very good wednesday morning to you, i'm jim sciutto. >> and i'm erica hill. today president biden taking that state of the union message to the battleground state of wisconsin. it's part of a two-day swing where he will be touting his administration's accomplishments and also -- which of course were laid out during last night's address. >> sounds like the start of a campaign. president biden's speech set the stage for a likely 2024 bid. he vowed to, quote, finish the job. while making a point to call for unity and bipartisanship, asking to work with republicans even as he sparred with a handful of republican lawmakers on a number of topics. >> instead of making the wealthy pay their fair share some republicans, some republicans, want medicare and social security to sunset. i'm not saying it's a majority. i'm not -- politely not naming them, but it's being proposed by some of you. look -- so, folks, as we all

apparently agree, social security and medicare is off -- off the books now, right? they are not to be touched? all right. all right. we got unanimity. >> get folks to stand up to pledge their support for social security and medicare. we begin this hour with cnn senior white house correspondent mj lee. so the white house view is that some of that heckling, which got a bit out of hand at times, actually helped the president. what more are they saying this morning? >> reporter: yeah, that's right, jim, the heckling, the booing, even calling the president a liar, white house officials essentially welcomed those moments, in fact, they were literally cheering those moments as they were watching from the west wing last night. this was precisely the kind of contrast that they hoped to draw between republicans and the president, sort of painting republicans as being intransigent and engaging in

partisan bickering whereas the president they wanted to come off as the adult in the room who was optimistic about the future and, of course, all throughout the night we had this reminder, sitting behind the president in the form of house speaker kevin mccarthy, of the divided congress that the president now confronts, at moments mccarthy looked stoic as democrats were cheering on the president, other times we of course saw him trying to shush his colleagues, obviously warnings that they didn't often heed, but the president really tried to turn the page on the last two years of his presidency. he talked about the country turning a corner when it comes to the economy or the covid pandemic, talking about his legislative accomplishments, and if you look at the amount of time that he spent talking about the various issues, you really get a good sense of what some of his top priorities were. some of the issues that he talked about the most included health care, the economy and infrastructure and policing, and really the president wanted to send a political message to the

members of congress in front of him that just because congress is divided now for the next two years doesn't mean that democrats and republicans can't continue to work together. take a listen. >> i don't want to ruin your reputation, but i look forward to working with you. you know, we are often told that democrats and republicans can't work together, but over the past two years we have proved the cynics and naysayers wrong. we came together to defend a stronger and safer europe. you came together to pass one in a generation -- once in a generation infrastructure law building bridges, connecting our nation and our people. we came together to pass the most significant law ever, helping victims exposed to toxic burn pits. and, in fact -- [ applause ] >> reporter: and we've talked about how the state of the union speech last night would be sort of a soft launch and a preview of the president's eventual reelection campaign message and

why it's why we saw him try to make the case last night that the country is really going to be better off with him leading it for the next two years, perhaps the next six years, and he is going to be hitting the road later today to take that message with him. he will first travel to madison, wisconsin, and we do expect that this will be just the beginning of paving the road for him to make his reelection announcement as soon as in the next couple of weeks. guys? >> and we will be watching for that official announcement and of course the road trip starting today. mj, thank you. >> next couple of weeks, that's sooner than some had said. republican arkansas governor sarah huckabee sanders delivered a fierce rebuttal to biden's speech, criticizing the president on a number of topics. >> the dividing line in america is no longer between right or left, the choice is between normal or crazy. it's time for a new generation

of republican leadership. at 40 i'm the youngest governor in the country and at 80 he is the oldest president in american history. i'm the first woman to lead my state and he's the first man to surrender his presidency to a woke mob that can't even tell you what a woman is. >> cnn congressional correspondent jessica dean on capitol hill for us this morning. what sort of feedback are you hearing on the hill this morning, jessica? >> reporter: good morning, jim and erica. as we all might imagine this was an opportunity for democrats in leadership and also rank and file democrats on the hill to really cheer the president and unify behind a democratic agenda and it was an opportunity for republicans and republican leadership to really present a very different picture. that's pretty typical. what is less typical that we saw last night was a lot of the yelling from rank and file house gop members, a handful of

