survivors. their cries for help can be heard through the rubble. we need help. we need the international community to do something, to help us, to support us. survivors being pulled from the wreckage including this toddler. i ll speak with a u.n. official about the recovery effort. also this morning, tensions flaerg with china as the u.s. rushes to collect the debris from that spy balloon. china calling it a clear overreaction. the fallout from that hanging over president biden one day out from his second state of the union address. what we know about tomorrow s high stakes speech. we re going to begin with those massive deadly earthquakes rocking turkey and syria. p nbc news foreign correspondent meagan fitzgerald has the latest on the damage. i m joined by senior communications adviser and spokesperson for the u.n. high commissioner for the refugee office for middle east and north africa. the images coming out of the region are horrifying. children being pulled from
Eric former Deputy Assistant attorney Thomas Dupree will dig into all of it but we begin with rick leventhal. A stunning set of admissions in Lower Manhattan by a man who was one of the president s most trusted employees. He lied, paid women off he says to pay his boss. He walked out of the courthouse late yesterday free on 500,000 bond pled guilty to hiding income from his Taxi Cab Business and hiding debt to secure a Home Equity Loan and arranging payments to two women in the runup to the president ial election in coordination in and at the direction for a candidate to federal office to try to help him win. Mr. Cohen disregarded that training, that tradition and decided that he was above the law and for that he is going to pay a very, very serious price. He admitted he paid 130,000
to stephanie clifford, Stormy Daniels, because she was ready to go public with a claimed affair with mr. Trump. And he arranged to reimburse a tabloid to bury a story about Karen Mcdougal who also claimed
different things you re seeing in terms of those job losses across the tech sector. so many of the tech hiring and recruitment firms that i ve spoken to have said that these are really layoffs. these are people that are in many cases being able to turn around and get jobs very quickly because of those skill sets. none theless, it raises questions about whether we re going to see more layoffs reach more parts of the economy. what are we seeing from the markets today, and also talk to us about a big speech we re awaiting from jay powell and more earnings reports from big companies. so we are getting more earnings reports this week, many of them consumer-facing companies. you re going to get some reads on the consumer for retail names as well as more travel, leisure, hospitality names as well. right now the markets are lower, tending the selloff that we saw on friday, in large part because of that hotter than expected stronger than expected jobs report that we did get for the month of
charles: that has been the interesting thing about this. when one area gets wobbly, the money does not really come out, go somewhere else. it is those big names, those big technology names, microsoft of the world. when they are not working out, it s the energy stocks. that gives us the sort of sense of comfort. should also give us confidence? it should. because what that tells you is that the money is not leaving the market. the reality of the situation is that the liquidity is the driver here. the companies that are performing or going to do very well appear the companies that are not are going to get shellacked. we saw that recently, just prior to the holidays with some of the big retail names. it was a big surprise. technology come all that stuff can move forward pair that s how the world turns. wyatt turns, and more importantly where the monies going. charles: so we do have some dark clouds and question marks out there. dark clouds will be potentially higher taxes. potentiall
is accused of murdering four people, former orange county, new york police officer. now we ve talked to his attorneys. this is not something he had anything to do with. we re still waiting to hear back from epstein s attorneys. they ve been steadfast in not returning reporters calls since his arrest, so really a little bit of a mystery at this point, stephanie, but something we ll keep a close eye on because investigators have their really trying to figure out what happened here. all right. tell us about fresh reporting on a different type of investigation. leslie wexner, the ceo of l brands the well known parent company of victoria s secret, limited, express, other retail names had a very long relationship with jeff re-epstein who for years handled his money. they severed that relationship years ago after jeffrey epstein acquired les wexner s mansion, now valued at $77 million, a