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i don't care if that's detroit, atlanta, chicago, jacksonville, anywhere in between. not only if you're not black, but a black person that's sympathetic and empathetic to the community. i introduced the world to tommy no norman. you dealt with his community. you got a chance to see him marry a black woman, see him be a person who was sympathetic and empathetic to the people he's policing. no way an officer of the state who is brown should be harassing and spraying in the eyes pepper spray of another brown person. so, that brown person shouldn't be a police officer. i need him replaced with a brown person that understands and will walk and talk that other brown person through in the same way i've seen a 61-year-old white man hit a policeman with a hammer, drive off with a cop in the car and get taken in without being shot. the state is empowering people who look like me and don't look like me to be less empathetic, more sympathetic and more brutal. this must end. if you cannot empathize with the community you're in, you should not be policing that community. >> just go

a if somebody wants the metro atlanta to do well, we need to keep the all-star game in atlanta and no boycott. >> just real quick, i am sure he would agree with me the other part of the trump's statement was trying to keep governor kemp from having any benefits among republicans with this law because it is personal. trump really decespises kemp fo the election. >> it is a personal vendetta. >> >> he's trying to keep brian kemp's number down and that's the sub text of what's going on here. >> thank you both. i appreciate it. >> thanks. >>> next, partisan battle line is being drawn when it comes to vaccine passports and congressman matt gaetz is now fund raising? and an investigation of having sex with an under age girl. (man) i'm phoning it in and just saved twenty percent. (burke) get your policy perks by calling 1-800-farmers. go ahead, phone it in. ♪ we are farmers. bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪ open talenti and raise the jar. to gelato made from scratch. raise the jar to all five layers. raise the jar to the best gelato... you've ever tasted. talenti. raise the jar. you know wh

republican lawmakers declare war on major-league baseball, after baseball moves the all-star game from atlanta over new voting restrictions. that is just ahead but we begin with important testimony in the trial of fired police officer derek chauvin. taking the stand today, the doctor, who tried but could not save george floyd's life. and the police chief that told jurors what chauvin did to floyd went against department policy, training, ethics, and values. cnn's omar jimenez joins -- joins us, with our coverage. . >> reporter: the start of week two of testimony, and the current-minneapolis police chief takes the stand in the trial of derek chauvin, his former officer. >> do you believe have a belief, as to when this restraint, restraint on the ground, that you viewed, should have stopped? >> once mr. floyd had stopped resisting. and certainly, once he was in distress and trying to verbalize that. to continue to apply that level of force to a person, prone out, handcuffed behind their back. that -- that -- that, in no way, shape, or form, is anything that is by policy. it is not part of our tr

but the atlanta braves say they are, quote, deeply disappointed. adding, this was neither our decision, nor our recommendation. the team says it had hoped our city could use this event as a platform to enhance the discussion. >>> republican governor brian kemp, who signed that controversial law, of course, ripped the decision. saying, the league, in his words, caved to fear, political opportunism, and liberal lies. now, the game will still honor braves' legend hank aaron, who died back in january. but no word, yet, on where the all-star game will now be held. hall-of-fame broadcaster, bob costas, who is a cnn contributor, says this is the latest example of sports leagues and fairness, equity, and politics. >> until relatively recently, baseball was not as apt as a sport to weigh in on social issues, as perhaps the nba, the wnba, the nfl. but that all changed. i mean, last year was obviously a time of reckoning, and it continues. there is a players' alliance now, in baseball. made up, primarily, of players of color. primarily, african-american playe

a month ago we watched the horrible images from two mass shootings in and around atlanta. seems along time ago, doesn't it? mass shootings are so common it may be soon hard for one not to fall on the anniversary of another. this is a map of mass shootings in just the last month, which were defining as four or more people shot, wounded or killed excludeing the gunman. one other thing to note, there is only room on the map to show a little less than half. the full count, again, over just a single month since the atlanta shootings is 45 and the map is profound as it might be doesn't do justice to the story. doesn't capture the horror. doesn't capture the wounds and the deaths of so many americans. the map doesn't tell the story of the five people who were shot and wounded on march 17th in stockton, california, or the four shot in gresham oregon a day later. in houston on the 20th five shot at a nightclub in dallas, eight shot and one killed in philadelphia that night someone opened fire at a party killing one and wounding five, at least 150 others fled for their lives and on

