It's a New Day with Rip Daniels

A Pontiac, Michigan mother is charged with child abuse after her children were found on Valentine's Day abandoned in their home, having been left alone since 2020 and a mother goes viral after images from a videocall depicts her holding a blunt to her young child's mouth and blowing smoke into the child's face.

DOGE attempts to distance Elon Musk from the agency as his companies conflicts of interest are highlighted and a Jewish Florida man shoots at Jewish Israeli tourists thinking their Palestinians.

Reactions from Sen. Roger Wicker on Pete Hegseth's Ukraine statements and Donald John regurgitating "Soviet Propaganda" and callers weigh in on Dr. Umar Johnson's assertions that African American women shouldn't expect black men to be on the same financial footing as some of their white counterparts when exploring relationships.

Donald John and Vlad Putin negotiate a ceasefire without Ukraine's president and Pete Hegseth calls a return to previous borders an "unrealistic" goal as Europe is stunned by the US' seeming shift in loyalty.

Exploring the modern concept of love on Valentine's Day and reactions to mass layoffs across multiple agencies in the federal government, measles outbreaks in 3 Texas counties, and Louisiana's plan to end the promotion of mass vaccinations.

Exploring the war time origins of the "D.A.P." and why the lessons behind it's creation are more poignant than ever and following phone calls with Russia and Ukraine's presidents, John Bolton says Donald John has "effectively surrendered Ukraine to Putin".

Reactions to Super Bowl LIX (59) following Kendrick Lamar's historic Apple Music Half Time Show performance and Donald John's early exit after picking the losing team.

Elon Musk admits to lying about the US spending $50 million on condoms for Gaza and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth signed a memorandum renaming Fort Liberty in North Carolina to Fort Bragg. The new name pays tribute to Pfc. Roland L. Bragg, a World War II hero who earned the Silver Star and Purple Heart for his exceptional courage during the Battle of the Bulge.

Donald John directs the treasury to stop producing pennies sparking debate over currency values and the potential for prices to rise and gives Hamas an ultimatum after the group says it will delay Israeli hostage release.

Reactions to the NFL announcement that it would remove the "End Racism" slogans from end zones on the Super Bowl LIX field and a 45 year-old Tennessee man is charged after putting an infants body in a dumpster after it's birth to a 16 year-old mother the man had been in a sexual relationship with for 3 years, according to court documents.

Donald John says the US will take over the Gaza Strip and "own it" after saying it should not be reoccupied by Palestinians in a joint press conference following a state meeting with Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.

Reactions to Elon Musk gaining access to USAID and the US Treasury's data despite not being an elected or Congressionally confirmed official.

Donald John backs down after reaching an agreement with Mexican President, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, delaying imposing the intended 25% tariffs on Mexico by a month and reactions after Elon Musk's DOGE gains access to US Treasury information and indicates he's in the process of "shutting down" USAID.

Details on the events leading up to the American Airlines plane and Army helicopter crash over Washington D.C.'s Potomac River and a pardoned January 6er is sentenced to 10 years in a deadly DWI crash.

Exclusive interview with the producer of the documentary "The Sanctuary By The Sea:The Gulfside Assembly Story", Leonard Smith III and Cheryl Thompson, the executive director of Gulfside Assembly. Gulfside Assembly, established in the era of segregation, served as a sanctuary for African Americans, fostering spiritual growth, community engagement, and civil rights dialogues. Despite facing natural and societal challenges, it remains a testament to resilience, unity, and hope, continuing its legacy of empowerment and transformation for all.

Exclusive interview with Dr. De Lacy Davis, weighing in on Whitlock's Lead Day Arrest. Davis is a 20-year veteran sergeant who retired from service in East Orange, New Jersey on June 1, 2006. He joined the East Orange Police Department in 1986. Davis has been an instructor at the Essex County Police Academy where he taught community policing, basic law enforcement & the use of firearms. Davis is a New Jersey State-Certified firearms instructor. He has served as the President and Vice President of the Police Benevolent Association, Local #16 in East Orange, New Jersey. In 1991, he founded the community-based organization, Black Cops Against Police Brutality (BCAP), which led to his national voice on police-community matters. The organization has worked with countless victims of police violence across the United States as a police reform advocate.

