which he will if his trial doesn t begin until june, officer porter will be able to assert his fifth amendment rights against self-incrimination. as legal experts told the baltimore sun, if prosecutors want porter to testify or want even to introduce his statements to police investigators, they likely will have to grant him immunity. joining me now is sherrilyn ifill, long-time baltimore resident and present of the naacp legal and educational fund. sherrliyn, thanks for joing me. i guess in terms of moving this forward do you think the state has any option but to give officer porter immunity? i really don t want to speculate on that, alex. there are a number of other cases against other police officers in the works. i think the state s attorney s office has a lot of considerations that they are engaging in. and i think one of the things we have to be really careful about is making sure that we don t imperil any of the other cases or give any excuse for defense council in the other
nbc news reporting tonight the malaysian plane was shot down with a surface-to-air missile. but who fired it? joing me now is nbc news chief pentagon correspondent jim milajewski. they are trying to figure out who fired the shot that brought down the malaysian airliner. were they ukrainian separatists or the military? no matter who pulled the trigger it was a russian weapon. u.s. spy satellites saw heat signatures, infrared satellites that detect explosions or missile launches.
he wants more spending and more tax hikes that will hurt our economy. giving the federal government more money would be like giving a cocaine addict more cocaine. today, the same gop house that wants to slash the safety net is getting are rigright to spending millions on a fake scandal. joing me now is richard wolf. thanks for coming on. you bet, reverend. $3.3 million on a phony benghazi scandal? isn t gop the party of fiscal responsibility? they are. they are also trying to do something of the job of oversight in congress. the hard thing for them is to explain how they can spend the same as the house intelligence committee. you are talking about something that was intelligence-related.
my next guess says that nell nelson mandela was a gift to the world. a dignitary, warrior, a man of character and integrity. she could say those same words to describe her uncle, the reverend martin luther king, jr. nelson mandela and reverend martin luther king, jr., two men who truly did change the world. joing me is dr. alveda king, dr. king s niece. thank you for joining me. hello, and merry christmas everyone. thank you. and merry christmas to you. you actually met nelson mandela in 1990, not long after he was released from the 27-year time in prison. what was your initial impression as you met this man we now see as one of the great leaders of the world?
you know, i think there are two things involved with miranda here. one is when there s law enforcement, how long is that public safety exception before law enforcement has to advise the suspect of their rights. and the second is how soon do they have to present the person before the magistrate, and here it looks like that second issue, the presentment issue was pressing. when the magistrate said we re arraigning him on monday, basically that was going to be the end of it. my sense is that law enforcement probably got about what they were going to get in terms of public safety and that exception which the length and dimension of is protecting the public, and after that, it was going to be pretty close in terms of when the arraignment and the ultimate mirandizing would take place. congressman schiff, thank you ecia it.h again r joing me. you bet, piers. let s bring in juliette kayyem, former homeland security assistant secretary. juliette, so much to catch up on again today. just d