i m amara walker. i m boris sanchez. thank you for starting your week and spending part of your morning with us. there is plenty to get to this sunday. here is what we re watching. i think this is an effort that s ongoing never ending to destroy donald trump, everything around donald trump. politicians on both sides of the aisle reacting to the news that former president trump could be indicted this week. how trump s team and new york officials are preparing for that possibility and potential fallout. also, russian president vladimir putin makes a surprise visit to the russian occupied city of mariupol days ahead of a high stakes meeting with president xi jinping. ivan watson is standing by in ukraine with more. what would you say the weight of the job is? you hold people s lives in your hands. following a series of close calls at the nation s airports, cnn is getting an up close look how the next generation of air traffic controllers are training to keep us safe
we will get there at the end of the show. all right, a lot to get to this hour but we look ahead to tonight, president biden will deliver the state of the union address in less than nine hours from now. and he certainly will have a lot of explaining to do to the nation. first, there is the growing controversy over the chinese spy balloon that flew over the country for more than a week. before he took action. the record-breaking biden search at the southern border and the scandal surrounding his son hunter. i don t think he will mention that. plus, his address tonight seen as a kickoff for his 2024 campaigns. yes, he is running, i told you he was but he may have a lot of convincing on that front. the poll says majority of democrats don t want him to run again and biden to talk about unity but that may be a tough selling point considering he just said this on friday. judgment till my jobs are up, which is a rub from inflation is down and covid no longer controls our life. the
very difficult test for us. we need help. we need international community to do something to help us, to support us. this is a disaster area. we need help from everyone to save our people. remember him. there are many people like him searching for loved ones and others. good morning, everyone. there s a desperate plea for help after a catastrophic earthquake killed more than 1500 people in turkey and syria. keep an eye on him there are many like him. we re going to speak to that rescuer, one of syria s white helmets as he searches for survivors. emergency crews are x scrambling in ohio trying to keep a toxic train wreck from exploding. and the u.s. shot down a chinese balloon. there is crisis and blowback that president biden is now facing. all as he s preparing to give the second state of the union address tomorrow night. also this southwest. fedex is on the go. close call there. another near disaster at a u.s. airport. what we re learning about that very close c
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appear to be a group of former fbi agents who traffic and conspiracy theories, and have little evidence of actual wrongdoing. we re gonna take you through that report later on this hour. democratic committee matter colin allred slamming the committee s efforts right here on msnbc, take a listen. as somebody who served in the obama administration, and now in congress, i think this is the ten four house committee, there s nothing here. they said it s going to be the response to january six committee given that, apparently in a similar budget, and they have nothing, that s because there is no there there. it s also a waste of taxpayer dollars, and of our time. meanwhile brand new reporting on how president biden s 2024 strategy is taking shape. the washington post reports the president s team is moving quickly to endless potential rivals for a national advisory board. the group of democratic governors, senators, another party stars will travel and then speak on the president