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Queen Elizabeth II Wants Camilla To Be Queen Consort; Crowds Of Demonstrators Join Rallies Across Canada As COVID-19 Trucker Protests Spread; Rogan Apologizes For Using Racial Slur, Spotify Removes 100+ Episodes. Aired 5:30-6a ET
Aired February 07, 2022 - 05:30 ET
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MAX FOSTER, CNN ANCHOR AND CORRESPONDENT: And it's Queen Elizabeth really saying that she supports the future shape of the monarchy -- future-proofing in many ways. But a big gesture when you consider Laura that just a few years ago, Queen Elizabeth refused to meet Camilla because this was all such a big scandal. So, a big part of the rehabilitation of Camilla.
We're also about to see a gun salute, by the way, here in Green Park by Buckingham Palace, because this is the first real day of celebration for what will be six months of celebration here for the queen's jubilee -- an extraordinary 70 years on the throne.
CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN ANCHOR: I wonder, Max, if -- is the public ready? I mean, I just think back to --
LAURA JARRETT, CNN ANCHOR: Yes.
ROMANS: -- to, you know --
JARRETT: Diana days, yes.
ROMANS: -- 20 years ago. I couldn't imagine a British public that would accept Camilla as queen consort.
FOSTER: You don't have the same negativity about Camilla as you used to. I think that's partly because younger generations aren't as familiar.
JARRETT: Yes.
FOSTER: Many of them don't even know who Diana was, so that's part of it.
I think also Camilla isn't one of these very proactive people trying to build a constituency and playing politics. She really just wants to do her job and support Prince Charles, so she doesn't have that big groundswell of support.
We'll have to see what the response is. I think on social media, a lot of negativity still about Camilla, particularly from those Diana diehard fans. But the reality here is this is non-negotiable for Prince Charles. He
said she is going to be my queen. And what the current queen has said is she's now elevated to the -- to the point where when Charles is crowned, Camilla will be crowned alongside him, and he was really looking forward to the current queen's support for that. With that, of course, is a huge amount of goodwill from the public.
ROMANS: Yes.
JARRETT: The timing on this, just fascinating.
ROMANS: I would say on the negativity of social media, social media is not an accurate representation of what is really in people's minds. So that would be what I would say about the haters.
JARRETT: Max, thank you.
ROMANS: Thanks, Max.
FOSTER: Thank you.
ROMANS: All right, a real cliffhanger at the PGA tour's Pebble Beach Tournament over the weekend, and we do mean that literally.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He's got a good stance and footing. He's having a go.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I mean, guys, this is a scary shot normally but this is downright terrible.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Big, wide stance.
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ROMANS: Oh, come on. That's Jordan Spieth more determined to save par than himself on the eighth hole. That is a 70-foot drop to the ocean below. Spieth's caddy tried to convince him not even to try it but the former Masters champion went right to the edge, pulled off the shot, and somehow made his par. And Spieth went on to finish second --
JARRETT: Maybe he couldn't see how terrifying of a drop --
ROMANS: -- in the tournament.
JARRETT: -- that was.
ROMANS: Oh, my God -- wow. Well, that's focus. That is some focus.
JARRETT: That's dedication for the game. Not I.
ROMANS: No.
JARRETT: All right.
The huge uprising started by truckers causing a state of emergency in the Canadian capital, but are they in the driver's seat?
ROMANS: And see the moment a school crossing guard took the hit from a speeding car to save a child's life.
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ROMANS: To Canada now. Anger over COVID restrictions spreading across the country as demonstrations spill into a new week.
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Truckers blowing horns.
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ROMANS: The mayor of Ottawa issuing a state of emergency to get a handle on protests. He is called out of control.
CNN's Paula Newton has more.
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PAULA NEWTON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: The protests here against the COVID-19 measures started in Ottawa but have spread right across the country. Sunday was much quieter than Saturday but you still had hundreds of tractor-trailers and other trucks and thousands of people spread out from one side of the country to the other demanding an end to those COVID-19 restrictions.
