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hello, everyone. i'm bianna golodryga. welcome to cnn "newsroom." i'm victor blackwell. good to be with you. president biden is taking his state of the union pitch on the road. right now he's speaking in the battleground state of wisconsin focusing on his administration's effort to boost manufacturing in america. this is part of a two-day swing. >> biden is also going to tampa, florida, to reinforce last night's message which is seen as a preview of his expected 2024 re-election campaign. cnn's phil mattingly joins us now. so what more do we expect to hear from the president today? i know he's feeling good from that speech last night. >> i don't think white house officials could be happier in the wake of the speech last night, not because they feel like they delivered on the extensive remarks they spent months probing and in the off-the-cuff moments he had with republicans back and forth where they felt the president
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demonstrated a level of vigor they wanted him to show but also crystallized a really critical moment, one that now former white house chief of staff called one of the greatest moments in state of the union history, maybe a little bit of hyperbole, but certainly underscoring how white house officials felt in the wake of the speech last night and what he's carrying into the president, the president, this trip to wisconsin. keep in mind, guys, you noted, battleground state, the most battleground of battleground states, the president winning it by less than 2%, and if you talk about the message that the president is delivering right now in front of a workers training facility it's very much tied to the central component of the remarks on the economic side of things, the idea this is a blue collar economic strategy he's been putting in place, one that connects with communities over the course of the last couple of decades have felt invisible and hallowed out by globalization and technology. that's at the center of many
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legislative proposals that he signed into law in the first two years and white house officials know signing them into law is certainly a huge step. implementing them is perhaps the most important because that's where they will have a tangible impact on americans and that's what the president is trying to demonstrate right now in wisconsin. certainly as you guys noted, the post-state of the union travel, the vice president and cabinet officials notably visiting a lot of different swing states. the sflpt georgia today, in minnesota tomorrow and other critical critical swing states for the president, all of this serving as an impromptu soft launch of a re-election campaign that we expect to kick off in the weeks ahead. the president coming off the state of the union address clearly feeling good about the message he delivered last night, a message he'll be delivering day in and days out in the weeks and days ahead. >> phil, don't go far. we want to include you into the conversation in just a minute. >> thank you, phil. >> speaker kevin mccarthy meantime is urging his fellow republicans to not take the president's bait after several members of his conference heckled biden last night.
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>> let me give you -- anybody who doubts it, contact my office. i'll give you a copy. i'll give you a copy of the proposal. >> liar! >> that means congress. >> the members are passionate about it, but the one thing the president was saying is something that he knew was not true. i just spent an hour with him and 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. >> you almost expected someone to go order, order, as we're talking about the house of commons here. let's chuck to cnn's chief congressional correspondent manu raju. what more are we hearing from house republicans today about the behavior in the conference last night? >> reporter: yes. some of the members did not like what they saw, some. members saying there needs to be more decorum in these settings, simply they agree with what the
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speaker said is not to take the bait of the president of the united states who in their view was clearly trying to goad them into responding that way. kevin mccarthy tried to counsel his members the day before to simply to applaud politely and don't heckle. try not to the do another moment like we saw in 2009 when congressman joe wilson, a republican of south carolina, said you lie to barack obama during an address to congress, but that didn't happen, and some members that i caught up with who heckled joe biden were defiant. >> i did. >> reporter: you did? you were one of them? >> i did. >> reporter: do you feel like that's something, you know, that could look badly upon you by heckling the president in this forum? >> well, i think the greater offense is for the president to lie to the american people about something so important. >> yeah. he got exactly what he deserved and i'm not sorry one bit. no thank you. i don't clap for liars. >> i think the decorum here has
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been terrible on all sides, and that needs to go away. >> there's a decorum with the state of the union, and on either side i think it's inappropriate. >> reporter: kevin mccarthy clearly wants to move on from this episode. he's been asked several times here in the capitol today about what happened last night. he would not comment to reporters. he did make the remarks on fox news this morning. last night leaving the speech he also would not comment, eager to move on to the next debate and next questions ahead. >> yeah. to one seemed pretty worried about facing a possible censure this time. there's another republican versus republican moment, and this was before the actual speech when you had people walking into the chamber. senator romney had a tense exchange with congressman george santos of all people standing there front and center shaking everyone's hands. you just got a response from santos. tell us exactly what happened between these two. >> mitt romney did not like the fact that george santos was standing in a very prominent position as the state of the
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union was taking place, a place where the cameras would be trained on him, where he'd is there an opportunity to shake the hands of the senators and the president of the united states. romney told him, quote, directly, you do not belong here and romney went even further saying he shouldn't be a member of congress, he should resign his seat and he's fab gated large portions of his resume saying he shouldn't be sitting in front of the chamber. should be signature towards the back and sitting quietly if he were to continue to sever. moments ago santos responded to romney's claims, and he attacked the republican senator. >> it's not the first time in history that i've been told to shut up and go to the back of the room, especially people who come from a privileged background, and it's not going to be the last and i'm never going to shut up and go to the being baof the room and i think it's reprehensible that the senator would say such and the demeaning way wasn't very mormon of him. that's what i can tell you. >> reporter: he also contended that mitt romney used, quote, derogatory language to him as romney was entering the chamber.
