morgan wallen facing fallout after using a racial slur. the moment forcing an industry to confront a truth. here's "nightline's" ashan singh. ♪ talking about getting further south ♪ >> reporter: morgan wallen embodied country music. his songs like "seven summers" a celebration of small-town living, good friends, and good times. the tennessee native rose to the top of the charts in 2018 with hits like "whiskey glasses." and never left. at 27 years old, wallen is one of the biggest stars in all of music. now a racial slur has stopped his meteoric rise in its tracks. a video obtained by tmz shows wallen and a group of friends coming home early sunday morning after a night out on the town in nashville. a neighbor was recording when wallen said this. >> hey, take care of this [ bleep ]. hey, take care of this [ bleep ]. >> reporter: his use of that racial epithet led to swift fallout. his two record labels announcing, in the wake of recent events, big loud records has made the decision to suspend morgan wall.'srecording contract indefinitel

. >> i like morgan wallen as a person. this i don't like one bit. >> reporter: some of wallen's nashville peers also denounced him. maren morris tweeted, "we all know it wasn't his first time using that word. we keep them rich and protected at all costs with no recourse." one of country music's few black artists, mickey guyton, wrote, "so what exactly are yll going to do about it?" she added, "i do not believe cancel culture. motion an must fear the weight of his wordsds but c c criticiz president bush in 2003, they were canceled. and just last fall, when chris stapleton said black lives matter on "cbs this morning," he was attacked on social media. >> country music as a culture is so toxic. >> reporter: andrea william is an author and journal frist nashville. she says it's too early to tell whether the response to morgan wallen will lead to lasting reform. >> this guy's on top of ththe world and lets this fall out of his mouth, right. like we got to talk about a culture that creates ththat. >>>> i is there redemption, ant

musician morgan wallen breaks his silence after using a racial slur. his message to fans following a his message to fans following a week of backlash. captioning funded by cbs >>> good morning. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. democratic managers will continue to lay out their arguments today in the second impeachment trial of former president trump. yesterday they showed stunning new video from the deadly u.s. capitol riot last month. some of the clips show how close lawmakers were to danger as a mob broke into the capitol on january 6th. one security camera shows officer eugene goodman warning senator mitt romney about rioters coming his way. romney turned around and dashed in the other direction. debra alfarone is in washington. what did the house democrats try to prove by showing all of this new video? you really got the sense that they were trying to personalize what happened and speak directly to the senators. >> reporter: absolutely, anne-marie. some of them seemed unfazed. but what they really want to show is that these rioters came h

>>> new fallout for breakout country music star morgan wallen, suspended from his record label indefinitely after being caught on cramera using a racial slur. does he deserve a second chance and if his comments reflect a bigger racial issue in country music? >>> arctic outbreak on the move. causing this 40 vehicle pileup in iowa, the coast guard racing to save 66 people stranded on ice in wisconsin. now more snow expected for the midwest and the northeast and the major cold blast with windchills well belowt lm teorm set to faces the ekndat h plann halftime, while playing tribute to some of the all time greats from prince to beyonce to diana ross, the spectacular show and the showdown just two days away. >>> live in times square, this is "good morning america." >> and "good morning america," happy friday, t.j., you said it, the spectacular show and the showdown. >> excitement about the super bowl, one like we have ever seen before. there are concerns we'll get into. brady and that homahomes, that , but the weeknd, he's teasing his halftime show, one like we have never seen before. can he top

we'll see if he addresses that today. >> and morgan wallen, to your point, his song is number one. he's apologized and said, please don't support me, i was wrong. i like that he's sending that message. i like what -- when rissy palmer said she can't get on her own stage. we keep saying cancel culture, guys. i think maybe we should think about accountability culture. there are cases of cancel culture, but in this case, in this particular story, to me it's more about accountability. >> that's a beautiful point. >> yeah. if you want to get to the question of why in is happening, which vince gill said he couldn't answer, you need talk to rissy palmer. when she put out "country girl," the label told her to change the lyrics. she mentioned in the beginning that she was black. in the end she doesn't. and so there is -- there is a form of prejudice in there, it's either the label's or the label assuming their audience has it, and -- and it's got to be addressed. >> love maren morris. the world is watching. the world is watching. >> vince gill said he couldn't say why, but then he wrote the

