chief charles ramsey, areva martin, thank you for your expertise and analysis this morning. you. >>> president biden is speaking out about the horrific videos saying he is outraged and deeply pained by the brutal violence he saw against tulsa. cnn white house reporter jasmine wright has more for us this morning. walk us through what else the president said about this. >> reporter: president biden reacted very emotionally to the live vee leasing a lengthy statement about 30 minutes after it went up online and the president said he was outraged and pained. i want to read you a line from the statement because it was so strongly worded. the president said, it is yet another painful reminder of the profound fear and trauma, the pain and the exhaustion that black and brown americans experience every single day. something sara was talking about, really how folks in that community feeling over police and face excessive policing. white house officials told us over the day, jessica, that president biden hadn't seen the video in advance but he was doing other things to really signal to

and i really think it is a miscarriage of justice. >> areva, what is your take on that? idea of the criminal negligence, obviously, for your share of trials, how would you go about trying to defend this case, or even to try to understand how to prosecute it? >> well, first of all, i disagree with harry on this point, that this is a grotesque miscarriage of justice. i think when you look at the totality of the facts, this prosecutor had no choice but to charge alec baldwin and the two others that were charged. that are going to be charged. and there is some dispute about what the standard of care is on these movie sets. there was a safety expert today talking about what's done in new york. and how police officers are on sets in new york whenever a gun is fired, and how that police officers are there to make sure before a gun is fired, the ammunition that in that gun is looked at and there's a final safety check before anyone can handle a gun that's going to be in the scene. there is no hard and fast way, the way this is done, and that's gonna be an issue for the jurors ar

i mean, tell me, areva, this is an open and shut case. >> yeah, this is pretty overwhelming evidence, alisyn. we forgot to mention the one where he says, can you be prosecuted for murder without a body? this amount of evidence, the attorney says she doesn't think there's enough to hold him accountable. she says you can charge a crime, but getting a conviction is different, and she's right. there is, you know, the standard in this kind of case, would be proving him guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, but we have not -- the prosecution only has not only those google searches, but cell phone data and dna evidence. this is a mound of evidence that this defendant would have to overcome to not be found guilty of killing his wife. i don't think that's possible, given what the prosecution has laid out so far. these google searches are incredibly incriminating. you put that with the dna evidence. you put that with the cell phone data. this is going to be a very, very difficult case for any defense attorney to overcome. >> jennifer, and add the that list the ten trash bags of potential evidence t

. >> earlier i spoke with cnn's legal analyst and civil rights attorney areva martin and radio show hostkelly about the crisis looming over the administration. >> without comprehensive immigration reform it will not get better for him or the country more broadly. there's the issue of the migrants at the border right now. there's the issue of the undocumented people still within america from years past and an issue with the people who have yet to come to the border and the democrats don't seemingly have any answers or options right now. >> and areva, president biden's trip to the border came as this humanitarian crisis is worsening, migrants sleeping on the cold streets of el paso. but did mr. biden see the real crisis given he didn't actually visit migrants, he didn't talk to migrants on the streets but instead saw a much more sanitized version of the situation at the border, didn't he? >> yeah, despite what may have happened on this one trip, no doubt joe biden has a very clear understanding about the gravity of the migrant crisis that the u.s. is facing, but i don't think it's fair to

. >>> joining us for more is areva martin. thank you for coming in. your reaction to the u.s. attorney confirming really on camera they have opened a civil rights investigation into the death of tyre nichols. >> i'm not surprised that they issued a statement that a civil rights investigation has been opened and they're going to do a thorough investigation. i'm not surprised he came forward. i know from talking to people on the ground in memphis that the city is on empty. a lot of people are upset the body cam video has not been released, though the investigation is ongoing, a lot of people in memphis feels like there's been enough time that video should be out. i know based on what the family attorney has said, the family wants that video revealed. and we're told it's horrific, showing a brutal beating for at least three minutes by five officers. >> let me play that. the family attorney says they viewed it earlier this week. i want to play what you're getting at, what the attorney said and how they described what they saw. >> he was defenseless the en

i would expect a press conference and acknowledge what areva said, it is true. it's not just the problem of the democrats. the republicans did have an opportunity to address this and failed to do so. but to answer your question, rosemary, directly, i don't think much will come out of it. because, yes, there's something we can do possibly with our allies to make sure fewer people will approach the border, but we still have to deal with the issue inside america because people are going to come seeking asylum and more. and our laws have not changed so there's no reason for their behavior to change approaching the border. >> what do you think at the border and is there any political will to help the more desperate migrants waiting anxiously at the border for some movement on title 42? >> sadly, rosemary, i don't think there's a will in the country to do anything. and as long as we remain as fractured as we are between democrats and republicans and republicans in their own party i don't think you're going to see much movement as it relates to the immigrant crisis. ho

joining me right now is areva martin. she is a civil rights attorney and managing partner at martin and martin law firm. areva, before we go into that reform that some of these leaders are talking to you, what questions do you have after watching the video? >> lindsey, the biggest question i have is about the lack of supervision. what we witnessed on those videos was complete chaos. we've used words like inhumane, brutal, so many adjectives come to mind when we think about what we saw in terms of the beating of mr. nichols. but one question that has not been answered is, where was the control, where was the sergeant, where was the person that has a responsibility to ensure that younger officers, and we are learning the most of these officers had only been on the force less than five years, where was the person with the experience that should have pulled them back, should have prevented them from engaging in that unconstitutional behavior that we saw demonstrated on those videos? so, lots of questions about the lack of sup