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we asked romney's office for any comment about it. they declined to comment about this episode, but mitt romney made very clear to me last night he wants george santos to resign and he wishes his speaker of the house would join him in those calls. >> good lord, the gall. >> we don't eno the true nature of george santos' background. manu raju, stay with us. joining us is laura barone lopez who is correspondent for "pbs newshour." we know the administration feels good about this speech last night, but do they feel that the president was effective enough in defending his record and more importantly now promoting why he should in fact run for 2024 for re-election in 2024 if he decides to do so? >> yes. all of the white house officials that i've talked to today and after the speech say that they feel as though he made a very
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effective case for continuing his work the next two years and also trying to effectively sell -- >> we're going to interrupt you to take our audience to the president's speech right now. he's reading rick scott's plan on social security cuts. >> ron johnson on social security and medicare, quote, we should transfer everything so we have to consider everything every year. come on, man. and then -- and then we found there's a senator named mike lee who is also yelling, you know, liar, liar, house on fire kind of stuff last night, well, i didn't even know this, but they played a video showing him, i didn't say the whole party. i said leading republicans want
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to cut social security and medicare, and so they played last night something i didn't even know existed, a video of him saying i'm here right now to tell you one thing you probably never heard from a politician, it will be my objective to fades out social security, pull it up by its roots, get rid of it and then he added -- i'm quoting this now. medicare and medicaid are the same sort. they need to be pulled up. sounds pretty clear to me. how but? but they sure didn't like me calling them on it. look, a lot of republicans, their dream is to cut social security and medicare. well, let me just say. it's your dream, but my veto pen is going to make it a nightmare. [ applause ] here's -- here's actually the good news. there's a lot of good republicans i.found it interesting that when i called
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them out on it last night, it sounded like they agreed to take these cuts off the table. remember i said -- no, i'm serious. remember what i said? i said so you're not going to cut, it huh? okay. we've got a deal. i sure hope that's true. [ applause ] i'll believe it when i see it and the budgets are laid down with the cuts they are proposing, but it looks like we negotiated a deal last night on the floor of the house of representatives. seriously. you see them all standing up saying we're not going to cut any. that's good because, by the way, we got a lot of good bipartisan stuff done in the previous year. why can't we do it again? here is the bottom line. all of you have been paying into the system since you started working. these benefits belong to you, the american worker. you earned it. and i will not allow anyone to cut them, not today, not tomorrow, not ever, period. [ applause ]
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>> some of the republicans in congress are threatening to have america default on the debt if i don't agree to the cuts that they want. democrats have never ever done that, by the way. let's talk about what our national debt is, like what we spend this year versus last. the national debt is a total debt and interest accumulated over 220 years. you hear me, over 200 years? every single year that we went and spent more than we took in it added up, so the federal debt you're hearing about is not the yearly debt. it's 220 or so years of accumulated debt. democrats, republicans, everybody, but here's the deal. our credit has been good.
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we've never missed a payment as a nation on the debt we have. why in god's name would america give up the progress we made for the chaos they are suggesting? this nation has done -- gone through too much. we've come too far to let that happen. i won't, not on my watch, and while there's more work to do, it's clear our plan is working because -- because of the grit and resolve of the american worker. i'm not trying to just be nice. i've been saying this my whole career. we're going to keep lowering costs for families. we're going to keep putting shovels in the ground to rebuild our infrastructure. >> the president in wisconsin in a two-day swing following the state of the union address last night. the president again talking about senator rick scott's plan, this plan to rescue america highlighting his plan to sunset legislation, all federal legislation, that would include medicare and social security after five years.
