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world headquarters in new york. a busy hour ahead. right now, president biden is on his way to wisconsin on an unofficial post state of the union tour after his rousing address before the joint session of congress last night. imploring lawmakers to finish the job, the president defended his record and called for more bipartisanship. but did manage to tangle with republicans at times. >> some republicans want medicare and social security sunset. i'm not saying it is a majority. anybody who doubts it, contact my office, i'll give you a copy. i've give you a copy of the proposal. >> coming up, we'll talk about how president biden may use those gop outbursts to his advantage. plus, the drama on the floor before the president even walked out. what senator mitt romney is saying about this moment, the moment when he called out george santos to his face on the house floor, with cameras rolling. >> he shouldn't have been there.

he shouldn't be in the -- look, he's a sick puppy. >> also this morning, unfathomable devastation, yet miraculous rescues in turkey and syria. after those deadly earthquakes. gripping video showing rescuers pulling infants, even entire families from the rubble. the death toll now soaring past 11,000. we'll have a live report from the region ahead. and president volodymyr zelenskyy for the first time since russia launched its assault on his country, he just met with king charles iii and addressed parliament, what zelenskyy stands to benefit from this trip, his second outside ukraine since the start of the war nearly one year ago. we're going to start with president biden's post state of the union trip to the midwest. and kelly o'donnell is at her post with reaction from the west wing to last night's speech. our capitol hill correspondent ryan nobles has the response from lawmakers. i'm joined by cody keenan and

david jolly, an msnbc political analyst. kelly, first to you, how is the white house feeling about the president's performance last night and how does the president hope to carry that energy into his trip to madison? >> well, it is really striking, there is a collective sense of this being a victory for the president. and in the west wing, all of the staffers and aides have been building toward that night. everyone's work was contributing toward the effort and only one person, the president, could actually carry it into the house chamber and deliver the address. and so there is a sense that the president overmatched expectations, and executed a plan that delivered the message that they wanted for the american people and then also that he was able to react in real time to the room. and while they had anticipated that there would likely be some kind of pushback from republicans, and we have seen a progression of that over the years, where there would be more of the kind of heckling that we have come to see, there was a time when that was forbidden and

now it seems to be a part of the political discourse that the president was able to react to that in real time, use it to his advantage, and incorporate it into his presentation without it knocking him off course. a strong feeling he was able to do things, and also trying to give a message he does want to work with republicans, even as there is this tense relationship that he has with them. you get a sense of that from the outgoing white house chief of staff ron klain who talked about the reaction he had this morning. >> they saw the president who has been working successfully on a bipartisan basis these past two years say that he's got a blue collar, blueprint to rebuild the middle class and ask republicans to join him in finishing that important job. >> and the state of the union is in many ways a one-night only opportunity for the president, to have a huge audience like

that. there is also the road show capacity to it. and that is where the president is beginning today, in madison, wisconsin, taking the message on the road, across the country, and other members of his administration will do that too, to try to take the big themes to places that are important around the nation, to highlight some of the issues economically, policy-wise, and to connect with the public directly. so, the president hitting the road today, and certainly the white house feels this was a successful opportunity for the president, coming at a time when they felt they had strong economic numbers, but they knew there was also this perception problem that many americans were not feeling great about his leadership or the sense of their own financial well-being. so, this was a -- for the white house, they are characterizing this as a good night for the biden presidency and perhaps the future for a candidate biden should he decide to make it official and run for re-election. lindsey?

>> you know a thing or two about speech writing and kelly mentioned the stunning moments in which many house republicans jeered at the president. i want to play one of those right now. >> some republicans want medicare and social security sunset. i'm not saying it is a majority. as we all apparently agree, social security and medicare is off the books now, right? all right. >> so what do you make of how he responded and do you think speechwriters took that possibility or probability into consideration when drafting this speech? >> it is a risk when you think about writing that intoes a speech. i think he was great in the moment. i noticed a bunch of chatter before the speech about his age and his energy. i think it ticked him off. he went longer than obama did last night with more energy than i have at 10:00 p.m. i have a 2-year-old, but still. people forget when talking about

his age, i would never underestimate joe biden. >> does something like this, is this -- does this make you a little nervous when he goes off script? you're, like, this isn't what i wrote, the moment played into his age. >> speechwriters are always nervous when their boss goes off script. but it totally played into his hand, you know? >> david, let's talk to you about speaker mccarthy, visibly shushing or mouthing no four different occasions. and "new york times" writes that in 2009, it was interested a travesty when representative john wilson, a south carolina republican shouted you lie at president obama. i believe there were apologies there. kelly just talked about the fact that it seems to be part of the normal discourse. it is almost reminiscent of british parliament here. do you think that heckling ended up backfiring on republicans? >> oh, certainly. and, look, it is a time stamp on how our politics devolved. joe wilson was admonished by the

