stephen smith's mother sandy smith remains convinced it wasn't a hit-and-run. >> i was always fightingis was a homicide and not a vehicle versus pedestrian. >> before i could get the car, corner said that's not a wreck, it's a murder. >> first responder tommy moore agrees, telling our abc affiliate he didn't think the 19-year-old was hit by a car. >> two things that come to my mind, he did he was murdered there, or he was murdered elsewhere and dropped there. >> the report also says according to family, stephen never would have been walking in the middle-of-the-road way. and his sister stephanie says her family got a call the day her brother died. >> the day that stephen passed away, randy murdaugh was the second person to call my dad after the corner and he said he wanted to take the case and it would be free of charge and everything. >> the family known for their power in this small town has been in the public eye for years now. the patriarch, alex murdaugh, was once a high-power attorney. >> the influence of the murdaugh family goes back generations to even alex a bunch of his great

smith: thank you, mr. speaker. i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on this measure. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. smith: i also ask unanimous consent to place in the record an exchange of letters with the committee on the judiciary. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. smith: thank you, mr. speaker. i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. smith: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, every year under general secretary xi jinping and his chinese communist party, between 60,000 and 100,000 young victims, average age 28, are murdered in cold blood to steal their organs. these crimes against humanity are unimaginably cruel. ethic groups targeted for this mass harvesting include uighurs who suffer from x jinping's ongoing -- xi jinping ongoing genocide and the fallon gong whose exercise practices and exceptional good health make the

for years, chris rock and will smith enjoyed squeaky clean, good guy images. year, one slap, one special later, both men lost something humble humility and hard humor have yet to restore. >> i don't think chris rock wants to dwell on this. my guess is he doesn't want to talk about this anymore, because my guess is he didn't want to in the first place but had to. it will be interesting to see if will smith can take this on the chin and let it go the same way chris rock took the slap on the chin. >> you can watch the 95th academy awards this sunday night on abc. coverage starts at 1:00 p.m. eastern. >>> coming up, social media scrutiny. what's the best way to protect young users? ♪ things are looking up ♪ ♪ i've got symptom relief ♪ ♪ control of my crohn's means everything to me. ♪ ♪ ♪ control is everything to me. ♪ feel significant symptom relief with skyrizi, including less abdominal pain and fewer bowel movements at 4 weeks. skyrizi is the first and only il-23 inhibitor for crohn's that can deliver both clinical remission and endoscopic improvement. the major

me because he's upset that they have an open smith, will and jada pinkett smith. wife slept with a friend of their son, and that was humiliating and they have this internet talk show where they talk about these things and that must have been humiliating too. so will smith was mad at his situation, not at me. but you seem to be saying -- and maybe i'm wrong. tell me if i'm wrong. he's not actually saying that. he just wants to embarrass will smith by mentioning all that. >> well, he might think that. i don't know if he thinks that. i think it was weird because then you don't talk about the history, like you said, saying things about her jokingly or not since 1997. when he says that she wanted him to not host the oscars in 2016 because of the oscars so white boycott that she was a part of. he says this was just about not getting him to do it because her husband didn't get nominated. once again, this makes it just about her and her feels, that she did a personal thing to hurt his career because he wouldn't boycott the oscars just because her husband wasn't nominated.

smith: right. the data reflects that it is broader than that, especially given the number of personnel. sec. yellen: the number of taxpayers. rep. smith: i understand. sec. yellen: earning less than $400,000. rep. smith: the rates of audit and the commitments are certainly very clear. shifting gears, the critical mineral requirements and the inflation reduction act are countries with which the u.s. has a free-trade agreement in place. as chairman of this panel, i am surprised year the binding administration would take the term that free-trade agreement is undefined and open to various interpretationss. this committee has jurisdiction over trade policies including the negotiations and enforcement of trade agreements. we know what a free-trade agreement is, as do our trading partners who have raised concerns about the inflation reduction act. secretary yellen, please clarify would you define a free-trade agreement or at least provide a list of countries with whom we have a free-trade agreement? sec.