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let's bring this back to the panel. phil mattingly and manu raju and laura lopez. what the booing did is magnify this line on page 36 of a document that lives online that most members of congress, republicans have swatted away, but the president has talked about this before, many times in speeches, and now people who are following up on what they did not watch last night will wonder what will they boo about and now the president goats spring it back? >> i'm trying to think of the best way to capture how white house officials feel about this moment, both last night and again you're seeing the president talk about it again today, getting elevated on to the national stage to tens of millions of people in a primetime audience. the president was talking about in in the lead-up to the mid-terms with democrats saying i don't understand why you're going after one single republicans' plan that isn't necessarily representative of the entire republican caucus and day after day after day the bopt talk about senator rick scott's
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plan that wasn't endorsed by the vast majority of the republican conference and that's emblematic of what you saw last night. speaker kevin mccarthy has been explicit, reforms to those two entitlement programs not on the table in negotiations over how to increase the debt ceiling, and yet because republicans have not put out their own plan in terms of what they would like in exchange for an increase in the debt ceiling, democrats and the white house in particular are able to cite past plans from the republican study committee, past votes from speaker kevin mccarthy or the plan by senator rick scott and say, fine, if you don't have your old plan we're going to keep talking about income and as you saw from the president, the white house twitter account doing the same thing today, they want to have this fight as often as they possibly can, and the reason why is it's not really that complicated. when you look at internal polls and even external polls on these two issues in particular. it pops in a major way. that democrats and the white house want so to have this
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conversation. it was elevated in a major way and they will talk about this day in and day out because they really think it's politically beneficial. >> the president says he wasn't going to name check anyone who made the cuts and less than 24 hours later there he goes. laura, if i can go back to you, because aside from this issue it was one of the least partisan or polarizing speeches we've seen in a while. the president got a kitchen table issues that most americans, regardless of which party they are in can agree on and that's preserving social security and medicare and going or big corporations that pay zero percent tax rates and advocating for small businesses, made in america. what do you think the motivation in that was in terms of how republicans are going to respond to that, because there was a lot there that they really can't disagree with? >> well, part that have is in response to the fact that even though inflation as the president noted last night is going down right now, a lot of
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americans don't feel as though the cost of consumer goods is going down and that's something that republicans have attacked the president on and the administration on repeatedly, and so we heard the president last night talk specifically also about junk fees, and that's been those -- the fees of overdraft fees from banks as well as excessive fees from airlines and resort fees from hotels that are not actually resorts. that's an attempt by the white house and by biden to show the american public that they are trying to make things less expensive, try to help people at their pocketbooks and tackle inflation, but i did just want to note on what phil was saying about this back and forth with republicans on the debt ceiling is that a white house official texted me today that it was -- the republicans, quote, walked into the trap and that essentially the president was trying to get them to respond to what he was saying so that way, he could, as he just said right now, he admitted, negotiate with
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them on the floor of the house right in front of the american public, and i think important context there is also in addition to rick scott and mike lee there are a number of house republicans who have proposed cutting entitlements, and before speaker mccarthy said that that was off the table, he did tell punch bowl news last october he didn't want to pre-determine any type of potential cuts that we would want to make essentially leaving those on the table. >> all right. i thank you all for sticking with us. see you again next hour. >> thanks, guys. >> thanks so much. rescuers in turkey and syria are desperately listening for any signs of life under the rubble. the earthquake's death toll now tops 11,000. cnn will take you there next. ukraine's president meets with the british prime minister and king charles during a surprise visit to the uk.
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survivors in the rubble. it's difficult to even fathom this number. 11,200 people were killed. >> president erdogan visited the area near theeer center and 13,000 people have reported injuries. joining us now is nick paton walsh. what can you tell us about the rescue effort where you, are particularly when it comes to children? >> reporter: yeah, i have to say, victor, you know, we stood here 24 hours ago and had episodes of hope and joy to talk to you about, but in the last hour i've seen one, possibly two, body bags brought from inside the rubble here taken away in metal trays. often we're seeing hearses to take away dead bodies. the tone has changed as that important window that they had to get people out from under the rubble began to evaporate.
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it is utterly freezing cold here and, of course, those trapped inside the rubble will be feeling that the hardest. pace at which the excavators, you might be able to see behind me here, the pace at which they worked today. yesterday it was about probing and trying to hear signs of life and trying to get people out. today it's really about getting through as fast as they can. you're seeing the remains of a 4-year-old girl taken away in a blanket, an 8-year-old girl killed, parents mourning over her. relentless piles of bodies around this particular area. president tayyup erdogan of turkey flew in here and might have heard some of the criticisms that we heard about the government response. certainly the weather hampered their efforts and today we did see the military excavators coming in in significant numbers because the president was due and they are doing what they can, but the scale of the devastation is startling as we're learning here.
