country. velshi starts now. good morning to you. it is sunday, january the 28. i m ali velshi. demonstrators in major cities around the country took to the streets again yesterday after the memphis police department released footage of the brutal beating of tyre nichols by five members of its own police force. in the continuing aftermath, memphis pd announced yesterday that it has permanently deactivated its scorpion unit. scorpion what the departments anti violence group which has been under scrutiny in recent days after it became public that all five of the police officers who were fired, arrested, and charged with second degree murder in nichols death where members of the unit. joining me now from memphis, tennessee, is nbc s antonia hylton who have been covering the story from the beginning. antonia. welcome tell us a bit about this new development with the scorpion unit, of which all five of these police officers were members. ali, i was actually with protesters yest
but i want to hear from one more person, the disgraced former president himself. i think it s likely final investigative hearing on thursday, all nine members of the committee voted to subpoena the twice impeached insurrectionist president to compel him to testify. liz cheney, the committees republican vice chair, said more than 30 witnesses invoked their fifth amendment right against self incrimination when they were interviewed. many of them, like roger stone and john eastman did so to avoid answering questions about their interactions in discussions with the former president. now, by subpoenaing him, the committee is giving trump the chance to clear things up. the chances of that happening highly in likely. and we think he knows how to do it deflect, deny, and lie, it was meant to take responsibility for his words and actions under oath. and a couple of months ago, trump invoked his fifth amendment right nearly 40 and 50 times when he was deposed by new york state attorney
Of a global pandemic. Carrico and wiseman were both professors at the university of pennsylvania. Executive Vice President of U Penn School of medicine said it has charned the world and indeed it has. Thanks for being with us. Id love to. The lead with jake tapper starts right now. Today donald trump called the judge overseeing his fraud case a trump hater. Im not sure that was a smart move. The lead starts rielg now. With millions of dollars on the line, and his future businesses in new york at stake, donald trump shows up for day one of His Civil Fraud Trial Blasting not only prosecutors, but insulting the very judge who will decide how much trump must pay in a case where hes already been found liable for fraud. And as trump pleads his case, here comes some shocking comments and a new warning from one of his former longest serving white house officials. This official going on the record setting the record straight only on the lead. Exclusively confirming a number of very damning deta
post, on october 1st 2018, which he turned into his editor the day before his disappearance, to show she wrote about the importance of free expression. worldwide. and specifically in the. arab world. quote, air governments have been given free rein to continue silencing the media acid increasing rate. at a time when journalist believes the internet will liberate information from the censorship and control associated with print media. but these governments whose very existence relies on the control of information have aggressively blocked the internet. they have also rested local orders in pressured advertisers to harm the revenue of specific complications. the very next day, october 2nd 2018, jamal khashoggi walked into the saudi consulate in turkey. he was never seen again. over the next few weeks it was determined that he was murdered and dismembered by agents of the saudi government.
geopolitical conflict involving the united states, it may not know much about, but you need, to because it very well could have a serious effect on the upcoming midterms in 2024 presidential election. but to get, there i need to go back to october 2nd, 2018. that s one washington post columnist jamal khashoggi was murdered by saudi arabian agents in the saudi consulate in istanbul turkey. the cia and other foreign intelligence agencies concluded that the assassination was ordered by the saudi crown prince muhammad bin salman, mbs, although mbs denies any involvement in this. widespread saudi cover-up ensued, publicly backed by the former president donald trump, and while there are some nice slap on the wrist repercussions for the kingdom, mbs has never been held to account for this murder, and the overall relationship between the u.s.