get a briefing on china while members of congress are holding hearings demanding answers about the u.s. response to that spy balloon that floated across the u.s. we ll talk to congressman gregory meeks who attended a house briefing on the matter earlier this morning. president biden is back on the road today heading to a key battleground state to sell his agenda, and he s doubling down on accusations that some republicans want to cut medicare and social security. and migrant crossing borders are up. they re up 700%, but not through the southern border. we ll explain. we begin with devastating earthquakes in turkey and syria where the staggering death toll is now more than 19,000 as workers are going through ruins in hopes of finding more survivors. i want to warn you that the following footage is disturbing, but it is the reality. the reality that people are facing today. right now dozens of unidentified bodies are laying out on the ground in a makeshift morgue in souther
follow the money. i am not comfortable with the transgenders. more than 90% of your financing came from billionaires. i don t think he would have any comment. we re going to go inside and see if he ll talk to us. is it about control? senator ted cruz. and power. it is a russian style oligarchy, pure and simple. it s election day. we re in the city of sherman, texas, which is right on the texas/oklahoma border. this is a ruby red area of texas, and the republican primary is essentially the election that matters here. come november in the general election, whoever the republican is that comes out of the primaries will very likely win whatever seat they re running for here in sherman. i thought i need to run because the people that are running here claim to be conservative, but aren t as conservative as they should be. i am not comfortable with the transgenders, the kids that they brought in my classroom when they said that this kid is transgendering in
the man or the woman to try to decide, and i think that s where he is struggling. to punctuate your point, we ve been out. we talk to voters and it s really interesting in the last couple of days what they ve told us about ron desantis. i m going to play a few things for you. governor desantis has been an incredible governor for us. i wish that that could be projected on the national level a little bit stronger than it has been. i liked past tense ron desantis, however, if i m being completely honest, he doesn t have theish, you know what i mean? he doesn t have that personality i suppose. just seeing him on the campaign trail hasn t really gotten me so excited about his campaign overall. before ron desantis announced i was kind of on board with his candidacy, but i kind of like steve said just not he doesn t really have the charisma as much. sfwr so your point, people taking a measure of you, i mean, you know, i think he s obviously made a calculation that even with the supp
honor the community benefit agreement, to first republic. to low-income people. so i think it s really important that when we do these deals, do let big banks get big early, we don t let them off the hook to serve the communities in which the smaller banks are located in. when it comes to the first republic purchase, the most recent purchase by jpmorgan are you docomfortable with. ? i don t think once a bank is in failure i don t think you have any good choices. so i think the goal is, if jpmorgan was willing to buy it and they are going to do a good job with it, that was the best choice we had at the time. the forward looking goal is to stop the failures from happening. once they do, there are no good alternatives. let me end on this. you are running for the senate seat in california currently ac pied by senator dianne feinstein. she returned after a two and a half month absence and was answering questions this week fwr reporters and i want to play you a moment that has a
about that balloon. joining us now is nbc s dan da lose, what can you tell us about what we re learning about that balloon? sfwr interesting new details being shared by the biden administration. we knew that there were u-2 spy planes that flew over the balloon to try to collect information about it. what they found through high resolution photographs is that this balloon had the ability to eavesdrop. it had signals intelligence capability and that is one detail that s now emerged. they re confirming that on the record now. also that this was a program directed by the chinese military. so it was an explicit military program according to the biden administration, and also that the manufacturer of the balloons is basically a company in the defense industry in china. so very much part of the military defense complex in china.