officials telling nbc news the goal of the president s address tonight is to affirm the core promises of his 2020 presidential campaign. restoring the soul of the nation. tonight s critical address as the polling shows the president faces growing dissatisfaction at home. the administration is not taking care of our own people. you have to get these old guys out. i will be joined by chris jansing and katy tur. plus, looming large. the diplomatic fallout from shooting down the 200-foot tall chinese spy balloon over the atlanta expected to play heavily into tonight s address. some of the lines of the speech referring to china were being edited in the wake of the military operation. how hard will the president go against china tonight? death toll rising. more than 5,100 people dead after two powerful earthquakes striking we were hearing voices, messages from under the rubble. we couldn t do anything. good morning, everyone. i am andrea mitchell in washington. this
he s thinking, okay, are you kidding me? executive vice president and i m erin burnett. managing editor of cnn worldwide. out front on a friday night. that is his day job. but in his spare time he wrote a the most shaky republican race since 1964. new book called my long trip six different candidates have home: a family memoir, led in the national polls so far chronicling his life growing up this year. in a biracial family. it s amazing to think about it. and mark, it s a really great but there is a big reason for read. it. the tea party. it reads like a novel. a cnn poll shows that the we were just talking about it. but how it all started was, as republican party is literally you write in the book, you woke split down the middle. up a saturday morning after thanksgiving and said i m going half of them support the tea to write a book. yeah. well, my dad had passed away party or are active members. exactly a year to the day before that. well, 49, 51, some call that and y