good evening, teresa. all five of the former officers facing charges of aggravated assault, aggravated kidnapping, official misconduct, official oppression, in addition to, as you point out, second-degree murder charges. [listing names of officers] all fired last week for use of force, and excessive use of force, and for failing to intervene and failing to render aid to nichols, the departments that had been pulled over for suspected reckless driving. he died in the hospital just three days after he was pulled over back on january 7th. police say there was an initial stop, and then pepper spray was deployed, a foot chase, then another altercation. the tennessee bureau of investigation head, david rauch, whose department is leading the ongoing investigation is the officers conduct, said, i ve seen the video. you will, too. in a word, it s absolutely appalling. the actions of these officers were awful, and no one, including law enforcement, is above the law. i assure you
investigators say his demeanor changed when he saw investigators examining truck tire impressions. trace? trace: david lee, thank you. and just hours, republican national committee members will vote to elect a new chair to lead them into the 2024 election cycle. the senior national correspondent, william la jeunesse, has a preview tonight. he s lives for us in dana point california. trace, this turned out to be much more competitive than many expected. it s a two-person race, current rnc chairwoman ronna mcdaniel against california trial attorney harmeet dhillon. she represents the activist grassroots wing of the party. the magic number is 85 votes. that s half the number of voting members who are meeting here in orange county. mcdaniel has said she has this race in the bag, but that s not certain, since votes are secret. there s a lot of reasons members may say one thing and do another. politico says harmeet dhillon may have about 60 votes, still
i think the question is what if he wins one of them? what if he, you know, loses iowa, wins new hampshire or the other way around. i think then, you know, there are more opportunities for these other candidates. but then we have the race that everyone has been expecting. the anger candidate and the establishment candidate. if he wins iowa but jeb bush or marco rubio wins new hampshire then you have it. then you could have ted cruz winning iowa and donald trump winning new hampshire. then what is it? well, then the rest of the field really benefits. that s a really important point, gloria. what we have seen in the last couple of cycles as john mccain edged it out past mike huckabee and put that together, as mitt romney dealt with rick santorum, we ve always seen that conservative grassroots wing get closer and closer and not convert to victory. this may be a different cycle this time. the grassroots may have the energy. yeah, one winning each race. hold that thought. we have
welcome back to the lead. now for our politics lead and the rest of my conversation with former vice president dick cheney. with public opinion approval of the republican party plummeting to historic lows this month, the gop is in a bit of a makeover phase but bubbling underneath is the strange relationship between the more conservative grassroots wing of the party and the republican establishment. with cheney s own daughter entering the political ring with a run for a wyoming senate seat challenging an incumbent republican senator, mike enzi, i asked cheney for his take on the party and its future. i want to talk about some tension right now in the republican party. you ve expressed sympathy for want of a better term, tea party republicans and their concerns about the astronomical national debt and the deficits, but when i heard you commenting on it, i