first, react to the news of mlb not coming to atlanta. >> he is frozen. all right. what a shame. then i'll just have to waste a little time until we get him back. i may as well tell you what i think about this. what i find -- put up the ed bastian, jeff, if you could put up the full screen we had from the delta chief executive. here is what the delta chief executive says. that strikes me as accurate, insofar as, i think the brennan center, i'm doing this from memory, have said there are like 24 different states that are cracking down on widespread election fraud based on the presidential race. there was no documentation of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election. so i've said in the past, is this all a solution in search of a problem? having said that, when i scrutinize the georgia law and brake it down by its component parts, i do think that the demonization of it is being inflated. and, you know, the sound bite, you saw that i just had to go through the reading of the law, what it used to be and what it is now. it's complicated stuff to wade through and it's fa

he again assailed major league baseball for moving its all-star game out of atlanta in protest to the law, a move he said was, quote, irritating one hell of a lot of republican fans. he also made a reference to delta airlines and coca-cola, both headquartered in atlanta, both which have opposed the law. >> republicans buy stock and fly on planes and drink coca-cola, too. so what i'm saying here is i think this is quite stupid to jump in the middle of a highly controversial issue particularly when they have their facts wrong. >> keeping them honest, mcconnell hasn't always felt that way. back in 2012 in a speech to the american enterprise institute, he said that all corporations, quote shore, be free to express themselves on the issues of the day. again, quoting i mean who is afraid here? let's all have a conversation he said about the future of the country. meanwhile, the former president has weighed in, as well, in a statement over the weekend he called for a boycott of delta and coke among others but in a phone interview with a conservative cable news network newsmax, he directed so

is likely to strike a plea deal as part of the investigation, and cnn correspondent paula reed is in atlanta outside the courthouse. what have you learned since last time we spoke, paula? >> reporter: it's bad news for congressman matt gaetz as one of his closest allies and friends has signaled he will likely enter a plea deal in his own case. he's facing over 33 criminal counts, so he has an incentive here to provide any evidence of any sort of criminal conduct -- >> paula, forgive me, you know i have to cut you off because we are going back to minneapolis. here we go. next witness. >> let's begin by having you state your full name. >> my name is daniel, d-a-n-i-e-l -- >> good afternoon, sir. where do you work? >> i work at msn labs. >> how long you have been with msn labs? >> since 2011. >> what do you do there? >> i am a forensic taoxicologis? >> did you have any lab experience before joining mns? >> yes, i did, from 1994 to 2011 i was the chief toxicologist for the wayne county medical examiners office, and from 1982 to 1991 i was at maryland medical labs in baltimore, maryland, and i th

republican lawmakers declare war on major league baseball after it moves to atlanta over georgia's voting restrictions. we begin with important testimony in the testimony of fired minneapolis police officer derek chauvin taking the stand today, the doctor who tried but could not save george floyd's lifer and the police chief who told jurors what chauvin did to floyd went against department policy, training, ethics and values. omar jimenez joins us for coverage. >> reporter: the start of week two of testimony and the current

shod a cnn markets the indianapolis incident as the 45th mass shooting in the united states since the atlanta area spa shootings on march 16. even if you broaden the definition of mass shooting to four or more fatalities more than 25 combined by the violence project according to "the new york times." august 3rd, 2019, 23 people shod in a walmart in el paso, texas. 12 hours later, in dayton, ohio, 20 people were killed in less than 60 seconds by a gunman. october, 18, a killing in a synagogue in pittsburgh. then may 16, santa fe, new mexico. the most practical thing i've heard comes from a comedian. steven colbert. >> regulate guns like alcohol and you have to have registration and insurance for your gun. if you move to a new state you have to do the whole damn thing over again and you can't go out loaded. >> makes sense to me. i want to remind you to go to my website and answer this pessimistic survey question. it's a statement. the united states will never solve its problem of mass shootings. agree or disagree with that. >>> up ahead, today, the royal family will pay their respects to their

i am from atlanta and once upon a time, we were up 28-3 in new england patriots so the world saw how that ended. being black american is like being a falcon fan. the outcome is not what you think is going to be. >> the defense began its case today by playing body cam footage from what we have all seen, right? floyd's arrests in may 2018, a year before his death. floyd told her he had been taken multiple pills every 20 minutes and he took one right before officers walked up the car. they're playing the drug use. what's your reaction of the defense today? >> it is character assassination and it happens every single time in a case like this. everybody who seen this case from the people who were there that day to the other cops in the minneapolis police department and all the paramedics responded. everybody sees this and they know derek chauvin is guilty. only thing they have is characterization. >> the jury was attentive today. she said floyd was happy and normal when she saw him inside the cup foods store and he suddenly fell asleep when they got into his car. let me play part of the e

