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good afternoon. i m peter alexander in for chris jansing. as we come on the air, we are following that breaking news out of memphis. all five police officers involved this the fatal confrontation case of 29-year-old tyre nichols are behind bars. in a few hours, we re expecting a live update from the shelby county da. former prosecutor paul butler is joining us. we have a reporter on the ground who is there. we ll the get to her in a moment too. paul, i want to walk tokes through what happened. we know about the death of of tyre nichols. he was attacked by these officers. the family has seen video of what happened. this happened earlier in the month on january 7th. he ended up dying three days later. the police chief this memphis there has called the actions of the five officers, all of whom happen to be black, saying that it was heinous, reckless and inhumane and making a plea to the residents of that city to protest peacefully when video of the arrest is released to th ....
The white house and facebook that raked in $160 million in 2020 from ads bought by trump and his allies. jonathan lemire, the white house bureau chief for politico, host of way too early on nbc and fortunately for us an msnbc political analyst here, jonathan, we tend to focus a lot on twitter of trump s platform of choice, 34 million people following him on facebook as well, and how significant is this reinstatement? twitter, he steered clear of even though he they said he could come back because he is focused on truth social but facebook he weaponized or used to his advantage to try to get into the homes of a lot of americans that he needed to bring out to support him. no question there, peter. facebook really, this is his war chest. that s how he raised money and that s why it is so significant. a lot of the small dollar donors ended up clicking on the donald trump website to toe nate money to his campaign through facebook. so that s why that is so important. and you re right, ....
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Safety has materially and significantly receded. but that is also the reason why we are introducing those additional guardrails, to discourage him from breaking our rules going forward, if he chooses to use facebook and instagram again. the suggestion that the risk to public safety has sort of receded here seems like a kind of a remarkable one, right, since we re only a couple of years removed from january 6ing in the this country. what do you make of this and what do you hear from inside trump world as he does sort of gear up, he s got rallies coming up over the course of the next several days and we really haven t seen a lot of former president trump since frankly the whole campaign started with the exception of i guess, what was that, the little, what was that picture of him as an astronaut or something to that effect. yes, that tease, peter, that s my favorite of that whole collection, astronaut and cowboy, the best two, and yes, no, i think that the claim about guardrails is a ....
Vitally important, and per trump, good timing here, because he has launched a 2024 campaign, which sort of stalled for a few months, but he s got a couple of events coming up and it finally looks like he will be up and going. and nbc news has reported that he is indeed planning a return to twitter soon as well. he hasn t posted yet but on both twitter and facebook, he has tens of millions of more followers than he ever obtained on truth social, so that s why those things matter as he starts to launch a campaign, as for guardrails, we ll wait and see. i don t know what more evidence facebook/meta needs that this could potentially be problematic. the effort of guardrails is clearly failed in every turn here but to that point i want to bring into the conversation that my colleague hallie jackson had with nick kleg, head of global affairs and describing why they made this decision right now. listen. so i m not saying that everything is perfect, no one is but we re saying if you compare ....