from obesity world headquarters in new york. welcome, everyone, to alex witt reports. we begin this hour with the growing concern over china s posture on the war in ukraine. three u.s. officials telling nbc news new intelligence suggest china is considering sending artillery and ammunition to russia. this could be the latest in a series of insults. here is an exchange between my colleague, chuck todd, and white house national secretive of jake sullivan on meet the press today. we re sending more troops to taiwan. that shine is ignoring calls from our defense secretary. secretary blinken to cancel his trip. the president wants to have a call with xi, there s no evidence that anything it s been scheduled. this like a communication, how dangerous is the situation with china right now? we have said repeatedly that we need to have military communications channels to avoid escalation, to avoid surprise, to avoid mistake. it is unfortunate that the chinese defense ministry has d
reid wiseman added we can see the artemis 2 mission take off late next year that does it this hour, our coverage continues with alex witt right now very good to be with all of you. i m alex witt in for katy tur. we begin this hour in tennessee where any minute now the state s republican-led house will hold a vote to remove three democratic lawmakers from office. those lawmakers are currently making their opening statements. you see one of them right there doing so state representatives gloria johnson, justin jones, and justin pierson participated in a protest on the house floor where they held signs, led chants demanding stricter gun laws. the protest was in response to last month s shooting at a nashville school that left six dead, including three 9-year-old students those three democrats were stripped of their committee assignments, they were hit with three separate filings for their exp expulsion. it is a step that the tennessee state house has only taken twice since t
you are live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. today the attorney for the family of tyre nichols is calling the video of the 29-year-old being beaten by officers a watershed moment, one that the attorney hopes will lead to federal police legislation reform. late yesterday, we learned that the memphis police department had shut down the controversial scorpion unit that the officers charged in this killing belonged to. that news coming less than 24 hours after graphic video of tyre nichols being beaten and tased by officers was released to the public. again, i want to warn our viewers, what you re about to watch is disturbing. ah! mom! mother mom! give me your fucking hands, man! give me your fucking hands! give me your hands! give me your hands! hey! cnn s isabel rosales joins me now. isobel, what led to the chief deciding to do this step of deactivating the unit? and what more do we know about what s happening with this case? hey, jim. so
we have come out in a way that is in conjunction with what the family has asked for. they have been peaceful in protest, but they are very, very disturbed. we re out here today because we believe that no one else should go through what tyre nichols went through. they are grateful that the video came out so now the whole world knows what happened, that he was defenseless, that he was helpless. look how they grabbed him out of the car. there was no human inside of those men. maybe we do have faith and hope that the system is going to get it right this time. i m pamela brown in washington and you are in the cnn newsroom. horrifying cruelty and the heartless disregard for a dying man. today, outraged americans are holding small and mostly peaceful protests. in memphis and several other cities protesters are making their voices heard in support of tyre nichols. his deadly beating at the hands of five memphis police officers is captured on video and released to the pu
and plug the leak. we take this very seriously and we will continue to work closely with our outstanding allies and partners and nothing will ever stop us from keeping america secure. we will continue to investigate and turn over every rock until we find the source of this and the extent of it. dana: this comes as top congressional leaders gain access to classified documents found at the homes of former vice president trump, pence and biden. bill: congressman jim hines joins us in a moment. first to chad pergram who leads our coverage live on the hill. good government is apparently no better at keeping secrets than a click of students in junior high. top house and senate leaders demand all member briefings about the latest batch of documents which were leaked. the pentagon and the intelligence community want answers. deeply unfortunate leak of classified documents is certainly as intense as anything in that now part of the in box as well. we need to learn lessons fr