sandy smith has a gofundme. she has raised $75,000 that she plans to use for the independent autopsy and to exhume her son's body if a judge signs a petition allowing it. we asked about the investigation. they told us they had made progress and said it was active and ongoing. diane gallagher, cnn, charlotte, north carolina. >>> ukrainian authorities say a russian attack last year on a couple in their car is a clear case of a war crime. it's also the subject of a new documentary by a ukrainian filmmaker. cnn's ivan watson has our exclusive report. >> reporter: from a battlefield in eastern ukraine, a desperate call for help, as a ukrainian woman pleads for her wounded husband's life. footage from last june, shows the moment when a ukrainian couple took a wrong turn towards an active front line. the car came under fire from nearby russian forces, badly wounding the driver. >> translator: i saw his head was injured and i immediately began to bandage his head. >> reporter: it was later compiled into a documentary by

is his nearly $200 million contract in jeopardy >>> and hitting back chris rock rips into will smithpening up for the first time since that infamous oscar slap >> people are, like, did it hurt? >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with kate snow >>> good evening it has happened again. another train derailment in ohio involving the same rail company norfolk southern 28 cars jumped the trac 200 miles southwest of east palestine where a train carrying toxic chemicals derailed, you remember, back on february 3rd for some perspective, there are more than a thousand train derailments in the united states every single year. in this latest derailment there were hazardous materials on the train but not in the cars that derailed local officials say no hazardous materials leaked still, this latest incident raising new questions about the company's safety record we begin tonight with jesse kirsch at the site of the new derailment >> reporter: another norfolk southern derailment again in ohio. the harrowing moment captured on camera this driver backing away from a railroad crossing saturday a

this is a stephen smith 2.0.s is a mother who for nearly eight years wondered what happened to her son and who did it to him. sandy smith started a go fund me and raised more than $75,000 that will go to pay to exhume her son in a private autopsy, once a judge allows that petition that they plan to file. look, don, we did reach out to sled. they said that their investigation is active and on going. they told us they made progress looking into the death of stephen smith. >> oh my goodness, so many twists and turns when it comes to what's happening with the murdaughs. thank you very much, dianne gallagher. >>> widespread bullying, homophobia, misogamy and racism is what's going on inside london's metropolitan police department, according to an official review released just moments ago. the response pouring in. ♪ what's the #1 retinol brand used most by dermatologists? it's neutrogena® rapid wrinkle repair® smooths the look of fine lines in 1-week deep wrinkles in 4. so you can kiss wrink! neutrogena® wonderg what a

jack smith. something else. judge borough howl is the district judge who first ruled that the crime products section applied. she issued an order under seal that nevertheless was reported on and has said that the government had made a prima facie is showing that the former president committed criminal violations. that's not the first time that a court opined that the law was probably broken in trump's handling of the mara lago documents. remember for that search warrant to have been executed at mara lago, a showing of probable cause would have had to have been made to the court. judge howell's ruling is not a guarantee of trump being charged , but it might be a sign that the documents case is a much bigger problem for trump than paying for stormy daniels. silence. the cover up is often worse than the crime, right? in the documents case, it may turn out that notes from trump's lawyer could reveal a plan and or action by the former president to cover up and or perpetrate improper conduct regarding

representatives for the smiths didn't respond to requests for comment. >> i have rooted for will smithwhole life, and now i watched "emancipation" just to see him get whooped. >> reporter: about the slap still at center stage. janis mackey frayer, nbc news, los angeles. >> for rock, a full year in the making. >>> from the nba memphis grizzlies superstar ja morant will miss at least the next two games after he live streamed a video of himself holding up what appears to be a gun at a nightclub this weekend. morant issued a statement saying he takes full possibility and has taken a little time away to get some help. the nba is investigating. >>> power crews are work to go restore electricity to more than half a million customers across the eastern half of the united states. a massive winter storm and its het, we havy snow toppled power lines. more than a foot of snow fell in parts of the northeast on saturday. the storm's death toll has risen to 11. at least five of those in kentucky, which was h >>> good morning. we're taking a live look over the san mateo bridge. very slippery out there

