good to be with you. i'm katy tur. all five of the officers involved in the traffic stop that preceded the death of tyre nichols are now in jail, charged with second-degree murder, aggravated assault, and

aggravated kidnapping. we are awaiting an update from the shelby county district attorney that is set to begin soon. we're also awaiting the release of video taken during that traffic stop that ended in a violent confrontation between nichols and the officers. the family of nichols have seen that video and nichols died in the hospital after being beaten for three minutes, he died in the hospital three days later. joining me from memphis is antonia hylton. and the lawyers for the nichols family have compared this body cam footage to the beating of rodney king. what more can you tell us and how tense is it right now in memphis as we await the release of this video? >> reporter: katy, it has been tense here for days now, and people have been anticipating this. you know, not just in news from local officials, the naacp, from

the family, but you know, in whispers among black residents here in the city, that this is going to be horrific, hard to stomach, hard to watch, but the news now, that these five officers are in custody, that they are facing serious criminal charges, that range from aggravated kidnapping to misconduct, to most importantly, second-degree murder charges, that's been met as a relief by some people here, because you know, communities like memphis, they've been here before, where they feel like they've had to beg and plead for this level of charges, they had to beg and plead for body camera video, for respect and communication, from officials. the one silver lining here is that they feel not only did the police department move very quickly to fire these officers, but that second-degree murder charges reflect what the community has been expecting, that when we see this, it is going to look like a horrible, essentially an execution of many

people living here. i spoke to one police officer here in memphis, who himself was emotional about all of this and how horrific it is going to be process. so the one piece that people are grateful for is that the police chief, who she's relatively new here, has, in their view, stepped up, communicated clearly, acted really swiftly, and that these charges represent what the community thinks these officers deserve, katy. >> the traffic stop happened on january 7th. he died three days later. it has been building out there. for anybody who might not be familiar with the details of this case, can you just run us through the basics, what happened,nd when did it happen, and how do we get to the point where we are today. >> reporter: absolutely. one of the first things i should say though is that we're still waiting on a full report, perhaps we will hear more about that at this 2:00 p.m. local time, 3:00 p.m. eastern presser that's going to happen in just a few minutes here at the d.a.'s office. but what we understand is tyre

nichols was arrested during a traffic stop, they accused him of recklessly driving and that traffic stop then very quickly escalated. for people who have seen the video, they say that not only are we going to see three minutes of beating, but we're going to see use of things potentially like pepper spray and tasers, that was incredibly, incredibly violent, and people have been saying that a traffic stop of this nature shouldn't have escalated to what we are going to see, and shy note that nbc news has confirmed from multiple sources that we're not going to get this video this afternoon. it's not coming when we get this press conference shortly. we're going to see this video likely tomorrow afternoon, or tomorrow evening. but the investigations are also ongoing here. local, state, and a federal civil rights investigation. and so the community is expecting reports, and of course, the body camera video, a better understanding of what transpired here. for many people, how a traffic

stop escalates to this point and results in someone dead three days later, it's very hard without some of those blanks filled in at this time to make sense of any of that. >> do we know the nature -- >> we're still waiting on that full report. >> do we know the nature of the traffic stop, what he was pulled over for, exactly? >> recklessly driving. what recklessly driving means, it's hard to say without, you know, full information here. and this is a person, you know, who has a reputation for being, he's a father, he works at fedex, beloved by so many people, he was a skater, he had a ton of hobbies, lots of friends, this is not a person who had, you know, not that frankly a death, this type of death is deserved by anyone, but for so many people this has been so shocking to process, because this is someone who was so beloved and so friendly and so social, and publicly out in the

community and supported by so many people, that even understanding just the nature of recklessly driving in a traffic stop for people i've spoken to, it is hard for them to wrap their minds around so people are waiting to see the video and it is going to be horrible, but they want to see it because they do not understand it any other way, right now. >> antonia hylton, thank you very much. joining me is civil rights prosecutor charles coleman and retired seattle police chief carmen best and an msnbc law enforcement analyst. it is clearly very tense in memphis as was laid out, but there are signs that that tension is spreading throughout the country. just a couple of minutes ago, in fact, steve cohen, the congressman who represents memphis, said this on the floor, it could be a situation where people want to exercise their first amendment rights to protest actions of the police department, and people should,

