united states flew to california to give a speech. it was a speech that he knew he would be giving to some of his most die hard fans. people who would follow him until the end of the earth. and that was crucial at that moment in his political life, because just a few weeks earlier, the wall street journal was first to report that that same vice president, spiro agnew, he was under federal criminal investigation for potential felony corruption charges, bribery, extortion, tax evasion, a bunch of stuff. this was very shocking front page news at the time. it was very damaging news, for obvious reasons, to the vice president, and he was just completely enraged about it. so he flew out to california september 29th, 1973, to give a talk to his most rabid supporters. it was the national conference of republican women. and, um, these women were hard core activists. as a group, generally speaking, they were quite right wing and quite devoted to spiro agnew. agnew was seen as being
election deniers. and the freedom to vote act. on that note i wish you a goliath night, for least a minute is in for stephanie ruhle, you cannot catch me every week on american voices, from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thank you for staying up late. u for staying up late. we are super happy to have you here. september 29th, 1973. the vice president of the united states, flew to california to give a speech. it was a speech he knew he would be giving to some of his most die hard fans. people who would follow him to the end of the earth. and that was crucial that moment in his life. because just a few weeks earlier, the wall street journal had is under criminal investigation. federal corruption charges, bribery, extortion, passive, asian omega stuff. it is very shocking front page news of the time. it was damaging news, for obvious reasons to the vice president, because he was completely enraged about it. the women are hard-core activists, as a
presidential campaign. laying the groundwork for potential criminal charges against the former president in the coming months. that s according to people with knowledge of the matter. the grand jury was recently impanelled and witness testimony will soon began. the d.a. alvin bragg is nearing a decision on whether to charge trump. quote, super charging the longest running criminal investigation into mr. trump. a probe that began when donald trump s former attorney michael cohen pleaded guilty in 2018 to a host of charges for making a $130,000 payment to stormy daniels to pay for her silence ahead of the 2016 election. it s been a long and winding road to today s breaking news. at one point last year, the probe which grew to investigate the business practices of the trump org seemed all but dead with two top prosecutors leaving the d.a. s office after d.a. bragg stopped presenting evidence to the grand jury. the new york times is reporting the probe is moving again. on monda
people. we want to thank everyone for supporting us. are nonviolent protests. also new today, city officials telling msn news that police body cameras were turned off during the beating of nichols. officials telling nbc news that none of the body cam footage was lost. that when police first stop nichols, one of the three officers involved in not activate his camera, and in other turned it on, but the camera fell off immediately. at the sign of the butane, officials said only two officers had their body cameras activated s. meanwhile, protesters around the country are once again mobilizing to demand change from lawmakers. the murder of tyre nichols was horrendous. what we need now is civilian oversight of police, and community control of police. law that will make it clear to police that they cannot beat people to death, shoot and kill people. that there must be one standard of justice in this country for everybody. not one standard for the police, one standard for the res
on january 7th. the city of memphis reacting today to the big announcement that the police scorpion unit the, one that is involved in the deadly beating, would be disbanded. here s what shelby county district attorney stephen mulroy told me in the last hour. 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 sometimes breed a culture of over aggressiveness. i think it s probably a healthy thing of the units that disbanded. also new today. city officials cleaning up the discrepancy between the number of officers on the scene of the meeting. and the number body camera videos released. officials telling abc news some police body cameras were turned off during the beating and nichols. that when police first of nicholas, one of the three officers involved did not activate his camera. another turned it on but the camera fell off immediately. only two officers