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good afternoon, i'm katy tur. there is a flurry of breaking news as we come onto the air. we are awaiting a court hearing in several minutes in which the officer who shot and killed daunte wright is expected to be formally charged with second degree manslaughter. stay right here. also breaking right now, in chicago officials are expected to release the police body cam video of the shooting death of 13-year-old adam toledo. chicago police are bracing for protests. much more on this in just a moment. torp but first to minneapolis where the defense has wrapped up its case in the derek chauvin murder trial without derek chauvin taking the stand. >> have you made a decision today whether you intend to testify or whether you intend to invoke your fifth amendment privilege? >> i will invoke my fifth amendment privilege today. >> is this your decision not to testify? >> it is, your honor. >> do you have any questions
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about your right to remain silent or to testify on your own behalf? >> not at this time, i don't. >> did anyone promise anything or threaten you in any way to keep you from testifying? >> no promises or threats, your honor. >> do you feel your decision not to testify is a voluntary one on your behalf? >> yes, it is. >> the prosecution then threw a twist of its own, telling the judge it had just received new evidence from the medical examiner who examined george floyd's body. the prosecution says that evidence shows normal levels of carbon monoxide in his blood. that would push back on a theory from a defense witness yesterday that carbon monoxide poisoning could be one of the several contributing factors in floyd's death. the timing of the new evidence, though, appeared to set off judge cahill. >> the late disclosure has prejudiced the defense. it's not going to be allowed. so dr. tobin will not be allowed
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to testify to those lab results. if there's anything he wishes to add about carbon monoxide as far as environmental factors, but if he even hints at test results the jury has not heard about, it's going to be a mistrial, pure and simple. this late disclosure is not the way we should be operating here. >> blunt language there. the prosecution was allowed to recall one of their expert witnesses to disagree with the defense's carbon monoxide theory but without mentioning that new evidence. closing arguments will begin on monday, and then derek chauvin's fate will be in the hands of the jury. joining me now is nbc news correspondent gabe gutierrez who is in minneapolis, retired seattle police chief enforcement analyst carmen best, and civil rights attorney and former prosecutor charles coleman. gabe, it was a very short day in
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court today but there was a whole lot of drama. break it down for us. >> reporter: that's right, katy, rapid fire results this morning. we had expected perhaps for the testimony today to continue a bit longer, but right out of the gate, katy, you had derek chauvin speaking publicly in that courtroom out of the presence of the jury but saying why he didn't want to testify, essentially invoking his fifth amendment right. so we heard from that. then as you mentioned, it went to other motions, the prosecution trying to introduce those new lab results, saying they got a phone call, essentially, from the hennepin county medical examiner saying those lab tests were available. the prosecution trying to introduce them and the judge saying no, that is just not how we operate. he does not want a mistrial here and he denied that motion. dr. tobin then coming back. he was a highly anticipated witness, katy. he was someone who was seen, based on his testimony, based on his credentials, seemed to be a
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strong witness for the prosecution, that testimony about the carbon monoxide poisoning. we potentially expected another expert at some point from the defense this morning. that did not happen. the defense resting, the prosecution calling a rebuttal witness, and now the question is, katy, what's going through the mind of these jurors right now? closing arguments are expected on monday. they will come back here, then we'll go through closing arguments, they'll get their jury instructions and then deliberations will begin in this closely watched trial. katy, i did have a chance to speak with george floyd's brother rodney as he was walking out of the courtroom a short while ago. he told me he wanted to see derek chauvin testify. he was surprised he didn't. but this has been on his mind since the start of this trial. he told me he wanted to see derek chauvin testify because he wanted him to have accountability. but he said he is very confident in the way the prosecution has
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presented its case, and now the waiting game begins once deliberations start potentially on monday, katy. >> charles, we've gone over the risks of derek chauvin testifying and what that opens him up to. what about the benefits, though? what we've seen of derek chauvin is a very two-dimensional character. we don't know much about him. we just saw him sitting in court taking notes. he only spoke right there when he was saying he's going to invoke his right to plead the fifth and not testify against himself. would it have benefited the jury to have a defendant be a little bit more humanized? >> so, katy, i think that's an interesting question. i understand why some people may have wanted to hear him testify, but at the end of the day, you have to think about it this way. the risk simply outweighs the reward. i don't think he would have been adequately prepared to keep his