but they should be peaceful and calm. he also said we have a new d.a., we have a new u.s. attorney, and we have a new police director, they are the right people at the right time to bring about reform and see that this case, see that in this case, justice is rendered. carmen, if you were a police chief right now in seattle, what would you be preparing for? >> yeah, well, katy, i can tell you that police chiefs across the country are preparing for demonstrations, protests, potentially civil unrest, you know, reminiscent of rodney king, all indications and information are that the video is pretty horrific. kudos, if you will, to chief cj davis, know her personally, should he she is upstanding, she is swift to take action and make sure there is accountability in this process. that doesn't negate the fact that it is going to be very disturbing to see this.

and people fully expect that there will be a reaction. most police chiefs, as i would do, are reaching out to the communities of color, and the community-based organizations, to start developing that dialogue right now, about the potentialality for problems, for violence, because no one wants to see a violent outcome. >> charles, we have not yet seen the video, obviously we're going to have to wait, but just on first glance, i mean it's hard to understand how anybody gets stopped for a traffic stop, and that ends up three days later dead. how does this keep happening? i mean how are he would not aware, if you're a police officer, of the moment we are in? and the consequences that are out there, and the public outrage that comes with it, that your actions are being watched, how does this keep on happening? >> well, you know, katy, when you were talking about the congressman from memphis and his comments about this being the right person for the right time at this job, my immediate

thoughts were, the right person for the right job, with respect to what has happened here, this would not have happened, and so that is very difficult for us to swallow. i think it's important for us to understand the conversation that many of us have been having for a very long time, and i've said it before, on this program, on this platform, many times, that american police are not cultured in the spirit of service and protection. they are cultured in the spirit of violence and aggression. and that is why you get a situation where someone is stopped for reckless driving and three days later ends up dead. there is literally no excuse for this. i firmly believe, even this would be filling in the blanks at this point, and i understand my legal education tells me not to do too much of this, i will say that if there were the presence of a weapon or a deadly weapon in this case, it would have been likely hearing about it, and it would have been

leaked, and i won't say that the person was totally unarmed but the use of force by five different police officer to subdue a suspect pulled over in a traffic stop, no indication that this person was armed as of yet, with the information that has come out there, is no indication that he pulls a deadly threat, such that was required that three minutes of a lethal beating was necessary in order to eliminate the potential threat, the answer to your question, katy, is a culture one. it is a culture one regarding how american police are taught to deal with american citizens, particularly american citizens from black and brown and underrepresented communities. we know it is going to be serious by the charges that we've seen against these officers who are now currently in jail. very serious charges. chief best, i'm hoping you can respond to what charles just said. >> first i have to agree it is completely inexcusable. but i think there has been a lot

of work over the years to try to make sure that the training, and the recruitment and the hiring process gets the right people in. obviously there is still a lot of work to be done. this is a tragedy. my heart breaks for the victim here and for the families, and friends, but i do think a lot of work is being done and that we are trying to move forward in a positive way. >> we will watch this story, we will await this video, again, probably tomorrow when the video will be released, and by all accounts, by those who have seen it, it is going to be bad, so clearly, a lot of people on alert as this comes down. charles and chief carmen best, thank so much, charles coleman, we appreciate it. and we've got new economic numbers today, switching gears here, the white house is certainly pleased with the economic numbers but congress is wary, not because today's numbers were less than, but because the future looks uncertain.

and the future looks uncertain in large part due to a looming standoff over the debt ceiling which historically only seems to be a problem when there's a democrat in the white house. and republicans have controlled the house since 1960. congress has acted 78 times to permanently raise, temporarily extend or revise the debt limit. 29 times, under a democratic president, and 49 times under a republican president. most recently, three separate times while president trump was in office. voted through by both democrats and republicans. congressman byron donalds is here to explain why republicans like him say now is the time for the fight and the president is expected to join us later this hour from w-an address from the white house on the state of our economy and we have what he plans to say. so let's get to it. republican congressman byron donalds joins us right now, he represents florida's 19th district and you noi know him well from all of the drama to elect a speaker a few weeks ago. congressman, thank you very much.

