lapping now, gut-wrenching images of homes and lives destroyed near the earthquake epner. cnn is on the scene as the death toll in turkey and syria soars above 12,000. also tonight, president biden is doubling down on a line of attack against republicans that prompted gop jeers during his state of the union address. he is taking the top themes on the road in key presidential battlegrounds. and ukrainian president volodymr zelenskyy is now in ha included a stop in london, a visit with. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situati situation this hour a race against time in the earthquake zone as the window for finding survivors narrows and the death toll grows more catastrophic. cnn s nick paton walsh is in turkey right now. nick, tell us what you have been seeing and experiencing. reporter: yeah, it is sadly, wolf, around this time that it seems the race against time for survivors is slowly being lo
also come together on immigration. make it a bipartisan mission once again. a major theme in last night s state of the union, president joe biden calling on a divided congress to work together and pass legislation on several key issues. however, some members of the gop decided to make a scene during the speech heckling the president over the budget and the border. and then there was george santos who found himself in a tense exchange with of all people republican senator mitt romney. we ll show you what romney had to say about the freshman congressman who s facing multiple legal investigations. good morning and welcome to wail on this wednesday, february 8th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. president joe biden delivered his annual state of the union address last night before a newly divided congress. speaking for just over an hour, biden touted his administration s accomplishments while repeatedly stressing that the job isn t finished yet. h
right now on andrea mitchell reports, president biden taking his state of the union message on the road after pitching unity and compromise to the new house majority. when republicans engaged in unprecedented heckling, he did not hesitate to take them on. nearly 25% of the entire national debt that took over 200 years to accumulate was added by just one administration alone, the last one. they are the facts. check it out. check it out. with tyre nichols parents in the chamber, the president reaching out to black americans on police brutality by acknowledging what black parents know so well, how they have to teach their children how to interact with police, what s known as the talk. my children, i never had to have the talk with them. i never had to tell them if a police officer pulls you over, turn your interior lights on right away, don t reach for your license, keep your hands on the steering wheel. imagine having to worry like that every single time your kid got
i spoke with members of the business round table, of the big business guys, asked why i m so pro labor, you save them money. what you do lasts and through the american rescue plan, we re funding work force development programs, including 128 million here in wisconsin, so american workers prepared to compete in the economy we re building. this is a blue collar, blueprint to rebuild america. and we re also doing something that for years, people just talked about. we re going to buy american for everything we build. last night, i announced we re proposing new standards to require all construction materials be made in america. american lumber, american glass, american dry wall, american fiberoptics. american roads, bridges, highways, made with american products. my first two years in office, we ve created 800,000 manufacturing jobs. where? i mean, it sincerely. jobs you can live on. where is it written american can t lead the world of manufacturing? i didn t see it written anywhe
get rough, but the white house won t paint that bleak picture tonight. instead, the president is making a bet that many democrats before him have made. go high when they go low. think unity. a traditional victory lap touting his administrative wins over a tough two years. emphasizing that democrats and republicans can get things done together. it s what the country wants, a senior white house official told me. so where does he go from here? what bipartisan deal with the white house working on next and what will the white house do with the investigations and allegations that house republicans are throwing at him? we re going to ask the president s senior adviser that question in a moment. we ll also get the realistic outlook from capitol hill and what house republicans are willing to make a deal on. so joining me now is nbc news senior white house correspondent, kelly o donnell. nbc news capitol hill correspondent, ryan nobles, and washington post senior national political c