>> the hurt is still there. i just visualize her face. i don't want to talk about it. she was a quiet woman. all the neighborhoods that we lived in, everybody loved her. >> "the people versus the klan" premieres sunday night at 9:00. "ac 360" starts now. good evening. the tenth day of witness testimony in the derek chauvin murder trial may prove to be one of the most important. two physicians including the medical examiner that performed an autopsy and ruled it a homicide, a pivotal moment for a defense that rests in large part on trying to create doubt in the mind of one juror about the factors that actually contributed to george floyd's

death. we have our forensic and legal experts of analysis but first, we want to go in the courtroom, omar jimenez tells you the day in court. >> reporter: in one of the most highly anticipated moments of the trial. >> you conducted the autopsy on mr. george floyd? >> i did. >> reporter: hennepin county's chief medical examiner dr. andrew baker took the stand. >> with respect to mr. floyd, you didn't see any damage to the heart? >> that's correct. >> did you note anything resembling a pill or pill fragments in his stomach? >> i did not. >> reporter: it listed the death as homicide but specifically cardio pulmonary arrest complicating law enforcement constraint and next compression. no mention of asphyxia. >> in my opinion, the law enforcement subdue l restraint and next compression was more than mr. floyd could take by virtue of the heart conditions. >> reporter: according to

testimony friday, in june 2020 he told investigators of george floyd, if he were found dead at home alone and no other apparent causes this would be acceptable to call on o.d. or overdose but added at the time, i'm not saying this killed him. >> have your certified deaths as an overdose where the level of fentanyl was similar to the level of fentanyl in mr. floyd? >> yes. >> does metheamphetamine constrict vessels. >>meth is not good for a heart with a condition. >> did you rule out drug overdose as a cause of death? >> yes. in this case i believe the primary mechanism of death is asphyxia or low oxygen. there is no evidence to suggest

he would have died that night except for the interactions with law enforcement. >> reporter: dr. thomas pointing to the autopsy itself saying ordinary, that would be all she needed. not this time. >> in this case, the autopsy itself didn't tell me the cause and manner of death, and it really required getting all of this other additional information specifically the video evidence of the terminal events to conclude the cause of death. >> reporter: the cause of death the jurors are now left to wrestle with. >> so in your opinion, both the heart disease, as well as the history of hypertension and the drugs that were in his system played a role in mr. floyd's death? >> in my opinion, yes. >> reporter: the prosecutors pressed the dr. further. >> those other conditions you consider direct causes, is that true? >> they are not direct causes of

mr. floyd's death. >> omar jimenez joins us now. is there any sense how the jury reacted to the part about heart disease and drugs? >> reporter: the jurors were very engaged during dr. baker's testimony and cross-examination. a few of them for example seemed to take extra notes during the part where dr. baker talked about if he found george floyd inside a locked home without any other factors, he would have considered this an overdose case. while another juror seemed to be annoyed at the line of questioning coming from the defense squinting his eyes and shaking his head at various points and these are the dynamics that really matter at this point. how these jurors are interpreting these exchanges on arguably the most important topic in this trial, george floyd's cause of death. now, also, in court, we had a representative from the floyd family who is there who had to look through these incredibly graphic autopsy photos but for the first time in over a month,

he actually had someone seated in the family representative spot for derek chauvin, a wop w -- woman who appeared to be of east asian descent. >> thanks. joined by forensic scientists, professor at criminal justice. professor, what did you make of what we heard today from the chief medical examiner? >> well, the primary cause of death cardio pulmomen nnary arr was brought on by law enforcement. the subdual of george floyd, the restraints they used and neck compression created a situation, a condition his body couldn't overcome but the important part of dr. baker's testimony involved all of these different significant contributing factors. he spent a lot of time talking about mr. floyd's coronary arteries, two of which were

eluded to the level of 70% while one, the other, these are large vessels, was e colluded 90%. these are important vessels that feed blood to the heart. the fentanyl level he had as we now know is 11 nanograms per 11 milliliter which is a lethal dose for a normal healthy person. what i didn't hear much about is tolerance. george floyd was a drug abuser and had built up a tolerance and that's an important factor. fentanyl depresses respiration and methamphetamine is dangerous to the heart at any level, and although there was a small dose, it could have impacted on the heart. the other point is that the restraint created but law enforcement created a very stressful fsituation that resulted in the adrenaline flowing throughout his body and adrenaline speeds up the heart. all of these factors create