so why now for this fight? >> well, why now is really simple, the treasury secretary said we are at our borrowing limit. there's no more room to borrow money. so if you're ever going to take an opportunity to look at your spending habits, you do it when you have run out of room on your credit card. that's what is happening on capitol hill some of the that is the why now. the bigger question is what should we do and what house republicans are saying is we should be taking a look at our spending priorities on capitol hill, because when you run out of room to borrow funds, the first thing you do is you look at your spending habits, due say, give me more money to borrow, that's the wrong approach. >> this is money that was already al cated though, money that was already voted out the door, money that was already due, it is not future spending habits. i understand the desire to get future spending habits under control but is this the time to have that fight when economists say that it could send the economy into a tail spin? >> well, a couple of things. would he have to re-set the narrative on this. number one, right now, for every

dollar that comes in, in tax revenue, washington spends about 1.30. so this is not about future money you just want to spend. it is about the spending priorities that got us here to this point. let me give you a couple. a few weeks ago the 1.7 trillion omnibus deal that nobody got to read on capitol hill but was voted on right before christmas, i'll give you another one, the so-called inflation reduction act, where $400 billion goes to the green new deal, something obviously we can't afford, because now we're having to raise the debt ceiling, so this is a bunch of previous spending priorities, and what those need to be going forward, and that's why you have to address it right now. >> you mentioned a couple of democratic initiatives, in the past though, and i know you were elected in 020, so this doesn't fall on your shoulder, but in the past, republicans have been perfectly fine for raising the debt ceiling for republican presidents and pushing through republican priorities like tax cuts, which you know, arguably, didn't really have much of an effect for the middle class, or

the lower classes, and only added to the deficit, there's a lot of analysis, independent analysis out there that says that, so if you're watching this, and you're wondering why this is happening now, how do you convince somebody that this is not just partisan politics? >> well, a couple of things. let's go back to the tax cut and jobs act, i think that's what you're referring to. the analysis is actually quite clear. the federal government has raised more tax revenue after the tax cut and jobs act than before. right now, we are taking in about 20% of zbpd in tax revenue. that is a record for the united states government. we have never collected so much tax revenue. so the tax cut and jobs act did a couple of other things. it actually spurred more economic growth. income growth at middle income levels grew at the fastest rate in 35 years, under tcja. so those things actually worked for the american people. and so what we're saying now is,

you have to find a way to keep tax policy in place, obviously it has worked for america, and it has worked for the coffers of the federal government, but your spending is out of control. we have to address it. >> nonpartisan analysis has said that the tax cuts that you're referring to, the trump tax cuts have not paid for themselves. and even a right-leaning analysis of it has said that it is going to take some time to tell if they will pay for themselves. you talk about how we're spending $1.30 for every dollar we're taking in. why not raise taxes? why not find a way to raise taxes on the wealthiest among us? >> because all you're going to do is actually create more of the economic consternation, more than we have right now. raising taxes, taking money away from the productive people of america is never the answer because politicians on capitol hill don't know how to constrain themselves about spending the people's money. that is the wrong prescription. >> we're not talking about spending the people's money, why not tax people the very top, the

jeff bezos, the warren buffets, the people who have a ton of money. >> here is what i am going to tell you, when you raise taxes at the top, the federal government actually takes in less revenue, that is the empirical data which is why i'm saying if you look at the tax cut and jobs act, and the federal government has taken more money as a percentage. economy than it ever has. that is tax policy under barack obama, george w. bush, bill clinton, george h. w. bush, ronald reagan, jimmy carter, you could go back and back and back -- >> what do you want to cut? >> one is let's actually go to revisit what was in the 1.7 omnibus deal. we shouldn't have done that. it was excessive. it was done at the midnight hour. what is in the inflation reduction act had nothing to do with reducing inflation. it's actually going to -- >> what do you want to cut? >> i'm telling you. hold on. we have the green new deal subsidies, things we don't have the money for. you start there.

