day in congress. republicans who howled at republicans or democrats kicked marjorie taylor green off committees now turning around and kicking ilhan omar off the committee after giving green new assignments. congressman george santos who lied his way into congress, no penalties yet. today, he called on congress to fight bigotry and anti-semitism as well, pretty rich coming from a guy who repeatedly claimed to be jewish. plus we re waiting for the release of more than 20 hours of footage of the police beating that led to the death of tyre nichols. the talk in the country is about how policing has to change. the question is will that change come from washington or in a classroom. will we hear it from a local level and police chiefs themselves. and there s an investigation in ohio of an online home schooling network where parents allegedly shared messages of white supremacy and hitler quotes as educational resources for the students. why the state may not be able to do a thing a
good evening, everyone i m laura coates and this is cnn tonight. every day seems to be, well, groundhog day in congress. it s funny that is in fact groundhog day the top it off. republicans who held and democrats democrats to kick marjorie taylor greene and paul gosar off companies, now turning around and kicking off ilhan omar off of the house foreign affairs affairs committee. after giving marjorie taylor greene and paul gosar brand-new committee assignments. the congressman george santos, who lied his way into congress, apparently, no penalties, as of yet, today, he called on congress to fight bigotry and antisemitism as well, which laudable but pretty rich coming from a guy who repeatedly claimed to be jewish and then said he meant, plus, we wait for the release of up to 20 more hours of footage related to the police beating that led to the death of tyre nichols, the conversation across the country is now about how policing has to change, but the question really i
china says that contraption over the united states is just researching weather. yeah, okay, sure. the lead starts right now. china is calling it a civilian airship. the u.s. calls it a spy balloon. whatever you call it, it s causing a huge diplomatic riff between two global superpowers as the pentagon contemplates shooting it down. and hate in home schooling. the discovery of disturbing pro-nazi and disturbing teachings to kids in ohio sparking a debate over what parents can teach their children at home under the auspices of education. chatgpt growing faster than tiktok or instagram, bound to revolutionize how we operate, maybe even about to take your day job. welcome to the lead. secretary of state blinken is talking about his canceled trip to china. let s listen in. in our skies is a clear violation of our sovereignty, a clear violation of international law, and clearly unacceptable. and we ve made that clear to china. any country that has its air space violated
it is the first day of black history month. happy black history month, everybody. or as ron desantis calls it, month. good morning, everyone. thank you for joining us. we re going to get to what is happening down in florida. there you key caitlan is live on capitol hill. president biden face s a series of investigations. also moments from now, the gop is gearing up to kick congressman omar off of a key committee. big questions on whether or not they have enough votes. they believe they do. they face some pushback from republicans. also hunter biden with a counter offensive. the president s son demanding investigations into those who access data from his personal laptop. what is behind this really aggressive new legal strategy. we ll get to all that in a moment. we re going to begin with breaking news out of ukraine. there is heavy shelling this morning. live to sam kylie. sam, hello. what are you hearing? well, hearing is quite literally what we ve been doing here,
facing a classified documents investigation and battles over the nation s economy and police reform after the death of tyre nichols. lesson plans with hitler quotes. one state investigating a nazi home-schooling network, putting white supremacy into the coverage. curriculum. is it the smoking gun? the evidence putting alex murdaugh at the scene of the murders contradicting his alibi. cnn this morning starts right now. we begin with the breaking news out of ukraine this morning. our cnn crew was nearby a twin missile attack targeting creme torres in eastern ukraine coming less than 24 hours after a missile struck a residential neighborhood killing at least three and wounding eight. crews are searching through the rubble of apartment buildings searching for survivors. fred pleitgen is in ukraine for us this morning. i appreciate you joining us. you narrowly missed this heavy russian missile strike? what happened? reporter: yeah, certainly was a close call. we were goi