it certainly did. we have another great day on capitol hill. i never felt like they harry s teachings to different narratives depending on who was at that. it lasted close to three hours honing in on what chairman jim jordan called the weaponization of government freight you heard from two direct just sharing ke findings from twitter twitters internal communications. and controls what we do and do not see an even likening the government to germany and they issued chillingworth. we aren t asking for a national debate over limits of the first element freight they are creating blacklist and then pressuring and controlling that social media platforms in the people on those lists. they are aiming for what narrative is and they already know in advance what they are looking for. white house republicans dug into potential impacts to the first amendment, democrats took up different attempt freight they tried to trap the two journalist into revealing their sources freight further
than $725 billion for lawsuits and without its biggest, brightest star, tucker carlson the new york times reports that his departure is made more stun big the fact that the network did nothing after carlson pushed the envelope over and over, pedaling inflammatory information. quote, the network stuck by him after carlson claimed that immigration had made america, quote, poor and dirty. he seemed to shrug off a racist conspiracy theory known as the great replacement, along with the fact that when russia invaded ukraine, he seemed to promote russia s point of view the fallout from carlson s ouster is unclear. quote, mr. carlson s rise prefigured trump s takeover of the republican party his own conversion from bow tied libertarian to popularist remade the party. he prospered with trump s presidency he made frank nativism the primary touch stones of republican politics. if fox and its host prospered because of trump, their efforts to deny the presidential results threw the netw
brawl breaking out on a southwest flight a day after that midair attack on a united plane. we hear from a passenger who helped take the suspect down. the new storm threat in california as the death toll grows after record snow. we re tracking it. fox news under fire. president biden blasting house republicans for giving tucker carlson the video he cherry-picked to falsely portray the january 6th attack as peaceful and the newly revealed text messages. what carlson really thought about donald trump after the election. and on this international women s day, the all girls team of young scientists who fled their home and are wowing the world. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, and welcome on this wednesday night. rarely has an american police department, its practices, its culture, its performance been so thoroughly and broadly condemned. the u.s. justice department announcing results of its nearly two-year-long review of the louisvill
sighted last night. gusts of winds reaching 114 miles per hour. when you stand for our value, you come under assault. florida governor ron desantis speaking out and sparring with disney over parental rights. you have woke ideology taking over so many institutions. a group of grannies giving rihanna a run for her money, they are shining bright like a diamond, some critics say they outperformed rihanna. griff: good morning, new orleans, it s 7 a.m. central time zone, 8 a.m. in new york city and it is monday, february 27, year of our lord 2023. we re glad you re here for this final hour of monday edition. joined as always, ainsley earhardt, today we have a surprise, griff jenkins. griff: you did the date and i just realized it is my niece sofie garcia s birthday. ainsley: happy birthday niece. most uncle don t know their niece s birthday. griff: she just had her first child, cooper. brian: better than me, i tell you that. ainsley: we re glad you are here.
effect at this hour in multiple mississippi counties. those warns are bound to pop up in alabama as well as the storm system keeps moving east. we ll have breaking news, updates on what transpires across the south as the show goes on. tension with the teheran are growing for r the second day in a row. u.s. forces were under attack by irairanian proxy group. an american contractor was killed and several u.s. forces were wounded. our chief correspondent, jonathan hunt, is live on how the u.s. is responding. good evening, the u.s. still has troops in syria. they have been there since 2015. there are around 900 troops on t tthe ground and they are und attack once again tonight. fox news learned there had been injuries in these new rocket attacks in eastern syria. believed to be carried out with iranian weapons. on thursday, a drone attack again using iranian equipment killed one u.s. contractor and wounded several u.s. troops. prompting retaliatory strikes by american forces