what do you make of what we just heard from keith ellison? >> i think the key part of that whole piece was about the george floyd act needing to be passed. until we look at policing in this country as a whole, not as individual cities and departments, we're not going to get anywhere. i can't help but think about daunte wright who was killed in the same area as george floyd. you would think if any police departments in the country were wo worried about how to treat people, would be in that area. things haven't changed. and until we have our leaders and elected officials be brave enough and strong enough to stand up for the george floyd act, we're not doing anything. >> i will say on the daunte wright killing, the officer who shot him and killed him is, i believe, in jail right now. and there is a legal proceeding beginning there. anthony, one of the things that keith ellison talked about were the circumstances that, in his view, should have made the sentence harsher, more than 22 and a half years. there was a potential for 40 years. and, among

my name is keith ellison. i'm the attorney general for the state of minnesota. and on behalf of the prosecution team, we want to thank the floyd family, brandon williams, terrence floyd -- philoniese floyd, and gigi, who gave their testimony to the court and gave their heart-felt feelings about the impact of this horrific crime on their family. we heard for the first time from george floyd's 6-year-old daughter. what a delightful, beautiful child. and my heart to the entire floyd family as they explain to her what happened to him when she grows up. 270 months, 22 1/2 years, is one of the longest a former police officer has ever received for an unlawful use of deadly force. like the conviction of derek chauvin two months ago, today's sentencing is not justice, but it is another moment of real accountability on the road to justice. it's difficult to see anyone lose their freedom, but seeing somebody lose their life through torture over 9 1/2 minutes is incomparably worse. those minutes seconds, are seared into the minds of people across the world who watched georg

keith ellison joins us live. >>> good morning and welcome to this week. a week that saw a require display of bipartisanship, a major lawsuit brought by the justice department over voting rights and the sentencing of derek chauvin for the murder of george floyd. we'll get to all of that, but first, to the unimaginable horror of surfside, florida and the desperate search for victims. this morning families are still waiting for news about missing loved ones. human remains have been found at the site. >>> new details are emerging about what was wrong with the building. surfside's mayor is worried about a sister building. we'll join us in a moment. wictor leads us off. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, john. in the face of grueling conditions, fires, storms and the stifling heat, search and rescue teams are forging ahead using heavy equipment, sonar, search dogs and even robots. this is a dangerous and delicate operation and they have to work quickly for the safety of the crews and they know every second counts for any possible survivors. the loved ones

rachel, i listened to your interview with attorney general keith ellison, who managed the prosecution of derek chauvin. so fascinating to hear his perspective on it. he of course among many other things, really great moves, hired the dream team of special prosecutors. he brought two attorneys out of private practice to prosecute this case. the lead prosecutors. they're going to join us in this hour. but they wouldn't have been there. they would have been in that courtroom without keith ellison calling the police and putting them in that courtroom. >> yeah, and to have had not only the conviction, but to have had this landmark sentence today -- i mean that number is going to mean something different to everybody who's looking at it. to have the judge conclude that on a 12 and a half year presumptive sentence under minnesota guidelines, a full decade higher than that, foreign officer. when so few officers are charged, let alone convicted, let alone sentence to anything other than negligible time, really was a historic thing today. >> rachel, at the end of the hour, we have something spe

he gave this case to minnesota's attorney general, keith ellison. he assembled the team of prosecutors that ultimately obtained not only a conviction here but now as of today, a historic sentence as well. shortly after the sentence was hand oun, attorney general keith ellison made a statement alongside those prosecutors. >> the outcome of this case is critically important, but by itself it's not enough. my hope for our country is that this moment gives us pause and allows us to rededicate oust to the real societal change that will move us much further along the road to justice. i'm not talking about the kind of kapg that takes decades. i'm talking about real change, concrete change that real people can do now. >> that is minnesota attorney general keith ellison who joins us now live exclusively in the wake of this sentencing decision today. mr. attorney general, thank you so much for making time. it's an honor to have you here tonight. >> thank you. thanks for having me. >> you made remarks today talking about this being not justice but manager on t

