justice for tyre nichols, ahead of the release of video described as horrific and even sickpenning. this hour what public can expect and what the nichols parents tell the most telling part. more disturbing video out today showing the hammer attack on nancy pelosi s husband paul and the split second police had to intervene. and a consequential vote setting the tone for the future of the republican party. welcome to the lead. i m pamela brown. jake tapper is on assignment. we start with our national lead, heartbreak, grief and calls for justice in memphis, tennessee, in just a few hours from now the city is set to release videos of tyre nichols arrest. the 29-year-old died three days after a confrontation with police on january th, an encounter nichols stepfather who has seen the video described as a brutal beating. i saw officers hitting on him. i saw officers kicking him. one officer kicked him like he was kicking a football a couple times. and but the most th
followers online, you can see there. and this is not just anybody talking, it is a trump ally, lawyer, and top republican on the senate judiciary committee, so he knows better than to just blithely talk up warn of violence and crime as retaliation of whatever happens in the criminal justice system, which no one knows what will happen. senator graham going further than most republican senators. lately many have been trying to duck attention over trump s secret document scandal. but what is different about graham? well, senator lindsey graham is also a witness and a potential participant in donald trump s 2020 election plot, which remains in criminal investigation in georgia. graham trying to fight lawful orders to testify there, so he has at a minimum a conflict. now, graham carefully avoided linking his own legal pressure in georgia to this new apparent warning or threat. instead he argued the double standard about secret documents, which is the federal case, not the georgi
yeah. black officers, white officers, all over the country. just because there s a structural issue here, which clearly in my view there is, i mean, you look at all the different police brutality attacks, it doesn t mean that there aren t really good police officers out here who are protecting the community. we just saw the paul pelosi video attack where the police went to the house, jumped in, to save paul pelosi. so but you re right. the bottom line here is the systemic issue at play. thank you all very much. appreciate it. catch abby phillips, this and every weekend on inside politics sunday at 8:00 a.m. eastern right here on cnn. up next, to the scene in jerusalem, and the night of terror after a deadly shooting at a synagogue. so when fresh mozzarella melts over it. that detail. will be big. try the new toasastd baguettes from panera. onone dollar delivery fee on our app.
When you consider there are at least another 130,000 russian troops that have already been positioned in other areas, mainly in russia, near to the ukrainian border, potentially poised to come in. so, very disturbing new developments in terms of that ongoing russian deployment in the region of forces and threatening ukraine, anderson. what s the response been to the u.s. claims about russia plotting some sort of video, fake video attack, to as a pretext for invasion? yeah, pretext, provocation. well, look, i mean, the ukrainian officials i ve spoken to, including senior officials at the interior ministry here, say that s exactly the kind of false flag operation that they ve been warning of and they ve been sort of disrupting over the past several weeks and indeed over the past several days. so, there s a lot of agreement between the ukrainians and the united states on the nature of