difficulties because there isn't enough oxygen coming into the body, especially with a knee on the neck compressing the area, very small area where oxygen or air has to come in to feed the lungs. i found all of this fascinating because it simply contradicted the other experts. remember, these are medical examiners dealing with post mortum cases after death but a pulmonary doctor found it to be normal and said no, fentanyl played absolutely no role in the death. methamphetamine played no role. the enlarged heart and heart disease played no role in the death. real contradictions. these are all prosecution experts. i think eric nelson has the

defense is trying to push the point his underlying health conditions, his heart and that really should be focused on but i think most people would look at the mechanism of high hypoxi. the focus of baker was on the heart and the focus of other was the impact on the brain resulting in an inability to breathe. >> lawrence, appreciate it. i want to get perspective from laura coats and kathryn flynn, criminal defense attorney representative of the baltimore police officer cleared in the death of freddie gray. floyd, do you think the p prosecution got what they needed to convince the jury derek chauvin's knee to the neck on george floyd in the prone position he was in caused his death in. >> i think they did because it came at the end of other medical experts that laid the foundation for the medical examiner. these reports are written, they

are not really written to be fictional novels or dramatic readings but in their own colleague base. he wrtalks about the kochcompli, is that normal or otherwise. the other two experts, forensic, pulmountil gis laid the foundation. he only has the process of elimination to guide his or her analysis but here as was explained earlier in the testimony today but dr. thomas, you had the benefit of the terminal event, all the steps that led up to it through widely covered video from vantage points to allow them to get the full complexity of what happened and informed him but i think his positioning and the sequence of witnesses is what was so convincing and compelling. >> kathryn, the medical examiner said today while floyd had heart disease and drugs in his system, they were contributing decisions and not direct causes of his

death. under the law, does that mean the jury should find chauvin guilty or should they take into account these other factors? >> that's obviously going to be up to the jury. they certainly could reach the conclusion that the state is asking for but you have to keep in mind the defense is setting this up an expert to testify, those defense experts will have the opportunity to have listened to all of this evidence and they're going to be prepared to respond directly to the state's evidence, and those are, i assume, highly regarded experts and been well prepared and the defense is going to be prepared to answer all of those points that were established today in order to argue to the jury that if the experts are disagreeing as to the cause of death, that's reasonable doubt. >> yeah, i mean, the defense did zero in on the level of fentanyl found in mr. floyd's system.

they were able to get the medical examiner to testify that that amount of fentanyl, if he had been found in a hypothetical home with no other evidence, no police attack or handling, that that could have been, you know, listed as a cause of death. how much of a problem do you think that presents for the prosecution? >> well, you see, the defense can't play the games of being too cute with hypotheticals and both prosecution and defense seems to be wary of them because of the obvious contradictions here. remember, you can't take away all the different factors that are this particular fact pattern. you can't say if there had never been a police encounter, could you say the police officers caused the death? the idea here of trying to take away and strip down to the bare bones to become absurd is aware and obvious to a jury. you have to be careful since yesterday they got caught up, the defense was trying to take a

sliver of something talking about whether george floyd said he ingested drugs or otherwise. you have to be careful. in any other event, there is not so much contradiction. cardiac arrest as described but multiple witnesses is the secession of the heart. how it actually occurred? you add a cardio pulmonary arrest meaning the lungs and heart stopped and we've identified the mechanism by the law enforcement's restraint. there is not a lot of contradiction here to point out if you're the defense. >> laura, were you surprised the defense answered a hypothetical question? because it seems like in any hypothetical setting, there are so many factors to go into something, it's a hard question to actually answer. >> well, they're not required to answer the hypotheticals if they have their, you know, outside of the courtroom but until the judge said they don't have to answer the question or there is an objection that allows them

not to have to answer, they are compelled by vir few of being a testified witness and to point out why this was not the case here. it also is their credibility when they're willing to answer and concede certain points but you have to bring it back around as the prosecution said, fine, what were the facts in this case? the jury recalls there was a 9 minute and 29 second video that reminds them there was a police encounter and at the end of it, we're here. >> kate rhryn, what do you thinf the defense so far and how they are doing? >> well, i think they're doing generally as well as they can. i think, you know, we have to wait and see what their experts are going to testify to. i mean, they're clearly laying the groundwork for their witnesses' testimony. they're setting it up. they're doing it bit by bit. what you try to do as a defense attorney is get pieces from

