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memorable state of the unions in the past. welcome back. we begin this hour with the breaking news in turkey and syria where tens of thousands of emergency workers continuing the frantic search for survivors from the devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake responsible for killing more than 5,000 people already. more than 23,000 people have been injured. turkey s president erdogan saying that ten cities within his country are disaster zones and declaing a three-month state of emergency. countries pledge their support. matt bradley is in turkey. turkish officials say they have made 8,000 rescues. what are you seeing there today? reporter: yeah, we have not seen anyone taken out alive from this building, one of 6,000 here in turkey that the government says have been completely levelled by those twin earthquakes, some of the most devastating, most powerful this region has ever seen. this neighborhood is reeling from this event, even though this appears to be one of the only ....
days for next election but things are sure heating up. alex: who is counting, griff, former secretary pompeo says his decision was not impacted by former president trump s lead in the polls. it s something that he and his wife had to wait for months. we care deeply about america and the issues that i have been talking about the last year and a half and decades matter awful lot, this isn t our moment. this isn t time to seek elected office. pompeo added that if pompeo winning primary he may not end up endorsing former boss. aisa hutchison joined nikki haley and those announcing a run, senator tim scott introduced his exploratory committee this week with several top gop hopefuls attending nra annual convention yesterday and that included former president trump and former vice president mike pence. they are also going to be in in nashville this weekend for donor retreat as will new hampshire governor chris sununu which is considering run for the white house. i think ....
russia s invasion of ukraine hits the one year mark. a live update from kyiv as president zelenskyy promises his people will fight on and president biden promises more aid. meanwhile, in the states, we take you inside the battle for control of the wisconsin supreme court with the candidate fix folks say could ship the ballots if she wins. then, to virginia where the first black woman ever elected to congress from that state, congresswoman-elect jennifer mcclelland, joins us to talk about her historic win. and, texas. where state attorney general ken paxton is at the center of a federal investigation that could yield criminal charges. and that is just the start of it. poor thing. i am jonathan capehart, this is the saturday show. we we start this morning in ukraine where the brutal invasion by russia hit the one year mark yesterday. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy marked the anniversary with an emotional speech yesterday gave. he declared that ukraine is alive, ....
by energy companies to forcibly install prepayment metres in homes. thousands of people join pope francis, and other christian leaders, to pray for unity and justice at the mausoleum of south sudan s founding father, john garang. welcome once again. the us has shot down a chinese surveillance balloon that it says has been spying on key military sites across america. the department of defense confirmed its fighterjets brought down the balloon over us territorial waters on the east coast. we can see that moment in these pictures from our partners cbs in the united states. we can see that moment in these pictures from our partners cbs in the united states. three airports were shut and airspace was closed off the coast of north and south carolina as the military carried out the operation, which was approved by president biden on wednesday. china had said the craft was a meteorological research balloon that had been blown off course. this is what president biden told reporte ....
so at one day you wake up inh kamala harris is the vice president . how does that happen, youyo wonder? no one will say, but youu can r be sure there s a story there.ef so here s the latest example of unexplained weirdness in the news. mike pence, of all people, has just swooped in to save joe biden. yeso , mike pence, a man so flamboyantly pure he won t have minner with ladies, not his wife. and yet mike pence also hadkp secret documents in his house, just like joe biden that you didn t see tha that coming. it wasn t so long ago thatene pence was on television saying was sure he had no classified documents in his possession. he said that a few times. then just days ago, then mike pence sent his personal attorney to searche sent his fah home in carmel, indiana, fore in classified documents. now, if mike pence didn tnk think he had classified documents, why would he send his lawyer to go look forhe sen classified documents? we can t say for certaihin, but ....