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hello, i'm abby phillip in washington. president biden is taking the fight to republicans in florida and that's a state that's been tilting more and more toward the gop. it's also home to two of biden's potential 2024 rivals, donald trump and ron desantis. not to mention, biden's latest foil, republican senator rick scott. it is scott's recent proposal to sunset federal programs that biden has been hammering all week and in a few minutes he'll try to keep the pressure on with remarks focused on bolstering social security and medicare. cnn's priscilla alvarez is there in tampa ahead of the speech. so, priscilla, i don't think many people expected that joe biden and rick scott would be the first big political matchup of the year but the white house is very much leaning into it.

>> reporter: it is front and center, abby. not only that, this is the second stop that biden is making after the state of the union this week. as he mentioned, biden is driving his message home that he is trying to protect social security and medicare and that is one of the issues that drew the fiercest reaction during the state of the union this week and he's doing it in the state where rick scott of florida had proposed sunsetting federal legislation including social security and medicare in five years and also, of course, a state home to two potential gop challengers in 2024. now, it was abundantly clear to the audience that filled in behind me what the focus was going to be and how aggressively the white house is leaning into this with every one of the seats behind me had scott's 12-point plan that included that proposal as well as biden's plan on this issue. now, of course, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell said this was never going to gain traction and this morning, on cnn, scott pushed back too claiming that he

had no intention of cutting medicare and social security. take a listen. >> he's a complete failure. i mean, look at the people and what they care about, inflation, he caused it. gas prices, he caused it. no transparency in his administration so he's been a complete failure and now he lies about whey want to get done and i don't appreciate it. >> reporter: now, it's clear, abby, that the white house sees this as an opportunity on a key issue and one where it may be able to gain ground with seniors in the state. again, a state where there could be potential gop challengers in 2024 and as we await president biden to make his potential re-election bid, abby. >> yeah, and obviously the president's potential running for re-election is really the thing that undergirds a lot of it. are his white house aides acknowledging the 2024 overtones of this all and do they see this

issue about social security and medicare, these entitlements as being perhaps the defining issue of this next campaign? >> reporter: well, it's certainly one of them and one they clearly have a lot of confidence in. again, because of what happened during the state of the union, remember, there was jeers from republican, cheers from democrats, it was a moment in the state of the union and one they are capitalizing on as they do their circuit after the address this week and as they come here in tampa so expect to hear quite a bit soon from president biden an this issue going after senator scott and making clear that his message should he campaign will be that he is going to protect social security and medicare. >> all right, priscilla, thank you for that. for more let's bring in christie seltzer and cnn senior political commentator scott jennings. both of you, thanks for being here. christie, i want to start with you. the state of florida is something that used to be -- a

place that used to be very purple and now seems to be really turning much more red in recent years. what's your sense of it? i mean, is the white house here making a play to put this state back on the board in 2024? >> they're doing a couple things here. biden is accomplishing several goals simultaneously. first and i think most importantly he is extending the media moment he had on tuesday night where i don't think they expected that the best and most interesting takeaway from the state of the union was going to be this back and forth in which he put the republicans on the defense about social security and medicare but they are so glad he did. that's the first piece. they have it in the best possible place, florida, the home state of his 2024 rivals and showing that democrats are not ceding florida. no, we can't. but also i think that he truly believes that this is a state

that is winnable, especially again if the message continues to be about social security and medicare and especially if he has that side-by-side with ron desantis where he gets to have, you know, desantis looking small, making petty culture wars on things like tracking little girls' menstrual cycles while biden remains above the fray talking about things that are really hard to disagree with. >> okay, scott, so what do you think about that strategy, taking the fight to desantis, taking the fight to trump whose home is now florida and also rick scott? >> i don't think this has anything to do with rick scott. i don't think it will be close. this has everything to do with rick scott and donald trump. biden needs trump. he's trying to bait him into the race. they're like magnets. he knows that. number two is rick scott is a gadfly in our party, his ideas rejected by the voters and

