testimony in the books in the derek chauvin trial. multiple experts describe the precise manner in which george floyd died and what exactly killed him. making her story. st. louis elects its first black woman as mayor, she's getting down to reforming the police and turning social workers into crime fighters. tishaura jones joins me live. and last but not least, bernie sanders is stopping by to discuss what unionizers do next after a stinging defeat at an alabama plant for amazon. and why infrastructure of the 21st century is more than concrete and steel. "velshi" starts now. good morning. it's saturday, april 10th. i'm ali velshi. we have a lot of news, including the latest on biden's major infrastructure bill, the nation's most anti-trans

legislation, and exactly what the testimony means for the prosecution and the defense in the trial of derek chauvin. >> mr. floyd died from a low level of oxygen. this caused damage to his brain that we see. and it also caused a p.e.a. arrhythmia that caused his heart to stop. >> the racial justice movement that the killing of george floyd ignited, the largest in american history, has taken place entirely during the deadly covid-19 pandemic. that's a situation which is far from over and is now seemingly a race between vaccinations on one side and variant-fueled surges along with a pandemic fatigued public on the other. there's good news and bad news as it relates to the ongoing battle against the mutating coronavirus. so let's start with the good news. right now 20.5% of the american public is fully vaccinated. 34.5 have received at least one dose of the covid-19 vaccine.

now, pfizer, whose vaccine is the only one approved for people aged 16 and 17, has requested that the fda expand its emergency use authorization to include young people between the ages of 12 and 15. and that would be a major step towards herd immunity. that news comes as covid-19 infections among younger americans and teens continues to climb to highs in many areas. are partly to account for many of the surges across the country. there's more bad news. the biden administration announced yesterday that shipments of johnson & johnson's single-dose vaccine are going to be down 80% next week because of a manufacturing setback. just 700 doses being allocated compared to 4.9 million this week. now the spread of the more contagious and variants of the virus also account for higher

numbers. the cdc says that the uk variant is the most dominant strain of covid-19 in the united states. researchers at stanford university identified five new cases of a "double mutant covid-19 strain" that was recently discovered in the san francisco bay area. and it may be more contagious and resistant to existing vaccines. moderna says its booster shot, which is aimed specifically at protecting against the variants, should be available by the end of the year and clinical trials are under way. fighting covid-19 was priority one for president biden upon assuming office. fighting gun violence was close behind. while it's later than his day one promise, president biden is now taking some of the strongest action yet to curb gun violence in recent american history. >> gun violence in this country is an epidemic. let me say it again. gun violence in this country is

an epidemic. it's an international embarrassment. they offered plenty of thoughts and prayers, members of congress, but they passed not a single new federal law to reduce gun violence. enough prayers. time for some action. >> importantly biden is tasking the doj with publishing model red flag laws. they allow family members of law enforcement agencies to petition state courts to temporarily block people from obtaining firearms if they present a risk to themselves or others, or to take their firearms away from them temporarily if they do that. biden is seeking to reduce access to stabilizing braces which can effectively turn a pistol into a more lethal type of rifle device and reduce the amount of ghost guns. ghost guns are homemade firearms made from untraceable parts and typically don't have a serial number. biden is nominating david

shipman as an atf special agent to lead the atf. biden's announcement comes on the heels of recent multiple deadly mass shootings from coast to coast and just hours before a mass shooting in texas. joining me now is the majority whip in the house of representatives, congressman jim clyburn of south carolina. we have a lot to talk about. good to see you again this morning. i want to remind people of something called the charleston loophole. it was an idea when you buy a gun, the system basically has three days to approve you. if it doesn't do it in the three days, if you don't get a denial in three days but you don't get an approval, you can buy the gun any way. >> that's correct. that's a big, big problem. in the case of charleston, we knew that loophole was

dangerous, because the charleston situation, emanuel a.m.e. church, nine souls welcomed a stranger into their midst. that's what the bible tells us we're to be all about as christians. they welcomed this gentleman in. he sat there, studied for an hour. and then they closed their eyes to say the closing prayer. he murdered nine of them. trying to start a race war. well, the investigation revealed that he got the gun after three days, though they discovered that some information was wrong. the question is did he give the wrong information intentionally? did somebody miscue something? at the end of the three days, he went back and got the gun. we're saying to try to close this loophole, give the investigators time to do their work.