hardliners that were yelling, calling the president a liar, as you saw in those clips just a couple of minutes ago, and we even saw the house speaker kevin mccarthy shushing them at some points. we know earlier in the day he had warned them to be on their best behavior, that there were cameras everywhere and he later said just this morning he doesn't want them to take the bait. i will let you listen to what he said just a little bit ago. >> the president was trying to goad the members and the members are passionate about it, but the one thing the president was saying was something he knew was not true. i just spent an hour with him, i've said it many times before, social security and medicare are off the table. he tries to use that for a political ploy. we need to be smart, don't take the bait. stay with the american public about what we want to do. >> reporter: it's that social security and medicare argument, jim and erica, that got everyone all riled up, those house republicans and senate republicans riled up, mccarthy shaking his head no. the president appeared to be referring to a proposal by

florida senator rick scott that would sunset legislation including medicare and social security, that is something that the house speaker has said will not be included in these cuts, b but, again, it was a unique moment watching that play out, the back and forth, the president back and forth with the house gop members who were yelling at him, and it's also worth noting that several years ago it just shows how far the decorum has eroded here, several years ago when republican joe wilson called then president obama a liar, you will remember he was rebuked by the house for that. at this point it was unexpected, we don't see that a lot, but also in a way, jim and erica, somewhat expected, right? >> yeah. >> jessica dean, you know, i wonder what lesson it teaches to our children about how to respond to points that they disagree with. i always think in those terms. with us now s.e. cupp and natasha alford vice president of digital content and senior correspondent for thegrio. good to have you both on. we won't shout at each other, i

promise that. i wonder, s.e. cupp, you are conservative, you and i and us together have watched a lot of state of the union speeches, good moments and bad. that was a bad moment. it was -- it was just ugly, right? and, again, as jessica said, some of this is just the nature of the way our political discourse is today, but a lot of shouting going at a sitting president that even the republican speaker was uncomfortable with. was it a good political look for republicans? >> i think it was inside their base, right? i mean, i think this republican party, especially under trump, really conditioned voters to want a politics of revenge where they are yelling out and breaking with the traditional rules. so don't be surprised, kevin mccarthy, when you invite disrupters into congress that you get disruption. i thought his shushing of his own conference to be remarkable,

both because i didn't expect it from him, he hasn't done much to discipline those rowdier members of the house, in fact, he's elevated them, but also because it's so symbolic, right, of his long journey ahead, maybe short journey ahead, as speaker. having to deal with this unruly faction inside his own house, a faction that might indeed get in the way of an agenda he has that by his own admission includes working with president biden. >> it was interesting just in that vein in terms of working with the president, you had to chuckle with the president's comment as he introduced him, hope this won't get you in trouble, but we're going to work together here, which we saw the speaker laugh at a little bit. natasha, as we're dissecting everything we heard we know a lot of what the president was putting out there was also this test run for his likely 2024

reelection bid. that's coming of course on the heels of polling and reporting that is not very favorable toward the president as the democratic nominee. six in ten americans in an abc news poll, democratic or democratic leaning, independents said they would like to see somebody else. was there anything that was put out last night, natasha, that you see as changing some of those minds? >> i actually think it was the unscripted moments that we were just talking about which really can change hearts and minds. we came in knowing that, you know, the president was kind of an underdog, right, having this record that said one thing, but in terms of the hearts of the people really believing that he is capable of doing another four years or that the accomplishments that he is touting are actually things that they are feeling on the ground, there's this huge disconnect. so those off script moments where he was jarring and going back and forth with republicans and actually kind of -- kind of

tricked them into doing what he wanted them to do, right, which is basically commit to go saying that they won't attack social security and medicaid, it showed a mental fitness, it showed a willingness to go off script, there are a lot of folks that think joe biden is scripted, controlled by other people and he showed a real command. i think that is really going to make the difference. as much as any of the other broad and, you know, really ambitious policy proposals that he presented. >> s.e. cupp, you have the polls about the upcoming election. we did just have an election, though, we had a midterm election where many of those hard line republican position ds not seem to work, certainly underperforming in house races but also in the senate. the president tried to focus on issues that he thinks are kitchen table issues that cross party lines, making ins thumb cheaper, paid family leave,

addressing the fact that big profitable companies pay zero percent tax. is it good politics for republicans to stand in the way of proposals like that? >> well, it certainly put them on defense. you know, it's odd to see republicans not stand and clap for lines about more jobs. >> yeah. >> i was -- i was pleasantly surprised to see republicans stand and clap for made in america, stuff that republicans are traditionally tied to. so it did, it put them on the defensive and you would hope that they will have to explain where they stand on some of those issues that they seemed to disagree with. now, i suspect that they will disagree with the way money will be spent to achieve some of these goals. that's fair. those are the kinds of arguments i miss frankly as a conservative. while joe biden was a little misleading about the debt and the deficit, i was happy to hear him talking about lowering it, something that under president trump, who exploded both, republicans were pretty quiet about.