rejected by the senate republican conference and now joe biden wants us all to believe we're following rick scott's ideas. it's just not true, particularly when you consider that when biden was a senator he introduced to sunset federal programs himself so this is really dishonest partisan politics. he cannot escape one fact his own party doesn't want him to run again. he's trying to change the subject and talk about anything but the fact that democrats want to get out of this but they can't figure out how to do it. >> but, scott, don't you think that rick scott has walked into if this was a trap laid by the white house, walked into that trap? he appeared on cnn this morning doubling down on this issue. biden seems to be forcing republicans to talk about something they don't want to talk about. >> yeah, rick scott is really smart. just ask him. he'll tell you all about it. the reality is, mitch mcconnell, kevin mccarthy, virtually every other republican in congress, they don't want to do this plan and what biden was saying in the state of the union was dishonest. we're not doing a debt ceiling deal in exchange for this plan.

it's not on the table. it's never been on the table. it is a straw man dishonest argument being made by joe biden. every republican is against this. there's not going to be any entitlement cuts. the american people should bank on that but joe biden running against rick scott and trying to bait donald trump into this tells you he doesn't want to take on honest republicans but our gadflies and that's the only possible way he has back to the white house. >> every republican is obviously not against this plan. some republicans are. it's just not a majority and biden did say that in the state of the union but, christy, biden is in florida and it seems like the driving force for republicans right now is on some of these culture war issues, whether you're talking about tr transkids or curriculum or critical race theory, immigration. do you expect biden to address that at all today, or will he stay focused on the pocketbook issues? >> i think it's secondary to him. i think that he first and

foremost will continue the sort of messages he did in the state of the union which, again, overwhelmingly were the sorts of things where it's really impossible for the vast majority of americans to disagree with. you know, raising teacher pay, those sorts of things and i think that he embraces it because it makes republicans look all the more fringe. i really appreciate scott's attempt to marginalize rick scott, act as though he wasn't the head of the senatorial campaign committee. as though he wasn't sort of putting out policy positions that he expected the rest of the republican caucus to adopt. that's really sweet and it's really nice sort of in retrospect to take that position but, in fact, no, this is the position of the republican party that they have wanted to cut social security and medicare. they have wanted to fight these culture wars and adopt these positions that very few mainstream americans could possibly agree with. so, it behooves democrats to bring him out there. that said, i think that if i were the biden campaign, what i would want to do is spend about

70% of my time focused on pocketbook issues and maybe 30% of the time getting into taking the fight to them on culture wars. >> i have to respond. she invoked me. does joe biden endorse defunding the police? >> he does not. >> okay, well -- >> that is he a really -- >> democrats do and democrats do so under your logic joe biden wants to defund the police. under your logic -- >> scott -- scott, that's actually a really good point because republicans are crying foul for biden paintings them with this broad brush when republicans in the last midterm cycle did the very same thing on defund the police. so i just wonder, i mean as a political tactic, is it really as outrageous as you're making it sound considering that republicans did the exact same thing on defund the police? >> i mean, i find it to be outrageous because joe biden knows it's not true and, yet, i mean, look this is a tried and true democrat tactic.

they're tacking republicans and medicare and social security. rick scott has no leadership position in our party. he ran for republican leader and got beat 37-10. this is a back bench gadfly idea and the defund the police as far as i can tell was more mainstream in the democratic party but joe biden to his credit rejected it in the state of the union so if you want to have a fair fight here about applying gadfly positions to our party's leaders, at least be honest about it. >> okay, look, i don't know that you could describe rick scott who was the leader of the senate republican congress ago committee as a gadfly figure at all. but i want to move on to the budget really quickly. scott, i'll start with you. are republicans going to say what they're willing to cut if they've taken defense spending and social security and medicare off the table. >> this is one of mccarthy's big challenges. inside the republican conference there is disagreement about how to trim the sails. that's his first big leadership