Examining the continuing executive orders, one of which targets transgender troops and "radical gender ideology", noting that physical and mental health conditions make them "incompatible" with military service, a tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas amid the US opting out of the World Health Organization and a halting of research, and a freeze in all federal aid funding.

Following Donald John's order halting diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, the Air Force suspended course instruction on a documentary about the first Black airmen in the U.S. military, known as the Tuskegee Airmen, the more than 15,000 Black pilots, mechanics and cooks in the segregated Army of World War II. The newly confirmed Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, reversed the decision only after outrage mounted.

A closer look at a bill introduced in Mississippi that would pay bounty hunters and tipsters $1,000 for turning in illegal immigrants to ICE and questioning what could radicalize a Black boy into becoming a Neo-Nazi after 17-year-old Solomon Henderson opened fire inside Antioch High School's cafeteria, killing one student and injuring another before turning the gun on himself

A closer look at the potential effects of the recent sweeping executive orders being signed in Week 1, including the 1960s era bill meant to curb hiring discrimination and eliminating "birthright citizenship".

More reactions to the videos depicting the brutality of Gulfport Police officers during the Leap Day 2024 arrest of New Day associate producer, Whitlock, and executive orders pardoning January 6 insurrectionists and dismantling DEI.

Bodycam footage documents It's a New Day's own Whitlock being subject to police brutality in a Leap Day 2024 arrest predicated by an equipment violation (one headlight).

Debating what could help curb gun violence among young males as numerous violent crimes at the start of 2025 punctuate the need for more options to help citizens find lasting solutions.

Questions from an email highlight the relevancy of MLK Day and Dr. Martin Luther King's legacy, advice to would-be elected officials as more candidates declare for municipal elections, and the confirmation hearings for Trump Cabinet appointments continue.

Reviewing Jack Smith’s 174 page report on efforts to overturn the 2020 election and Pete Hegseth, Trump's pick to head the Pentagon, faces grilling in first Senate confirmation hearing.

Exclusive interview with educator, author, and documentarian Thelma Straight on her documentary "Road Scholars":In 2009, twelve at-risk Black adolescent boys hit the road armed only with an audio tape recorder to interview older African American men from all walks of life in the hopes that their own lives might change. Leading the way was Thelma Straight, a teacher who received an oral history grant. Her mission? To help keep the youngsters from becoming another statistic. In 2023, “Road Scholars” reunited some of these younger and older participants to talk about navigating the world as Black men. Their conversations offer hope, inspiration, and a possible roadmap for change.

Updates on California's wildfires and debate on if a conflict resolution lifeline (talk/text) would be helpful in resolving "beef" before escalations into violence following a week of numerous cases involving young people engaging in gunplay.

Exclusive interview with D'Monterrio Gibson, the former FedEx driver shot at by father and son, Gregory and Brandon Case, following the dismissal of the case following a mistrial declared after an investigator was cited for failing to produce crucial evidence and discovery and more recently fired from the Brookhaven Police Department.

Discussing the concepts of "Alpha" and "Masculine" men after motivational speaker Lisa Nichols' account of her husband's breakdown of the terms and the world braces as Donald John doubles and triples down on possible military intervention in the proposed US acquisitions of Greenland and the Panama Canal.

Revisiting D'Monterrio Gibson's interview recounting his experience after a Lincoln County judge dismissed all charges against the two white men who prosecutors accused of shooting at Gibson, a Black FedEx driver, while he was making deliveries in Brookhaven, Miss., in January 2022. The charges against Gregory Case and his son Brandon Case included attempted murder, conspiracy and shooting into a motor vehicle.

Recounting the hours of the January 6, 2021 Insurrection as Congress prepares to certify the 2024 election and outlining the disparity in reporting practices when it comes to terror attacks, most recently in the New Years attacks in New Orleans and Las Vegas.

New details as authorities uncover the histories of Matthew Livelsberger, the active duty Special Forces who is said to have killed himself before the Tesla Cybertruck he had rented exploded in front of Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas, and Shamsud-Din Jabbar, the Army veteran who used a Ford F-150 Lightning and firearms in his attack on the French Quarter in New Orleans.

