good afternoon. i m peter alexander in for chris jansing. as we come on the air, we are following that breaking news out of memphis. all five police officers involved this the fatal confrontation case of 29-year-old tyre nichols are behind bars. in a few hours, we re expecting a live update from the shelby county da. former prosecutor paul butler is joining us. we have a reporter on the ground who is there. we ll the get to her in a moment too. paul, i want to walk tokes through what happened. we know about the death of of tyre nichols. he was attacked by these officers. the family has seen video of what happened. this happened earlier in the month on january 7th. he ended up dying three days later. the police chief this memphis there has called the actions of the five officers, all of whom happen to be black, saying that it was heinous, reckless and inhumane and making a plea to the residents of that city to protest peacefully when video of the arrest is released to the publ
being there for us. let s bring in brigadier general patrick ryder. thanks so much for being here. it was just a few days ago that we heard about how these m1 abrams tanks were too labor-intensive, too complex, too hard to refuel, and too hard to send to ukraine. what changed in the past couple of days? well, it s important to highlight too, that what we have been focused on is the near-term ri requirements for ukraine on the battlefield, the capabilities that they need to be immediately effective to address the things that sam highlighted. however, we do assess that ukraine requires a combination of armored personnel carriers, fighting vehicles, and tanks to be able to have the maneuver capability that will need to be successful, both in the near term and in the longer term in this fight, and so really what you are seeing here is the united states making a commitment, demonstrating its commitment to ukraine for the long-term, combined with the near-term capabilities that
in the mind set that this was their guy before doing any investigating. i want to bring paul into the conversation. the lead prosecutor shared that bullet casings were found. they matched a, quote, blackout ar-style rifle puchased by murdaugh. one of the key pieces of evidence that we know of so far is cell phone video. this was cell phone video that the son sent to a friend just before the shooting. in the video, it picks up both his parents voices. that s important here. despite the fact that alec said he was not there. so talk about the challenge for the prosecution in this case given there s some evidence that they don t have, which would be a murder weapon, but also some of evidence that does help them try to piece this together. this is a tough case for prosecutors because all of their evidence is circumstantial. what they are identifying as his
i mentioned that maggie was killed with a 300 blackout rifle, an ar-style rifle chambered in 300 blackout ammunition. you re going to hear evidence that back in christmas of 2016, alex murdaugh over there bought two 300 blackout ar-style rifles. then not long after that, one of them went missing from paul s truck, and time went by, and in april of 2018, alex murdaugh replaced that rifle and bought another one. three total blackout rifles that they have. one of them went missing years ago, and a replacement was bought. you re going to hear evidence that paul and his friend were using that replacement gun. they were standing right outside the side door to the gun room of