. >> reporter: this morning country music singer morgan wallen apologizing after a video showed him using a racial slur. >> hey take care of this [ bleep ]. >> reporter: wallen is arguably the most popular musician and singer in america right now with the biggest selling and streaming album in all of music. ♪ up down, up down ♪ but the rising star's songs now nearly erased from the airwaves and his record contract now suspended. >> it's the only time i can think of really in any genre where somebody just went from being the biggest star to having zero air play almost in the course of one day. ♪ i want to say the truth ♪ >> reporter: his downfall coming after video obtained by tmz showed wallen outside his nashville home using profanity and directing a racial slur toward a person in his group. wallen released a statement saying, "i'm embarrassed and sorry. there are no excuses to use this type of language ever. i want to sincerely apologize for using the word." fellow musicians are sounding off. black country singer mickey guyton tweeted, "when i read comments saying this is not wh

morgan wallen caught on camera using a racial slur. now dropped by a huge record label, top radio stations and why some of country music's biggest names are not accepting his apology. ♪ super base ♪ >>> and super bowl hype. >> wayne's world. >> this morning how the trail blazing women are getting ready to make history on the field. plus, our super sunday surprise for this incredible nurse as we count down to the big game with john cena. >> hi. i'm john cena and i know how to count. >> how his big-time commercial could change your life big time. >> good morning, america. >>> we certainly do say good morning, america. great to be with you on this thankful thursday. so much super bowl news this morning. we'll hear from john cena and gronk will have a surprise for us. well, not for us, but someone else. >> he's always fun to check in with. >>> a lot of news out of the super bowl and washington, of course, let's take a look. i live look at the capitol, beautiful as ever still but the house set to vote on taking action against republican

i like morgan wallen's music. he does want to send the message that this is not okay, what i did was not okay. >> i think that's important at this point. >> glad he's taking that tactic. and he admits he's got a lot of learning and growing up to do. >>> ahead, we'll meet the woman set to become the youngest female ceo of a public company today. wait until you hear her age. we'll talk with bumble founder, this is whitney wolfe herd, about the dating site and why she says the last year has been, well, >>> good morning. it's 8:25. trading app robin hood being sued by the family of a 20-year- old who died by homicide last summer after he thought he owed more than $730,000. the lawsuit says he panicked and tried to reach to robin hood but failed. >>> workers rallying outside of brius healthcare striking against with a they're calling unfair labor practices by management. organizers say they want better wages, safe staffing and health insurance. >>> mount diablo unified school district voted unanimously last night to se

and what a turn of events for morgan wallen. just 48 hours ago he was booking concerts, breaking streaming records all behind that number one album. but today, music insiders say his career couldn't be in bigger jeopardy. ♪ i'm going to need some whiskey glasses ♪ >> reporter: they're the country songs morgan wallen turned into mainstream hits. but this morning the 27-year-old is taking hits. and under fire after being caught on video using a racial slur. >> take care of this [ bleep ]. >> reporter: the video obtained by tmz shows wallen coming out home after a night out in nashville. he tells someone in his group to watch over one of the others before calling them a series of expletives. >> hey, jersey, take care of this [ bleep ]. >> reporter: the backlash severe. wallen's own record label suspending him indefinitely. the academy of country music awards says the star is no longer eligible. and iheart radio will no longer play his music joining a list of others including bobby bones. >> this i don't like one bit. >> reporte

musician morgan wallen breaks his silence after using a racial slur. his message to fans following a his message to fans following a week of backlash. captioning funded by cbs >>> good morning. good to be with yo

. >>> country music star morgan wallen is apologizing after a video surfaced of him shouting a racial slur. the video shows him outside a nashville home last weekend yelling profanities. yesterday his label, big loud records, said it is suspending his contract indefinitely. streaming services and hundreds of radio stations have stopped playing his music. wallen said that he is embarrassed and sorry. >>> a new jersey man continues to recover from the world's first successful face and double hand transplant. yesterday doctors in new york city revealed details of the transplant on 22-year-old joe demayo. people. demayo was badly burned and disfigured in a 2018 car accident. doctors say he says not shown any signs of rejecting his new face or hands. >> just kept rolling with the punches. and you know, just never gave up. never lost hope. even with the pandemic happening, i never lost hope. just got to roll with the punches, whatever is thrown at you. you've got to keep going. >> he's relearning how to do things like smiling and blinking, as well as using his new hands. >>> comingrngointo

. >> reporter: this morning country music singer morgan wallen apologizing after a video showed him using a racial slur.

