Looking live at philadelphia where in two Days Vice President harris and former President Trump will face off in their first debate. Surrogates for both candidates gave new insight into their approach and expectations. She is a very focused and disciplined leader but it will take almost superhuman focus to deal with him in a debate and no ordinary propositions of the less we talk about him and the more we talk about you the better it will be for the Vice President. I think he does that by traveling around the country and takes talks to the voters taking questions from the press and every day is that for Donald Trump and he will go in gametime ready. Today we learn the Harris Walz Campaign Will Barn Storm Battleground States after the debate and thursday the Vice President will be in North Carolina while Tim Walz is in michigan and Friday Harris will head to pennsylvania while Tim Walz goes to michigan and wisconsin. Meanwhile new polling shows them neck in neck leading into the pivotal
fbi agents stripped of their security clearances now the star witnesses for republicans on capitol hill, and this is in connection to january 6th, but republicans say it is the weaponization of government. 2024 gop field could soon have a new candidate, and we are told it is florida governor ron desantis is ready to enter the race, and when he plans to make it official. and now, the governor of montana is trying to ban tiktok on all devices throughout the state. can he do that? this is cnn news central. all right. this morning two fbi agents who were stripped of their security clearances have been testifying on capitol hill. they took a break, and now they are back into the room again ready to keep on with the proceedings. the agents are the star witnesses in this republican-led hearings and they are there to prove how the fbi and justice department are working against conservatives, and the republicans called this the weaponization of government, and remember, they
increase in medical tourists heading south of the border coming up. on page 1 of that threat assessment, china, among the fascinating details, how beijing is doubling its efforts to sway local politicians in the u.s. as a way to gain some diplomatic breathing room with washington. but we start with the brand new litmus test for republicans, being forced to publicly choose sides following the latest release of videos from january 6th. for a second straight night, fox news host tucker carlson perpetuated the lie that the insurrection was a mostly peaceful group of meek and orderly people who were sightseeing that characterization drew an angry, even visceral reaction from some republicans, although not all of them. i think what happened on january 6th was despicable, if you disagree with something congress is doing or not doing, you can t try to take over the capitol. tucker carlson that january 6th was i don t know what tucker carlson said. he said it was mostly
the entire memphis police department after the brutal beating of tyre nichols. plus, the man behind the decision to shoot suspicious balloons out of the sky testifying on capitol hill. congress is demanding some answers today to a long list of questions about how all of that went down. also, what we re learning from the wife of one of the four americans kidnapped in mexico, as her husband is being treated in a texas hospital. and trip delayed, the massive protests in israel, so big, so disruptive, the u.s. defense secretary just pushed back his planned trip. our nbc news reporters are all around the country and the world with the very latest. first, we begin in the middle east where the defense secretary will now be going, we believe, tomorrow, but as that latest round of violence leaves at least six palestinians dead, raf sanchez in te aviv, tell us about this delay, what we know about it, and what will he be walking into? reporter: well, chris, secretary austin s plan
this woman did something that an angel would do. to take in a perfectly stranger, a stranger. you took him in in your home. on christmas eve. joey s life was saved by a woman who cared deeply about a man she had never met. thank you. i am right here. i am right here. gary tuchman, cnn, atlanta. the news continues so let s hand it over to alisyn camerota on cnn tonight. alisyn? i am alisyn camerota. the january 6th committee putting more new witness testify tonight. stuff we have not heard before, including how mark meadows allegedly burned documents. and, how much talk about qanon there was in the white house. also tonight, the question thousands of angry stranded passengers ask at this hour, what is going on with southwest airlines? why are they subjecting travelers to so much chaos? how are will the airline make it up to those passengers? and the supreme court allowing that trump-era border policy to stay in place, that is the one that sends migrants back to mexico