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hello. im abby philip in washington. a desperate search is under way for survivors after a powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck turkey and syria. the death toll is now more than 2500 and aid from across the world is pouring in. the aftermath of this is catastrophic. this was the strongest earthquake to hit that area in more than 100 years, and it struck while nearly everyone was asleep. hundreds of people this hour are still believed to be trapped. massive high rises reduced to rub...

welcome to "inside politics." im john king in washington. thank you for sharing a remarkable news day with us. we begin with a brazen spy drama. straight to the pentagon, the briefing on a chinese balloon over montana. >> conducting press briefings in our temporary press briefing room while other primary location undergoes technical renovations and upgrades. we greatly appreciate your patience and flexibility as we work to install some long, overdue upgrades to the pentagon press brief...

thing. the pentagon briefing has begun, lets go there. >> the pentagon for a variety of reasons our normal call-in options will not be available, for those that have had to call in, we apologize. we will get it up as quickly as possible for reporting purposes and answer questions from the dod press desk. moving forward well look at ways to improve briefing operations and expect regular press briefings will resume in the press briefing room in middle to late may. we appreciate your pati...

Through the russian lines, seize territory. thats going to take longer. i think realistically, by mid-summer, you can expect to see these tanks being used somewhat effectively by the ukrainian forces, perhaps by the -- by fall being able to put together big attacks. thats a bit of a trench from where we stand -- stretch from where we stand at the moment. when they get these tanks in their hands they have greater maneuverability, fire capability, fire further, fire faster, which means theyre more...

Capability, long-range fire capability that will enable them to conduct operations in defense of their country and take back their sovereign territory and russian occupied areas. when it comes to ukrainians plans on operations, clearly that is their decision, i will not talk about or speculate about future operations, weve been working with them to provide them with capabilities that will enable them to be effective on the battlefield. >> follow-up to that, can you talk specifically about this p...

>> ukraine question. the small diameter bomb in the latest ukraine package has the potential to target crimea. is that the intent behind providing it now? >> so thanks for the question, joe. yes, as part of the u.s. ai package, we will be providing ground launch small diameter bombs to ukraine. this gives them a longer range capability, long-range fire capability, that will enable them, again, to conduct operations in defense of their country and to take back theyve their sovereign territory in ...

Up. >> lets get back to the orchestration and how well orchestrated this was. down to the number of, you know, u.s. special forces on which side of the helicopter, how many members of the taliban down to the white flag? point out all of that. >> the white flag is a universal sign of peace. were not going to have any gun play. the taliban guys were not armed. the operatives that came to greet them were not armed. there is some debate that a guy had something in his right hand. i believe that was ...