passed for under a false name, michael lee smith.ance, he was set free. the federal government why and that was for punishment to deport him back to where it all started to vancouver. he got a free ride home. so the very place he and diane so desperately sought to escape as teenagers, where no criminal jeopardy awaited. a theft charge she faced for essentially stealing that airplane had long since been dropped by canadian authorities. jerry ambrozuk was on final approach to freedom, back where it all began. >> did it feel like home? >> it does. but you know with my parents, and my sister and kids being here it's definitely. >> it's a very interesting life you have now. these pieces that none of them seemed to belong together, and yet but that one over there, and this one over here. >> it looks like 24 years and living as michael smith as a model citizen, as a model fake u.s. citizen >> nonetheless than we lost money. paid lots of taxes. i was an exam currently citizen model awe. >> still even after all this time their questions. did

but here's some feedback on his choice from michael smith.sten. >> kyrie irving is already a martyr to people who think like him. kyrie irving is already being worships in a lot of corners. okay? so -- >> okay. >> he's made his point. he's made his point already. so in the event -- >> kyrie irving reverses -- >> right. in the event that he reverses field and decides to get vaccinated in order to be there for his team, i don't think anybody would begrudge him. >> reporter: and we've also heard from former nba greats magic johnson, charles barkley, saying that he needs to realize that this is about helping other people, protecting others, and not necessarily himself here as well. meanwhile irving said this is a personal matter. he's asking people to not pry into it as of right now. craig? >> yeah. well, it is striking that a lot of the folks who are celebrating kyrie's decision to not get vaccinated were not celebrating him on matters of social justice nearly a year ago. doctor, we should mention you have a book out. the book is titled "take co

joining us tonight congressman michael burgess, jason smith, cathy mcmorris rogers, former utah congressman, jason chaffetz, former national security official kt mcfarland. ford owe connell and arizona sheriff mark lamb. the state department inspector general launches a new investigation into the president's botched withdrawal from afghanistan. we'll look tonight how bad all the probes could get for the white house. biden's agenda hanging by a thread. a brand new no from democrat senator joe manchin. we've got it. democrats claim they scaled back irs snooping on your bank accounts after an uproar but it is not a fix. why the irs invasion of your privacy when democrats are not first cutting their own massive waste, fraud and abuse. the far left acts like they have a monopoly claim on your wallet. and the white house ripping americans for greenhouse gas emissions. the administration threatening new carbon taxes but biden's cabinet, now flying polluting airplanes to yet another expensive u.n. climate junket. the hypocrisy. why no remote zoom calls? why is john kerry not patched in? is it easie

smith has died aged 73. over two spells at ibrox, he led rangers to ten top—flight titles, five scottish cups and six league cup wins. we can now speak to michaeld quite _ football legacy, doesn't he? he does leave behind quite a _ football legacy, doesn't he? he does leave behind quite a big _ football legacy, doesn't he? he does leave behind quite a big legacy. - leave behind quite a big legacy. walter smith has been a towering figure in scottish football for the last 20—30 years, if you go right back to when he was at dundee united he was assistant manager when they won their one and only league title. he worked under alex ferguson. but of course he is synonymous first and foremost with the work that he did at rangers. he was the dominant managerialform at at rangers. he was the dominant managerial form at scottish football right through the 90s. bud managerial form at scottish football right through the 90s.— right through the 90s. and he manaued right through the 90s. and he managed some _ right through the 90s. and he managed some really - right through the 90s. and he managed some really decentl right through the 90s. and he - managed so

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e-mails, including a racist description of nfl smith insult the nfl commission, female referees and chideing the league's first openly gay player michaelam and wide receive keyshawn johnson >> never from day one, he's been a used car salesman. >> reporter: the league slammed them calling them appalling, abhor represent and wholly contrary to the nfl's values now how they will handle the e-mails and calls for transparency to get louder >> the only way is to make e-mails available. let's see who said what and when, about whom, to whom. maybe we have a better picture of how big we have of a cultural problem for the nfl. >> reporter: the nfl raising more questions about the league's future, steve patterson, nbc news. >> next up on "early today," it's quitting time, why americans are leaving their jobs in record numbers. >> and beam me up, bezos, william shot iner is hours away from blasting off into the final frontier pain. and dealing with a bulky vacuum.. . is such a hassle. uchhh!!! so now we use our swiffer sweeper and dusters. the fluffy fibers? they pick up dust easily. grabbing it in all those hard-to-reach places. gotcha!!! and for