and my heart goes out to the smith family. the smith family has the money they need to exume steven's body, they now need approval to actually do it, and we're told that could still take some tie. even pilgrim abc news new york thank you. miami beach leaders have voted against a thursday to sunday curfew, an attempt to control spring break crowds. that vote followed two deadly shootings last weekend. and the imposing of a state of emergency. one reason for voting down the curfew. smaller crowds are expected this coming weekend . also, business owners argue that it would hurt their bottom line. the city's manager can impose another curfew but by law that cannot be done in advance. they're staying down in miami. it could still change. they might you know if there's another crime. if there's another shooting, perhaps there will be a curfew. stay tuned. we have course will stay on top of that for you coming up next, though the 90 year old dad, he is welcoming his first kids. since 1997 but first a woman who fought off an attacker

denit smith's fiance. an suv similar in mode and color to the one see leaving the crime scene with a distraught woman behind th wheel. >> so if the maintenance guy doesn't see the burgundy suv then you never ask jermeir about the burgundy suv >> exactly. wouldn't have went to greensboro looking for suspect when durham has plenty of people here >> so the day after the murder detective pate headed westboun on interstate 40. anxious to speak with shannon crawley, th other woman in jermeir stroud' life. by now, shannon's parents, her father keith and her mothe anne, were shocked to hear their daughter was about to be interviewed by police. she was a responsible single mom who lived quietly raising he children >> being a young mother, you know, she worked six month straight. 12-hour shifts. to buy a house. at 27 years old that's quite an accomplishment for -- for a single mother >> it sounds undeniable that all of you are really proud of her. >> yes >> and her life was certainl headed in the right direction. >>

and the tabloid fodder surrounding the marriage of will smith and his wife, jada pinkett smith. i didn't have any entanglements. everybody in here and cheating. none of us have ever been interviewed by the person that cheated on us television. she heard him way more than he hurt me. okay suggesting smith slapping him for joking about jada's hair loss. the result of alopecia was actually misplaced. anger rock has maintained he did not know about jada's condition at the time, everybody in the world called him. i tried to call them and give them my kiddos hand pick up. for me. there is a range of new reaction overnight with esquire, saying rock certainly delivered, but the roots saying rocks targeting of jada as well made his so straight up mean and no different and with the oscars now six days away, reverberations of the slap are still being felt. traditionally the winner for best actor presents the statute to best actress the following year. that presenter on sunday will not be smith will come up with something creative and some nothing appropriate to make sure that the woman who

he threw plenty of verbal punches aimed at will smith and his wife jada and their marriage. his stand-up routine delivered live on netflix. >> will smith practices selective outrage. >> reporter: the public and entertainment world still reacting to chris rock's stand-up comedy routine, selective outrage, where he addressed the infamous oscar slap from will smith almost a year ago. >> people always say, words hurt. anybody that says words hurt has never been punched in the face. >> reporter: the 58-year-old legendary comedian debuting netflix's latest streaming feature, live programming. rock performing in front of a full crowd. netflix broadcasting the comedian's first full public response since smith slapped him at last year's academy awards. >> wow, wow. >> reporter: after rock joked about the short hairstyle worn by smith's wife, jada pinkett, the actress says it was a result of the medical condition alopecia, but rock claims he didn't know that. the comedian touching on several issues like racism, abortion, and wokeness, before ending the set about smith, suggesting smit

my heart those out to the smith family. attorneys for smith's families say state law enforme officials were waiting until the alec murdoch trial was over to announce that the case would be treated as a homicide. out of concern that witnesses may not have been as forthcoming. the family wants to exume stephen smith's body for an independent autopsy. they're waiting for approval from a judge andrew rhiannon, andrea, thank you. we turn now to the virginia man who died in police custody allegedly suffocated by deputies. newly released video shows the disturbing moments leading up to the death of ivo otieno 10. people have now been indicted in this case, including medical workers. abc s justin finch is here now. new details. justin. good morning. and good morning. that video is from a psychiatric hospital, and we want to warn you. it's hard to watch. it shows officers in hospital workers dragging and holding down otieno for 12 minutes as he was cuffed and shackled. it's unclear why the situation escalated, but investigators are

