get a briefing on china while members of congress are holding hearings demanding answers about the u.s. response to that spy balloon that floated across the u.s. we ll talk to congressman gregory meeks who attended a house briefing on the matter earlier this morning. president biden is back on the road today heading to a key battleground state to sell his agenda, and he s doubling down on accusations that some republicans want to cut medicare and social security. and migrant crossing borders are up. they re up 700%, but not through the southern border. we ll explain. we begin with devastating earthquakes in turkey and syria where the staggering death toll is now more than 19,000 as workers are going through ruins in hopes of finding more survivors. i want to warn you that the following footage is disturbing, but it is the reality. the reality that people are facing today. right now dozens of unidentified bodies are laying out on the ground in a makeshift morgue in souther
tonight, but we do know biden has been working on it since november, that s over three months for one speech. this thing better be good. here s what the binder said the speech was going to be about. this is going to be a joe biden speech. and when you hear it, that s what you are going to hear. jesse: okay. i can listen to the binder explain biden all day. so much insight. but what is a biden speech? well, a biden speech is a story and that s what you re gonna hear tonight, the greatest story ever told. what he needs to do is tell a story. joe biden is an amazing story teller. you can sit in that oval office careen karine can tell you and tell a story for six hours. he needs to tell a story tonight. jesse: he may not be a great president he is a great story teller. his stories aren t true. that doesn t matter. old politicians know people don t want to hear the truth. the truth hurts. people want to hear a story because a story doesn t have to be true. it s just a stor
is being made when they aren t feeling or seeing it? one thing that could help, the billions set to be spent on fixing our nation s infrastructure. transportation secretary pete buttigieg will join me live later in the hour to explain when people might actually see those changes in their own communities. and the latest on the staggering scope of destruction after the earthquakes that flattened parts of turkey and syria. moments ago, the death toll was raised to 6,376. with temperatures dropping and search and rescue efforts stretched to the limit, i ll talk to one expert who thinks the death toll could grow significantly. but we start with arguably the biggest speech of joe biden s political life now just a few hours away. a huge opportunity to frame his vision and the agenda for the next two years even beyond in front of what is likely to be the biggest tv audience he ll see all year. the task is a big one, persuade a divided congress and country to embrace unity, and conv
rescue crews on both sides of the border continue the frantic search for survivors. also, tensions rising between the united states and china after the biden administration shot down that chinese spy balloon saturday afternoon and criticism from top republicans for the president s decision not to shoot it down sooner. all this as the president puts the final touches on his state of the union address when he s expected to tout his accomplishments including a better than predicted campaign and a preview of his election campaign. good day. as a tragedy of epic proportions is unfolding in turkey and syria, a massive 7.2 earthquake taking nearly 2,000 lives already and devastating commercial and residential areas of both countries. there are also nearly 10,000 people injured and possibly hundreds more still trapped under the rubble from decimated buildings as the aftershocks rip through the region and hinder rescue efforts. those are live pictures in southern turkey of a rescue
good day. i m chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. as president biden gears up for one of the biggest speeches of his political career, can he use tomorrow night s state of the union address to address growing unease among his fellow democrats and drum out growing criticism from republicans over his handling of that chinese spy balloon? brand new polls show president biden isn t the only one facing discontent within his own party. donald trump is, too. the big difference, the dozen or so republicans who appear to be lining up to take trump on. will the bae hive make out better than the swiftys did? with sales about to get under way, the pressure is on ticketmaster to make sure it doesn t crash like it did in november. will today s test impact calls from washington to break up the country. we have a lot to get to. we start with the enormous political stakes in tomorrow night s state of the union address, a speech that will be watched by millions