hearings on capitol hill where lawmakers are probing whether or not the fbi and doj have politicized justice to attack american civil liberties. this is falling under that brand-new subcommittee on the weaponization of the federal government, ohio republican jim jordan. welcome back as america reports rolls into hour two. i m sandra smith in new york. john: sandra, good to be with you. as we watch our colleague, jonathan turley on the stand. two of the witnesses are senators leading investigations into the biden family business dealings. david spunt has been watching the opening statements. he is live ste justice department now. david, what are you seeing? senator ron johnson has paid close attention not only to the department of justice but the fbi. he noted in his testimony, john and sandra, he wrote more than 50 letters to the fbi and doj and said few of them were answered adequately, many were not even responded to. this is a hearing as you mentioned for a new subco
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
balloon after it reveals it was capable of collecting evidence. the president s critics say it should have been shot down sooner. they had a chance to shoot it down over water and they did and recovered major pieces of it. have relations now between u.s. and china taken a big hit? no. no. owl speak to former defense secretary leon panetta whose criticism of the spy balloon and its response has caught the president s attention. and as the death toll rises to 19,000 people, and hope fades to find any more survivors, we ll talk to david milla land, the president of the international committee helping thousands displaced across turkey and syria. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington. as the 2024 campaign is right around the corner it seems with president biden arriving in battleground florida at this hour to tout his support for social security and medicare. republican governors and senators have put the stake firmly in the gop column for more than
right now, two separate senate committees are drilling into u.s. and china relations. in the wake of that chinese spy balloon entering the u.s. just last hour senator jon tester made the stakes abundantly clear. china s a real threat and one we need to take seriously, which is exactly why we re here today. house members this morning receiving a classified briefing on the balloon ahead of a vote scheduled just a few minutes from now to condemn china s use of a spy craft. senators are set to receive an all members briefing of their own in about 30 minutes. all of this happening as the state department is revealing fresh details about china s surveillance program this morning. and just what the balloon hovering over the u.s. was capable of. in a few moments, i ll talk to former u.s. ambassador to china max baucus about what we can learn and the very real threat posed by china. plus, fading hopes for survival, days after devastating earthquakes rocked turkey and syria. the
hello, welcome to our viewers joining us here from the united states and all over the world, you are watching cnn newsroom and i m rosemary church. just ahead, heavy snowfall along the west coast leaves hundreds of residents stranded, and the situation across the northeast does not look much better. we will bring you the latest on extreme weather pummeling parts of the united states. a stunning admission under oath, the chair of the fox corporation, rupert murdaugh, acknowledges that fox news anchors pushed a election lies on air. reports of crumbling morale and desperation within the russian military. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. we begin with extreme weather in the united states, as a winter storm is pummeling parts of the country with heavy snow and rain. nearly 50 million people are under winter weather alerts, across the northeast. new york s governor says parts of the state could see up to a foot of snow. schools in connec