in washington last hour, crucial developers in northern ireland tonight. the leader of the dup, jeffrey donaldson, has been meeting with executive members of his party to discuss a possible deal to restore power sharing at stormont next week. the dup collapsed the executive nearly two years ago in protest at the post brexit trading arrangements. the party has been in talks with the uk government this past year seeking changes to the so called windsor framework. and it would seem there has been enough progress to put something to the wider party. there are around 130 members of the executive. the party officers are not present at this meeting tonight, and only they would have the power to sign off on any prospective deal. let s speak to our ireland correspondent, chris page. just talk to me about that bit. this is the wider group of the executive, chris, but i guess if they go in behind jeffrey donaldson, he is in business? , , ., behind jeffrey donaldson, he is in business? ,
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hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world. you are watching cnn newsroom and i m rosemary church. just ahead, aid groups around the world are rushing to help turkey and syria after monday s deadly earthquake. i ll speak with the head of the norwegian refugee council, about the efforts to help survivors. plus, parts of the southern u.s. are surveying damage after severe storms ripped through the area. we re live at the cnn weather center with the latest. and after surprise visits to the u.k. and france, the ukrainian president is headed to belgium where he s been invited to an e.u. summit. we re live in brussels and london, on zelensky s unannounced diplomatic tour of europe. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom, with rosemary church. thanks for being with us. the death toll from the devastating earthquake in turkey and syria has nearly doubled in just the past 24 hours. now, more than 16,000. president erdogan
mirage. in biden s world, inflation is not at a four-decade high and 64% of americans are not living paycheck to paycheck. democrats are already cheering on the con job, chuck schumer s wetting himself with excitement. i think the president will do a very good job at selling the accomplishment. from what i hear there are like 40 million people to watch. it s not the super bowl but a heck of a lot of people. jesse: and general psaki thinks her old boss can seal the deal. people will get big, progressive, bold joe biden. he s done a lot of stuff, accomplished a lot of stuff, and nobody really knows about all those things. they can t make the speech about that, they know that. you can t do a list of all the things you ve done. people will tune out. they don t want to know about data. he needs to tell a story. joe biden is an amazing story teller. you sit in the oval office and karine can tell you and he can story tell for six hours. he needs to do that in the speech tonight