every member of the committee, regardless of democrat or republican, were unanimous many that in that this position that we are left in limbo until somehow a special counsel designates thatst okay for us to get briefed is not going to stand. maria: coming up, texas senator ted cruz on his calls for a hearing on what exactly is in those documents amid new questions about the so-called biden records, that s 1,850 boxes of records that joe biden donated to the university of delaware can. why is the university withholding the so-called gift agreement of the mystery funder of maintaining those documents? and did the money come from china after the ccp sent $50 million plus to the university of pennsylvania and was able to get penn to lobby for the china initiative investigation to get shut down as oversight committee chairman james comer told me recently. we i now learn that the university of penn successfully lobbied the fbi to drop their china initiative which was an inves
some are members of the city s so-called scorpion unit scorpions answer street crimes operation to restore peace in our neighborhood. yesterday the memphis police department permanently disbanded that unit. eric we are also learning the five former officers will make their first court appearance on february 17 to be arraigned on murder charges for charles watson is live in memphis. charles, first off what can it tells the timetable for this arraignment? well, arthel, those arraignments will happen a few weeks from now as you mentioned on february 17. we are unsure whether that is normal timing for something like that barely reach out to a defense attorney who said it is a normal timeline for those arraignments considering five former memphis police officers taken into custody last week after a grand jury indicted them and freed after posting a bond that raised anywhere between $253,350,000 were getting this information just a day after the memphis police department announ
nichols. here is the memphis da a short time ago right here on msnbc. i have heard that a number of citizens making complaints about the scorpion unit. i know that units of that kind sometimes can both in memphis and around the country can sometimes breed a culture of over aggressiveness. i think it s probably a healthy thing that the units been stunt. while this happened as the committee prepared for the funeral of the 29 year old whose life ended at the hands of those officers in a moment. i m going to talk to reverend al sharpton who s going to give the eulogy for nichols. also this hour, a disturbing story out of oregon. a man on the loose for torturing a woman using dating apps to find even more victims. and then some breaking political news that we are following. kevin mccarthy confirming a wednesday meeting with president biden on the debt ceiling. all of that plus former president donald trump talking about the georgia da s investigation that could lead to crimi
mccarthy s removal of congressman, eric swalwell, and adam shift from the and sell agents committee. the cardinal sin appears to be that i lead the impeachment of his master in mar-a-lago democratic intel committee members, and are here to talk about it. marjorie taylor greene is the queen bee of the gop. why this is horrible for the country. i m jonathan capehart, this is the sunday show. this sunday, thousands continue to take to the streets as the nation mourns the death of yet another black man killed at the hands of law enforcement. memphis authorities initially portrayed it as a routine traffic stop gone awry. but, when your black in america, there is no such thing as a routine traffic stop. we give our children the talk for a reason. we teach our children, and remind ourselves how to behave in front of cops, how to talk to cops. be respectful. be calm. all in the hopes that if we are pulled over, that we will survive the encounter. the release of the footage of
good afternoon. i am back. a little bit later on, i m gonna tell you why you have not seen me for a couple of weeks. we want to start this hour with calls for action. protests in memphis in around the country today. this comes after the release of the shocking video of the police beating that led to death of tyre nichols. we re gonna show you some videos with a warning. it is really disturbing. we are showing it not to sensationalize it, but because watching it is the only way to really understand the extreme nature of what happened. from the moment we see tyre nichols, the assault began. they use pepper spray and a taser on him. even before he ran. police caught up with him and beat him. watch this. give me your hands. watch out. give me your hands. hit him. watch out. give me your hands. [screaming] give us your hands! [screaming] in the end, nichols was left with just one simple plea as a grown man. that plea was for his mother. watch out, watch out. mom! m