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
it certainly did. we have another great day on capitol hill. i never felt like they harry s teachings to different narratives depending on who was at that. it lasted close to three hours honing in on what chairman jim jordan called the weaponization of government freight you heard from two direct just sharing ke findings from twitter twitters internal communications. and controls what we do and do not see an even likening the government to germany and they issued chillingworth. we aren t asking for a national debate over limits of the first element freight they are creating blacklist and then pressuring and controlling that social media platforms in the people on those lists. they are aiming for what narrative is and they already know in advance what they are looking for. white house republicans dug into potential impacts to the first amendment, democrats took up different attempt freight they tried to trap the two journalist into revealing their sources freight further
we need to hurry up, we need the speed. ukraine s president urging kiev s allies to speed up stands at a brace themselves. and a tense court appearance for the former police officer puts charged in the fatal beating of tyre nichols. his mother saying the defendant to say refuse to look her in the eye. plus nearly two weeks after the devastating earthquakes in turkey and syria, you ll hear from a survivor who says his young daughter helped keep him alive. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom. with paula nissan. few hours from now, u.s. vice president kamala harris is expected to deliver a major speak is the munich security conference where russia s invasion of ukraine is of course, dominating the agenda, the u.s. has been a big supplier of weapons and equipment to ukraine and harris is leading a large american delegation to the conference friday, she met with french president emmanuel macron who said europe s stability depends on beating ukraine. and they re meet
somewhere. how several states slated to receive that soil are pushing back. also this morning, the fallout keeps growing for the creator of dilbert. more newspapers dropped the comic strip after the cartoonist went on a racist tirade. all that in just moments. we begin with a destructive winter storm on the move. two houses. the storm unleashing multiple tornadoes in oklahoma and kansas. one of those tornadoes tore through norman. shredded homes and injured at least 12 people. hurricane-force winds whipped up massive blinding dust storms in texas. this is a scene in lubbock. the storm buried parts of southern california under more than six feet of snow. take a look at these snow totals near los angeles and san diego. more than 90 inches of snow recorded at mountain high, a winter resort about an hour and a half outside of l.a. warmer parts of southern california were battered by heavy rain and flooding. a helicopter crew had to rescue this driver from a jeep caught in
hello, everybody. welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing a very, very busy news day with us. 6,000 plus dead. 6,000 plus. grief running over turkey and syria. hope, too, running out as rescue crews continue to look for thousands still lost in the rubble of a monster earthquake. plus, tonight, the president tells the country what he s done and where he wants to go advisers promise a classic joe biden speech. out but his state of the union collides with challenges and implications of a newly divided washington. plus, briefing, congress getting a briefing on the chinese balloon. and raises questions why the pentagon was so slow to shoot down that suspected spy in the sky. up first, a dramatic harrowing race to find survivors it s barely 24 hours after a massive earthquake hit turkey and syria. already again, more than 6,000 are dead. and the aftershocks still creating treacherous conditions for rescuers trying to reach those tr