Stay updated with breaking news from Stray papers. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
good morning. a tragedy of unimaginable scale. more than 17,000 people have now died as time is running out to save survivors in the earthquake. breaking overnight, pennsylvania senator john fetterman, recovering from a stroke, has been admitted to the hospital. an update on his condition. president biden addressing concerns about his age and why he hasn t yet med made a decision about running for re-election. lawmakers getting a classified briefing on the chinese spy balloon and new cnn reporting about who knew what and when. the p word, the b word, a word have been entered into the congressional word as the republican efforts to expose those at the top of twitter has take an surprising turn. cnn this morning starts right now. i m glad you could join us. keep this number in mind. 17,000. 17,000, not just talking numbers, that s people, right? and that s where we are going to begin. we begin in turkey and syria where 17,000 victims, that death toll is cl ....
joining us live. but first, this fox news alert. two interviews and a primetime speech, but a week of talk from president biden only serving to raise new questions. one was about the chinese surveillance craft. the president brushing off its significance and risk after it loitered across the nation just last week. john: president biden claiming the violation of u.s. air space was not a major breach of national security, yet it traveled thousands of miles over some military sites and collected information from the ground to above. and capable of collecting communications and sending them straight back to china. sandra: a far cry to portray it as no big deal, just a balloon. a lot to unpack as america reports rolls into a second hour here. another busy news afternoon on a friday. sandra smith in new york. great to be with you. john: john roberts in washington, good to be with you, sandra. the president getting attention for trying to downplay the classified doc ....
Great to be with you. john: john roberts in washington, good to be with you, sandra. the president getting attention for trying to downplay the classified document scandal calling the records nothing more than stray papers and saying they are from decades ago, kind of problematic. and putting the blame on staffers for not being careful as they packed up his office and shipped it to his house. mark, a lot going on there today. a lot going on, a busy friday. good afternoon to both of you. the president is facing fresh questions how the u.s. may respond to china after the spycraft was shot down off the carolina coast. and how the white house long-term national security will play out, and a bipartisan uproar on the hill about the entire incident. the president likely going to face questions with reporters in the room later on, also a white house briefing due to get started any minute. reporters are likely to ask about what the president had to ....
Call his counterpart and they wouldn t take his call. mid-level generals explaining what happened here. things have changed. the president hopes that six months and a year from now he can use this as leverage and the china, for example, will not invade taiwan. if that s true, maybe things will not have changed. in the moment, things have changed. yeah, it s definitely a huge moment to watch on that with china. he also talked about the classified documents, john. he was saying to the best of his knowledge the things they picked up are things from 1974, stray papers. he said there might be something else, i don t know. he talked about the people packing up his office. he said they didn t do the kind of job they should have done to go thoroughly through every single piece of literature that s there. what do you make of that? he is the ceo of the operation. just like george santos is responsible for his campaign finance reports, joe biden is responsible for the documents this his offic ....