imagine that washington will probably get involved again, jose. >> jacob ward thank you so very much. that wraps up the hour for me. i'm josé diaz-balart. you can always reach me on twitter and instagram at jd baa balart. thank you for the privilege of your time. lindsey rogers picks up with more news right now. good monday morning, i'm lindsey reiser at msnbc world headquarters in new york. we're following an intense morning on the international stage. the dire emergency in turkey and syria after two massive earthquakes shocked the region. a magnitude 7.8 earthquake followed by a 7.6 quake, the first one more powerful than two dozen hiroshima bombs. 2,000 people are confirmed dead and that number continues to rise dramatically. search and rescue crews are desperately looking for

survivors. their cries for help can be heard through the rubble. >> we need help. we need the international community to do something, to help us, to support us. >> survivors being pulled from the wreckage including this toddler. i'll speak with a u.n. official about the recovery effort. also this morning, tensions flaerg with china as the u.s. rushes to collect the debris from that spy balloon. china calling it a clear overreaction. the fallout from that hanging over president biden one day out from his second state of the union address. what we know about tomorrow's high stakes speech. we're going to begin with those massive deadly earthquakes rocking turkey and syria. p nbc news foreign correspondent meagan fitzgerald has the latest on the damage. i'm joined by senior communications adviser and spokesperson for the u.n. high

commissioner for the refugee office for middle east and north africa. the images coming out of the region are horrifying. children being pulled from the rubble, entire buildings collapsing. what's happening right now? >> reporter: yeah, we're talking about complete and utter devastation in turkey and in syria. i mean, we know collectively between the two countries, some 3,000 buildings have just crumbled. we know the death toll is soaring past 2,200, that, of course, will continue to rise. thousands of people are injured. you know, i mean, we're talking about a 7.8 magnitude earthquake that hit, followed by a 7.72 earthquake. these are being called the worst this region has seen in 100 years. you take a look at these devastating images in turkey where you're just seeing collapsed building, rubble, and you know that underneath are people that are trapped screaming for help. first responders rushing to the scene trying to get these people. a chaotic scene, families

screaming and crying for their loved ones under the debris, while first responders are asking for silence so that they can listen to the voices of people that are screaming for help as they continue this search and rescue mission. you look at syria, a similar situation where the civil defense spokesperson as you played was on the verge of tears talking about the help his country needs. we know that the military all units throughout the country of syria have been deployed to the northern part of the country to try and help save people. but look, the world is responding. we know that dozens of humanitarian aid organizations are on their way to try and help. we know that the european union countries are sending some help and search and rescue people. then you have war-torn ukraine who is also saying that they have search and rescue folks that are there to help, and of course the united states is offering assistance as well. i want to read for you this tweet that president biden tweeted not long ago. he says i am deeply saddened by

the loss of life and devastation caused by the earthquake in turkey and syria. i have directed my team to continue to closely monitor the situation in coordination with turkey and provide any and all needed assistance. president erdogan of turkey saying more than 45 countries have reached out to him. lindsey, quite frankly, the world is watching this humanitarian crisis play out and it's absolutely devastating. >> help put this in perspective for us. we are talking about a region so stricken by a refugee crisis and recent harsh weather. how much worse could this end up becoming? >> it's a catastrophe because the earthquake has struck those who are most vulnerable. we have to remember more than 6.8 million people are still displaced inside syria. among them more than 4 million inside northwest syria where a lot of the damage has taken place. we'll need humanitarian assistance to survive. they live in shelters.