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cool under the face of a cross-examination. i think that's a big thing you have to consider before putting a witness like this on the stand. he already, in the video, appeared very smug, very detached. as you've already said, we've seen a very linear, two-dimensional view of mr. chauvin so far, and i don't know that from his personal standpoint that him going on the stand and having to answer questions not just from his attorney but from the prosecution under cross-examination was the best situation for him to be in. because, quite frankly, he could have ultimately given the jury a worse impression than they already had. my position is just the risk outweighs the reward in terms of him testifying. >> you just touched on something that's kind of been poking around which is the body language of derek chauvin. again, we haven't heard him speak up until today, and when he was answering the questions from the judge and his own
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defense attorney, it appeared that he smirked sometimes. i'm not sure what image the jury is getting, but what about body language? does that play into their opinion of a defendant? >> katy, they have been watching this defendant on the video and any means they can in any way possible. you're absolutely right, body language does play a part, because they're watching you, observing you and making notes to themselves mentally. they're thinking, how does he appear? do you appear calcitrant? derek chauvin appears pretty smug, and he showed that in the video of george floyd's life. if someone can't keep their countenance in good favor, as an
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attorney, i'm not going to put that person on the stand because i don't want the jury making assumptions or assertions about how this person is coming across. you always make those evaluations of your witnesses before you decide to put a witness on the stand, so that may have been a factor as to why chauvin isn't going to testify. >> so closing arguments begin on monday and then the jurors will be sequestered. what do you think they'll lay out about the case? >> we saw them start out with very emotional testimony to set the stage what the trial was really about to get at the jurors' feelings. from there we saw them transition into the very technical aspects of answering the critical question, which i think is arguably the most
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important question of this trial, of clearing the record of what was the cause of death for george floyd? then finally with his brother and one or two experts, you saw them transition into a third phase where they kind of melded everything together, wrapping things up, to give everyone a clear picture about who george floyd was. in the process, you also began to see them rebut some of the witnesses on the defense. they heard experts talking about drugs or his heart condition not being the cause of death. and who can forget, we also saw his girlfriend talk about and humanize their challenges over drug addiction. the way the prosecution is going to wrap this up is just reminding them of the journey, the witnesses they heard from, the narrative, and finally closing the door of humanizing
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george floyd and talking about his final moments, as uncomfortable as that may be. for the defense, they're going to hammer home what they heard from dr. fowler. the judge will instruct them the same, it is not the quantity of evidence, it's the quality of evidence. you may choose not to believe some or all of the witnesses you heard from. my belief is they will start to target a lone juror and hope that that is enough to stop them from having a hung jury. they are hoping to just get one juror who will hold out. >> chief best, let's talk about what happens now. obviously the jury will have its
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own ripple effects and will certainly send a message. what about all we've seen up to this point especially when you consider just how many law enforcement officers testified for the prosecution and did not testify for the defense. what message is this sending to police departments across the country, even though i know we're still covering cases and incidents. we're about to cover another one across this country that are still inflaming tensions. >> there's no doubt there is a lot of tension around police and policing today. certainly it's wonderful that the officers came forward in the way they did to testify against eric -- that for many people believed caused the death of george floyd. certainly that bodied well for
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minneapolis and puts policing right square in front of policing and how law enforcement are addressing people of color, particularly, you know, males of color. and so it's really on the forefront of everybody's mind. i'm certain that police chiefs, i've been a chief for a while and now i'm retired, but i know i would be thinking about the outcome, the fallout. emotions are high and there is more and more coming to light. that's just the reality of where we are right now. many people not hoping to engage
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but concerned about the fallout of these really tragic and high-profile incidents. >> chief baxter back with us. we have footage from protesters after the shooting adam toledo on march 29th. the officer who chased toledo said the teen had a gun, refused to put it down and was shot in the chest when he turned toward the officer. a weapon was recovered at the scene. the officer has not been identified and has not been charged with administrative
