how he plans to expand democratic control in 2023 and how not to celebrate black history month. we will reveal our worst of the week contenders. i m ayman mohyeldin, let s get started. let s start this hour with the breaking news of the night the united states has shot down the suspected surveillance balloon off the coast of south carolina. officials say a f 22 missile jet took up the balloon with a single air to air missile. at 2:39 eastern this afternoon. nbc s gary graham joins me now from washington, d. c.. with the latest. gary, it s good to have you with us. what do we know about that decision-making process to shut down this blue and the evidence to collect the debris? as you can imagine,, eamonn you get our learning that this whole process was a team effort, it was a multi agency effort. the faa turned off all the arrivals and departures from wilmington airport from north carolina, from myrtle beach, from charleston. the air force is the one that shut down the ballo
held in new york different from the dominion trial, which was held in delaware, new york tends to move a little bit slower in terms of their legal system, so that could be part of the holdup. but this is going to be a huge case for fox and a lot of us were watching the outcome of the dominion case because it has big implications for how fox is going to litigate the smartmatic case. but another thing to note that that s not the only lawsuit that they face you ll recall they face a lawsuit from one of their former producers. she is suing the company alleging that fox tried to sort of medal with her testimony. pretrial and then in addition to fox, you have a slew of other companies that dominion is actually suing so dominions lawyer yesterday who appeared on cnn, justin nelson said that it s not just fox. they have lost it out against newsmax one american news, rudy giuliani, sidney powell. there s a whole slew of them. and so for the next year or two, we re going to be seeing a
I think what we need to focus on, whether it is black or white or or straight, making sure that we have Hate Crime Laws like this throughout the country, that protect people like this individual that was brutalized by those four maniacs. To be when i dont believe in hate crimes laws. I dont think we should prosecute people based on their thoughts. You dont think is a hate crime . Tucker i think hate is involved, im merely saying it is a separate category. Im also opposed to lying and downplaying something that is obvious. It is clear that this mans race and political position played a role. Absolutely. Tucker that is not all clear from the accounts that were prevalent today. The associated press, and the first account, didnt measure tl angles. I wonder why that was. I dont know. What i can say here, the charges came down from the prosecutor, the final arbiter, there is no arbiter of the case. People reporting the facts, which is, this individual was charged with a hate crime, this pros
assume that the media stretches the truth distorts facts and we , regardless of what network or where you re reading it. that s just the assumption and i think that is something that we ve obviously seen a sarah pointed out increase exponentially. excuse me exceptionally over the last several years, and i don t know what the answer is to gaining back that trust. i mean, i know that cnn is very committed obviously to doing really good fact based journalism. um no axios for sarah works is committed to the same thing. my former employers . and at the same time, though, i think that those are also like people just view no matter what it is, and i think it s going to be really difficult to gain back that truck. i agree. that was, um, eye opening and disheartening to hear them talk about that. one of the things that i realized is that you know, unless you take a journalism class in college or high school, you don t really know the tenants of journalism that there are rules and how much we ha
i can t believe you braved the cold weather and made it into the studio. i m getting really brave. hopefully it had heating. it did, not but that s okay. aaron, i ll start with you, president biden here said that he wanted these calendar changes to ensure that voters of color had a bigger voice in the process earlier on. do you think this will help deliver that? that s absolutely right, ayman. we know that south carolina delivered a victory for biden, generally black voters, and a lot of them were seeing this as a return on their investment. frankly from 2020. a lot of folks in our profession didn t necessarily have this one on their bingo cards coming in 2020. but here we are. look, i think i m certainly one that does among us in the journalism class predicting that south carolina was gonna