. >>> let's bring in areva martin. i can't help but note the juxtaposition as we brace ourselves for the video, the body cam video that's coming out about, you know, tyre nichols, and the trauma that we assume that will cause to watching versus this one, the police body cam video of what happened to paul pelosi, also very hard to watch, but this one is clearly in the public interest because there were so many questions about how did the police get in? who had the hammer? this video answers so much. >> yeah, alisyn. i'm sitting here listening to paul pelosi with his composure and how calm he is, and just how brilliant he is in talking to this dispatcher without irritating, and escalating the situation with the suspect, but one of the questions that comes to mind to me was where was the capitol police? he's outside that house for several moments and there's a camera apparently on the side of nancy pelosi's house that is connected to some space in the capitol police's office. so did they not see what was happening outside

joining us our chief law enforcement analyst john miller, cnn political commentator van jones, areva martin and defense attorney shan wu. john, you heard a sixth police officer has been relieved of duty. what are you learning about this officer's actual involvement in this incident and the consequences he has faced at least so far? >> well, this is the first officer we actually meet when we start to watch the video. he's the one driving up in the car. you see him here in this picture, actually holding up his graduation certificate from the crisis intervention team which is a special course the memphis p.d. actually developed and created an actual model to avoid injuring people in crisis when you encounter an unhinged individual in the street when the police are called. he's the guy we see rolling up on the scene when the other officers who were already there are yelling at tyre to get out of the car, get on the ground. they're screaming, they're cursing. he comes out of the vehicle, approaches, tries to get involved with taking nichols into custody. at one point when tyre nichols get

we're going to go to areva, because we're losing the captain's audio.talking about, that press conference why tyre's mom took to the microphone. she won't see the video, of course, for the sake of her own mental health, but she knows enough about what happened and saw him in the hospital and knows that he was calling out her name. it's just all so devastating. >> it is, alison. it's beyond belief. i'm the mother of a young african american man, and i can't imagine the pain that she is going through. i know lots of other people have been posting online that they won't watch this video. some are calling it racial trauma porn, that it is not entertainment. but the bigger question i have, you and i have been here before. these stories are not new. what happened in that community, even though unique to this community, we have seen so many other unformed african american men who die in police custody because of routine traffic stops. no one should die because of a routine traffic stop. we thought after george floyd there was going to be wholesale changes to p

an attorney and legal affairs commentator, areva martin. i am glad that both of you are here because i really want to walk through and unpack a little bit about the second degree charge. he used the word knowing. but there are certain moments that i want to pick out from the video that really, i think, demonstrated in part, i will bring in youshan, let's break this down. there is first this horrible scene where you see him being punched while he is restrained by officers. and i don't mean restrained in the sense that he is fighting back. but his arms clearly are being held. he has no opportunity to defend himself. he is holding his feet and miraculously standing up. but enduring something incredibly violent here. and now shan, when you look at this moment and think about the second degree charge. about knowing behavior. knowing that the behavior or the culmination of it could lead to something deadly. what do you see? >> i am really focusing on that restraint aspect. that his hands are tied behind him. he is defenseless. he can't even hold

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. >> joining us now is civil rights attorney and commentator areva martin. part of your week with us. there's going to be three separate trials in the death of elijah mcclain, one for the safers belower who applied the choke hold and a third for the officers who were also present on the scene. how do you see that dynamic playing out. >> not surprising because all of the defendants are pointing a finger at each other, accusing the other for the cause of death. we know the first officer that arrived on the scene is the one that is accused of applying a choke hold, which has now been banned by the officers in colorado. then you have the pare medics who arrived who marriage a huge mistake in guessing on his weight and because of his erroneous mick steak, there's an egregious amount of the sedative, and they're saying it's the said active that led to the cardiac an rest and then he's brain duct andty are action talg nated. not surprised in this case because of these antagonistic defenses. >> ariya, as we've see in previous cases with the murder of george floyd as

. >> for more, i want to bring in attorney and legal affairs commentator areva martin. she joins us now from los angeles. from a political perspective, this is not looking gate. what does it really mean? what's the significance of the fbi carrying out this search as opposed to joe biden's own attorneys conducting their search? >> what we know is that joe biden's attorneys have been very forth right in contacting the national archives and the department of justice whenever documents were found. we know now that documents, classified documents, were found at an old office that joe biden used after he left the white house, at a garage at one of his homes, and now documents were removed as recently as yesterday from one of his homes. but this means that joe biden is cooperating and that he gave the department of justice full access to conduct a very thorough search of his private residence. >> do we have an understanding of what these documents are that have been seized today? >> there hasn't been much reporting about what's contained in the documents. we know that some of