>> pelley: 57-year-old keith ellison represented minneapolis in congress. ral in 2019. in the chauvin case, the governor passed over the local county attorney in favor of ellison, to give the prosecution independence. ellison's team of 14 attorneys worked 11 months to explain nine minutes and 29 seconds. >> ellison: we never thought we could play the video and sit down. we always knew we had to put on a full case and act as if we didn't have a video. we made sure that the witnesses could carry it. >> pelley: there were 45 witnesses over three weeks, including the minneapolis chief of police... >> medaria arradondo: it is not part of our training, and it is certainly not part of our ethics or our values. >> pelley: ...and a leading authority on the complexities of a simple breath. >> dr. martin tobin: that's the moment the life goes out of his body. >> pelley: which witness sealed this case for you? >> ellison: i think it was mr. mcmillian. ( swearing in ) >> ellison: 61-year-old guy. didn't know george floyd. and he came in there and he cried on the witness

more than a year later, keith ellison calling on congress to act now. >> i call on leaders and memberscongress to pass the best and strongest version of this bill can be passed and pass it now. looif lo lives are depending on it. >> republicans refused to debate for the people act to protect voting rights. doj announces it is suing georgia over its assault on the vote. making it a crime to give food or waters to voters waiting o online. i want to get to the sentencing of derek chauvin. joining me now is neal kataja, it is good too see you. derek chauvin got 22.5 years. are you satisfied with this result? >> el i don't know control sentences are not things supposed to bring someone satisfaction. it is about the judicious altercation of the law. it is one o f the longest police officers ever received for law enforcement. that's important. it is far above what the minnesota sensing guidelines say and it does set a new standard. 13 months ago today, george floyd was murdersed. the sentence is not going to bring him back. you and i have talked in the past and even before of floyd's stuff of

my name is keith ellison and attorney general for the state of minnesota and on behalf of the prosecution team, we want to thank the floyd family, brandon, fillo neice and gigi who offered their testimony to the court and gave heartfelt feelings about the impact of this horrific crime on their family. we heard for the first time from george floyd's six-year-old daughter, what a delightful, beautiful child and my heart is with the entire floyd family as they figure out what happened as she grows up sm the sentence that the court just imposed on derek chauvin, 22.5 years is one of the longest a former police officer has ever received for an unlawful use of deadly force. like the conviction of derek chauvin two months ago, today's sentencing is not justice, but it is another moment of real accountability on the road to justice. it's difficult to see anyone lose their freedom, but seeing somebody lose their life through torture over 9:30 minutes is incomparebly worse. those minutes and seconds are seared into the minds of people across the world who watched george floyd die. above all, the he

minnesota attorney general keith ellison calling on congress to act now. >> i call on leaders and members of congress to pass the best and strongest version of this bill that can be passed and to pass it now. lives are depending upon it. it's just that simple. >> that as just days after senate republicans refused even to debate the for the people act to protect voting rights. the doj announces it's suing georgia over the assault on the vote. this t law that includes giving state officials the power to take over local election boards and making it a crime to give food or water to voters waiting online. a lot more to come on all of this tonight. a very big news night and we have all of it for you. >>> i want to get to the sentencing of derek chauvin who was convicted of murdering george floyd. joining me now is the special prosecutor for minnesota in the trial. neil, i appreciate you joining us. thank you so much. it's good to see you. this was a -- >> thank you. >> prosecutors asking for 30 years. derek chauvin had 22 1/2. family members are frustrated. are you satisfied with this result?

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minnesota's attorney general keith ellison, an officer of the court, he knows it is wrong and nonsensicalze across disparate fact patterns, different types of evidence, totally different cases but he does it anyway. >> we have seen rodney king, oscar grant, eric garner, michael brown, freddie gray, sandra bland, flandreau castillo, laquan mcdonald, stÉphane clark, deanna jefferson, breonna taylor and now daunte wright and adam toledo. this has to steve, the work of our generation is to put a end to jim crow and centuries of trauma and finally put a end to racism. >> that is a lot about goal, that is what we all want, but they cling to the big lie and want to reprogram all of america to believe justice isn't served when just one individual pays for criminal wrongdoing. for them, punishment has to be wide reaching and never-ending. >> one down, many many more to go. >> a cultural makeup call but i'm not happy. i'm not please, i don't have any sense of satisfaction. i don't think this is a good thing. >> this verdict is not justice. frankly i don't even think we call it full accountability.

