coverage. i m kate firing live from msnbc headquarters live in new york. this morning, memphis in the rest the country is trying to come to grips with the newly released video of police officers beating, kicking, tasing, pepper spraying tyre nichols, it s 49 year old unarmed black man. it was a beating that ultimately resulted in tyre nichols death, and murder charges for the five now former police officers. to begin this hour, i m going to hear from his mother about what kind of son he was. my son, i know everybody says, mother say that they had a good son, everybody son is good, but my son actually was a good boy. he had my name tattooed on his arm. that made me proud. most kids don t put they mom s name. but he did. my son was a beautiful soul. and he touched everyone. that is just so getting to hear from her. and now we are going to play a part of the video that was released last night. but i want to warn you, it is graphic, it is violent, and it s unbelievably dist
house now. mj, let s start with this meeting happening right now. it s notable that only allies are joining this call. yeah. that s right. we are about to see president biden turn his attention to this news that absolutely rocked the country last week. of course, the supreme court s decision to overrule roe v. wade. this is a decision that the president himself had referred to as outrageous. what we are about to see moments from now is the president holding a virtual meeting with nine governors across the country. these are governors hailing from states that span the country all the way from the west coast to the east coast. i think we have a list of those governors. if you look there, governors from the states of new york, colorado, illinois. the state of washington. what we expect to see in this meeting is basically a discussion between the president and these governors on what the federal government can do to try to help these individual states as they try to work out wh
that was mr. giuliani. he said, we have lots of theories. we just don t have the evidence. and i don t know if that was a gaffe or maybe he didn t think through what he said. i said, what would you have me do? and he said, just do it and let the court sort it out. but rusty bowers, the arizona speaker of the house and other election officials were not just facing pressure from the trump team. many also endured harassment and in some cases actual violence from people in their states who believed trump s election lies. listen to this tape from the michigan secretary of state, jocelyn benson. 45 minutes later, we started to hear the noises outside my home, and that s my stomach sunk. i thought, it s me. and then it s just, we don t know what s going the uncertainty of that was what was the fear. like, are they coming with guns? are they going to attack my house? i am in here with my kid. i m trying to put him to bed. so it was that was the scariest moment, just not k
policing, obviously last year, they tried to put the george floyd policing act, but the willingness to commit to a national effort will always be difficult, because they re 18,000 police agencies here, and all of them have their own individual cultures, their own individual way of doing things, and unless they are led by political leaders in the town, whether it s police chief, the mayor, the city administrators, they will hold officers accountable, and you can never really get a handle and change the culture of the department. it is the culture that is important, because that culture is handed down from one generation to the next, and then black officers come in, they adopt that culture, and they actresses badly some of the white officers. not all officers of the same, but they do act like that, and so i m not surprised by the brutality of these black officers. i m sure they ve had black officers like them, and i know that they can engage in similar conduct. however, the training is
good-byes. cnn s rosa flores joins us in san antonio. how are the local officials responding to this? you know, let me start with the families here, because you really have to put yourself in their shoes to understand the dynamic here. what these family members are saying is that they are seeing the individuals, the officers who didn t go in and save their children or their family members, the school administrators that could hold some of the officers accountable, they re seeing them in the community, at the gas station, at the grocery store, and so these individuals, these family members, are going to their elected officials in city council and demanding that information, video and documents, be released so that these individuals can be held accountable. so that somebody can be held accountable. now the answer they re getting from their elected officials is they can t release information because they ve been told by the district attorney that they can t. and the mayor quoted a let