crisis looms. i want to find a reasonable and a responsible way that we can take control of this runaway spending. all of these officers failed their oath. we need a national conversation about policing. the question is where do we go from here? parents send their kids back to school tomorrow for the first time since that shooting in early january. am i 100% comfortable sending him back? no. i m pamela brown in washington, and you are live in the cnn newsroom. the fate of the u.s. economy may hinge on a meeting this wednesday between president biden and newly elected gop house speaker kevin mccarthy. it has been a little more than a week since the treasury department announced the u.s. government has reached its borrowing limit. if the the debt ceiling isn t raised, the u.s. could start defaulting on its loans. i know the president said he didn t want to have any discussions, but i think it s very important that our whole government s designed to find compro
I spoke with the shelby county district attorney earlier tonight and i asked him about one of the defendants attorneys arguments which is that not all of the officers crossed the line yet they are all facing the same charges. and this was his response. while it is true that each of the five defendants participated in a different way in the death of tyre nichols, all of them acted together and all of them, their actions taken together resulted in tyre nichols death. and under the principles of criminal responsibility under tennessee law, we feel comfortable in bringing the same charges against all five of the defendants and we re confident we ll be able to prove each element of those charges beyond a reasonable doubt once we get to trial. do you agree with that assessment? i do. the particulars of what they re going to be able to prove in real time is going to depend on the video. it s hard to distinguish some of the police officers and who was essentially kicking him. but i thi