house's opinion on that and they did not want to get ahead of the jury deliberations of course, wanted to let them talk about a and make that decision, then president biden would address the nation. that was his answer, kate. >> great to have you in the room, kaitlan, thank you so much. and thank you for joining us at this hour, john king picks up our coverage right now. top of the hour, hello, everybody, welcome to "inside politics," i'm john jinking in washington. the jury is deliberating for the second day. they resumed their work three hours ago after spending four hours last night deliberating. the jury's verdict is a source of national anxiety and potential violence is a coast-to-coast concern. 3,000 minnesota national guard members activated now to handle

potential unrest in the twin cities, in chicago businesses already boarded up, here in washington, d.c. the army approved the call-up of 250 d.c. guardsmen to handle any protests, just moments ago the president of the united states, joe biden, will bring you the tape of this in just a few moments but the president of the united states said, yes, he spoke to floyd's family yesterday and he said in his view, he said it's safe to say this now that the jury is sequestered, he believes the proper verdict would be a guilty verdict. we'll bring you that in just a moment. other remarks, these from a democratic congresswoman add to the nationwide worry. maxine waters traveled this weekend urging protesters to stay on the street and get more confrontational if the jury acquits. the trial judge rebuking her yesterday. judge kahill refused to declare a mistrial but the argument that could be taken as a warning to the jury might have merit if chauvin is convicted.

>> i'll give you that congressman waters may have given you something on appeal that may result in this whole trial being overturned. >> the closing arguments monday centered on the video of george floyd's final moments, the defense asking the jury not to be misled by a single still frame image. the prosecution, though, says that video tells the whole story and that the bystanders recorded a murder. today george floyd's family says there's only june outcome that to them would equal justice. >> i just feel that in america, if a black man can't get justice for this, what can a black man get justice for. the video is facts and proof of what happened. we need minnesota to make the right decision. >> if this isn't acquittal, we will be devastated. >> let's get straight to minneapolis. sara sidner, any word from the jury this morning, back in their room doing their important work. what else do we know?

>> reporter: we know they've been deliberating since 8:00 this morning and they deliberated yesterday from 4:00 to 8:00. we have heard nothing from them. there have been no questions so far. they are doing their due diligence, as is expected, going through evidence. but we have not yet heard from them and they can deliberate anywhere from the next hour to the next few days, and potentially more than a week, or two. and so everyone is just in a wait and see mode. we should talk a little bit about the jury and a little bit about the security and sort of what is happening here in minneapolis. i'll start with the jury. you talked about the number of men and women, there's also a breakdown between racial lines, there is six of the jurors, so half of the jury is either multi-racial or black. you've got four black folks, and two people who are multi-racial and the rest of the jury is caucasian. that is -- it's not reflective, for example, of the county where everyone is pulled from. it is far more diverse, but it is a bit more reflective of

minneapolis itself. i'll give you now a look at the court, and look, this has been the scene, and people should not be mistaken that this has suddenly changed somehow over the several weeks. as soon as this trial and before the trial started all of these barriers were put up. the national guard has been here the whole time. during the trial. we are now in 28 days the trial ended 27 days, the closing arguments happening now, the jury has the case and they are deliberating. but the security is tight, especially as you might imagine around the hennepin county court complex. but this extends out and has extended out a little bit further as the weeks have gone on and as we have been waiting for this very moment, the moment that the jury got it and then eventually the moment that the jury comes back with their decision, whatever that may be. concrete barriers, high fences, you've got barbed wire, razor wire and you also have, on many of the street corners, you have national guard, they are fully armed, they are in uniform. while some folks see that as a

deterrent, because you also see -- i'll give you a look at the buildings here, this is common place now, everybody around -- in and around downtown, just about, has put up some kind of boards, fencing, so that people cannot get to the buildings. that is the star tribune, a very good paper that exists here, building. but almost every building in and around downtown has put up some sort of boards in the last couple of weeks. but while security is tight there is a feeling here that is tense. and people are wondering what is going to happen with this jury. we've had protests already. they have been in the last couple of days, when it comes to the george floyd trial -- or the trial of derek chauvin in the killing of george floyd, they've been peaceful. we were down in the square, this weekend, george floyd square where he took his last breaths and there were dozens of people there, all sort of coming together in prayer. but everyone knows that depending on what the jury decides, and when that comes