smith has lips the size of michelin tires. he used offensive language to insult roger goodell, and calling michael sam a queer, disparaging players who protested during the national anthem, painting the hiring of female referees. >> it wasn't just something that crossed his mind, which is bad, but he then took that thought, formalized it in a writing and hit send. people say all sorts of things sort of on the cuff that they shouldn't. this is more than that. >> reporter: according to the "times." gruden also exchanged e-mail photos with other men showing women only wearing bikini bottoms, including cheerleaders. >> that was steve patterson reporting and nightly news continues the reporting and how the league is wrestling to change its culture to be more inclusive. >>> colin kaepernick is coming to netflix. the former 49ers quarterback is debuting a new series about hess life. >> since the day i was born, my passion, my love was being a quarterback. >> the series is called "colin in black and white", kaepernick will narrate the series. it's inspired by his experience as a black child adopted bay white family. he wants to give refe

smith has large lips. and gruden using offensive language to insult roger goodell and calling the first openly gay player michael a queer, disparaging players, panning the hiring of female referees and mocking rules for concussions. >> it wasn't just something that crossed his mind that was bad but he took that tought, formal used it in writing and hit send. people say all kinds of things on the cuff. this is more than that. >> reporter: gruden also exchanged email photos with other men showing women wearing only bikini bottoms, including nfl cheerleaders. in a statement the league slammed gruden's actions calling them appalling, abhorrent and wholly contrary to the nfl's values. >> that was steve patterson reporting. >>> new data on the exodus of students from the san francisco schools. nearly 3,500 students have left over the past two years and that could cost the district $35 million in state funding. meaning possible new staff cutbacks. district leaders hope to have seen more students return this fall as school reopened. that didn't happen. at the same time, 2% decline in enrollment is similar to other calif

michael hosts emily compagno and kayleigh mcenany. dagen mcdowell. in the center virtual seat, rob smith, turning point usa contributor and host of "rob smith is problematic. we love them. speaker nancy pelosi pushing the deadline down to vote on the president's multitrillion dollar agenda to halloween after moderates and progressives failed to reach an agreement. incentive are engaging in a respectable debate, protesters followed cinema into the restroom where she teaches at arizona state university. >> i am heading out. >> is a real moment. >> we need to build back that are plan right now. >> we knocked on doors. solutions to the build back better plan. we knocked on doors for you to get you elected. just how we got you elected, we can get you out of office if you don't support what you promised us. >> human trafficking. >> harris: as much as senator sinema, that group of protesters on kayaks confronted senator manchin. ironically he agreed with his progressive -- with their progressive talking points. >> a lot of poverty. what are you going to do for the poor in west virginia? we need

union chief demaurice smith, anti-gay slurs insulting the nfl commissioner, panning the hiring of female referees and chiding the hiring of the league's first openly gay player, michael sam. wide receiver keyshawn johnson, who played under gruden, on espn. >> he's just always been a fraud to me never from day one, he's been a used car salesmanue slammed gruden's comments, calling them "appalling, abhorrent and wholly contrary to the nfl's values." now new questions on how the nfl will handle this investigation as the league combs through a trove of e-mails and calls for transparency get louder >> the only way to answer all these questions is to make the e-mails available and let's see who said what and when about whom and to whom, and then maybe we have a better picture of how big of a cultural problem this is for the nfl. >> reporter: the disgraced exit of one of the nfl's biggest names raising more questions about the league's future. steve patterson, nbc news >>> southwest airlines delayed hundreds more flights today as it gets back up and running following days of cancellations and chaos. our tom costello now on what could be a very troubling sign ahead of the bu

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reference to michael sam, the first openly gay player to be selected in the draft, he made a joke about a female referee, mocks the physical appearance of nfl players association executive director smith is black. he said in a tweet i have resigned as head coach, i love the raiders and do not want to be a distraction. thank you to all the players, coaches, staff and fans of raiders nation. i'm sorry, i never meant to hurt anyone. he is out as head coach of the raiders. jillian: quite a story. that's not the last we will hear of it and not the last we will you cancel culture which is taken over everything but this is the backfire. >> this has to do with really poor people. at princeton and mit. and attempt to cancel a professor giving a college lecture at mit backfires, the professor's name is dorian abbott and he was supposed to give a lecture at mit but they canceled it after students slammed him for saying college admissions should be merit they saying that violates equal treatment to it actors lecture that was going to be on climate and potential life on other planets or had nothing to do with the controversial topic at hand. princeton decided to host him, thousands of people have

michael sam, the first openly gay player to be selected in the draft. he made a joke about female referees and mocked the physical appearance of nfl players association executive director smithned as head coach of the las vegas raiders. i love the raiders and did not want to be a distraction, i am sorry, never meant to hurt anyone but he is out as head coach of that team. todd: leaving $60 million on the table. students get the last laugh after one college campus's attempted cancel culture backfires. jillian: tomi lahren joins us live next. ♪♪ do you have a life insurance policy you no longer need? now you can sell your policy, even a term policy, for an immediate cash payment. call coventry direct to learn more. we thought we had planned carefully for our retirement. but we quickly realized that we needed a way to supplement our income. our friends sold their policy to help pay for their medical bills and that got me thinking. maybe selling our policy could help with our retirement. i'm skeptical, so i did some research and called coventry direct. they explained life insurance is a valuable asset that can be sold. we learned that we can sell all of our policy or keep part o

