lord, what a shocking moment there from turkey. good morning to you this monday, i m jim sciutto. and i m erica hill. the death toll continues to rise after this catastrophic 7.8 magnitude earthquake which struck near the border of turkey and syria. more than 1,800 people are now reported dead, but there are concerns that that number could ultimately reach into the tens of thousands. at this hour desperate rescue operations underway. crews searching for survivors who may be trapped under piles of rubble. here you see this is the moment that a child you see in the arms there of that rescue worker, a child was pulled from debris this was in northwest syria, a region which of course already heavily impacted after years of a bloody civil war. in each city, in each village, across northwest sudan there are people under rubble. the number of trapped people under the rubble, it s countless up to now. we don t have exact number. countless. multiple powerful after shocks have al
we ve got some closure here but a lot more questions now to jacqui heinrich at the white house with more. hi, jacqui. we learned the three objects shot down since friday were most likely linked to commercial research projects, private companies and not to china s spy balloon program. despite that, the president says he makes no apologies for shooting down that spy balloon even after china has called it an overreaction. all week though the white house has been saying we re going to soon learn more about these new policy recommendations and national security advisers putting together for how we will better deal with future potential airborne threats given that we re now detecting more objects in our airspace since we ve dialled up the radar and we learned today that we re actually not going to hear the details. i ll be sharing with congress these classified policy parameters when they re completed and remain classified so we don t give our road map to our enemies to try to
be indicted. there s huge ramifications. andy mccarthy is here on the trump case and what happens next. first to bryan llenas in new york city. high, bryan. hi, martha. yeah, this is a pretty interesting information coming out. brooks singman confirming that trump has hired a new lead counsel, todd blanche. he was recently a partner at a law firm a top white collar attorney. he was a former u.s. assistant attorney in the manhattan u.s. attorney s office. he will leads the charge in defending the former president here today when the former president surrenders himself to manhattan criminal courthouse behind me. more about todd blanche. he represented paul manafort, the former trump campaign manager. not only did he represent manafort, he successfully represented him, getting state charges that were filed by then cyrus vance, the district attorney of manhattan dropped. he hat state charges including mortgage fraud and a dozen other charges dropped against paul manafort arguin
are distrust. let s remember, the u.s. has sanctioned chinese leaders, including the minister of defense. i think it s very difficult for the minister of defense to engage the defense secretary in the united states, while he is being sanctioned. and so this kind of tit for tat behavior, which has gone on since the trump administration, really, and just continued with biden, this is the kind of thing that i think these talkses are seeking to break through. so if they can do that, this will be a success. all right. speaking of mistrust. president biden has publicly, recently, anyway, tried to downplay the spy balloon issue, but how do they handle this and reports of a chinese spy station in cuba, as well? beyond the military thing, there are some issues that both
one of them is said to be a class e felony. we re going to get a closer look at that tomorrow morning. let s just keep an eye on this. see what we see here as we bring in republican senator from oklahoma james langford. senator, good to have you here on this spy balloon issue, which is serious and also on the other serious of a former president being indicted. let s start with the former president. your thoughts as we watch his plane taxi here in new york, sir. yeah, painful for the whole country. it should be painful. everybody person is treated fairly under the law and every person should be treated fairly under the law and not discriminated against for who they are. for this district attorney to grab a case that is half a decade old or more and to reach back and say i want to do this smacks of the injustice of the whole process and the inconsistency. if you do a burglarly in new york, you may not get prosecuted. you can reach back and find a