it is determined that 90% of all gun purchases are approved within seconds. but another 97% within the three-day period. 3% for outside of that three-day period? what we have found is in that 3%, a lot of people, the vast majority of the 3% are people who get the guns who are not deserving of having them, not qualified to have them, many of them go out and commit murders like this gentleman did in charleston. so we're trying to close that -- put in something that gives us ten days in which to do the work. >> this is called the enhanced backgrounds checks act. enhanced background checks has the support of an overwhelming number of americans. red flag laws are something that is popular. where democrats run into a wall is on anything to do with

so-called assault weapons, though most of the mass shootings are committed using assault weapons. that's where the gun lobby and republicans tend to not want to go. so, is there a way, legislatively, not through executive action to do the enhanced background checks act, to set up guidelines for red flag laws that can actually pass both houses of congress? >> i think so. it's become more apparent every day. one of the most recent mass shootings as you know, took place in second second as well. up in rock hill several days ago. five members of a very -- four members of the family and one worker at the home was murdered by someone. seems to me that just from what i've observed, that it's the mentally ill. because he was a professional football player who seemed to be

suffering from something. they'll now study his brain. i think this kind of information should give us all around the table to decide what we should do. why is it so important to get a gun in three days? what's wrong with ten days? we wait 30 days to get something in the mail when we order it online. there's nothing about having a gun within ten days that's so important. so i think that giving the process time to work is a good thing to do. and i believe that there are more and more people coming to that conclusion. i think that we can get a bipartisan bill done. i do believe that if the senate were to get the bill to the floor, i think it will pass. >> whip clyburn, let me ask you about something that a fellow south carolinian told me the other night. i was talking to eugene robinson

of the criticism of joe biden and others have saying these voter suppression laws are like jim crow. eugene said sure rhymes with jim crow, because jim crow in the day was not explicitly about stopping black people from voting, but that's what it was about and that's what it achieved. what's your take on what's happening across the south right now? >> i think it's the most massive suppression activity to take place since the jim crow laws. i happen, as you know, to study history pretty much daily. and i can tell you that just because you say it is something, we have to look at the effect of it. and that's what happened in 1965 voting rights act. when you have to prove someone's intentions requires that you gets inside their heads, which we cannot do. you look at the effects of the legislation. what effect will this

legislative action have on people trying to vote? so when you are extending periods, when you are changing methods and when you are criminalizing giving refreshments as people stand in line, if you don't think of anything else, what was the intention of saying it's going to be a criminal act for you to give someone a bottle of water if they're waiting in a long line that you have shortened the periods and you have made it -- the lines four, five, six hours long, what happens to people who may need to relieve themselves if you cannot give somebody a bottle of water, what are you going to do if that person has to leave the line to go to the restroom? these are silly things that we ought to think about and not ever put into law. >> congressman, good to see you again this morning.

always appreciate that you study as much history as you do. it makes our viewers that much wiser every time we talk to you. democratic congressman of south carolina. we continue to learn more about the ways florida congressman matt gaetz who is under doj investigation for possibly having a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old girl and whether he gave her anything of value which would amount to sex trafficking. he's also reportedly under investigation for paying women to travel for the purpose of having sex in the bahamas. gaetz has deied the allegations and has not been charged with crimes. now the house ethics committee announced they opened an investigation into gaetz. gaetz office says the allegations are blatantly false and not validated by a single human being willing to put their names behind them. hours after the news of the house investigation broke, gaetz spoke at an event at the trump national doral in florida where he was hosted by the group

called women for america first, which should sound familiar because it's the same group that helped organize and fund the january 6th event which served as the battle cry preshow to the insurrection. >> 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. i won't be extorted by a former doj official and the crooks he's working with. the truth will prevail. >> it comes as congressman adam kinsinger is calling for him to resign. and reports say a second gaetz aid has resigned. joining me now is katie benner, part of the "new york times" team breaking the gaetz story and the surprising details.

