politicsnation. tonight s lead, president biden s big speech. on tuesday evening, president biden will appear before a joint session of congress to deliver his state of the union address. many americans will be tuning in, looking for answers. those of us still mourning the death of tyre nichols at the hands of memphis police we want to hear the presidents prayer for reforming law enforcement in this country. americans also want to know how the administration will respond to a suspected chinese spy balloon the drifted across our nation s skies before being downed off the coast of the carolinas. in the president will meet to begin making the case to voters why he deserves to maintain control of the white house in 2024. a sales pitch there will no doubt include last week s strong jobs markets, a sign that the economy remains resilient, even as inflation continues to eat away at many americans paychecks. joining us to talk about all these issues and more is south carolina congres
trying not to get hit. they are stonewalling reporters day after day. now the justice were dumb department is blocking the intelligence committee from accessing the documents found at both president biden s home and former president trumps properties. lawmakers from both sides of the aisle are going after that move. and they are not they are no warning, rather they will stop at nothing to get their hands on those documents so they can do their jobs properly. you know, investigate, watch. the members of congress have an absolute right to this information so we can make an informed judgment that the risk if and eight this document imposed by not being properly handled. how can we judge and to see if it is accurate or if there mitigation efforts are sufficient if we don t know what it is where the materials that were exposed potentially as? we are left in limbo until somehow a special counsel designates it is okay for us to get briefed. is not going to stand. harris :
nina s got a lot of ideas for the future. and since anyone can create a free plan at fidelity, nina has a plan based on what matters most to her. and she can simply focus on right now. that s the planning effect. from fidelity. tomorrow morning, members say the house republican steering committee will meet to select committee assignments. by this time tomorrow night we could learn about the deals. carol: kevin mccarthy made. some of the agreement is public knowledge. what do we know about the side deals? gop leaders are not committing to releasing a public list of every concession kevin mccarthy made in his quest to become speaker. despite the fact that they have called for a more open and transparent government. some of the concessions were explicitly spelled out in the house rules package, which republicans did pass last night with the support of every republican except for one. some of the other promises that were made were done through more of a handshake deal. go
tomorrow, morning members say committee will meet, which means that by this time tomorrow, night we could learn more about the deals that kevin mccarthy made, which include key committee positions, in exchange for this party needs to some are not known, even the members. joining us is cnn capitol hill reporter, melanie zanona, what do we know more about these so ideals of the speaker movement? anderson, gop leaders are not committed to making a list of every concession kevin mccarthy made in his quest to become speaker. despite the fact they have called for a more open and transparent government. now, some of these concessions were explicitly spelled out and a house rules package, which republicans did pass last, night with the support of every republican except for one. but some of these other promises that were, made ridden through more of a handshake deal. gop leaders are insisting that there is an official master, list and wasn t aside, deal they tried to walk members
price hike for the covid vaccine. senator bernie sanders calls it outrageous. he joins us live. this is what we re watching this hour. thank you so much for being here. i m kate bolduan. two big stories we re tracking. first, a major outage is causing huge flight disruptions. thousands of flights are delayed or canceled. rue now the faa did lift the ground stop that par liesed domestic air travel. the cause still unclear right now, even as airlines are starting to get flights back up in the air. we re also keeping a very close eye on the deadly storms in california. at least 17 people have been killed from what is now weeks of rain, floods, mudslides, and was some pretty big winds. as bad as it is already, more rain is still on the way. let s start with pete muntean. he s at reagan national airport. pete, a computer outage that absolutely no one needed right now. what is happening? reporter: no doubt, kate. the cascading effect is only beginning. 6100 at last check a flight