and a sober newsday with us. a source telling cnn criminal charges are coming this afternoon in memphis in connection to the beating of 29-year-old tyre nichols and we also are told to expect tomorrow the release of the video of that police encounter and we are told that is three minutes of savagery. memphis police officers brutalizing nichols. right now that city fed up. it could have been your son. it could have been you. don t gavel me. i m here to let you know. i can see without we want it now. plus, the new temperature check of the u.s. economy. new data gives president biden reason to brag. the economy growing faster than expected. it is more proof a recession is not inevitable but it also comes as some big name companies slash thousands of jobs. releasing right now brand-new cnn poll numbers, here s what they show. you think leaders in washington, especially house republicans, are out of touch with what you think, your government should be doing and doing first
national archives has formally asked all former presidents and vice presidents to scour their records to look for any classified materials. jamie gangel joins us at the table, elliot williams is back with us as well as phil mattingly, jamie is dealing with a little laryngitis so the national archives, is this out of an abundance of caution or have some reason to believe there are more records missing so, please, president obama, president clinton, vice president cheney, vice president, quayle and so on, look through your records. they don t know what they don t know but after trump, biden and now pence, sorry about my voice, they re just asking everyone to go back, triple check, quadruple check, we should say that over the past weeks, cnn has reached out to all the former presidents, all the former vice presidents, their representatives, everyone has said that they don t have
administration. the number two at the department of veterans affairs and it was recommended keep this guy. we think he is part of the solution. some say, wait. you were there when there was a problem. that relationship is a fascinating one. also something that candidate trump talked about almost every time he was on a stage. was veterans. and veteran affairs. fixing the v.a. in that sense he is able to point to something he s able to sign here. how much credit he gets for developing it is maybe another matter. the only discordant note during that whole ceremony, him joking about firing, you know, shulkin. his cabinet secretary. you know? so who was the obama holder. we love our david. don t have to say that. we re not going to fire you. kind of an odd moment. but for a president who most of the moments we see him, again we ll get to them in a couple moments. this is important for the country. this piece of legislation and the emphasis we can put on reminding politicians to double,
the really mangled train car right there in that area of your screen. and we saw some of those workers, again, we had the helicopters from the police up here trying to shine some light out here. we also see some of the fire department workers, they have their trucks out here shining some light beams on to this area, as well. now you can see it illuminates every now and then. you see the bulk of the investigative effort we can just zoom in right up here to this area and we can get a better look at the fire department workers that are out there right now. we have not seen any other victims, any other train passengers get off of this train or be rescued from the train within the past half hour to 45 minutes, but they are down there with their flashlights really just trying to make sure. i mean you have to imagine that they are just trying to double check, triple check, quadruple check, really just to make sure anybody who may have still been