cnn this morning starts right now. this is the aftermath of what we reported yesterday, our breaking news. good morning. there are countless people still trapped under those piles of rubble and screaming out for help across turkey and syria. the staggering death toll topping 5,000 after the catastrophic earthquake. we ll take you live to the disaster zone and the massive rescue operation under way. and live on capitol hill this morning where tonight president biden is going to deliver his first state of the union address since republicans took control of the house. it s a major moment and he will use it to make his sales pitch for the re-election campaign he s expected to launch soon. we ll have a full preview of what to expect in tonight s state of the union. cnn has new and exclusive reporting a chinese spy balloon flew across florida when donald trump was president, but did his administration know? and we ll take you live to ohio for a closer look at the tense an
joked out communism in korea a crawled through the jungles in vietnam and battled in the hot sands in the middle east. greatness was everywhere in america because greatness was rewarded. if you wanted to go to harvard or yale, you had to be at the top of your class. they demanded greatness from their students. if you wanted to walk the runway at fashion shows and have your face plastered on magazines and billboards you had to be in at this point top shave. not enough to make somebody stop in their track. if you wanted to run nasa, ibm or exxon you had to be the best in the business. they demanded greatness from their employees and that demand formed generations of excellence. the weak were weeded out. the strong were rewarded with money and status and a sense of fulfillment in our society doesn t have standards anymore. everybody gets a trophy. not allowed to judge anybody. nothing is taboo. the people we revered yesterday are despised today. weakness is rewarded and strength
who points are they go after. they go after parents who go and protest at a board of education meeting and say you re a terrorist and we are going sic our domestic terror unit after you or a former president of the united states. it s all about themselves and serving themselves and second threw fact she doesn t opportunities most basic foundation of our judicial system that we are innocent until proven guilty should be deeply concerning because she s one of the most powerful people in the country and walking the halls of the place that makes laws takes an oath to defend the constitution and our rights but she had doesn t even seem to know what those rights are. it used to be you had scoop jackson as i say democrats, or maybe you have a guy like joe lieberman who i was friends with and we agreed with on foreign policy, not economic policy, and i look at these guys and i m
is a sealed indictment. he s making a statement something he doesn t nope the answer to and throwing out dog whistles. historically this miami this idea among the right that african-americans that black folks who are folks in positions are controlled, by some jewish oversear who is pull their strings. that s what that statement reads like. saying that the legal process for extraditing somebody from one state to another is something that will not be followed. that could break us. if anything it s the first proverbial shot at fort superintendent terry fired not by donald trump but bit ron desantis. here now the author of the upcoming book trial of the century fox news lehmann list greg jarrett and author of the new best selling book get trump how appropriate, harvard law professor alan dershowitz is
respected possibly boards. we talked about whether boards were equitable. and now it s gone all the way down to things like the police, the fire service and others. jesse: the lawyers. to the lawyers. expwres jess i thought being a lawyer was hard. i opened one of these l sat books when i thought i wanted to be a lawyer i made it through page 2. i wasn t smarted enough. you could be now. jesse: no i m not. i had to hire someone to go through those tests and i don t want those tests to be easier. i don t want the medical testest to be easier, the guy at the faa doesn t nope anything about air travel and in charge of the friendly skies. not the priority in the. the white house press spokesman say the other day joe biden has the most gay people working for him in the white house ever. the most black representation. the most how about we