he was released from a county jail on bail last night. but i m sure his lawyers are going to have a lot of questions because clearly, he had a constitutional right to be there to report the story. of course, waiting for more details in terms of what happened here. i just wonder, at no point in this time line did no one say this seems excessive standing there reporting and i was watching newsnation at the time. he was in the middle of a report and said we ve just been asked to stop reporting and i m stopping and then this happens. again, from what we could hear he was just being told he was being too loud. yeah. jason, thank you. it is the top of the hour on cnn newsroom. i m bianna golodryga. aim victor blackwell. the chinese spy balloon recovered in the atlantic, these are new pictures handed over by the bureau. officials say understanding its components could be important pieces of evidence for future criminal charges that could be brought. moments ago the s
thank you so much for letting us into your homes during these truly extraordinary times. we are grateful the beat with ari melber starts right now. welcome to the beat. we begin with what many are saying is the revelation of something we knew but continue to see in more depth, a kind of staggering weakness of speaker mccarthy. as you see him giving out rewards to the very people who broke with him and tortured him before finally relenting this that historically chaotic beginning to the new congress. there s also some santos news so first the full picture today of what mccarthy has given away to the rebels who according to many republicans and this is again mccarthy s allies, they say those folks were politically extorting him. the lesson that mccarthy may be teaching which is why it matters in the news tonight and in the future is that his weakness can be exploited on any number of issues so this caucus which held the speaker bid hostage is getting assignments this he m
potentially some gop defections could have made passage of that resolution even harder. guys. manu raju, evan perez, thank you. president biden is in florida today continuing his post state of the union tour. today he s visiting the university of tampa to drive home his pledge to protect social security and medicare. all while trying to draw a sharp contrast with his potential 2024 challengers. two of whom, we should note, are floridians. he focused on republican senator rick scott citing his plan to sunset all federal legislation every five years, senator scott tweeted this just minutes ago, about an hour ago. since you can t stop talking about me and lying to flor riddians about social security and medicare i m sure you ll accept my invitation to debate the issue. cnn white house correspondent arlette saenz is with us now. so the president, did he say anything about that. reporter: he spent a big portion of his speech discussing senator rick scott and social security and medi