The race against new variants as the president takes steps the reunite families separated by the Trump Administration. Why a congressman said i. C. E. Went Rogue Deporting One of his con sit wents. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Tonight congress has taken a big step Forward Holding accountable those responsible for the january 6 attack on the capitol. Speaker out house nancy pelosi announced her intent to set up an official investigation into the events of that day. Writing in a letter to democratic caucus, quote, it is clear that we need to establish a 9 11type commission to examine and report upon the facts, causes the security relating to the Terrorist Mob Attack on january 6. Today the senate received the first legal filings for the firstever second impeachment of a president of the United States. The house Impeachment Managers released this 80page trial memo outlining the case against the former president. Theyre clear many what he did and des
political ends. the justice department closed the investigation of the michael cohen case in which federal prosecutors said donald trump ordered michael cohen and directed him to commit the crimes and thehim, the crimes which michael cohen is imprisoned tonight. if you re elected president, would your attorney general reopen that investigation and examine indicting donald trump? this is what i would tell my attorney general. you treat him like you would treat any other citizen. i believe if he were treated like any other citizen, he absolutely would be prosecuted. he d be behind bars. secretary coors, we re going to try to squeeze in a break. i want to discuss your policing reform proposals when we get back. what i heard you say this week on this matter, which is the strongest statement i have heard about police use of force by a
the city of new york, should the officer be fired? do you believe that that police officer should be fired? you re going to be on the debate stage with the mayor of new york city, bill de blasio. is this nothing that you will bring up at that time? i absolutely believe that the officer will be fired. i hope we had the opportunity speak about the issue of police reform as you know, lawrence, i m the only candidate that s put forward a police reform plan. this is one more powerful example of why we need it. i would just ask your listeners there, how many of these videos do we have to see, video after video after video of especially young black men that are treated differently by police, that excessive force is used on before we understand that it s even though we have great police officers out there and i worked with some as mayor of san antonio, this is not a case of just a few bad apples.
that s what my police reform plan would do by increasing transparency and accountability, setting a national use of force standard that says that lethal force should only be used in an officer has exhausted all other reasonable alternatives under the circumstances. it would also create a list of decertified offers, national lists so they can t get decertified because of misconduct in one department and go down the road and get a different job at a different police department. and it would demilitaryize our police. military equipment is given to police departments across the country and we ve really created more of a military, more aggressive kind of mind-set in our police. i think that we need to ensure that they have the tools to do their job effectively, but not create a mill taristic police. i hope folks will go to my
stage with the mayor of new york city, bill de blasio. is this nothing that you will bring up at that time? i absolutely believe that the officer will be fired. i hope we had the opportunity speak about the issue of police reform as you know, lawrence, i m the only candidate that s put forward a police reform plan. this is one more powerful example of why we need it. i would just ask your listeners there, how many of these videos do we have to see, video after video after video of especially young black men that are treated differently by police, that excessive force is used on before we understand that it s even though we have great police officers out there and i worked with some as mayor of san antonio, this is not a case of just a few bad apples. the whole system is broken, and we need a plan to fix it.