every witness then you ultimately can weave together for your closing argument and trying to present a situation so their expert witnesses can come in and testify and hopefully be as equally persuasive as the state's witnesses have been, it's clear to me they are methodically building the opportunity for their witnesses to come in and sort of answer the questions that they have been sort of opening up with some of the questioning of the state's witnesses. >> kathryn flynn, appreciate it. laura coats, thank you. in a moment more reaction to the trial. the family for george floyd will join us and benjamin crump sharing what he believes jurors will take away from today's testimony and whether the defense did enough to create doubt in the mind of jurors and matt gaetz moments ago smoke to a woman's group as he faces a federal sex trafficking probe. he told the group quote i have not yet begun to fight. this is a key house committee announced a new investigation

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the defense attorney for derek chauvin spent much of the day pressing medical experts about other factors that could have contributed to george floyd's death. while heart disease could be a contributing factor, he said quote it was the stress of that interaction that tipped him over the edge. want to get perspective from their attorney benjamin crump. i'm wondering your impression of what you heard in court today. >> well, anderson, i thought it was consistent with everything that we saw on the video. everybody said that george died as a result of the interaction with the police even though they may have had knew wanss, they were consistent with what the

pulmountil gist said yesterday and what we heard from the police chief and all the police that what derek chauvin did, anderson cooper, was unnecessary and a violation of policy and so we still believe that the jurors have enough evidence to base their verdict of guilty based on not only what they saw but on the volume of medical testimony. >> the chief medical examiner did testify today that heart disease and drugs likely played a role in mr. floyd's death were not a direct cause. do you think that -- does that concern you? does it open it up for somebody on the jury and, you know, it only takes one person to have some reasonable doubt? >> well, anderson, as i've said many times before, we don't take anything for granted when it comes to a police officer being

held accountable for killing a black person in america and justifiably. we know that history normally allows the police to escape any accountability no matter how much evidence we have. but when you think about dr. thomas, the doctor who testified before the medical examiner who actually helped train the medical examiner, she said that the manner of death is homicide, that the mechanisms of death is something that a medical examiner doesn't normally put in a report. they would all refer back to the pulmountil gist and yesterday he clearly said george floyd died as a result of derrek chauvin ad the other police officers causing him not to be able to breathe.

>> do you have a sense of how long the prosecution may continue to present their case? >> well, it is my understanding that they're nearing the end and i know that floyd family members are scheduled to testify early next week. >> and do you -- i'm wondering what you think of what the defense has been doing. >> well, i honestly think the defense has done exactly what we thought they would do. they would try to distract us. they would try to have us look over here, look over there and not focus on the video they blame everybody and everything except derrick chauvin. they blame the crowd. this angry black people who were begging for georgia's life as a reason why derek chauvin kept his knee on george floyd's neck 9 minutes and 29 seconds. they try to blame the paramedics. they tried to blame trace amounts of drugs, but anderson,

we all know when we watch that video on may 25th, 2020, what killed george floyd and i believe the jury listened to every word of this testimony and they know what killed george floyd. the only thing we all doubt, anderson, is -- the only thing we all wonder still is can we get equal justice in america as a marginalized minority when a police officer uses excessive force against us? >> do you think derek chauvin will take the stand in his own defense? >> i think it's going to be a very desperate attempt to salvage his defense of him taking the stand and the more strategic the prosecution is and building this very compelling case, it may necessitate that derrick chauvin take the stand.

most lawyers would never let their client take the stand in a case like this. >> yeah, benjamin crump, ap appreciate you being with us. >> thank you. congressman matt gaetz wrapped up his speech to a group of women as he faces another investigation in the wake of the federal probe whether he violated sex trafficking laws. details of that when we continue. ot an influencer, she's more of a groundbreaker. renae runs with us on a john deere 1 series tractor. because out here, you can't fake a job well done. hear renae's story at deere.com