and tonight, country singer morgan wallen has been suspended by his record label, his music dropped by many radio stations and streaming services. it was all after he was caught on camera using a racial slur. in a video obtained by tmz, thes nashvillme from a bar hifriendse obscenitiellen apolozed, sayingh this type of language, ever. and, this remarkable video comes to us from myanmar, formally known as burma. a fitness instructor had no idea that a military coup was taking place behind her as she taped an exercise video, it was very early in the morning on monday. while the military convoy of black vehicles descended on parliament, arresting elected officials, including nobel peace prize winner aung san suu kyi. pretty odd, huh? coming up next, no one gets to the super bowl without earning it-- including an official who is breaking barriers. breaking barriers. every night. like clockwork. do it! run your dishwasher with cascade platinum. and save water. did you know certified dishwashers... ...use less than four gallons per cycle, while a running sink uses that, every two minutes. so

and tonight, country singer morgan wallen has been suspended by his record label, music dropped by many radio stations, and streaming services. it was all after he was caught on camera using a racial slur. e singer was seen walking to his nashville home from a bar with his friends when he shouted the obscenities. wallen later apologized, saying there were no excuses to use this type of language, ever. and, this remarkable video comes to us from myanmar, formally known as burma. a fitness instructor had no idea a military coup was taking place behind her as she taped an exercise video, it was very early in the morning on monday. while the military convoy of black vehicles descended on parliament, arresting elected officials, including nobel peace prize winner aung san suu kyi. pretty odd, huh? coming up next, no one gets to the super bowl without earning it-- including an official who is breaking barriers. breaking barriers. every night. like clockwork. do it! run your dishwasher with cascade platinum. and save water. did you know certified dishwashers... ...use less than four gallons pe

. >> reporter: this morning morgan wallen apologizing after a video showed him using a racial slur. >> hey, [ inaudible ] take care of this [ bleep ]. >> reporter: wallen is arguably the most popular musician and singer in america right now with the biggest selling and streaming album in all of music. ♪ up, down, up, down ♪ ♪ up, down ♪ >> reporter: but the rising star's songs now nearly erased from the airwaves, and his record contract now suspended. >> it's the only time i could think of in any genre where somebody just went from being the biggest star to having zero air play almost in the course of one day. ♪ >> reporter: his downfall coming after video obtained by tmz showed wallen outside his nashville home using profanity and directing a racial slur toward a person in his group. wallen released a statement saying, i'm embarrassed and sorry. there are no excuses to use this type of language ever. i want to sincerely apologize for using the word. fellow musicians are sounding off. black country singer mickey guyton tweeted, when i read comments saying, this is not who we

wallen. but yesterday, the olympic committee released a new safety plan to ensure that the games could go ahead this year instead. unfortunately, those plans were quickly overshadowed by another announcement from the olympic committee. >> the head of the tokyo olympics organizing commitee is in some hot water this morning over some sexist comments that were made earlier this week. 83-year-old yoshiro mori said that women talk too much during meetings, making them run too long. mori called that annoying, and added that women want to speak up when they see others speaking. the former prime minister was responding to a question about increasing the number of female members of the organizing committee. mori has since apologized. >> trevor: oh, man, this dude is going to wish he did resign, because now he's going to have to go back into meetings, and it's going to be hella awkward. "how is your department doing, sharon?" "i don't know. do i have enough time to tell you, bitch?" and i'm not excusin

osborne, then morgan wallen, had ups and downs. last year he broke covid restrictions before he was supposed to perform on "snl," got disinvited, reinvited to the show, performed and made light of the situation. now he's been dropped by a number of country music stations, been uninvited to events because he was caught on video shouting at someone during a verbal altercation in which he called somebody the "n" word. and that has kind of gotten him disinvited to a great deal. do these two things kind of coincide with one another? do you see them as linked, did they happen to happen side by side? how do you see this? >> i just wrote a column about this for "usa today" talking about how in the span of 24 hours country music became a lens or mirror for i think the broader societal struggles that we're all dealing with in our political construct. here you have the situation with morgan that was obviously very unfortunate, someone who is at the pinnacle of his career, on the way up, had a number one album right now that he just put out, e

the fall of chart-topping musician morgan wallen. ♪ i'ma need some whiskey glasses ♪ >> caught on camera shouting a racial slur. now the fierce fallout. can country music remake its good ol' boy image? >>> divided by the virus. putting love and immigration laws to the test, now a baby caught in the middle. >> the baby could really come any day. >>> life in a day around the world. >> what would happen if we asked people all around the world to use their camera phones to just record their lives? dry, distressed skin that sug