Information on both New Years Day attackers, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, who drove a pickup truck into a crowd of revelers on Bourbon Street, killing 14 people and injuring 35 more, and Matthew Alan Livelsberger, who rented a Tesla Cybertruck and used it in an explosion outside Las Vegas' Trump International Hotel.

Lt. Gen. (ret.) Russel L. Honore' calls Elon Musk a national security risk and remembering the peanut farmer president, Jimmy Carter, who made lasting impacts as the 39th US President and with his post office humanitarian efforts.

Jennifer Crumbley, the mother of school shooting terrorist Ethan Crumbley, requests release from prison while her attorney appeals her sentence to the Michigan Court of Appeals. Jennifer and James Crumbley were the first parents to be charged and convicted in connection with a school shooting following their son's 2021 shooting that killed 4 students and injured 7 others..

The family of Randall Adjessom, a 16 year-old Alabama boy shot and killed by Mobile PD officers during a no knock raid, filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the police officers involved and the city of Mobile, alleging the teenager was “killed in cold blood.”

Exclusive interview with Sgt. 1st Class (Ret.) Cass Woods, the daughter of one of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, Pvt. Leona Abram of Columbus, MS, discussing her mother's service and the subsequent 3 generations that continued to served in the armed forces and the US House Committee on Ethics releases its report on former Congressman Matt Gaetz, finding the former Trump AG pick had sex with an underage girl while in Congress.

Congress works to avert a Government Shutdown after failing to pass a bi-partisan backed bill and another supported by Donald John which would've obliterated the debt ceiling and charges are dropped against an ex-Joliet, Illinois police sergeant turned whistleblower on the day trial was set to start.

Reactions after House Republicans pulled a stopgap funding bill that, if passed and signed into law, would avoid a government shutdown set to begin on Dec. 21. following Elon Musk's declaration on X “This bill should not pass.”

Exclusive interview with Gulfport City Councilman R. Lee Flowers discussing Flowers the implied resignation of fellow councilman Myles Sharp after Flowers wanted the council to hold a hearing to determine whether Sharp had vacated his office and should be replaced following the revelation of a homestead exemption Sharp applied for outside of his represented ward.

A 15 year-old takes her own life after committing a school shooting in Madison, Wisconsin that leaves a student and a teacher dead and six others injured and Allexis Farrell, the woman who was arrested in Canton, Ohio after the mutilation of a cat who was mischaracterized as a Haitian migrant, is sentenced by a Stark County judge.

The defense for Luigi Mangione is mounting as his defense fund quicky raises over $50k before being shut down by GoFundMe and his mother reported Luigi missing the month prior to his alleged deadly attack on United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

Three employees of a Maryland Cracker Barrel are fired after alleged discrimination against special needs students after refusing to seat them while on a field trip and reviewing current Black American male statistics.

A child predator, caught with the assistance of the Predator Poachers, is sentenced in Gulfport, MS after his lawyer denounced "vigilante justice" and the FBI warns US citizens about a possible vulnerability in the SMS texting system being exploited by foreign actors.

Daniel Penny found not guilty in the NY subway killing of Jordan Neely, new details emerge after the capture of Luigi Mangione, the man charged with the murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, and remembering the poetry great Nikki Giovanni.

Updates in the murder of the United Healthcare CEO, reactions after a civil law suit is brought against Jay Z (and Diddy) alleging they raped a then 13 year-old in 2000, and Syria's president Bashar al-Assad fleeing to Russia after opposition forces converged on Damascus.

Memphis' mayor refused to sign a police reform agreement with the Department of Justice following the Tyre Nichols report, which says Memphis police use excessive force and discriminate against Black people.

United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson's killer remained at large after NYPD released surveillance pictures featuring his face are circulated across media as speculation over the motives mount after the words “deny,” “defend” and “depose” are found etched on the shell casings.

Reactions to Houston Texans player Azeez Al-Shaair suspended for 3 games for a hit on Jaguars QB Trevor Lawrence.