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Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson and today is Friday March 22nd, 2024. This is the

excerpt. Today a look at a military academy's plan to combat bullying and extremism.

Plus the Justice Department sues Apple and there's been a kidney transplant from a gene-edited pig.

Amid warnings of online extremism, one military academy has a new plan, but it's

raising questions. I spoke with USA Today,

National Correspondent Will Carless to learn more. Well, thanks for hopping on.

Thanks for having me. So, well, let's just start with this. what alarms have we previously heard that the military isn't doing enough to address hate and extremism?

So especially after the January 6th insurrection after which there was a lot of analysis done on how many people

who were involved in the insurrection and here indeed stormed the capital had either military

backgrounds or in some cases were still serving in the military.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin back in March 2021 launched a real effort to try and rid

the US military of extremism.

And ever since then, this has been kind of a hot button talking point

with people on one side saying, you know, there's a huge problem with extremists and extremism in the military and then people on the other

side saying that's not true there really isn't a problem with extremism in the military and any efforts to

sort of seek it out or stop it are a waste of time and money. It's a very

polarizing topic. So amid that the Air Force now has this plan for monitoring its

cadets online.

What does this look like, Will?

The Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs

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