minneapolis let's go now to alexis hokus associate research scholar in the faculty of law at columbia law school joins us now by skype from new york good to have you with us so you've been watching no doubt day 3 what do you make of where the prosecution is going that's correct and good evening in morning in new york city so what i want to make clear for our viewers is that there are really 2 issues at stake in this trial and one is it did derek show them cause george floyd's death and 2 was derek show those conduct reasonable and so at every single point the state is going to be saying that show then cause george floyd's death and that is actions were unreasonable and from the defense we can expect the opposite that derek show the. death or rather his actions did not cause floyd's death and that his actions were reasonable considering the circumstances that evening in may so so far it seems the focus is shifting to what happened the moments in the store that led to the police being called is. is the strategy here is to try and demonstrate by the prosecution that this wasn't an extreme situation

i have the privilege of teaching first year criminal law at columbia law school, that's, of course, a nyu wannabe. but the -- at one of the things that my students remark on is how different criminal laws are from state to state. so in the interest of uniformity of federal criminal code would be aal good thing. and might be constitutional issues and federalism that that would run into. so that's a serious problem. in terms of eliminating mass incarceration i don't think it would have much effect. the same draconian laws that exist in most of the states were copied by congress in the 1960s, 70s, 80s they still exist in the books so this -- is not an issue that would be solved by having a single criminal code. >> okay. and then one last question. if you know, if you look at where we are ten years from the publication of your book ten years from today, where would you hope that we would be as it relates to some of the things that you've mentioned in the book? >> i think -- we have the capacity as a country to change almost every one of the problems that i mentioned some are harder like e

from columbia university law school. over the past decade, brad has spearheaded the companies work to advance privacy protection for microsoft customers, the rights of dreamers and other immigrants, including bringing multiple lawsuits against the u.s. government on these issues and bravo, brad, thank you for doing that. in the time i've known brad, i've always valued his insight on the responsibility of the private sector to preserve and promote civil society. brought is uniquely qualified to speak about the types of values of faith based principal leadership, not just at the corporate level, but at the personal level that will be necessary for american leadership in the 21st century. so we're so grateful to have you with us today, brad, and i can't thank you enough personally. >> well thank you john, it's great to be with you and both bookings and mount vernon, to great institutions. so it's a pleasure and it's a great topic to discuss, i look forward to it. >> well, will benefit certainly from your views on these many

she's currently a lecturer at columbia law school. good morning, alexis. >> good morning, gayle. how are you? >> i'm hanging in there. this is one of those cases where it's worse than you thought. we thought 8:46 was bad. now we know 9:29, which is beyond description and disturbing. they played the full tape for the jury yesterday. what kind of impact do you think that will have? >> it will have a strong impact. this is a case in which the jurors will be focused on the evidence presented in the courtroom and, of course, as lay people, we've seen this video. it is striking to us during jury selection, we learned not every juror has seen the video and now they have. here we are on the same page with the jurors. and we learned new evidence in the opening three witnesses that came forward from the state. this is by no means, though, an open and closed case. >> i think that's an important point to make. you look at that video, some call it a slam dunk. the first witness was 91 is operator who effectively called police and police. we heard the mixed martial artist guy also talking, ple

big tech, also one of the leading academics on antitrust currently she is a law professor at columbia law schoolsly she served on the house judiciary committee as one of the counsels and chief architects of that scathing antitrust report that they put out around the big tech firms and what should be done in order to curtail what they say is monopoly power she previously worked at the ftc as a legal advisor to the commissioner and she will now face senate confirmation in order to serve as a commissioner at the ftc president biden nominating lina khan and signaling a tough stance against big tech. guys. >> ylan, thanks so much. >>> up next, leon black steps back the apollo chief abruptly leaving his post in an unexpected move. we've got the details after the break. >>> later we'll ask an analyst what he makes of kathy wood's new $3,000 price target on tesla. that's the pbase case. even the bear case sees the stock price doubling here's a check on bonds. the yields moving lower today. 1.6840 as we stand ♪ ♪ we know it's going to take many forms of energy to meet the world's needs while creating a c