areva, all five of these police officers behaved in a way that resulted in charges of second-degree murder. what does that say to you about the culture of at least some members of this department? >> yeah, wolf, it says that we have a lot of work to do, as cornell indicated. i think what's so galling for so many people is the notion that five officers could be at the scene, and perhaps more we don't know about, but those five who participated in this brutality, that not one of them had the presence of mind to say to the others, enough, stop, we're going too far, he's under control, he's in handcuffs. and given what we witnessed with derek chauvin and the kneeling on george floyd's neck and the civil unrest we saw happen across the world after george floyd, you wonder, how can any police officer in america in any police department not have that in their minds, in their hearts, when they go out and face the public. so there's so much that we still need to learn about what motivated the actions of these officers. hearing the chief say she didn't see any reckless driving or probable cause, she

to talk about this now, areva martin, good to have you on this morning. >> good morning, jim. >> so,ll, he is not challenging his return to the state of idaho for next steps in this case. does that surprise you? and are there any differences with how this will then progress there as how it would progress if it stays in pennsylvania, at least for now? >> no surprises. when you look at statements that his attorneys has made. his attorney has stated that he's neither denied or admitted the charges. but yet he has said that he is anxious to do back to idaho to face the charges because he believes he will be exonerated. somewhat of an unusual statement coming from an attorney given the seriousness of these charges. but apparently kohberger believes he can exonerate himself. >> i think back to the beginning of this when police had said this was an isolated targeted attack, could those statements come into play at all in this case and if so how? >> they are very important statements because we haven't seen what the sealed affidavit said about the evidence that the police have. we've heard s

it feels like areva, striking like anywhere.ng hofstra strike or hofstra have been on strike or are planning to strike, of course, union and there's a lot of talk about this kind of anti strike laws that have been proposed by rishi sunak this legislation. if it happened , legislation. if it happened, would extend to plans to enforce minimum service levels, only minimum service levels, not only for service , but across the for rail service, but across the whole public sector , including whole public sector, including places the nhs, work places like the nhs, work assembly staff, teachers assembly, staff, teachers and border force. i'll start with you on this. i mean, do you think it is time to get tougher on striking the parameters for doing so, etc. no, obviously, no. i'm i don't think that at all. and also i don't think it's possible. i think that sunak will really, really struggle to get any legislation action that can get through parliament. it's written and dealt with in time to get through in this parliament, in time to dea

there are powerfulup ideas here backed upy what we think of as strong arguments and what we believe areva best available data ad so we are going to present it. then it's the question the bible says you shall know the truth and the truth will left you free. but he left out it's also presumptuous to say butse we thk we got much closer to the truth in this book than we are getting in the reports that are being issued.cc the knowledge about the inaccuracy of the measures are very well accepted and agreed to and there's no way left for people to gogo and not to sound like they are using it to advance their own agenda is my view so it's been a great discussion. [applause] homework can be hard but squatting in a diner for internetwork is even harder

. >> areva, how could these discrepancies factor into these cases against these fired police officerscing major criminal charges. >> the issue is who gave the officer this information and did this officer intentionally lie on this police report? one thing that's so troubling about this investigation at this point, wolf, is the drip, drip, drip, drip nature of it. we have the police chief who takes this -- what is being called swift action in terms of firing these officers, putting these others on administrative leave, but we have not seen the police chief come out and answer questions. questions about these two officers who are on administrative leave. many people in the block community asking was the white officer being treated differently? is he being shielded in a way that these black officers are not? and what happened with this police report? they say it's an official document that can't be released, but surely the chief can stand up before news reporters and answer questions about what was in that police report and what they know about the discrepancies in the report. so there a

. >>> well, earlier, my colleague spoke with civil rights attorney areva martin on how quickly both the city and the police department responded to this tragic event. take a listen. >> i think they acted in a fashion that's quicker than what we have typically seen in these cases to, one, fire the officers that were involved, charge them with these very serious charges, second-degree murder, aggravated kidnapping, aggravated assault. but i think there is still so much that we don't know about this case. i am disturbed by the police chief's refusal to come before press conference to answer questions. i know she sat down with our colleague, don lemon, to give an interview. but we've not seen the police chief. we've not been able to ask her questions. the public has not been able to ask her critical questions. and we're hearing from citizens on the ground in memphis that there were problems with the scorpion unit well before their attack on mr. nichols. that many citizens came forward and complained about their aggressive tactics. and that those complaints were for the most part ignored. so

joining us to discuss areva martin. good to see you. the district attorney says it was alec baldwin's responsibility as an actor and producer on the film to check the gun before pulling the trigger. what is the likelihood do you think of baldwin being found guilty of these involuntary manslaughter charges? >> well, jake, we know there's a higher stand dart of proof when talking about criminal charges and the jury would have to find beyond reasonable doubt that he is guilty of involuntary manslaughter. and we know with respect to celebrities, it is difficult to get a conviction for someone as high-profile as alec baldwin but i agree with the prosecutor's assessment. everything we heard about that set is consistent with how she described it. as fast and loose. we know there were text messages from the armorer saying she was stretched too thinly. she had too much work and didn't have enough work. we know she herself had good experience as it relates to the type of job she was supposed to do. we know the crew members had walked off the set