being informed more quickly and more efficiently than ever before. well, let me suggest that, you know, i mean, i google things all the time. i will say that when i google something like that in the news, i end my search string with nbc. so if i m looking for covid vaccination facts, i ll write covid vaccination facts nbc so that articles from nbc news come up higher in the search because it s a trusted source. take from it for what it s worth. everybody sit tight. we have more to discuss coming up, including the search for a new jeopardy host . that search might be coming to an end. but the show might be making a risky wager with its reported front-runner. plus, an uptick in summer travel is bringing a rise in unruly airline passengers. did some folks just forget how to act in public during quarantine? what can we do about this? first richard lui is here with the headlines.
missed the beijing olympics, america s top sprinter, because he tested positive for performance enhancer. christian coleman is now sitting out two years not because he tested positive but because he avoided tests, three times, and they consider that circumstantial evidence. those are serious offenses and it cost them olympic appearances. so if this thing had happened in march, she s back running in april. it it just doesn t blend any kind of common sense with the technical rule. you re a lawyer. suppose you were arguing your case and the guy is charged with a misdemeanor. the judge is gonna sentence him to three years. i m sorry, three months. seems like a fair sentence. but he says, you know what? my daughter s getting married, in two weeks. the judge postpones the sentence. it s the right thing to do. the guy s not gonna run out and shoot somebody. you look at the case for what it s worth. sha carri richardson should be allowed to take part in the olympics. and then, the penalty sh
man who is now a woman is competing. by the way, the testosterone levels which they claim to monitor, it s still five times more than that of a female. it s a close affair and for what it s worth high school track in connecticut which has similar standards the winners have all been boys, men who transition to women over the last several years. let s not talk about testosterone levels again, you and me, testosterone levels. i think you d blow me away. you re a pretty manly guy, i saw you in a cowboy hat and you re pretty good. will: here we go, number 3, under fire after being questioned on the stanley decades long membership to the all-white beach club in rhode island and when pressed they defended the membership by saying this. it s a long tradition in rhode island and there s many of them. we need to work our way through
one party, one idea, or one person, who happens to have taken over a party. and so i think that at least from what i can tell from the polling data, the country thinks he s working hard for them. he s they re incredibly relieved they don t have to wake up every morning and wonder what the hell happened the night before in the white house. that s a big thing. so i think, you know, he s my friend, and i try to help him when he asks. so take it for what it s worth, but this has been a really good let me put it this way. given the way presidencies tend to get in trouble pretty fast, he hasn t, and this one hasn t. history will happen. trouble will come. it always does. but steady as she goes. trouble won t last always, though. that s an old saying. trouble don t last always.
grievance-based nationalistic groups an the government has warned that your threat of terrorism as an american is greatest from those groups. so part of this idea is that we do actually have to understand what threats of violence we face in this country and what january 6 was other than political was a group of people who were looking to either overthrow the federal or state governments, again something you ve seen closely in michigan. yes, and imagine if after 9/11 some members of congress had said, you know, we don t need to look into that. we have other investigations and we know what happened and so let s just be done with it. there are number of reasons that we need to study this. and the criminal investigation for what it s worth is very valuable to hold accountable those individuals that were at the capitol that day but it is by definition limited. they could only look at statues on the books that were violated that day. some of the things that we need