her latest piece has more on joel greenberg, a trip to the bahamas, and a ghost scheme running for the florida state senate. you and i talked so regularly this week, i want to bring some of our viewers who maybe haven't followed every detail about this up to speed and where this is going. joel greenberg, the associate of matt gaetz, apparently is working towards a deal. his lawyer has said so. a deal with prosecutors, tell us what that might involve. >> joel greenberg who is friend with matt gaetz, he was a tax collector in seminole county, he's been charged with a lot of crimes including child sex trafficking. his lawyer said in court they're working towards a deal. a deal would allow mr. greenberg to serve a lesser sentence than he's facing. he's facing at least 12 years in prison and decades should he be

given maximum sentencing. so that deal would give prosecutors a full look at anything they wanted to see. he would be asked to answer all questions fully and to provide evidence against people in government investigations including the investigation into matt gaetz. what is interesting about this, we see again and again in receipts seen by the daily beast and the "new york times," mr. gaetz and mr. greenberg both paid women, and women who say they had sex with both men. it will be interesting to see what mr. greenberg has to say about those payments, what they were for, how they were arranged and how the men dealt with the situation. that's one of the things. he'll want to know about other arrangements to other women. this is potentially very difficult for congressman gaetz. >> matt gaetz already came out and said i'm not a monk, i'm a congressman. of the things that are being investigated, some of them are

untoward, some of them are unseemly, but the ones that are potentially illegal would be if he had sexual relations with somebody under age, and if there was trafficking involved. some of the rest of it may not be illegal. it may be unethical but not illegal. >> absolutely. we found reporting about a trip to the bahamas where men flew out of the country with women and allegedly had sex with them for money. if the women did this voluntarily, they're all of age, they're enthusiastic about it, that's not sex trafficking. it's only under force, fraud and coercion, otherwise it looks like prostitution, which the government would not focus on too closely, the big charge is sex with a 17-year-old minor and if you give them anything of

value, that's sex trafficking and you can go to jail for a minimum of ten years. interestingly investigators learned recently of a conversation between mr. gaetz and a well-connected florida lobbyist about the potential for running a third party spoiler candidate in a very key race in the florida state senate election last year. it is district 9, a district that democrats thought they might be able to flip. according to people, this could open the investigation into possible charges of election fraud and election interference. >> it's a wild part of the story. for people only following the headlines on this, i encourage people to look at your work and your colleagues work to get the full story because that ghost candidate business is remarkable and interesting. thank for your excellent reporting on this story. this morning in the united kingdom, a nationwide salute in

honor of the late prince philip. that was the royal gun salute at the edinburgh castle for the duke of edinburgh. it was one of many salutes that took place across the united kingdom this morning. prince philip died at the age of 99 yesterday. the country is recognizing eight days of mourning. his funeral is expected to be next saturday. america has listened to more than two dozen witnesses in the derek chauvin trial, each more compelling than the last. even with the mounting evidence against the former cop, experts say it won't be easy to convict. and there's a new mayor in town in st. louis. tishaura jones is the first black woman to be elected mayor of the city. she has plans on how they'll do

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this week the state of arkansas voted in favor of not one but two measures that directly target transgender youth. the latest bill says public school teachers would not be required to address trans students by their preferred pronouns or name that does not conform to the student's gender assigned at birth. this now heads to the state senate. six days earlier, arkansas became the first state to ban gender affirming care for trans minors. after meeting with trans activists, asa hutchinson vetoed that bill but was overruled by state legislators.

in an op-ed the governor said the bill creates new standards of legislative interference between physicians and parents and called it a vast government overreach. the new law prohibits doctors from administering certain care like hormone therapy and puberty blockers. it restricts them from referring minors to other health care providers. it also cuts off care for trans kids who are already receiving treatment. while these measures are inhumane they're not entirely shocking. the governor signed legislation banning transgirls from competing on middle school, high school and college sports teams consistent with their trans identities. but i guess banning some parts of gender affirming health care crosses a line even for governor hutchinson. unfortunately arkansas is not the only place we're seeing changes like this happening. 13 other states introduced legislation to prohibit health