executive director demaurice smith during the backout over the collective bargaining negotiations, "the times" showing he criticized the team drafting an openly gay player in 2014 in michael sam, used homophobic language to describe roger goodell. a league source confirmed to cnn the accuracy of "the times" reporting and reached out to gruden, the nfl, raiders, and we haven't gotten a response just yet. but amid all these homophobic comments coming to light, the ironic part of all of this is the first active nfl player to come out in history plays for the raiders. we haven't heard from him just yet on snocial media or otherwise. in the email reported by "the wall street journal" about the head of the players association, jon gruden responded saying i'm not a racist. these emails to say otherwise. >> omar, than you. joining me for more is cnn's sport analyst, christine brennan, a sports columnist for "usa today," and car ran phillips. thanks for being here, guys. christine, what do you think of gruden's resignation, everything that's come to light, the apology, the fact he resigned rather than got fired over this? >> kate, this is a crisis for the national football league,

smith, head of the n.f.l. players association-- who is black. using an anti-gay slur, gruden complained when, in 2014, an n.f.l. team drafted michael player. carl nassib, who's the first active n.f.l. player to come out as gay, plays for the raiders, gruden's former team. william c. rhoden is a columnist for the sports media site, the undefeated. bill rhoden, great to have you back on the "newshour". what was yur reaction when you first heard about this whole saga. >> i was surprised not because i was surprised by what gruden said and that he said it but more that i know that he is very popular, people like him, he's kind of known in the business as a guy's guy, and the owner likes him a lot. he gave him this unprecedented ten-year contract, and i know that he did not want to see him leave. so i thought that he was just going to try to run out the clock and play it out, but it just got to be too much. if it had been just demaurice smith and the racism, maybe he could have walked with that, but calling the commissioner a slur, he checked every single box of bigotry and racis and in this the n.f.l. when they're talking about diversit

smith has lips the size of michelin tires. then the flood gates opened last troubling emails showing gruden using offensive language to league's first openly gay player, michael sam, a queer, disparaging players who protested during the national anthem, panning the hiring of female referees and mocking league efforts to reduce concussions. >> it wasn't just something that crossed his mind, which is bad, but that he then took that thought, formalized it in writing and hit send. people say all sorts of things sort of on the cuff that they shouldn't. this is more than that. >> reporter: according to the "times," gruden exchanged email photos with other men showing women wearing only bikini bottoms including nfl cheerleaders. in a statement, the league slammed gruden's actions calling them appalling, horrid and contrary to the nfl's values. and the league is in the middle of an attempted renaissance, trying to reform its image, allowing players to voice their concerns about social justice, even allowing them to wear messages on their helmets. this will be seen as yet another turning point, with questions about the toxic culture likely leading to the beginning of

racist trope to describe demaurice smith in a 2011 email writing that i has lips the seize of might be lynn tire measure lin might be lin tires. and he also called michael, disparaging players who protested during the national anthem, panning the hiring of female referees and mocking league efforts to reduce concussions. >> it wasn't just something that crossed his mind, but he formalized it in a writing and hit send. people say all sorts of things sort of on the cuff that they shouldn't. this is more than that. >> reporter: according to the "times," gruden also exchanged email photos with other men showing women wearing only bikini bottoms including cheerleaders. the league slammed the action also calling them contrary to the nfl's values. >> our thanks to steve patter soon. and with us now is the author of "loving sports when they don't love you back." good to have you with us. in your latest column, you write gruden is not an anomaly, the locker room culture is long view the noised as a hyper mass cuellar toxic environment in which conformity is valued above all else but this is an owner driven league, one in which the men in charge set the tone for

said and described smith was enough but then as of last night according to the "new york times", we heard all of these reports and you didn't want a woman to be an official, michael who is gay, you didn't feel that roger goodell should be encouraging jeff fisher then the coach of the rams to be drafting a que rquee obviously felt eric reed, a former teammate of colin kaepernick who kneeled with colin kaepernick, he felt he should have been fired. so you offended black people. you offended the gay community. you ocho ffended women. you offended the commissioner you didn't have the greatest relationship to begin with. you offended the vice president of the united states. you offended the former president of the united states. i mean, the list just goes on and on. he didn't miss anybody. and that is why he had to go but clearly, it was shocking considering the fact he worked at espn. i never saw that kind of language of indication of that behavior from him at all. it was very shocking. once the news came out, he absolutely had to go and i can assure you if he was still working for espn he would have been gone in a nanosecond. >> he wasn't part of the investigation.