the third thing, overall, you end the covid emergencies. because news flash, america, covid is over now. all of the money that we have spent during the covid pandemic is now in our baseline. you go back in, take that money back to pre-pandemic levels, it puts us on a much more sustainable path from a financial picture. i think if you do those things, you can be in agreement to actually increase the debt ceiling, and make it serious about -- >> you want to cut all of the green initiative, all of the subsidies out there, democrats aren't going to say yes to that, where is the compromise? >> that's what negotiations are for. i'm not going to negotiate through your television program although it is fun to have this conversation with you. what we should be doing on capitol hill, we bring our ideas and they bring their ideas and we negotiate. but the talking points from the white house, there will be no negotiations, that is just frankly irresponsible, not that we should be doing right now. >> we want to talk about social security and medicare? >> no, right now nobody is talking about social security and medicare, i know that is a constant theme in media right now -- >> because republicans in the past have talked about cutting

social security and medicare and it didn't come out of nowhere. >> nobody is talking about cutting social security and medicare. what we're talking about is studying those programs to figure out how to maintain them over the long term, because cbo just came out the other day and said social security is going insolvent in 2033. that's a different problem set that washington must tackle. with respect to the debt ceiling, that -- >> the debt cereal woog lep with that because it would strengthen the tax base. you have any plans to consider immigration reform? >> no, we have no problem, we have no plans to deal women gration reform because the first thing you have to do is secure the border. what we must also acknowledge that the 250,000 immigrants coming across the southern border claiming asylum under joe biden's handling of the border is actually exacerbating state budgets and local governments. that's why the mayor of new york city is asking for fiscal relief from the federal government because their social services programs are overwhelmed with the migrants showing up in the streets of new york city. >> congressman byron donalds,

thank you very much for joining us on our program today. it is really interesting to get the perspective of what you want to cut and how you want to do this and why now is the time. we appreciate your time, sir. >> any time. thank you. and we're going to keep this conversation going, with our panel of reporters and someone who has been inside these kinds of negotiations in the past next. also what russia did in response to news that tanks will be sent to ukraine. it was preventible. that what school officials say, or what some of the school say and talking about what school officials allegedly knew and when they knew about it about the 6-year-old who shot his teacher in virginia. e 6-year-ol teacher in virginia.

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page, business and data reporter brian cheung and former chief communications adviser for house speaker paul ryan brendan buck. garrett, you saw just byron donalds on with us today, talking about what he wants to cut, the subsidies for energy, he also was talking about not touching entitlements like social security or medicare but looking at them. is that generally what you're hearing? is there a proposal from the republicans on what they can slash that democrats can bring to the white house? >> despite that sort of slim answer from congressman donalds, that is actually more specific than most republicans have been when it comes to what they're willing to actually put on the table for cuts. it's been an interesting dynamic here on capitol hill, republicans outlined, in that entire debate over who would be their speaker, the idea of trying to dramatically slash government spending, reduce debt levels, to get baltic sea down to a baseline -- get back down to a baseline and balance the

budget in ten years and they haven't put proposals on the table exactly how to do that, and if you want to do that without touching social security and medicare, you have to have mass spending cuts, and cut the military in significant ways as well and we have not heard that laid out by congressional republicans, a group of representatives said we ought to do this like a board of directors and tell each agency to cut their budget by x dollars and let them come back with a number. this has become kind of the dynamic here that democrats are saying guys, if you're serious about this, tell us what you want to cut. because so far, republicans haven't done it. and democrats know that when cuts start being put on the table they're liable to be unpopular, so politically it is a smart move there, and they're pretty happy to sit back and wait to see if republicans can decide what they actually agree upon to get to where they say they want to do. >> where is all this coming from if there is not a concrete proposal for what to cut and we're talking about it five months before the hit will hit the floor.