house for doing that and last night's events will come and go without any expectation of accountability. but i think it did show that joe biden is a president that can control a room, control an environment, and frankly a brilliant night, he played rope-a-dope wremarkable. i think one of the audiences that we easily overlook is democratic primary voters and anybody who is considering is there really a possibility of challenging the sitting president joe biden, what he showed last night is a president in full campaign mode, completely on message and ready to go. this was a launchpad to a re-election announcement with some very specific and disciplined domestic policy themes that resonate to all americans. >> when we were talking off camera before the show, david jolly is said it shows the president was in control of the

room. >> there are moments in the address, but it is okay to applaud for jobs and democracy and things like that. instead they're applauding for oil and there is a weird moment where lauren boebert was upset about the idea of an assault weapons ban. you're on tv. you've been there. you know this stuff. >> ryan, to you, any reaction you're hearing from lawmakers this morning? >> you know, lindsey, i think a lot of what you're panel is talking about is important that even though joe biden is talking about bipartisanship and finding areas of common ground, the response you saw from republicans in the room almost to a certain extent is a reality check in real time for the president and as to how realistic that might be. and, you know, there is perhaps the early stages of a fond relationship between the speaker of the house and the president, they had two productive encounters where they have agreed to work together. but so much of what kevin mccarthy wants to do is going to be dictated by the people that were yelling and screaminsident

last night. there are probably a long list of issues of which there are enough votes, both republican and democrat, to get done. but the way that kevin mccarthy has kind of made all these concessions to the far right of his party, when it comes to the process of legislation that so much of it may never make it to the floor. so, they are -- we're talking a good game last night, but i think it is pretty clear that getting real substantive bipartisan victories over the next two years is going to be very difficult. >> and before we go back to david, ryan, never have i wanted to be a lip reading expert more than last night, and that moment before the state of the union even started, there was this exchange between george santos and mitt romney and you can see the tension between them, and george santos kind of side eyed him as he walked away. we have reporting on what went on, what can you tell us? >> yeah, first of all, my wife already sent me, there is bad

lip reading available for you on social media platforms. feel free to google that after we're done. we know this was a tense exchange, both george santos and mitt romney have confirmed as much. listen to what romney said as he came off the floor last night after this speech. >> i don't know the exact words i said. he shouldn't have been there. he shouldn't be in the -- look, he's a sick puppy. he shouldn't be there. i don't think he ought to be in congress. and he certainly shouldn't be in the aisle trying to shake the hand of the president of the united states and dignitaries coming in. it is an embarrassment. >> we heard george santos called a lot of things, sick puppy is a new one i have to say from the senator and former republican nominee for president. but, lindsey, i think what is important about this is it demonstrates what a pain in the neck the george santos situation is for kevin mccarthy. he can prevent him from being on committees, he can prevent him from taking any kind of prominent role in any of the

rollouts that the republican party is doing, he cannot prevent him from being a sitting member of congress and all the trappings that are afforded there. among them getting into the chamber early for a seat on the aisle at a state of the union. >> david, a pain in the neck maybe, but behind closed doors, publicly we have not seen a lot of members of the gop denounce george santos. this was a stunning moment here. what message did it send to the republican caucus? >> surprise because mitt romney is typically a man of few words, but has this puritanical influence. you saw him being the priest or the dad in that moment. it goes to an important point, to our previous conversation, all this goes back to the corrupt bargain that kevin mccarthy struck to become speaker of the house. the fact that he needed permission to applaud for social security and protecting democracy last night, the fact that that george santos moment happened is because kevin mccarthy empowered people within his caucus that have no business being in government. >> thank you so much. our thanks to kelly o'donnell and ryan nobles.

