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
i ve been policing for more than 30 years. i ve devoted my life to this profession, and i m grieved, frankly, i m shocked, i m sickened by what i saw. i ve seen the video, and as stated, you will too. in a word, it s absolutely appalling. good morning, everyone, i am in live in memphis. kaitlan is in d.c. we have it covered for you. the questions are what happened? what happened to tyre nichols? we are hours from finding out, police body camera video set to be released after 7:00 p.m. eastern. video described as appalling, horrific, inhumane, video that has memphis and the country bracing for what could come next. justice for tyre. it has been 20 day as since a traffic stop led to an arrest so violent that tyre nichols ended up like this, hospitalized in critical condition. three days later he died. five ex-police officers are now charged with murder. cnn is covering this from every angle. over the next three hours we ll talk to the police chief, cj davis. this incide
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
dangers the men and women in the capitol faced that day. the perils that our nation faced as a whole and the former the president s justification for what happened. i went to washington because they were angry with an election that they think was rigged. a very small portion went down to the capitol. a very small portion of them went in. but they were angry from the standpoint of what happened in the election because they are smart and they see and saw what happened. among the crowd that day, far right extremists like the proud boys and oath keepsers welcome the focus of tomorrow s hearing along with trump s role encouraging them to march on the capitol. the president tweets on the wee hours of december 19th to be there and be wild. it was a siren call to these folks. and we ll talk in detail about what that caused them to do, how that caused them to organize as well as who else was amplifying that message. the committee member who will lead tomorrow s hearing says th
President Joe Biden will tout his economic plan when he speaks to the nation and he will call on Republicans to work with him, saying voters don t want fighting for the sake of fighting.