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leave. they have held off the phone video until the family can view it first. >> no parents should have a video broadcast wildly of their child's last moments, much less be placed in a terrible situation of losing their child in the first place. even as our understanding of this incident continues to evolve, this remains a complicated and nuanced story. and we all must proceed with deep empathy and calm. >> joining me, emma ellis and retired police chief carmen
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best. this happened back in march. we're just learning about it now. bring us up to speed. >> one of the things, katy, is that as you pointed out at the intro of this, people have been marching and demanding this video be released. the police have, under law now, they are required to release this video within a certain period of time and now we're at that moment. you pointed out the family has seen the video. the mayor has seen the video,s asked to characterize and said she would not do that out of respect for the family and she says this investigation is ongoing. she was also asked about what is happening, and we're talking about a 13-year-old boy who was out in the early hours, about 2:00, 3:00 in the morning on monday, march 29. that's almost two and a half weeks ago. what was going on and what is happening with young people? the mayor talked about there are too many young people who have been left vulnerable, and she said that they are living with
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trauma for a very long time. just take a listen to more of what she said. >> far too many of our communities many of our young people are witness to fall victim to violence and are left traumatized. i've sat in too many circles watching these young people who are beautiful and magnificent but traumatized by the violence that they experience every day. every day as residents of our city. we've got to do things differently to change around their fortunes. we owe it to them to do better. >> reporter: but the mayor didn't have any specific answers of what could be done. she said there are community resources to go out and provide opportunities for young people. yet, as you could hear, a very
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emotional time for her as she's seen too much of this. too often these kinds of situations are happening. this is the youngest shooting victim of police in a long time here in chicago. protests have happened. protests are expected again today. so far they have been peaceful. the mayor, the police and even the family of adam have called for people to be peaceful, the family saying specifically, honor his memory in peace. katy? >> that piblgt of -- picture of him, he just looks like such a baby in that shot. chief best, the mayor called this complicated. from what we know of it, it appears to be complicated, but what will you be looking out for once we do see that body cam footage and potentially that third party footage? >> well, certainly people are going to want to see the weapon, see what the officer saw that, you know, caused him to shoot
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this young man, this young child, actually. so people will be looking at everything and trying to process what happened. it's not going to change the fact that people are going to be upset, because this child was 13 years old. there are going to be a lot of emotions. people are really going to feel the pain. many of us have children of our own and will think about what that would be like to have a child, obviously, so young and their life being taken in that way, and coming around the hill to other shooting incidents. emotions will be running terribly high. at this point i think that we can fully expect there will be continued demonstrations, continued vigilance and people and police on high alert because this is such a tragedy. it's unfortunate that it took so long for the video to be seen. it might have been more palpable if it could have been commensurate to the event.
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here we are and we can fully expect there's going to be some pretty strong reaction. >> 13 is so, so, so young. i know it's technically a teenager, but barely. barely. in minutes the former police officer accused of killing daunte wright will appear in court. paul manafort is designated a known russian agent. constantine colimnic, remember that name? well, he's back. and the capitol hill police with his report on the january 6 siege. missed intelligence as well as outdated equipment, along with a lack of training. a
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of ten years. ben crump just announced that daunte wright's funeral will take place next thursday, and reverend al sharpton will do the eulogy. he'll be with me in just a moment. daunte wright's family spoke in the last hour. here is his mother katie. >> people keep talking about justice. there will be no justice for us. justice would bring our son home to us, with his big smile as he's coming into the house. sitting at the table with us for lunch. playing with his almost two-year-old son, giving him a kiss before he walks out the door. justice isn't even a word to me. i do want accountability, 100% accountability. like my sister said, the highest accountability, but even then when that happens, if that even happens, we're still going to bury our son.
