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good morning, everyone. we start with really serious news this morning. there is devastation happening. the staggering death toll keeps rising in turkey and syria after a catastrophic earthquake. 1300 people are now reported dead and a powerful after shock. it just hit just moments ago. well go live to istanbul for the latest on this frantic search. and new fallout from the downing of a chinese spy balloon. president biden is preparing to deliver his second state of the union address...

That play in that situation. Juan, what did you think . Juan i loved it. Whats interesting about the brady thing, people are criticizing bill belichick, genius coach of the patriots, because his quarterbacks hand was injured. It had been injured and he was wearing gloves. I think there was no glove on the right hand last night. But to ask a guy to go out and catch a pass, 40 years old, what if he had gotten hit, some linebacker came across and hit him, wouldnt have been a celebration in boston. ...

That was hit in 2020. this is becoming very prevalent. the memo talks about business leaders, getting everyone together. you imagine some sort of roundtable in which people will agree on a shared choreography. were talking here about the superintendents of school districts, were talking about the administration of hospitals, were talking about such an incredible variety of people, because as weve seen in recent days, whether its beef or gas or buying a ferry ticket, all of that is under threat i...

The oversight committee. im wondering about if the intelligence committee folks are not read in on whats happening underneath, should the documents be released to all of us because i dont know what the context is not dont know if its a really good idea to start disseminating to the public information that is supposed to be for investigations. i think its kind of dangerous. i feel like a lot of the time line doesnt make sense to me. especially the memo talks about carter page and the fisa warrant...

Abuse topic. and the other thing that ill point out is that in certain respects they are talking past each other. like if, for example, i offered you a dollar and you wanted to sell me lemonade, then you gave me lemonade and i dont know like how it tasted, and i said i offered you the dollar and you say you never received the dollar, maybe its both true, but kind of talking past when you get everything out for the mern public, they can decide for themselves. the two memos dont directly rebut eac...

Decisions, at least, you know, every time that something comes to light, whether its bin laden or al awlaki, he has been right up there doing it. so he is very much involved. >> but the administration makes it sounds like there is no innocent people being killed. on the other hand, the president is ready to pass gun control legislation in this country if we can save one life. but yet it just seems like this administration is very callous and liberals are being dumbed down by this saying its okay...

It sounds like there is no innocent people being killed. on the other hand, the president is ready to pass gun control legislation in this country if we can save one life. but yet it just seems like this administration is very callous and liberals are being dumbed down by this saying its okay, were fighting terror when were kill mortgage than one person around the world with drone attacks. what about that? >> well, again, i think there is collateral damage. and thats why this memo talks about th...

From the white house with this story. james. >> reporter: jenna and jon, good morning. senior obama administration officials are not disputing the authenticity of this memo, this draft memo, which was first obtained by the office of senator chuck grassley of iowa, however, they are telling us not to mistake a draft memo for actual administration policy. heres what the memo says, bearing in mind, first, a few key facts of the it is undated but appears to be from earlier this year, second, it was ...