it is sunday, february the 5th. i am ali velshi. we begin today with a big balloon! a major metaphor and a geopolitical turning point in the wrong direction. yesterday, at 2:39 pm eastern standard time the united states military f 32 aircraft flying at 15,000 feet used a single air to air missile to shoot down what the united states says was a chinese around balloon. roughly six nautical miles off the coast of south carolina, while within u.s. territorial airspace. the blue crafted to the atlantic ocean creating a debris field at least seven mile spread out in monthly shallow water. the recovery is ongoing. that includes navy divers, the coast guard, another manned and unmanned savage vehicles. fbi counter intelligence agency are also on board the vehicles. officials say there is plenty to learn from the debris. they add they have also been studying the balloon since it first entered u.s. airspace in the lucian islands of alaska on january the 28. the balloons, which had mane
anthem, we still need the song to actually function as a kind of signifier of what has not yet been achieved in this country. when dr. king quote, holman lift every moment and sing, it was often the most difficult moments in the civil rights struggle. after the most harrowing defeats or even deaths. and i think that that is instructive. it is a song that reminds us that we have not yet achieved the kind of justice that we also rightly deserve. what is the relevance of the fact that the song is gaining greater mainstream prominence, including the fact that it will be performed at the super bowl? i think it s a sign that we have had this sort of in the last ten years are, so what is called a racial recognition, and part of that journey has been to actually tell the story about black americans who have been wounded deeply so that people can understand why it has been so critical to
does he know a different boehner than i do? the problem isn t that the right is not being defiant enough, it s that they re letting their far right base drive them right over the cliff. joining me now, goldie taylor and ryan grim. thank you both for coming on the show tonight. good to be here. thank you, reverend sharpton. goldie, let me start with you. is that what all this gridlock in washington is about, appealing to this far right base? well, it certainly is. you know, reverend sharpton, i ve been on campaign trails in and out for nearly 25 years. this used to be the stuff of whisper campaigns, the kind of things you kept inside of the campaign at the local and grassroots level. we have watched it manifest itself on the national stage over the last five to six years in ways that are really quite surprising to me, that these kinds of rumor, innuendos have taken on sort of mainstream prominence. and so you re watching the daily caller. you re watching news busters.