in memphis, it s important to see the body cam and cctv footage. keep in mind, tyre nichols was pulled over for allegedly reckless driving. this was about 8:30 p.m. on saturday, january 7th, and initially was taken down by the police. he was not cuffed, and got up at one point and fled during an altercation. body cam footage shows a very lengthy struggle with the police, with tyre nichols, even after police deployed both a taser and pepper spray. there is a question as to whether the taser actually hit him, but this is a view or warning. what we are about to place extremely graphic. but take a look at the initial incident. start there. [bleep]! i m not doing anything! [bleep]! turn the [bleep] around! all right, all right, all right. you don t do that, okay? get on the [bleep] ground! get on the ground! before i tase you or [bleep]! i m on the ground! lay down! [bleep]! [bleep] tase you! get on the ground! now! all right, okay! before i break you are [bl
yet happened. the lead starts are right now. republican officials rushing to defend trump with a variety of claims and chexcuses as the forr president faces a possible indictment. i think in your heart of hearts you know too that this you can this is just political. is this all firing up the maga base? we ll talk to two former trump insiders. plus, meeting with a menacing message, leaders of russia and china coming out of their second day of talks and offering deliberate prolposals about a future collaboration. and a colorado dentist accused of killing his wife by lacing her protein shakes with arsenic, how his internet searches became evidence. welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper. we start with our politics lead and a high alert day for new york city police bracing for possible unrest if donald trump is indicted. an internal memo shared with cnn shows that all nypd officers are expected to be in uniform and ready for deployment today, although law enforcement
cyanide online, the highly lethal drug was delivered to his dental practice, so concerned a staff reported what they found. charges are set to be filed formally thursday while the case has rocked their community. just makes me sick. doesn t seem real. yeah. doesn t seem like something that he could ever do to her. reporter: an absolutely shocking case. jake, we have reached out to craig s attorney b, but we have not heard back. thank you so much for that report. today the u.s. accelerated its plans to deploy patriot missiles to ukraine. the activity happening at an army post in oklahoma that helped lead to that decision. we re going to go there live next, stay with us.
and dangerous is pervasive. and it s not just van jones, it s the communication workers of america. it s npr, it s al sharpton, it s the attorney b benjamin crump, o are colleague gianno talked to earlier tonight. where does that come from here? you know, sean, memphis, tennessee, is where tragically, in april 1968, martin luther king was assassinated. since then, the city has been roiled by racial tension. it s now a predominantly black city with soaring crime. the police force is consistently undermanned. they are desperate for officers. they are searching for recruits everywhere. i don t know whether they have relaxed their standards or what the result is. all i know is that what my eyes tell me after half a century in
unarmed man was shot and killed by police in his grandmother s yard. we ll get to those stories in a moment. but we firstart with president trump s two-front legal woes. stormy daniels lawyer is is trying to get the president to do something he hasn t done publicly in days now. speak. her side filed a motion in federal court demanding they be allowed to depose the president about that $130,000 payment possibly more. the other front is his russia woes. unable to add a heavy hitter, his legal team has gone to what appears to be a very thin bench to take on the special counsel s investigation. let s start at white house with kelly o donnell. let s start with the deposition. what specifically are they asking for and what response from the president s people? reporter: the attorney b for stormy daniels wants to get the president on the record to go