it's a promise he made, and in the wake of back-to-back mass shootings in boulder and the atlanta area, what is he going to do? >> the white house isn't really are revealing the extent of what we're going to see tomorrow, but we do know we are expecting executive orders to come from president biden on guns tomorrow. the white house has only said we'll hear more from him on this. this is something that's imminent, the white house has been talking about ever since the shootings in georgia and in colorado. so, the question really is not just whether or not he's going to actually put an executive order forward, but how permanent can it be. the fear there and threat there is they can be undone by the next president and a different party should they so chose. that's going to be the scope we're looking at here. how far do these executive orders go, what do they do when it comes to strengthening background checks, things of that nature we know president biden has been interested in, and does he still try to pursue that legislative route he said is important to him but not as important as infra

any moment he's landing in gwinett county, georgia, suburban atlanta, with the first lady, meeting with former president jimmy carter. they will then hold a rally selling the american people on his nearly $4 trillion of new proposals. this is part of what the white house is calling getting america back on track tour. rallying public support will be crucial for the white house, given that just hours after his address to a joint session of congress last night, he's facing pushback, not just from republicans but also members of his own party. kaitlan collins is live for us in duluth, georgia. what are we expecting to hear from president biden at this rally this evening? >> reporter: jake, first i should say that the white house is not surprised by the pushback they are getting from republicans. they were not exactly expecting them to embrace these trillions in spending that you're seeing president biden roll out, even though he was trying to make the case in a way to blunt their criticism last night, talking about the jobs they would create. and so i think here tonight what you're going to

razor wire is around all five police precinct new york atlanta chicago also preparing. what is the floyd family's message to anybody who wants to go to the street and protest. and i say, no matter what the verdict is. >> well, first of all, i mean, the floyd family is not stopping anybody from protesting. they do want peaceful protesting. they've said once, they've said it forever, justice for george is justice for all. and so now we have to worry about justice for dante wright and adam toledo. i'm in chicago, we have to brace for that tonight. hopefully it will be peaceful here too. this nation is only talking about policing. we need to look at this concept, this issue, and really get serious about reform. but in the meantime, it is totally permissible to be out in those streets exercising your first amendment rights and freedom of speech. >> appreciate your time. thank you. >> and next, congressman jim jordan rips into dr. anthony fauci and maxine waters would have none of it. >> you need to respect the chair and shut your mouth. >> and biden lowering the boom on russ

. >> reporter: los angeles says they might move into lowest level restrictions next week when, in atlanta, braves will allow fully pack stadiums. >> just opening up like we have has meant the world, i think, to everybody here. >> reporter: nationwhy, average daily new case count, the lowest it's been in over six months. tennessee declared mission accomplished. i am not renewing any public health orders, tweeted the governor, because covid-19 is no longer a health emergency in our state. jumping the gun? tennessee has one of the lowest rates of vaccination in the land. not quite one-third of americans are now fully vaccinated and the pace is slowing, dropped nearly 20% the past two weeks. >> go get vaccinated, america. go and get the vaccination. they're available. >> reporter: supply? no longer the issue. it's demand. in our new poll of the not yet vaccinated 58% of adults said they won't try to get a shot. think again say the experts. think ahead. >> one critical way to prevent long covid is to prevent covid it itself, even for young people who consider their risk of severe covid to be l

this is an industrial site, not a commercial area like we got with the recent atlanta shootings or a place with a lot of consumers that we got with the boulder shooting. this is a place where you wouldn't really see the traffic that you see in those places. so one would expect this is a employee or former employee that triggered it. you know, three times in two weeks i'm here with these mass shootings. and each of them you can sort of parse the different motivations. so i would be curious what kind of gun was used in an age when we certainly know the ability to kill lots of people or harm lots of people quickly is made easier by the amount of guns that we have here uniquely in america. >> certainly. so let me ask you, chief, the texas department of public safety does say a dps trooper was shot while pursuing a suspect. and they had to pursue the suspect into a neighboring county. this was a pursuit. what does this tell you? >> erin, as a person who has responded to these kinds of situations, you are always thinking the worst, who, what, when, where, and why. and certainly what kind o

in atlanta and colorado. with the attorney general by his side, he's going to go through the executive actions that they believe will help with some of the gun violence we've seen. one is a rule to stop the proliferation of the so-called ghost guns. kits that people can order and assemble in as little as 30 minutes. they don't have serial numbers, that's part of the concern. white house officials have with the ghost gun. and they want to increase the regulation of the braces that people can put on pistols. this is similar to the one that the shooter in colorado used. you can put it on a pistol and it makes it more accurate and stable, so you're able to hit your target more easily. so the thing is with these and with a few other things that they're going to be introducing tomorrow, they fall pretty short of the sweeping measures that president biden promised on the campaign trail. but when the white house was asked about that, what exactly these measures will look like, how they'll stop what president biden sa