>> we're talking about it because we're in a period where the debt ceiling has technically, it has technically been hit and we're in a period of extraordinary measures, but republicans have dell graphed for months now, that they want to make the debt and the budget issues a key part of their turn here in the house majority. i think what is important to understand here is the way they've set up their rules package, which seems kinds of esoteric and not important to most people, the way they set up the rules committee, means that it is going to be really hard for a solution to just either lift the debt ceiling or suspend is like we've seen done so many times in the past. it is going to be very difficult for that to get done at the 11th hour. so the runway along which negotiations or a decision are going to have to be made gets a lot longer and more fraught because you're not going to be able to decide two or three days beforehand that you want to get this done and get something passed through the house of representatives in a timely fashion. it just won't work that quickly this time around. >> so we're in a precarious

moment, and today's economic numbers make it look like it is a bit more solid, we're on more solid ground than we might be. but still, this is, there's all the talk out there, that there is a looming recession, and at some point coming, probably we think maybe, who knows, brian, talk to me about the numbers we got today, and where it points us. >> yes, i mean numbers that we got this morning gave us a picture of what the economy will look like in the last quarter of last year, and showed the economy growing at a 2.9% rate, a little slower than we've seen in the third quarter of last year but overall it showed that the american economy grew by 2.1% over the course of 2022. what does that mean? it is just a number after all. what it tells us is it is going a lot slower than 2021, with an economic boom. >> a ton of money -- >> and we saw the impact of the stimulus in the growth figures we saw last year which by the way do not show a recession. the question is does that change this year and that's why the debt ceiling debate is coming as such a precarious time as you

described it, which is if you have almost this scary, very scary situation, where the economy, the largest one in the world, could default on its government obligations, that would add to what is already a really murky outlook for this year where you have concerns about high inflation, high interest rates. >> if this is all sort of imaginary though, we default on our debts, what happens if we default? does china say hey, we got to pay it right now, demanding the money up front? or do they raise the late r-rate that we're paying them back? what exactly happens if we default on our debt? >> it is too early to say what dooin will do. it is too early to say what any of this will look like because it has never happened before. 78 times the last times we faced the situation, congress voted to either suspend or raise the debt ceiling. but in theory what would happen is the united states government would no longer be able to tap into those extraordinary measures to continue to pay its bill, they run out of money on june 5th, we would pay our bills, we default, we would have our ratings be brought down by

the big ratings agencies like s&p and then after that the government may have to suspend social security payments, medicare payments, fod stamp payments and it hasn't happened before but that threat is there if we don't resolve the fight. >> want to go to the white house and talk about the political consequences of what brian just said, if we end up in that position and we're suspending medicare and suspending social security and it will hit a large portion of the population, a large voting block of the population, an we know that older americans tend to vote more than younger americans, who pays the political price? >> the problem, this is to be obvious to everybody, this is an economic catastrophe if it happened, but the challenge for republican leadership is you have a bunch of republicans, probably just don't believe that, and i've been in plenty of conference meetings where they outright reject the area that we wouldn't pay the bills and we're always bringing more money than we spend on interest payments, we can pay the interest payments but then go down the line of

things you run out of money for and it is a big politically toxic thing. so that's the challenge that i think mccarthy needs to make sure his members fully appreciate. and honestly, this is probably the most leverage they have right now, they have some people who seem to be willing to sort of shoot this hostage, and it might be the most leverage they have, because as you outlined with the congressman, they haven't really laid out a plan, they don't have any house republican plans they're able to pass on their own, and i will give him a little credit, it is a little early to be laying out specific things you need to cut, and what i do think they need to do at this point is to lay out some kind of framework in which you're operating. in 2011, we came out about this time and said for every dollar we increase the debt limit we need spending cuts of an equal amount and that was the framework that we operated in, and negotiations with obama, and i don't know that there is a framework right now to kevin mccarthy to roll out that is both rege, something you could achieve, and something that the members would get behind and not think that he is throwing in the towel too early. >> i think there is a lot of americans out there who look at there and say, well, i would like a balanced budget, i'm uncomfortable with the amount of

