hello, and welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing a very, very busy news day with u. not your average balloon. u.s. officials sharing new information and they say, yes, china was spying. its balloon part of a surveillance op and scooping up communications snooping on locations in the united states, plus, the president s dual purpose road show. watch me, joe biden says, when asked if he s too old for a second term and today in florida, a state donald trump won twice, the president will warn seniors republicans want to gut social security and medicare. republicans say that s a lie and duct tape and bailing wire. congress gets new behind-the-scenes evidence of how southwest sputtered stranding thousands over christmas direct from its pilots union. up first, though for us a big new download of information on the chinese balloon. that courtesy of classified congressional briefings. american defense officials and the fbi. briefers telling l
traversed the nation before our military shot it down. after china said it is still thinking about arming russia in its war on ukraine. the list is so long. i m harris faulkner. the action against china fully on display. a china select committee held its first hearing in prime time yesterday. just because this congress is divided we cannot afford to waste the next two years. our policy over the next ten years will set the stage for the next 100. we can now allow the ccp to prevail. earlier yesterday democrats called for accountability. democrats calling for it from both china and the biden administration. there is a considerable dispute as to whether covid came from a wet market or came from the lab. the reason for this dispute is that china was absolutely opaque. they failed to cooperate. they failed to come clean. state department has done almost nothing to tell the world how china s responsible not maybe for the virus but certainly for their failure to cooperate afte
of insane liberal crime policies. i guess folks got tired of living in a crime-ridden nightmare where you constantly have to dodge gunfire inside your own home. maybe businesses didn t like their stuff being looted in a smash-and-grab. we know her atrocious track record, murder, robbery, theft. it seems obvious to everybody why she lost. but she is blaming it on sexism and racism. i think she did a bang-up job. i m grateful that we work together to remove a record number of guns off of our streets, reduced homicides, and started making real progress of public safety. we fought the right fights, and we put the city on a better path. in the end, you don t always win every battle. but you never regret taking on the powerful and bringing in the light. jesse: if you are worried about her future, don t, lori has other skills to fall back on. all right come against my better judgment, i will go to you first, jessica. [laughter] tell us what this means for the democratic part
days after the international criminal court issued an arrest warrant for him accusing him of war crimes. he made a stop in mariupol. ukrainian officials slamming the visit saying putin visits mariupol under the cover of night. cnn senior international correspondent ivan joining us live. what else did putin do while there? reporter: right. well, the kremlin says he arrived by helicopter. then he was shown in a pretty long unedited video driving a car, being briefed by a top kremlin aid. driving into the outskirts of mariupol. the aid was describing the situation and acknowledging that much of the city had been destroyed. that there were ruins of buildings being demolished and much of the city was also empty because ukrainians has fled. putin was shown meeting a couple of people who were living in what were described as newly constructed apartment buildings. those people thanked putin for their new homes saying they had had nothing before that. and we ve been hearing some pre
you have no idea how good you ve got it. huh? what a time to be alive. introducing the next generation 10g network. only from xfinity. the future starts now. very good friday morning to you. i m jim sciutto. i m erica hill. former president trump has been invited to testify before a grand jury all in relation to the hush money payments to porn star stormy daniels, and we will look into whether this invitation means that criminal charges are on the horizon. and republicans are descending on iowa, and it is of course a must stop on the possible road to the white house. former governor ron desantis is set to speak with the iowa governor in a few minutes. cnn is there on the trail. in major economic news this morning, it is good. employers added 311,000 new jobs, and it beat analysts expectations by a long shot. what does it mean? marty walsh is going to join us to talk about it. and we begin with the manhattan s attorney general inviting donald trump to talk to the grand jur