they have witnesses and they will have their own accounts to make. >> shawna, can you take us insideu would be thinking if you were on either side? what would you be thinking at this point in the day on the prosecutor's team and if you were on the defense team? >> on the defense team you are assessing the damage, the emotional impact that these statements are making but you're always going to have to take a very gentle road with dealing with these witnesses because they're emotionally charged. they look to bring up the facts like with the girlfriend and illegal drug use, he had an overdose but you have to do it teasingly. right now it is the prosecution's case. when you're looking from the side of the prosecution you're looking at framing everything that they hear from this point after from the view of the testimony that we've heard so far, from the view of the bystanders and the paramedics and the girlfriend did a good job to humanize george and the struggle as many americans struggle and everything here is put into that frame work and that's a structure of the way to continue to pr

shaquille, glenn and shawna, thank you all for getting us started.you know, they're at a lunch break. and we, of course, will pick up coverage of the trial after they come back. >>> during, right just minutes before they went to the lunch break, president biden convened his first public cabinet meeting of his administration. due to social distancing parameters, his first cabinet meeting was in the east room because they wanted to keep folks separated a bit. instead of in the actual cabinet room, president biden used the occasion to announce five cabinet people for selling the sweeping structure plan he unveiled yesterday. >> today i'm announcing i'm asking five cabinet members to take special responsibility to explain the plan to the american public. working with my team here in the white house, these cabinet members will represent me in dealing with congress, engage with the public in selling the plan, and help work out the details as we refine it and move forward. these five members will be pete buttigieg, jennifer grant holm, marsha fudge, marty w

. >> we welcome to the broadcast shawna lloyd, a wrongful death and civil rits rights attorney, managingcochran firm in florida. it's good to have you here. i have watched most of this trial, i don't think it's an exaggeration to say it's an emotionally harrowing week, certainly for the jurors, as they watched and heard what was in the courtroom. here we are the friday before easter weekend. what was the prosecution trying to accomplish with lieutenant zimmerman's testimony, and do you think they were successful? >> i think the prosecution was successful at accomplishing several things. they have laid this foundation of very emotional testimony. watching this video that creates a visceral reaction. so they have the emotional feel happening that they want. the impact. and now they are tying the emotions to fact as. here we have law enforcement testifying that what they saw, or what they witnessed or rewatched in the video was an unreasonable use of force. this is so profoundly different than what we have seen in other cases. first, we have law enforcement speaking out against other law en

we met democrat shawna swearington, who's been furloughed as a restaurant server for more than a year while also supporting her 73-year-old mom. what was the low point like for you during this pandemic? >> just sitting there with all of my bills laid out in front of me and trying to figure out how i'm going to pay all of this how i'm going to get through this >> reporter: what does that moment feel like when $1,400 shows up in your checking account? >> whoo-hoo. yes! i can do something with this. it's a tangible. >> reporter: republicans opposed the $2 trillion democratic plan saying too much of the spending was unrelated to the pandemic. but swearington credits the president for signing it >> it wasn't just a party that needed that relief every american needed that relief. >> reporter: but what are republicans saying about the president's performance? real estate broker rena marie moore is an immigrant and trump supporter. >> do you feel that he's reached out to trump voters like you? >> no. not quite. we do want to see the success of president biden but we're already seeing a crisis

joins ugh now is shawna marshall. nice to have you back on the program here. as a law professor and a citizen of this country, how significant is this verdict today? >> it is hugely significant. i didn't realize how significant it was until i felt a sense of relief and a sense that justice had been served. >> there is a lot of emotion echoing what you said. watching this verdict even for myself, a lot of emotion, this jury, how much did they go through to do this and how lasting of an effect did they have going forward? >> i think the jury showed us that the system works, that if you have a jury that's representative of the community that includes the community of the victim that they will do the right thing, and i think for all of them they will walk-through the future feeling proud that they helped move us towards justice. >> we have gone through this in the early 1990s with the rodney king trial. we're doing it now with george floyd. will there be meaningful change? that's the big question here, meaningful change in our legal system and how we police? >> we

movement, definitely, and it gave a lot of colour to a dismal country at the time. 0ur our thanks to shawnae youngest child louis. the photo of him riding a red bike was taken by kate at kensington palace, the family's home in london. that is it from me. i'm lewis vaughanjones, this is bbc news. bye— bye. hello. we're seeing big temperature differences from night to day at the moment. we started yesterday morning at around —6 in a few spots. thursday afternoon, under clear skies, sunny skies, you can see from the satellite imagery, we got to 17—18 degrees. problem is, as soon as you lose that sunshine, the temperatures plummet again. and this morning, another widespread frost across the country, maybe as low as —3 or “4 in some spots of england and south—east scotland. frost—free towards the north but that's because we've got more cloud, even though we're under this same area of high pressure. that's what's keeping things dry at the moment. but around it, we are seeing some blustery conditions, particularly towards the far south and the west. most, though, light winds through friday, early