and discuss what they know about stephen smith.rdoch name is mentioned dozens of times in the original case, like in this audio interview with the trooper mentions buster murdoch was on our radar. the murdochs know that, but there was never been any official connection made between the murdoch family and stephen smith's death this week, in a statement given to cnn, buster murdoch said, quote this has gone on far too long. these baseless rumors of my involvement with steven and his death are false. i unequivocally deny any involvement in his death, and my heart goes out to the smith family. and again there are no suspects that have ever been named in stephen smith's killing, sled chief mark keel said today they were assigning additional state agents to the region in hopes jake that perhaps people would feel more comfortable and be able to speak freely. now more than they did, of course, in 2015, or even 2021. all right. diane gallagher. thank you so much. democratic senator elizabeth warren of massachusetts will be here. she has rep

that was part of his act. >> ainsley: he said i really look up to will smith. i like will smith.ed to call him he didn't pick up the phone. he was laughing about their size. look at will smith he is significantly bigger than me. does movie with his shirt off. will smith played muhammed ali in a movie. why is he slaps me. >> steve: special drops on netflix circumstantially a week before the oscars and everybody in the world is talking about his special, including joe concha, who was on "fox & friends first" just within the last hour or so who talked a little bit about comedians who these days push back against cancel culture. >> the comedians who truly have staying power are the ones who don't care about political correctness. you look at chris rock. you mentioned bill maher, jerry seinfeld. sebastian -- you could go on and on. the ones that say, you know what? i'm here to entertain and i don't care who i offend, not going over any sort of line so to speak but chris rock has been around for a very, very long time. he is in his 50's, believe it or not, even though the guy looks lik

my heart goes out to the smith family. i mean, i definitely think he was he was murdered steven's mother, sandy smith, and tommy more, spoke to our abc affiliate wc. i've the former highway patrol lieutenant who responded to the scene says he believes steven smith was murdered. saying smith shoes were still on his feet and his road rash was minor, suggesting it was something other than a crash things that come to my mind either. he was murdered there. or he was murdered elsewhere and dropped their more says he took his concerns to law enforcement officials. but the corner insisted smith died after a hidden run. smith's family has already raised thousands of dollars to exhume his body for an independent autopsy. so there now just waiting for a judge's approval. sports some late night, march madness and the women's tournament. miami facing number one indiana with seconds left when it's just pure destiny , the shot drops in by destiny harden, and that gave the ninth seeded hurricanes a 72 68 when they move on to the sweet 16,

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the attorney for stephen smith's mother eric bland says he plans to petition a judge to exhume smith'sndent autopsy conducted. he also said the murdaugh name had high influence in the area and possibly intimidated witnesses. he hopes they'll speak more freely now. back to you. >> c thank you for that. here to discuss, carol lamb, in studio, great to see you in person. i wonder a cold case like this, and the entire tv show dedicated to cold case, and eight years later, what are the challenges for prosecutors? >> as we have all seen on tv, chris, there are obviously challenges both forensic and witness challenges. forensic evidence obviously dissipates over time. it's a little bit harder to find murder weapons, and the body is not in the same condition anymore. but witness testimony is also critical in these cases, and you have people who have died. you have people who are incapacitated, memories fade over time. i think one of the interesting things here is a lot of potential witnesses are young people, people in the prime of their life at the time of the events eight years ago. it's qui

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>> reporter: so, i think that sandy smith, the mother of steven smith, would say that she would havehad the money to do so. and part of the reason why she's able to try for this right now and, look, her attorneys still have to petition a judge to get permission to exhume his body, is because of roughly $70,000 worth of donations she's been given through a gofundme. much of them coming from the those who followed the murdaugh double murder trial online. millions of people watch that unfold. alex murdaugh was convicted in the murders of his wife and son earlier this month. and, look, there is no direct connection between buster murdaugh and steven smith. aside from the fact they went to high school together. but there has been a lot of innuendo and rumors included on podcasts and social media and much stems from a 2021 announcement from the state law enforcement when they auns noed they were opening an investigation into steven smith's 2015 death, quote, based upon information gathered during the course of the double murder investigation of maggie and paul murdaugh. now, look, smith's