they live in tents. they live in damaged buildings or partially destroyed buildings, and now with more than 74 aftershock waves they are so scared to go back to these shelters. they are outside in the rain, in the cold, freezing weather. the region is being hit by the coldest snowstorm, and it's very hard to reach them because many of the roads and the infrastructure had been damaged. the snow had blocked many of the roads to these areas, and people don't have the tools to extract their loved ones, to save them. they're standing there. we can see as you have shown. people are hearing their calls for assistance, and they can't reach them. syria has been in war, in a crisis for 12 years. that's meant that half of the hospitals are functioning. there is need for medical assistance. there is need for blankets, for

shelter, for food, for water, for everything. so this earthquake is a catastrophe. this one is really a very bad one. it hit people who are very vulnerable, who have very few tools to protect themselves and their families. >> given that, how long of a recovery are we talking about these countries could be looking at? >> it's hard to talk about recovery. for trying to save lives, trying to rescue people who are stranded under the rubble. trying to reach the faemgs who are stranded in the rain and snow because they don't have anywhere to go. we have deploying mobilizing resources, deploying colleagues and trying to send as quickly all these supplies, blankets, mattresses, medical items. we are trying to reach them before the snow settles in, which is supposed to happen tonight and tomorrow morning. so far 2,000 people have lost their lives, and we are

expecting this number to rise because so far we have all damage sites have been reached with rescue efforts, so it's a very dire situation, and it comes as people were struggling with the snowstorm, with a deep economic crisis, with displacement for over 12 years with no solution on the horizon. so you can see how painful and how tragic the impact of this earthquake is on these people. >> meagan fitzgerald, thank you both for your time. this morning the political and diplomatic fallout is intensifying after president biden's decision to shoot down a chinese spy balloon off the coast of south carolina. china slammed the decision as an overreaction while some republicans said the president waited too long to shoot it down. getting a look at some video here that appears to show part of that balloon being brought back to the shore yesterday. nbc ease george soliz is near

myrtle beach. senior capitol hill correspondent garrett haake has reaction and the hill and i'm joined by a former cia officer and intelligence analyst. how much of this balloon have searchers been able to recover so far, and what do they hope to learn from it? all right. doesn't sound like we have george. we're going to work on his audio. dan, we'll go to you here on some of what's happening behind the scenes here. senior administration officials telling nbc news they discussed how best to take this balloon down at great length. what do we know about why the u.s. ended up handling this the way they did? >> the administration, lindsey, is saying they acted responsibly and prudently. they say the military always takes into consideration collateral damage, and they decided there was too much of a risk to civilians. it wasn't worth the risk

bringing down this really large balloon. they waited until it was over the water. they also felt there was a greater chance of retrooefg that spying equipment on the balloon if they shot it over shallow waters instead of bringing it down over land. obviously they're coming under some criticism, in china, it's interesting to see how they reaction has evolved. so when it was first spotted and first revealed, the chinese were quite restrained, even a little sheepish. they acknowledged it was their balloon. they said it was a weather balloon, and they regret that had that had gone off course, but once antony blinken the secretary of state, canceled his planned visit, which was very important to china and then once the u.s. shot it down, you saw the rhetoric ratchet up in beijing. they condemned the action and are talking about potential repercussions. china now has a pr problem on its hands. there's a second balloon spotted in latin america and costa rica

and columbia sightings, and they're having to now explain what that balloon is doing, and they're also claiming that balloon is purely civilian for peaceful purposes. this is become ago headache for china as well. >> i believe we have george back now, george on the scene off the coast, what more do we know about the collection of this debris? >> reporter: yeah, lindsey. good afternoon, good to be with you. we know that navy divers and recovery boats are back out in that seven-mile stretch, that debris field where that balloon was expected to have landed. this is in shallow water, 47 feet. this is better than what the estimates of the pentagon had given. i can tell you just looking here on the horizon, it does appear that there is a boat out there, a vessel, but with the naked eye, it is so hard to tell whether that is a military boat out there conducting more of these search efforts for this debris. as you mentioned, that video that was circulated, that possible debris collected by the

