April 4, 2021: Sara Sidner's impressions from inside the Chauvin trial; Jim Acosta on 'post-Trump stress disorder;' is Biden's spending plan getting a fair shake?
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🗓️ 4 April 2021
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, I'm Brian Salter. Welcome to Reliable Sources, live from New York. Happy Easter and |
| 0:09.3 | Passover to you and yours. On this program, we examine the story behind the story and |
| 0:14.7 | try to figure out what is reliable. This hour, we're looking at how President Biden's |
| 0:18.7 | latest spending proposal is being covered by the press. Plus, absolutely stunning leaks |
| 0:24.2 | about Matt Gaetz's behavior. So will this Fox fixture be back on TV anytime soon? Also |
| 0:31.0 | ugly details from Hunter Biden's new book called Beautiful Things. We have read through |
| 0:35.3 | the entire book. We have the highlights and lowlights for you. And later, but these brave |
| 0:40.7 | photographers are doing in Myanmar so that their neighbors do not die in vain. All of that |
| 0:47.9 | and more coming up. But first, it is one of the most watched trials in decades and sometimes |
| 0:55.7 | very hard to watch. Video is playing a key role in the state of Minnesota versus Derek |
| 1:02.5 | Chauvin. Since George's Floyd's arrest and his death was recorded from every ankle. |
| 1:09.8 | Lawyers are using body cams or valence and cell phone footage to piece together what |
| 1:14.4 | happened last May 25th. Prosecutors are saying you should believe your eyes as people watch |
| 1:21.2 | this video. At key moments, there are multiple angles to see. Here we see body cam footage |
| 1:27.2 | alongside security footage of police pushing Floyd into the cop car while Floyd is clearly |
| 1:32.4 | in distress. Sometimes the angle makes all the difference. I mean, from far away outside |
| 1:38.3 | cup foods, there's not much to see. It is sanitized from a distance. But then up close, |
| 1:44.3 | the cell phone video scene around the world told a very different story. There has also |
| 1:49.9 | been new footage presented at the trial like this never before seen video of Floyd being |
| 1:55.8 | put into the ambulance while they're trying to revive him. Watching all of this video |
| 2:02.5 | and seeing it being broadcast on networks all around the world, it makes you think about |
| 2:08.2 | the power of the videotape and how having cameras everywhere is changing the way prosecutions |
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