good morning. a tragedy of unimaginable scale. more than 17,000 people have now died as time is running out to save survivors in the earthquake. breaking overnight, pennsylvania senator john fetterman, recovering from a stroke, has been admitted to the hospital. an update on his condition. president biden addressing concerns about his age and why he hasn t yet med made a decision about running for re-election. lawmakers getting a classified briefing on the chinese spy balloon and new cnn reporting about who knew what and when. the p word, the b word, a word have been entered into the congressional word as the republican efforts to expose those at the top of twitter has take an surprising turn. cnn this morning starts right now. i m glad you could join us. keep this number in mind. 17,000. 17,000, not just talking numbers, that s people, right? and that s where we are going to begin. we begin in turkey and syria where 17,000 victims, that death toll is climbing
early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire former white house director of communicationspalmieri she s co-host of showtime s the circus. pulitzer prize winning columnist and associate editor of the washington post , eugene washington attorney and contributing columnist for the washington post, george conway joins us this morning. great to have you all here. willie, why don t you hold up morning joe s official newspaper of record. what s on the front? it s happening. joe, it s happening. aaron rodgers coming to the new york jets. leaving the packers. it ll be an exciting new era for the team that s not been to the playoffs in a dozen years. it s going to also be very, very exciting for headline writers at t the new york post, as conspiracy theories spill out at press conferences my god, this is like a dream come true for the headline writer at the post. jets fans are excited they ve needed a quarterback for a long time. they had zach wilso
to the captain, police. you see magic johnson there as well. lebron is now a laker. kareem still a legend. that s all for now. abby phillip picks up our coverage right now. hello and thank you for joining us, i m abby phillip in washington. president biden has just arrived in wisconsin after last night s optimistic and at times fiery state of the union address. it is no accident that after he repeatedly vowed to finish the job, the president s first stop is in a 2024 battleground state. and last night, when he wasn t listing his economic gains and bipartisan policy wins, biden was sparring with republican hecklers. some republicans want medicare and social security sunset. i m not saying it s the majority. let me give you anybody who doubts it, contact my office, i ll give you a copy, i ll give you a copy of the proposal. i m not politely not naming them, but it s being proposed by some of you. look and there was another key moment that may have stolen the sho
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conversations. to one side it means being aware of the issues of our injustices in the society, being aware of the struggles that other people have and working to correct them. to the other side it s a per yore tiff. it means whatever it has to. last week it meant woke. when we re talking about canceling math classes, canceling honor classes in the name of equality nobody is canceling math. there s schools in oregon and california that you can look it up yourself. the problem is we hear these phrases. we hear these terms about, oh, well, the s.a.t.s acanceled. realize when you dig down to it, none of it is happening. it sounds terrible. nobody is canceling these things. these things are simply being re-evaluated as they should because our kids deserve the best. this month governor desantis canceled the proposed ap course on african american studies. as we understand it, there were specific topics that governor desantis did not want covered, black queer study, bl