u.s. military, we have to wonder how much more of that is going to wash up on shore. that is what the department of defense are working right here along the carolina coast. they are making sure if some of that debris washes onshore. it does not fall into the hands of locals and tourists out hear. this is not a memento. this is not something you want to take home. doing so could interfere with a federal investigation. there is a big presence out here making sure if some of this debris comes onshore, they collect it right away. the temperature has been pretty chilly. a lot of people have not been out and about. there are people where this has become a spectacle for them. a lot of people we were talking to were in awe when this balloon went down here off the carolina coast. many of them also wanted to see if they might be able to catch a glimpse of some of that debris. at this point that's all the authorities want people to do. take a glimpse, maybe, report it if you see it, certainly don't mess with it. of course there will be much more developments and we'll be keeping a close eye here on the

ground should that debris wash onshore. >> take a glimpse. not a chunk of it home. the white house says the u.s. was able to mitigate. do you think china was able to gather some intelligence? >> well, lindsey, perhaps, and i think we're going to have -- there's going to have to be a forensic analysis of some of the debris. more than likely the intelligence community and the pentagon did collect quite a bit from our own exquisite collection of what the balloon was doing. there's also reports that we were able to jam in essence the length that the balloon had perhaps back to beijing. but in the grand menu of what china does in terms of espionage activities. this balloon is probably 200th on the list. they have a massive espionage campaign that includes sophisticated spy satellites. certainly human intelligence. fbi director chris wray says every several hours they open the counterintelligence investigation. >> is something like this able to gather intelligence that a satellite can't because it's

lower to the ground? >> right. one of the things a balloon can do is loiter, can stay over a target. we're going to have to see what signals were on there, telemetry, other types of equipment. in my old world this is not particularly the most sophisticated type of platform. this is going to go back to twhat intelligence community really is going to have to assess is why did the chinese do this. why did they choose a platform that in essence was clumsy. the chinese got caught with their hand in the cookie jar. is it an intelligence surveillance reconnaissance mission planned months in advance. this did scuttle a summit that china wanted to occur. lots of questions to answer in the days and weeks ahead. >> we usually leave the analysis to garrett. i'll go ahead and see if he can come up with one in his next answer. all senators will get a briefing on this balloon next wednesday. republicans are slamming the biden administration for not taking action sooner.

what are you hearing on the him? >> hawkishness on china is probably the single most animating principle among house republicans and there's no exception to that here. they believe to mark's point that this wasn't an accident by china. this was a message that china was sending that they could do what they wanted by floating this balloon over the entire continental united states. house republicans argue the biden administration's failings ended basically when this was allowed to cross into american territory without being shot down. the fact that it was launched in the first place is a symbol of weakness of this administration. mike turner who's the chairman of the house intel committee has access to some of the most sensitive intelligence on this issue. we'll get briefed later this week as part of the gang of eight. had this to say about the whole operation on "meet the press" this weekend. >> clearly the president taking it down over the atlantic is sort of like the quarterback sort of like tackling the quarterback after the game is over. the satellite had completed its

mission. this should never have been allowed to enter the united states and never should have been allowed to complete its mission. >> reporter: mike turner handle the analogies for today as we head into super bowl week, but republicans are chomping at the bit for which communities and who's going to have the opportunity to run the most aggressive oversight on this entire episode. they're unsatisfied with the answers they've gotten from the white house this far. i suspect they will remain unsatisfied after the state of the union and however the president chooses to address this tomorrow night. >> so mark, you mentioned this high stakes meeting between blinken and chinese government that was pushed off here. are you surprising here that china would do this as a deliberate act here, something that's been called very brazen knowing that that would have the consequences of this meeting getting postponed which all intents and purposes it looks like china was looking for, or do you see this as an unforced error here again, what they're calling a force majeure, but something that really was out of their control.