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- will smith last year? there were quite _ will smith last year?e a lot of mansions during the film exactly about that, will smith and at one pointjimmy kimmel said that if anyone gets attacked during the oscars we will present you with best actor and that you make an acceptance speech that lasts five minutes. so they were making jokes and jeff bezos is now arriving and get everyone at the vanity fair party! i’m at the vanity fair party! i'm sure you — at the vanity fair party! i'm sure you do! _ at the vanity fair party! i'm sure you do! we _ at the vanity fair party! i'm sure you do! we will speak to you later. great to talk to you. enjoy! let's get some of the day's other news. the new legislation intended to prevent migrants from crossing the channel in small boats will be debated by mps at westminster this afternoon. under the illegal migration bill, anyone arriving in the uk in a small boat would be banned from returning. hundreds of people in mozambique have been displaced by cyclone freddy which hit the country for the second time in a mont

stephen smith's family has spent years searching for answers.e should note for his part buster murdaugh has denied any involvement in smith's death. >> this morning a heartbroken mother may be one step closer to answers, eight years after the mysterious death of her teenage son. overnight, the south carolina law enforcement division known as s.l.e.d. confirms to nbc news stephen smith's death is being investigated as a homicide. >> based upon their review of the forensic evidence that they too are convinced that this was not a hit and run, that this was something more. >> reporter: according to lawyers for smith's family, s.l.e.d. has also agreed to work with them and participate in exhuming stephen's body for a private autopsy to gather more evidence. it's all validation for sandy smith who told us before the news she never believed her 19-year-old son's death was an accident. >> in my heart this was not a hit and run. i think he was murdered and i just need the proof. >> reporter: smith's body was found lying in a rural south carolina road bac

and jack smith was given a deadline of six a.m. miss morning for filing his response this afternoon the appeals court ruled evan corcoran must testify to the grand jury because judge howell, who had issued the order, had found that evan corcoran's testimony is subject to the crime fraud exception to the attorney client privilege. now let's just stop right here and consider what happened in the judicial system between the close of business on friday and the federal district court in washington, and the close of business today, wednesday, in the federal federal district court of washington. we saw an appeal of district court judges order processed in less than three days. each party had to file their briefs two days after the district judge ruled in the case. the appeals court ruled on those filings on the same day that they were filed. we have seen that kind of process take the better part of a year in other federal cases. sometimes longer than that. the last three days have been the worst days of donald trump's life as a delay prod

after rock made a joke about smith's wife jada pinkett smith.ent this weekend. they're incas livestreaming special on alex. >> you all know what happened to me. getting smacked by smith. but it still hurts. i got summertime ring it in my ears. i love will smith my whole life i've loved him. my whole life i've rooted for him. and now i watch emancipation just to see him get what. >> karen amid joins us now. we're back with patrick mchenry. karen, what did you think? >> oh my goodness, so many thoughts. >> my first notice like i think that i feel about blackmail comics what i feel about black male rappers. we are family, but i got beef. with a lot. you don't call jada pinkett a b in baltimore for one. i think there was some low blows that, i think, his ultimate goal was to squash this, but as we know in the streets. he created something more here. he extended this beef, in my opinion. and i just think that black women have far too often been the pingpong. like we get ping-ponged around. jada didn't deserve what she got from him. and i'm just reall

smith at the center the speculation.nn this morning. , saying in part, i've tried my best to ignore the vicious rumors involving his try to get, if they continue to be published in the media, as i grieve over the brutal murders of my mother and brother. these baseless -- ionic of ugly deny any moment in the death, my heart goes out to the smith family. smith attorneys caught in the public, this is not about the murdochs. >> this is not alex murdaugh two point oh, this is steven smith two point oh. it's all about stephen. >> at the heart of this, it's just a mother who wanted to find out what happened to her son, and who did it to him. she started a gofundme, she's raise more than $75,000 already, that she says she will use to pay to zoom her son's body, if a judge signs off on a petition allowing it. we did ask her about the death investigation and he said that they've made progress, and stephen smith's death investigation, but would only say that it remains active and ongoing. >> all right, dan thank you very much, than

