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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 wi...

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 int...

federal government. plus, in the next 30 minutes, president biden takes his political fight to florida, home to his biggest potential rivals. and devastation in syria and turkey, almost unimaginable as the death toll closes in on 20,000. we're live in turkey where one of our reporters just witnessed an incredible rescue. but we start with some explosive moments in those hearings we just mentioned, both democratic and republican lawmakers going hard at the biden administration and its officials for not doing something sooner about that chinese surveillance balloon. >> the truth ...

firefighter or any of you in this room. so my plan is to make sure that corporations begin to pay their fair share. >> president joe biden pitches his budget proposal that he says will lift the burden off families across america. we'll explain, though, why this plan is more about campaign messaging than the actual numbers. plus, there are significant new developments that signal that donald trump could soon face criminal charges in the state of new york. and also ahead we'll dig into the cia's latest assessment of vladimir putin and the future of the war in ukraine. good morning ...

i'm lindsey reiser at msnbc headquarters. right now are criminal charges on the horizon for former president donald trump, he's been invited to appear before the manhattan grand jury, investigating a hush money payment to stormy daniels, why legal experts say the move could signal the end is near in this investigation. also this morning, california just cannot catch a breather from this wild weather, right now 16 million are under flood alerts as parts of the state are still buried under mountains of snow and now brace for landslides and heavy rain from an atmospheric river. we're ...