>> lindsey, i think that's right. i think at times intelligence community of any country does some things in terms of collection missions that are not coordinated with the political leadership. i would think we're going to see heads roll in beijing amongst the military and intel leaders. this did scuttle a meeting that china considered important. on both sides, washington and beijing, we're going to want to get things back on track. we have to meet with the chinese. there are a myriad of serious issues to discuss. at the end, i do wonder why the chinese did this. in my mind, my biggest theory is this was an uncoordinated intelligence collection mission, which i think the chinese are really going to regret. >> thank you all so much. coming up, this political fallout from the chinese spy balloon is hovering over president biden's state of the union address tomorrow. the new details we have this morning about how his speech is taking shape. plus, fear and alarm this

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. tomorrow night president biden will make that storied trek from the white house down pennsylvania avenue to the capitol to deliver his second state of the union address. this time he'll speak before a divided congress. he's expected to highlight his administration's accomplishments while also laying the groundwork for what a potential second term would look like ahead of his expected re-election bid. meanwhile, capitol police prepared for tomorrow night's address over the weekend reinstalling that fencing around the capitol grounds. mike memoli is at the white house with more on what to expect, and ryan nobles is on capitol hill. there's a new "washington post," abc poll out this morning and it finds 62% of americans think biden has accomplished not vsh much, little or nothing, while 36% say he has accomplish add great deal or good amount. that underscores the uphill climb he has faced. how does he intend to do that in the state of the union address? >> yeah, the white house is keenly aware of that reality,

the political rally heading into the speech, not just that the american, the majority think the president hasn't accomplished much, but also that the country continues to be on the wrong track. a big part of this speech is going to be talking about his long list of accomplishments from his first two years in office but that the average american maybe isn't as familiar with. one senior official tells me a goal of the speech is so reconnect with the themes of his 2020 candidacy, especially areas where he feels he's delivered on the pledges he's made to voters, ideas like rebuilding the middle class. expect to hear the president talk quite a bit about what some of the very tangible benefits are going to be for the average american from things like the infrastructure law, the chips and science act, the american rescue plan, and the inflation reduction act, and to talk about ways in which not just these are important to have new bridges, new roads, new tunnels, cheaper

insulin, but the fact that these patrols are also going to be bringing back jobs, especially to rural and hard hit communities during the pandemic where people have been suffering for the past few years. this is something the president the's going to argue americans can take pride in. the president takes pride in them politically and personally. this is something that benefits the country as a whole. we got a preview as the president is going to be coming back in the next hour. he spent much of the weekend huddling with his senior aides. some of the architects of the speech, some of the photos released by the white house show not just a lot of coffee being drinked but the president's favorite chocolate chip cookies are fueling a lot of the speech prep. >> it's serious when the cookies come out. >> that's right. >> let's talk about these precautions being taken ahead of the address what more do we know? >> that's right, lindsey. it is certainly a sign of our political times.

capitol fencing has been put back up around capitol square out of what capitol police are telling us is an abundance of caution as part of their robust security plan. a spokesperson telling us, quote, national special security events require a robust security plan. out of an abundance of caution, the u.s. secret service and capitol police temporarily put up this fence around the capitol building. this comes at a steep cost. it's a million dollars every time they put this fence up. it's also very important to note that this was not the regular security protocol prior to january 6th. there is, of course, a rise in the number of threats against members of congress about political officials just in general, and so the secret service and capitol police recommending to the capitol police board that they take this step. lindsey, they're hoping that there won't be any incident. they aren't talking about any sort of specific threat around the speech itself, but it's a demonstration about how they believe the political climate, and how it currently exists that

they feel as though this is something that they have to do. lindsey. >> mike memoli and ryan nobles, thank you, both. we have some breaking news right now in the discovery of classified documents at various locations. three law enforcement sources tell nbc news former vice president mike pence's home in indiana will be searched for classified documents soon, likely in a matter of days. nbc's julia ainsley joins me with more on this. what more do we know? >> well, this is just coming as we are now learning more and more about each residence that's being searched. it's really unprecedented times. what we are understanding now from three law enforcement sources is that former vice president pence's indiana resume soon be searched by the fbi for classified documents just as the other residences were for president biden and the now infamous mar-a-lago raid in august. this is something that is being

worked out with the former vice president that pence has not put up a fight on this, wants to be cooperative like biden. and they want to allow the figure access. whether or not they have a lot of warning, it seems that it's very understood by pence's team that the fbi will be coming in, and they'll be looking to see if anything was mishandled, if there are classified documents that should not be there, and we should also bring up the real issue of overclassification. it could be that some documents are marked classified that maybe should not have been, and ended up in vice president pence's possession somehow. all of that will be coming out as they do this search. we understand it is coming in the coming days. >> okay. julia ainsley, appreciate you with that reporting. democrats are moving forward with a big primary calendar shake-up that would reshape how the party picks its presidential nominees. the newly planned calendar voted on by the dnc this weekend would

