country. velshi starts now. good morning to you. it is sunday, january the 28. i m ali velshi. demonstrators in major cities around the country took to the streets again yesterday after the memphis police department released footage of the brutal beating of tyre nichols by five members of its own police force. in the continuing aftermath, memphis pd announced yesterday that it has permanently deactivated its scorpion unit. scorpion what the departments anti violence group which has been under scrutiny in recent days after it became public that all five of the police officers who were fired, arrested, and charged with second degree murder in nichols death where members of the unit. joining me now from memphis, tennessee, is nbc s antonia hylton who have been covering the story from the beginning. antonia. welcome tell us a bit about this new development with the scorpion unit, of which all five of these police officers were members. ali, i was actually with protesters yest
and the current president. pence, seriously, we have this great thing going with joe, come on, man. then our trump world indictments coming in georgia? we are asking that the report not be released because you had not seen that report, decisions are imminent. what we learned from today s dramatic hearing in fulton county, plus the senator elizabeth warren on the latest hostage demands in the republican bet ceiling fight, and why on earth is america s former top diplomat excusing the brutal murder of a washington post column this? when all insides right now. good evening from new york, i am chris hayes. i will admit, i literally laughed out loud today when i looked at my phone and saw the new york times newsletter that classified documents have been found at the home of former trump vice president mike pence. honestly, it started to feel like a running bit at this point. according to a letter sent to the national archives for pence s lawyer, greg jacobs, a, quote, a sm
donald trump s alleged involvement in trying to overturn george s 2020 election results. congressman adam schiff on republican efforts to keep him from serving on the intelligence committee he just chaired. and the string of mass shootings in his home state. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington. in about 15 minutes, we expect a sheriff s update on the latest mass shooting in california, the second in as many days. this time in half moon bay. the victims members of the aapi community. seven people are dead and another with life-threatening injuries after police say an agricultural worker opened fire on his co-workers at two farms. many of the workers live in these rural complexes with their families and children. some of the children witnessed the tragedy after they had just gotten home from school. nbc news has exclusive video of the moment the 67-year-old suspect surrendered in a sheriff s office parking lot. last night the county sheriff describing the
of the investigative journalists behind the story. ben, out of interest, as we re talking about twitter, how important is it as a tool for your reporting? look, for many of us, twitter is really a lifeline. you know, not only is it a way to share findings, but i think there s there s a couple of reasons. first of all, collaboration. i never would have met some of the people i ve worked with had it not been for twitter. second, it s a world of sources at our fingertips, so that we re able to contact those that we really wouldn t be able to actually reach. and third, it s a way for us to actually speak to people on the ground and it s one of those crucial platforms for that, which, as we ve seen with this investigation, we wouldn t have had access to many of those people had it not been for some platforms like twitter. 0k, and we will come back to more of that, i m sure, later. but let s go for the big story this week. elon musk announced himself as chief twit last week when
the management of the platform. the letter follows the billionaire s sacking of half the staff, including the entire human rights team. those are our top stories this hour. now on bbc news, the media show. a warning this programme contains flashing images. hello. today, we re asking whether it matters that the world s richest man now owns twitter. elon musk is the latest american billionaire to take control of an influential social media platform. should we care? and we ll also hear from journalists with the bbc s africa eye investigations team about how open source journalism allowed them to uncover the truth behind tragedy on the moroccan spanish border. ben strick is one of the investigative journalists behind the story. ben, out of interest, as we re talking about twitter, how important is it as a tool for your reporting? look, for many of us, twitter is really a lifeline. you know, not only is it a way to share findings, but i think there s there s a couple of reason