right now, the breath of brutal video footage of the police encounter that ended in the death of tyre nichols has created a situation too big for the nation and its lawmakers to ignore. in washington, a congressional conversation around policing reform may be getting a shot. the congressional black caucus today calling for a meeting with president biden to discuss policing reform. as activists like myself are wondering whether nichols would still be alive if the last congress had passed legislation that emerged after george floyd s murder. and in memphis for the five officers now facing second degree murder charges in the killing enough tyre nichols. it is now set for february 17th. and in the so-called scorpion unit, those officers belonged to and memphis has now been disbanded. and in new york, after hosting the parents enough tyre nichols here on politicsnation, i m thinking about the eulogy of their son, i would deliver as head of the next tunnel action network in memph
we have new developments today both sheriff deputies taken off duty in addition to the five cops charged with murder in connection with tyre nichols s fatal encounter with police. with me now is the shelby county district attorney whose department is prosecuting these five cops. thank you for joining us. can you talk to us about your reaction to these sheriff s deputies now? i can t really speak about those details because there is an ongoing investigation and a pending prosecution. we know there were two deputies that came on the scene afterwards and they have been relieved of duty pending administrative investigation by the sheriff department. it is important to note that administrative investigation was entirely separate from any investigations that we are doing with the district attorney s office. why is a sheriff just now reviewing the video? the statement says having washed the videotape for the first time tonight i have concerns about the deputies who appeared follo
in memphis, slamone, what s happening a continued fall-out from this incident from the horrific beating after the video what public the sheriff here in the shelby county put out a statement learned two of his deputies were on scene that night and as a result of that because of this video becoming public, he s placed those deputies on leave, so it s two sheriffs deputies that are now on leave, and of course, you know, we re learning more between about this scorpion unit, the team that these officers were part of, the family calling for them to be disbanded well the mayor and police department here saying that that unit for right now is not operating in this city, they have sort of suspended their operations while they continue their investigation. but they re not outright going to say at this point that they re going to disband this unit, they re blaming the problems on these officers and not the unit, the other thing throughout this and of course, watching this video, laura
i ll stop them. i have a veto pen. try to pass, i ll stop them, and if they send me a ban on the national right to choose, i will stop them. within the past hour, president biden delivering fiery remarks to the dnc, amid fresh new signs of economic recovery in america. also tonight, the trial balloon, the secretary of state postpones his trip to china after a suspected chinese spy balloon is spotted over the u.s. so why not just shoot it down? plus, the fallout from the vote to remove congresswoman ilhan omar from the foreign affairs committee, with one conservative congressman overheard calling it the stupidest vote in the world. good evening, everyone. i m michael steele in for joy reid. and we begin tonight with a track from the jackson 5. now, if you are of a certain age, you surely remember the song never can say good-bye. and if you don t, the lyrics go a little bit like this. i m not going to sing it so just calm down. never can say good-bye. every time i thi
i did an hour ago. [laughter] thank you very much alex, see you next week. you too, ali. all right, remember when we said that corporations are people? yeah, no! you know who our people? people are people! workers are people! people who need jobs to pay rent, to buy food, to get diapers. and tonight, three years after commit a nosedive, that people are able to find jobs to do all those things again. here s today s blockbuster jobs report for january: 517,000 net new jobs were created. i ve been in the business for a long time. i ve covered the economy. that s a lot of jobs! that s nearly triple the number of drives that economists protected and it far outpaces the average monthly job growth through a solid 2022. on top of that, the borough of labor cities is part of the department of labor, they really stated today that show the job growth for nearly every month in the past year was stronger than originally estimated meeting hundreds of thousands more jobs were create