bret: the death toll from a massive earthquake that shook turkey and syria today continues to climb. it stand injured. the world health organization estimates the death toll could climb exponentially. countlessbodies are believed to be under the rubble and some survivors have been texting or tweeting out calls for help from underneath the debris. today in southern turkey, a second earthquake or aftershock 7.6 within 12 hours of that first quake. correspondent alex hogan has the story. it s turkey s biggest earthquake in nearly 100 years as rescue teams there and in northern syria search through mountains of rubble for survivors. thousands are dead and missing or wounded. more than 20 countries, including the u.s. pledging support. the president authorized an immediate u.s. response in addition to the u.s. personnel currently on the ground. this hospital s plead for international aid. the situation is too bad. we need urgent help. millions of people throughout the
this it is worrisome, isn t it? leon panetta is right. i saw him say that stuff you showed on the air just now. i saw him earlier in the day saying that, and that was before the pentagon had briefed. so, well to wait, i think. bret: yeah. one more thing. the state of the union address tomorrow. been around that block many times. as the president heads in, there are a couple of polls that really are raising. a.p. has one about fewer democrats want biden to run again and these numbers are pretty big. and abc- the washington post emotional response to biden 2024 run dissatisfied, angry at 62%. so he has a big hurdle here. state of the union addresses are really not the place to really tackle that. brit: well, presidents can t resist the temptation to have that, you know, primetime audience with broadcast networks anyway and all the cable news channels as well covering to get up and do it. but, you know, the history of
president said he saw what was going on. and they said you re going to need 10,000 people following day. heads in, troops. but what was clear was that, and in fact, mark meadows said that the d.c. guard would be on hand to protect pro trump people. not to protect the capital. and so, what we saw then, occurred on january six of course is the pro trump people trying to, and succeeding in invading the capital. and donald trump refused to send the national guard. it is a dereliction of duty unlike anything that i, certainly, have seen in history. and it is almost inhuman to have such reaction like that. the things i want to look at is that we know about the criminal referrals. but the committee also does
0 at the justice department s ability to compel their testimony. it is highly sensitive to go after information from a sitting member of congress. but they re not being targeted because their members of congress. they re being targeted because of the conduct, the conversations with donald trump on january 6th. so, i don t see how you investigate this case without talking to them. and maybe their witnesses, maybe their defendants. we ll see how that shakes out. charlie, before we. go just a big picture question. the degree to which generally six committee exceeded expectations and the degree to which there added in terms of the information landscape around january 6th. how much they actually changed? for broader swap the american public. let s hear assessment there. i think they did a good job. they surprise a lot of people who thought they already know this stuff. the video was on tv for all to see. the media reconstruction the events that day. so trump was openly urging those peop
the count. rudy giuliani talking about that same day to this crowd of rioters and mobsters, saying, you need to engage in combat justice. one of trump s children saying, we re coming for you. before they came for bashed law enforcement officers heads in. used american flags to bash american officers heads in. they chanted hang mike pence. hang mike pence. hang mike pence. mike pence s wife and children were endangered. let me say that again. mike pence s wife and children were in danger. they were scared. afraid that mike pence might get caught and get hung because they had the noose. they want the chants, and they were looking for him. yeah, that s what mike pence now is trying to blame on the american media.