federal government. plus, in the next 30 minutes, president biden takes his political fight to florida, home to his biggest potential rivals. and devastation in syria and turkey, almost unimaginable as the death toll closes in on 20,000. we re live in turkey where one of our reporters just witnessed an incredible rescue. but we start with some explosive moments in those hearings we just mentioned, both democratic and republican lawmakers going hard at the biden administration and its officials for not doing something sooner about that chinese surveillance balloon. the truth is i got a problem with the chinese balloon flying over my state. by the administration s logic, we would allow the chinese to fly surveillance balloons over the pentagon or other sensitive sites near populated areas. as an alaskan, i am so angry. i want to use other words, but i m not going to. i want to bring in nbc s ryan nobles who s on capitol hill and michael crowley as the diplomatic c
you know, drink to a little bit done. great assignment, don have fun this morning continues right now. mike pence, headed to the witness stand and the boj s january 6th investigation. this would be the first time that a former vice president testifies about his former boss and criminal investigation. do you think that there will be more than he can shed light on, particularly when it comes to his conversations with the former president, having the vice president of united states with a special counsel under oath, i think adds enormous value. take our support for the people of taiwan seriously, the white house has tried to downplay the historic nature of the meeting, trying not to overreact, threatening to fight back of violation of its sovereignty. the speaker of the house, there is no place that china is going to tell me where i can go or who i can speak to. concern is mounting in the middle east after israeli police and palestinians clashed at one of islam s holiest sites d
i m abby phillip in washington and you are live in the cnn newsroom, unprecedented political retribution. that is what is on the agenda in the tennessee state house right now , protesters have been at the capitol in support of the so called tennessee three democratic state lawmakers who are on the cusp of being expelled from that chamber. and any minute now the gop dominated chamber will vote on whether to remove them from office because get this. they protested on the house floor calling for stricter gun laws after the nashville shooting that left six people dead. three of whom were children. now, if the vote passes, it would be the first time in that body s entire history more than 200 years that a violation of house rules resulted in members being ousted . and so just to recap these three lawmakers, they may be stripped of their elected positions for speaking out of turn. after 39 year olds were gunned down in their grade school. cnn s ryan young is on the scene for us, ry
president lula da silva is paying a visit. president xijinping president lula da silva is paying a visit. president xi jinping told president lula da silva is paying a visit. president xijinping told his brazilian counterpart that chinese development would create new opportunities for brazil. the also an opportunity for beijing to reinforce ties with one of the world s emerging economic powers, a member of the group of economies which also includes russia, india and south africa. he said he viewed relations with brazil as a diplomatic high priority. the countries agreed a deal to ditch the dollar and trade between them in their own currencies. joining me now is the chief economist, who joins me now. big on promises after this meeting about what these deeper ties will mean for brazil but i wonder what was your to how much detail there was about the opportunities which could present themselves to brasilia. ., ., , brasilia. there were areas where there was detail, brasilia. t
all right now. yeah. it was awesome for, you know, she was on top of the world for a week. she was the heavyweight champ. i love, them i love their whole family. philadelphia might not have won the game, but that right there was the definition of brotherly love. and on that note, i wish you all a very good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thank you for staying up late with, me i will see you at the end of tomorrow. we start tonight without late breaking, news special counsel jack smith has subpoenaed former president donald trump s former chief of staff mark meadows as part of smith and vesta geisha and into trump and his role in the january 6th insurrection. now i should say this as according to a single source, and it s being reported by cnn, and we see has not independently confirmed this reporting. cnn reports tonight that meadows received a subpoena for documents and testimony sometime in january. this comes just one week afte