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the neighborhood. that's what a character witness is supposed to do, bring the victim to life in trials. each medical expert further confirms who the defense wants to paint george floyd to be is not actually who george floyd was. not to mention their specific and excruciating detail about what george floyd experienced as he died and the knee of derek chauvin. here is dr. andrew baker. >> in the context of an altercation with other people that involves things like physical restraint, that involves things like being held to the ground, involves things like the pain you would incure from having your cheek up against the asphalt, an abrasion on your shoulder, those events will cause stress hormones to pour into your body, things like adrenaline. that adrenaline will ask your heart to beat faster. it's going to ask your body for more oxygen so that you can get through that altercation.

and in my opinion, the law enforcement restraint was more than mr. floyd could take. >> dr. baker's testimony came after that of a lung specialist who concluded chauvin's weight is what killed george floyd. >> you see his knuckle against the tire. to most people this doesn't look terribly significant. but to a physiologist, this is extraordinarily significant. it shows he's using his resources up and he's trying to bleed with his knuckles and fingers. you can see his eyes, he's conscious, then you can see he isn't. that's the moment the life goes out of his body. >> the defense wants you to think that george floyd was a drug addict who caused his own death. but the men and women who have

taken the stand have rejected that view time and time again. >> the cause of death is a low level of oxygen that caused the brain damage and caused the heart to stop. >> mr. floyd died from positional asphyxia, which is a way of saying he died because he had no more oxygen left in his body. >> the primary cause of death was asphyxia or low oxygen. >> from the very beginning to the average american who saw the same video we all saw, this may have seemed like an open and shut case against chauvin and the testimony you heard so far seems to confirm what you already thought. every legal expert i have spoken to says the defense only has to prove its case, it doesn't have to prove anything at all, it just has to create reasonable doubt and it only takes one juror to foil conviction.

joining me now is yodit tewolde, host of making the case on the black news channel. there's two views of this channel. there's the 50,000 foot view that the rest of us has, that the whole world has when we listen to this testimony, but there's something going on in that courtroom that is didn't. the jurors are not there to judge policing or society and how black people are treated, they're there to judge the elements of the case. tell me how to make sense of both of these two things. >> jurors are humans, so they will bring into the courtroom, their life experiences, perspectives, biases and put those things aside and only take in the facts and the law. to tell them to not think about, you know, how they viewed officers, according to society people are told to believe that officers have hard jobs, which they do, and to give them

deference. the difference in this case, however, is that people can see with their own eyes, people can use their ears to listen and watch that tape, that was nine minutes long, and understand that in this situation, derek chauvin had multiple opportunities to keep george floyd alive. he didn't take it. so they also have to apply those commonsense experiences to say this was excessive and they need to set aside whatever they thought about officers and just view derek chauvin and his actions separately from those other officers. >> so you are a criminal defense attorney. you would know what the criminal -- what the defense here has to do. the bottom line is they laid out their -- in their opening statements, they said you're not really -- what you see is not really the truth. we'll give you more context so that that video doesn't really determine the outcome of this trial. but in the end, we've seen video and we've seen testimony, all of which reinforces exactly what

everybody in the world saw the first time they saw it on may 26th of last year. >> yeah. listen, the defense is throwing everything they can against the wall to see what sticks. however, if a defense attorney knows that a victim had some sort of a drug in their system they'll use that as an advantage. they're doing their job as defense attorneys to raise some reasonable doubt in the minds of at least one juror. so here's the thing, there's a legal doctrine that says a defendant must take their victims as they are, which means you can't speculate as to what might have happened if a victim didn't have a condition that predisposed them to severe injury or death, right? that is a protection from victims against their own vulnerabilities that they can't control. so you can't say that just because someone had something in their system or had underlying health issues that for some reason someone can then be

excused from being held accountable. that's not the case. so here what doctors say, what the forensic experts said, dr. thomas, was that the restraint and the compression were the direct and immediate causes of death of mr. floyd. dr. baker said the underlying heart disease may have been a contributing factor but not a substantial factor. what the defense has to prove -- for lack of a better term because the defense doesn't have to put up a shred of evidence, they have to convey to jurors that george floyd would have died regardless. when we saw him in that surveillance video from that cup foods store, he was jovial. he was fine. he was walking. he was alert. an hour later he would have died? to me, that's so incredibly farfetched and hard to believe. so they have to essentially prove that derek chauvin wasn't to blame, but everything else was. and that he would have died