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smith. and then the floodgates opened with a "the new york times" report detailing and showing offensive language to insult commissioner roger goodell and calling the league's first openly gay player michaelsparaging banning female referees and to reduce concussions. >> it wasn't just something that crossed the line which was bad he took that thought and formalized it in writing and hit send. people say all sort of things on the cuff that they shouldn't. >> reporter: and showing women wearing only bikini bottoms and in the statement, the league slamming the comments calling them appalling, abhorrent to values. >> steve, gruden was working as a commentator for espn. what is the network saying about this. >> reporter: not only was he working for them, he was a lead analyst. they released a statement saying the comments are repugnant under any circumstance. not knowing if they'll release. it seems to be one of those gateway incidents that will open up. and more remains to be seen. and we may see more in the following hours, days, weeks, who knows. >> that's the key word there, may. will change come as a result of these emails. steve patterson, thank you as always. great to see you this morni

michaels. head of osha under president obama. we'll be talking about the upcoming emergency rule, compelling private companies to require vaccination or weekly testing. brad smith, founder and chairman of the institute for free speech talks about what his group calls assaults against american's first amendment rights. ♪ ♪ >>> coming up today on c-span, the conformation hearing for chris maginous to head u.s. customs and border protection begins live at 9:30 a.m. eastern. at 2:00 p.m., the house returns for legislate business to work on bills from the energy and commerce committee. then back at 10:00 a.m. to consider a u.s. judge for the district of new jersey. 7:30 p.m., the house select committee on the january 6th attack, considers holding steve bannon in contempt for refusing to testify. and the senate banking committee looks at u.s. sanctions policy treasury department's deputy secretary. in the afternoon, a hearing with u.s. coast guard commandant admiral karl schultz. >> get c-span on the go. watch the day's biggest political events live or on demand anytime, anywhere, on our new mobile video app. c-span now, access top highlights, listen to c-span radio,

smith, just not after they beat us. >> do we have it now? there we go. yeah. see there, michael. it's her birthday.h other and start singing happy birthday. i said, do you know anybody? she said, no. that's the bond out there. >> that is very sweet. >>> following a lot of headlines including a wildfire in the west fueled by wind and it is growing fast from 50 acres to nearly 4,000 in just hours. >>> also right now the texas governor to ban vaccine mandates. the governor has said the covid-19 vaccine is safe, effective and our best defense against the virus but says it should remain voluntary and never forced. much more on the pandemic and boosters coming up in our next hour. >>> also the coroner will host a press conference for a ruling on gabby petito's autopsy. the 22-year-old's body was discovered last montana camping area near grand teton national park. her boyfriend, brian laundrie, still missing. >>> "jeopardy!" crowning a new champion. the second longest winning streak in show history coming to an end. our friend, matt amodio losing after 38 consecutive wins but don't cry for matt. he walks

named michael and you know, they stopped paying on friday, so they may not have -- maybe they can get lots and lots -- i really don't know. >> well, i know you will be reporting on it. ben smithaving me. >>> coming up, a facebook whistle-blower now called to testify in front of congress after an explosive "60 minutes" interview. >> the version of facebook that exists today is tearing our societies apart and causing violence. >> how the company is responding to this and what, if any, action will congress take? remember, you might not like what facebook does, but it's legal. if you don't like it, call your congressperson. if you don't like it, call your congressperson it made me feel like i was trapped in a fog. this is art inspired by real stories of people living with bipolar depression. i just couldn't find my way out of it. the lows of bipolar depression can take you to a dark place... ...and be hard to manage. latuda could make a real difference in your symptoms. latuda was proven to significantly reduce bipolar depression symptoms and in clinical studies, had no substantial impact on weight. this is where i want to be. latuda is not for everyone. call your doctor about un

of lake for occupational safety and health david michaels discusses osha's roam in president biden's covid vaccine and testing policy and then brand smith weighs in on free speech issues, such as as campaign for financials reform and school board neatings by parents protesting covid rules. watch 7:00 eastern tuesday morning on c-span or on sponaugle now, our new mobile app. join the conversation with your phone calls, fails book comments, texts and tweets. -Ñ >> get c-span on the go. watch the day's biggest political events live or on demand anytime, niche on our mobile app. c-span now. access top highlights on c-span radio and discover new podcasts all for free. download c-span now today. >> general colin powell has died at the age of 8 from covid-19 complications. in rebound years he would been receiving treatments for a form of blood cancer that affects the immune system. he was the first african-american secretary of state serving during the george w. bush administration and prior to that, the first african-american compare of the joint chiefs of statue for perspective george h.w. bush and why not and he was also national constitute