erin burnett outfront stars right now. the massive shake-up when u.s. aid to ukraine has been declared dead on arrival. putin welcomes tucker carlson to moscow with open arms. migrant smugglers on jet skis fleeing border patrol agents, making a mad dash for american shores. and tonight king charms diagnosed with cancer. prince harley making plans to be at his father s side. let s go outfront. tonight zelenskyy s major move could be more than the military commander in chief loses hi job in a massive shake-up at kyiv. president zelenskyy telling italian broadcaster r.a.i., a reset is necessary. coming as putin is trying to court the maga in the united states. in fact, one of the leaders in the maga gop is in russia tonight. tucker carlson there possibly to interview putin, definitely a supportive celebrity. reporter: tucker carlson has flown to russia. he sass part acuss ballet, had lunch in a nice restaurant, went for a ride around town, rode the subway. translator
right now, president biden vowing to respond after three u.s. troops were killed by a drone in the middle east. plus a bipartisan deal in congress could lead to the first major immigration overhaul in decades. and what might be the broadest campaign promise we ve heard in a while, donald trump claims that he will deliver nothing short of world peace. good morning to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m kasie hunt. it is monday, january 29. 5:00 a.m. here in washington where intelligence agencies are working to determine exactly which iran backed militia to hold responsible for a drone attack on a small u.s. outpost in jordan near the syrian border that killed three american soldiers. officials say at least 34 more troops were injured in the attack. it is a number likely to rise as soldiers report symptoms oftrau. president biden vowed that the u.s. will hold all those responsible to account at a time and manner of our choosing. we had a tough day l
unredacted statements add fresh detail for the legitimate basis of the fbi s suspicions. this latest release fills in some of the remaining blanks, particularly having to do with a key video that is referred to in the indictment. the newly available information suggests that people at the justice department suspected something was very much up after watching surveillance footage of trump s former valet, witness number five, moving boxes in and out of a storage area at the time he was being interviewed by the fbi. here s how authorities knew they were being lied to. on may 24th the footage shows him leaving with what the affidavit describes at an anterroom leaving with three boxes. and four days after the interview, witness number five, quote, is observed exiting the anteroom doorway with approximately 50 bankers boxes. if it all strikes you as suspects, moving boxes, missing boxes, basic problems with the math of what goes in and what comes out, you and the department of just
he s lost all credibility. after the supreme court 6-3 decision striking down the use of racial preferences in college admissions biden was sent out by whoever winds him up to lie. affirmative action is so misunderstood. many people wrongly believe that affirmative action allows unqualified students, unqualified students to be admitted ahead of qualified students. this is not, this is not how college admissions work. laura: the white house people aren t that ignorant. they know the truth, that the entire point of racial preferences is to give minority candidates an edge. regardless of their test scores or their transcripts or their resume, it s classic discrimination and it s based on race. colleges set out standards for admission and every student, every student has to meet those standards. then and only then, after first meeting the qualifications required by the school, do colleges look at other factors in addition to their grades such as race. laura: okay. what s
we re going through a similar dance right now after the president s son pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor tax charges drawing a chorus of conservative criticism for a sweet settlement that includes only probation, but now we come to the irs whistleblowers who have been all but ignored by the press and, of course, we have to be cautious about unproven claims. but the new york times, to its credit, broke with the pack by saying it confirmed independently based on a source that a second unnamed irs official claims david weiss, the u.s. attorney in delaware, asked, the oj for special powers to the doj for special powers to pursue the case outside the state and was turned down. whistleblower gary shapley has said he was not the sole decision maker in the case and that he was constrained in the probe. you convinced looking back at this now that this was an effort to protect president biden and his family? there were definitely hindrances that aye never seen before in my 14