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the house ethics committee is opening its own investigation into the conduct of florida republican congressman matt gaetz. he's facing a federal investigation started under attorney general bill barr examining allegations he had sex with an underaged girl who was 17 at the time and other women who were provided drugs and money. congressman gaetz' office denied any wrongdoing and said quote these allegations are false and have not been validated by a ink is -- single human being. gaetz spoke to a group of women at a rally at the former president's golf resort. >> reporter: tonight, congressman matt gaetz taking the stage under a cloud of suspicion promising he's built for battle and no going anywhere. >> the smears against me range from distortions of my personal life to wild and i mean, wild

conspiracy theories. i won't be intimidated by a lying media. >> reporter: still, the accusations against gaetz have at least one member of his own party calling for him to resign. why does rep adam kinzinger think he should go? the accusations are stacking up. the daily beast reporting gaetz sent two late night venmo transactions in may 2019 for $900 to joel greenberg a former seminole florida county tax collector and accused sex offender. the next morning in an eight-minute span, greenberg used the same app to send three young women money totaling the same amount. >> all of these women are extremely young. >> meaning what? >> one turned 18 six months before that happened. >> reporter: cnn has not independently confirmed the report or what the money was used for. from the start, gaetz denied doing anything wrong. >> it's a horrible allegation and lie. >> reporter: and there is more,

separate from the allegations of sex crimes, "the new york times" is also reporting investigators have been told of a conversation where gaetz and a former prominent lobbyist arranged a sham candidate to siphon votes from an ally's opponent. they cautioned that aspect of the inquiry was in its early stages. gaetz did not responsibility to "the times" request for comment on the al glegations. all of this hitting closer to home for the congressman in an unavoidable way. a liberal action committee put up this billboard in the florida panhandle that reads matt gaetz wants to date your child. >> randi, joins me now. what kind of reaction did matt gaetz get tonight? >> reporter: it's interesting. the group that organized this is called women for america first. interesting group considering the allegations gaetz is facing. they loved him here. he got a lot of cheers.

friendly territory. the woman that runs this organization is a long-time supporter of donald trump. it was trendily lyfriendly terr. he was trying to bring the crowd to his side. they made it sound like they're all in it together. when you see the leaks and falsehood and smears, they aren't really coming for me, they're coming for you. he mentioned this is a week full of encouragement and plenty of donations, anderson? >> he's been fundraising off this. thanks very much. perspective from legal affairs columnist for the los angeles times and former attorney for the u.s. district of pennsylvania. harry, thanks for being with us. we heard randi reference the alleged venmo transactions. cnn isn't able to indepe indepenindependently confirm. if it accurate, how damaging can that be? >> the big thing now, anderson, the web is becoming so much more

tangled. in fact, the ethics committee charge actually gives a lit ine of the criminal. we start with the sex, drugs and videotape that we've known about in this sort of way with joel greenberg but it's bringing financial missteps and possible crimes and i mean of all sorts. bribes, illegal gratuities, misuse of funds and alteration of documents. the venmo itself, it's how ham handed he used to and by the way, as soon as this came out it was quickly made invisible from his records, which had been public before. he also uses apple pay. there is an overall sense of him as a kind of entitled guy, smug, arrogant, the sort of person

people like to see brought down but that's in his dealings with greenberg and what is really, i think, happening now is we're understanding it's about much, much more than did he or didn't he have sex with an underaged minor and rather a whole kind of broad potential series of crimes that would justify the department of justice having greenberg cooperate against him because there is enough out there. so you'd have greenberg and some of the women victims and now in the financial crimes even other witnesses. i think we don't know the full letter and of the law but we know that it broader and broader. >> you know, it's interesting. i saw a number of your tweets about this and you were talking about how the department of justice as it is currently configured, they would not be looking to do a plea deal with this greenberg character if --

what does it tell you that they're looking to do a deal with greenberg about the potential crimes that they believe gaetz may have committed? >> i think it does tell you a lot. you start with the premise that we now have a sort of conneconscious by the book attorney general. the rule is you don't cooperate down even if you're getting a big scalp of a congressman, you need the conduct to be equal ly culpable. when a prosecutor stands up in front of court yesterday and says we expect a plea, that's not a cause al statement. it means it's been run probably through to garland himself since there is no deputy yet in the seat in doj and they've determined two things, one, that gaetz overall is as culpable when everything is put together and that's what we don't know yet and two, that they're going

to be able to use greenberg and he is a troubled, flawed witness of course to give substantial assistance. think just wouldn't say it otherwise. garland wouldn't say it otherwise so of all the sorts of swirling possibilities, it was that fact, i think, that has shown through as the most significant. >> interesting. harry, appreciate you being with us. thank you very much. still to come one vaccine make there requests expansion of the use for children 10 to 15. i'll talk to sanjay gupta about that and remembering prince phillip who died at the age of 99. we'll have a live report from windsor.

