to help us look at today's developments, we turn to mary moriarty. former public defender in hennepin county, where minneapolis is located. she has been following the case closely and watched today's events. >> yamiche: thank you so much, mary, for being here. what was the goal of the prosecution today, and how did playing that video of george floyd pleading, saying he could not breathe -- how does that underscore their goal? >> it is interesting the way they chose to start out their opening because they started out talking about public service, police officers being plpublic servants. and they had a picture of a minneapolis police department badge, and it said "to protect and serve." and then they talked about this mantra that the minneapolis police dertment has, "in your custody is in your care." and i thought that should be the theme -- one of the themes that they talk about. so in talking about the mantra, the logo, everything that police officers are supposed to do, that was such a juxtaposition to the video. and so when i was watching the video

and joining us mary moriarty and danny cevallos and also with us is erin haynes, editor in large for the 19th and an msnbc contributor. shaq, let me start with you. we're still having witnesses that are -- what i would call sort of firsthand eyewitnesss to what happened that day how many more witnesses, eyewitnesss from the day do we expect and when do we expect them to move to expert >> that remains to be seen, chuck. the prosecution has not given us, certainly, any preview of what they are going to do, or at least any schedule we got a preview in those opening statements, but we don't know when the different witnesses will testify but i think something that is clear from this morning is, we just don't know how much more is out there in terms of this video. the video surveillance from inside the cup foods, it helps paint a fuller picture it gives us an idea of what george floyd was doing in the moments before this incident started. how he handed off the counterfeit bill and you heard a key thing from that witness there, in part of the interaction. this is part of the cross-examinati

mary moriarty was the chief public defender in minneapolis and has been trying cases here for 3 decadeshe says the courthouse is never been barricaded like this and that this fear surrounding the trial in a jury selection difficult us census data shows how the jury compares to the city of minneapolis itself. there are 9 women 6 men, 60% of them are white while 63% of the population in minneapolis is white. there are many jurors obviously who have talked about the repercussions of what it will do to the city. >> and in fact, the city is people in the city are extremely apprehensive about what will happen. >> after the verdict. >> back here in the bay area. the berkeley city council is set to take a look at permanently. banning some less lethal weapons often used by officers under the proposed ordinance officers would be banned from using pepper spray to grass water cannons and other disorientation devices officers use those devices on protesters after several protests after the death of george floyd last year. the council temporarily banned those devices from being used back in june. the

mary moriarty is hennepin county's former chief public defender, shejoins us now from minneapolis itcan we talk about character. we have over the head from the defence that george floyd was high and had a history of drug use and bass are the rules on a tray like this in regards to the character both of the person who died and the defendant? in general, ou're not died and the defendant? in general, you're not allowed _ died and the defendant? in general, you're not allowed to _ died and the defendant? in general, you're not allowed to bring - died and the defendant? in general, you're not allowed to bring in - you're not allowed to bring in evidence _ you're not allowed to bring in evidence of somebody's character in the united _ evidence of somebody's character in the united states in the 60s for a specific— the united states in the 60s for a specific purpose. the state wanted to bring _ specific purpose. the state wanted to bring in — specific purpose. the state wanted to bring in eight different incidences of derek chauvin's fire hehavioun — incidences of derek chauvin's fire behav