Now, this started out as a truckers' protest. They were against vaccine mandates to actually cross the border into the United States. But this has turned into so much more. People saying that they are fed up with the mask mandates, the vaccine mandates, the lockdowns, the health restrictions. They just want it to end. It is a minority but it is a very vocal minority.
And here in Ottawa, it has really taken this city to a point where the mayor and police chief are worried that they just can't handle it anymore. The city of Ottawa has declared a state of emergency.
But I really want you to listen to the police chief here when he spoke this weekend about the city. Take a listen.
CHIEF PETER SLOLY, OTTAWA POLICE SERVICE: The oath of office that I and my officers swore were never intended to deal with a city under siege, a threat to our democracy, a nationwide insurrection driven by madness. There is no concrete plan for such a scenario as you've described.
NEWTON: They are really categorizing this as an occupation now. And although Ottawa police say they will begin enforcement, wary police forces and leaders right across the country are keeping a close eye on what happens in this city and seeing if, in fact, protesters do decide to finally leave or if this will continue to spread like a contagion, really, right across the country.
Paula Newton, CNN, Ottawa.
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JARRETT: Paula, thank you for that.
This morning, the calls are growing louder to boycott Spotify as Joe Rogan is under fire once again -- this time, for his repeated past use of the n-word. Rogan now issuing his second apology video in two weeks.
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JOE ROGAN, HOST, "THE JOE ROGAN EXPERIENCE": I know that to most people, there is no context where a white person is ever allowed to say that word, never mind publicly on a podcast. And I agree with that now. I haven't said it in years.
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But for a long time, when I would bring that word up -- like if it would come up in conversation, instead of saying the n-word I would just say the word. I never used it to be racist because I'm not racist. But whenever you're in a situation where you have to say I'm not racist you (bleep) up, and I clearly have (bleep) up.
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ROMANS: This is hit two for him because he's also got the vaccine misinformation that is another real problem.
JARRETT: Oh, yes, and CNN's Chloe Melas is here to break it all down early in the morning.
So, as we just heard, Joe Rogan has quite a bit to say about this. Spotify users, other artists have plenty to say about this. This all came out because of another artist, India.Arie, who sort of released all these videos.
Spotify, though, curiously silent. They're talking to their employees. "Variety" reports they're talking to their employees but not issuing any public statement on this?
CHLOE MELAS, CNN ENTERTAINMENT REPORTER: So, the head of Spotify, Daniel Ek -- I believe that's how you say his last name -- he has come out and he has said that we are not going to silence Joe Rogan but we're very disappointed in the fact that this has come to light.
But the question here, you guys, is when they struck that reported $100 million deal to exclusively carry Joe Rogan's podcast in 2020. Are you telling me that Spotify, this massive organization, didn't listen to his past episodes? They just uploaded all of these old episodes? Or some people are saying maybe they just hoped that nobody would ever hear it or find out about it, right? So now he's coming out -- his second apology in two weeks -- first, over COVID misinformation, saying that I am going to do better. I am going to be more careful and have a more balanced podcast. Now, people are calling for Spotify to completely part ways. It doesn't look like they're going to do that.
What they are saying is that they're going to commit $100 million more to bring a spotlight to other minority voices, whether that be podcasts, music, or creating new content. But a lot of people are saying that that's not enough.
You saw so many artists step away from the platform -- you know, Joni Mitchell being one of them -- who said I don't want to be a part of Spotify anymore if you're going to have Joe Rogan on it. And those voices and that chorus is only growing louder.
We are living in an age where there's a lot of discussion over cancel culture versus council culture. You saw it with Whoopi Goldberg with her comments that she made about the Holocaust -- her apologizing. But many people saying ABC went too far to suspend her.
But now, The Rock -- The Rock, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, the most followed human being in the United States on social media. He has now come out and said I know the other day I said that I support Joe Rogan. I know that I said that he is an articulate man and that we should give him the benefit of the doubt.
But now, with this revelation of this compilation of the repeated use of the n-word by Joe Rogan, he's saying thank you for educating me on this. I have a lot more learning to do. And now he is distancing himself. Now, in the midst of all of this, some old tweets of his are now coming to the surface.