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the numbers of dead. the big question is what do these people do now? multipler to blocks here pancaked, leveled. the devastation is so widespread in this area and people are homeless, waiting for news of their loved ones, burning the remnants of their old homes behind me here just to keep warm, at times struggling to find even food and the stadium here suddenly full of tents from the turkish aid agency. some of the people living in them, in fact, syrian refugees, who have been relocated three times since the war hit the country across the border. a staggering challenge ahead ant nastiest part, one they are coming to terms with at the moment, how many lives have been left. >> president erdogan declaring a three-month state of emergency for that country. almost too much to pair when you see the images, especially of the children, it's just awful. nick paton walsh, thank you. today ukranian president volodymyr zelenskyy is in the uk
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thanking his allies for the ongoing support in the war. this is only his second trip outside the country since russia first invaded nearly a year ago. >> zelenskyy met with the british prime minister at ten downing street as well as with king charles at buckingham palace. cnn correspondent scott mclean is live in london. clearly zelenskyy came asking for more equipment, especially fighter jets. >> reporter: yeah, bianna, this was not just a benign thank-you tour, this was a mission for president selection to get more equipment including long range missiles and fighter jets. he made an impassioned plea to get those today and presented the speaker of the house of commons with a ukranian fighter pilot he will bhelt an inscription that read we have freedom. give us wings to protect it, and
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he also described ukranian fighter pilots as precious. that's why he wants to make sure that they have the best equipment, the most advanced aircraft that they can, and even made reference to king charles' previous military service. >> in britain the king is an air force pilot and in ukraine today every air force pilot is a king. >> reporter: so what the uk is offering more sanctions on russia, more training on british soil for ukranian troops, but -- and that training also includes training ukranian pilots to fly british fighter jets, but what it does not include though is the jets themselves. prime minister sunak tried to explain the disparities saying, look, nothing is off the table and, of course, the first step to providing advanced aircraft
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is actually training pilots to fly them. this seems to be a little crack -- the door cracked open a little bit for the ukranians because the brits had previously said, look, it wasn't all that practical to send fighter jets to ukraine because these are complex machines and it takes a heck of a lot of training to actually use them, to actually fly them, but the russians also had a warning, bianna, that if the uk were to provide jets that there would be political and military ramifications for that decision. >> yeah. scott mclean for us there in london. of course, we've heard that from the russians at every iteration of western support and the president boyden has said fighter jets are off the table as well. >> u.s. officials, intelligence officials specifically believe that the downed chinese spy droerng the balloon we've all been talking about is just a piece of a much bigger surveillance program run by china's military. we have new details ahead.
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the chinese surveillance balloon that was shot down off the coast of south carolina is part of a broader surveillance program we're learning run by the chinese military. that's according to the department of defense. >> fbi engineers are studying the remnants of the recovered drone. they are trying to figure out what intel, if any, the drone collected. cnn's natasha bertrand joins us now. natasha, the pentagon just held a briefing a short time ago. what did you learn? >> reporter: yeah. we are learning more details about the purpose of this balloon that was shot down on saturday, and what we are told, and what u.s. officials have
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since acknowledged, is that they believe that this balloon was part of a broader chinese surveillance program that has conducted about two dozen missions over at least five continents in recent years, and roughly half of those flights have actually been within u.s. airspace, so pentagon press secretary brigadier general patrick ryder he actually did just address this with reporters earlier confirming that the u.s. has been tracking this surveillance program for quite some time now and does believe that it's part of a larger mission, a larger operation being carried out by the chinese government. take a listen. >> this is what we assess as part of a larger chinese surveillance balloon program. you've heard us talk of us talk about the fact that this is a program that's been operated for several years, and this last week provided the united states with a unique opportunity to learn a lot more about the chinese surveillance balloon program. all information that will help us to continue to strengthen our
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ability to track these kinds of objects. >> reporter: ryder did say they are hoping to learn more about so that the payload or equipment it was carrying could be left intact and examined by the fbi lab in quantico, but he didn't go into a lot of detail what the u.s. is hoping to learn from it. we're told from sources that among the details that the u.s. wants to learn about china's -- about these balloons is, of course, its technical capabilities, what satellites it was linked to and importantly whether it was able to transmit information to the chinese military in realtime or whether the chinese military could only access that by having physical possession of the balloon. victor? >> so needless to say this was not a weather balloon as china has claimed? >> no. >> natasha bertrand, thank you. let's discuss this with seth molton of the select armed services committee.