down, there could be a very different scene here in the days to come. john? >> sara sidner on the scene for us and we are lucky to have you there at this decisive moment. we'll keep in touch throughout the days ahead, sarah, thank you so much. as i mentioned at the top of the program, president biden in the oval office commenting on his phone call with the floyd family yesterday but offering and he says he's safe to do this now, because the jury is sequestered, his take on the verdict. let's listen. >> i can only imagine the pressure and anxiety they're feeling. and so i've waited until the jury was sequestered and i called. they're a good family. and they're calling for peace and tranquility, no matter what that verdict is. i'm praying the verdict is the right verdict, which is -- i think it's overwhelming, in my view. i wouldn't say that, unless the jury was sequestered now. >> with us now to share the reporting and their insights on this big naj challenge for the

biden white house and the country. the author of politico playbook. now that the jury is sequestered, he feels free to give his opinion and he made pretty clear there he believes the right verdict is that officer chauvin be found guilty. >> it is very rare for us to hear from a president, in an ongoing case before the jury, actually comes back with a verdict. but president biden felt the need to weigh in. he has talked to the family members of george floyd, including floyd's brother felonis. he has expressed condolences. but the jury comes back with a guilty verdict. on one hand he clearly believes the evidence is weighing in favor of a guilty verdict but also as president he has to think about what's going to happen in the country if it's not a guilty verdict. we have seen in the past that when police officers were not found guilty, places like baltimore, ferguson, missouri

erupted into violence and chaos. and president biden, with all of the other things on his plate, does not want to have to oversee a nation marred by unrest this early in his presidency. for a number of reasons he does want the verdict to come back as guilty. but it's very rare for us to hear from a president in such clear terms that this is what he feels about an ongoing criminal trial. >> ray chel, it comes at a critical time. approaching the 100-day mark of the presidency. let's listen to george floyd's brother describe his side of being on the other end of the phone call. >> he was just calling, he knows how it is to lose a family member. and he know the process of what we're going through. he was just letting us know that he was praying for us and hoping that everything will come out to be okay. >> the empathy and support for

the family, quite evident from the president, the challenge is going to be, rachel, the president will have to address the american people at a moment that could be one of high anxiety. >> that's right, john, i mean, this is going to be a really big first test for president biden on the campaign trail he talked about how he wanted to address sort of racism and policing. he wanted to ensure that, you know, the country could find a way to sort of limit any brutality in policing as well. he also -- think about the voters who sent him to the white house, black voters in particular, these are the people who really tip the scale for him in the primaries. and these folks, this is an issue that very much is dear to their heart and so he's going to have to show those voters, those people who put him in the white house that he's not just listening and there to consult them but that he's acting. that's going to be a challenge because on capitol hill, criminal justice reform has been stalled for a very long time, policing reform obviously it passed in the democratic house, hasn't gone anywhere here due to the 68 vote threshold. but he's going to have to come

up with a way to both, you know, calm people down, if this verdict comes back, and this man is acquitted and so whether it's, you know, using the justice department to try to send out facilitators to get conversation and dialogue going, whether they can do their own policies from the justice department perspective, or whether he puts real political capital behind policing reform here on capitol hill, it's yet to be determined. but i think, you know, he's really going to have to show that this is an issue he's going to tackle head on. >> and a sub-plot to this, politics if you will brought into the trial the judge himself rebuking congresswoman waters yesterday from the bench. she went out to minneapolis and said she's a non-violent person. her critics have said when she talks about more confrontation, that that's at least how many would interpret it. we heard the judge say this could be an issue on appeal. these are republican and democratic leaders in congress this morning talking about this. the republicans want to censure

her. let's listen to the rhetoric this morning. >> this isn't the first time she's made those kind of inflammatory comments. you're going to see leader mccarthy bring resolution to the floor. i'd like to see maxine waters apologize. >> when you've got a situation where matt gaetz is a mess, marge jorie marge re taylor green is a ness. >> the republicans, many of whom support the big election lie, many who believe -- voted for the president's objections to the election after the insurrection on the capitol, have no standing to question the conduct of anybody here. how much of an issue is this up on capitol hill? >> yeah, i mean, democrats are clearly frustrated, pointing out what they view as hypocrisy by the gop. a lot of these house republicans, who are calling out waters, were unwilling to call out president trump on january