>> there's always a lot made of the guests, who is invited. and frankly too often recently we see people who are there because of extreme tragedy, i'm thinking right now of mr. and mrs. wells, the parents of tyre nichols. we think of brendan tsai who was there who stopped a gunman from perhaps killing more in monterey park. senator booker this morning, natasha, said on cnn he felt what he called a collective moment of hope last night, he said it was a human moment in his words, recognizing the grief and the agony in the chamber, recognizing that grief and agony for tyre nichols' parents. i think the question this morning is does that hope, that collective understanding of grief and agony, does that last beyond what we saw last night and lead to any real action? >> i know that the parents of tyre nichols are an inspiration to many. i cannot imagine bearing a son and then having to show up in this political space, right, and

to have, you know, really just this deep sense of purpose out of the pain. this moment where president biden said the talk, you knew, he empathized with the fact that so many people do not have to have the talk with their children in the way that black communities have to talk to their children, that moment was one that called on us to be americans together and to care about the issue together. so i think he did a really good job of walking the tightrope, balancing calling for action while, you know, acknowledging, you know, police officers which can be tricky, right, because there are people who sort of expect democrats to have a defund the police approach. so he had to kind of appeal to both groups and i think that he did a good job of humanizing that moment and letting everyone know that the stakes are higher than ever. >> and they certainly are. natasha and s.e., great to have you both with us this morning.

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second trip outside of his country since russia invaded almost exactly one year ago. >> it's quite a visit to one of the allies that's been closest to ukraine throughout this war and zelenskyy has already met with the prime minister, he's addressed parliament as well. have a listen. >> we know freedom will win. we know -- we know russia will lo lose. >> quite a powerful backdrop there. next up a meeting with king charles, always sounds interesting to say that. the visit comes as the uk announces a new round of sanctions against russia. it is also stepping up its training of ukrainian troops. cnn international diplomatic editor nic robertson is live in london just outside of parliament.

nic, this is quite a trip, a significant appearance, for one of the closest relationships in this war between ukraine and the uk. what is the actual function here? is he looking for more help? lots of talk about a russian -- new russian offensive against ukraine. >> i think part of it is not just about new help, he wants fighter jets and he's got part of that, if you will, the british are now saying today they are expanding their training program, they're training ukrainian troops on the challenger 2 tanks. the uk the first to commit tanks to ukraine. they are now going to train ukrainian fighter pilots to use nato standard aircraft for the future, no commitment on the aircraft. so that's something that steps in the direction of what president zelenskyy wants, but i think also he's trying to, if you will, future-proof the support, to thank for the support that he has had in the past and future-proof it by

coming here and thanking people personally, thanking politicians on both sides of the aisle. it's been exceptional from the ge get-go, i have to say the prime minister driving an hour outof london to meet president zelenskyy off his military aircraft when he landed, but then spending that hour talking as they drove in. i was outside 10 downing street when president zelenskyy walked in there, i've stood outside when a lot of leaders, united states presidents as well, there was a thunderous applause from outside do you think streets, thunderous applause when he spoke to the parliamentarians today. he hit the tone of the speech as always with president zelenskyy fine tuned to the audience, but there were a couple of moments that stood out evoking winston churchill, banking boris johnson the former prime minister there in the audience, but he said in the uk your king is an air force pilot. in the ukraine our air force

pilots are the king, he said, because there are so few of them and they do such a heroic job. he gave an air force fighter pilot's helmet to the parliamentary speaker here and em blazed on it were the words of "we have the freedom, give us the wings two protect it." very powerful speech, very emotional, reaching to the core of sort of british identity, but obviously getting at that point and to your point, jim, what did he want? he wants fighter planes. did he lay on the message thick? yes, he did. did he get the applause? 100%. >> he's great at tailoring his message as well when he visits the u.s. capitol, a message about pearl harbor. when he visits the uk, he of course mentions the king's military service. quite a leader. nic robertson, thank you so much. well, the devastating earthquake that struck turkey and syria has now claimed just an eye popping 11,000 lives. that's just so far.

these are drone shots, live ones, of the destruction in g gaziantep. >> that drone footage, that shot really gives you a sense of just the enormity of the destruction and of this task in addition to the fact that these teams are racing against freezing temperatures as they try to find any survivors and bring them to safety. take a look as this family is rescued, a hopeful crowd looking on .

