lethal aid in its war against ukraine. it comes the secretary of state anthony blinken met with china s top diplomat this weekend. exchanging strong words two weeks after the u.s. shut down a chinese spy balloon off the carolina coast. earlier today, and i see spokesperson john kirby stress the importance of repairing the u.s. china relationship. the president said he billing to dock to president xi in the future. and he will. we still have lansing on occasion open with china as you saw yesterday in munich. that s important. particularly when there s times of tension like this. you want to avoid the risks of misunderstanding and miscalculation. secretary blinken issued a warning to china about its spy craft to. key house republicans today amplifying their concerns over the blue and being able to fly across the u.s.. the reality is that the administration admitted that after it had shut down the balloon that it should ve been more proactive. in the three subsequent shutd
hello and welcome to s insie politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing your day with us. finish the job. president biden provides a state of the union slogan and lays the foundation for a 2024 run. and also republicans booing and jeering him in front of millions. a sick puppy who should quit. an impromptu comment from mitt romney captured on video. and investigating congress. putting twitter executives under oath. hearing number one dedicated to digging into the biden family. a first for us, though, the president s day on the road trip. the president is in wisconsin, the setting quite telling because it follows the state of the union that served as, yes, a 2024 teaser. and as a nod to the election map that mr. biden sees as a map to re-election. the president s speech clocked in at 53 minutes. finish the job. the part said by the president, he wants another term to do it. six more years to do it. we ve been sent here to finish the job in my vie
the 2024 road show has begun. the lead starts right now. president biden leaving the beltway. taking the state of the union message to voters in some key battleground states. will he get cheers or jeers from the american people? then, more than 12,000 people now have been killed. the death toll from the earthquake in turkey and syria continuing to rise to staggering heights as hope fades of finding survivors left in the rubble. and a passenger s battery catching on fire mid flight, forcing a plane to make an emergency landing and sending four people to the hospital. what you need to know about flying with potentially dangerous electronic devices. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. the scene after the state of the union address looks like the campaign trail. president biden is in the crucial swing state of wisconsin, where he is talk ja jobs and the economy. echoing the themes of last night. kamala harris is in georgia, another key battleground state, that you mig
hi, boris. i m amara walker. you are in the cnn newsroom. we begin with the investigation into the hush money scheme involving former president trump and adult porn star stormy daniels. trump taking to truth social saying he expected to be arrested on tuesday and is calling on his supporters to protest. an indictment has been happening soon and he has been preparing for the next steps. kaitlan, we will begin with you. what are you learning from trump s team in regards to the potential indictment? donald trump is out there doing what he does. he is making public statements saying he expects to be indicted on tuesday by the new york d.a., but that as far as we can tell, as far as the reporting coming in from our large team of reporters working on this, that s political posturing. it is not based on anything that the trump team has learned at this point that there has been an indictment returned or even that there would be an indictment returned on tuesday. boris and amara
top of the hour now in the cnn newsroom, i m erica hill. i m jim sciutto. in the next half hour, president joe biden is going to lay out his plan and proposals to the budget. and we will also talk to alan shaw about the toxic spill and the pressing questions that the residents there in east palestine want answers to. and then a dozen of deadly missile barrages across ukraine. we want the begin there. russia reportedly launched a barrage of missiles by land and sea and air and multiple of them across the country and most of them hit lviv. they came down and set homes on fire. they terrified the people in kyiv, and most of them happened overnight. ivan watson is on the ground there this morning, and what do we know? well, erica and jim, this is not the first time that russia has aimed dozens of missiles aimed at the power grid, but the commander of the armed forces has described this attack as massive and it is targeting critical infrastructure and as you pointed out