So, you know, everybody right now is under a microscope. How do we all handle this in corporations going forward? Is it firing people, is it canceling people, or it is counseling people?
ROMANS: Yes, and there are consequences. I mean, we talk about cancel culture -- there's also consequences. I mean, the public -- and the public knows when you've screwed up, you know. You can -- you now, you lose -- you know, you lose prestige and you can lose your job.
JARRETT: Sometimes.
ROMANS: Sometimes.
All right, we have this amazing moment -- Billie Eilish at a concert this weekend where she stopped her own concert to help a fan in need. Tell us what happened here.
MELAS: Well, actually, I think we have that moment. Can we play it right now?
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BILLIE EILISH, SINGER-SONGWRITER, STOPPED CONCERT TO HELP FAN: Do we have an inhaler? Can we just grab one? It's OK, it's OK.
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MELAS: OK, so you might be wondering what exactly happened. So she's playing at a stadium in Atlanta -- the State Farm Arena -- in her big world tour and she stops the concert because there's a woman who's having trouble breathing -- a young girl. She says we need to get her an inhaler. The woman ends up being OK and the concert continues.
But she pauses this. She tells her thousands of fans in the stadium to just give her a moment. Let's hold on, you guys. We'll play music in a minute. I like to make sure that my fans are OK before continuing to play.
Some people on social media think that that's a dig a Travis Scott --
ROMANS: Yes.
MELAS: -- with his massive tragedy with Astroworld with 10 people dying in the audience due to a crowd surge. And he paused briefly but then kept performing.
JARRETT: Yes.
MELAS: But it was a wonderful moment to see her --
JARRETT: Yes.
ROMANS: It's amazing to be up there --
MELAS: -- connect with her fans.
ROMANS: -- and that she can see what's happening in the audience.
JARRETT: And the presence of mind --
ROMANS: Right.
JARRETT: -- to say let's stop. There's more important things.
ROMANS: All right, Chloe. Nice to see you.
JARRETT: Chloe, so nice to have you bright and early on a Monday. Thank you.
MELAS: Yes, it's Monday. Thank you.
ROMANS: All right. Dramatic new video of a Maryland police officer saving a student's life. Take a look.
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CPL. ANNETTE GOODYEAR, NORTH EAST POLICE DEPARTMENT: Saves middle- schooler from being hit by a car at a crosswalk. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh, no.
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ROMANS: Corporal Annette Goodyear is seen here holding up her hand on Friday as a student crosses the street. Then a car comes speeding through the crosswalk, hitting Officer Goodyear as she pushes the North East Middle School student out of harm's way. Goodyear suffered minor injuries. The driver was charged with four citations, including negligent driving.
JARRETT: Wow -- glad she's OK.
ROMANS: Yes, me, too.
JARRETT: Up next, the big-name companies circling Peloton. Who's targeting it for a takeover?
ROMANS: And LeBron James gets an award that he's probably not proud of.
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Clip from "Space Jam: A New Legacy."
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ROMANS: All right, Monday edition of CNN Business this morning.
Looking at markets around the world -- after a week off, the Chinese markets have reopened with a move higher. Hong Kong and Tokyo mixed there. Europe has opened narrowly mixed. And on Wall Street, stock index futures leaning down a little bit.
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Look, it was a wild week last week, closing mostly higher Friday. Also, scoring gains for the week, the best for the S&P so far this year.
Markets rose on big earnings from Amazon and Snap, and a really strong jobs report. Guys, the labor market powered ahead in January, adding back another 467,000 jobs. This crushed expectations. The jobless rate rose a little bit but that's because more people were searching for work.
This puts pressure on the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates to keep the economy from overheating.
And this week, we're going to get a check on inflation. The January Consumer Price Index is out Thursday. It's expected to hit a fresh pandemic high. So last week, very strong jobs numbers; this week, we'll look for inflation for the key.
Peloton -- it looks like it's drawing interest from two major potential buyers, Amazon and Nike.