. >> three shootings in atlanta-area spas where at least seven people have been killed. >> breaking overnight, another mass shooting in the u.s. >> at least eight people were killed at a fedex warehouse near the airport in indianapolis. >> i think it's difficult to not be numb. the numbers are so huge, it's almost unimaginable. >> reporter: almost unimaginable and yet increasingly predictable. >> on average there's probably at least 20 times the likelihood that someone in the united states will die of a gun death than people in other developed countries. >> reporter: it's not just mass shooting events which are only a small fraction of gun-related deaths in the u.s. in 2019 more than 60% were suicides, and every day an average of over 300 people are injured by a firearm according to researchers at pen and columbia. our gun violence epidemic is a uniquely american problem but firearm holds a different place in our american mythology and history than it does in any other country, and we have to be able to hold both of those things as true. >> reporter: which is why in a nation that now has more

since atlanta spa killings on march 15, there have been 50 mass shootings in the united states according to analysis according to the gun violence, a kif, local media and police reports. you've long pushed for gun control legislation. we spoke in mid-march. you said because you've failed in the past, that doesn't mean one should not continue and try to if it for change. do you still have optimism tonight? >> i do. listen, the voters did their part. they put in charge of congress majorities that support universal background checks. they put a president in the white house who wants to sign that bill. now it's up to us to deliver. 2013 now, eight years ago, we lost a vote on background checks. and since then, we've been building up political power in the anti-gun violence movement. today we are stronger than the gun lobby. and i think that's part of the reason why i am having, i think, real substantive discussions with several republicans about how we can bring a bill to the senate floor in the next month or two that will dramatically expand the number of gun sales that have to be submitted

, two police officers were shot and wounded earlier this morning, during a high-speed chase west of atlanta. all of this, of course, is happening with the twin cities, already, on edge, as the prosecution continues to make its case against a former-minneapolis police officer, in the killing of george floyd. president biden spoke to the moment, and the mood, this afternoon. >> are you concerned things could be on a razor's edge, sir? >> i'm not going to speculate, now. i'm -- i'm hopeful that there'll be a -- a verdict and an outcome, that will be supported by the vast majority of the people in the region. and that's my expectation. >> shortly before airtime, the president tweeted this message. quote, today i am thinking about daunte wright and his family. and the pain, anger, and trauma that black-america experiences every day. while we await a full investigation, we know what we need to do to move forward. rebuild trust to ensure accountability, so no one is above the law. cnn's adrienne broaddus is in brooklyn center, minnesota, for us tonight. so, adrienne, daunte wright's death was rule

ways, two police officers were shot and wounded early this morning during a high-speed chase west of atlanta. all of this is happening with the twin cities on edge as the prosecution makes its case against a minneapolis police officer in the killing of george floyd. president biden spoke to the moment and mood this afternoon. >> are you concerned things could be on a razor's edge, sir? >> i'm not intergoing to specul now. i'm hopeful there will be a verdict and out come that will be supported by the vast ma majority of people in the region and that's 345expectation. >> shortly before air time the president tweeted today i'm thinking about donte wright and his family and the pain, anger and drama black america experiences every day. while we await a full investigation, we know what we need to do to move forward, rebuilt trust and ensure accountability so nobody is above the law. adrian is in central minnesota for us tonight. donte's death was ruled a homicide in the last hour. i'm curious what reaction people there on the ground had and what's the latest you're seeing there? >> reporter: you

police departments in atlanta, chicago, and washington, also, taking precautions. testimony ended today in court. closing arguments will be heard, on monday. tension, as you can see from those images and as you might imagine, is running high. i have more now, from sara sidner. >> i will invoke my fifth-amendment privilege today. >> reporter: for the first time since the start of the trial, former-minneapolis police officer, derek chauvin. he chose not to take the stand as a witness in his own defense, leading the defense to rest its case. >> your honor, at this time, the defense rests. >> reporter: the prosecution then brought back its star-medical witness to refute the idea, brought up by yesterday's defense expert. >> it is an extremely toxic gas. >> reporter: that exhaust from the squad car's tailpipe, possibly, led to carbon-monoxide poisoning of george floyd. >> do you agree with that proposition, that's highlighted there? >> no, i do not. it's simply wrong. >> reporter: just before that, the prosecution attempted to introduce new-lab result evidence about car