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congressman, thanks so much for joining us. >> good to see are you? now that we're learning more about the surveillance program that china has been conducting for years, given that this balloon flew over sensitive airspace including a military base that's home to icbms are you concerned about information transmitted to china and do you think perhaps it should have been shot down sooner? >> well, of course, we're concerned, but as we've learned more about these balloons we've learned that there have been several balloons over the space of several years, so whether or not we shot this balloon down on day one we detected it or a little bit later when it was out over the ocean frankly wouldn't have made a difference. there are other balloons that have been up there and going over sensitive airspace for some time. >> so what other questions do you and members of the china committee have that have yet to be addressed because secretary blinken said, quote, we're learning more information about this program by the hour.
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>> you did a good job at hissing on the key ones. what sort of information were they collecting? were they able to transmit it in realtime? what actual capabilities does this balloon have? what communications networks were they using to get the information off the balloon? those are obviously technical questions that we want to answer, but there are also strategic questions. what do they intend to do with these balloons? what's the broader snurps did they think they could get away with them being up there and never being detected, or had they planned that this might happen and they were willing to take that risk? are they filling some gap in china's knowledge about the u.s. that they don't have? these are really important questions that we want to answer to understand the real national security implications of this incident. >> the president last night in his state of the union address did not specifically mention this balloon, but he did allude to shooting it down. take a listen to what he said. >> i'm committed to work with china where we can advance
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american interests and benefit the world, but make no mistake about it. as we made clear last week, if china threatens our sovereignty, we will act to protect our country, and we did. >> was that the appropriate way to address this issue, and do you think that message was sent and received by the chinese? >> i think it was a fantastic way to address this. short and to the point. we're not intimidated by you, china. you gave us a problem, and we take care of it, and the president followed the best military advice to take care of this balloon, and that's something that every american needs to know. there's a lot of critics out there saying the president should done something differently. should have shot it down earlier. at the end of the day what we learned he listened to his top military advisers. that's exactly what we want a commander in chief to do. >> we know that these balloons have now been spotted over countries across five continents over the past few years. speaking of last night, your guest was chams sumani who worked as a site manager in
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kabul who lives in the united states in a special visa and you know that there are tens of thousands of people just like him who are still stuck in extremely dangerous situations in afc and in remain in the hands of the taliban while they wait to evacuate. i know special immigrant visa reform requires bipartisan support, but in your opinion is the president, is the administration doing enough on their own to bring this issue to the forefront? >> these amazing people like chams, they are african heroes and risk their lives-for-their country and for us and for america. we've got to get them home and the sad reality is that when we pulled out of kabul we left a lot behind. chams is very lucky to be here because they are not just at risk from the taliban if they are still in afghanistan. they are being hunted down by the taliban every single day. in fact i recently learned of
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the story of somebody who was just about to get on the flight. the flights were postponed due to the world cup and the taliban found him while he was waiting and killed him before he could get out. that is unacceptable. we've got to do more to get them home. >> is the president doing enough to get them home? >> i think everybody could do more. congress needs to come together. we have a bipartisan group of veterans who are trying to advance legislation to help with this process, but we don't have support yet from the republican leadership, and i do think the administration could pick up the pace, too. i think it was a mistake to postpone flights due to the world cup. what's more important, watching a soccer game or getting these heroes out to safety? >> all right. congressman, thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> as promised, house republicans are pressing ahead on investigating president biden's family, specifically hunter biden, and today former twitter executives admit mistakes in the handling of a story regarding hunter biden's
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right now house republicans are holding a hearing focusing on twitter's handling of reports related to hunter biden's laptop in the lead-up to the 2020 election. twitter's former head of trust and safety told lawmakers they conceded that it wasn't a mistake to block the story. >> i've been clear in my judgment twitter should not have taken action to block "the new york post" reporting. just 24 hours after doing so the company acknowledged its error but the decisions here aren't straightforward and hindsight is 2020.
