heinous, reckless, and inhumane. i m microal smerconish of philadelphia. those are the comments made. now that the rest of us have seen it, nobody can dispute that characterization. tyre nichols died from those injuries three days later, but was it second-degree murder as state law defines it? let s go to the video. i, of course, warn you the clips are difficult, they re disturbing to watch, there s a lot of foul language. first we saw an officer arriving at the scene and the situation rapidly escalating. damin , i didn t anything. turn your ass around. all right, all right, all right. you don t do that, okay? get on the funking ground. get on the ground. i m going to tase your ass. all right. i m on the ground. i m on the ground. on the ground. i m going to tase you. get on the ground. now. i ll tase you. all right, okay, all right. i ll break your turn the fuck around. put your hands behind your back. you guys are really doing a lot right now. nich
now it is time for the last word with ali velshi, who is in for lawrence o donnell. i appreciate, it alex. we look on nights like this for any sense of a silver lining, any sense of progress. if accountability comes to people faster, then there is something. but when you watch videos like this and you think, how much progress we have not made, it is disheartening. thank you for your reporting. we will see you next week. happy to share. heinous, reckless and inhumane. that is how the police chief in memphis described the video footage that was released tonight, showing the deadly encounter between tyre nichols and five police officers, who have been fired and charged with his murder. the 29 year old died from the injuries sustained into confrontations with police captured in roughly one hour of footage from police body cam footage and neighborhood security camera footage. the incident happened on january the 7th, 8:30 pm at night. the footage does not capture the and i
react? terrific hypothetical, we re not there yet. you have the chinese spy issue, chinese buying more oil from russia, china, you know, opening up cases in the u.s. trying to steal u.s. technology from universities, president xi is going to be meeting with the iranian president, at what point do a big review of the u.s. relationship with china, and at what point does the president ask for a call from president xi? again, i don t have a call to talk about today. level set here, and i know i m running close on time, but sorry. no, it s not your fault. the president met with president xi at bali, at the g20. the whole purpose of that discussion was to move this relationship forward in a better way. most consequential bilateral relationship in the world. the president knows that, and he wanted to move that relationship forward in a better way. and secretary blinken was dang near wheels up trying to head to beijing to have those kinds of conversations to get some of the
take them off. everything. jesse: and if you are the biden family, you don t get to spend 50 years running the game without keeping it all in the family. but, last night, we learned the bidens may have been compromised. as investigative reporter paul sperry broke to us that the biden family has been under federal surveillance for years. another chinese partner of his a guy named patrick ho, his office for secretary of statey was rated, we learned recently from some law enforcement documents was actually raided. the feds actually put the chinese partners under a fisa have a surveillance and at the same time they were monitoring the bidens communications with those chinese partners. jesse: so the bidens are all over fbi wiretaps talking to china. the fbi was investigating patrick ho. a chinese bag man who eventually got popped for bribing african leaders and helping iran evade sanctions. real nice guy. so what does ho have to do with the biden family? ho was the v.p. f
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