congress. plus, the ohio governor is visiting the site of this toxic train derailment in east palestine at this hour just as there s news of another train crash that s killed dozens of people overseas. and tiktok taking what it considers a major step to limit daily screen time for young people. how far does it go? this is what we re watching at this hello, everyone. i m kate bolduan. we begin on capitol hill where attorney general merrick garland is testifying before the senate judiciary committee at this hour. he s facing questions on everything from gun violence and social media regulation to the fentanyl crisis and that s just in the first few minutes. he is also expected to be asked about the special counsel investigations into president biden and former president trump and their handling of classified documents and there s more already facing questions about the ongoing investigation into president biden s son hunter that republicans are pushing on. paula reid is
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
hello, i m abby phillip in washington. president biden is taking the fight to republicans in florida and that s a state that s been tilting more and more toward the gop. it s also home to two of biden s potential 2024 rivals, donald trump and ron desantis. not to mention, biden s latest foil, republican senator rick scott. it is scott s recent proposal to sunset federal programs that biden has been hammering all week and in a few minutes he ll try to keep the pressure on with remarks focused on bolstering social security and medicare. cnn s priscilla alvarez is there in tampa ahead of the speech. so, priscilla, i don t think many people expected that joe biden and rick scott would be the first big political matchup of the year but the white house is very much leaning into it. reporter: it is front and center, abby. not only that, this is the second stop that biden is making after the state of the union this week. as he mentioned, biden is driving his message home that he is
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
the trump boy asked the firing top executives to appease election deniers, damning new revelations in the dominion lawsuit and the fox news struggle to undo the damage they ve done. my man, donald trump then you ll never guess why republicans are suddenly finding reasons to bail on cpac. and is the supreme court about to strike down on student loan debt forgiveness? senator bernie sanders on that and much more, when all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i am chris hayes. i am back and very happy to be so. while i was on vacation, i missed a shocking story that just broke out into the open. we knew some of the contours, i ve been following it closely. but now, we got a whole host of damning new details on what may be the single most destructive institution in all of american politics. of course, i am talking about fox news. this fox door is the rare kind of story where the truth turns out the be even more cartoonish really terrible than anything you could h