you are live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. today the attorney for the family of tyre nichols is calling the video of the 29-year-old being beaten by officers a watershed moment, one that the attorney hopes will lead to federal police legislation reform. late yesterday, we learned that the memphis police department had shut down the controversial scorpion unit that the officers charged in this killing belonged to. that news coming less than 24 hours after graphic video of tyre nichols being beaten and tased by officers was released to the public. again, i want to warn our viewers, what you re about to watch is disturbing. ah! mom! mother mom! give me your fucking hands, man! give me your fucking hands! give me your hands! give me your hands! hey! cnn s isabel rosales joins me now. isobel, what led to the chief deciding to do this step of deactivating the unit? and what more do we know about what s happening with this case? hey, jim. so
Been reliably red for three decades. But baldersons team says he was able to hold his own and do well enough to eke out a win. And hes paid special thanks to President Trump. Id like to thank President Trump. America is on the right path, and were going to keep it going that way. Reporter again, this was a race that too close to comfort for many republicans, and its a race thats soon to be repeated. Both candidates will face each other again come november. Jason carol reporting there. Well, Democrat Danny Oconnor was up beat when he spoke to his supporters late tuesday, and he took a swipe at President Trump. We made our case for change. Were going to make that case tomorrow. Were not stopping now. Tomorrow we rest, and then we keep fighting through to
A recap of the days news. Gets checked. 8,500 votes roughly still to be counted and sorted out. The Secretary Of State says 5,048 outstanding Absentee Ballots, 3,500 provisional ballots. The question is does it change this . In most elec
capitol hill. the influential crew is commonly known as the four corners, the powerful spending committees oversee an annual spending budget of $1.7 trillion and are responsible for crafting policies that effect nearly every part of american life. cnn s melanie zanona sat down with these four woman for a joint interview. melanie, they ve got a lot of power at their fingertips these days. yeah, these are going to be some of the most important and powerful people in washington over the next few years. and they happen to be women for the first time ever. you know, with upcoming deadlines to fund the government and to raise the nation s borrowing limit, they are going to be at the center of all of the action. and it is going to be up to this group of women to pull the nation back from the brink of fiscal calamity, which is no easy task in a hyperpolarized washington and with such slim margins in the house and senate. so i sat down with this bipartisan group to talk about how they plan to
he ran on the issue of medicare, on the issue of health care. he talked about inequality. he talked about a lot of things but not donald trump because he knew trump had a lot of appeal among voters in that district. bill, i want to look at some numbers. let s look at what outside groups spent. more than $5 million was spent on the republican candidate while around $1 million on the democratic candidate. what does that tell you? what happened in that district was that spending among republicans certainly was primarily by outside groups. the democrat and the republican, it democrat actually raised more money for his own campaign than the republican did. the democrat had a lot of volunteers, had a lot of people who were sending in small amounts of money, but there were huge interest groups, independent spending committees not controlled by the campaign that spent money on behalf of the republican candidate. we re going to see this again
congress we hear so often out of the white house. senator lindsey graham, senator john mccain, senator crambliss, senator tom co burn, senator richard burr, senator pat toomey, senator bob corker, senator ron johnson. i want to bring in richard wolf and crystal ball into this discussion. no senator who has a high-ranking position on one of the important spending committees. this is a very, very unusual assembly. it is, and obviously he feels like he s tried that route, he s tried working with the leadership, and just because he can get buy-in from the leadership doesn t mean he can get the rest of the caucus to go along. this is an opportunity, a chance to maybe try and kindle some good will to the caucus in the senate.