more than 20,000 20,000 lives lost since monday s horrific earthquake. the lead starts right now. screams of joy amid the horror a mother and daughter found alive. coming up the miracle rescues. cnn is on the ground as crews climb through earthquake rubble in syria and turkey. and president biden takes his state of the union road show to rival rich florida and challenges a republican senator on his clear proposal to sunset all programs including social security and medicare. but first new images from the fbi as investigators begin to analyze that downed chinese spy balloon recovered from the atlantic ocean. and lawmakers begin to learn just how sophisticated the surveillance equipment onboard was. welcome to the lead i m jake tapper. and we start with the world lead and new information about the chinese spy balloon shot done. it started analyzing the first pieces of its balloon, and senior officials say those parts could be used as evidence in a future possible crimin
this weekend as the start of a week of protests and festivities, with the goal of being to stop the construction of this proposed $90 million, 85-acre police and fire training facility. it would be the largest of its kind in the country, if it ends up being built. and what according to police, they say happened, at least 35 people were taken into custody. they say several of those that were detained were from outside of the atlanta area. and this really has become a staging area for activists across the country to protest police and we have seen several acts of violence in recent months. listen to what police had to say at a press conference late last night. this is not appropriate. this is criminal activity. and the charges that will be brought forth will show that. when you throw commercial-grade fireworks, when you throw molotov cocktails, large rocks, a number of items at officers, your only intent is to harm. reporter: opponents of this fire and police training facil
president who wanted the extra near oig legitimacy from doj to back his bogus claims and overturn the election and stay in power. even some trump allies now privately acknowledging to cnn that some of the testimony from yesterday was, quote, damaging. this is the room where it happened. a dramatic high stakes meeting in the oval office just three days before the capitol riot in january of 2021. the witnesses testified that trump leaned on them to publicly call the election fraudulent and corrupt, something that they wouldn t do. and that when the acting attorney general jeffrey rosen there refused, trump threatened to replace him with this little known environmental lawyer from the civil division jeffrey clark. the justice department officials in the room all pushed back threatening to resign. he said so suppose i do this, suppose i replace him, jeff rosen, with him, jeff clark. what would you do? and i said, mr. president, i would resign immediately. i m not working one mi
gio benitez with news on the suspect tonight. after the prime time hearing before the american people showing where the former president was for hours, watching cable news as the capitol was under attack, tonight, the former president back in washington, talking about law and order. and his former vice president, who came within 40 feet of those rioters, mike pence, speaking today, too, a much different message. and could the former president be held accountable. rachel scott live in washington. tonight, the astonishing new discovery at lake mead. a third set of human remains now. coming in. kayna whitworth on this again tonight. the principal in uvalde suspended from her job. what a new report now reveals. what leaders in the school allegedly knew about broken door locks, about propped doors, among other concerns. mireya villarreal from texas. the new and alarming numbers tonight. the cases of monkeypox here in the u.s. tonight, the common questions. how do you get i
Reporter yeah, wolf. As you said. This is going to be a campaignstyle rally here in phoenix. One of several the president has held since the inauguration. Its actually going to be the furthest west that donald trump has gone since becoming president , and we should expect some familiar faces on hand with him. The Vice President , mike pence. His chief of staff, john kelly. Its also notable who is going to be absent from this rally. Arizonas two republican senators. Both john mccain and jeff flake, very critical of the president. Both of them had very harsh words for him after his response to the violence in charlottesville at that Press Conference in trump tower one week ago. And the president Didnt Hesitates when responding to that criticism, specifically from jeff flake. He took to twitter last week saying that the arizona senator is weak and a nonfactor in the senate. And praising his potential gop primary opponent dr. Kelly ward. Its unclear whether or not dr. The response hes gott