appreciate all of you. now we want to go to turkey and syria where the search for survivors of the devastating earthquakes on monday grows more desperate by the hour. right now, officials have confirmed more than 11,000 people have been killed. thousands more wounded. and those numbers are only expected to rise. rescue workers from all over the world are pouring into the region, racing against the clock to save lives. this morning in southern turkey, about 30 miles from the epicenter of the first earthquake, rescuers pulled a 3-year-old out of the rubble from a flattened apartment building. he had been trapped for more than 43 hours. and kelly cobiella is on the ground in turkey not far from the epicenter. what is the latest on the search and rescue efforts? >> well, lindsey, just off in the distance where we are, about 25 miles from the epicenter, you can actually hear workers trying to recover bodies, sadly. they know they searched the

house just a couple of blocks from here and they know that the people there have not survived. we're hearing a lot from people in this area, a lot of criticism actually, for the government response, a neighbor of the woman who lived here with her elderly parents said this woman yelled for help for hours after the initial quake. but there was nobody to respond, no fire department, no disaster services, no police services in the area and certainly no search and rescue. and it was left to her family to try to get her out and sadly she and her parens didn't make it. we heard similar stories from another home, just around the corner. in fact in that home, the search and rescue had only arrived today, inside was a mother two of young sons, and, again, sadly no miracle rescue in that case. now, today, the president of turkey did visit this area, he

admitted some mistakes in the first response, but said that they were due to infrastructure problems, which you could expect in a disaster of this scope and size. problems with road closures, damaged roads and damaged airports. he said most of that is now been corrected. and we are now seeing -- it is extremely difficult to reach these areas as we found out last night, as we drove down here and again today. however, we are seeing more international teams arrive in the area, certainly in country, the u.s. teams are set to arrive today and begin their work. and while hope is dimming somewhat, the temperatures are dropping down into the 30s again tonight, third straight night, there is a slight glimmer of hope given the incredible rescues that you mentioned, lindsey, overnight last night. newborn baby rescued from the rubble in syria, and a family of six, all six rescued from syria

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this morning, ukrainian president zelenskyy made another rare trip out of ukraine, visiting the uk to thank the british people for their support and push for more advanced weapons. late this morning, he met with king charles at buckingham palace, after huddling with uk prime minister rishi sunak. part of his pitch to the british to give the ukrainians fighter jets. >> i hope this symbol will help us for our next coalition, coalition of the planes, and i appeal to you and the world with

simple and yet most important words. combat aircrafts for ukraine. wings for freedom. >> nbc news foreign correspondent molly hunter is in london outside ten downing street. nbc news foreign correspondent raf sanchez in kharkiv, ukraine. we're joined by former deputy defense secretary for russia, ukraine, and eurasia, evelyn farcas. why now and what more do we know about his meeting with king charles? >> reporter: lindsey, we just got a readout from buckingham palace about that meeting. we did see some pictures, a very warm welcome, which is what president zelenskyy has been getting from everyone that we have seen him meet today. president zelenskyy told king charles it is an honor to be here, thank you for finding the time for me and his majesty replied we have all been workry worried about you and thinking about your country for so long.

earlier today, it was a surprise visit, we had been given a heads up about an hour before he showed up at ten downing street, with prime minister rishi sunak. sunak met him at the airport, a warm welcome, both offices released pictures of the two hugging. they arrived at ten downing street, shook hands for the press and went inside for a short photo-op. we're told there will be joint press availability with the two today. but the main event was his address to both houses of parliament, and his main message was very clear. yes, it was a big thank you to this country, to former prime minister boris johnson, who is there in the audience, to current prime minister rishi sunak. but really it was an ask for jets. you played one of the sound bites from president zelenskyy's speech, but i want to read one quote. he said two years ago i was thanking you for the delicious english tea and today i'll be thanking you for the powerful english planes. his visit coincides with a big announcement from the uk about

specifically training ukrainian troops and specifically ukrainian fighter pilots. the announcement earlier today said to ensure that ukraine can defend its skies well into the future with sophisticated nato standard fighter jets. president zelenskyy was very clear, though, he didn't just want nato standard jets, he wanted powerful english jets. later today, like i said, we do expect a joint press availability and then we expect him at some time in the next day or so to go to paris where he will meet with the french president emmanuel macron and german chancellor olaf scholz. >> let's talk about those fighter jets because the uk promised training to ukraine, but not necessarily the planes themselves. what is at issue here and do you see this situation could be similar to that of the tanks where it is first the u.s. and germany were brimming and then eventually they did end up providing them? >> yeah. it feels really familiar. we have been down this road before, where one country says we're ready to provide a tank or

an aircraft or some kind of longer range artillery, but they want the cover, the protection of all nato allies for at least other nato allies and most significantly the united states also providing that capability. they don't want to take the brunt of any russian response alone. even though, of course, we are in an alliance and we take the brunt together, they want that added reassurance. >> yesterday ukraine's national security chief told reuters they expect russia to target kharkiv and zaporizhzhia in the upcoming offensive. what can you tell us about that? >> well, lindsey, i can tell you the russians are already targeting kharkiv. our team was at this exact spot last night about 11 p.m. local time and all of a sudden the air raid sirens started blaring and we started hearing and seeing explosions breaking out all across the city. i want to show you just a little bit of footage of what those moments were like.

