department charged tonight in the murder of 29-year-old tiry nickels as cities across the nation brace for the video of the police encounter, the video described as the vicious and heinous beating of nickels at the hands of police. plus massive missile attacks, putin launching at least 55 missiles cross ukraine today as the kremlin accuses the u.s. of, quote, direct involvement in the war, warning of consequences. an oun front exclusive tonight. let s go out front. good evening, i m erin burnett. out front tonight a nation on edge. cities across the country prasing for the release of video that is said to show the vicious and prolonged beating of 29-year-old tyre nichols by police. now, that video according to the district attorney who i ll be speaking with in just a moment shows the entire incident from beginning to end and could be released by this time tomorrow night. nichols family right now is getting ready to attend a vigil as the five officers who authorities say w
washington. we re in the situation room. we want to welcome our sures near the united states and around the world. we re standing by to hear from president biden as he faces reporters to hear about the classified documents found in his former private office here in washington. any moment now, president biden will face reporters as he attends this key summit in mexico city. right now let s bring in our chief white house correspondent phil mattingly. phil, the revelation of classified documents found at the president s former office here in washington has clearly overshadowed his trip to mexico right now. he is about to face questions from reporters there. we ll have live coverage of that coming up. but set the scene for us. what you re looking at right now is where the president s focus has been and where white house officials have wanted it to be over the course of these last two turbulent days, given the revelations tied to those ten classified documents that were discov
i guess you have to see where the facts go but on the face of it, it does appear to be quite a different situation. exactly, and i think you can here already from those soundbites, you see where the criticism is coming from, no matter what he decides. because, certainly, if you speak to people or supporters of president biden, they say the circumstances are similar to his, so mike pence should also be examined by a special counsel. of course again, from the justice department standpoint, merrick garland doesn t like special councils, he didn t want to do the first one and he certainly did not want to do the second one. there is a real reluctance to do a third one while this is still being reviewed. so, i think what you are going to see is they are going to let this review continue, and they will make a decision whether they have to do yet another one. evan perez, thank you very much. next, the my pillow ceo, mike
into what happened. the president i think it s interesting that he did actually answer the question, given the fact that there is some type of ongoing justice department, at least inquiry into whether a special counsel needs to be appointed, whether there is anything further that needs to be investigated from a justice department standpoint, there are questions from the justice department standpoint in terms of how did these documents get there? this is back from when he was vice president. so there is a timeline that they would need to reconstruct, and this is many years ago now presumably that documents have been in a place that is not cleared for classified storage, and there would be questions about who potentially saw those, how long they ve been there, and how they got there. and did they have security clearances to actually go through those documents. that s going to be investigated as well. elliot williams is with us, our legal analyst, former federal prosecutor. merrick garl
the witnesses who were speaking to the committee and how donald trump himself, the committee says, was reaching out to some of the witness. exactly. now, for those of us who have covered various investigations into the former president over the past five or six years it s not terribly surprising this is the way they operate. but it was one of the really interesting and damning findings out of the committee s hearing yesterday but when it comes to the justice department the bar is really high for them which is why they ll have to look at all the evidence collected, they have a much higher standard to bring charges and to successfully bring a defense to evan s point about how this really is significant for congress because they were the victim of a crime here. there s also another side to that which is that his lawyers may now try to argue that this investigation that the justice department has tried so hard to argue is apolitical and now politicized. they ll try to argue, well, jack s