6th when his supporters stormed the capitol. not only that, but they've got a lot of issues in their own conference right now, as you heard hakeem jeffries talking about whether it's marjorie taylor greene, calling for a white caucus or matt gaetz and these allegations against him, democrats are frustrated that the republicans are coming after one of their own without dealing with their internal drama. as for republicans, the republicans i've talked to are sort of salivating over this, almost. i mean, they have been sick of the questions about divisions in their own party, obviously what does trump mean, the future of their party. they see this as an issue they can sort of latch on and change the direction of the conversation and sort of unite and go after a democrat. they also see it as a way to potentially help in swing districts. so politically speaking they are overjoyed on this. >> but it is a reminder for everybody, including us in the news media, at a moment like

this, when a big decision is being made that has national implications, even though it's a jury trial in minneapolis, sometimes it's best for people to say little or nothing, or sometimes also as the president of the united states says, try to focus on the big picture and the empathetic tone as opposed to stirring up politics, but that advice not always followed. >> we see the ramifications, we see the judge in almost an unprecedented -- come and essentially say this action could lead to a mistrial dg declared on appeal which is sort of a hint to -- if mr. chauvin is found guilty it sort of gives an opening for an appeal process and for the judge to say that in the middle of the trial, shows these comments from representative waters did not have the intended effect when it came to the courtroom. i think a number of members of congress are going to be watching what they say at least in the early moments before we find out what the jury does and then we'll probably hear much more from congress. but this is definitely, you

know, sort of a political football that no one wants to be in possession of at this moment because both sides of the aisle, both parties are trying to point the finger at the other, saying that you are the ones that are inspiring insurrection, inspiring violence, inspiring people to go and take to the streets and neither side wants to be found guilty of that. >> grateful for the reporting and insights at this moment. we'll be keeping track of the deliberations. up next, johnson & johnson says it is confident its covid vaccine will be back on the u.s. market in days. the bowls are back. applebee's irresist-a-bowls all just $8.99.

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the state by state trend map. 12 states in orange and red. 12 states trending in the wrong direction, a lot of them in the southeast. 24 states in beige, holding steady. same case count now as a week ago. 14 states heading down. green states with case count going down. case timeline this way, seven-day average of new infections is still above 67,000. that's the number the public health experts say must be pushed down. you see 67,933 new infections reported yesterday. yes, way down from the horrific winter peak, but still way too high when the public health experts want to shove that one down even more. the vaccine timeline is key to that, or at least a piece of that. 27% of the american population is now fully vaccinated. 40% of the population has had at least one dose of the vaccine. among adults 18 and over, half of the population, 51%, this is encouraging, although officials want to push it up even more, among those 65 and over, 65%

fully vaccinated. two-thirds of those 65 and over, fully vaccinated. ten states are highlighted. those are the ten states that have at least 30% of their population fully vaccinated. critical to the overall fight that more states fill in there. but ten states, you see alaska and new mexico, the dakotas out here, come up to the new england states and new jersey as well, 30% of the population vaccinated. here's the trend line right now, 3.1 million vaccines a day on average, being put shots in arms across the united states. the biden administration trying to accelerate that number. among vaccine makers, if you are fully vaccinated, 42 million americans with the pfizer vaccine, 35 million with the moderna vaccine, just shy of 8 million with the johnson & johnson vaccine, this vaccine off the market in the united states right now, the committee reviewing the safety concerns meets again on friday. axios has a new poll out this morning with up soes, 88% of americans think that was the right call. very rare blood clots. 88% of the americans think it was the right call to pause, to

look into those safety concerns. let's bring in our senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen, johnson & johnson says its vaccine is safe and hopes to bring it back on the market very quickly. what's the latest? >> we expect that pause will end soon, maybe they will put a warning on this vaccine, maybe they'll tell young women not to take it because that seems to be the group that's most likely to get one of these extremely unlikely blood clots that we've seen with the johnson & johnson vaccine. and there's been discussion, john, about whether putting it on pause was the right thing to do. and so let's take a deeper look into this axios poll. so, as you said, 88% of the respondents said that it was a responsible decision to put it on pause, and party lines didn't seem to matter, republicans almost as likely to support that pause as democrats. now 30% who were polled said that they were unlikely to get a vaccine, any vaccine, as soon as possible. that's not great. that's better than it was before. but still, that is not a great number.