debt that we're in, over $30 trillion, why can't we go back to what was going on in the '90s, and then they would understand, just the fundamentals of trying to figure it out economically, where why do it right now, is this just part of partisan brinksmanship and is there a way to do it without the drama and brendan, talking about the cuts, are you telling me the entitlements will not be on the chopping block. byron donalds say no one is talking about it now. will it come up later? >> i don't think it will. and i think republican leaders understand how politically dangerous that would be to go after that. here is my problem with all of this. we have huge fiscal imbalances. and when people talk about little tiny things like byron donalds was talking about, or they talk about waste, fraud, and abuse, it is just so out of the scale, the scale is so tiny compared to the scale of our

problem that they're not taking it very seriously. we're not having very honest conversations about what you have to actually do to get the budget in balance. that does require going after things like mandatory spending programs, entitlements, and there is no real effort made to explain that to anybody or talk about choices that needs to be made, we just have these things pop up and they say well now we will take sweeping cuts without actually understanding what is involved in making that math work. >> what do you think about the im great lakes subject that i brought -- immigration subject that i brought up at the end of the conversation. congress will say let more immigrants in, expand the tax base. we need a bigger tax base. our birth ray rate is going down. we won't be able to afford the older generation because there won't be a younger generation that is bigger than the younger. what about comprehensive immigration reform and when i asked about that he pivoted to border politics. >> and if there is something harder for the republican congress is immigration, and particularly in a republican primary, the most toxic thing you can do.

the funny thing is i tute i actually think there is a bipartisan consensus, 200 votes to do that in the house but it is such a thing in the republican primary they won't touch it with a 10-foot pole. >> and pushing it out there, even though there is a bipartisan solution being talked about in the senate right now. susan, sorry to make you wait. the white house is going to have, the president will come out and make a big economic speech. what can we expect? >> he will talk about the numbers that are very encouraging as they bolster the idea that maybe possibly we can get through this without tipping into a recession. that would be very good news indeed. we see a pretty resilient economy. but we saw from the appearance in 2011, when we didn't default on our debt but we came close before last-minute deal was struck, that even then, coming close, it had big economic consequences and the thing that worries the white house, and folks here until now is that members of the freedom caucus do not hold the same fear of

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learn more at boost.com/tv you are looking at memphis, this podium where the county will give an update on tyre nichols and his case. we will go there live when it begins. let's get right to president biden who is giving an economic speech. let's listen. >> you think i'm joking. if i didn't see it, i wouldn't believe it. i wouldn't believe it. and folks, the reason i want to do that, they want to eliminate the income tax system, because guess what, that's the only way

that millionaires and billionaires have to pay any taxes. but guess what happens to all ya'll if in fact 30% sales tax on everything you buy, from eggs to automobiles, not a joke. and one more, i've been saying this during the last campaign and all through the campaign, look, here's the deal, they want to cut your social security and medicare. now, this is the god's truth. it is almost unbelievable. and beyond that, they're actually threatening to have us default on the american debt. and debt that has been accumulated over 230 years. okay? and the interest on that debt, we've never, ever done that zwerner so we have a rhetorical question. what in god's name would the americans give up the progress we've made for the chaos they're suggesting? i don't get it. that's why the maga republicans

would deliberately inflict this kind of pain on the american people. why? this nation has gom through too much, and come too far to let that happen. i will not let that happen, not on my watch. i will veto everything that is in there. not after all of the progress we've made, and how far we've come. last week, last week was a two-year anniversary of the day i was sworn in as president and at the time i was sworn in, the pandemic was raging, and the economy was reeling. millions of you were out of work. through no fault of your own. millions more kept their jobs but they saw their hours and their paychecks cut. millions upon millions of americans. hundreds of thousands of businesses closed. small businesses make up 50% of the entire economy. schools across the country were closed. teachers and first responders were laid off. families that relied on a weekly paycheck, and not their stock portfolios, to put real food on the table, it was real pain for