>> it gives you chills to see that little girl, other members pulled out of the rubble alive. look at this little guy. cnn international correspondent jomana karachi is live in turkey with the latest. i know we're trying to be extra sensitive to the fact that they have just called for quiet around you which means there is a chance that perhaps they heard a survivor. >> reporter: yeah, erica, we've seen this happen a few times over the past few hours since we've been here. this is -- used to be a 14-story residential building here, they believe that 100 people were living in this people. you had these search and rescue teams working night and day around the clock trying to find any signs of life, trying to locate any survivors, but so far, unfortunately, they have only been able to pull dead bodies at least 13, three of them in just the last hour. a short time ago, as you

mentioned, we were asked to be quiet, they asked people to get down as well, they don't want people moving around, they're trying to scan the area as well. so everyone here you've got this real nerve-racking wait. we've got hundreds of people here, you've got people who have been displaced, but you also have people who are here looking for their family members, loved ones. down. down. get down, get down, they're asking us to get down. we believe they're scanning the building, the wreckage. i'm going to have to keep my voice down. this is such a delicate operation. okay. and you've got -- i'm going to ask our colleague youssuf to translate what is going on.

what are they saying? they're asking everyone to be quiet, as you can see, kareem, if you can move the camera towards the building so we can see what's going on. our viewers can see this is a very, very careful and delicate operation that's going on to try and see if they can locate any survivors because so far they haven't been able to. we've been speaking to so many people here who have been waiting for days trying to locate family members, friends, loved ones. one man was wailing and crying and just asking why can't they pull him out, referring to his son who was in the building, and a woman who was telling us that she's here looking for her relatives, a couple and their 14-year-old daughter. the last time she says they heard anything from the family was the 14-year-old daughter messaging a friend saying there's been an earthquake.

she says she's holding on to the hope, she says her faith is getting her through this, but we also have spoken to people who are beginning to lose hope. two sisters who are here also looking for their cousin, they say they've been to morgues, they've been to hospitals and they come here every single day waiting and hoping to find their cousin who is inside the building, but they say right now that hope of finding their cousin alive has turned into the hope that they would be able to pull a body in one piece as they described it. i mean, it's just heartbreaking scenes here, this nerve-racking wait that's been going on for days. people just sitting around here in the cold, around the fires, you've got groups of people crying together, comforting each other. i mean, it's just unimaginable what people are going through right now and, kareem, if you can -- if we can just take a look at what's going on at the building, at the -- as you can

see they've still got the search and rescue teams going on, they've stopped the diggers. it's really quiet right now and just really trying hard to see if they can find anyone under the wreckage. again, we were told that about 100 people are in that building. we spoke to a woman who said she knew a couple living on the ninth floor of that building, a young couple, they had a 2-year-old daughter and a newborn and she was just out here waiting, hoping, praying that they will be able to find them. this has been going on now for more than 60 hours and so far not a single survivor has been pulled from this building but everyone here is still hoping that -- that they will be able to locate survivors. really unimaginable what people here are going through right

now. this is just one building in one province and you can imagine with thousands of buildings that have been destroyed in this earthquake, thousands of people still believed to be under the rubble that this is a scene that is replicated over and over again across this country right now, jim, erica. >> jomana, please stay there with us, this is quite a moment for those families hoping against hope they receive some good news. we are going to ask our team to stay there and we will check back in to see if they get that good news. as jomana said, this is being repeated thousands of times across that poor country. we will keep on top of it. still ahead, another story we're following. there are disturbing new allegations against the five former memphis police officers who have been charged in the death of tyre nichols. they are now accused of assaulting another black man just days before. try boost® high protein with 20 grams of protein for muscle health

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some disturbing news this morning. one of the memphis police officers charged now in the death of tyre nichols has admitted that he took pictures, photographs, of a bloodied, wounded nichols. surveillance video captured that moment, we do want to warn you this might be difficult to watch. here it is now. you can see nichols propped up against a police car there and as former officer demetrius haley took that picture you saw. police documents show haley sent that photo afterwards and here it is again. to at least six people.