so i think sort of what we can take home from this, is that this pause, which many people have been so worried about, maybe not so worrisome, americans really do seem to think safety first, that's why the name operation warp speed last year under the trump administration was so heavily criticized, people don't want warp speed, they want thoughtfulness and it feels like from these numbers a pause is okay. now, johnson & johnson, their cfo was on cnbc this morning and he talked a bit about the benefits and the risks. let's take a listen to what he had to say. >> if you think about just here in the u.s. there's a number of underserved populations that need a one-shot vaccine. and we also think that's also more prolific perhaps outside the u.s. we remain very confident and we're hopeful that the benefit/risk profile will play out. >> so what he's referring to is that there's a benefit to having one of the vaccines on the market right now, be a one-shot

vaccine, much easier to get to, for example, people who are homeless or people who are having trouble getting a vaccine much easier to do a one-shot vaccine. john? >> hopefully we'll have a resolution to that by the end of the week, perhaps one way or the other. elizabeth cohen, grateful for the important reporting and insights there. be right back. i had this hundred thousand dollar student debt. two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars in debt. ah, sofi literally changed my life. it was the easiest application process. sofi made it so there's no tradeoff between my dreams and paying student loans. student loans don't have to take over for the rest of your life. thank you for allowing me to get my money right.

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county police put out a statement about this active shooter incident saying this, there has been an active shooter situation at the west hempstead stop and shop, a grocery store, the nassau county pd is canvassing the area and nearby schools have been advised to lock down and secure their buildings. and asking that area residents remain indoors. we're going to stay on this, this is a very new situation and developing. we'll give you updates as soon as we got them, john. >> brynn, appreciate the hustle on this breaking news story. we will stay on top of it. up next, jury deliberations, five men, seven women, two choices, guilty or not guilty?

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the fate of derek chauvin rests with a 12-person jury, the jury is diverse in both age and race. six white jurors, four black jurors, two are multi-racial. the youngest in their 20s, the oldest in her 60s. joining our conversation now, melissa gomez, the president of mmg jury consulting. thank you for your time today. when you look at the composition of the jury, age breakdown, racial breakdown, ethnic breakdown, is there anything in that in your history of doing this that gives any clue, science to it, help or hurt? >> well, it absolutely helps in that more diversity on the panel, and we're not just looking at racial diversity or age diversity, or even gender diversity, but it's also the diversity of the different perspectives the jurors come in

from. different walks of life, different jobs. there's a chemist. and people more in business, and also someone who has a background in psychology. and so the diverse thinking usually leads to much more robust deliberations. more thorough evaluation of the evidence because you have so many different minds and so many different perspectives who are looking at the evidence. >> so if you were involved in this case, say you were advising the prosecution, we know that jurors in the -- before the trial, prospective jurors were given a questionnaire about police contacts. you want to know, do people have a favorable opinion of please or a negative opinion? some experience in their life that would sway them one way or the other. one is a niece of a police officer, another wrote on the questionnaire, the police do a lot, i would trust the police. we heard the prosecutor say it's not an anti-police trial, actually a pro-police trial. how do you go about knowing that some people on the jury have

positive relationship with police? >> i think the way they did it is the way that it should be done and essentially what they did was they prosecuted derek chauvin using the police, using other people from the police force and testimony from firefighters so that when you take, you know, the tension between black lives matter and blue lives matter, the prosecution essentially showed that this is a case that is prosecuted through blue lives. and that these people are rejecting derek chauvin as one of them. >> and come at this from the defense perspective, when you heard mr. nelson making both his presentation of witnesses, but then his closing argument, you have to make a decision as the counsel, whether prosecution or defense, but in this case in the defense are you trying to argue to everybody or one or two jurors that during the trial, or based on their questionnaires, you believe are more open to you, what did he do in your mind that was aimed at swaying a juror or two?

>> well, what -- all he needs to do is convince one person. because a unanimous decision is required. so for the prosecution to prevail they need to convince all 12. what the defense needs to do is just raise enough doubt in one person to cause a hung jury. and a hung jury is essentially -- more obviously a win for the defense because that means there's no conviction. so in being specific, in focusing on causation, the defense really hoped to speak to the more technically minded jurors in that case in order to challenge them as to whether the prosecution proved beyond a reasonable doubt that it was derek chauvin's actions that caused george floyd's death as opposed to other biological processes that were going on. >> help us with your experience in the age we live in, in the sense that the jury was not

sequestered during the trial. the defense asked that they be sequestered, the judge said no, he thought that was over the top. they are sequestered for the deliberations. because this is a high profile case, can you truly be in the smart phone age, allowed to have these to keep in touch with families, in the smart phone age can you have true, total sequestration, total news blackout, or do you have to allow for people who are going to hear some things, you just have to trust that they filter it? >> yeah, i mean, this is absolutely a question of trust. so these jurors were told every day that the important thing, it is critical for their decision to solely be based on the evidence they hear in the courtroom, and nothing else, nothing that they get from the outside, no conversations. they are not supposed to be -- they're supposed to be avoiding those news reports that are coming through. and so there is a level of trust that the judge gave to the jurors to abide by that.

