Race. Recent from a clear trump the advantage to no clear leader plus donald trump caught between a rock and a hard place. His track record on abortion, he would veto but abortion ban that was sent to your desk well, what s happening is you re never going to have to do it. And voters support for fertility treatments. I kept hearing that i m against it and i m actually very much forward. And triggers conservative theory in the process. And what she left unsaid same old, tired playbook. Next question harris declines to enter the chat why she s ignoring the debate over trump, race, and gender live at the table. Nayyera huck mike dubke chuck rocha and shermichael singleton. Welcome to a special edition of newsnight, state of the race good evening. I m audie cornish in new york. Abby phillip has the night off, so let s get right to what america is talking about. Where exactly does donald trump stand on abortion? the answer would depend on whether you asked him yesterday or today for example
Outfront. Next breaking news, trump now says he will vote to bat florida s six week abortion ban. It is a major about face from his stance on the issue, just 24 hours ago, and harris tonight responding, ripping into trump and trump s speaking tonight to a controversial group known for anti antilgbtq rhetoric they also have ties to project 2025, which he s trying to disown so what s the upside? plus a cnn exclusive ukrainian soldiers coming under fire? because they enter putin s backyard. Let s go outfront good evening. I m brianna keilar in for erin burnett outfront tonight, breaking news. Donald trump now says he will vote no on a florida ballot measure to overturn the state s sixweek abortion ban despite saying six weeks is too restrictive. And criticizing governor ron desantis for signing the ban into law are you voting yes or no on amendment four in florida? so i think six weeks you need more time. Six weeks. I ve disagreed with that right from the early primaries when i heard abou
Thats to be expected. The alternative, however, is simply untenable. At home, another four years of Donald Trumps chaotic leadership, this time focused on advancing the dangerous goals of project 2025 will hurt real, everyday people and waken our sacred institutions. Richard, which are the reasons who have not stood up yet, who served in the Trump Administration, who could actually make a difference in terms of persuading those very few, unpersuadable voters who are left . And do you expect any more of them to stand up between now and november . I mean, theres the former Vice President who has, shall we say, a certain physical and political incentive to stand up, given how he was do you think hes going to do it . No. Look, i think if people were going to stand up, theyve had now, shall we say, several years to do it. Several people simply have not. Disagree with me or not, but how much of a difference will it make . Its certainly not going to shake trumps base. Im not sure many of thes
Are you in the path of the storm . More on when and where were going to see the snow and ice coming up. Also this morning, the Washington Football Team just revealed its new name. Its commanding attention. Im going to talk with the group spearheading that movement. We have our team covering the crisis in Eastern Europe. Courtney kube, Richard Engel and michael mcfaul, former ambassador to russia. Courtney, let me start with you as you were in the room for the pentagon briefing. We know french troops are also being sent to the region. Talk you through what more we learned today during that briefing. Theres even some other allies that are considering sending some troops, the british, theyve sent assistance, the dutch, among others. We heard from press secretary john kirby a very key words. The military and pentagon are making it very clear that they look at this as a temporary deployment, not a permanent deployment and the ultimate goal is to deter russia from making an incursion into uk
Eastern and northern borders. Cyber, Electronic Warfare grand and control, Logistics Engineers and other capabilities along ukraines borders, putting russia in a position to move quickly if Vladimir Putin wants to. Joining me is Erin Mclaughlin in kyiv, and Courtney Kube at the pentagon. This is not the totality the pentagon had at its disposal but they are moving them, and there was a moment in the News Conference today where they talked about how they would protect the pentagon, protect u. S. Nato allies. You mentioned that caught your attention during the last pentagon briefing. What did you make of that today . Right. Theres two groups of troops that would be moved here. The 3,000 we heard about today, 2,000 from the United States and 1,000 already there in europe. Its important to point out, the u. S. Military has between 75 and 8,500 troops to move, and this is the u. S. Moving these troops into poland, romania and germany at the request of those governments, so to go in and try