wallen is off the air. this all comes after he was allegedly caught on video obtained by tmz using the "n" word. he was in front of his tennessee home shouting that racial slur. he was suspended immediately from big loud label, which produces his music. other country music stars taking to social media expressing their outrage. others like kelsea ballerini suggested while his actions do not represent country music. nbc reached out to wallen for his response, but we have not heard back. he did issue a statement to tmz saying that this in part, quote, was no excuse to use this type of language ever. >>> and singer taylor swift is facing a new lawsuit. this is from a theme park in utah. evermore park said that it sued -- well, they're suing because of the title of her 2020 album "ever more." it violates the park's trademark rights. swift's lawyer said the allegations are baseless and now we know where evermore park is located. >>> and today nominations are out for the screen actors guild awards set to be announ

a lot of people talking about morgan wallen. now, his music recent incident with him allegedly caught on video obtained by tmz using the "n" word. it shows him shouting that racial slur. he was suspended immediately from his music label. country music stars are expressing their outrage while singers like kelsea ballerini suggests that wallen's actions do not represent country music. nbc news has reached out to wallen for his response but haven't heard back from that. he did issue an apology, tmz capturing that. it says in part, quote, that there are no excuses to use this type of language ever. >>> singer taylor swift facing a new lawsuit against a theme park in utah. so evermore parksith the title violates the park's trademark rights. swift's lawyer says those allegations are baseless. evermore parks probably did win because now we know where it's located, in utah. >>> and today the nominees for the 2021 screen actors guild awards are set to be announced later this morning. lily collins and david digs will host that event on in

and then country star morgan wallen is under fire, caught on camera, using a racial slur. his record label, hundreds of radio stations, have dropped him for his music. and we are counting down to super bowl lv. john cena is with us. he's got a big commercial that apparently he doesn't even know what it is going to look like. and then ryan reynolds willlive. so always look forward to some ryan reynolds, i don't know if it is because i want to be blake lively when i grow up, or it is because i really love ryan reynolds, but either way. >> now, ginger zee household this weekend, are there snacks on super bowl sunday and if there are, what are they? >> yeah, i feel like ben has kind of an affliction or an affection for nachos, just in general, not something we do all the time, but that has to happen. i'm going to, of course, be, like, let's have vegan nachos and i'll be boiling up cashews. >> i'll be over there with that vegan cheese all day long. thank you very much. we'll see you at 7:00. >> ah, yes, the living room-slash-classroom- slash-office. observe how gig-speed intern

. >> morgan wallen was suspended by his record label and dropped by major radio services and streaming services after he was caught on video using a racial slur. >> the video obtained by tmz shows wallen coming home after a night out in nashville. he tells someone in his group to watch over one of the others before calling them a series of hateful expletives. >> take care of this [ bleep ] [ bleep ]. >> in a statement wallen said i'm embarrassed and sorry. >>> some of the week's wildest moments caught on camera. footage captured six vehicles sliding into a pit after a retainer wall collapsed in turkey. a surveillance stop ended with the driver's arrest. and in connecticut first responders rescue two people from a vehicle submerged in long island sound. >>> and finally, punxsutawney phil emerged from his burrow on ground hog day. his prediction, six more weeks of winter. >> he's always adorable but six more weeks? >> we're not ready for it. >> the most memorable part is the guy with the top hat. brushing him off. >> they're impressive, dillon. >> they know how to rock that look. i am of

wallen controversy talked about at length with us as did ryan. you'll hear that part of our conversation next week. it was -- >> i love the two of them together. >> i give them a lot of credit for talking about going through the whole postpartum depression episode, in the middle of a pandemic. they said we realized if we're going through this, a lot of people have to be going through it. i appreciate that they shared it. >> i do, too. i loved the fact that they were so candid. number one, i think the video is sexy and steamy. >> extremely. >> sexy and steamy and very well done. you can feel the heat jumping through the screen which i like very much. i like that she described it as their encounter was like a romantic booty call. >> yes, yes. >> max on camera one said, aren't all booty calls romantic? that's not been my experience. >> no. >> i don't know who max is hanging out with. i love how they -- they were so candid and so honest with you. that was nice. >> really good folks. >> it sound romantic to play in vegas at 80 together as a couple. ma