worked as an associate and then partner at the law firm covington and burling and earned his columbia law schooltudied international law and economics in geneva, switzerland. mr. smith, i thank you for joining us and also for the tremendous work you do in our state and in our country. i look forward to your testimony today. >> i thank you the lady and i also want to thank mr. smith for his assistance during the course of our investigation. he provided a very valuable briefing to members of the subcommittee during the course of our 16-month investigation and, again, thank you for that. our third witness is jonathan a union that represents more than 20,000 journalists and media workers across the united states and canada. before being elected president, he was a graphics and data journalist at the "los angeles times" where he led their unionization efforts in 2018. this marked the first time in the paper's 135-year history that the newsroom had been organized. also served as the online editor at the gazette and weekend host for quaf and an affiliate based in arkansas. received his bachelor's degre

kennedy school of government and practiced law in washington, d.c. and new york. he received his b.a. from columbia university and his law degree from nyu school of law. i'll now turn it over to senator blunt to introduce the two other witnesses. senator blunt: thank you, senator klobuchar. since you responded to senator mcconnell's comments, i have one brief comment to what senator schumer had to say. he said he would like for any republican to answer the question of why georgia should eliminate voting on sunday. they are not eliminating voting on sunday. it did not pass the legislature. the republican lieutenant governor even refused to preside over the debate. this is an idea, like most of the 253 ideas out there introduced by some republican and some legislature somewhere , that will not happen. we can spend all day talking about legislation that was filed by republicans that will not become law or we can talk about this bill. and i hope we get to where we talk about this bill. i have two witnesses today we've asked who can talk about this bill with great knowledge of how this bill will affect

founder and director of defender impact initiative following law school she worked at the public defender services in the district of columbia and is a public defender in the district of maryland. she previously worked as a public defender with the public defender service in dc as a reentry coordinator and more recently as a special assistant in the juvenile defending unit at the law office of the shelby county public defender. michelle hennessey, michelle has been a deputy director, deputy district attorney for the county of los angeles for 22 years. she is tried over 100 jury trials, including 43 murders and three capital murders which resulted in death sentences. she spent five years in the hard-core gaming division prosecuting gang members and his work for the past ten years in the major crimes division handling high-profile and complex cases. she also trains prosecutors and police officers across the state on gang homicide and death penalty law and is author of the california gang crime manual. june rogers is a resident of new jersey, mother of four and a grandmother of 14 over the past ten years she has been a direct s

law school. miss latta, cofounder of marked by covid and last but not least miss emily bell, director ofthe center for digital media at columbia university . >> .. that figure was completely false and statistics showed 70,000 over the last 30 years, not three. but he advanced his agenda of demonizingar undocumented immigrants and he got away with it. to those ofth us at cnn, reportg on the communities that he degraded was disheartening and also only the beginning. we entered an era they would begin repeating and energizing allies and in the era that would set the stage for the racist narrative that would take hold and polarize the country. for more than 30 years according to local tv network news, places like nbc, hbo, cnn and so my point is if i have my feet firmly planted on the media landscape and this is what the landscape looks like to me it disguised as journalism has been spreading lies for years and using the readings to hit the description advertisers, period the ceo of the rand corporation where i'm honored to serve on the board defines what happens as the diminishing role of facts and analysis in public life and con

columbia. that was with special in 26 reporting to naval special warfare unit eight and u.s. southern command. then i came home to attend law school begin a career in technology law and policy. that may be to her i currently serve at the national defense university at the college of information and cyberspace. i saw firsthand before that a ceo of the d.c. chamber of commerce the contributions d.c. veterans make in the vibrant economy of washington. the business leaders, the businesses large and small. in 2015 mayor bowser selected me to be chairperson of the advisory board on veterans affairs of district of columbia. no taxation without representation has been a worthy rallying cry for d.c. statehood 50 civilians have more to say. we should not have to sacrifice without representation. according to a july 2012 report by the congressional research service the number d.c. veterans of given their lives in combat compares honorably to other states perhaps remarkably given our disenfranchisement. according to reports 200 to d.c. servicemembers died in combat world war i, and what what you come 1001 at 49 killed nine killed in action, t