we bipartisanly passed the respect for marriage act. don t say we can t get along. years ago, i wrote with great consternation, but we ve reauthorized it again, the violence against women act. the electoral reform act. folks, we did that in a bipartisan way, democrats and republicans did it. i don t know why they don t acknowledge any part of what s making the country again, but in addition, we passed the american rescue plan. the inflation reduction act, and the people sent a clear message. fighting for the sake of fighting gets us nowhere. there s things that we ve got to get things done. that s always been my vision for the country, and i think that s what the american people said in this off year election. yesterday i went to wisconsin, nice and warm like down here. [ laughter ] to talk about how we re building an economy from the bottom up and the middle out. i m so tired of trickle-down economy. not allowed to trick down at my dad s table when we re growing up. today
good to be with you, i m katy tur. as you can see, president biden is in tampa, florida. using this week to sell what he was laying out during the state of the union, the economy and jobs and protecting medicare and social security. let s listen in. nice and warm like down here. talk about how we re building an economy from the bottom up and the middle out. i m so tired of trickle down economics. trickle down on my dad s table when we were growing up. i came to florida to talk about a critical piece of that plan, giving families and seniors just a little more breathing room, my dad would say, to lower your health care costs. and especially important here in florida, as not surprising to any one of you, you have the highest percentage of seniors of any state in the nation. the highest percentage. folks on fixed incomes, rely on social security and medicare to get by. they deserve a greater sense of security and dignity. that s what my plan offers. to many americans, laying i
to really do all of this and they just keep escalating and it is so difficult to watch because, at one point he says . it s gs. assaulted, battered, punched, kick, tased, pepper sprayed. it is very troubling when you think about tyre, as his family says ways at most 150 pounds. so it is hard to watch, alison, and especially at the end of the video when he is calling for his mother. he yells out to her three times and then you never hear tyre nichols say another word anymore on that video. tyre died three days later. and tonight s mother is calling for a peaceful protest tomorrow. i want to bring in democratic congressman steve of tennessee, and michael thomas of the memphis city council. thank you both for being here. councilwoman, i want to start with you, what is the mood in memphis tonight? the mood is pretty ominous, alison and i will be real and transparent that there is a lot of things that are unknown as a leader. we are wanting and encouraging and supporting pea
and he says what did i do? you get to see his humanity doing the whole brutal attack. he s asking themrely have to do all of this? and they just keep escalating, and it s just so difficult to watch because at one point, he says i just want to go home, it s going to remind you of rodney king in many regards. you mean being kicked? assaulted, battered, punched, kicked, tased, pepper spray asked. it s very troubling when you think about ty re only ways at most 150 pounds. and so you know, it s hard to watch allison and especially at the end of the video, when he is calling for his mother, he yells out to her three times, and then you never hear ty re nichols say another word anymore on that video. ty re died three days later and his mother is calling for peaceful protests tomorrow, i want to bring in collins tennis and the a member of memphis city council, council woman i want to start with you, what s the move in memphis tonight? the mood is pretty ominance, i ll be trans
aggravated kidnapping. we are awaiting an update from the shelby county district attorney that is set to begin soon. we re also awaiting the release of video taken during that traffic stop that ended in a violent confrontation between nichols and the officers. the family of nichols have seen that video and nichols died in the hospital after being beaten for three minutes, he died in the hospital three days later. joining me from memphis is antonia hylton. and the lawyers for the nichols family have compared this body cam footage to the beating of rodney king. what more can you tell us and how tense is it right now in memphis as we await the release of this video? reporter: katy, it has been tense here for days now, and people have been anticipating this. you know, not just in news from local officials, the naacp, from the family, but you know, in whispers among black residents here in the city, that this is going to be horrific, hard to stomach, hard to watch, but the news