>> i mean, that is something. talk about fallout. there is more in the wake of tyre nichols' death. seven more memphis police officers now facing internal disciplinary action. cnn's nick valencia is live in memphis this morning. so the five fired police officers who were charged and accused of assaulting another young black man, another incident just three days before. what happened in that incident? >> reporter: that's right. good morning, erica. 22-year-old mon darius harris toss a u.s. navy veteran alleged in a new lie filed federal lawsuit that three days before tyre nichols was stopped he was assaulted by members of the scorpion unit. he alleges that the five former officers now charged with second-degree murder in the death of nichols were the same officers that assaulted him n this lawsuit he said he was sitting in his car at an apartment complex waiting for his cousin to come out when men approached him wearing ski masks

and did not identify themselves as police officers, he thought he was being car jacked and tried to get away. he was eventually he says punched, dragged across the concrete and beaten. officers said after they arrested him that they found a handgun in his car as well as marijuana. harris alleges that the handgun was legally registered to his cousin. he is suing the city of memphis and the police department for $5 million alleging as kwl that they falsified the police department. all of this coming as the city council held its first meeting since the video of tyre nichols' beating was released to the public. they passed public safety reforms including supporting the george flood justice and policing act. earlier this morning tyre nichols' parents were on cnn speaking about their adamant support of that legislation. >> my message to congress is if they had passed the george floyd bill initially, my son may not have died tragically the way he

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a question we asked yesterday, lebron james is now the nba's all time leading scorer. it took him just 20 seasons. more than 1,400 games to pass the former record holder kareem abdul-jabbar who scored 38,387 points in his career that. record breaking basket coming in the third quart of tuesday's game. >> fade away, i was thinking he might try to sky hook as an honor to the great kareem abdul-jabbar, i remember, and this will date me, seeing kareem abdul-jabbar do that live on television. king james spoke about getting emotional during this moment.

>> i probably can count on my hands how many times i've cried in 20 years, either in happiness or defeat, you know, so, you know, that moment was one of them when i kind of teared up a little bit. it was i can't believe what's going on. >> omar jimenez has more on that moment. have a listen. >> reporter: people came to see history and they witnessed it. lebron james now the all time leading scorer in nba history and he would be the first to admit that he didn't think he would be the one to break what some thought was a previously unbreakable record, but when you look at everything lebron has done over the course of his career, who else would it have been? and the moment came on a tuesday night and when that happened, when he hit a fade away off the left elbow, almost nothing but net, he ran to center court, raised his arms in triumph as an entire arena cheered him on, likely many more watching from

home. he came to the center court and was greeted by his family, as the crowd chanted mvp, he was emotional, as kareem abdul-jabbar the person whose record he now eclipsed embraced him and grieted him along with the nba commissioner. and when you look at lebron james' legacy the on the court of course will be respected and always remembered but the reaction and embraces that he had once he crossed that milestone are emblematic of who he is off the court and for many all of those come together in the legacy that the lebron james. when you talk about the history milestone that was crossed tonight, it wasn't just a moment in nba history, for those watching and that have followed him all around the world, this was a moment in history. omar jimenez, cnn, los angeles. right now another story we're following this morning, court back in session in south carolina for the ongoing double murder trial of the former laura

lek m -- lawyer alex murdaugh. >> a forensic scientist back on the stand this morning being questioned about a coat which was found in murdaugh's mother's home. cnn's randi kaye is live at the courthouse. why is this raincoat so significant? >> reporter: good morning, jim and erica, it's really significant because of what this expert says she found on it. we're talking about megan fle fletcher, a gunshot expert for the south carolina law enforcement division and she has been testifying about gunshot residue she said she found on alex murdaugh's clothing, three particles on his t-shirts and shorts, but she said she found a significant number of gunshot residue particles on this blue

with that number it is possible. >> is there any other possibility? you said there were one, were there any more? >> if the jacket was inside out and simply in the vicinity to the discharge of a firearm it could have also had that number of particles on it. >> so prosecutors seem to be hinting at their theory that alex murdaugh used that big blue raincoat to wrap up the murder weapons and then dispose of them and then stash that raincoat in the second floor closet of his mother's home. we know there has been no evidence presented yet that those murder weapons have ever been recovered but the question

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