there she is. >> may i say i have never seen so many university of houston stories. >> right. >> go, shawnasee people. >> i come in, like a breath of fresh air. >> yes. >> this is my baby when she was a puppy. >> that's her four-legged baby. but you have a two-legged baby coming. >> i do. >> are we allowed to say? >> we're allowed to say -- >> i want to say congratulations on the baby. >> thank you! we're going to have our own favorite daughter, gayle. we know -- >> you're going to name it gayle? >> the name might be gayle -- >> gayle again on another daughter. >> the list is long. >> her favorite daughter gayle -- >> yes, it was favorite daughter comma gayle. >> who is our mystery guest -- ♪ >> hello! >> it's drew barrymore. >> i got this, it says, i don't like the flower on your shoulder. it looks like an open orange wound. just saying -- >> man. >> good morning, tyler perry. >> oh, man. >> i like that tyler's watching. >> y'all need to stop all this foolishness. >> i will listen to hear if my wife is in the kitchen so that i wait for her to leave so i can go and do what i need to do and

her good friend, shawna barker kept the lead. >> every year the news media could come on the anniversary of her disappearance and talk to us and ask us, and i tried to talk and keep the story in the news media. >> just before sean's 10th birthday, greg moved the family to las vegas. he had had enough of the seattle area and wanted a fresh start without a cloud of suspicion hanging over him. as sean grew up there, greg and his son talked about sandi. >> did you have a lot of questions. >> yeah, why isn't my mom around, who did it, why would this happen. >> detectives had no answers. with no body, no new leads and no new suspects, the investigation was dead in the water. >> the case must have been growing colder by the day. >> it was. >> i'm sure you must have felt that way. >> absolutely. >> did you at some point feel like we've kind of got to give up on this until something comes our way. >> yeah. on the other hand, we knew somewhere, some day, sandi would be found. and the hope was that when that happened there would be some type of evidence that the assist us in putting this case toget

and shawna lloyd, managing attorney of the cochran firm orlando. welcome to you both. curious our assessment of the prosecution so far and how they're using video in this case. >> the prosecution has presented a strong case with compelling eyewitnesses. but, alex, the star witness is the video. in the last two minutes, mr. floyd's body is not moving. paramedics testified he was probably already gone at that point. chauvin knew that floyd had no pulse and still chauvin did not lift his knee. so prosecutors seem well on the way to proving that chauvin is a murderer but so important to remember we have not heard the defense case and they don't have to prove anything. all they have to do is poke holes in the prosecution case to create reasonable doubt. the verdict has to be unanimous. if they're successful with one juror chauvin is not convicted. >> yeah. give me a sense of how the defense combats all of the impressions, all of the video facts, if you will, that have been generated by this kind of evidence. the shear length of the restraint and the way chauvin ignored plea

. >>> joining us for legal analysis is shawna lloyd, a managing partner of the cochran firm.nk you for being here. let me start there. do you think from all of the evidence that you've heard and what's transpired in court, do you think derek chauvin should take the witness stand at some point? >> that's a really dicey situation for him. typically we don't have to put on a case as a defense. it is not required that he take the stand. however, he is the only person that can combat everything that has been said, everything that they are seeing. now do you have to consider the other half of that. he opens himself up to a cross-examination that can be really brutal. especially if he doesn't have anything significant to contribute. it may not be the worth for him to testify. >> when the police chief of a department takes the stand and under oath says that is not a tactic, the knee on the neck is not a tactic that we use. in fact, it's a, quote, violation of policy, what more does the jury need to hear? is that the last word on that? >> it's going to be the last word as likely for t

this morning the chairman of the democratic congressional campaign committee congressman shawna lone agreed and urged his colleagues to stay focused despite their anger. >> what the speaker is saying is that this democratic majority is laser-focused on jobs and the economy and ending the pandemic. i understand why people are upset that mitch mcconnell and donald trump jammed through a replacement for ruth bader ginsburg. >> there are fears among democrats that they could lose another supreme court seat in a future republican administration which is why congressman mondaire jones asked a sitting liberal justice to step down today there. >> is no question that justice breyer, for whom i have great respect, should retire at the end of this term. i mean, my goodness, have we not learned our lesson? >> as for the president, the white house press secretary says his view on packing the court is the same as it was during the campaign. >> i would not get in a court-packing. >> and we will see if the president changes his mind when the commission studying this issue releases its report in abou

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let's bring in shaquelle brewster and shawna lloyd.ter: yeah. this is definitely an expert witness and someone who's a world renowned pulmonologist and connected with the jury. was giving them eye contact, having them go through the different parts of the neck as he essentially taught them the anatomy of george floyd and what he saw? this is someone that studied the entire case and a few key points from him. number one, he said that george floyd died a low level of oxygen, asphyxia and do not see it in the medical examiner's report and expecting to hear from him tomorrow taking the stand and the reasons why he suffered from asphyxia is because of actions that derek chauvin took. the handcuffs, placed in the prone position, the knee on the neck and the back. you also heard him kind of prebutt a main point to the defense and the level of fentanyl in george floyd's system saying the fentanyl in floyd's system did not cause a depression of his respiratory system. and again, he helped personalize george floyd and the moment he believes geor