31 and a half trillion dollars and counting every moment of every day. speaker mccarthy set to meet with the president to discuss the debt limit and other topics on wednesday. lucas tomlinson live at the white house with more on these upcoming critical negotiations, good afternoon, lucas. lucas: mike, the white house confirm that is meeting will take place wednesday. the white house says it cover wide-range of topics, this one first face to face meeting with new house speaker and president biden. we will meet this wednesday. i know the president said he didn t want to have any discussions but i think it s very important that our whole government is designed to find compromise. i want to find a reasonable and responsible way that we can lift the debt ceiling but take control of the run away spending. democrats have a position. raise the debt ceiling and pay the bills. we are not going to negotiate with ourselves. if the republicans want to put something on the table and sa
imposed by a judge. just a beating and death. last night, the memphis police department released for videos from january 7th, the night that the 20 nine-year-old tyre nichols was stopped by police in beaten by five officers. nichols was hospitalized in critical condition. he died three days later. the five officers involved were arrested on thursday. they were charged with second degree murder. one count of aggravated coal. two counts of aggravated kidnapping. two counts of official misconduct, and one count of official oppression. i want to be clear, what led to those charges and what you re about to see is a lynching caught on camera in america in 2023. and i do need to win, you this video is graphic and it is upsetting. the first part of camera footage shows tyre nichols first encounter with police. he stopped at an intersection, and then officer seen opening nichols car door and pulling him out violently in urgently. you can hear nickel say, i didn t do anything. get ou
we are playing a portion of the video that the memphis police department played. we need to warn you that it is difficult to watch. i didn t do anything. turn around. all right. all right. don t do that. [screaming] get on the ground. i am on the ground. leighton, lay down. i will tase you. get on the ground. stop, all right, okay. okay. put your hands behind your back. you guys are really doing a lot right now. i am just trying to go home. i am on the ground. lay on your stomach. i am. stop, i am not doing anything. that is when they gave chase. they eventually caught up to hanley. attorney described what happened next. three minutes of unadulterated, unabashed, nonstop beating. it is being compared to the 1991 video of los angeles police officers beating rodney king. you can hear his last words. again, all of the footage is disturbing. watch out. mom! mom! tyre nichols died in the hospital three days later. he was a son, a father to a
tape that s going to be released after 7:00 p.m. eastern time today, comparing to what happened with rodney king. we ll talk about that but listen to what he said. it reminds you of rodney king in many regards, assaulted, battered, punched, kicked, tased, pepper sprayed. it is very troubling when you think about tyre only weighs, at most, 150 pounds, calling for his mother. he yells out to her three times and then you never hear tyre nichols say another word on that video. you see him up against the car, sitting down in handcuffs and you see his body fall to the right. you can see now i m joined live now by the memphis police chief, cj davis thank you for joining us. i m going to wear my glasses because i have specific things i want to ask you about. these five officers have been charged with second degree murder in the death of tyre nichols. what s your reaction to these very serious charges? well, i expected serious charges. i really did. actually, the charges that we
hello, everyone, i m kate bolduan. at this hour, we re going to be starting in memphis. that city and far beyond that city, are now just hours from waiting for and receiving the release of around an hour s worth of videos that capture the police beating of tyre nichols. what has been described by every person who has seen it so far as a brutal attack that prosecutors say led to his death three days later. all five of, and we ll show you these now fired officers, are now charged with murder. and other serious crimes. in an exclusive interview with cnn, the memphis police chief said the video is perhaps worse than the police beating of rodney king decades ago. nichol s mother described the injuries that her son suffered at the hands of police. they had beat him to a pulp. he had bruises all over him. his head was swollen like a watermelon. it is horrific. and the humanity of it all. where was the humanity? they beat my son like a pinata. tyre nichols s mother there was ta