balloon after it reveals it was capable of collecting evidence. the president s critics say it should have been shot down sooner. they had a chance to shoot it down over water and they did and recovered major pieces of it. have relations now between u.s. and china taken a big hit? no. no. owl speak to former defense secretary leon panetta whose criticism of the spy balloon and its response has caught the president s attention. and as the death toll rises to 19,000 people, and hope fades to find any more survivors, we ll talk to david milla land, the president of the international committee helping thousands displaced across turkey and syria. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington. as the 2024 campaign is right around the corner it seems with president biden arriving in battleground florida at this hour to tout his support for social security and medicare. republican governors and senators have put the stake firmly in the gop column for more than
In response to the April 22 letter from Mr. Teigan, I respectfully disagree with some of his conclusions. He began by introducing the concept of fascism into our current political climate. I believe that this assertion is premature, as the word “fascism” is more of a descriptive term that did not exist until it was
president. but there are other factors more relevant to when they would do so. i think they did already delay it, though. this does delay a little bit, a little bit, that is true. but they wanted to get through the state of the union as well. exactly. sam stein, david jolie and mike memoli and anna newaz. big news, china says they were just gathering weather data, but the u.s. was able to pick up electronic communication can which is a big deal. we ll talk with leon panetta about that. and complaining to the congressman s son that panetta was being too tough on him. you re watching andrea mitchell reports on msnbc. c.
miliband, president and ceo of the international rescue committee. and, david, i ve learned that two of your colleagues were killed in northwest syria. i want to extend my condolences to you, to the organization which does such magnificent work around the world. the death toll is staggering. yeah, thanks, that s meaningful to us. two of our 430 colleagues. we have a team of over 400 in northwest syria. and in turkey in the southeast of turkey, southwest of turkey, in gaziantep. and like every part of the northwest syrian community, the southwestern turkish communities, we ve been touched by this crisis. i think the critical point to make is that the crisis that you ve described and that gabe gutierrez has described, the earthquake crisis is piled upon 10, 11, 12 years of agony for the people of syria. both those who are trapped in the northwest of the country under the control of armed opposition groups.
lawmakers who say it was a one-off and it was rick scott. but it wasn t just rick scott, it was mike lee, others, ron johnson, and variations and they re on tape having done that in the last cycle. having talked about getting rid of social security and medicare because they want to protect defense. and those are the only places to get big dollars. the other discretionary programs don t nearly add up to the kind of money, you know that you can get out of defense and social security or medicare, right, david? yeah, that s right, andrea. social security, medicare, medicaid, interest on the debt, those four or five programs add in a few others represent two-thirds of the budget. so when republicans talk about aggressively moving on the budget you really have to touch the entitlement programs. what you saw with rick scott saying, look, we need to revisit this. i would say, andrea, you ve probably seen more state of the