continues. cnn primetime special inside the trump investigation starts now. a surreal moment. history made former president trump arrested and arraign cannot and will not normalized serious criminal conduct. 34 felony counts tied to alleged hush money payments felony crimes in new york state no matter who you are tonight, fact checking the former president s grievances. only crime that i have committed is to fearlessly defend our nation from those who seek to destroy it, comparing his charges to another infamous campaign finance case and answer the biggest questions. what s next for the manhattan case? this case is going to fall on its merits. well, before we get to a jury. what role does politics play in this prosecution as a nominee? would be much more difficult for a prosecutor to then go to trial and convict him and which of the other probes could imperil the former president? next this is the least of the legal troubles. we re seeing the special counsel making real strid
inside the trump investigation starts now. a surreal moment. history made former president trump arrested and arraign cannot and will not normalized serious criminal conduct. 34 felony counts tied to alleged hush money payments felony crimes in new york state no matter who you are tonight, fact checking the former president s grievances. only crime that i have committed is to fearlessly defend our nation from those who seek to destroy it, comparing his charges to another infamous campaign finance case and answer the biggest questions. what s next for the manhattan case? this case is going to fall on its merits. well, before we get to a jury. what role does politics play in this prosecution as a nominee? would be much more difficult for prosecutors to then go to trial and convict him and which of the other probes could imperil the former president? next this is the least of the legal troubles. we re seeing the special counsel making real strides. this is cnn prime time inside
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. cnn s nick valencia joins us now. nick, anybody who watched this video can see that at various points that were more than five officers at the scene wh. what do we know about this sixth officer s role? reporter: they told me the sixth officer has been relieved of duty, put on administrative leave. that officer identified as preston hemphill who s been with them since 2018. we have reached the attorney, the man who said he s representing mr. hemphill. he can confirm that that is his client. he also says that it was the body cam footage of mr. he
to today. we begin with 0,000-foa sixty ts foot in the sky balloon that s flying over the continentale. wa us somewhere where at this momentt this we re not exactly sure. it is a massive chinese spy balloon the size of, say,, hove three school buses.rir iout has been hovering overml our country for days. and why hasn td we our governmee told we, the people about this ,the self-proclaimed most transparent administration itras history? china says it s a weather balloon. i don t believe anyone here believe them can say it louder.l now. all right. they re saying accidentally that he s flying over america s critical military infrastructure. now it sy happening in multiple states . a lying communist spokesperson nameisd mao told us to calm dow, quote, any deliberateside speculation or hyping uperin will not help the chinese side n is gathering the facts and hopes all sides will handle this matter matter in a coolhes manner. how about we don t need lectures from the communist
made history of trump tower there on the left, gliding down the escalator and launching the campaign that would make him president on the right side of your screen that is former president donald trump on unaccompanied, walking down the stairs of the plane that returned him to new york and alleged criminal being arraigned tomorrow. his reception at trump tower is quiet as 2015 was flashy. no crowds inside just now private citizen moving rather quickly from his car to his residence tonight, the latest on what happened today and everything we know about tomorrow when he leaves trump tower heads downtown, and this country s 45th president becomes the first to face criminal charges. the exact charges still sealed. we know more about what the process will look like and how much of any of it we will get to see. we have correspondents and attorneys on all the angles tonight. cnn s jason carroll at trump towers, you know, shimon, procure pez and paula reid downtown with what awaits t