live. reporter: what we saw on the hill is of things to come. gop lawmakers appeared to eager to settle a few scores in the process, set the table for a major take down on the line. first up, it is twitter, former brain trust trying to explain away what gop lawmakers called election interference and partnering with intelligence agencies and lying and betraying the public trust. i think you guys got played by the fbi. twitter should have reinstated the post account immediately. what some called twitter s censorship regime which often labeled fact as disinformation, like you know the hunter biden s laptop story? i will be the first to admit that we didn t always get it right. we all know now. this was not russian disinformation. it was not disinformation. no, it was not. and as you can well imagine, gop lawmakers were slamming twitter today. marjorie taylor green saying to the executives, you discuss me. nancy macey saying, thank god for elon musk, who in the he
congress finally receives a classified briefing on the matter today. the senate being updated at this hour after the house was briefed earlier today. sandra: all of this as senior u.s. military and national security officials warn and have confirmed that spy balloon shot down off south carolina s coast on saturday was part of a major surveillance program run by china s military. so, what else are lawmakers learning in these briefings? we ll ask tennessee senator marsha blackburn and california democratic congressman ro khanna coming up. john: begin with lawmakers sparring over the politization of the federal government and whether the justice department has been weaponized against republicans. hello, i m john roberts in washington. let me be the first to say it, sandra, happy friday eve. sandra: and we made it to thursday. good to be with you, john. i m sandra smith in new york. america reports. republican-led committee says many questions need to be answered by the f
attacks targeted sites associated with hamas militants in retaliation for bombings a day before. attentions have also been rising in israel after palestinians conducted a pair of deadly attacks there. so far the very latest on the ground let s go with this latest breaking news. this is breaking news spread in the past 20 minutes three rockets were fired from southern sierra toward israelite territory. one of those rockets landed in an open area and the heights. one of them reportedly landing in jordan and another one falling short in sierra. a significant escalation once again by suspected iranian linked proxies in sierra after a week of unrest across the re region. just here in tel aviv last night there was a terror attack that left one civilian dead and seven others wounded when a man ramped his car through a crowd of people was fired a weapon. police that were nearby rushed to the scene and killed the attacker. those who were injured were brought to a local hospital. earli
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
trump administration failed. and tonight, his message to americans and now a divided congress. this is what we are watching this hour. we want to welcome the viewers here in the united states and around the world. at this hour, i m kate bolduan. let s start with the urgent search for survivors at that huge earthquake in turkey and syria. the death toll is over 5,000 people killed and that number is to rise. the pictures of the reality of the aftermath of the quake are devastating. thousands of buildings collapsed, and the weather is making already challenging rescue efforts just that much harder, and add to that, the dissional reality that some of the places were in crisis. take northwest syria for example with more than 4 million people were already relying on humanitarian assistance there. there have been moments of light in the heartbreaking images. this video is showing a small girl being rescued after crawling out of a collapsed building. you can just imagine. we go to