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reorganization. we ll talk to the mayor and plus this. that is violence, serious violence escalating between israel and palestinians. and a mysterious drone strike against iran stoking tension in the region as america s top diplomat heads to jerusalem in the thick of it. facing a major test as this situation continues. a bombastic warning from a top u.s. general who is predicting war with china potentially. we re going to start though with the memphis police department permanently shutting down the scorpion unit after the savage and deadly beating of tyre nichols. the special unit is once celebrated for cracking down on high crime areas. it is now coming under intense scrutiny. the big question is was tyre nichols the only one? or did other people also suffer brutal treatment? you re going to stay on top of this. it has a very as i understand it, sketchy track record. well, we re hearing that certainly from people in the community. you were there. people would ....
to world peace and let no one doubt this is a difficult and dangerous effort on which we have set out. neil: 60 years ago this very month, we were on the brink, the closest the world had ever come to nuclear war. thereby a few other decision it could have been. now we re facing potentially the same predicament, what president biden calls potential armageddon given some of the retaliatory efforts and provocative moves on the part of vladamir putin talking freely about using tactical nuclear weapons of saying nothing of what seems to be daily missile strikes out of north korea, a couple of which just went over japan this past week. we re not even getting into china s provocations of the south china sea and presidents in anything taiwan, and new york, taiwan, south korea and on and on. some are criticizing the president for even mentioning the armageddon word and his massage was to let the message was to let the world be on notice and nothing to do with happening event ....
What i was saying is this i wasn t saying that they hadn t killed tyre nichols. sadly, they did. i was trying to say their actions seen on tape might not fit the legal standard for second-degree murder. so let s talk about all of this with the assistant professor of law at brooklyn law school. it s great to you have. likewise. so what he is arguing here is that to meet successfully prosecute on second-degree murder, you need knowing intent. you need intent. exactly. you make a really interesting point that a first-degree murder but felony murder charge may have held up better. why? well, so for first-degree murder felony murder, a murder happens in conjunction with an underlying felony. and here every single charge that the memphis district attorney charged these five individuals with were felonies. the underlying felony that ....
Dc, and chicago. and he says there s been 20,500 criminal arrests of which 18,000 were felonies. now, they also on the drug front because remember, the deadly fentanyl seizures, which is off the charts, is part of this. he says they ve seized some 337 million lethal doses of it. we spent the week with texas dps troopers and one of them says there s no end in sight until something changes. take a listen to what she said. until something changes from a federal aspect where there are actually consequences to coming in this country illegally that are real and valid and somewhat scary like you re going to face some sort of legitimate con defense, this is going to consequence, this is going to get worse. reporter: meanwhile, neil, human smuggling is surging in a dangerous way and this is in hidalgo county in the rio grand ....