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CODY RIGSBY, PELOTON COMMERCIAL: OK, Peloton, let's go.
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ROMANS: That was Cody Rigsby.
A source tells CNN Amazon is exploring an offer and speaking with advisers about how to proceed, while the "Financial Times" reports Nike is also evaluating a bid but has not held talks with Peloton. This, just days after activist investor Blackwells Capital urged Peloton's board to put it up for sale.
Peloton has been struggling to maintain its pandemic-fueled growth -- and pandemic-fueled growth that made these instructors household names.
JARRETT: Yes, as you just announced to the world one of them that you know well. Clearly, a fan favorite.
All right, let's get to the Olympics now. Americans seeing superstar Mikaela Shiffrin's first chance for a gold medal ending almost as soon as it began.
Our Coy Wire is there covering the Winter Games for us in China. Hey, Coy.
COY WIRE, CNN SPORTS CORRESPONDENT: Hey, good morning to you.
One of the greatest alpine skiers of all time and one of the faces for Team USA, Mikaela Shiffrin, came into these games with hopes of medaling in five alpine events. But in her Beijing debut, she -- the defending giant slalom Olympic champ just missed a gate just seconds into her run. She didn't even finish the race, Laura and Christine.
She said that she won't ever forget this, but she also says that this is the type of thing that drives her to keep working. The next opportunity to medal for Mikaela will be the slalom in a couple of days. It's an event that she won gold in the 2014 Sochi Games.
Now, in figure skating, the legend of a 15-year-old sensation is continuing to grow. Here in Beijing, Kamila Valieva, of the Russian Olympic Committee, has become the first woman ever to land a quad jump in Olympic competition.
She won the free skate by more than 30 points, propelling the ROC to gold in the figure skating team event. Team USA takes silver. Valieva already set world records -- now, Olympics records, too.
Finally, a clash of the titans on ice. The defending Olympic champs, Team USA, taking on Team Canada in women's ice hockey in their final preliminary game. It's a rematch from the final of the last Winter Olympics. The U.S. moved to a perfect 3-0 yesterday with an 8-0 stomping of Switzerland. Hilary Knight leads the U.S. with five points. She told us what makes
this rivalry with the neighbors to the north so sweet.
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HILARY KNIGHT, USA WOMEN'S HOCKEY PLAYER: The U.S. and Canada has -- I describe it as one of the most beautiful rivalries in sports. I don't think anything else matches it.
ABBY ROQUE, USA WOMEN'S HOCKEY PLAYER: It's competitive, it's fast, it's hardcore. You get to hit and grind and make unbelievable plays, and they're always close.
JOEL JOHNSON, USA WOMEN'S HOCKEY HEAD COACH: You've got two rivals who play the game the right way, who treat each other the right way, and who want to beat each other so badly that it's just a privilege to be a part of.
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WIRE: All right.
I have seen Team USA play here in Beijing, Laura and Christine. They are rolling, outscoring their opponents 18-2 so far. Team Canada has outscored theirs 29-3. So if you want to see some fast ferocity on ice, this rivalry is a must-watch match today.
JARRETT: Very cool.
ROMANS: All right, we'll be watching. Nice to see you there, Coy.
All right. Tomorrow, Oscar nominations are out -- but this morning, it's the Razzies. That's Hollywood's worst in show for 2021.
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Clip from "Space Jam: A New Legacy."
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ROMANS: LeBron James' "Space Jam" remake earned four nominations, including worst movie and worst actor.
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Clip from "House of Gucci."
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ROMANS: Jared Leto is up for two Razzie awards, including worst supporting actor for his role in "House of Gucci."
And Bruce Willis cited for eight bad performances in 2021, which they say is, quote, "more than any starving viewer could stomach" -- ouch. JARRETT: Eight? I didn't know he had eight movies out.
ROMANS: I know. They're brutal -- the Razzies are always brutal.
JARRETT: Yikes.
ROMANS: All right, thanks for joining us. I'm Christine Romans.
JARRETT: That's your Monday. I'm Laura Jarrett. "NEW DAY" is next.
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