First witnesses testify in trial of ex-officer Derek Chauvin; This week: Biden to unveil multi-trillion dollar infrastructure plan; COVID cases up in 27 states, national average jumps by 16%;

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 29 March 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Trial begins for Ex-officer charged in George Floyd’s death; Prosecution, defense offer competing causes of death for Floyd; Prosecutors show video of Chauvin kneeling on Floyd’s neck; Defense: Chauvin “did exactly what he had been trained to do”; First witness is 911 dispatcher who watched Floyd’s death on live video & called police sgt over use of force concerns; Prosecutor: “it’s a homicide. You can believe your eyes.”; Biden: 90% of U.S. adults will be eligible for vaccine by April 19; Biden faces another bipartisan test with infrastructure plan; Biden vows to create good-paying jobs with infrastructure plan; One-on-on with transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg; McConnell: Biden infrastructure proposal may be a “trojan horse for massive tax hikes” & “left-wing policies”; Buttigieg: “encouraged” by talks with republicans on infrastructure; After saying vehicle milage tax shows “promise,” Buttigieg now says it is not under consideration; Buttigieg rules out milage, gas tax hike to pay for infrastructure; Buttigieg: infrastructure plan is a jobs bill with climate benefits; CDC Dir: “right now I’m scared”, feels “impending doom” given recent spike in COVID-19 cases; Former COVID task force members now blame Trump admin for weak response in early days of pandemic; Every state except Arkansas to make vaccines available to everyone age & up by Biden’s May 1st deadline; CDC study: Moderna & Pfizer vaccines 90% effective at preventing infection, 80% after the first dose; White House: Biden to offer guidance on vaccine passports for people to prove they’ve been vaccinated; Civil and voting rights groups file lawsuit challenging Georgia’s new law; Sen. Graham accuses Biden of playing “the race card” with voting rights comments; White House to brief Dems tomorrow on situation at border; Sen. Cruz: migrant surge is “a humanitarian and public health crisis”; Suez canal ship freed after being stuck for six days; Police chief of Michigan town dies after battle with COVID-19; To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the lead-up, Jake Tapper, and we start with our national lead any minute
0:05.5	we expect the afternoon session to finish in the highly anticipated trial of former Minneapolis
0:10.4	police officer Derek Chauvin in Minnesota.
0:13.1	And we got our first real look at how the prosecution and the defense plan to make their cases
0:18.0	after Chauvin was charged with killing George Floyd last May by kneeling on his neck for
0:22.8	almost 10 minutes in a shocking viral video.
0:26.8	Chauvin has pleaded not guilty today, the defense suggested that he was not responsible
0:30.8	for Mr. Floyd's death at all, instead that George Floyd died because of a combination
0:35.2	of underlying health conditions and being high on drugs at the time, they cited the county
0:40.8	medical examiner's report.
0:42.7	The prosecution is relying on an independent autopsy commissioned by the Floyd family, which
0:47.6	says that George Floyd died solely because officer Chauvin compressed his neck for an extended
0:52.3	period of time.
0:53.3	The jurors also today watched the video of Mr. Floyd's death where you can hear him say
0:58.1	repeatedly that he cannot breathe as the officer knelt on his neck and his back in a warning.
1:03.6	We will play that video momentarily and it is graphic.
1:08.4	The defense says officer Chauvin was only restraining Floyd as he was trained to do as CNN's
1:14.8	Sarah Sidner reports from Minneapolis.
1:34.8	The prosecution's opening statement tells you everything you need to know about how they
1:38.4	want the jury to see this case.
1:40.8	Nine to nine, there were three most important numbers in the case.
1:44.9	Nine minutes and 29 seconds, the excruciating time George Floyd's neck was under then officer
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