very good wednesday morning to you, i m jim sciutto. and i m erica hill. today president biden taking that state of the union message to the battleground state of wisconsin. it s part of a two-day swing where he will be touting his administration s accomplishments and also which of course were laid out during last night s address. sounds like the start of a campaign. president biden s speech set the stage for a likely 2024 bid. he vowed to, quote, finish the job. while making a point to call for unity and bipartisanship, asking to work with republicans even as he sparred with a handful of republican lawmakers on a number of topics. instead of making the wealthy pay their fair share some republicans, some republicans, want medicare and social security to sunset. i m not saying it s a majority. i m not politely not naming them, but it s being proposed by some of you. look so, folks, as we all apparently agree, social security and medicare is off off the books now,
seeing president joe biden take the dais in the house of representatives to deliver his second state of the union address to a joint session of congress. and the stakes are extremely high. it comes after a year when women saw their rights to their own bodies taken away. books and lessons about black history and lgbtq folks are being banned, and very real threats to democracy are still looming large. this is an opportunity for president biden to speak directly to the american people about where we are as a country and to set the tone for what the next two years of his term will look like. biden is expected to tout his administration s accomplishments with an emphasis on the strong economy, super low unemployment, and receding inflation, while also making a renewed call for bipartisanship despite a divided guess. in a just released excerpt from the president s prepared speech, biden is expected to say, quote, to my republican friends, if we could work together in the last congr
we re live with what all this means for a critical moment in the war. health officials are on their way to ohio following that toxic train derailment. the health concerns residents say they are now liveing with despite assurances from local officials. plus funeral services set to be held today for alonso baggily, the man killed by police. we re getting our fist look at the body cam video shows the moments leading up to his shooting. plus taking up arms, how some asian americans are taking steps to protect themselves following an increase in awe tacks on the asian community. that s coming up on cnn this morning. welcome to the weekend. saturday, february 18thth, we re so grateful that you are starting it with us. good to be with you. coffee has kicked in, so let s go. vice president kamala harris condemning russia s acts in ukraine as crimes against hu humanity. she delivered the rebuke against russia had in a speech before the security conference. here s a clip.
cabinet are barn storming the country, 30 events in nearly two dozen states to support joe biden s vision for the country. the president arriving in madison, wisconsin, in just the last 15, 20 minutes or so, his trip following one of the most contentious state of the union addresses in u.s. history, so what does that tell us about the political road ahead? plus, the images of horror and heartbreak pouring in from turkey and syria, the death toll from monday s earthquake surpassing a 11,000, and with the critical 72-hour window to find survivors about to close that number is expected to skyrocket. and why would one of the police officers indicted for the brutal beating of tyre nichols share pictures of him beaten and bloodied? we ll have a live report from memphis coming up. but we start with president biden in madison, wisconsin, right now. what many see as the unofficial kickoff of his re-election campaign and framed by the strategy we saw fleshed out clearly in last n
up by the facts and when everybody from the tippy top all the way down to the company knows that that network is broadcasting lies to millions in america. should anyone still call that network a news network? it is a question worth asking today about fox news. in light of allegations by voting machine company dominion. we are still for our part pouring through court documents filed by dominion. those documents are filled to the brim with stunning revelations and evidence that fox news knew at the highest levels at the time that it was broadcasting misinformation to its audience. misinformation so dangerous that it led to death threats, harassment, ultimately it led to a deadly terror attack, so described by fbi director chris wray on the u.s. capitol dominion knew that sidney powell had never entered into an agreement to represent donald trump as his attorney. yet, she appeared on fox news over and over and over again. here is what lou dobbs said on december 10th, 2020, with