good evening, everyone i m laura coates and this is cnn tonight. every day seems to be, well, groundhog day in congress. it s funny that is in fact groundhog day the top it off. republicans who held and democrats democrats to kick marjorie taylor greene and paul gosar off companies, now turning around and kicking off ilhan omar off of the house foreign affairs affairs committee. after giving marjorie taylor greene and paul gosar brand-new committee assignments. the congressman george santos, who lied his way into congress, apparently, no penalties, as of yet, today, he called on congress to fight bigotry and antisemitism as well, which laudable but pretty rich coming from a guy who repeatedly claimed to be jewish and then said he meant, plus, we wait for the release of up to 20 more hours of footage related to the police beating that led to the death of tyre nichols, the conversation across the country is now about how policing has to change, but the question really i
over the united states. eventually shot down off of the coast of south carolina by an air force fighter jet. now pentagon officials will not confirm whether or not the new object was also a balloon or its country of origin. officials did say the object was roughly the size of a small car, and was flying at an altitude that will make it a potential threat to civilian aircraft. alaska senator melissa spoke with lester holt last night, said she was briefed and told the object was not a balloon. take a listen. but today, to know that we have yet another unidentified objects successfully shot down in alaska, making sure that the message is clear that any sovereign territory or airspace in this country, and there s a threat, that there is an incursion. there will be consequences. here is nbc news white house correspondent allie raffa with more. today, the search with ice and snow is underway for any debris from that second flying object in u.s. airspace. this object shot do
because i came out of the super bowl in january of 1988 in san diego. during that week i spent an entire day with him back home in louisiana, after he won that super bowl. that s stigmas there, and the stigma how to deal with the fear factor that they could play. and, think about this, cory. that was 35 years ago that doug williams broke the color barrier, becoming the first black quarterback in the super bowl, and here we are now. which is incredible, but, a lot of it goes back to the money factor. all right? quarterback, the most prominent position, the most expensive position in the national football league. forbes determine just recently the top ten players in the nfl are all quarterbacks. all right? half of those, in the top ten part of the nfl are black quarterbacks. so, again, the financial thing has been a big part of this as well.
bigger than football. it s bigger than me. all right. so, he is putting his entire career in jeopardy, as he says there, to try to address this problem. i want to know what you think, the effect of what he is doing may have on the sport if nothing else, could it force changes to this meaningless rooney rule, toothless rule? i ll start with something nobody else is talking about. little quick history here. jimmy the greek schneider, okay? jimmy the greek snyder was an nfl analyst for cbs back in the day, 70s and 80s. he was huge. in january of 1988, he gets fired. i ll bet you all the people out there when they heard he got fired by cbs, you re going to say, oh, yeah, he got fired was because he said the reason black athletes were so great was because of their big mothers and their big thighs going back to