challenge get a unified message on where spending should be cut. what kind of cap should exist and there is going to be some debate i think internally in our party about defense spending. some want cap, some wants cuts so kevin mccarthy has a real challenge on his hands, but i have been surprised, pleasantly surprised with how he's able to unify people so far on various issues. i have some -- i have some optimism he can get us there on a unified plan because it's hard to negotiate if you don't have a unified plan. >> christy, i want to ask, democrats from a political perspective, should they come to the table on spending cuts this year? >> look, i think we're going to enjoy watching republicans squirm and, you know, and have no control over their caucus, but ultimately there needs to be an honest conversation and do need to pass things like the budget so, yes, so basically we should be able to have a conversation about lots of things, about the budget so that we can get things done for the american people.

>> all right. scott jennings and christy setzer. thank you for the lively conversation. >> thank you. we're following a number of new developments today about that chinese spy balloon that was shot down by u.s. fighter jets over the weekend. lawmakers from both the house and the senate have now attended classified briefings on it today and sources tell cnn that several republicans railed against the administration's delay in taking it down. also new today, the state department confirms that the surveillance craft was capable of monitoring u.s. communications. so let's bring in cnn's congressional correspondent jessica dean and senior justice correspondent evan perez. what are you hearing from lawmakers as they came out of that briefing today? >> reporter: the senate briefing is the one that motor recently ended, abby, of course, lawmakers on both sides and both in the house and senate had been asking for information on this. they really wanted more information on this, and we're now starting to see them get that and get their reaction.

as you would imagine, republicans, some of whom really in the house in the case of the house we're told railing against this as you mentioned were very critical of president biden and the administration but we're told the briefers really tried to outline the time line to explain exactly what was done and why it was done and it should be noted it was really those hard-liner republican, people like marjorie taylor greene. over in the senate we heard from some senate republicans who, again, disagreed with how the biden administration handled things but did hear from senator mitt romney a republican from utah and broke with the rest of his party saying that he emerged from this more confident that this was really held -- that this was handled carefully and he said skillfully and with care. those were his words so he emerged from this feeling very good about the decisions that have been made admitting it probably wasn't perfect but most things in life aren't perfect but felt great about it. we heard from senator chris murphy, a democrat from connecticut. he was very pleased with how this went down. we also talked to senator jon tester who is from montana.

of course, he's up for re-election in 2024 and montana played a big role in all this. he went into the briefing saying that he really felt like the administration needed to justify its actions and he did want to hear more so people have a lot of questions that they want answered and to that end there have also been a handful of briefings or a handful of hearings, rather, here on the hill throughout the day and i want to let you listen to the deputy secretary of state. here's what she was telling lawmakers a little bit ago. >> we make clear to prc officials that the presence of this surveillance balloon was unacceptable and along the way we learned a thing or two which you'll hear in the classified briefing about the prc's use of the balloon. this irresponsible act put on full display what we've long recognized if the prc has become more repressive at home and more aggressive abroad. >> reporter: again, this is an issue that already had a lot of attention here on the hill from both sides of the aisle, frankly, abby, and now after this entire episode, that has

just become more focused and more concentrated and there are simply a lot of questions and a lot of talk about how to deal with this moving forward. abby. >> yeah, absolutely. and, evan, my understanding you came out of an fbi briefing. they're charged with analyzing pieces of this balloon that came down in the atlantic. what are you learning? >> reporter: yeah, abby, so the fbi has now in its hands the initial parts of this balloon and some of the equipment that was recovered from the top of the ocean. this is off the coast of south carolina. there's a lot of the contents, the payload, so to speak, that remains underwater under dozens of feet of water and that is work that is more complicated especially because of the weather and because you have navy and fbi divers going down there. we have some of the first pictures now that you see there on your screen from the fbi of some of the recovery efforts. we also have pictures of the contents of the balloon that have now made their way to

