moment. that is it for us this afternoon. the lead with jake tapper starts right now. the state of our union is the lead is starting right now. president big tonit s address before a died congress and country to tout his accomplishments. and perhaps lay out his case for another term. but how might his message land with the american people who according to polls disapprove of the job he s doing. rare cries of joy as a little girl and her younger sibling are pulled from the rubble alive. a small bit of good news amid the growing death and destruction from the earthquake in turkey and syria. the death toll now soaring to more than 7,200 people. then, if you ve flown in the past few weeks, you know the skies are not very friendly. cancel takeoff clearance. delta 1943, cancel takeoff clearance. an i-team meltdown, one airline grounded during the holidays, two runway near misses, now lawmakers want answers. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper on capitol hill
however to interpret it. lori lightfoot, the chicago mayor who has days left in office is now complaining that prosecutors are going easy on criminals. they re making it tough for the police. listen closely to her and to these other mayors. this is enlightening. if we say yeah, the police department is spending this time to put a case on and the judges and the prosecutors say we re going to let you out on electronic monitoring to wreak havoc again. if somebody musters the courage to come forward and identify the person that just shot up their neighborhood and sees them walking bold as day back on the street two days later, what does that say to them? you can t just allow our law enforcement agencies to decrease. we know what the consequences of that will be. we have about 2,000. they get out monday. they re doing the stickup on tuesday. and they snub their nose at the criminal justice system. they re violent. they re dangerous. some of them are dealing with real mental
and the reason we have society in the first place is to protect the weak from the strong. that is where you have a society. and in places like this and you just can t go where you want to go. roads are not controlled by the police, they are controlled by armed predators and they take exactly what they want because they can and this is an ancient problem. it used to be called a highway robbery. for most of history and cap people close to home. it turns out it still exists, but now it s called carjacking. and it is the clearest possible sign that the civilization is falling apart. nobody s going to build back anything and a city with this, most people are starting to do here and carjacking is now a demanding that she handled everything she had including her car, and that is a carjacking that is always an act of violence. people don t want to give up their cars. the majority of victims are old women, young women, and that is where the people who do it would do anything, if y
the society can no longer perform its most basic function. the reason we have societies in the first place, which is to protect the weak from the strong. that s why you have a society well in places like this it becomes, among many other things, very hard to travel anywhere. you just can t go where you want to go with legitimate authority in retreat, roads are not controlled by the police. they re controlled by armed predators. and the armed predators take exactly what they want from travelers because they can. this is an ancient problem used to be called highway robbery. and for most of history it kept people very close to home. turns out it still exists, but now it s called carjacking. carjacking is the clearest possible sign that your civilization is falling apart and that s where you find it in places like somalia and south africa. places where force violence and clan loyalty have replaced law and order, places where might makes right in the city of johannesburg, for exam
nearby and here stateside, nearby and here stateside, republican primaries have the attention of washington and bedminsterashi. nn iter looks like we already have winners, if you can believe itt or not, in missouri and inls michigan. h and the polls have just closed in arizona. gh now this hour, hour is going to be a high wire act as we bringal you alll of these breaking stories. but we begin tonighth with threats and truth. that is the focus of tonight s angle. five years ago, speaker gingrich with the taiwan. itwr was a completely wrong. the u.s. should draw a lesson f rofrom instead of making repeate the mistakes it s now. well, let me just tell you one thing, 10:00 a.m. in taiwan and to her credit, nancy, pelosi didn t back down when china essentially threatened to shoot s her plane out of the skt now 1 she s been on the ground for, what, about 12 hours or so landing here just after ten , thirty a.m. eastern today. we re going to bring e you news about the specifics of