if you wanted to go to harvard or yale, you had to be at the top of your class. they demanded greatness from their students. if you wanted to walk the runway at fashion shows and have your face placerred on magazines and billboards, you had to be in tip top shape. stunning enough to make somebody stop in their track. if you wanted to run nasa, ibm or exxon you had to be the best in the business. they demanded greatness from their employees and that demand formed generations of excellence. the weak were weeded out. the strong were rewarded with money and status and a sense of fulfillment. our society doesn t have standards anymore. everybody gets a trophy. you re not allowed to judge anybody. nothing s taboo. the people we revered yesterday are despised today. weakness is rewarded and strength is punished. we traded excellence and achievement for diversity and inclusion. it s happening all across the country. in new york, the nypd s neutering the physical fitness test. they ar
he is the reason that the oath keepers were in washington, d.c. on january 6th. that was what the judge found today. and he also believes that stewart rhodes poses an ongoing threat to democracy. rhodes made no attempt to try and dissuade the judge of believing that. and the judge certainly did say that explicitly after stewart rhodes expressed no remorse in court today and continued to be very far right in what he said to the judge and not saying that he believed that he had done anything wrong at all. now, the other thing, with kelly meggs, that was the second defendant sentenced today, kelly meggs was much more remorseful. and judge mehta looked at him and reminded him how serious of an offense this is, seditious conspiracy. and then spoke about how he found it so astonishing that american citizens who had been upstanding average americans before january 6th then became criminals. and i want to read for you one of the last things that judge mehta said after this marathon d
several stories unfolding as we come on the air live from washington. gnu details on that supply balloon. and time running out overseas. let s start with what s up first, the state department confirms that chinese balloon was capable of collecting intel with congress now getting public and private briefings on the whole thing. we have our team live at the pentagon and capitol hill with where this goes next. police sharing new information about an assault on a member of congress. what we re learning about what happened to democrat angie craig, and whether politics played a role. the new info just in from capitol police in a minute. the chances of finding survivors of the deadly earthquakes are beginning to shrink and shrink quickly with more than 20,000 people now killed. we are live on the ground with what s happening around the clock. we ll take you there in just a second. i m hallie jackson in washington, along with dan de luce, our nbc news national affairs reporter at
kanye west s brazen anti-semitism is rolling on. spreading anti-semitic holocaust denying filth. god forbid one comment. the tide of anti-semitism is rising. kyrie irving suspended by the brooklyn nets for defending his decision to tweet a link to a film kritcriticized as anti-sem. the oldest and deadliest hate now alive and thriving. the threat level against the jewish community is historic. hate once limited to extr extremists, fanatics. you will not replace us! now mainstream. a meeting between the former president, kanye, and a holo holocaust denier. alarmingly in the open. i think it s disgusting. there s no question that anti-semitism is being normalized. across america, hatred hanging above the 405. someone sprayed anti-semitic threats. another public display of anti-semitism in beverly hills. online. we ve seen people live stream their actual attacks. this is disgusting. on college campuses and in politics. it s become a politic
save hundreds a year over t-mobile, at&t and verizon. talk to our switch squad at your local xfinity store today. top of the hour in the cnn newsroom. i m erica hill. and i m jim sciutto. this morning, just incredible new details from the memphis police chief describing what the nation will see today when her department releases videos of the violent january 7th arrest of 29-year-old tyre nichols. he died just days later from injuries he sustained during the police stop. some of the emmages including from police body cameras described, including by the police chief as appalling, horrific and inhumane. five memphis police officers have been fired and charged with a number of felonies, including second-degree murder. and in an exclusive interview this morning, with cnn s don lemon, the police chief walked through what led up to that traffic stop, the beating of tyre nichols and about the ongoing investigations into the officers responsible. the charges, these five off