some are members of the city s so-called scorpion unit scorpions answer street crimes operation to restore peace in our neighborhood. yesterday the memphis police department permanently disbanded that unit. eric we are also learning the five former officers will make their first court appearance on february 17 to be arraigned on murder charges for charles watson is live in memphis. charles, first off what can it tells the timetable for this arraignment? well, arthel, those arraignments will happen a few weeks from now as you mentioned on february 17. we are unsure whether that is normal timing for something like that barely reach out to a defense attorney who said it is a normal timeline for those arraignments considering five former memphis police officers taken into custody last week after a grand jury indicted them and freed after posting a bond that raised anywhere between $253,350,000 were getting this information just a day after the memphis police department announ
31 and a half trillion dollars and counting every moment of every day. speaker mccarthy set to meet with the president to discuss the debt limit and other topics on wednesday. lucas tomlinson live at the white house with more on these upcoming critical negotiations, good afternoon, lucas. lucas: mike, the white house confirm that is meeting will take place wednesday. the white house says it cover wide-range of topics, this one first face to face meeting with new house speaker and president biden. we will meet this wednesday. i know the president said he didn t want to have any discussions but i think it s very important that our whole government is designed to find compromise. i want to find a reasonable and responsible way that we can lift the debt ceiling but take control of the run away spending. democrats have a position. raise the debt ceiling and pay the bills. we are not going to negotiate with ourselves. if the republicans want to put something on the table and sa