i know these skroors obviously are well aware of the protests, they're well aware that the news is out there. it's whether or not they're choosing to abide by those instructions from the judge, or if they're looking into it. of course, if it's found later that any juror was looking at the news, was talking to anyone in a way that could affect their decision that could result in a mistrial. >> melissa gomez, grateful for your important insights at this key moment in the trial. >> thank you for having me. two former republican presidents, a very different view of where the gop should go in the next election.

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clear without naming names that he believes mr. trump took the gop on a wrong turn. >> it's a beautiful country we have and yet it's not beautiful when we condemn, call people names, and scare people about immigration. >> yeah. >> it's an easy issue to frighten some of the electorate. i'm trying to have a different kind of voice. >> well, okay, if you were to describe the republican party, as you see it today. >> yeah. >> how would you describe it? >> i would describe it as isolationist, protectionist, and to a certain extent nativist. >> back with us, toulou, that is night and day from what the republican perspective should be. am i right in saying the trump view has more strength than the bush view currently? >> the trump view definitely has more strength than george bush's almost sort of someone who cannot even find himself having

a place in the republican party as it is currently consisted. president trump has forcefully taken control of the republican party. he has pushed some of the ideology that was very desired in parts of the base, and that base has taken over and now we see, you know, trump's endorsement as one of the hottest political tickets on the right if you are not endorsed by president trump, a lot of these republicans are finding themselves having to retire, or find another line of work. it's very clear that what president bush described as isolationist, nativist, protectionist view of politics is winning out on the right and that's, in large part, due to donald trump's presidency and his willingness to continue pushing some of these ideas, even after he's lost office, even after he is now a former president, mostly we do not hear from former presidents very regularly, it's only in george bush that's speaking out because he has a book coming out but it's a rare instance to hear from former presidents. i think former president trump is going to be very different. we've already heard from him on

a number of different issues, almost on a daily basis, he's weighing in on what joe biden is doing and i think that's going to continue to be the case. because of that his view of the republican ideology is going to continue to win out, and we'll have to see what that means for the electoral politics of the country. but trumpism is definitely winning out at the moment. >> to that point, trumpism, to trump, means if you don't agree with me, get out. listen here where he again airs his grievances against those in the republican party who disagree with him. >> the republicans have to unify. the democrats are always -- they may have bad policy but they don't -- you don't have a romney, a little ben sasse. you don't have these people over there. >> or lisa murkowski. >> she's a total disaster. >> you noticed it was sean hannity who teed out murkowski. that willing the big test next year, there is a trump aligned conditioned dat challenging lisa murkowski in the primary in

alaska. that will be a test, if you will, of the staying power of trump i feel. >> yeah and the president's willingness to play ball and to be a unifier is going to be the big question about whether or not he continues to have political potency going forward if he continues to divide the party, continues to attack other republicans, and that leads to electoral losses like we saw in georgia in january. then that may be very difficult for him to sort of present himself as the future of the party. we did see the house and the senate and the white house lost under trump, and in some ways lost under trumpism. if he's not able to unify the party around a single ideology or create a big tent where various republican members that may not agree with everything that has to do with trumpism are welcomed it may be difficult for the president to find himself as a king maker going forward. so these midterm elections are very key if he finds himself endorsing challengers to incumbents and endorsing primary opponents to popular republican senators, it can be very difficult for him to see himself continuing to lead the party

when he is calling for unity, but in the same sentence, you know, attacking some of these republicans by name and denigrating them, and denigrating their character. so he has a big test ahead of him, and the party has a big test ahead of it in terms of what it wants to be going forward and the midterms will determine what kind of party the republican party is into the midterms and 2024. >> he has a unique definition of unity, put it that way, it's called loyalty to him, grateful for your reporting and insight. thanks for hanging with us. update on the reported active shooting in a long island grocery store. police say one male killed, two others wounded, at area hospitals, and both are conscious. police are looking for a suspect. have identified a person of interest they believe is the shooter. lits bring in brynn gingrass. >> reporter: this investigate continues. we just got updated by the nassau county police commissioner who gave us these

details about what happened inside this stop and shop. he told us that essentially this shooting took place in an upstairs manager's office there at the stop and shop, that this person of interest was or is an employee. it's not quite clear if that person still worked at the stop and shop but several shots were fired according to witnesses inside that stop and shop as you said, one person, a 49-year-old, according to the commissioner, is dead. two others injured. they are alert and conscious at area hospitals and i'm told there's actually a hospital nearby, so thank god for that. you can see the major police presence there on the scene because they are still looking for this person of interest. i want you to hear more from the police commissioner about that. >> he did have a small handgun. that is what the witnesses have given to us. and again, we're out there looking for him now. this is a person of interest. that person of interest, we believe, is the shooter, again, but as we wait -- he left the scene.