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>> there was a fourth night of protests in brooklyn center after potter's arrest. it is unclear whether the curfew will remain in place tonight. joining me now from brooklyn center, minnesota is nbc correspondent morgan chesky. morgan, what is the latest? >> reporter: katy, good afternoon. the latest at brooklyn center the police department reinforcing their perimeter right now, putting up new concrete barriers, putting up fence lines around the entire area, and that national guard presence still very much there on all sides following the fourth straight night of protests. 22 people arrested last night very close to the area i'm standing. we did not see tear gas used as we have seen in prior nights. we wonder if that was something to do with the mayor coming out yesterday and saying it was inhumane when used for protests. today all eyes go to this
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upcoming hearing, this first court appearance by kim potter here in just a few minutes' time. it will be conducted via zoom, as you mentioned, and she'll hear those official charges against her that she already knows, second degree manslaughter, and we know you know it carries a maximum of 10 years here. the only thing we've heard from potter so far that she said was in her best interests, the police station, and her fellow officers that she resign immediately. we have reached out to her attorney. they have not made any comment at this time, but we have heard from the family of daunte wright, their attorney, and that they believe this was an intentional act and should be treated as such. >> with me now is the president of the actual action network and
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host of nbc's "politics nation." as we said a moment ago, he will deliver the eulogy for daunte wright on thursday. what is the message the family is hoping you will send? >> i think the family really wants to send the message that we are seeing these cases, a 13-year-old boy in chicago, george floyd whose family reunited with this family just a few days ago after this young man was killed and the wright family and the floyd family want to come. katie wright, the mother, said we can never replace their children but we can make people accountable and that accountability will say to
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police that are bad policemen in the future, and you can't juts justify for what happened. >> i know you and i spoke a couple days ago about the city council pulling back on the disbual techniques for getting a crowd to leave. and what does the family say? >> the family wants to see accountability. they don't think violent protests are necessary. we probably wouldn't have seen anything, and the family believes we should see more than involuntary manslaughter. i've talked to the father, i've talked to china, who is the girlfriend and mother of the
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child, of the young man that was killed. remember, this was a young man killed for basically a traffic stop. are we saying that our lives aren't worth more than some tags on a car that expired in a pandemic where there is a backlog of getting your tags to be reissued or updated? this is a very painful time for them as it is for george floyd's family who was killed over expired tags. a person's life was at stake here, and for people to hold an expired tag over a human life is unethical and immoral, and it needs to be treated that way. until we do, we'll be going from
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one situation to the next. >> at one of thighs news conferences, we watched with the mayor or acting that people needed to come to the neighborhood and get to know people. it was said that policemen shouldn't need to know me not to shoot me. it was expired tags for daunte wright. for george floyd it was a $20 bill that led to his arrest. you would think we could just hand someone a ticket and walk away, not be the beginning to the end of someone's life.
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>> no one gets arrested for expired tags in other communities. no one gets arrested for going in a store using a counterfeit bill that they may not have even known was counterfeit. remember, when george floyd was in the car r and thely calm. he was. he was sitting there, properly not knowing that. do you know this was counterfeit? do you have any money to buy what you bought? this is absurd that we're treating them differently than anyone else in the country.
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while we're speaking, there is probably someone with bad tags that you could say, i'm going to give you a warning, and that would be the end of it. these people are dead. many. stale. a new pool finds confidence in the shot safety has decreased by 52%, and a report found that capitol police leadership missed critical warnings ahead of the january 6 insurrection. nings ahe januy ar6 insurrection introducing colliders. ♪ if you love it, spoon it. ♪ your favorite candy flavors twisted, ♪ chopped or layered into cool,
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yes, i've been waiting for this day. we just got what? vaccinated. we just got vaccinated! let's get you there. let's get to immunity. right now the house is holding a virtual hearing on the january 6 insurrection. capitol police inspector general michael bolton issued a frank assessment of the failings that
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led to the attack, arguing that capitol police need to take a more proactive role in defending congress. >> in regards to a cultural change, the capitol hill department needs move away from the traditional department and move to a department of protective agents. they are supposed to be reactive for the most part, where a detective agency is trained to be proactive, to prevent this such as january 6. >> his report outlines how capitol police missed or overlooked crucial intelligence ahead of the riot, including an explicit warning that congress itself was the target. it also details how capitol police were warned how donald trump's big lie about election fraud was attracting white supremacists and militia members with the propensity for violence and how the department had poor equipment and a lack of training to respond to the siege.
