> the other half of this is gaetz has created at a minimum a pretty decent distraction. it's worked vel well with people in the media. no, no, i'm working with the fbi, me and my father because these guys are trying to ex-us with something to do with mr. levinson, the guy missing in iran who the u.s. now believes is gone, is dead, and the fbi is investigating it. what i don't understand is how do you guys -- how does the fbi

open up an investigation into an extortion scheme, which even as described by the gaetz family is an extortion? if some former feds say to you hey, i heard about the investigation. give me 25 million to get levinson out of iran. when i get him out, i'll get the reward and pay you back. it will really look good for you on this other thing going on with the women. that's not extortion. why investigate this? >> yeah, so it's not extortion. as you know, chris, extortion requires both a demand and a threat. and in the facts that you just laid out, the ones that we understand may have taken place here, there doesn't seem to be any sort of credible threat there whatsoever. let's put that aside for just a second. if, if the congressman and his father came to the fbi and said we believe we're going extorted and laid out the interactions with these folks are advocating on behalf of bob 11son and his family, the first thing the fbi would do is say well, would you

be willing to wear a recording device to go to a meeting? they want to see if you can chp cher evidence of where a threat would take place. the fact that recordings are made is not strange here. it's the exact way that agents would try to get through to the bottom of this allegation. >> and even if -- and again, i dent get the extortion thing. i got to be honest. i don't know why the feds would be interested in it. it seems so bizarre. even if that's all true, it doesn't mean that the other investigation doesn't have any merit. because just because these federal -- these former feds knew about the investigation doesn't mean that that investigation isn't real to the women, right? both things could be true. >> that's absolutely right. and it's really important for your viewers to understand that. these go investigations in a way don't have anything to do with each other. whether or not the gaetz family is being extorted has nothing to do with whether or not matt gaetz had an illegal sexual

relationship with a minor months and months ago. that matters under investigation since at least the end of the summer last year. it was briefed to the department of justice including attorney general barr. given the green light . i think this is a matter of don't look at that, look at this. look at the shiny object over here. it's a great distraction technique. but the fbi doesn't have any other recourse. they have to look into it to determine whether or not anything is there. it sounds like that's what they're doing. but from the documents we've heard about and seen so far, really hard to see this thing as a prosecutorial extortion. >> on the other hand, this inquiry was started under bill barr. so you would think if any office was going to give gaetz the benefit of the doubt in terms of startinging? like this, especially with this kind of pruie nce.

have a happy east. best to you and the family. >> you too. on to our other trial. the george floyd murder trial. this is a trial fundamentally about systemic inequality and the specific lens is policing. the issue of floyd's past drug use came up today, emotional. his girlfriend very forthcoming about her own life and her own struggles as well as her departed beloved. the prosecution wanted you to hear this. why? what does van jones think about this, and what it plays to as a dynamic in our society, next.

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and then today courteney ross intensely personal. her boyfriend was george floyd. she opened up at the prosecution's request about their struggles with drug addiction. however, i wanted to start it with her recounting how she met her boyfriend george floyd. >> has this great deep, southern voice, raspy. sis. you okay, sis? and i wasn't okay. i'm just waiting for my son's father. he -- he said, um, well, can i pray with you.

>> van jones joins me now. i learned something today from someone else i'm blessed with in my life. and i really want to make sure that this has got to be so hard for you to watch because sure it's one man. it's one incident. it's one officer primarily in this trial. but this speaks to so much for so many people of color, whether or not you're living in the hood in minnesota or not. and i know it's got to be so hard, van. and i just want you to know i see that, and i feel for you in this. >> i think your level of empathy and your understanding that this is playing differently for different types of people has come through a lot. and it means a lot. and i think that what i saw, that's so human. and we keep talking about this is humanizing, humanizing. why do we have to keep talking about humanizing? because so much of the narrative about black men is dehumanizing.