will smith, of course, giving that infamous slap to comedian chris rock for making comments about smith'shris connelly taking a look at the fallout. >> reporter: it might have been the craziest hour in oscar history. one year ago, a sentence from chris rock on stage set it off. >> jada, i love you. "g.i. jane 2," can't wait to see it. >> reporter: seconds later, will smith, jada pinkett smith's husband leapt on stage. >> wow. will smith just smacked the [ bleep ] out of me. >> reporter: backstage according to oscar producer will packer, the lapd offered to arrest smith. >> rock just paused a minute, and said, you know, would you like us to take any action? he said, no. >> reporter: less than an hour after his assault on chris rock, he won best actor. >> i want to apologize to the academy. i want to apologize to all my fellow nominees. >> reporter: many noted pinkett smith's baldness, what rock was referring to with "g.i. jane 2" is a result of her condition, alopecia areata. smith posted this apology on instagram the day after the oscars and would resign from the academy. the academy even

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but attorneys for smith's family say this is not about the murdaughs. >> this is about stephen smithquestions his mother desperately needs answers for. so there is no reason to discuss buster murdaugh and no, it to be made back to murdaugh. god willing, court willing what was stephen smith's true cause of death? >> in the meantime, the sons of the murdaugh's former housekeeper calling for justice for their mother who died on the front steps of the family's homes. her death was ruled an accident but an autopsy was never conducted. the prosecutors say the disgraced lawyers secured $4.3 million in insurance settlements for the families, but kept most of it, todd, ashley. >> todd: the intrigue continues, jackie, thank you. the fbi offering 20,000 reward on maria del carmen lopez. an american citizen and mother of seven who was kidnapped at her home in mexico. >> ashley: family members say a witness off a car drive to the property caring five mast individuals who picked her up and took her. and then started receiving ransom calls. >> todd: maria's daughter joins us now. obviously, this is

why would they want to help stephen smith's family with a death investigation?ldn't put yourself out there to try to help or damage control a situation like it kind of seemed that randy was doing unless you're trying to save your own family from something. >> the murdaugh law firm did have an investigator show up after a couple of days had gone by. we're out there still trying to comb that scene to try to find something because no other law enforcement is willing to help. he shows up with a camera and wants to come in the crime scene. i said, i'm sorry, you can't come in here. i told him if he wanted to take pictures, he could take them after we were gone. but it wasn't about taking pictures. it was about seeing what we were doing to try to get one step ahead. this whole thing makes sense to me. if you wanted pictures, you could have got those at any time. makes you wonder, is murdaugh involved in that? >> stephen's case, we know very well, or at least certainly publicly. his body was found in the middle of the road. he had blunt force trauma to his head. they w

. >> so what are the next steps into the investigation into smith's death?wo investigations now. one of them being that state investigation which we were told on sunday is still on going and active and the other one is a new private investigation that was announced today by the mother of stephen smith and her attorneys. and their first step they say is to petition a judge so they can exhume stephen's body. >> what we're going to do is start over. we're going to hire experts who are going to come into this case with a fresh set of eyes, with an open mind, without any preconceived conclusions. >> it's important to me because i just love my son. since i couldn't protect him, i'm going to fight for him. i want to thank everyone who has donated and supported us from the beginning. but i hope to find the real reason for stephen's death and the real why. >> reporter: look, the way she is likely going to pay for much of that, jake, more than $70,000 have been dounated to a gofundm so they can begin this independent investigation as well as attempt to afford exhuming

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smith, a former classmate of buster murdaugh was found dead on a rural road just about 15 miles awayme of convicted killer alec murdaugh in 2015. nbc's blayne alexander has more. >> reporter: stephen smith's death was brought back into the spotlight as part of the murder investigation into the deaths of alec murdaugh's wife and son, when police say that new evidence prompted them to reopen the case. now, the investigation is open and ongoing. meanwhile, buster murdaugh adamantly denies involvement in smith's death. >> eight years after the mysterious death of her teenage son, overnight, the south carolina law enforcement division known as s.l.e.d. confirms that stephen smith's death is being investigated as a homicide. >> based on their review of the forensic evidence, they, too, are convinced that this was not a hit-and-run, that this was something more. >> reporter: according to lawyers for smith's family, s.l.e.d. has agreed to work with them and participate in exhuming stephen's body for a private autopsy to gather more evidence. it's all validation for sandy smith who told us be