>> so that person left the scene as a result the sthorts have shut down schools in that area. they are telling everyone to stay inside their homes as they continue. that massive search. we were told, there are more than 100 authorities, officers on the ground, conducting that search. we were also told, john, at the time of this shooting, inside the stop and shop grocery store, again this is in a suburb of new york city, there were more than -- or a couple hundred, rather, shoppers who were doing their grocery shopping here on a tuesday, late morning -- or early afternoon. so certainly this is very reminiscent, of course your psyche turns to the incident we saw in boulder, colorado. we're working to get more information. but another shooting we're talking about here in america, john. >> brynn gingras, thank you for your reporting over the hour. home for a visit as tensions between washington and moscow are on the rise. i mean it...

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the u.s. ambassador to russia john sullivan temporarily coming back to the united states for discussions on u.s. relations, coming amid outralk of the kremlin's treatment of alexei navalny, in the third week of a hunger strike and moved to a regional hospital for prisoners. the united states says russia will be held accountable by the international community for navalny's treatment in custody. the senate judiciary committee wrapping up a hearing

on restrictive voting bills, that many governors across the country are signing. democratic senator raphael warnock and gop congressman owens testifying in front of that committee, both speaking specifically about the controversial new georgia election law. >> this is a full fledged assault on voting rights, unlike anything we have seen since the era of jim crow. >> president biden said of the georgia law, this is jim crow on steroids. with all due respect, mr. president, you know better. it's disgusting and offensive to compare the actual voter suppression and violent of that era that we grew up in, with the state law that only asks that people show their id. >> in montana, the democratic party filing a lawsuit, just hours after the governor there signed two bills into law, adding restrictions to voting. the laws end same day voter registration and revise accepted ids required for voting, requiring two forms of id.

the lawsuit claims the new law put unconstitutional burdens on low income, disabled and indigenous voters. we end the hour on a sad note. walter mondale, former vice president, died yesterday. he remained a champion of liberal causes and the proponent of using a government as an instrument for social progress, especially for women, the poor and minorities. mondale made history as the democratic presidential nominee back in naming the first female vice presidential candidate. they went on to lose the election to ronald reagan in a landslide after mr. mondale pledged to raise taxes to tackle growing federal deficits. as jimmy carter's vice president in the 1970s fritz, as known to friends, did transform the vice presidency to a true partnership with the president, attending intelligence briefings and weekly luncheons, influencing policy on many levels. vice presidents who followed in

his footsteps, including joe biden, were indebted. this from 2015. >> one of the things that i told president carter, i said if i'm going to help you in these kinds of assignments, they've got to believe that they're talking to you. we're partners, and i'm not just a visitor there. >> but you did, though, by the time it got to president obama, he didn't even -- i didn't have to ask him that. he had already made that judgment because you had -- you really did modernize the vice presidency. >> joe biden likes to speak of reading mondale's memo, that he wrote to carter, mondale then wrote an update for him when he was serving obama, before he was vice president, walter mondale represented his home state of minnesota for 12 years in the united states senate, also served as minnesota's attorney general, whatever your politics, a fine and decent man. thanks for joining us today on "inside politics," ana cabrera,

picks up our coverage right now. hello, i'm ana cabrera in new york, thank you for being with us. happening right now, deliberations are under way for a second day in the derek chauvin trial. 12 jurors are now deciding the fate of the former minneapolis police officer charged in the death of george floyd and cities across the country are on edge, bracing for potential protests, and civil unrest. just hours after jury deliberations began, hundreds of peaceful protesters marched through downtown minneapolis yesterday. many businesses in the twin cities have already shut down and boarded up windows, minnesota's governor declaring a state of emergency in counties around minneapolis, even calling in additional police from other states. and thousands of national guard troops are now deployed to the downtown area. president biden weighing in just last