hello, everybody. welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing a very, very busy news day with us. 6,000 plus dead. 6,000 plus. grief running over turkey and syria. hope, too, running out as rescue crews continue to look for thousands still lost in the rubble of a monster earthquake. plus, tonight, the president tells the country what he s done and where he wants to go advisers promise a classic joe biden speech. out but his state of the union collides with challenges and implications of a newly divided washington. plus, briefing, congress getting a briefing on the chinese balloon. and raises questions why the pentagon was so slow to shoot down that suspected spy in the sky. up first, a dramatic harrowing race to find survivors it s barely 24 hours after a massive earthquake hit turkey and syria. already again, more than 6,000 are dead. and the aftershocks still creating treacherous conditions for rescuers trying to reach those tr
we have got lots of news to cover, lots of questions to answer, so let s get started. president biden just hours away from his first trip to the southern border, after announcing new immigration programs. we are live on the ground in el paso, texas, with the latest. plus, speakership fallout. kevin mccarthy s battle to win the gavel, laid bare, deep divisions within the party. and a possible opening for democrats. we will explain as we look ahead to another crucial house vote tomorrow. and, bombshell revelations, leaked from prince harry s upcoming memoir, less than a month after getting personal in a netflix docuseries. what is his endgame? all of that and more is coming up. and, a good sunday morning to you, i am katie fang. we got brand new details on president biden s first trip to the southern border since taking office. the white house says biden will use today s trip to call in congressional republicans, to fully fund his request for border security resources, and to s
coffin, in very yasmin vossoughian. it is now speaker kevin mccarthy, and we have learned he is at work to get today after an ugly week for where publicans and with a 15 ballot victory for mccarthy after last minute efforts that couldn t vince republicans to finally given. and even more chaotic than the beginning of this battle, even one near physical altercation between two members on the floor, now the question is how much did mccarthy give up to represent matt gates, and the other holdouts, and what will they deal with their almost limitless power over the speaker? preferably, you do this, the preference in politics is to always suffer indignities in private not in public. when you have a lower house of legislatures, anywhere in the world, it looks like trump s. i actually have newfound, i have new respect for people i knew. we have newfound respect for people. we do not engage in serious negotiations. i think that s good for policy. in a moment, i m gonna talk to co
hello, i m abby phillip in washington. thank you for joining us today. it is the nightmare that just won t end. southwest airlines canceling thousands more flights with airports coast to coast already packed. more than 4,800 flights today and tomorrow no longer on the books, nearly 16,000 canceled since thursday. all week we have been meeting miserable passengers and southwest says it ll be days before this all clears up. busloads of stranded customers arriving at houston hobby airport this morning, some on the road for more than 24 hours and at chicago midway, this is the sea of luggage that is finally moving. workers are now scrambling to reunite passengers with their bags. we ll begin with cnn s nick valencia at hartsfield jackson international airport in atlanta. another major connecting point for southwest nick, what is happening there behind you? reporter: yeah, hey there, abby. the line here behind me is noticeably shorter than it has been the last several days and t
vote for house speaker starts right now. any minute the house gavels in without a speaker for a third straight day. congress caught in the grips of chaos. no deal to end a first in a century clash over who becomes the next speaker of the united states house of representatives. i m erin burn net in new york and you are watching cnn s special live coverage. i m jake tapper in washington. the talks between republican leader kevin mccarthy and his allies and the 20 conservative rebels have been the most productive conversations yet in a week characterized by breakdowns, backroom bitterness, back stabbing and six very public rebukes of mccarthy and mccarthy has offered the 20 hard-line hold-outs a cornucopia of concessions including ones dealing with the rules such as lowering the threshold to recall a speaker. you only need a single vote according to what mccarthy offered but the outlines of a deal running the risk of alienating the 200 some member was voted for mccarthy ag