>> just heard two major explosions here in kharkiv. we can see that there is smoke rising from the building, just a couple of hundred meters away from us. we don't know what was hit. but we're right in the center of the city here. this is largely a civilian area. you can hear the air raid sirens going off now. >> and our team are all fine, fortunately there were no injuries reported anywhere in kharkiv as a result of those missile strikes, the russians said they were targeting an aircraft production company in the city. we can't confirm that. what we can confirm is that one of those russian missiles, an s-300 landed in one of kharkiv's main public parks, this is actually, i'm holding in my hand, a piece of shrapnel from that missile, it landed in a park, lindsey, the shrapnel here that we picked up in the park earlier today, this is a park where parents take their kids to the playground, where people take their dogs for walks, it

was interesting that missile left a very serious crater in the ground, something you could have stood in, but within a couple of hours ukrainian maintenance crews had come in we with a bulldozer, filled that hole in, and that gives you a sense of the city, the country. the most intense fighting remains in the city of bakhmut, about 150 miles southeast of here. the russians have been sending wave after wave of both regular troops and those wagner merse mercenaries against the ukrainians there. i don't think anyone would be surprised if the russians do take the city at some point in the coming days. the ukraines have bought themselves the time to establish new defensive lines west of bakhmut, so even if the russians do succeed there, it is likely to be a symbolic rather than strategic victory. >> so that said, we're just 16 days out until the one year mark of the start of the war. where do things stand from your view at the moment?

>> well, i think, lindsey, we're at a place where frankly neither side is winning or losing. and so president putin appears to want to throw more bodies literally into the fight in the east and in the south. the ukrainians on the other hand are trying to speed up the provision of western arms and, of course, to get more capable arms to include the fighter aircraft because that's what the ukrainians need to take the offensive, to go over the line, and to push the russians back out of their territory. >> when it comes to the issue of sanctions, though, this morning the uk just announced new sanctions on russia that really further strains the kremlin and the russian military. how does russia stand from an economic standpoint with this war? >> they aren't doing very well, lindsey, but they are withstanding it because, of course, as you know, the russians are still selling oil and gas on the international market. and although the prices are lower, they're getting less revenue, it is enough for them

to keep on prosecuting this war. and they also have a lot of countries helping them getting chips and other components they need to, you know, basically repair their equipment. it is still not enough, i find it hard to imagine that they can equip another 200, 300,000 troops, much less train them, so i'm skeptical. i think what vladimir putin has is enough economic, you know, means to keep this dragging on, to keep the war dragging on. a stalemate is probably actually fine with him because he's counting on the west and ukraine losing its resolve. >> all right, molly hunter, raf sanchez, evelyn farcas, thank you. next, deflating relations? china claims it was smeared in president biden's state of the union speech last night. the latest fallout from popping the country's surveillance balloon. what we could learn about china's use of spy balloons in other countries as early as

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meanwhile, three biden administration officials tell nbc news the administration is working to declassify intel on dozens of other chinese surveillance balloons spotted over hour than 40 countries. and in the state of the union address, president biden vowed to protect the u.s. against threats from china. >> make no mistake about it, as we made clear last week, if china threatens our sovereignty, we will act to protect our can country and we did. >> nbc news correspondent vaughn hillyard joins us from north myrtle beach, south carolina. vaughn, let's go ahead and go to you, we're expecting a public hearing on capitol hill about the balloon tomorrow. the same day the pentagon will have a pleased door classified briefing to the senate. what questions are still out there that we'll likely get answers to? >> reporter: right, lindsey, if i could real fast set up what we're looking at here. overnight, this essentially what is a navy hub was set up here. there is a barrier and fencing added to what is normally a

public boat docking area here in north myrtle beach. what you saw for the sake of privacy was this essentially hub that was set up here by the u.s. navy. now, over the course of the morning, there were multiple boats that left here into the intercoastal water way, our photographer is bringing you the shots right now, you can see where we are in relation to the intercoastal water way where this water way leads to the atlantic ocean, we're about six miles off the coast is where that wreckage is now trying to be recovered, by the navy. we now know that what was initial ten-mile wide recovery search area is now down to one mile. but this is significant because there is -- our andrea mitchell here just this hour is now reporting that secretary blinken this afternoon is expected to hold a press conference. we have heard officials justify waiting to shoot this particular balloon down until it was over water for a myriad of reasons,