regardless. >> yeah. yeah. that video from inside cup foods before all of this went down does seem to reinforce what you just said. ones eyes does not suggest that was a man about to die. yodit, thank you very much. yodit tewolde is former defense attorney and host of making the case on the black news channel. history is making news in solution. tishaura jones jones joins me to discuss her monumental achievement. and we have to give props to another rising star, amanda gorman. she is now gracing the cover of vogue magazine. gorman is draped in a cloth gown. she was styled by the first black woman to style a vogue cover last year. black excellence from start to finish. congratulations to amanda gorman

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her name is tishaura jones. this week she made history becoming the first black woman to be elected the mayor of st. louis, missouri. if you're from st. louis, there's a good chance you know this. in her 20s she opened a

restaurant that folded after 12 months. it took years of fighting to get back on solid financial footing, but those years were formative and crucial for jones, leading her to become the first woman to serve as treasurer of st. louis, a position she held since 2013. now, jones is just ten days away from being sworn in as mayor during a time when crime skyrocketed in her city and others across the country and the national debate surrounding criminal justice reform and policing is as intense as it's ever been. jones comes in with a plan. joining me is the mayor-elect of st. louis, tishaura jones. congratulations, it's great to have you here. someone with a great deal of lived experience in your city that mirrors a lot of the residents of st. louis. how do you feel about this big victory of yours? >> thank you for having me this morning. i feel hopeful, excited, nervous, anxious. i have all of the feelings, but i am ready to lead on day one.

>> well, those are good feelings, you should have all of those. you have a plan, though, which is something we've all been struggling with for the last year where we heard terms like defund the police, reallocate resources. you're thinking about bringing -- it's a multi-point plan, one of the things in it is bringing social workers to the fore in the crime fight. tell me how you plan to make that happen? >> yes. so st. louis is going to join many cities across the country that are already doing this like denver and also portland, salem, oregon where social workers are part of the police department. we have to transform our public safety departments to lead with prevention and get away from the old and tired arrest and incarcerate model. it's not making anyone safer. crime and violences doesn't stop at our borders, neither should our solutions. we have to drop regional approaches to fighting violent crime and preventing it. that means declaring gun

violence as a health crisis and bringing all the tools in the toolbox to the table. >> there are a couple things specific about st. louis people may want to know about. the homicide rate is the highest it's been in 50 years. we've seen increases rates in cities across america. and the other thing that may be more important is that the st. louis metropolitan police department was responsible for more killings per capita than any of the other 100 largest police departments in the nation. what is specific about st. louis, do you think, that is causing that outsized police killing? >> well, i think that generations of systemic racism permeate our policymaking decisions. we have to turn the tide. we are done avoiding the elephant in the room. also we have separate police unions for our black officers and our white officers. same with our firefighters. so if they can't trust each

other, how can they expect the public to trust them as well? so we have to -- we are long overdue for truth and reconciliation commissions to have these hard conversations so we can move forward. we have to embrace our diversity and not turn a blind eye to it. >> what is your job as mayor? is it to sort of lead in that -- at that realm in which so many people are so frustrated by the statistics that are incredible and the fact that you have separate unions for black and white police officers and firefighters, or is it to be the reconciliation part of it? there's always a problem in this country where mayors come up against police and things don't go well. >> i think it's to do both. we have to usher in a new era of collaboration and cooperation in this region. st. louis is very hyper segregated and we're also very separated. we have over 88 municipalities

that separate us. over 50 police departments. fire districts and we have to come together because our destinies are linked and shared. the separations in st. louis don't make any sense to anybody but us who live it on a day-to-day basis. we have to make sure that we are -- that we are coming to the table with solutions and ushering in a new era of collaboration and cooperation in our region. >> well, we would be interested to see how this all progresses and we invite you, please, to join us on a regular basis to keep us posted on how you're doing in st. louis. tishaura jones, congratulations on being elected the mayor of st. louis, missouri. thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me. we have a slew of positive economic news this week from markets hitting new highs to rising consumer spending, while many are hoping and predicting another roaring '20s, there are