these people. i mean for real. some of you remember. god forbid some of you had to go through it. real fear that maybe this time they wouldn't make it. but the fear doesn't start at the start of the pandemic. for decades, the backbone of america, the middle class, has been hollowed out. too many good-paying jobs in manufacturing were moved overseas by corporate america, why? because labor was cheaper. we're changing the dynamic by the way. we're sending the product overseas and the jobs to america. that's how we're doing it. [ cheers and applause ] >> think about it, folks. when jobs moved overseas, factories at home closed down. once thriving cities and towns became shadows of what they used to be. and they were hollowed out, something else was lost. pride. pride. and the sense of self worth that you get in those towns and places. the so-called effects of trickle

down economics and the policies of my predecessor, you know, they view the world from park avenue. i view it where the wealthy, where it trickles down to the rest of us. i come from a background where that never worked. there's another view. there is another view. one that i hold, and folks from springfield, or cities where i was born, scranton, pennsylvania, where i grew up, claymont delaware, thousands of cities like them, that says the backbone of america are the people who get up every morning and put on their shoes and make a living. i said it many times. wall street did not build america zwerner the middle class built america. and unions built the middle class. unions. not labor. unions. built the middle class. and i ran for president, and my

word, to build the economy from the bottom up, and the middle out, and because when you do that, the poor have a chance to climb up the ladder. the middle class, the wealthy still do very well. there's never been a time that the middle class is doing well that the wealthy didn't do well. so folks, look, my dad used to be have an expression. he would say joey, the jobs, i give you my word, a job is worth more than a paycheck, it is about your dignity, it's about respect, it's about being able to look your kid in the eye and say honey, it's going to okay, and mean it. first major legislation, major piece of legislation we passed without a single vote from the other team was the american rescue plan. why? because tax bases were way down and cities and counties didn't have enough money to keep things going. what did we do? we gave states and local governments the money they needed to keep cops on the beat, firefighters in the fire hall,

first responders on the job, teachers in the classroom, nurses in the clinics and hospitals, literally, three have had to have tens of thousands, had he would not provided for that. back then, only 3.5 million people had not even had their first vaccination because the other guy and the other teamdid not think it matter a lot. now we have vaccinated 230 americans and reduced the cost of health insurance for americans and passed the bipartisan infrastructure plan, and we did get some republican votes. it was larger than anything except eisenhower's national highway bill over 60 years ago. a once in a generation

opportunity to put americans back to work. we can't be the number one economy and the strongest economy in the world without the best infrastructure in the world. it's not possible. and the best trains, plane, airports, and the like, you can't do it. you all know better than anybody, because you're the ones making it happen. but think about it. it's not a joke. last year, we funded 700,000 major construction projects. 700,000. all across america. [ applause ] >> from highways to airports, to bridges, to tunnels, to broadband. by the end of this year, that's going to be more than 20,000 projects. big and small, cities, east, west, north and south, all participant of a major project, like the bridge between kentucky and ohio, my friend mitch mcconnell and i announced last month, the brent smith bridge, was built 60 years ago, had to close down several times for

repairs, and making havoc across the ohio river. it was badly needed repairs. finally able to commit over a billion to fix that bridge and build another alongside it. that bridge carries every single day -- >> president biden talking about the infrastructure bill and what it has done and highlighting some bipartisan cooperation. he and mitch mcconnell in front of the brent spence bridge which you know is a key economic corridor and a bridge in desperate need of replacement zwerner the white house feeling good about today's economic numbers and feeling like maybe, just maybe, this country can avoid a recession and also talk become how the other side as he said, the republicans don't have good ideas for the economy, and they're going to try to hit that hard in the next few months, as we reach the debt ceiling impasse and republicans want to negotiate with it. all right, we're going to move on to another story. also out of virginia, an

attorney representing the teacher who was shot in the classroom by a 6-year-old student says the administrators ignored repeated warnings, repeated warnings, about that student, including on the day of the shooting. when teachers were concerned the boy had a gun on him. nbc correspondent stephanie gosk has more. >> reporter: this morning, the superintendent for virginia's newport news school district has lost his job. less than three weeks after one of his teachers was shot by her first grade student. >> effective february 1st, 2023, dr. parker will be relieved of his duties as superintendent of newport news public schools. >> this follows the resignation of the assistant principal. be a gale zwerner's attorney says they will file a lawsuit. >> what did administrators do? did the administrators call the