the time to bring forward most exculpatory information, here is what keith ellison said after the sentencing. >> like the conviction of derek chauvin two months ago, today's sentence is not justice but it is another moment of reaccountability of justice. >> we have special coverage tonight. much coverage of this important day. we'll be joined by neal. he played a legal role as a special prosecutor in this case. neal joins me shortly. >> we begin with melissa marie and mr. cobb. i want to welcome both of you, professor, i am going to go to you second on the law because jalani, while this is a legal matter and we can get into all of that. i would like to begin the coverage with you, here on "the beat," we have been covering these kinds of cases since our show launched. they rarely end like this. >> that's right. >> anyone watching oh, what do we take from this antidote, it is still as i am shown of -- before we get to the law. what do you take from this and what context can you give us on this rarity in court today? >> so, i mean first off, i am not equipped to respond to the statements george

minnesota 20 general keith ellison is going to be here with us live exclusively tomorrow night. i will see right here than. now it's time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell. good evening, lawrence. >> good evening, rachel. we are going to have the lead prosecutors in the case here tomorrow night after the sentencing. it'll be such an important day in the courtroom for them and for everyone else. >> indeed, excellent. well done, my friend. >> thank you, rachel. well, it really is infrastructure week. and president joe biden got to say the words today that he has been wanting to say since inauguration day. we have a deal. and he was so excited about the deal he did something that presidents never do. he went down to into the driveway, on the pennsylvania avenue side of the white house with a bipartisan group of senators to announce the deal they just made. >> we have a deal. and i think it's really important we all agree that none of us got but we all really wanted. i clearly didn't get all i wanted. they gave more than i think many were inclined to give in the first place.

our exclusive guest, the man in charge of the prosecution of chauvin, minnesota attorney general keith ellison will be here with us. i'll see you then. "way too early" with kasie hunt is up next. >>> i know there are some in my party who discouraged me to seek a partnership with my republican colleagues who said we should go bigger and go alone. to them i say this. i've already shown in my young presidency that i'm prepared to do whatever needs to get done to move the country forward. >> president biden's message to his left flank as they push back. the question is just how concerned should they be? >>> plus the latest from florida as crews continue to search for survivors in trouble of that collapsed condo. the question is how and why did the 40-year-old building suddenly give way? >>> and rudy giuliani gets his law license suspended following the election. is the former attorney getting disbarred? it's "way too early" for this. >>> good morning and welcome to "way too early," the show that kind of feels like summer is really flying by. i'm kasie hunt on this friday, june 25th. we'll start wi

thank you so much. >>> president biden told the abegan president keith ellison that the u.s.tted to afghanistan even as the u.s. plans to leave the country on september 11 after two decades of war there. mr. biden and ghani met at the white house friday. the president did not specify what the commitment would be, more than 2,400 u.s. troops were killed and 20,000 others were wounded in what's known as america's longest war. the war is estimated to have cost the united states at least $882 billion including reconstruction. >>> millions of americans are bracing for another round of extreme weather this weekend. more rain is set to soak the center of the country. parts of western missouri are already waterlogged as it gets ready for more. streets are already flooded as you can see. at the same time, a potentially dangerous heat wave is baking northwest. cooling centers opened in oregon. a place that doesn't rely much on air continuing. jeff berardelli is with us. it seemed to back off a little bireturns again. >> big time. big time. i can't stress how dangerous this is going to

tomorrow we'll have the man who was in charge of the prosecution of chauvin, keith ellison will be with exclusive tomorrow night. see you then. now time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell" good evening. >> we'll have the lead prosecutors in the chauvin case tomorrow night after the sentencing. it will be such a important day in the courtroom for them and everyone else. >> indeed. excellent. well-done my friend. >> thank you, rachel. >>> well, it really is infrastructure week. and president joe biden got to say the words today he has been wanting to say since inauguration day, we have a deal. and he was so excited about the deal that he did something that presidents just about never do. he went out into the driveway. on the pennsylvania avenue-side of the white house with a bipartisan group of senators to announce the deal they just made. >> we have a deal. and i think it's really important we've all agreed that none of us got what we wanted, i clearly didn't get all you wanted. they gave more than i think maybe they were inclined to give in the first place. but this remind mez o

our exclusive guest, the man in charge of the prosecution of chauvin, minnesota attorney general keith ellisonsee you then. "way too early" with kasie hunt is up next. >>> i know there are some in my party who discouraged me to seek a partnership with my republican colleagues who said we should go bigger and go alone. to them i say this. i've already shown in my young presidency that i'm prepared to do whatever needs to get done to move the country forward. >> president biden's message to his left flank as they push back. the question is just how concerned should they be? >>> plus the latest from florida as crews continue to search for survivors in trouble of that collapsed condo.