quantico which is the fbi lab that is going to be doing this analysis hoping to learn a lot more about the signals intelligence collection the communications collection this balloon was doing. we asked the question on the briefing that we had with senior fbi officials whether there was anything that has been recovered so far that indicates, you know, explosives or anything that could have harmed the public as this balloon made its way across the united states. we were told that at this point, again, the limited amount they've been able to recover they see nothing that would have been of use to that. so far they have the balloon canopy, some wires, again, limited amounts of equipment and one of the important things that we learned was that this is the first time that the fbi has actually been able to examine one of these, abby, you know from the last few days we've heard that there have been a number of these that have been tracked across the united states. this is the first time that the fbi and its lab are being able

to do -- are able to do this kind of analysis on one of these and so they expect to learn a lot more, abby. >> that's right. jessica dean and evan perez, thank you both very much for those updates. let's continue this discussion. shawn turner cnn national security analyst and former director of communications at the u.s. office of national intelligence. also with us is cnn military analyst and retired army major general james "spider" marks. shawn, to you, this new cnn reporting that the balloon contained the sophisticated technology that allowed them to monitor u.s. communications seems very significant. the path that the balloon took took it over several u.s. military bases. was the objective here to collect intelligence, signals intelligence on those bases? >> well, abby, look, there's no doubt that the reason this balloon was in u.s. airspace was to collect intelligence.

we will learn more about the exact nature of the intelligence that they were trying to collect as we dive in more to what we find. but it's important for meme to know that even as this balloon traversed over the united states, you know, our national security weren't standing still. there would have been a couple of things that would have been done that were important. the first thing, we would have taken a hard look at the path of this balloon moving over the united states and look at what was in that path. everything we could possibly do to prevent the collection of intelligence would have been done. and so that's the first thing that's extremely important for people to understand. we did not allow this balloon to traverse and collect intelligence without addressing that. the second thing we would have done, abby, this balloon would have been monitored every second of every minute of every day and if we had seen any aggressive or offensive action we would have been prepared to address that. so the answer is, yes, it was to collect intelligence, but we did

our due diligence in preventing that, and in the end, we will know how successful they were. >> and general marks, i mean, knowing this, knowing that this balloon had these sophisticated technologies to collect communications, do you think that the president should have ordered it to be shot down earlier? >> i do. look, we were tracking this as it approached the aleutian aisles. that's american airspace, as well, and i think this was an opportunity for diplomacy to really take center stage. the united states, this administration could have gone to china and said, look, we're tracking your balloon. it's over the aleutians and coming into our airspace on the continental united states shortly. we're going to do something with this unless you can turn this bad boy around and there was the ability to do that but if not we're going to take it down. we just wanted to let you know. we're either going to shoot it down -- but it will belong to us and have a follow-on

conversation. in other words, not make this a big deal and as shawn incredibly described wonderfully is the amount of legwork that needed to be done in order to track completely surveil, try to do some mitigation efforts as this t traversed across the united states. we should have taken it down earlier and would have changed the narrative if it was shot down over montana or idaho or elsewhere and would have been able to do the identical collection we're doing now on the debris in the atlantic ocean, we could have done in the pacific. >> shawn, i mean i think the counterpoint to what the general is saying would be that -- and this is the argument that the united states government is making -- that they were able to observe it. they had an unprecedented ability to observe how it operated, what it was doing, what it was capable of. do you buy that argument? do you think that valuable intelligence was worth whatever risk they took by allowing it to

make that path over the united states? >> well, you know, abby, part of this process is for the president to ask for options here and as he did, the president initially said i want kinetic options. inherent in that is doing an assessment and, you know, one of the challenges that we have in the intelligence community and national security space is looking at those assessments and making decisions as to what the best course of action is. and so on this question of whether or not it should have been shot down earlier or should have been shot down when it was shot down, i certainly take a look at the idea that the intelligence community is saying that the risk to people on the ground was higher than the risk of chinese intelligence collection and i have to consider that. now, you know, look, as a journalist said, you know, if we looked at the assessment and said, you know what, it makes sense to shoot it down over the aleutian aisles and still get the same information, we would

h or should have done that. we have to hear more from the administration and i think that's important. they have to explain more but we need to let the intelligence assessment sort of drive us in terms of understanding what the right course of action was. >> all right, shawn turner and retired general spider marks, thanks for joining us. and disney and zoom just joined the job cutting party. what that means for the wider economy is ahead. plus, time is running out for people still trapped in the mountains of earthquake debris in turkey and syria. but many are still making it out alive miraculously. the race to save them before it's too late. and it's not always in bad blood. watch what happens when republicans and democrats come together to roast each other for fun. >> who lies about being -- about playing college volleyball? if you're going to lie, at least make it about something big, like you actually won the 2020

