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washington. we are tracking major fallout in the fatal police beating of 29-year-old tyre nichols. a sixth memphis police officer was just relieved of duty for alleged involvement in the deadly incident. five previously fired officers charged with murder. those five were members of the scorpion unit that was disbanded over the weekend. this comes as new charges could be in play and as congress faces new calls to act on police reform. cnns nick valencia joins us now. nick, anybody who w...

Scorpion unit? >> absoluteabsolutely. we heard over the weekend that this unit has been permanently disbanded. scorpion unit, what a moniker to give a police unit. it stands for street crime operations to restore peace in our neighborhoods. they were launched in late 2021 and heralded by city leadership. in january of 2022, the mayor of memphis, jim strickland, praising this unit saying that it led to 566 arrests, 390 of them were felonies. he said just in a matter of a couple of months being ac...

Administration could have done differently, absoluteabsolutely for me, how better could the state department evacuated americans better as events unraveled quickly. i look forward to hear from the secretary how the department plans to complete the evacuation of the 100 or 200 americans who remain in afghanistan and want to come home, as well as the afghans who worked alongside us in the past 20 years. however, it is important to separate fair criticism from criticism that is not made in good fai...

I gather there will be another press conference, media availability later this morning. >> later on this morning, i think around 9:00 or 10:00 a.m., were going to hear again from authorities. were expecting to hear more information then. then well probably start to hear more and more victims. these are going to be jewish funerals. that will be happening in very short order after the death. traditionally, in the next day or two. those names are going to start to come out. were going to start to h...

Day of deliberations about two hours ago. nbcs kevin tibbles has been following this case and he joins us with the latest. kevin, as we mentioned earlier, this could certainly end up in the high court. >> absoluteabsolutely, tamron. as the jury deliberates, this is a case thats being watched very closely by those on both sides of the gun control issue. two police officers, both shot in the face, after stopping a young man for riding a bike on a milwaukee sidewalk in 2009. >> i thought i was goin...

Nate, are you surprise that weekend was not more of an infliction point in the race? >> absoluteabsolutely. there were two things about what trump looked like then and what we see now that suggest a more robust candidacy than we saw at the time. it looked at first as if he was a media-driven candidate. that sounds like its not important but it matters in terms of where the support is coming from. once the coverage changes, trump goes away. now we can at least say hes not just benefiting from med...

Shoes. so it ensured for me that i would never ever do that again and so i just put that out there for the parents that are watching because if that, my story saves one life, its important but im happy were talking about this because something needs to be done. >> absoluteabsolutely. there is an entire organization. kids in cars.org raises awareness, whether taking your shoes off or whatever you need to do it happens too often and the bottom line is now a 22 month old is gone because he was left...

Its building a wall along the egyptian border. egypt is building a wall up along the syrian border. were going to talk more about that on "nightly news." >> richard, thanks so much for joining us. i want, if i may, to bring in our panel now. with us from washington, journalist and author robin wright and joining us as well from allentown, pennsylvania, professor james peterson of lehigh university. robin, prime minister netanyahu confronted one issue on his doorstep, the palestinians. but thou...