chinese surveillance balloon that flew over montana. it comes as secretary antony blinken makes his first trip to beijing. plus, a new estimate on the number of russian soldiers who have died in ukraine. it could show how desperate vladimir putin has become in this nearly year-long war. meteorologists are predicting the worst wind chills in decades in the northeast this weekend. look at that. it could get as low as negative 50 in some parts. negative 50? the times said yesterday that the top of mount washington, negative 100, willie. now, you and i, of course, have done that in some of our you know, willie and i, sometimes we ve done the antarctica thing. we do that extreme, like, mountain climbing stuff. i forget what you call it. little rough for you. minus 100, willie. yeah, well, when we summited norway excuse me summited everest, it got close to that cold. thank god there were the sherpas who helped us get up there. it gets breezy up there, too. it
if they get there in time. this is not just a professional failing, this is a failing of basic humanity towards another individual. memphis braces for fallout over the fatal nonstop beating of a black man by police with video set to be released any day now. what s going on now with george santos? the man just listed as treasurer for santos campaign says he doesn t even work for the congressman. all right. here we go. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. we begin with a potential game changer in russia s campaign with a big if. president biden announces to send 31 abrams tanks to ukraine after germany said it will deliver 14 leopard 2 tanks from its own supply. the challenge now getting the tanks to the battlefield in time to make a difference. we ve got to make sure we re helping the ukrainians plan and prepare for the fighting we think they re going to be facing in the spring and summer months as the weather gets b
republican party is once again siding with lawless insurrectionists mob. crimes. today, bragg s office responded calling that republican letter unprecedented and writing, quote, the letter only came after donaldok trump created a hmvuit(sáqxd expectation that hd be arrested the next day, and his lawyers reportedly urged you to intervene. neither fact is illegitimate basis for congressional inquiry. ñrcongresswoman zoe lofgren,ñi e served on the january six committee and she joins me now. odzcongresswoman, it s great to see you. what is your reaction at this9■ point to all of this coming from kevin and!u■ marjorie taylr greeneq involving ashley?;■ babbitt s mother and those insurrectionists who are now ini jail? á well, i don t know. i mean, i wasn t in on the meetingçó between babbitt si] mother and the speaker. ñiobviously, this woman was killedq. itn( sad and she lostc her life because she wasxdu researched. so, we laid everything out. the videos, the doc
lot of mothers of young black men killed by police out there who would love to sit down with the speaker of the house and talk about police reform. so, why don t y all just call the speaker up and ask for a meeting? or is mccarthy only interested in throwing red meat to the part of his base that s sympathetic to the mob? or trying to make amends with them, after he said babbitt s shooting was justified just a few weeks ago? one of the first things marjorie taylor greene said that ashley babbitt was murdered. do you think ashley babbitt was murdered or you do you think the police officer who shot her was doing his job? i think the police officer did his job. for her part, ashley babbitt s mother said she spoke to mccarthy about those comments, specifically. i called thought speaker mccarthy was delightful and i know i would imagine you were upset when he said that the cops who shot your daughter was doing his job. did you discuss that specifically? we did. and wh
hard-to-watch-at-times, grilling on capitol hill. president biden, the new deals between the country concerning the border. we are moments away from hearing from the pentagon after the u.s. launched air strikes against iranian linked targets in syria. that happened after a u.s. contractor was killed and others wounded during a drone strike in the country. our nbc reporters are following all of the latest developments as we wait for the pentagon update on those air strikes in syria. i want to bring in nbc s dan de luce. what do we know, dan, and what have we expected to learn from the briefing? what are the questions that are still out there? reporter: there are a lot of questions still about this whole episode. the first thing is perhaps why the head of central command, when he testified before congress yesterday didn t mention this lethal incident in which this drone killed an american contractor there at that base in northeastern syria. there s also a question about the