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♪ ♪ with all of the news going on you might have missed it but there was a lot of positive economic news this week. markets hit market levels again, as economists predict a boom that could well set up 2021 to be the strong ebbs year since 198 had. all three major u.s. stock indices posted weekly gains and market volatility declined significantly. between the vaccine rollouts and businesses reopening around the country, consumer spending is up. the economy is loving it. recovery, assuming the pandemic doesn't get worse, is seemingly on the horizon. according to the chair of the u.s. federal reserve, jerome powell, we will need something more robust to even out the financial losses the pandemic gave us. joining me now, kaleb silver,

editor-in-chief with the good, the bad and the ugly. this week the news is a good one and it is the stock market. >> yes, it has been a bonanza since the lows of the market. the market is up 68% in 2021. we have hit record highs for the s&p 500 alone in 2021, barely into the second quarter. information equity investor, people that own homes, keep contributing to portfolios, keep saving during the pandemic, it was a good year and you are seeing it in the stock market and home prices. >> the stock market is up ten times what it typically is in a year. there is the bad that's the corollary. there are a lot of people that are unemployed. >> there are still 9.5 million unemployed since the crisis and about half are long-term unemployed, unemployed for 27

weeks or more. as you know, the longer you are out of the labor force the harder it is to get back in. we have unemployment by race that is uneven. we saw it out of the great financial crisis 10, 12 years ago. when you have black unemployment at 9.6%, hispanic around 7.89%, compared to the average around 6%. it is uneven, especially for black women and folks that work in the services economy. if you weren't able to keep your job during the pandemic because you worked in the services economy, it will be a long road back which puts people at risk in terms of food insecurity. we have the stock market making record highs with more 401(k) millionaires printed in 2020 than we have seen in history, ali. >> but if the bad is the unemployment, the ugly is what you mentioned, food insecurity, the number of people who don't know where their next meal is coming from. >> absolutely and it is rough

for folks that are not participating in the recovery. the recovery has been very robust for people on what we call the top of the k-shaped economy. these are folks that have been able to keep their jobs and keep investing. we saw the personal savings rate rise to record levels a couple of times in the last 12 months because of the stimulus checks. people have been spending those, saving those and a lot of people have been investing those. we have a lot of work to do on the bottom for the folks that didn't participate. that's what the treasury is worried about, what the federal reserve is worried about, and that's what some of the economic policies are trying to address. >> and we should be worried about that. kaleb, thanks as alley. kaleb silver, editor-in-chief. i will talk to senators debbie stabenow and bernie sanders about what is in the stimulus bill. we will talk about voting rights under attack in america. despite mitch mcconnell's

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♪ ♪ good morning. it is saturday, april 10th. i'm ali velshi. covid-19 cases are on the rise in 25 of the 50 united states. according to the cdc the variant of the virus first found in the united kingdom has become the dominant strain in this country. public health officials express

deep concern even as the pace of vaccinations has increased to an average of about 3 million shots a day. pfizer is asking the fda to expand authorization for its vaccine for kids 12 to 15 after a trial showed it was 100% safe for those in that age group. with gun legislation forever stalled in congress, president biden took executive action this week. during a thursday rose garden event where he announced the move, the president called out congressional members for their inaction, saying it makes the u.s. a, quote, international impairment. >> they've offered plenty of thoughts and prayers, members of congress, but they've passed not a single new federal law to reduce gun violence. enough prayers. time for some action. the idea that we have so many people dying every single day from gun violence in america is a blemish on our character as a

nation. >> the latest mass shootings taking place hours before and after biden's address there at the white house. on wednesday in south carolina, a former nfl player shot and killed five people before taking his own life. while on thursday a gunman in texas, now charged with murder after he opened fire at a cabinet manufacturing facility where he worked. one person died, five others were injured. biden outlined several executive actions to enhance gun safety, including reining in ghost guns which are unassembled firearm parts sold in kits. they're untraceable because they don't have a gun serial number. he made it easier to red flag individuals that shouldn't be allowed to buy or keep guns. biden remains hopeful new gun laws will be passed by congress. >> it is frustrating that we haven't made the progress that we had hoped for, but it took five years to get the brady bill past and it took even more years to work to pass