welcome to the programme. the updates from turkey and syria are relentlessly grim. the deathtoll has now passed 20,000 but only a fraction of the devastated areas have been searched, with hope fading for those still trapped. though there are still miracles. these pictures have recently come in from diyarbakir and they show a little boy, six year old basir yildiz, being rescued. crews had been digging for him for 80 hours. but even for the lucky ones like basir, there are challenges ahead. the world health organization has talked about a new disaster, with thousands unable to find shelter, food and water. help is arriving the first aid has crossed into syria, through the one border crossing point that is open. and in the last hour, the director general of the who, dr tedros ghebreyesus, has said he is on his way to syria. for the latest, our chief international correspondent lyse doucet is in southern turkey. it s hard here in southern turkey really hard here, but it s
supreme court. we re going to go through the arguments on both sides of the case. good morning and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, february 28th. i m jonathan lemire, thanks for starting your day with us. many of the republican party s biggest names will not be attending the annual conservative political action conference in maryland this week just outside washington, d.c. potential 2024 candidates will not be at the annual gathering. rnc chairwoman ronna mcdaniels, senate minority leader mitch mcconnell and house speaker kevin mccarthy are also sitting out this year. this year s conference comes as cpac s chair faces a lawsuit that alleges he fondled a male aide to then senate candidate herschel walker back in october. his lawyer says he denies those allegations. none of the politicians that have said they are not attending have cited the allegations as the reason for their absence. however, several republicans who spoke to nbc news anonymously have said the al
yesterday, odds are, you saw one of these, an ad for election denier mike lindell s my pillow pillow. or an ad for his my slipper slippers. we school through the entire day, time we will never get back, and counted 30 ads by mike lindell in a 24-hour period. even though that is a lot of advertising for slipper slippers, that is not a scandal. mr. lindell can spend it is as much of his company money on fox as he would like. what is alarming about the sheer volume of fox ad time that is occupied by mr. lindell, what is alarming, is this. on december 17th, 2020, the ceo of fox news was forwarded this email by an executive in the fox news communications department. my pillows mike lindell was on newsmax tonight and criticize fox news quite a bit, saying it look like we were in on stealing the election from trump. he did say that he wouldn t pull ads over it, but he did make suggestive comments about our audience being smaller than before. the next morning, fox news ceo suzanne sc
joining us this hour. if youin watched any hour of fo news yesterday odds are you saw one ofdd these, an ad for electn denier mike lindell s my pillow pillow or an ad infor his my slipperr slippers. we scrolled through in the tire day, time we ll never get back, and counted 30 ads for mike lindell in a 24-hour period. mr. lindell can spend as much of his company suc money on fox ase would like,ne but what is alarmg about the sheer volume of fox ad timoc pied by mr. lindell is this. on december 17, 2020, the ceo of fox news was forwarded this e-mail by an executive in the fox news department. my pillow s mike lindell did makede suggestive comments abou our audience being smaller. the next morning fox ceo suzan scot replied has my personal gift been sent to mike. meanwhile fox continued to let mike on the air so he could push the big lie the election was stolen. yesterday a jugantic drop in the billion dollar defamation lawsuit between dominion systems and fox news was released
fate. plus, ron desantis wish list. drafting bill after bill in florida. chaos at 30,000 feet. a man tries to open the emergency door and then stabs a flight attendant. just the latest in an alarming number of dangerous incidents on american flights. let s go outfront. and good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, gunned down, executed in broad daylight. horrific video surfacing tonight out of ukraine, which appears to show this ukrainian soldier allegedly a prisoner of war executed seemingly by russian soldiers after he says glory to ukraine. now, the video is graphic and extremely difficult to watch. it s horrible to watch. if you ve seen it, you can t unsee it. and so what we re going to show you is the moment up until the execution. watch that. [ sound of gunfire ] you saw we went to black. they re not going to show the moment that the man was executed. but we played those gunshots so you could hear just a sudden barrage of gunshots to kill one man.