hello, everybody. welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing a very, very busy news day with us. 6,000 plus dead. 6,000 plus. grief running over turkey and syria. hope, too, running out as rescue crews continue to look for thousands still lost in the rubble of a monster earthquake. plus, tonight, the president tells the country what he s done and where he wants to go advisers promise a classic joe biden speech. out but his state of the union collides with challenges and implications of a newly divided washington. plus, briefing, congress getting a briefing on the chinese balloon. and raises questions why the pentagon was so slow to shoot down that suspected spy in the sky. up first, a dramatic harrowing race to find survivors it s barely 24 hours after a massive earthquake hit turkey and syria. already again, more than 6,000 are dead. and the aftershocks still creating treacherous conditions for rescuers trying to reach those tr
powerful quake that sent tremors across the entire region. the magnitude 7.8 quake struck before day break in southern turkey nearly the border with syria. the quake and aftershocks collapsing buildings. now a desperate search and rescue efforts under way to find people trapped in piles of rubble. cnn s scott mclean joins us from london. scott, this is one of the strongest quakes to hit turkey in a century, what do we know? reporter: that s right, this part of the turkey, christine, used to earthquakes but nothing like this. this happened in the middle of the night, so people were jolted out of bed with this terrifying shaking. they re finding themselves running out of their houses and apartment buildings into very cold weather. turkey is experiencing an unusual cold snap in that part of the country. andmalatya, they re working to get people of the rubble. with the cold weather, time of the essence, because people were not survive in this kind of cold. we re getting message
china is upset because the u.s. shot down a spy balloon, our next guest is no stranger to china, chinese president xi jinping allegedly tried to get him fired, mike pompeo, author of a very successful book. never give an inch: fighting for the america i love. a weather balloon off course is what china said. what do you make of the spying their excuse, our reaction. thank you. no weather balloon, properly a spy balloon that was a trial balloon to figure out how u.s. would respond. i m glad they shot it down. it was probably handful of days too late. they probably got all collection they needed for the first few days. this is part of a bigger challenge. with taiwan. tiktok espionage in our country of day. you remember during our administration, i directed and president ordered the closure of chinese consulate in houston, texas, largest. weakness of america is inviting more aggression. trey: for those who were never the director of cia. i think these are our questions, when
you get that title after training, education and a sworn oce oath to defend the law. if you saw the video you know that is lawful exercise of criminal, it is the taking of a life. what should our reaction be? in california video from home invasion of paul pelosi also is out. nothing dispels conspiracy theories like video, for those who wondered what happened in the house, pretty simple, attempted murder. in south carolina, alex murdoch comes from a long line of prosecutors, now he is charged can killing his wife and son, if you are watching the trial it is two in one, prosecution tells what you police did. and defense attorneys tell you what the police didn t do. the jury tries to find the truth. joining us now criminal defense attorney john fillmore and paul moreau. memphis, is what happened in memphis murder 1, 2 or something else? a great question, i ask myself the same thing, murder 2 murder charges i should say are appropriate, how planned was this. i m struck by a c
biden s border crisis new migrating north of the u.s. border as agents in new york, vermont, and new hampshire are all seeing illegal crossings now. i m sandra smith, and it s great to be with you for another week here, john. john: john roberts in washington. you are warmed up, revved up ready to go. this as america reports freezing weather not stopping migrants from making the journey across the canadian border into the united states. border patrol agents have seen 743% increase at encounters in just the last three months. more than in the previous two years combined. sandra: meanwhile, south of the border, cbp sources say nearly 300,000 known got-aways since october. that averages out to 2,450 got aways a say. john: streaming through south texas. texas dps in a high speed chase before a group of migrants fled on foot into the brush. sandra: eric shawn on the northern migrant surge but first, bill melugin is live in the rio grande valley. they do whatever they can