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this morning parts of northeastern ohio are under an urgent warning to evacuate. a train carrying hazardous materials from illinois to pennsylvania derailed over the weekend in the town of east palestine. officials are worried it could trigger a catastrophic explosion. governor mike dewine is asking anyone living within a one-mile radius to leave immediately. gabe gutierrez is here with more. what's being done about this? >> the governor says there could be a possible explosion here, that that could be imminent. as you mentioned, federal investigators say this all happened on this train transporting cargo from illinois to pennsylvania. and when it derailed, when it derailed and now, the governor has deployed the national guard to the scene. >> reporter: this morning a potentially dangerous situation is developing in a small eastern

ohio community just outside pittsburgh after a train derailment over the weekend. now a toxic threat. part of the wreckage containing hazardous materials at risk of a possible explosion that officials say could hurl harmful fumes and deadly shrapnel as far as a mile away. multiple small explosions caused a massive fire after at least ten cars believed to be carrying hazardous materials derailed. a temperature change to one of those railcars is creating the possibility of a dire scenario. >> we've had a drastic change in the chemical insides tank cars. we are at a risk now of a catastrophic failure. >> reporter: ohio governor mike ewine is thousand creating a one-mile evacuation zone ordering some 2,000 people to leave the area. >> kind of crazy for a small town like this. >> reporter: as of last night, the governor said an estimated 500 residents remained in the

one-mile zone, warning that those with children who stay could be arrested for not complying with the urgent evacuation notice. >> we're at point where we need you to leave. there could be possible charges if you choose to stay. >> reporter: federal investigators are on the scene trying to determine what caused the derailment. >> the crew did receive an awill remember from a wayside defect detector indicating a mechanical issue. then an emergency brake application initiated. >> reporter: as officials work to minimize the dangers of the derailment, they say air quality and the water supply remains safe. >> we are not aware of any elevated readings that we would anticipate to have impact to human health. >> reporter: no injuries or deaths have been reported but overnight, officials there in ohio said that they have continued to monitor the situation and they're trying to stabilize the tank cars with all those hazardous materials, but certainly a very delicate

situation there and urgent evacuation orders still in place. >> gabe gutierrez thank you. the double murder trial of disbarred lawyer alex murdaugh resumed this morning. despite prosecutors presenting cell phone videos and audio of murdaugh's interview with investigators, they have yet to present any direct evidence linking murdaugh to the killing of his wife and son in june of 2021. >> reporter: this morning, again, the jury outside the courtroom as the judge is tasked with deciding whether or not evidence of alex murdaugh's alleged financial crimes will be allowed into this trial. prosecutors say it is crucial that that information come into the case because it is central to their theory of motive in this case, why he did it. they say this was entirely about gaining sympathy and a distraction from these financial

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normally during the dog days of winter americans drive a little less so gas prices are lower, but this year prices are steadily ticking up. according to gas buddy, a website that tracks prices, the national average for a gallon of gas is $3.44, and that's a $0.17 jump since last month. forecasters believe prices could rise to $4 next month. marissa para joins me now from a gas station in washington, d.c. what is behind these rising prices? >> reporter: yeah, we've been talking about the price of eggs for so long, i guess the fuel pumps were starting to feel jealous. when you look at the dollars and cents, what you're going to see is a jump of about $0.18. that may not sound like a lot. when you think about the fact that this is normally a time that fuel prices are supposed to be at their lowest and consistently so, we normally see

