every day the heartbreak. we hate to start you off with the heartbreak. but this is at least a good moment. that was a moment a babe qui was saved after 65 hours under rubble in turkey. so we re glad to have you. sorry we have to report on such sad things. we ll take you live to turkey in just moments. john fetterman suffered a stroke on the campaign trail. he is in the hospital right now. details on what happened and his condition at this hour. also, not flagged as urgent when a new time line just revealed about what u.s. intelligence knew before that chinese spy balloon entered usair space. today, president biden is headed to florida to tout his agenda as rick scott is going on offense over his social security and medicare plan. we ll speak to the florida senator live in a few moments. we ll begin with this news in overnight. john fetterman rushed to a hospital. doctors are making sure he didn t suffer another stroke. let s bring in now our congressional correspondent
in the key 2024 battle ground state of iowa. he has an event soon putting his presidential ambitions very much in the spotlight just days before donald trump campaigns in the state. this as trump has been invited to appear before a grand jury investigating his alleged role in covering up hush money payments to adult film star stormy daniels. the move signaling a decision whether to charge trump may happen soon. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf f bblitzer. you re the situation room. we begin with a historic collapse of a california bank. u.s. stock prices sliding amid questions about whether this is an isolated case or a sign of things to come. cnn s chief white house correspondent phil mattingly is following the story for us along with mark and our own matt edgen matt, first to you, how serious is this bank collapse? reporter: stunning collapse. silicon valley bank may not be a household name but it has more than $200 bil
now. who would ve thought. it and i also think this is the first time we really can say, you know, with clarity, that a criminal indictment will be coming down the pipe for a former president of the united states. this is one of the days. mark it on your calendar. the tides of history seem to be turning. and if it happens, it might not be the only one. indeed not. thank you, alex. have a good night. thank you. well, the breaking news of the night, is that the manhattan district attorney could soon become the first prosecutor in american history to charge a former president with a crime. the new york was the first to break the news reporting. the prosecutors offered mr. trump the chance to testify next week before the grand jury that has been hearing evidence in the potential case, the people said. such offers almost always indicate an indictment is close. it would be unusual for the district attorney, alvin el al bragg, to notify a potential defendant without ul
get a briefing on china while members of congress are holding hearings demanding answers about the u.s. response to that spy balloon that floated across the u.s. we ll talk to congressman gregory meeks who attended a house briefing on the matter earlier this morning. president biden is back on the road today heading to a key battleground state to sell his agenda, and he s doubling down on accusations that some republicans want to cut medicare and social security. and migrant crossing borders are up. they re up 700%, but not through the southern border. we ll explain. we begin with devastating earthquakes in turkey and syria where the staggering death toll is now more than 19,000 as workers are going through ruins in hopes of finding more survivors. i want to warn you that the following footage is disturbing, but it is the reality. the reality that people are facing today. right now dozens of unidentified bodies are laying out on the ground in a makeshift morgue in souther
jokes with him alongside a budget proposal while he was in philadelphia yesterday. his plan has little chance of passing the republican-controlled house, making this more about campaign messaging than the actual numbers. meanwhile, there are significant developments this morning out of the manhattan d.a. s office that signal criminal charges could be coming for donald trump. we ll get into the details of why. also ahead, a lackluster debut for the subcommittee on so-called weaponization of the federal government has some republicans frustrated now with congressman jim jor t jordan an game plan. we ll be joined by the writer of the piece in a moment. good morning to morning joe. we have jonathan lemire. pulitzer prize winning columnist at the washington post, eugene washington. and special correspondent for bbc news, the great katty kay. good morning to you all. as i mentioned, we re going to begin with the new york times report that the manhattan district attorney