tarts right now. greetings everyone, you are watching symone. republicans may officially be in charge of the house of representatives. but democrats, they appear to be the only party interested in doing any governing. what are republicans doing? while they are trying to start fights with each other. and, even with a witness to the committee hearing. are they just to emotional to lead? and don t forget, congressman george santos facing potential expulsion, again. we will dig into a historically weird, wild, and just unfortunate week on capitol hill. plus, fulton county d.a. fani willis sets a date for donald trump s georgia election, interference trial. a few months before election day. what that means for him legally, and politically. and, why it is so hard for judges to rein in trump s dangerous trial rhetoric. and, tiktok is back in the hot seat folks, after hosts sympathizing with terrorists of some of bin laden went viral. how do we get here? and, what is tiktok doing abo
this is just a small portion of the video that cnn has obtained and just a small part of what those parents faced. cnn s shimon prokupecz joins us now. si you did a wonderful hour that aired last night speaking to so many of these families and they want this video public. why? well, a couple of reasons, one of which is obviously they want their folks, the country, the nation, the world to understand exactly what their kids went through. the other thing is that they want law enforcement and political leaders to understand what the failure on the law enforcement part, the damage that it did to their kids because of the trauma that they have suffered because they were in those rooms for so long and they re hoping that lessons can be learned and they re just aggravated that no one has been making any of this public, that no one has been giving them answers. but something else, john, extraordinary happened when i was interviewing one of the
shackled, it is natural for them to move to resist being hurt or killed. so ultimately i think second-degree murder is a correct charge for the officers and medical staff who participated. otieno s family called it inhumane, and they said they want this video public. the defense is arguing against its release. can they argue it has negatively impacted their ability to have a fair jury if it goes to trial? that is what they will try to argue. and we ve seen that in several high profile cases. basic argument is if it didn t work in the murder of george floyd, anonymous likely that it will work here. it would be to their advantage if the case was moved to another jurisdiction. but the public has a need to know because i d love to tell you that they aren xhoun, but
emily, your final thoughts. the speed which depape entered the home, the brutality which he entered the home, and the speed and brutality with which he attacked paul pelosi caught on video. i continue to be surprised both prosecution and defense resisted the release of this video. thank you for watching. america reports now. john: harris, thank you. fox news alert, begin with more on the release of the police bodycam footage from the attack against paul pelosi after a judge agreed with news organizations request to make the video public. john roberts in washington. heck of a way to start off friday, sandra. sandra: breaking news afternoon is expected. this is america reports, the first time we have been able to see video of the actual attack. the footage was released just moments ago and we warn you, as we play it out in its entirety, about 45 seconds, this is graphic.
with that new video of the insurrection. more evidence of a pro-trump mob attacking police officers defending the u.s. capitol on january 6th. a warning, this video, as the others are, but this one especially, is disturbing and has quite graphic language. the justice department is making this new video public in the case against a former marine and retired nypd officer seen in you ll see it in parts, in a red jacket, striking an officer with a plagpole and hand-to-hand combat ensues at the seat of america s democracy. a brutal reminder of just how terrifying that day really was, despite what some republicans are trying to get you to believe. the efforts by some of those republicans to whitewash and literally re-write the history of donald trump s complicity in the deadly siege is reaching new levels. cnn s jessica schneider is joining me live in washington with the very latest on this. jessica, will you walk us through this new video just