police? no. did the administrators lock down the school? no. did the administrators evacuate the building? no. did they confront the student? no. >> zwerner's attorney laying out a time line of the day. just after 11:00 a.m., zwerner herself told the administrator the first grader threatened to beat up another student. >> from the classroom, the school administration failed to act. >> at 12:30, according to the attorney, another teacher reported she searched the boy's book bag, looking for a gun. and believed he may have put it in his pocket and taken it outside to recess. >> the administrator down-played the report from the teacher and the possibility of a gun, saying, and i quote, well, he had little pockets. >> shortly after 1:00, zwerner's attorney says a teacher says the student showed him the gun and threatened to use it. and a fourth employee asked to search the boy and was told to

wait until the day to end. zwerner was shot an hour later and seriously wounded in her hand and chest. still managed to escort about 20 students out of her class to safety. earlier this month, the school superintendent did acknowledge at least one administrator was notified of a possible weapon. >> that's just so hard to believe how it could have gotten to that point, especially with all of those repeated warnings, that the lawyer for the teacher alleges happened. coming up next, what russia is saying about the news that germany and the united states will send tanks to ukraine.

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foreign corner raf sanchez. so moscow is responding to the tanks. what are they saying? >> reporter: you could argue they are doing their speaking with missiles, right? a barrage of 55 missiles, dozens of drones, launched just hours after the u.s. and germany said they were sending tanks. it's a pretty unmistakable message, that is certainly how it is being interpreted here in ukraine. in terms of what the kremlin is saying in the formal statements, they say that the decision of the nato allies to provide tanks to ukraine means that nato is now a direct participant in the war. now, that statement works in a couple of different ways. on the one hand, it is a way to threaten the nato countries to say look, we consider you a combatant in this conflict, but it is also kind of a way of explaining to the russian public why it is that this war continues to not go vladimir putin's way, you can hear the air-raid sirens, they're just going off here in kharkiv, we

don't know yet whether this is a strike particularly targeting here, sirens have been going off all day, mercifully, there have not yet been strikes here. i will keep going for the moment. the kremlin tried to explain the russian people why they have not succeeded on the battedfield in ukraine and a good explanation they're not just cutting ukraine, a country of 40 million people, they're fighting the combined might of the nato alliance. they're also saying that these tanks will be burned down just like all of the other ones on the battlefield, and we've seen the kremlin today displaying some anti-tank weaponry, trying to make the kind of visual point that whatever nato sends to ukraine, they are ready to counter it. >> there is growing concern that this only increases the likelihood that russia escalates this war, or does exceed the

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. we've got breaking news as we come on the air, as you can see, officials in memphis, tennessee, stepping to the microphones to begin a news conference after the death of tyre nichols. we want to listen in as we expect to hear more about the indictments against five memphis officers, now fired, now in jail. taking a look here, it looks like they are set to begin. the district attorney, giving the update here, as we await potentially the release of body cam footage that is likely to be incredibly significant in this case. that should come at some point soon. we've been told. let's take a moment as officials gather at the podium. we expect to hear from the d.a., we have our team live on the ground. antonio hilton live am memphis and legal analysts standing by as well. >> i want to say thank you for

being here today, we know there has been a lot of anticipation surrounding the tyre nichols investigation. as you know on january 7th, there was an encounter between the 29-year-old tyre nichols and former mpd officers. immediately upon learning about this, the d.a., the district attorney, enlisted the assistance of the tbi to determine if excessive force had been used. since then, the d.a.'s office has worked with tbi, and we will continue to do so. today, you will hear from d.a. mulroy, along with the director of tbi, david reynolds. so i want to just make it very clear, and ask for your understanding, that this is still an ongoing investigation. and so for that reason, there are limits to some of the things, some of the questions