hello and welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing the sad news day with us. a massive earthquake shakes turkey and syria leaving thousands dead, buildings toppled. fear now that more will die waiting for rescues that won t happen in time. plus, super power spy games, right now american investigators are searching for the records of that chinese balloon, the weekend shoot down off the carolina coast, punctuating a tense moment between washington and beijing. and president biden enters tomorrow s state of the union with plan to spotlight his accomplishments but does so with americans, in a sour mood about his leadership, his management of the economy and his plan to wrangle inflation. up first tragic deaths and devastation, an enormous earthquake changing the landscape in syria and turkey be neath the feet of millions. the number of dead stands at 2300. it is sadly rising every hour. now, pulling people out is a constant, critica
u.s. military sites. i told them to shoot it down. what specifically was the chinese government looking for? how might the incident affect the u.s.-china relationship. marco rubio joins me ahead. making his case. president biden gears up to address a divided congress. the state of the union and the state of our economy is strong. ahead of the suspected 2024 bid, how will he make his pitch? i ll speak to cabinet secretary pete buttigieg next. debt dilemma. biden and speaker mccarthy plan another meeting as democrats wait for the gop to put their cards on the table. are these the numbers that could come to a deal and avert financial catastrophe. baip chair of the house problem solvers caucus will join me in moments. hello. i m jake tapper in washington where the state of our kbrun june is deflated. the u.s. military is recovering the remnants of a 90-foot-long suspected chinese spy balloon shot down just off the south carolina coast on saturday after an f-22 rap
down to earth. the u.s. shoots down a suspected chinese spy balloon monitoring u.s. military sites. i told them to shoot it down. what specifically was the chinese government looking for? how might the incident affect the u.s.-china relationship? vice chair on the senate intelligence committee marco rubio joins me ahead. making his case. president biden gears up to address a divided congress. the state of the union and the state of our economy is strong. ahead of the suspected 2024 bid, how will he make his pitch? i ll speak to cabinet secretary pete buttigieg next. debt dilemma. biden and speaker mccarthy plan another meeting as democrats wait for the gop to put their cards on the table. are these the members that could come to a deal and avert financial catastrophe. bipartisan chair of the house problem solvers caucus will join me in moments. hello. i m jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is deflated. the u.s. military is recovering the remnan
mitigation efforts were taken and i think they re keeping that classified. that s been part of the criticism from republicans, especially last week, why didn t the president come out earlier at least condemn what was happening? why did they leave it to the pentagon to really message this on friday? that s been part of the political debate going forward, how he deals with this. interesting to what extent the president acknowledgeses they at all in tomorrow s state of the union. does he ignore this? there are so many questions from members of his own party. there will be a briefing on capitol hill as early as tomorrow with the gang of eight, the top leaders in congress on this issue, larger senate will get a briefing next week. but they don t have many answers at this moment. it s important point you make the briefings are coming up later this week. whether democrats or republicans you re seeing members of congress on television acting, they have the same information we have for the
over montana, all these sensitive military installations, air force bases, icbm fields, that s unprecedented. that it flew briefly over the continental u.s., that s one thing. this week, this is unprecedented. we ve never seen this. this is no comparison to anything that may have happened up to this point. your colleague and friend republican tim scott of south carolina accused president biden of, quote, dereliction of duty by allowing the chinese spy balloon to fly across the u.s. that s a pretty strong accusation. do you agree with it? well, i think the dereliction of duty begins with this, why not tuesday or wednesday you know people are going to see it. they didn t twoont have their hand forced on canceling the blinken visit so they didn t want to have to talk about it. why didn t the president go on television and basically explain what we re dealing with here and