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
watching simone. we are following breaking developments on the tyre nichols story. reaction and condemnation are pouring in. just last night s release of the disturbing and dramatic video showing the brutal beating of police officers who led to his death. in memphis and in cities across the country, there were gatherings honoring tyre nichols. he was a 29 year old son, a brother, a father. and those gatherings are protesting his killing which should have never happened. we are unpacking the painful truth in this video. we are going to answer questions about the officers charged with murder. and how to answer the culture in america so that we stop repeating this tragedy over and over again. i am someone and i have something to say. by now you may have seen the video of memphis police officers beating tyre nichols. an assault that started with a traffic stop and ultimately caused his death. you may still be processing the brutality, the inhumanity, the reality of what you
run. plus, more than 12 million people are facing ice storm warnings as the deep south gets hit with a deep freeze. hundreds of flights cancelled, roads covered with ice. it s made traveling dangerous and it s contributed to at least six deaths. but we begin in memphis where starting an hour from now, the funeral for tyre nichols will attempt to take the focus away from the horrific images of his brutal death, and instead honor his life and the man his mother called a quote, beautiful soul. mourners have begun to arrive right now at mississippi boulevard christian church, less than 20 miles from where the 29-year-old lived and died. his death, the latest rallying cry for a nation sickened by watching the same images play out on police body cameras again and again. the fact that george floyd s brother and breonna taylor s mother will attend today s funeral, underscoring the sad truth that past calls for change have gone unfulfilled. reverend al sharpton was asked earlier t
biggest mid-term election issue is chaos. full coverage on fox. dana: rich edson is diving into some key races we re watching and playing close attention to the next 19 days. conservative supreme court eliminating the right to abortion and proposals from republicans in congress to enact abortion restriction democrats focused their campaigns on protecting abortion. voters are more concerned about inflation and gas prices than abortion. some democrats are making the case the issues are all tied together. abortion is an economic issue. it has been reduced to this idea of a culture war. for women in georgia this is very much a question of whether they will end up in poverty in the next five years. having children is why you are worried about your price for gas and why you are concerned how much food costs. democrats are calling republican abortion extremists. republicans painting democrats on the extremists as well. in pennsylvania democrat john fetterman says he is aga
herschel walker at this point. but he has helped us distill a trend growing clear for decades among the gop. for republicans winning is the only thing. that s about blunts, unambiguous message conservatives have conveyed to the american people this week as they closed ranks i m around a man whose alleged life choices so thoroughly and fundamentally contradict the values they purport to stand for, it actually boggles the mind. the most recent development, the new york times reporting that the same woman who alleged herschel walker paid for her abortion in 2009 also alleged that walker urged her to terminate a second pregnancy two years ago, or two years later, excuse me. herschel walker has denied those allegations, saying he has never paid for or pressured a woman to have an abortion. this october surprise, which at one point would have ended other candidates chances, just didn t seem to matter to the right wing. we are full speed ahead in georgia, said the president of mitch