you see, music isn t just the harmony of sound. it s the harmony of human beings, of different races, genders, religions, identities, sexual orientations knowing we re different but rejecting division to find moments of joy and unity and harmony. and that s what music is all about. yes, the right s biggest nightmare. a celebration of everything they fear broadcast to an audience of millions. they can t stop it, but they surely will keep on trying. also tonight, the florida governor s efforts to whitewash history preceded very controversial changes by the college board to a proposed a.p. african american studies course. but was desantis behind the updates? kimberly crenshaw, one of the scholars expunged from the course joins me. i ll also talk to an executive with the college board. and we are on the eve of president biden s state of the union address, following a year of impressive victories. now he looks ahead to next year and increasingly likely re-election campaign
selling and then the rapidly developing clash in washington as we re getting new details about what the true republican agenda may be in the congress or in the people running for president. there are prominent conservatives that are reviving an idea long left for dead and interesting one that barack obama himself warned about on the midterm campaign trail. the idea, bringing back what was once a bush era plan to change or gut social security. the president tonight we re told will say much more about how he plans to reshape social security. the system is headed toward bankruptcy. i earned capital in the campaign, political capital. strengthen it, improve it, do not privatize it. even though some consider it, some the third rail of american politics. some are afraid to touch it. some don t want to touch it. some provide excuses not to touch it. [ laughter ] do you want to touch it? even in friendly territory it s fair to say he s finding that his plan is going t
rocked two countries. more than 2,200 are dead in turkey and syria. thousands more injured. we ve got the latest details. a new republican criticism this morning of how the biden administration handled the suspected chinese spy balloon drifting for days over the u.s. before the military shot it down over the weekend. all this as president biden red december to address the nation tomorrow. a huge night for a star-packed grammy awards. that s bad bunny. we ll tell you who made history. we begin with that breaking news, a deadly catastrophe unfolding right now in tour key and syria. two powerful and devastating earthquakes striking jurs hours apart. 7.92 earth kwair quake near the city of gaziantep in turkey. that number only expected to rise as the tremors toppled buildings across the region. take a look at this moment. look at this. this whole building just comes down in the city just outside the epicenter collapsing in a matter of seconds. bystanders fleeing the scene
options. neil: up, up and not going away. a suspected chinese spy balloon flying high above the continental u.s. and over several sensitive u.s. military sites. u.s. officials did consider shooting it down. no more. antony blinken cancelling his trip to china. china confirming, yeah, it s ours but blames high winds. some people don t believe that. we are all over it regardless with jennifer griffin at the pentagon on how the military is reresponding to this. griff jenkins with growing calls for investigations into this. senate armed services committee mike rounds on how long the administration may have known about this. general jack keane on the new tension with china because of this. i m neil cavuto. who saw this one coming? new signs that we might have seen it for quite a while. so why are we just finding out about it now and growing concerns about what we re going to do about it now to jennifer griffin at the pentagon. jennifer? neil, secretary state antony blinken is
another run for president. that s a theme that president biden hit at a political venue, the dnc winter meeting. [ chanting four more years ] yes, we just got out of an election, but you plan ahead and you hurt the chants of four more years. thanks for spending time with us. please keep it locked here as we will have state of the union coverage for you in the previews tonight and tomorrow. and you can always talk to me at ari melber online. i mentioned beyonce winning the grammy s record last night for most ever. who do you think is the best musician ever? is the beyonce or someone else across the ages? tell me at ari melber and thanks for spending time with us. the reidout with joy reid starts now. tonight on the reidout