caution it s. ron klain having work to the judiciary committee with joe biden when he was chairman and the business of confirming those judges. ron klein told me about is last week of working for the white house that he s their underway fulfilling every vacancy in the federal courts. they might get to a point this year where they re sitting there with no vacancies. wow! that s just an astonishing accomplishment. at a time when it is abundantly clear how very important the judiciary is to be functioning democracy. exactly. we are joined tonight by harvard law officer professor laurence tribe to consider of among other things mike pence s novel to put it kindly, novel notion about why he should testify before a grand jury. novel is one way putting it or, it s account wait to see. it thanks. alex thank you. well the breaking news of the night is that special prosecutor jeff jack smith has invoked the crime fraud exception in a motion to force one of donald trump
that night and yesterday, murdaugh changed his story to admit he was at the dog kennels where his wife and son worships slade something that he did not tell the police at the time. . the last time you sell supposedly your wife and child and all of this detail, you as a lawyer and a prosecutor didn t think that was important to offer? i think it is important here in and al murdaugh helped l.a. about being at the kennels, he left his wife and son minutes before slaughtered, no one else was around. you hear the dogs barking, caring on and they sent somebody was around? no, they weren t. there was nobody around and the dogs didn t know. there was nobody else around. good. for him to sense. jesse: but the most explosive moment of the day murdaugh putting his own theory who murdered his family. he believes it is revenge over a vote accident involving his now deceased son paul. paul was driving the family vote drunk when he crashed and killed one of his friends. i
i ll stop them. i have a veto pen. try to pass, i ll stop them, and if they send me a ban on the national right to choose, i will stop them. within the past hour, president biden delivering fiery remarks to the dnc, amid fresh new signs of economic recovery in america. also tonight, the trial balloon, the secretary of state postpones his trip to china after a suspected chinese spy balloon is spotted over the u.s. so why not just shoot it down? plus, the fallout from the vote to remove congresswoman ilhan omar from the foreign affairs committee, with one conservative congressman overheard calling it the stupidest vote in the world. good evening, everyone. i m michael steele in for joy reid. and we begin tonight with a track from the jackson 5. now, if you are of a certain age, you surely remember the song never can say good-bye. and if you don t, the lyrics go a little bit like this. i m not going to sing it so just calm down. never can say good-bye. every time i thi
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
caught up in the drama after papers with classified markings were discovered at the indiana home of former president mike pence. let s bring in our panel, wall street journal columnist dan henninger and kim strassel and editorial board member men au quai barua. so kim, first of all, was it the right thing for facebook to do to restore the former president and what impact will it have politically? yeah well on the substance, absolutely, paul, because what we know, at least from the twitter files is that there wasn t many valid reasons for actually getting rid of him in the first place. you have to assume that was the same for facebook. there s also even bigger questions, too, about the wisdom of removing someone that high profile from what is essentially become a public square. politically however, you ve got to wonder if this isn t in a way a gift to democrats. they very much want donald trump to be front and center. now we don t know if he s going to go back to use facebook,