this is steven smith two point oh.at happened to her son. -- he started a gofundme, she raised roughly $75,000 already that she says she will use to pay to examine her sons body if a judge signed off on a petition allowing it. we did ask -- that the investigation. they said they have made progress in the stephen smith the -- investigation, erin, but would only say that it remains active and ongoing. >> thanks very much. thanks to all of you for being with us. truckload capacity and dedicated trucks and drivers. we're carvana we created a brand new way for you to sell your car go to carvana answer a few questions and our techno wizardry calculates your car's value and gives you a real offer in seconds we'll come to you pay you on the spot then pick up your car that's it at carvana if you still have symptoms of moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis or active psoriatic arthritis after a tnf blocker like humira or enbrel, rinvoq is different and may help. stand up to your symptoms with rinvoq. rinvoq is a once-daily pill

after being slapped by will smith.ill smith gave multiple apologies on the subject. chris rock laid low. last night, he live streamed a special on netflix and finally dished on the situation. he said he still had will smith hit song, summertime, ringing in his ears. [ laughter ] no ill will towards will smith, he said, but he did get caught in the crossfire between smith and his wife. >>> after 17 seasons and more than 2000 episode, the rachael ray show is going off the air. the daytime talk show first premier back in september of 2006. in a statement, ray says she is ending the show so she can move onto the next chapter of her broadcast career. she did not elaborate further what that meant. earlier this week, deadline reported that ray is starting her own production company and producing in the kitchen content with ray and heather. in order for small businesses to thrive, they need to be smart... efficient... agile... and that's never been more important than it is right now. so for a limited time, comcast business is

and jack smith has a response deadline of six hours later, six i am tomorrow morning. that is happening right now tonight. and so, the biggest legal development in the criminal investigation of donald trump did not happen in manhattan today, as oh trump incorrectly predicted on saturday. donald trump was not charged with crimes today by the manhattan district attorney alvin bragg, as donald trump predicted he would be on saturday. also, there were virtually no protests against prosecutions of donald trump anywhere today, even though on saturday donald trump begged his supporters to get out there and protest what he said would be his arrest today in manhattan. protesters were out in manhattan today, out in front of trump tower, demanding that donald trump be prosecuted for everything. more people turned out in manhattan today to demand that donald trump be prosecuted than the total number of people who have turned out in the entire country to protest donald trump being prosecuted. it was the biggest protests since 2019 in los angeles today by teachers and workers in the

by shug smith.ith practices selective outrage. she hurt him more than i did, i didn't have any entanglements and who did he hit? me. >> ashley: joe concha joins us to react. did you watch it, what do you think? if you didn't watch it, what do you think about the clips sent out. >> joe: i did watch it after the fact and chris rock, who doesn't live far from where i'm sitting right now and i've met him before, good family guy, handled this as well as anybody could have for the past year and not speaking about it and not playing the victim. he said that, that is the way he was brought up. will smith has been in the smacking business before, he was arrested for assault for punching his record promoter and nearly blinded him in one eye and punched a man in 2012. all that said, what stands out here, chris rock, during this special also calls out the relationship between will smith and jada pinkett, his wife, for having an open relationship. will smith was defending her for her honor. i have spoken to my w

representatives for the smiths did not respond to requests for comments. >> i have read it for will smithow, i watch emancipation just to see him get walloped. >> about the slap that still is at center stage and sing stinging. janice, mackay for nbc news, los angeles. >> new reaction from the sunday talk shows about that january six footage that is about to be released this week. a key question, is anybody reaching out to the capitol police to vent this stuff? we're reinventing our network. ♪ ♪ ♪ fast. reliable. perfectly orchestrated. the united states postal service. y'all wayfair's got just what you need for your home. do they have stylish beds at great prices? whoo, this bed is dreamy. you're kelly clarkson? yes. and you're in our bed? yes. what about five star dining sets? sorry i didn't have a reservation. you're kelly clarkson. i love your work. thank you. find just what you need at wayfair! even a personal sauna. oh! can we do the wayfair song? yes you can. wayfair! ♪ wayfair, you've got just what i need ♪ wow. it'd be better if you did it. ♪ ♪ ♪ get directv with a two year price

