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Happening now, racing the clock fighting the climate. Bitter, cold, and utter devastation

slow the search for quake survivors as the death toll in Turkey and Syria climbs.

Is he or isn't he?

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy weighs in on whether Congressman George Santos

is being investigated by the House Ethics Committee

while some of his constituents travel here to Washington demanding his removal.

And making his case, President Biden gets ready to report on the State of the Union in what also could be a preview of his

2024 re-election campaign. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and

around the world. I'm Will Flitzer and you're in the situation room.

We're up here at the U.S US Capitol just hours away from the President's State of the

Union message to the American people. With me tonight our CNN political

correspondence and analysts we will all break down what to expect but we begin

right now with the devastation and the growing loss of life in Turkey and Syria

...