boston, and d.c.. take a look at your screen right there. just to name a few of the places where we are watching this demonstration on s unfold. it s no secret that tyre nichols death is another reminder of the cycle of police violence normalized in this country. like so many of these cases, it started at a traffic stop. the driver just trying to get home. those were among nichols last words. in fact, as police video released yesterday clearly revealed. tonight we still don t know what led to the traffic stop in the first place. memphis police initially said officers pulled nichols over for reckless driving on january 7th. however on friday a memphis police chief told msnbc a review of police video shows no evidence that nichols was driving recklessly. we are going to show you some of that video, nichols traffic stop and initial interaction with police. it s very graphic but it shows with the 29-year-old was up against as he drove to take a picture of the sunset. man, i did
a t-rex bone it is now a special exhibit at the denver museum of nature and science called discovering teen racks. and there s also a new documentary wow, you never know what you might find when you re out hiking. thanks to our panel. thanks to all of you for being here. i m kasie hunt, tanno, new central starts right now overnight, president biden arrived in france for a few which overseas trip. the white house and the biden campaign have a lot riding on this the unwelcome headline that greeted them on arrival the president s side on hunter biden headed back to court. the first witness in his federal trial headed back on the stand outside of court, though, fireworks, hunter biden s wife confronting a trump ally inside the courthouse, and third time to charm, they hope soon boeing makes its third attempt to get its historic mission to space off the ground let s see what happens this time i m kate bolduan with john berman, sarah side or is out today. this is cnn news cen
Doing drugs and his addiction. on the flip side, you have a couple of people on that jury, a significant portion of them who have had family members, or friends, or otherwise been impacted by addiction. so i think on the flip side from the defense perspective, that could be really, really sympathetic element, that could be applied to hunter biden, especially when you re talking about the sensitivity of addiction and the potential for relapse. so very powerful, but powerful in two different scenarios and maybe effective for each side in a different way. interesting that you bring up a possible defense angle here to think a lot of people went into this trial thinking what is hunter biden going to argue to try to try to get a not guilty or at least a hung jury here. but we are beginning to see a strategy here. one engender sympathy like you re suggesting right there. and then number to get into the technicality of what it means to be using or, and, or abusing drugs when you re filling o
But building in this case, you ve got evidence here, you ve got videos, and i will say, as a prosecutor, former prosecutor, never go into a trial thinking that it s a slam dunk. there are so many angles, still so many questions, especially with why tyre was pulled over in the first place. the biggest question of. all nichols family spoke with reverend sharpton in the last hour. i want you to take a listen to what the family had to say. i believe in my heart that my son was on assignment from god. he finished his assignment and god took him back home. even though this tragedy happened to my son, our children believe that there is going to be a greater good comes out of this, and that is what keeps me going. we ve heard from too many moms who ve had to do interviews like this. families and lawyers comparing the speeding to the rodney king
And to start by saying i went into this trial thinking, wow, this is going to be an easy case, because they ve got this chief financial officer of the company saying he s already pleaded guilty to 15 charges of tax fraud. he s gonna be the star witness. and then i saw for a few days of jury selection it was difficult to find a juror that was a fan of donald trump. quite the opposite. there was a lot of animosity about him and they kept having to separate he is not on try it s the company. as i ve sat through a lot of the testimony, it has become clear that that charge and the threshold of the prosecution are going to have to meet is interesting. it is a vague area of the law. they re not just gonna have to prove that allen weisselberg did this, but that he did it in behalf of the company, that he did it with an intent to benefit the company. we will hear more about that when the jury is charged on monday. but it s a high threshold. what the defense has been doing, it is been saying all