and that's clearly what jack smith is going to say here. it's really inconceivable to me that barrel howell, the judge that's going to be ruling on this, has not already said that or is going to imminently say that, which means that these are conversations that jack smith is going to be able to get at either in the grand jury or interviews or both. that means that he's going to be able to go up the chain. in other words, he's going to find out from his boss who told her the factual information. the same with mr. corcoran. ultimately it may go to boris epstein, maybe the former president, but that hot potato is going to get passed up the chain until somebody owns it. the presumably as we did with manafort, it was manafort and rick gates who told the lawyer what to say that was false and presumably that is what jack smith is looking to see whether it was the former president who did that. obviously we can all look at this and say of course it was him. it doesn't fly in the court of law, you need the witness to say that, and jack smith may be

so jack smith with a one-two punch today. well everyone's buzzing about alvin bragg, the stormy daniels 's hush money, probe donald trump's legal headaches when it comes to the special counsel, they appear to be multiplying. joining me now are laura jarrett, nbc legal correspondent, and michael moore, former u.s. attorney for the middle district of georgia. thank you both for joining me. laura, we couldn't stop talking to you last time we needed more today. i want to hear your assessment of how involving mike pence will be to testify here. it sounds like he's privately or's attorneys are making paste of the concept, you know it's likely we'll get pulled into? this >> the hardest thing about this, this is he's gone public with a number of different interactions, and reflections that he's had. about really material events that happened both before and after the election. and yet the argument that his lawyers want to be making he should be amortized at least as to his role as private incident of the senate, and the ministerial a

will smith slapped him.r there. he said he's not a victim, however. you'll never see him crying on gayle or oprah. he took that hit. it was a biting response to what happened a year ago, abby. >> a year later it's clearly still very raw there. and obviously so much anticipation for him to finally address this. stephanie elam, thank you so much. >>> and that does it for me here on the cnn "newsroom." don't go anywhere, we have much more news right after this. i can be free e to do the thins that i love to do. i hope when i retire somededay, they say, that guy made this place a spspecial place to come to schol and gave as much as he could to help the community. hi, i'm michael, i've lost 70 pounds on golo. i spent thousands on other diets that didn't work. on golo, i spentnds a couple hundred bucks and got back down to my high school weight. you're not gonna believe this . - [announcer] paoll takes too long. at least it used to. now, there's roll, the app that makes payroll as easy as sending a text. you. you'

into the former president, that whole thing is still happening this time in special counsel jack smith's investigation into the trump mar-a-lago documents fiasco cnn is reporting that dozens of mar-a-lago staffers and people inside trump's orbit have been subpoenaed by the special counsel team to appear before the grand jury in washington, d.c. and that many of the mar-a-lago staffers who have been subpoenaed to testify are reportedly being represented by attorneys paid for by trump entities i should note that nbc news has not yet confirmed this reporting, but it is interesting. now, there is no indication here of illegality or impropriety in this reporting but it sure does raise a whole lot of questions cnn also goes on to report that today margot martin is former white house staffer who moved to trump with florida appeared today before the grand jury in d.c. and one of the special counsel's most senior prosecutors was involved in that testimony. quote, the staffers are of interest to investigators because of what they may have seen or heard while on their daily duties around the estate

smith was found dead near one of the murdaugh's properties back in 2015.just weeks after murdaugh was convicted of killing his own wife and son. cnn is following new developments for us. isabelle, what more are authorities saying about all of this? >> reporter: well, fred, this is a major development. steven smith is one of the mysteri mysterious deaths surrounding the murdaugh family. his body was found in the middle of a rural road near the murdaugh estate with force blunt trauma to his head. now his family is exhuming his body for an independent autopsy immediately, according to a gofundme page verified by cnn. and while authorities haven't announced any connection between smith and the murdaugh family, they did announce this was reopening an investigation into smith's killing and that was based on information that they gathered while investigating the double homicide of maggie and paul murdaugh. and to this day there's still so many questions surrounding smith's death. according to a report, pathologists indicated and stated in this report that smith w