literally, that you have this idea, they can show it in brain scans. you see in african american men, people have been so trained to expect the worst that people will automatically see a weapon just in the color of the skin. and so as painful as it has been, chris, to watch this, there is -- there is a blessing in how human all of these people are on the stand, talking about just meeting the guy they loved and that kind of stuff. i think it's been very, very difficult, but i hope that people are watching this and realizing all we're asking for is the right to be human. we just want the right to be human. we don't have to be super human perfect people. never made a mistake in order for us to have the benefit of the protection of the rule of law. we just want the right to be human. the guy had an injury. he got on opioids like a million

gazillion other americans. that's not a reason to say his life should be thrown away. >> so what do you think about the prosecution strategy here of bringing on the girlfriend. the girlfriend says yeah we struggled with opioids. and me too, and this is what it was like. and yeah, i think he was using again. the strategy is to front run it, because they're going make george floyd's addiction certainly a factor on the forensic side. what did you make of this tactic? >> i'm glad they did it because being addicted to something like opioids, again, millions and millions of americans have found themselves in that situation. i had a friend who had a tooth pulled and they gave him a jar of painkillers and wound up with a major, major life problem. this is happening to americans all the time. so get it out there. give it some contacts, let it land human, and let's have that be a part of this story, but not

be the whole story. if you hold it back but don't talk about it, suddenly it looks like you got something to hide. listen, this is not at the end of the day something that you can understand in your own family. all we're asking is if it were your relative who got hooked on opioids, maybe wasn't making good decisions, after three minutes, four minutes, five minutes, six minutes, would you want the cop's knee still on his neck? that's all we're asking. and i think everybody would say if it was my family member, the answer is no. >> right. what do you say every time i do one of these segments, i get hit with this barrage of why didn't you mention this about him, why didn't you mention that about him. you know what he is known for? this is the real george floyd. why you making him a saint. i have said that who he was is

irrelevant unless he was that person in that moment. if you're bad guy, if you're a tough guy, if you want the hurt people and you're trying to hurt the police officer, it's going to go one way and it's going to be south. but what do you say to people who have in their minds that it matters that this guy was no good guy and that the media just heroizes him but he was no hero. >> the thing is you don't have to be a hero to have the protection of the law. you don't have to be perfect to have the protection of the law. that's the great thing about our country is we're all equal before the law. saints and sinners alike are equal before the law. and so if he was the worst person ever born and if he was fighting like a madman, once you got him down and once you have him in handcuff, guess what? now he is afforded the protect of the law. and the police don't have -- all we're asking. it's so humiliating to ask for such simple things, the right to be human, the right to be

protected by the law for, police to obey the law. you don't have the right. by the way, in our system, the police think the person is that terrible, keep him alive and get him in front of a jury. the police officer's job is to get the person in front of a jury. and it's certainly not to use force, so far in excess, of what's necessary for the rarres, that someone dies. and again, as you said, very, very well, clearly, over and over and over again, it doesn't have to be the only factor. but if you have excessive force as a -- as a causal factor or a major factor, that's unlawful, in our system. and thank goodness. thank goodness, it is. why do you have people who call themselves patriots and say they love this country and they swear by the constitution? in this case, say someone is wea beneath the protection of the law. we shouldn't be treated as subhuman. we just want the right to be human, and that's why, again,

the humanity, that is just pouring forward in this trial. as children and elderly people and a mixed marstial artist and emts come forward and say, this is inhumane, this should not have happened. and i think, if people can just get past the politics of it, and just deal with the humanity of it. we can be in a better place. >> i agree with everything you said. except, in this case, there is no, well, how was he during the altercation? you cannot reasonably make the case, not that you were, but the suggestion, that during the altercation, floyd, she asked fr it. no, he didn't, and the tape makes it clear. the defense hasn't even argued it yet, and i don't think they will. look what he did to the officers. remember that, everybody. just because somebody feels it doesn't make it a fact. van, be well. have a happy easter. we'll be right back. >> same to you.

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