we do that you couldn t have on network television. people are really trying to do something adventurous. channel 7, shame on you! this is more celebration of culture and opening the doors and allowing america to come on inside. there is always something on television, and some of it may be better than we deserve. that was cool. [ cheers and applause ] listen to it. oh, they know when it hits the bottom, it will be 1990, good-bye to the 80s. ten, nine, eight eight, eight, eight! oh, will this horrible year never end? when the 90s began, we started to see a lot of experimentation. and the simpsons i think in some senses was inspired by not necessarily hatred of television, but a distrust of a lot of the ways in which television was talking to us. tv respects me. it laughs with me. not at me. you re stupid. doh! i think the sitcoms of the 80s were such a warm, safe, humor. i love you guys. you see? the kids, they listen to the rap music
know right now. neil: a lot we don t know right now. the white house defending their decision to shoot down three more aerial objects. that makes four in eight days. but we actually know little more this day. this pressure is growing and growing a lot on the president to address the issue himself and in person head on. so far that s a no-go. we ve got fox team coverage with jacqui heinrich at the white house on if the administration is lowing the bar on future shoot downs. jennifer griffin at the pentagon on defense secretary lloyd austin speaking up and the chairman of the house intelligence committee, mike turner, on what he wants to hear about possible future shootdowns and where we go from here. welcome, everybody. i m neil cavuto. jacqui heinrich has more. we heard again today a potential risk to civilian aircraft factored in to the president s decision to take down these three objects that were shot down since friday. since the u.s. is has upped its radar capabili
welcome back to cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. new this hour. dramatic new details about the unidentified object shot down by fighter jets just miles off the coast of alaska yesterday. unlike the chinese spy balloon last saturday, this demanded more immediate action yesterday. officials say it was flying much lower at 40,000 feet making it a dangerous potential threat to civilian aircraft. now we are learning u.s. military pilots who approached the craft have given conflicting accounts of what they saw. this new report coming in from cnn national security reporter natasha bertrand. this is interesting. this is kind of unusual that these pilots saw different things and that is sort of, i guess, adding to the mystery of all of this. not even the pilots were able to identify what they saw. just to take you back for a sec. on thursday the u.s. defense officials sent f-35 fighter jets to try to figure out what this object was flying around near alaska. those pilot
coming up next, all the best and worst moments of 2022, a cnn special report all the best, special report all the best, all the worst starts now. captions by vitac www.vitac.com buckle up, strap in, and brace yourself. this year brought more twists and turns, in and outs, and ups and downs than anyone could have predicted. big news, politics, movies, music, sports, and more. we re going through it all with our guest comedian and actress helen hog, deonte stallworth, john berman, s.e. cupp, and gina they re all on board for the best ride ever, all the best, all the worst: 2022. welcome. i m tom forman. and depending on who you are and where you were and what you believe, this year may have been pretty good or really bad or somewhere in the murky middle. many of us started with high hopes, but the troubles of recent years are fading oh so slowly. and that was clear in all sorts of huge news events that rocked our world. let s start with the biggest, baddest, wors
work when it was bending a genre. take something that s familiar and give it some chili pepper. advertising is based on one thing, happiness. is there any taboo that you wouldn t break? not if there was a funny idea. what is wrong with you? there s so much different storytelling and so many different stories being told about so many different people. i don t think dramatic series television has ever been stronger. there s no longer this theory of what popular entertainment must be. incoming! who are the heroes? the people who watch this show. this is the week when the major broadcast networks unveil their fall lineup of shows. and every executive in hollywood knows how well the sopranos is doing on cable, which is a network problem. i think hbo altered everything for this reason alone, is there were no commercials. we are dependent on sponsors. there s so much we can do in terms of language, in terms of violence, in terms of sex. to