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a whole lot more than just that in that report. joining me now is nbc news correspondent garrett haake. garrett, give me more of what the ig and is it going to garner any bipartisanship on this subject? >> reporter: i think it will. this report was sweeping in its scope and scathing in its findings, police failures like expired munitions and control shields that weren't stored properly and therefore broke on impact. that's going to require two big changes, the specialty s.w.a.t.-like unit to be a free standalone unit that's kind of a special unit. officers want to be a part of that so it can respond to big things like that. and also the creation of a
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proper inspection bureau which he said is the most important part of his report. listen to this. >> we need an intelligence bureau. it needs to be a full-service, comprehensive bureau. some of the elements seen in our subsequent flash reports where we're recommending elements in the capitol police need to be moved over to that intelligence bureau. it need to be elevated to a bureau level. >> katy, you asked about bipartisan support. there is agreement that some of these changes need to be made and that will take more money. there is a spending bill voted on hopefully by the end of this month that would throw more money toward capitol police taking on some of these changes. the other bipartisan change i think we might see here is the structure of the capitol police which reports differently than
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any other department in the u.s. that might get thrown out for something a little more flexible as well, katy. >> garrett haake on capitol hill, garrett, thank you so much. at 4:30 p.m. after his administration announced new sanctions against the country as well as 32 entities and individuals. that includes constantine colimnik, a one-time employee of paul manafort. he has been identified as a treasury agent. they said he funneled campaign information to the russians in 2016. the white house is linking the sanctions to continued russian interference along with the hack that the russians are responsible for. secretary of state antony blinken said the purpose of the sanctions was to limit russia's capacity for additional maligned
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activities. despite the sanctions, an official told the president today that the president wants, quote, a stable relationship with the country. joining me now from washington is nbc news white house correspondent monica alba. monica, i want to touch on the kolimnik news because it is raising a lot of flags or eyebrows. robert did not find the passing along of information of constantine kolimnik. is there something linking the two that we're not aware of? >> reporter: that's a question being asked among senior intelligence officials who are reviewing this information that was so detailed today that perhaps there is more of a linkage there. i want to read you exactly what the department said today on
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constantine kolimnik. during the 2016 presidential election, he provided the intelligence services with sensitive information on polling and campaign strategy. those are some specifics that through nbc's original and mill reporting we can link to paul manafort as you know so well. that brings up all these other questions. what's also notable given these sanctions is the fbi is also offering $250,000 for any information for people to come forward with information about kolimnik that could lead to his arrest. he's currently believed to be in russia. but getting all of theeds new details does raise these elements because, of course, the investigation. katy, i think we're going to get more information on this. i know our investigative colleagues are following this closely, because these linkages
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in 2016, those in president trump's orbit and campaign at the time, and now these ukranian-russian ties, all of that is ripe for more investigation for sure. >> that would be some major news. we'll see if the former president answers some questions about that today. antony blinken made an unannounced visit to afghanistan today. it follows biden's announcement that troops would be leavingly. it includes senior afghan leaders. just days after the president raised the subject of raising the commission is supreme court reform, a group of democrats had chased one of their own. the spub noum receiving on this. brand new data on the
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♪♪ i think the greatest risk right now is the vaccine hesitancy. i think over the next several weeks, we're going to have more supply. 28 million doses a week we're putting out, and i think the demand is going to decrease versus what we see today. >> today the nation's top medical experts testified before the house select subcommittee on the coronavirus crisis and again insisted that covid-19 vaccines are safe. this as we learn the pause on the johnson & johnson vaccine will last at least another week, and that another woman, a
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seventh, has experienced a rare blood clot after receiving that vaccine. again, it is extremely rare, let's underscore that. there is also a new study by researchers at oxford university which now suggests the risks of a rare blood clot is higher in those that catch the actual virus compared to those who receive the vaccines made by pfizer, moderna and astrazeneca. there are also new data from the cdc that shows how effective covid-19 vaccines are getting the virus. it shows of the 66 million americans who are fully inoculated, about 400 have been hospitalized with the virus, only 74 have died. joining me now is msnbc contributor dr. natalie azar. she is a rheumatologist.
