officials telling nbc news the goal of the president s address tonight is to affirm the core promises of his 2020 presidential campaign. restoring the soul of the nation. tonight s critical address as the polling shows the president faces growing dissatisfaction at home. the administration is not taking care of our own people. you have to get these old guys out. i will be joined by chris jansing and katy tur. plus, looming large. the diplomatic fallout from shooting down the 200-foot tall chinese spy balloon over the atlanta expected to play heavily into tonight s address. some of the lines of the speech referring to china were being edited in the wake of the military operation. how hard will the president go against china tonight? death toll rising. more than 5,100 people dead after two powerful earthquakes striking we were hearing voices, messages from under the rubble. we couldn t do anything. good morning, everyone. i am andrea mitchell in washington. this
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leading the way. he called it 8 months after the supreme court s draft ruling on abortion, the supreme court investigate jars admit they have to suspects on the leash. joe biden made a fool of himself, this time criticizing police officers for using deadly force to protect themselves. the media is telling you a story, not the story. they aren t the same thing. we can debate the lack of visitor logs, they are all distractions. tonight i m going to die it together for you. the real story is what s inside the documents. that has the democrats terrified if we ever finds out. you i have no regrets, i m following what the lawyers told me they want me to do. it s exactly what we are doing. there is no there there. let s be clear, it s not your decision on what i can and can t answer from here. brilliant. referring to the photograph of the biden garage. i don t know what your garage looks like. that does not look like a secure location. the tipping point was finding the cla
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thanks for spending part of the day with us. the beat with ari melber starts now. hello. we have breaking news. jack smith s prosecution of donald trump has scored another procedural victory tonight. it goes to questions of accountability, and whether trump will be allowed to use and abuse the following and the power his has to undercut this important method of holding him accountable. the news ruling limits what trump can say in the case. for example, publicly attacking potential witnesses, court staff, and many of the other staff involved. he s tried these antics in other cases. this is the big case currently on schedule to begin in march, and could result in his conviction or imprisonment. one difference, though, is the court did revise the order. the ruling say that some aspects of trump s public statements pose a significant and imminent threat to the fair and orderly adjudication of the ongoing criminal proceedings against defendant trump. now, in the official argum