and rudy was very much cut from that cloth and made no bones about it. - but when he was a prosecutor he was smart, he was tough, he was creative. - he was a perfect match for new york city. he was a perfect match for a tabloid culture. and he was brash and he was, you know, he was a self-promoter. - rudolph giuliani, thank you for being with us. - thank you. - and in new york city s race for mayor, democrat david dinkins is leading in the polls over republican rudolph giuliani. - all of a sudden, david dinkins comes along, riding the wave of, you know, he was gonna be the first black mayor. and that was at a time when that had a real kind of emotional resonance, both within new york and nationally. - it was a historic day for new york and a triumphant moment for the biggest black population of any american city. - quiet! quiet! - rudy very quickly seems to have made the decision to embrace the sort of racism that a lot of his party believed in. - white power! - i saw god o
top of the hour this wednesday. i m jim sciutto. and i am erica hill. right now several key hearings happening on capitol hill. a pretty busy day in washington. this hour lawmakers will grill active administrator billy nolan after multiple close calls on the runway and some of the aviation incidents sparking safety concerns. also federal reserve chairman jerome powell appearing before lawmakers for the second day defending his decisions to raise interest rates in an effort to tamp down inflation. we re also watching the top u.s. intelligence officials testify, among them fbi director chris wray, the director of national intelligence avril haynes as what they see the biggest global threats facing the u.s. today. cnn s melanie is live on capitol hill today. several events and several bits of testimony on the hill today. walk us through what you re watching. yeah. a very busy day here on capitol hill. we are tracking a number of high-profile hearings, and i want to walk yo
good afternoon. i m kasie hunt in washington. right now the family of tyre nichols is speaking out after all five former memphis police officers appeared in court and pleaded not guilty to his murder. for the first time since nichols death his parents were in the same room with the men who brutally beat their son last month after a traffic stop. we have to start this process of justice right now. and i want each and every one of those police officers to be able to look me in the face. they haven t done that yet. they didn t do that today. they didn t even have the courage to look at me in my face. each ex-officer is facing seven charges including second-degree murder and aggravated assault. what is the latest? reporter: yeah. it was their initial appearance for the first time, we got to see them inside the courtroom where they pleaded not guilty and the legal battle getting under way. attorneys indicating this was going to be a vigorous fight. they feel the district at
soldiers callously dragging the bodies of their victims and stacking them into the backs of their trucks. the two dead victims who were finding out or later ditched on the side of the road were identified as shy he d woodward and zin del brown. mexico still hasn t returned their bodies. what a great ally. as for the survivors, they were kidnapped and held for days in a dirty stash house on the outskirts of town. one of the survivors, eric williams was found with a bullet wound to the leg. the other survivor, la terrify i can t mcgee was the reason they were in mexico to begin with. la terrify i can t went to mexico to get a tummy tuck operation they traveled all the way to south carolina to save three grand by getting the procedure done in mexico little did she show she was entering gulf cartel territory. the kidnap u.s. citizens likely came from the top of the cartel. from the leader of the gulf cartel himself jose alberta garcia milano also known in mexico as la kanya. they
and then just told these people to deal with it. so, primetime sent summer, our producer, out to see how they are dealing with it. how has this chemical contamination impacted your life? it s been absolutely terrible. it s uprooted me and my six children. it s making me move out of my house. people don t know if it s safe to drink their water. they are saying yes but then we have fish kills everywhere. i have a well so i worry in six months, you know, what could happen to my water. what have you noticed about the environment since this has happened? it s dirty. there s a lot of dust flying around. that creek is dead. there is not a fish in there. there s not a salmon der. there is no frogs. dead snakes. i don t know where the birds all went but we don t see any birds in our place? do you feel safe. no, i don t. no i don t feel safe i would be a fool to say that i feel safe right now. my throat has been burning, horrible cough, sneezing. congestion.