them creep up around april. we spoke to an industry expert who points to two main ones. take a listen. >> the arctic cold blast that hit much of the country actually impaired refineries all the way from areas like colorado into texas. it diminished their ability to produce as much gasoline, and so that started a domino effect that pushed prices up, but shortly thereafter, china after three years of covid zero policy announced that they're going to be reopening their economy. that very quickly had the effect of boosting gasoline and oil demand pushing oil prices up. >> reporter: so you have covid, you have weather. you have refinery maintenance, and then of course we have the ongoing war between russia and ukraine. we already have seen in the last year just how much that's made prices jump. who could forget when prices were roughly $5 a gallon at their peak last summer. that was pretty painful.

and so listen, we're about a day out from the state of the union. that's tomorrow night. president biden most likely going to broach on this. as we know, gas prices have fallen since their peak last summer when they were $5 a gallon. however, they are still higher than the start of this presidency when they're roughly $2.50 a gallon. they are expected to keep going upwards. we talk about how it normally goes up in april. we could see this go up to $4 a month next month. thank you. this morning dell joined the list of tech companies announcing layoffs. it will cut 5% of its work force, 6,600 employees. this is the latest in a line of tech companies to administer layoffs following alphabet, amazon, microsoft, but this news comes off the heels of friday's really stunning jobs report coming in more than 330,000 more jobs than expected. so joining me now from the stock

exchange is cnbc's morgan brennan. help us make sense of all of this after this really strong jobs report. >> that's right. so it may feel and seem like a little bit of a head scratch right now because, as you mentioned, dell joins a list of companies that are growing, including just in the past week, paypal, pinterest and fedex as well as so many others you just touched on here. we are seeing the layoffs climb well into the hundreds of thousands. it's not showing up in the broader labor data, at least not yet. that's of course because we're coming off these incredibly tight labor market dynamics. so you're seeing more job openings than workers still right now. unemployment rate is at a 53-year low according to that jobs report last friday, and if you think about the kinds of skill sets that companies, many companies across many industries both large and small in terms of the size of those companies are looking for in terms of the types of jobs that it'd still be recruiting for, it's a lot of those tech skills. it's engineering. it's coding. it's software, it's all of these

different things you're seeing in terms of those job losses across the tech sector. so many of the tech hiring and recruitment firms that i've spoken to have said that these are really layoffs. these are people that are in many cases being able to turn around and get jobs very quickly because of those skill sets. none theless, it raises questions about whether we're going to see more layoffs reach more parts of the economy. >> what are we seeing from the markets today, and also talk to us about a big speech we're awaiting from jay powell and more earnings reports from big companies. >> so we are getting more earnings reports this week, many of them consumer-facing companies. you're going to get some reads on the consumer for retail names as well as more travel, leisure, hospitality names as well. right now the markets are lower, tending the selloff that we saw on friday, in large part because of that hotter than expected stronger than expected jobs report that we did get for the month of january. the read through there is that the labor market is still so

tight, and you saw it evidenced in that report that the fed is going to have to keep increasing interest rates further than what the market had been anticipating ahead of that data point on friday. you are seeing a pause in materials of the rally, which i should note has been very strong since the start of the year. not only are the dow and s&p higher to kick off the year, but the nasdaq, which is the worst performer of the major averages is still up about 14% since the start of the year. it's another busy -- as you mentioned, it's another busy week with a lot of things that could move the market hear. >> morgan brennan, thank you nlts breaking news out of baltimore. the u.s. attorney for the district of maryland announced moments ago that the fbi arrested a man and woman accused of attacking the power grid in the baltimore area. they were taken into custody last week. they have been described by the u.s. attorney as racially motivated with plans to, quote, destroy this whole city.

