hello and welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing your very busy news day with us. call it a biden racy can you. the federal government swoops in to pay back depositors after a bank goes under. he promises 2023 will not look like 2008. the bottom line is this. americans can rest assured our banking system is safe, our deposits are safe. plus mike pence says president trump was reckless on january 6th. a big question now, whether pence repeats it when he s with gop voters in iowa, new hampshire and beyond. and president biden green lights a giant oil project in alaska. progressives are mad again. the drilling project suggests an early move to the middle with an eye on 2024. up first for us, though, a pair of bank failures and a white house emergency plan the president says will protect the economy but not at your expense. president biden speaking this morning before u.s. financial markets opened for trading and before most banks o
good morning. welcome to cnn this morning. i m boris sanchez. and i m amarah walker. what pentagon officials are saying about it and the differences between this object and the chinese balloon that was shot down last week. plus a moment of hope amid the devastating earthquake in turkey and syria. more than 24,000 people killed, but amid the huge loss, under days trapped under the rubble, a teenager is found alive. plus under review, memphis prosecutors say they are now looking at every case involving those now fired officers charged in the beating of the death of tyre nichols as we re learning new dethe tails about the officers involved. and executives at southwest airlines grilled by lawmakers on capitol hill. the changes the airline says it s going to make in the wake of that meltdown, ahead on cnn this morning. . take a deep breath and relax. the weekend is here. it s saturday, february 11th. we appreciate you re waking up with us. and we re together in person. t
top of the hour. nice to have you have us, i m eric hill. on this very busy monday morning. election day, if you re not counting, just 15 days away. early voting already breaking records in at least one battleground state and this week there will be a number of major debates in key match-ups around the country. first up is florida where ron desantis is set to scare off with charlie crist tonight. we ll have more on that in just a moment. we re also following this unprecedented rise in rsv cases among children and why it is putting pressure on hospitals, some states in crisis mode. we ll take you inside one texas hospital. and happening right now, jury selection is underway here in new york city for the trump organization facing several felony charges. we re going to be live outside of the courthouse with an update on that for you. let s start this hour with reporter dan america. and 15 days until election day. we re seeing some impressive turnout numbers when it comes to
oath keepers to stay on the outside and stay fully armed and prepared to go in armed if they have to. if it kicks off, you rock and roll. that was oath keepers founder stuart rhodes. you hear that audio, why have prosecutors introduced that? what do they think it proves? this audio is damming according to the doj s case here, these are conversations between the group that sound like they re specifically planning violence in response to political transfer of power and that s obviously the crux of the government s case in this trial. but i think on the defense side, there are obviously going to be some holes that can be poked in that audio and that s going to be the question here, whether the prosecutors can reach that proof beyond a reasonable doubt when there are questions about the vagueness of some of the comments in there. we ll talk about the defense in a second. there s also sound of them talking about weapons. listen. pepper spray is legal, tasers are legal, and
he embraced the called and said it was perfect. that is where we landed of unprecedented revelations since the fbi agents executed a lawful search warrant at mar-a-lago and came away with 11 celsets of documents the former president was not allowed to have. rudy giuliani has made the perfect phone call excuse. now they want to make him responsible for having taken classified documents and preserved them. really if you look at the espionage act, it s not really about taking the documents, it s about destroying them or hiding them or giving them to the enemy. right. it s not about taking them and putting them in a places that roughly as safe as they were in in the first place. taking classified documented, some marked classified sci is as unsafe as keeping them in the national a rrchives and west wi. the espionage act actually does refer specifically to willfully retaining documents and failing to deliver them on demand to the federal employee or officer entitled to rec