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
nichols. the full videos, released last night, show five former memphis police officers repeatedly beating the 29 year old, and i want to warn you, what you re about to watch is extremely graphic. the videos document nichols being pulled over earlier this month for alleged reckless driving. police are then seen yanking nichols from his car, chasing, kicking him, using pepper spray and batons. nichols, unarmed, cries out for his mother at one point. he died from his injuries three days later in the hospital, and those videos sparking largely peaceful protests all across the country. earlier this week the five officers involved were charged with second degree murder, and now after this video has come out two officers from a different department who are also on scene that night have been put on leave pending an investigation into their conduct. cnn s boris sanchez breaks down these newly released videos. again, a warning for you, they re very graphic. reporter: tyre nichols sc
police have permanently disbanded the s.c.o.r.p.i.o.n. unit, the unit associated with officers involved in the killing of tyre nichols, the 29-year-old man beaten after a traffic stop. the videos we re about to show you are graphic and disturbing, but of course they are critical to understanding what happened to this 29-year-old man. as you can hear in the video, nichols cries out for his mother, who was just a few blocks away. officers continued to hit and spray nichols, struggling with him on the ground. more footage appears to show inaction by deputies and officers and paramedics on the scene. five officers are facing multiple charges, including second-degree murder and kidnapping. two sheriff s deputies at the scene were placed on leave pending an investigation and cnn s shimon prokupecz is live. we ll talk about the horrific video in just a moment, but we do have new breaking news, information coming in this afternoon, and that is that the memphis police department has
as high as commercial aircraft but lower than surveillance satellites. the size of three buses. two flights were diverted for safety. military leaders considered but ultimately decided against wthe president s decision to shoot it down. but the idea that was under conversation shows how seriously u.s. officials and the president were taking the idea of a chinese spy balloon floating over the u.s. you mentioned what it was flying over. right. montana. the air base, has icbms there. something that china would naturally be interested in taking a closer look at. it happened before? it happened over u.s. territory before. here is something i want to note in terms of surveillance capabilities. this was not a big jump in what china is able to do. why? because china is flying spy satellites over the u.s. after 90 minutes as they orbit the earth and they have at least equal surveillance capabilities. they are highly advanced. in terms of what china could gather from this ballo
hear from her. but now the big two things. it is the charges against these officers and this video, when will we finally when will the public finally get to see the video. and executive director of the local naacp gave us information about the possibility of these officers surrendering themselves. but again, that has not been confirmed. that is according to her and her sources. in the meantime, the community reeling, family members reeling. and this community bracing for what is to come. yeah, we had a conversation with the senior pastor at the mississippi boulevard christian church here, that is the church where they will have services for tyree nichols on february 1. so there is real concern. you know, he made no bones about worrying about whether this was going to be explosive, how people are going to on respond once the video is released. but he said that they have been in talks and he said he saw something that he has never seen before happen in this community, a