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i want to underscore when we're talking about these vaccines, when you have a number like 66 million and then under a hundred who have died after getting the vaccine from the virus, i mean, those are remarkable numbers. the flu vaccine doesn't do that well. >> i know, katy. yesterday i was lucky enough to be able to listen to the advisory committee meeting which lasted about four hours. i have to say that although it was sort of reported out that there was no, you know, recommendation, no more firm recommendation other than to prolong the pause, there was really a difference of opinion amongst the experts. it really wasn't unanimous. they really just felt that there wasn't enough information to make any further clarification or recommendations regarding the johnson & johnson vaccine. but believe me, the concern about the transparency
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inadvertently fueling hesitancy was really, really, really paramount in that meeting yesterday, katy. >> the other news, when we're talking about blood clots, again, the j&j blood clot issue, it's now seven out of nearly 7 million. you have the study from oxford showing you have a higher risk of getting a blood clot from coronavirus than j&j or astrazeneca. are we doing more harm than good questioning the science behind j&j? can't you keep it going, name the risks, alert the health care professionals, get the word out without adding this hurdle? >> right. and that was really -- that was the question on the table yesterday. we have three choices. that's what they said.
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we have the -- one choice is to say, no, it's not safe, we're not recommending it for anyone. then it was to say, let's continue to administer it but have full consent and full disclosure and say, we think these events are related to the vaccine, and anybody getting the vaccine needs to know that. or are we able to identify which population of patients is at risk for having this happen to them and perhaps exclude them moving forward from administration of the vaccine, which a lot of countries in the eu have done. frankly, they just felt they didn't have enough information to even do that. but, you know, it was interesting, though, because in spite of that, there was still, you know, strong commentary yesterday about just what you said, and that is that if we do nothing, are we just feeding into this sort of suspicious of what's going on kind of thing.
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it has to do with a lot of very, very interesting and poignant commentary was made yesterday. people talked about population risk versus personal risk. there is a lot there, examine -- and quite honestly, katy, if they had done nothing and in a few weeks we found out more cases happened and we didn't call the administration like they did in the eu, i think we would be getting more pushback, to be honest. >> dr. natalie azar, thank you for helping us weigh the risk to the benefits. up next, there is a new bill to expand the supreme court. but without speaker pelosi's support, does it have a chance? i think we all know the answer to that question. stay with us. w the answer to that question stay with us
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to the court from 9 to 13. it is a move critics call court packing. and today house speaker nancy pelosi said she has no plan to bring the legislation to the floor. here is nbc news congressional correspondent kasie hunt. >> good day. the supreme court, of course, has the power to decide cases that touch all aspects of american life. and it's congress that has the power to change the number of justices sitting on the court. the push from progressives to do it now is an effort to delude a conservative majority that could shape the law for generations. congressional democrats taking the first step into a pretty can firestorm to expand the court from 9 justices to 13. something conservatives fiercely oppose as political court packing. progressive fury has been growing after president trump appointed three conservative
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justices including one in an election year whatever the president blocked merrick garland from the supreme court. there have been nine seats since the 1800s. and the bill is unlikely to pass a divided congress. but it puts pressure on president biden. during the campaign biden said he was not a fan of expanding the court but last week, forming a commission to expand the issue. >> i will ask them over 180 days to come back to me with recommendations as to how to reform the court system because it's getting out of whack. presidents come and go. supreme court justices stay for generations. >> president biden likely won't be able to avoid this fight now. because democrats control the house, senate and the white house, activists view this as a rare opportunity to act. back to you. >> nbc news congressional correspondent kasie hunt reporting from washington. kasie, thank you. that is going to do it for me
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