one being that they were able to gather intelligence about and from this balloon and its payload over the days in which it was tracked above american land. and what sort of operational control china had over the balloon and what it was actually gathering. this is important because as andrea will provide greater details about here, next hour, secretary blinken is prepared to suggest that this was part of a larger balloon operation not only here in the u.s. but other can countries as well. and that is why the u.s. was waiting to try to track this particular balloon. now in terms of this actual recovery part here, the navy released photos yesterday, the actual balloon being taken out of the sea, but now they're using reconnaissance sonar underneath the water, 50 feet deep to methodically pull up the payload parts of this. for size purposes, two to three buses is the size of that payload that was shot down from the sky, which they're now working to gather debris up to

better understand what capabilities the chinese actually had and as you said, tomorrow is also a notable hearing in which the senate will be holding a public hearing that is going to be led by democratic senator jon tester of montana. >> incredible live shot. thank you so much for bringing that to us. appreciate it. for more on this delicate diplomatic situation with china, i want to bring in congressman adam smith, top democrat on the house armed forces committee. thank you for being with us. and we're learning that china refused a call from the pentagon, a call that was probably intended to calm things down. what should the u.s. be doing now to keep this from escalating? >> should try to engage with china. china is the primary one unwilling to engage with us. i speak regularly with jake sullivan and the national security council chairman milley, secretary austin, we're willing to engage and have those conversations. china is quick to cut that off. i think step one is we need to

try to get them to engage. i hope secretary blinken will get his trip back on schedule, get back to china. we need to have dialogue. china in the u.s. have differences, but we're going to have to figure out a way where we can both live in this world. so we need to talk. we need to figure out how we can work through the differences peacefully. >> do you believe that the biden administration has been transparent enough about this? what questions do you still have or do you expect to learn anything at tomorrow's senate hearing? >> yeah, i think the biden administration has been beyond transparent on this. i find all the criticism of the biden administration to be horribly miss placed. they handled the situation, absolutely correctly. first of all, they identified the threat, which apparently had not happened in previous instances. they were very transparent about it, we all knew about it. they handled it in a calm and professional manner, took it down after having learned a great deal of information about it and now we're learning even more. i have -- it is hard for me to think of a national security matter that the public is more

informed on than this particular balloon. >> what questions do you have that you want answers to? >> i don't have any questions about the balloon in particular. i think the questions that we should all be focused on is the one you started with, where does our relationship with china go from here? how do we make sure we're strong enough, both in the u.s. and with our partners and allies to deter chinese aggression, we all know about taiwan and the threat that china poses to taiwan. but they're doing this all over the world, they're violating fishing rights in a dozen different countries, violating the sovereignty of multiple countries. i was in indonesia last year, they're trying search for natural gas in their territorial waters, and china comes in and pushes them out. so those are the questions we need to answer. how do we work with the rest of the world to deter the threat that china is posing with their reckless behavior. >> earlier in the hour, congressman, we covered president zelenskyy's trip to the uk. he asked for fighter jets and the u.s. so far has refused that request, but we have seen the

administration change its mind on tanks and certain air defense systems. do you think the u.s. and allies should be sending fighter jets to ukraine? >> i don't think that's the most important question. and i'm sure president zelenskyy talked about a great deal of other things. the biggest focus now is on ammunition and also the tanks and the mobility that they need coming from us and from our other partners in the region. that's the help they desperately need, they prepare for a counteroffensive to retake more land. right now even the russian fighter jets are not really a factor in the war in ukraine. because of air defenses. f-16s would not last long in the current fight in ukraine. let's focus on getting them the tanks and munitions they need to be successful and the fight that they're having right now, and we can have the conversation about the fighter planes going forward, but not the most crucial thing in the fight right now. >> congressman adam smith, thank you for your time. >> thank you. as we mentioned right now president biden is in the air on the way to his first stop on his post state of the union tour, just outside madison, wisconsin.

he'll meet with union workers to highlight his economic plan. joining me from madison is msnbc's shaquille brewster. what kind of reaction is his speech getting in wisconsin? >> reporter: the president will be landing here in the madison area in just a little bit now. as you mentioned, the white house says he's going to be -- going to this union training facility just outside of madison and an official says he'll be meeting with workers and apprentices who are being trained on jobs that have been created, they say, by legislation that the president pushed and passed through congress over the past two years. legislation that you heard the president tout during the state of the union address last night. things like the chips act, the infrastructure bill, the bipartisan infrastructure package, and even the american rescue plan. now, when you talk about how people are receiving his address, you know, we heard a lot of talk about manufacturing, a lot of talk about the economy, and i watched the state of the union speech last night with the group of students at the university of wisconsin.

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