their oath. we need a national conversation about policing. the question is, where do we go from here? the president and speaker mccarthy set to meet this week, as the nation s debt ceiling crisis looms. i want to find a reasonable and a responsible way that we can take control of this run away spending. parents send their kids back to school tomorrow since the shooting in early january. am i 100% comfortable sending him back? no. i m pamela brown in washington, and you are live in the cnn newsroom. in memphis and across america, the cries for justice for tyre nichols raise a larger question. how can law enforcement finally commit to meaningful reforms? hours after the public viewed the horrific beating, memphis answered the outcry by shutting down the specialized scorpion unit. all five members that were fired and charged with nichols death were members of that controversial unit. cnn s isabella rah za lass joins us now. what is the latest? reporter: hey,
comcast business. powering possibilities. i m gassed with sudan. if you re just joining us, welcome. it s good to see you. thank you for sticking around if you re sticking with us. we re just days away from an emotional farewell in memphis. the funeral for tyre nichols, killed at the hands of police. the unit that deployed the five officers now charged has been disbanded. it s just one of the actions the community is calling for after the release of that horrifying video. i m going to be talking to a police expert this hour. we re following some breaking political news. just days from now, a showdown between kevin mccarthy and president biden on the debt ceiling. we re going to meet this wednesday. the president said he did not want to have discussions. i think it s important that our whole government is designed to find compromise. they can take control of this runaway spending. coming up, i m going to speak to congressman adam schiff. he got kicked off the house intel c
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This week, house democrats, with the support of floyds family, reintroduced that act to create federal Police Reform. This is something that is a priority, this is demanded, and if you want to wait for someone like this to hit your front door and then you will be proactive, you have a problem. As democrats reintroduce that bill, President Joe Biden issued a Statement Saying President Biden also said he signed an Executive Order to implement aspects of the George Floyd Justice in policing act. If that legislation makes it through congress this time, it would address issues ranging from Policing Practices to accountability of Law Enforcement. If passed, it would lower the Criminal Intent Standards to convict a Police Officer for misconduct, limit qualified immunity as a defence to liability in a private civil action against a Law Enforcement officer and limit the unnecessary use of force and restricts the use of No Knock Warrants and chokeholds. Earlier, i spoke with representative Sheil
this is a humanitarian challenge to all of us, what the administration has inherited is a broken system at the border. they are working to correct that. this idea is joe biden s election that prompted more people to show up is by the actual fact. joe biden inherited a huge mess on immigration. we recognize this is a huge problem and we had a dismantled and unworkable system. like any other problem, we will do everything we can to solve it. jesse: conditions are so bad at the border that fema is sent in to help manage the unaccompanied children. one report said a texas facility is 729% capacity. kids have to take turns sleeping on the floor and go days without showering. republicans have had enough. house minority leader kevin mccarthy was on the ground in texas today and demanding biden do something about it. heartbreak. the sad part about all of this, it didn t have to happen. this crisis is created by the presidential policies of this new administration. there i