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jobless claims 196,000. that is up but it's still historically low. it's a big dip from where we were at the height of the pandemic so that's good to see but in the last couple of weeks, we have seen jobless claims come down. what the federal reserve actually wants to see is this number continue to rise. that is because when you compare it to the blockbuster january jobs report that we saw, 517,000 jobs added, absolutely smashing expectations. the federal reserve wants to see this number come down, because what this is showing right now, abby, is still a very tight labor market and the federal reserve when seeing these numbers together, it is signaling to them that they are going to still continue to increase interest rates in order to cool inflation and in order to get these numbers in a better place. they want to see lower unemployment and fewer jobs added. that will be an indication that their medicine, these rising

interest rates is doing their job, abby. >> i know that's sometimes hard for people to stomach, the idea of people losing jobs is obviously not a good thing. but from the perspective of the economy, they want to see -- they want to see, you know, higher unemployment. you're seeing a little bit of that happening in the tech sector and now with disney as well so zoom and disney both announcing some layoffs. what are we talking about in terms of those? >> reporter: this is hard. we're talking about people's actual job, people's actual livelihoods here but disney is cutting 7,000 jobs, that's about 3% of the global workforce and a couple reasons why that is happening. so they're trying to find 5.5 billion in cost savings. we have also seen a drop in subscribers to disney plus. down 2.5 million subscribers in the fourth quarter. also you have a new ceo coming in. he's actually been the ceo of disney before but he's back

again. bob iger. he was saying that a lot of the content creation and then the distribution of disney products was a little bit disorganized so he's going to be putting it all under something called disney entertainment and will keep going with espn and then they're going to keep going obviously with their very profitable parks here at disney locations around the country and around the world but let's turn to that tech sector that you were talking about. zoom, zoom cutting 1300 jobs. that's about 15% of its workforce. zoom was a pandemic darling. we were all on zoom during the pandemic, but now as we've gotten back into the workplace, we've seen people cutting their attachment to technology. and part of that is that the ceo is going to be taking a 98% pay cut and forgoing his bonus for 2023. but, remember, abby, tech is a small part of the labor market.

it's about 2%, 3%. when we look at the larger labor market, it's important to note that it is still very, very strong. so unfortunately what the federal reserve is still looking to do is to raise unemployment in order to cool inflation. it's a very, very delicate dance but, of course, as you said it's painful for many american, abby. >> yeah, absolutely. these are some of the very big companies so the numbers in terms of jobs seem like a big number. but they're also a small part of the economy so not doing what the federal reserve is looking for. vanessa, thanks for breaking that down for us. >> thank you. a top executive from southwest airlines is in the hot seat right now. congress got brand-new evidence about internal chaos at that company that contributed to the holiday meltdown that left 2 million passengers stranded and it cost the company hundreds of millions of dollars. and now senators are grilling the coo in the latest hearing on the chaos in u.s. air travel.

cnn's gabe cohen is tracking all this. are we getting a better picture of what went wrong with southwest here? >> yes, so, abby, we've been listening to this testimony all afternoon. southwest's pilots union has repeated again and again that they have been raising red flags about southwest airlines'ant indicated systems with regard to crew scheduling for years and feel like they were largely ignored. one of the systems that failed after that winter storm back in december. southwest just couldn't reconnect their crews and aircrafts and as you might remember they ended up canceling nearly 17,000 flights. now, we have heard from southwest's chief operating officer and he has apologized again and again as lawmakers grill him about what exactly went wrong and what they're going to do to fix it. here's just one exchange between senator ed markey and southwest's coo, i should say. >> some of the issues were part

