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Laura Coates Live

Capitol Hill battles, Nazi homeschooling network, Fentanyl in fake pills

Laura Coates Live

CNN

News

3.92.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2023

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Congress votes to remove Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar from the House Foreign Affairs Committee. The panel discusses Speaker McCarthy’s justification for the move, and if for some for some Republicans, it could be personal. Plus, the Ohio Education Department is investigating an alleged white supremacist, pro-Nazi homeschooling network - why the state may not be able to do a thing about it. And, the DEA says more than 99% of the 50 million pills it confiscated in 2022 are fake and contain Fentanyl.Also tonight: Republican Rep. George Santos calls on Congress to fight bigotry and anti-Semitism after repeatedly and falsely claiming to be Jewish, the Pentagon is tracking a suspected Chinese spy balloon over the US, Disney launches a new doll collection with photographers who empower children of color, an Iranian couple is sentenced to prison for dancing in the streets, and are new inclusive terms actually backfiring and alienating people?Hosted by Laura Coates. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Well, good evening, everyone.

0:10.6

I'm Laura Coates, and this is CNN Tonight.

0:12.7

Now, every day seems to be, well, Groundhog Day in Congress.

0:16.7

And funny that it is, in fact, Groundhog Day to top it off.

0:20.5

Republicans who howled in Republicans with Democrats kicked Marjorie Taylor Greene and

0:24.3

Paul Gosar off committees, now turning around and kicking off Ilhan Omar off of the

0:29.7

House Foreign Affairs Committee after giving Greene and Gosar well, brand new committee

0:34.8

assignments.

0:36.0

But Congressman George Santos, who lied his way into Congress, will apparently, no penalties

0:41.5

as of yet.

0:42.5

Today, he called on Congress to fight bigotry and anti-Semitism as well, which, of course,

0:49.2

laudable, but pretty rich, came from a guy who repeatedly claimed to be Jewish, then

0:53.6

said he meant, well, Jew-ish.

0:56.4

Plus, as we're waiting for the release of up to 20 more hours of footage related to

1:00.9

the police being that led to the death of Tyree Nichols, the conversation across the

1:05.0

country is now about how policing has to change.

1:09.2

But the question really is, will that change come from Washington?

1:13.3

Or will it be in a classroom that we keep talking about it instead?

1:16.0

Or maybe from a local level or from police chiefs and officers themselves?

1:21.3

And there's an investigation in Ohio of an online homeschooling network.

1:26.0

Repairants allegedly shared messages of white supremacy and Hitler quotes as educational

1:32.4

resources for the students.

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