cluster bombs, as president biden heads overseas to shore up support for ukraine, he said the u.s. will send them a controversial weapon. it was a very difficult decision on my part. but sis the the right one? i ll ask michael mccaul and the only house member who votes against the afghanistan war, barbara lee, next. and party of one. republican set a date for the iowa caucuses where donald trump s rivals are trying to e he zeros in on his closest opponent. he s got no personality. does ron desantis has a plan to turn things around. my panel will discuss ahead. plus mercury rising. a record-breaking heat wave blankets the globe. and over seas janet yellen pushed china on climate. but is any country doing enough to stop the climate threat? hello, i m jake tapper in washington with the state of union is wondering about long-term consequences days after announcing his controversial decision to send cluster bombs to ukraine, a weapon his administration once refer
cluster bombs. as president biden heads overseas to shore up support for ukraine, he says the u.s. will send them a controversial weapon. it was a very difficult decision on my part. but is it the right one? i ll ask house foreign affairs committee michael mccall and the only house member who voted against the afghanistan war, democratic congresswoman barbara lee next. party of one. republicans set a date for the iowa caucuses where donald trump s rivals are trying to gain steam while he zeros in on his closest opponent. he s got no personality. does ron desantis have a plan to turn things around? he is the man to do it. my panel will discuss ahead. plus mercury rising, a record breaking heat wave blankets the globe. janet yellen pushes china on climate. we have the duty to cooperate. is any country doing enough to stop the climate threat? hello. i m jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is wondering about long-term consequences just
we are coming on the air with breaking news on today s top story. for the first time, we will see secretary of state tony blinken on camera. you re looking at it live on the left side of your screen there. potentially reacting to that suspected chinese spy balloon, flying over u.s. airspace. also this hour, you ve got president biden in philadelphia after a better than expected jobs report. we re juggling all of it live here in the next 60 minutes on msnbc. i m hallie jackson in washington. i want to bring in one of our chief white house correspondents, foreign correspondent janis mackey frayer is live in beijing, and gary locke, former u.s. ambassador to china. let s take a beat. lay out what we know so far about this chinese apparent supply balloon mystery situation. we are about to hear from the secretary of state for the first time on camera since he postponed his trip to beijing earlier today. the pentagon says they are still tracking this balloon. they also say it is no
exclusive interview with president biden. with under four weeks until the midterm elections. a brand new cnn poll shows that president biden s approval rating is improving. 44% of people say they approve now of the way he is handling his job as president. 56% disapprove. this is up from a low of 48% this summer. now it s higher than bill clinton and donald trump. higher than their ratings at their stage of their presidencies, but below barack obama and others. the poll shows major economic warning signs just 22% rate economic conditions of the country as good with 41% calling conditions somewhat poor, 27% saying very poor. i should note the conditions are improving. just 32% of the public approve of his handling of inflation. 36% of his handling of the economy as a whole, up from 30% this summer. half of americans say biden s policies have worsened economic conditions. 36% that they improved economic conditions. that s a slight improvement from april and may. and a majority
They re saying the taliban is helping us. what happens right after they withdrew, zawahri, who was that was al qaeda essentially. you have the taliban, harboring zawahiri, and bin laden s number two guy in afghanistan right after the fall and now he s saying i was right, the taliban is helping us and al qaeda is gone. i don t understand it. it is a bit bizarre to me. that a president would be so devoid of his own foreign policy and he just really wants to sweep afghanistan under the rug. that report was very damaging, found that we should not have abandoned bagram where we have over $6 million of taxpayer dollars left behind and now the taliban are selling to our adversaries like iran and the palestinians against israel. this is a huge foreign policy blunder. you re many new mexmiami rig