of the meltdown. >> why didn't you do anything about it? >> we were addressing part of those issues, obviously was unsuccessful but with regard to the crew scheduling we had invested in those areas. >> well, again, because you did not listen to those warnings, catastrophic conditions were created for passengers by the hundreds of thousands all across the country. >> that gives you a sense of the pointed questions southwest is getting today. they say they have reimbursed the airline more than 273,000 customers at this point with less than 11,000 to go so they are making progress there. abby. >> is there anything being done to make sure this doesn't happen to people again? >> reporter: look, that's been one of the big questions being asked by lawmakers today and southwest is vowing to do better. they say they have a software update to their scheduling system. what i was talking about before that really failed them in december, it's going to be going

live tomorrow. and they're also planning to upgrade their winter resiliency, things like de-icing which were a major problem back during that disease meltdown. they are working on a top to bottom fix. it's going to cost many millions of dollars, they say, but they believe they're going to have a better assessment of what that will look like by march and, again, the airline has said they have done some more minor tweaks that they believe they're already better set up to prevent a meltdown like that in the case of a big winter storm. abby. >> all right, gabe cohen, thank you for that. and the shocking death toll is rising from a massive earthquake in turkey and syria. but as rescuers race against the clock there are also incredible stories of survival. we'll share them with you next. no matter your purpose, at pnc private bank we will work with you every step of the way to help you achieve it. so let us focucus on the how. just tell us - what's's your why?

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child all surviving several nights of subzero temperatures. here's becky anderson. >> reporter: a miraculous moment of survival. a father and his two sons, rescued, 76 hours after that massive earthquake struck turkey and syria on monday morning. omar is one of their cousins. he helped to dig them out. >> we are trying to reach them and we have contact with them. we had a call by mobile phone. >> reporter: more than 100 people lived inside according to the residents and it's omar's love for family that drove him to assist the rescuers sifting through the rubble. painstaking work, first the rescuers and volunteers must dig and then plead for silence to hear any sign of life. repeating the process until they get closer.

neighbors, friends, relatives and bystanders all joining together in the freezing cold to pray, hope and wish for a miracle. until finally almost 56 hours on, contacts with made with one of them in the rubble. but it still took many more hours to finally free them. omar says while his uncle and two cousins survived with no injuries, his aunt didn't make it. >> this is them doing the same because if we were in the same situation. >> reporter: one family's story giving hope to a grieving country. becky anderson. gaziantep. meanwhile, today in brussels, belgium, ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy is meeting face-to-face with leaders of the european union. [ applause ]

zelenskyy delivered an emotional plea to allow his country to join the eu. he also repeated his calls for more tanks, missiles and more fighter jets to bolster the fight against russia. cnn's nic robertson is joining us now from brussels. nic, we saw that standing ovation. he has been to london, went to paris, now in brussels, how are eu leaders receiving this call, a plea for military aid from zelenskyy? >> reporter: you know, i think one thing that is really cutting through here is the fact that they're getting to see zelenskyy up close personal have conversations with him, see him reacting to press conferences standing right next to him and that's making a difference. we've seen both the european commission president, the european council president really quite relaxed standing at his side. zelenskyy says, yes, he is making gains and making headway

on this push to get fighter jets, the british obviously saying they'll train the fighter pilots. he said that he wouldn't spell out what's been discussed in these private meetings behind closed doors. but his appeal wasn't just to these leaders for military equipment. really sort of for the long term here, shoring up support for ukraine. when he spoke to the 705-member european parliament talking about how ukraine shares european values, that ukrainians are european, that russia doesn't share these sort of values of human rights, freedom of the press, all those things, indeed, he said and this is perhaps his most emotional appeal that ukrainians are coming home to europe. that's what got him the big standing ovation and it's important because the appeal that reaches out to the people of europe will sustain the political positions and that strength of unity among the leaders. >> yeah, it's just worth noting it's incredible that just over a

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