tomorrow we'll have the man who was in charge of the prosecution of chauvin, keith ellison will be withee you then. now time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell" good evening. >>

minnesota 20 general keith ellison is going to be here with us live exclusively tomorrow night.onnell. good evening, lawrence. >> good evening, rachel. we are going to have the lead prosecutors in the case her

some perspective on the end of the derek chauvin murder trial from minnesota's attorney general, keith ellisonnneapolis police officer to 22 1/2 years in prison for the murder of george floyd. that was less than the maximum 30-year punishment mr. floyd's family pushed for. >> this right here is a 22-year sentence. it's a slap on the wrist. we used to have life sentences, and not having them in our life. and that hurts me to death. >> but this sentence is not the end of derek chauvin's legal journey. he still faces federal civil rights charges. joining us now is nakeema armstrong. miss armstrong, welcome. >> thank you for having me, joshua. >> what did you make of the sentence when you heard it? what was your reaction then and has your reaction shifted since you heard it first? >> i don't think that the sentence went far enough in terms of holding derek chauvin accountable. he was eligible to serve up to 40 years in prison for what he did to george floyd, which was essentially a public lynching that took place on may 25th of 2020. the prosecution was asking for 30 years, the defense counsel was

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>> so we just take away one of respect to the judge's decision as well as attorney general keith ellisonted derek chauvin, but we are in a very complex situation. although there was justice within the criminal courts we know there is still economic justice, healing justice, civil justice, right? community justice that still has been voided by not only our policymakers but just our leaders in general. >> i mean, that's a lot of the questions people are asking is what is justice in this case. how do you feel that the community there in minneapolis is responding to this? >> i believe, you know, they're responding to the disgrace to see that derek chauvin shows zero remorse or sorrow or acknowledgment of the wrong he exacted. even tried to ask for a new case in the midst of it, right, has reopened this wound of his denial of the harm that he has caused not only to the murder of derek -- excuse me, to george floyd, but just the collateral consequences that we all have to bear, right? he called himself a product of a broken system yet has zero track record of ever trying to fix the system that

is that this was a prosecution led by the attorney general of the state of minnesota himself, keith ellison. let's listen to what he had to say after judge cahill announced that 22 1/2 year sentence. >> like the conviction of derek chauvin two months ago, today's sentencing is not justice, but it is another moment of real accountability on the road to justice. it's difficult to see anyone lose their freedom. but seeing somebody lose their life through torture, over nine and a half minutes, is incomparebly worse. those minutes and seconds are in, inerasebly sealed in the minds of the people across the world who watched george floyd die. >> derek chauvin is waking up this morning and for the foreseeable future, he will wake up in the most secure unit in this state's most secure prison. we also know that, and we talked about this earlier today, the dissatisfaction you hear from the members of the community and even among the floyd family with that sentence, they wanted to see that maximum penalty facing derek chauvin, but you have to, at the end of the day, derek chauvin spending a significant

my name is keith ellison and attorney general for the state of minnesota and on behalf of the prosecution team, we want to thank the floyd family, brandon, fillo neice and gigi who

i do want to credit attorney general keith ellison, you know, he prosecuted this very well.nces for a police officer in history. so that just goes to show you how far we have to go. the fact that that's progress, the fact that we don't have accountability and we don't have justice, you know, i agree. watching those videos of his daughter and the family members, it breaks my heart and we have so much more we have to do here. >> jess, i think a community that sometimes gets left out of the police brutality conversation is the latino community, quite frankly, especially here in new york where stop and frisk certainly impacted brown communities as well. it wasn't necessarily derek chauvin on trial. it's the system that's on trial. what's your take on how we rethink public safety as we look at the fractures in this system? >> i'm so glad you say that, tiffany, because i couldn't agree more. this isn't about one bad apple or one mom who didn't raise her kid right. it's about a system that supports and is founded on the brutality of black, especially, but also brown and even api bo