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im jessica dean in washington, d.c. in today for fredicka whitfield. a major move by the memphis police department. less than 24 hours after the release of the video showing the brutal building of tyre nichols, the s.c.o.r.p.i.o.n. unit will be disbanded. this move coming after nichols family and protesters around the country demanded the unit be dissolved. cnns isabelle rosales has more on these developments. what are you learning? >> reporter: the police chief cerelyn davis, in a sta...

Of parliament in westminster. Plans to make britain an independent, sovereign nation will be published this morning just one day after theresa may started the process of brexit. The great repeal bill will outline how the government plans to repatriate more than a0 years worth of powers from the European Union and convert thousands of eu rules into british law. Yesterday, theresa may described britains departure from the eu as an historic moment from which there can be no turning back. Eleanor ga...

We dont know what goes on in the royal family. we dont have an ambassador in riyadh. we intercept calls between saudi arabia and jamal saying come home, trying to lure him home. its really the turkish tapes that are going to tell us what really happened. did they set upon him and beat him to death on purpose? frankly, i have a hard time believing that you would send a rendition team of 15 people, two airplanes and then interrogate him in the consulate. very well you could have brought him hole a...

President said about rogue killers. that was a change. don, what about our intelligence in why are we relying on the saudis or turks? we have significant intelligence assets, and before the president got on the phone this morning, typically you would have an intelligence briefing laying out what we actually know to be true. >> talk to us about that. what about our intelligence? >> our intelligence on saudi arabia is awful, don, frankly. we dont know what goes on in the royal family. we dont have...

What you think in terms of the start wars technology is not great. we intercept about half the time. >> i said that. >> it has been 9 of 17 since 99. >> its still better than 0%. >> im saying it is better. but we do not stop them right away. and i think that the way that the trump administration is doing this is putting pressure on china. over the weekend we saw the japanese getting into this now for the first time doing business with china saying, you have to stop north korea. you have to contr...

And we do not have the see interceptors on submarines, they do not have that in production yet. they do not have anything land-based, so it is like a 50/50 shot each time they intercept this thing. it is the hardest military technology and development today. so it is billions of dollars. the problem is if they successfully launch something, whether we intercept it or not, we are going to have to send over the barrage of missiles to take out every military installation immediately in north korea,...

And we do not have the see interceptors on submarines, they do not have that in production yet. they do not have anything land-based, so it is like a 50/50 shot each time they intercept this thing. it is the hardest military technology and development today. so it is billions of dollars. the problem is if they successfully launch something, whether we intercept it or not, we are going to have to send over the barrage of missiles to take out every military installation immediately in north korea,...

This -- the transatlantic alliance peeling apart. >> thank you so much for the kind words about my father. lovely. >> so, julia, let me ask you this. we, of course, are getting these reports this morning. cnn had another report that the russians thought they were passing information around in their intel community, that they thought they had financial information they could use to leverage trump in his inner circle. i want to ask you, when you hear these reports from russian intel agencies back ...

>> 1597 or something. hes done more than his predecessors. >> its laudable what hes done. >> so i want to ask you. brian said, you know, he would separate the two, he would separate snowden and chelsea manning, but your new book about edward snowden is a deep dive into the extent of his crimes. you called what snowden did a theft. should barack obama pardon snowden? >> no, he wont pardon snowden. its night and day between snowden and manning. snowden stole communications intelligence, which is t...

1600 range. done more than his predecessors. >> think its laudable what hes done. >> ryan said would separate snowden and chelsea manning. but your new book about snowden is deep dive into his crimes. you call what he did a theft. should barack obama pardon snowden? >> no. he wont pardon snowden. its night and day between snowden and manning. snowden stole communications intelligence, which is the keys to the kingdom of intelligence, the sources and methods by which we intercept conversations, i...