nbc news senior legal correspondent laura jarrett joins me now. what can you tell us about this case? >> it was a disturbing plot that federal authorities appear to have thwarted successfully. as you mentioned, this couple allegedly conspired to shoot up power stations in the baltimore area, five different power stations, at least according to federal authorities was their goal. brandon russell is someone who is well-known within the law enforcement community, a devout neo-nazi who had recently only gotten out of prison. he had been previously incarcerated for possessing explosive material, and this woman, sarah clen daniels someone he met in prison. the couple struck up a relationship and then through the process of actually speaking to a federal informant managed to get entangled in this situation. as for their motive, we're still learning about that. federal authorities did confirm at that press conference a short time ago that they were described as racially or

ethically motivated. russell allegedly saying that attacking the power grid is the greatest thing that somebody could do in his words. the pair will be in court later today on those charges. as you mentioned, they have been arrested. as for the larger context here, we know of course that power stations, substations, and attacks on them have been a problem as authorities have been sort of raising the red alarm about that for the past couple of months, we've seen these in other states, people shooting power stations, disrupting the grid for tens of thousands of customers. it doesn't appear that anything like that happened here. authorities were questioned about whether this was part of some larger plot, and it doesn't appear, at least for thousand based on what we know, that it was. but certainly if they had managed to go through with this, it would have been quite disruptive, lindsey. >> laura jarrett, thank you. >> sure. next, the history beyonce just made on music's biggest night. plus, ticketmaster has days to get in formation after the debacle with taylor swift's tour, are they prepared for

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♪♪ the countdown is over. the first tickets for beyonce's tour are on sale today, but the big question this morning for ticketmaster, can you keep up. the company is hoping to avoid a botch from the taylor swift rollout. ticketmaster is trying to manage expectations. they've been warning on twitter that registration demand was eight times over inventory. jake ward joins me now with more. what do we know about how their they're trying to do things differently? >> i wish i could tell you how to get tickets. that is not clear to me. basically, they're trying to avoid the debacle they had with taylor swift by not flooding the market and themselves with all

the tickets all at once in that case. in this case, they are rolling it out in essentially three waves. one group, these beehive members are theoretically able to start getting tickets if they win a lottery in addition to being special members on a day like today. of all the people that will be watching today, it isn't just beyonce's fans, but it is also congress. specifically the senate judiciary committee which brought all sorts of people in. they posted a tweet that said we are watching, ticketmaster. that is because after taylor swift, it raised this question, put a single word on everybody's lips and that was monopoly. here is how ted cruise asked the various experts there about ticketmaster and live nation's combined position in the marketplace. have a listen. >> i mean, your judgment is

ticketmaster a monopoly? >> without a doubt. >> certainly acting like a monopoly. >> we have witness after witness essentially saying that this thing is too big and as you know, they sell between 70 to 80% of tickets in the marketplace. they are far and away the market leader. so if if they cannot satisfy demand, you can imagine they're going to be winding up back in front of congress again. it's really a fascinating moment. we're used to the idea that certain monopolies are tolerated in our society, right? you've got the electric utility. these very heavily regulated monopolies. this is a place in which you have one gorilla running the whole show and in this case, i think it's going to be a very, very big test for this company and we know the judiciary committee and the rest of kopg congress will be watching. >> are they also looking at fees, not just how it goes? >> well, this is the thing. these are not going to be inexpensive tickets.

the committee has looked at fees, the processes, at the technology. all of that stuff. definitely ticketmaster under extraordinary scrutiny today. >> thanks so much. and before we let you go, beyonce did make history last night at the grammys. she is now the most decorated artist in grammy awards history with her 32nd career win after first winning with destiny's child in 2001. renaissance securing her distinction. >> i'm trying not to be too emotional. and i'm trying to just receive this night. >> it was a big night all around. album of the year going to harry styles for his album, harry's house. record of the year, about damn time by lizzo and best new artist going to jazz artist, samara joy. also a new addition to a smaller

elite group in hollywood. viola davis winning a grammy, she got an egot, grammy, and oscar. the third black woman to egot. congratulations. "andrea mitchell reports" is next. congratulations. "andrea mitchell reports" is next

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