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
for the first time since russia invaded ukraine china s president xi jinping will meet face-to-face with vladimir putin. so what could this mean for the war and also tensions between the u.s. and china? we are on it. plus a cnn exclusive, dozens of mar-a-lago staffers, members of trump s inner circle as well, have now been subpoenaed to testify in the ongoing probe of classified documents. find out who is on that list. and big banks to the rescue, 11 of them are now offering a $30 billion lifeline to one of the regional banks in danger of collapsing after this week s banking turmoil. we will be watching for reaction when the markets open in less than 30 minutes. we do begin this hour with next week s meeting in moscow between the russian president, putin, chinese president xi. cnn s senior international correspondent will ripley is with us. what more are we learning about the talks and what they re expected to focus on? reporter: the timing is certainly significant, it
ahead this st. patrick s day friday starting with desperate measures on wall street. nearly a dozen banks teaming up to prevent this week s financial turmoil from spreading their $30 billion life line to save another major bank from potential ruin as janet yellen works to sooth the markets and reassure americans that their money is safe. i can reassure the members of the committee that our banking system is sound and that americans can feel confident that their deposits will be there when they need them. plus major move in china s partnership with russia, announcing this morning that xi jinping will visit russia next week at the invitation of vladimir putin that comes as russia continues to search for the downed u.s. drone intercepted by a russian fire jets. why the pentagon says russia won t find anything useful even if they do track it down and rage on the streets of paris, thousands of protestors rise up over an unpopular move by macron raising the age of retirement
america s defence secretary says he s had a rare phone call with his russian counterpart in the aftermath of a collision between a russian fighter jet and a us drone. the race is now on to recover the wreckage of the unmanned aircraft. it s thought to be 1,200 metres deep in the black sea. russia has also said it will try to find the wreckage. meanwhile, america s top general said the whole incident was a result of russia s increasingly aggressive behaviour in the area. us defence secretary lloyd austin gave this update earlier. asi as i have said repeatedly, it s important that great powers be models of transparency and communication. and the united states will continue to fly and to operate were ever international law allows. and it is incumbent upon russia to operate its military aircraft in a safe and professional manner. 0ur diplomatic correspondent, james landale, has this report from kyiv. this is the kind of unmanned aircraft that crashed. an mq 9 reaper patrolling th
alone welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world, i am rosemary church. just ahead on cnn newsroom, a tanking swiss bank gets a lifeline, but nervous markets are taking a beating as fears of a broader financial crisis whom. is it safe to fly right now? after a series of near runway misses and no clear answers on why this keeps happening, u.s. aviation authorities host a rare safety summit. plus, georgia investigators have another reporting of donald trump pressuring a state official to overturn the 2020 election. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. good to have you with us. global markets are jittery another bank teachers on the brink of failure, but credit suisse will be getting a helping hand from a swiss national bank as it plans to borrow up to 54 billion dollars in the hope of reassuring investors. now this comes after two credit rating firms downgraded americas first after concerns that deposit