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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 ....
thank you for staying with us this hour we ll check the national forecast as outreach continues to grow among southwest airlines customers with thousands of new cancellations. also a live report from the southern border as the future of tens of thousands of migrants remains in legal mim lim bow and we are discussing tripledemic fears as we approach the new year we begin this hour with the persistent problems that our nation s airports ask the spotlight focused on southwest airlines as tens of thousands of customers face another day of waiting to find when they can finally catch a flight home. joining me now is blayne alex alexander. the chaos continues for travelers. mostly for this attempt to reset schedules and staffing after the cancellations. what are you seeing today? reporter: we re certainly seeing a lot of people in line, a lot of people frustrated and trying to figure out when they can get to their destination i think that the numbers really tell the stor ....
because we really have changed the world. that s on top of the string of some other very big recent wins. among them, major gun safety legislation, a computer chip bill and that veterans burn pit law. for republicans, the biggest buzz isn t on capitol hill. it s coming from cpac in texas and some of the most extreme voices in the party. the democratic party just that they were picked in this fraud election. we skipped over socialism to comism is where we re at. the joe biden economy has made it hard to families have hot dogs and that s an unacceptable thing. we re at war. we are at war. we re at a political and ideological war. in the senate every day i represent 30 million texans, and my job it s like the old coliseum where you slam on a plate and grab a battle ax and you fight the barbarians. donald trump was also there delivering the keynote speech saturday to huge applause. and the sunday straw poll show he s still the clear favorite among conservatives ....
confidence and those aren t the only challenges to his reelection, but they maybe the biggest. even so, he delivered a powerful message to the afl-cio today uncysting he is still the right man for the job. i m going to keep fighting for you. are you prepared to fight with me? let s build it together. let s continue to give working families a fighting chance. face our challenges head on. and let s keep building a a better america, because we can do it. on the other side of the coin, republicans are also facing potential head winds, but in the form of the former president. with the january 6th committee unveiling new testimony and evidence that shows former president trump embraced election fraud allegations a as a way to raise hundreds of millions from his supporters. republicans a across the country have to be asking themselves whether it makes sense to keep writing riding trump s coat tails. so far it s been a winning formula. the watts post found 10 primary candid ....