hello, and welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing a very, very busy news day with u. not your average balloon. u.s. officials sharing new information and they say, yes, china was spying. its balloon part of a surveillance op and scooping up communications snooping on locations in the united states, plus, the president s dual purpose road show. watch me, joe biden says, when asked if he s too old for a second term and today in florida, a state donald trump won twice, the president will warn seniors republicans want to gut social security and medicare. republicans say that s a lie and duct tape and bailing wire. congress gets new behind-the-scenes evidence of how southwest sputtered stranding thousands over christmas direct from its pilots union. up first, though for us a big new download of information on the chinese balloon. that courtesy of classified congressional briefings. american defense officials and the fbi. briefers telling l
we bipartisanly passed the respect for marriage act. don t say we can t get along. years ago, i wrote with great consternation, but we ve reauthorized it again, the violence against women act. the electoral reform act. folks, we did that in a bipartisan way, democrats and republicans did it. i don t know why they don t acknowledge any part of what s making the country again, but in addition, we passed the american rescue plan. the inflation reduction act, and the people sent a clear message. fighting for the sake of fighting gets us nowhere. there s things that we ve got to get things done. that s always been my vision for the country, and i think that s what the american people said in this off year election. yesterday i went to wisconsin, nice and warm like down here. [ laughter ] to talk about how we re building an economy from the bottom up and the middle out. i m so tired of trickle-down economy. not allowed to trick down at my dad s table when we re growing up. today
from behind upset victory, a commonwealth that lot of people thought was very solidly blue, maybe it s purple now. you are term limited are you giving any thought running for a higher office, such as president? well, first of all, thank you for that humbling question. i just had to say that, 40 years ago, i was in virginia beach, and i was watching dishes, taking out trash at belvedere park of shop. and i had an extraordinary opportunity, with great education, and people took interest in my professional career, and i thought i was my dream job, when i had teach a chance to take over a firm that had worked out for 25 years. and then i found myself, with this real clear view, that virginia is heading in the wrong direction, and maybe there is a different way to do this. over there is a way to bring people together around common sense. great people are together around values, but aren t that controversial. we just need to express some clearly to another, and get moving, and i
little amo aged 8 is inside, possibly alive. by the time they get her to the ambulance, though, it s clear they were too late. her mother, outside, only able to watch her everything vanish. my little one, she says. don t take her. don t let her get lost. antakya s streets a chilling patchwork of what s left standing and what s not left. in its ruins anxious crowds of rescuers and locals thinking they heard someone alive. demanding silence so they can listen again. down here is ahmed, the he rescuers say, alert, responsive, a syrian refugee. the building next to him barely hanging on at an angle. their work desperately wishing it were quicker. across the city hell has landed. this man guarding his neighbor s books with his father-in-law next to the body of his mother-in-law. he gestures behind him to where he once lived. it s kind of hard to get your head around just how inhabitable a city of this size has become so fast. literally every street you walk down has a scene li
of snow preparing for more. we start in new york city. we were talking about this story. there is now a possible indication that former president trump could soon face criminal charges. now, this is not guaranteed. we should note that. the new york times is reporting that the man district attorney s office is signaling charges against trump are likely over the hub money payments to stormy daniels. prosecutors have offered trump a chance to testify next week before the grand jury hearing evidence in the case seeing some of his former closest allies go before them. such offers usually indicate an indictment is potentially likely. this case is not a slum dunk. it could pose a challenge for prosecutors. paula reid has been tracking this case with us all morning. we know that trump s attorneys have gone in and met with the district attorney, but the idea that he, himself, is going to go in and testify seems incredibly unlikely. it does seem incredibly unlikely. but over the