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it isn't obvious what the right response is to a suspected but not confirmed cyber attack by another government on a presidential election. i believe twitter erred in this case because we wanted to avoid repeating the mistakes of 2016. >> let's discuss with cnn media reporter sarah fisher. what stood out so far with you from this meeting so far. >> reporter: like what we've seen with tech firms before, they are getting caught between politics and washington. republicans with the new majority are using this moment to try to establish the narrative that the tech companies and companies are colluding together to suppress information and democrats are pushing back saying you're using this to distract from the problems of january 6th. moving forward, this represents a big problem for tech companies. with the republican majority that believes that they are censoring them, they are going to be putting -- they will be under a lot more pressure, expect to see them in congress
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to address some of these situations a lot more, even for twitter which is now owned by elon musk. i think that this is just the beginning now that we have a new majority in. >> i want to bring in our doney sullivan. do you agree with what she's saying and is this just opening a can of worms and what they are saying here? >> i think there's a smart conversation to be had about what is going on on these platforms in terms of how they are working with the fbi and others and however we're not seeing those kinds of questions today and democrats made that point. have a listen. >> "the new york post" had this alleged information and was trying to public it without any corroboration, without any backup information. they were trying to publish it to twitter. twitter did not let them and now they were upset. i believe that political operatives who sought to inject explosive disinformation with "the washington post" couldn't get away with it. >> but instead of letting this trivial pursuit go, my colleagues have tried to whip up a faux scandal about the two-day
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lapse in their ability to spread hunter biden propaganda on a private media platform. silly does not even begin to capture this obsession. >> as we've mentioned, the former twitter executives say they shouldn't have censored this "the new york post" story, but despite all of what we've heard through these hearings, the so-called twitter files. we shouldn't have seen this smoking gun that there was this order from the fbi that said you've got to censor this story. >> while we have you, let me ask you about another media story getting a lot of attention right now. joeg rogan getting some backlash for employing an anti-semitic trope. listen to it. >> ilhan omar where she's apologizing for talking about it's all about the benjamins. >> yeah. >> it's about money. >> she shouldn't have apologized. >> that's not an anti-semitic statement. benjamins are money, you know. the idea that jewish people are
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not into money is ridiculous. that's like saying italians aren't into pizza. that's [ bleep ] stupid. >> so is anything going to happen here, or is this just joe rogan says something and we all move on next show. >> that's we all move on next show and that's because joe rogan is the most popular podcaster on spotify and also in the world. spot nye has a $200 million deal with him that expires at the end of the year. i don't think this is going to interfere with that relationship, but what i do think is that this puts more pressure on the company. it's been under a lot of pressure around joe rogan and other content moderation issues over the past year, and i think every time joe rogan says something like this, there's a little bit more pressure on spotify about how they handle thorny issues. we've seen that pressure on twitter, clearly with the hearing today. we've seen it on meta and now it's coming to this audio giant. >> doesn't take it away from being disgusting and it is an
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from super bowl lvii, ahead of the big game roger goodell just held his state of the league address. coy wire was there. so, coy, before we get to that,
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we have some really good news and we need some. we're hearing now that damar hamlin, that it is being reported, medical director of the nfl players association, said that he will play football again. just incredible news. what is the reaction there to that? >> yeah, the nfl players association medical director is the one who said, quote, i guarantee you that damar hamlin will play professional football again, unquote. it is just absolutely incredible when you think that he suffered cardiac arrest on the field of play this season. outside of the league, the highlight reel plays, the come backe ba backes we saw, and those teams new to the playoffs. and also bringing to light the importance of cpr preparedness. american heart association says that 350,000 cardiac arrests
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happen outside of the hospital every year. 90% of the people don't make it receiving cpr. here is roger goodell talking about the team's willingness to set their players up to be saved if that is the case. here he is. >> the work that they have invested in by bringing in these great professionals, by bringing in the best of the best, did contribute to saving a young man's life and i'm incredibly proud of that, but i also believe even more general our medical professionals do an extraordinary job and our players are getting the best care anywhere. >> what an incredible moment. it was such a big story and we saw how the world rallied around that tragic moment. and it has made the world a better place. and it has turned in to a
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positive story and continues to inspire to this day. >> and remember christian erickson that also suffered cardiac arrest and is playing again too. >> it has been five weeks. to hear after what we saw on january 2 and now five weeks later that he will play professional ball again, it is a miracle. coy wire, thanks so much. newly revealed police documents show that one of the officers charged in the death of tyre nichols took cellphone pictures. and he was bloodied, slumped against a police car in these photos. we'll tell you what else we know live from memphis.
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