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major step today to get children vaccinated. pfizer is asking the fda to expand the emergency use authorization and allow 12 to 15-year-olds to get the vaccine. it already authorized for ages 16 and up. how likely is it do you think the fda will approve the vaccine for 12 to 15-year-olds? >> it looks very promising, anderson. this is sort of advancing the timetable. you remember dr. fauci said maybe the fall before we would see this but pfizer is applying for an amendment to the emergency use authorization and

that might expedite it faster because they're just trying to change the existing emergency use authorization to include this age group. if the data holds up that pfizer released, it should be pretty promising. it had a very good side effect profile and there were no cases of illness in the vaccinated group of people in these 12 to 15-year-olds so we'll see. but it does look promising. >> there have been some reports of an adverse reaction to the johnson & johnson vaccine both in the united states and europe. can you kind of put it in scale and context? >> yeah, i mean, this is important to keep an eye on. there is a significant monitoring going on of the patients receiving vaccines. we're talking about four patients that developed blood clots, anderson. one was during the trial and three in the rollout since then here in the united states. these patients develop blood clots. they're not sure if these were directly related to the vaccine or not and that's part of what this review is going to be looking at. i should point out about 5.5

million doses have been administered in the united states so that gives you an idea how rare this is but we'll see what this review shows. we've been through the same process with astrazeneca. >> what have the trials of the pfizer vaccine in the age group that we're now talking about shown? because that was the question that there hadn't been trials of this. >> right. so there is -- now there is these trials and in fact, they started trials on younger children, as well. those results aren't out yet. for the 12 to 15-year-olds, around 2300 kids, half got p placebo and half got vaccine. there was a group that got sick and they were in the placebo group and measure antibody levels. antibodies is something everyone knows about. they measured these to give an idea how much immunity these kids were developing and it was high immunity, which is another good sign.

safety profile is very similar to what they have seen. >> you have began before the pandemic working on a documentary about the anti vaccine movement. it airing tomorrow. can you tell us about it? >> we started working on it before the pandemic. goes to show, vaccine he issita is not a new phenomenon. i've always wondered this, anderson. where does the anti vaccination movement, where does it start? are it's origins. what fuels it? is a small clip. ♪ ♪ >> when the anti vaccine movement started, it was a decision by federal agencies not to talk about it. the thinking is it will just give it oxygen. >> then, what was then fringed, meant main stream.

the internet and social media put the anti vax movement on steroids. >> the federal agencies, the scientific societies, the academic societies all kind of stuck to their guns on the old strategy, don't give it oxygen. and that had a disastrous effect because it left a vacuum that allowed this anti vaccine lobby to flourish. >> a lobby hotez says has become well constructed, well planned and highly effective. >> the target specifically ethnic groups where they think they can make headway. >> tonight there is alarming news about the worst outbreak of measles in minnesota. >> so they did this with the somali immigrant community in minneapolis in 2017. >> don't listen to your doctor or anybody, listen to your rights. >> they held town hall meetings, conferences and convinced the

somali community vaccines cause autism and responded by not vaccinating their kids. >> the result, a measles epidemic. 21 kids ended up in the hospital. >> it amazing to me, anderson, how targeted some of these anti vax campaigns are. very strategic and more relevant than ever given what we're going through. vaccine hesitancy is 20% and the issue is 20% of adults don't get vaccinated without vaccinating kids, it will be very hard to get to herd immunity. that's why we wanted to show this film. >> sanjay, appreciate it. look forward to that. a special report "the truth about vaccines" airing tomorrow night at 9:00 eastern on cnn. a look of vaccine hesitancy in one state and the effort to get people to change their minds and roll up their sleeves for a shot.

before the break sanjay told us about his special airing that digs into vaccine hesitancy but there is good news, more covid vaccines are going into the arms of u.s. adults. one in four adults, more than 66 million people are fully vaccinated where 112 million received at least one dose. in some places that sanjay mentioned, the challenge is getting people to sign up. jason carroll tonight has a look how one state is trying to >> i reet eat right. >> reporter: health officials are trying to reach people like this man, a 60-year-old truck driver who has been eligible for more than a month but has no intention of getting the vaccine. he is a supporter of former president donald trump. he is not alone in rejecting a

vaccination. a recent poll shows fewer than half of the republicans say they have gotten the vaccine or intend to do so as soon as possible. compared with about eight in ten democrats and almost six in ten independents. that hesitancy is happening despite many gop leaders, including former president trump, encouraging people to get vaccinated. >> everybody get your shot. >> i'm not going to do it. i am the way i am. that's how it is. >> reporter: joy, a part-time hospitality and medical worker, also says her mind is made up. she will not roll up her sleeve for a shot. >> i think it's a medical and political. i'm up and down with the government as it is. i think that there are certain things that they put out, i don't think even know. >> reporter: even though it is shown to be safe and effective, she thinks it was rushed and concerned about possible long-term side effects.

