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>> on the republican side house minority leader kevin mccarthy lacks the votes to become speaker should the gop be in control. democrats could grow senate majority to 51 if they win the georgia runoff. florida's rick scott wants to postpone leadership elections there. >> we shouldn't be having these elections. we have to go back and say to ourselves when republicans do what leadership has done this last year and our candidates have to be frustrated with their leadership caving in on the debt ceiling and gun bill and fake infrastructure bill. >> scott planned to challenge mitch mcconnell. mccon...

Obviously everyone who supports donald trump is a racist. but there's just simply no question that trump's presidency and his pre-presidency was based on appeals to racism and this ethnic division. that list that scott ran through said the president said this and this and this, scott's a decent guy and a good guy, but that's not all he had, scott. and if he had said it it would be completely commonplace. what's different about this president and you have to acknowledge this, he does make these racial appeals. and we've seen it. we saw it on the segment before we came on, and that is what's dif...

Profile cases where video played a role, charges were still never brought. then two weeks ago and for the first time since ferguson raised awareness, a police officer pled guilty based largely on what was on video. michael slager pled guilty to civil rights charges for shooting walter scott five times in the back after scott ran from having been pulled over for a broken taillight. to be clear, all these video driven stories have not made me think less of police. they've just made me think more deeply about whether my prior position of giving them an edge in testimony was proper. by the way, th...

First time since ferguson raised awareness, a police officer pled guilty based largely on what was captured on video. south carolina former policeman michael slager pled guilty to civil rights charges for shooting walter scott five times in the back after scott ran from having been pulled over for a to be clear, all of these video-driven stories have not made me think less of police. they just made me think more deeply about whether my prior position of giving them an edge in testimony was proper. by the way, the video age did not delay my response to the follow-up question whether i would b...

We move on tonight to that stunning about-face, that guilty plea from a former police officer in a racially-charged shooting death that made national headlines. the incident all caught on video. that's officer michael slager chasing walter scott, firing eight times as scott ran from him. abc's steve osunsami in south carolina tonight. >> reporter: for nearly two years the officer seen in this traffic stop, claimed he did nothing wrong. today, a stunning reversal. for black americans today, a sense of justice. >> today is a good day for justice. i thank god for justice. >> reporter: the officer...