a good saturday morning to you. it is saturday, february 4th, you re live in the cnn newsroom, thanks for joining us so much for sharing part of your saturday morning with us. we begin with an eye toward the sky. we re getting new reports about the location of that chinese spy balloon that has been drifting across the country. according to reports, it has been spotted over north carolina an officials say it could move off the east coast and out over the ocean in a matter of hours. and as you would imagine, the balloon is raising national security concerns, and it is adding to the tension between washington and beijing. it was people on the ground in montana who spotted the balloon as it passed overhead. that thing is not the moon. the moon is right there. this thing is so weird. it is definitely moving. the context and the timing of this are really important. the secretary of state antony blinken called it an irresponsible act by china. keep in mind, this comes just day
on its head all over again as the supreme court could ban mifepristone literally any minute what that could mean for the personal lives of millions of women and the political direction of this country. and where advocates for new gun laws in washington, d.c., have failed, washington state is poised to succeed. the governor there set to sign a bill banning dozens of semiautomatic weapons including ar-15s that governor, jay inslee will join me live in a few minutes to explain how he did it and whether he has any advice for the white house as the president tries to follow suit but we start with the 2424 campaign, entering a new and defining phase as nbc news learns that president joe biden will officially announce his re-election campaign next week, both parties have reason to be nervous about what the polls and the public are telling them. for the president, he will get in officially, while his approval rating is near its all-time low, just 39% but that same poll showed a p
take them off. everything. jesse: and if you are the biden family, you don t get to spend 50 years running the game without keeping it all in the family. but, last night, we learned the bidens may have been compromised. as investigative reporter paul sperry broke to us that the biden family has been under federal surveillance for years. another chinese partner of his a guy named patrick ho, his office for secretary of statey was rated, we learned recently from some law enforcement documents was actually raided. the feds actually put the chinese partners under a fisa have a surveillance and at the same time they were monitoring the bidens communications with those chinese partners. jesse: so the bidens are all over fbi wiretaps talking to china. the fbi was investigating patrick ho. a chinese bag man who eventually got popped for bribing african leaders and helping iran evade sanctions. real nice guy. so what does ho have to do with the biden family? ho was the v.p. f
also tonight, donald trump s first rally in the 2024 campaign. the former president went to the manhattan da could that be a new line for prosecutors. meanwhile, trump allies says that they are going to accuse january 6th rioters and are trying to remind us of the reality of that attack, this is american voices. what was shadowing at trump s first investigation was in manhattan, georgia, and washington d.c.. now, it is no surprise that trump continues to paint each of these investigations as nothing more than political richter, reporting for nbc news, jonathan allen writes, quote, trump is reeling about robbing him of power and freedom. it is about those government officials investigating him putting a dark warning for what happens if you were to be charged. it could continue even after nbc news. [crying] [inaudible] discussed a social media post attacking brag. yeah. there was a picture of a bat that someone had put together that he re-posted. let the witness ans
we begin this hour with waco, texas, the fight of donald trump s first official rally of the presidential campaign. overshadowing the possibility of criminal indictment. coming from separate investigations in manhattan. in georgia and in washington d.c.. now it is no surprise that trump continues to pacey triples investigations through nothing more than political reporting for nbc news jonathan allen writes, quote, trump s [inaudible] government run conspiracies launched with power and freedom. he s been really against government officials investigating him, with an increasingly dark warning about will happen if he is charged. trump s attacking the investigation continuing even after, even after nbc or someone sent death threats to the manhattan district attorney alvin bragg. he s investigating alleged flush stormy daniels 2016 election. [inaudible] discussed trump s social media post attacking brag with reverend al sharpton. [inaudible] he posted it. answer the que