>> i have to watch and pray i don't get. >> reporter: health officials in maine are encouraged by a survey in early march showing four out of five unvaccinated adults plan they plan to get the vaccine. but acknowledge vaccine hesitancy could jeopardize their progress. the state's cdc director cautions it's not just politics keeping shots out of arms. >> it's not a monolith. there's a diversity of views. some folks have questions because they are skeptical of the government. other folks have questions because they are skeptical of pharmaceutical companies. other folks have questions because they are skeptical of vaccines in general. i think the trick that we as a public health community have to do is meet those folks where they are. >> reporter: this county has one of the highest percentages of covid cases in the case. on this day, volunteers from a health advocacy group are going door to door urging residents to

sign up for the vaccination. they are targeting members of the immigrant community, but they will engage with anyone. >> did you get vaccinated? you don't want to? >> no. >> what if i tell you that it's medically proven, approved by doctors? i got my shot. all my team got their shots. i think it's safe. >> i don't believe in it. >> reporter: volunteers say conversations like this are not unusual. why the hesitancy? >> basically, it's something to do with conspiracy theories that's going around. >> reporter: the state is planning more outreach by mobilizing doctors to address the concerns of those across the anti-covid vaccine spectrum. they may not listen to me. they may not listen to someone in d.c. they will listen to their doctor. still, for some, there may be little convincing. is there anyone that could influence you to get the vaccine? >> no. >> reporter: jason carroll, cnn,

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the united kingdom is mourning at the loss of prince philip. max foster remembers his life and royal legacy. >> reporter: it was with great

sadness that a short time ago i received word from buckingham palace that his royal highness the duke of hhas passed away at age of 99. he earned the affection of generations here in the united kingdom, across the commonwealth and around the world. tributes pouring in from all over the globe. the longest serving consort in uk history. by the queen's side for more than 70 years. he was born into greek and danish royalty. he renounced the titles in 1947 when he married then princess elizabeth and took british citizenship. by then, a decorated naval world war ii veteran. >> he fought so bravely and saved many, many men from german bombs on the ships. he was a brave and determined

and devoted man in the navy. i think that was where he completely excelled. it was very difficult for him to give that up. >> reporter: a royal love story. taking a back seat publically at least to his wife the queen. >> number one job from the word go has been to support the queen. everything he does is in support of the queen. it's been one of the great royal romances, i think, of history. >> reporter: devotion and duty on display. in private, a commanding presence at patriarch of the royal family. while always at the queen's side, finding his own stride. an environmentalists beforepubl. was president of 800 charities. attending some 22,000 events on his own before his official retirement in 2017 at the age of

96. with news of his passing friday, mourners arrived at buckingham palace and windsor castle to pay respects to the beloved royal consort. >> this morning, i was in tears. >> reporter: while the pandemic will prevent a large scale public ceremony to remember prince philip in the days to come, the legacy he leaves is e everlasting. >> her majesty said our country owed her husband a greater debt than he would ever claim or we shall ever know. >> the queen spending her first night without prince philip here at windsor castle. the nation speaking to the sympathy for her tonight. she's having to sign off on final details as well on the funeral. prince philip was involved in the plans but they were

expecting to have a bigger one. under the current conditions, they won't be able to. it may be six people allowed in the chapel at windsor. we will see how things pan out. details tomorrow. >> max foster, thanks very much. the news continues. have a great weekend. want to hand things over to chris. welcome to "prime time." matt gaetz made his first public appearance since his sex trafficking and prostitution scandal broke. a speech to a women's group. under investigation for sexual misconduct with women. >> let me assure you, i have not yet begun to fight. the smears against me range from distortions of my personal life to wild -- and i mean whiild conspiracy theories. i won't be intimidated and i won't be