balloon after it reveals it was capable of collecting evidence. the president s critics say it should have been shot down sooner. they had a chance to shoot it down over water and they did and recovered major pieces of it. have relations now between u.s. and china taken a big hit? no. no. owl speak to former defense secretary leon panetta whose criticism of the spy balloon and its response has caught the president s attention. and as the death toll rises to 19,000 people, and hope fades to find any more survivors, we ll talk to david milla land, the president of the international committee helping thousands displaced across turkey and syria. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington. as the 2024 campaign is right around the corner it seems with president biden arriving in battleground florida at this hour to tout his support for social security and medicare. republican governors and senators have put the stake firmly in the gop column for more than
work together, but over the past two years we proved the cynics and nay sayers wrong. president biden and i don t have a lot in common. time and again democrats and republicans came again. he s the first man to surrender his presidency to a woke mob that can t even tell you what a woman is. we have to be the nation we always been at our best, optimistic, hopeful, forward-looking. we are under attack in a left-wing culture war we didn t start and never wanted to fight. we have to see each other not as enemies but as fellow americans. after years of democrat attacks on law enforcement and calls to defund the police, violent criminals roam free while law-abiding families live in fear. i ve never been more optimistic about our future, about the future of america. just remember who we are. and the radical left s america, washington taxes you and lights your hard. erped money under fire. very different tones last night between president biden, mostly optimistic
i m not the governor who attacked walt disney world because they expressed their point of view. i m not the governor who attacked the cruise industry because they wanted to make sure they weren t sick before they got on the boat. you re the most ant-business governor i have seen. a baseball team for send ago tweet saying that they were sorry that children were gunned down in uvalde, suddenly the governor of florida decided to actually penalize a baseball team for expressing sympathy with the parents of dead children. culture wars were a major topic in last night s debate between the two candidates for governor of florida. we re going to have more from that show down this morning, including the big question ron desantis would not answer. plus, the latest from eastern europe as there are growing fears that vladimir putin is planning a new type of attack as a justification for escalating the war with ukraine. also ahead, adidas finally appears to be taking action on its
about trump s plans, which would move the country away from democracy and into full-blown autocracy. also tonight, expelled from the house of representatives, former congressman george santos begins his revenge tour. and he s already cashing in on his infamy. we begin tonight with notes on a florida scandal. a hot mess sending shock waves through the state s republican party. the florida man in question is not donald trump for once. instead, this is a scandal involving christian ziegler, the chairman of florida s republican party. this is ziegler, a longtime party official who served as vice chairman of the state party prior to his election as chair. he is now under criminal investigation for allegations related to sexual battery, including rape according to a complaint filed with the sarasota police department. ziegler has denied the allegations. a heavily redacted report was released thursday. as you can see, it includes mention of rape, sexual assault complaint, and se
unions than anybody here today. i ve had my fair share. and you often see presidents get away with a little bit of hyperbole. but that s not the case here, joe biden was very careful on tuesday night. he even said some of you but not all. and that some of you is factually correct. rick scott as chair of the senate republican committee issued a document saying all federal programs should be sunsetted. so joe biden is going to make that point on the ground here in florida. that in fact, florida senator, rick scott has suggested, sunsetting social security and medicare. that s factually true. the entry here as mike alluded to is two-fold. rick scott himself is on the ballot in 2024. yes, there s desantis, yes, there s trump. but biden is on rick scott s home turf in florida. while rick scott is in an election cycle himself. and then secondly, there had been this narrative that democrats were not going to compete in florida in 2024. this might be the gift that gives them the opportunity to