blamed for the botched response to the school massacre has been placed on administrative leave. and stunning underwater photos of an american swimmer being rescued by her coach after fainting during the world championships and sinking to the bottom of the pool. the swimmer is okay. this is not the first time this happened to her. we ll explain what s going on there. along with joe, willie is back and me. we have former chairman of the republican national committee michael steel and white house bureau chief at politico and host of way too early. good to have you all onboard. i have a couple things i want to start with today. you re warning me. i have a couple things on my mind. i need the american flag and i need to talk. i have about five minutes. really, yesterday you missed i have to tell you, you missed a very special moment in washington politics. there was an aticus finch like character who testified before the january 6th committee. he was a speaker of the a
and rina shah, a political strategist and former republican aide. a powerful earthquake has killed at least 1,000 people and injured 1,500 in eastern afghanistan. it is the deadliest earthquake in the country in two decades and a major challenge for the taliban, the islamist movement which regained power last year after the western backed government collapsed. the quake hit near the pakitsan border, with tremors felt as far away as india. the extent of the damage is still emerging but there have been pictures of houses reduced to rubble and people digging for survirors. 0ur correspondent secunder kermani is there. there is a rumbling and my building began to shake, he tells us. the ceiling fell down. i was trapped but i could see the sky. my shoulder was dislocated fourth in my head was hurt, but i got out. i m sure seven or nine people from my family in the same room as me, they were dead. at the hospital, patients are treated for their wounds. there is a fight to save liv
revealing that the capitol attack was farm of former president trump s plans, not just a rally that got out of control. as chairman bennie thompson put it, quote, the violence was no accident. i represented trump s last stand, the most desperate chance to hold the transfer of power. officials testified that they informed trump repeatedly that he lost. former ag bill barr called bs on trump s election conspiracies. according to the committee i had three discussions with the president that i can recall, one in november 23rd, one was on december 1st and one was on december 14th. i have been thoroughly give and take out those discussions and within that context, i made it clear that i did not agree with the idea that saying the election was stolen and putting out this stuff. i told him that it was according to the committee however, trump continued to meet with rudy giuliani and other election deniers. on december 18th, 2020, they talked about sending troops to seize voti
region aimed at leveling the economic playing field with china but his remarks on taijuan garnered the most attention. president biden said the u.s. would respond military if china invaded taijuan. this morning, the white house is walking back those comments. a source familiar with the president s thinking tells me biden was speaking about providing weapons to taijuan, not putting u.s. forces into any conflict with china if it were to invade taijuan so similar to the position on ukraine. weapons, not forces. we ll have more on that in a moment. in switzerland, the ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy has taken center stage to the economic forum suggesting m maximum sanctions against russia. they are continuing to encounter russia and their impacts on the war in ukraine. jeremy diamond is traveling with the president in tokyo and cnn business editor at large richard quest is attending the world economic forum in switzerland. jeremy, first to you. the news the white house
Cut deep anywhere in the world, but it cuts deeper here in israel. October 7th, which was sacred, a Sacred Jewish Holiday became the deadliest day for the jewish people since the holocaust. It has brought to the surface painful memories and scars left by millennia antisemitism and the genocide of the jewish people. The world watched then. It knew, and the world did nothing. We will not stand by and do nothing again, not today, not tomorrow, not ever. President joe bidens trip was more than what you saw, a powerful, tangible, reaffirmation of the strength and durability of the u. S. israeli alliance. It was also a pblem solving diplomatic endeavor, one that has already yielded actual tangible results. The president announced earlier that the u. S. Would provide 100 million in humanitarian assistance for palestinians in gaza and the west bank, that money goes towards things like clean water, food, hygiene support, medical care, thats according to the white house. For israels part, Prime