and to our viewers thanks so much for watching. erin burnett outfront starts right now. outfront next, breaking news. president biden says aid to ukraine is open-ended. he says putin has already lost ukraine. his new video into outfront shows one of america s most powerful munitions in action on the front line as putin is now threatening prisoner who s won t fight in his invasion. red flags for trump. the former president struggling to raise money for his re-election campaign. former supporters with deep pockets are now looking to back somebody else. this is a report that you will see first here outfront tonight. plus, santos response to romney, telling him he doesn t belong in congress. he makes it all about romney s religion. let s go outfront. good evening, i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, the breaking news. president biden in one of his most definitive statements to date moments ago making it clear the united states aid will continue to pour into uk
just maybe things in this country would snap back into something resembling a pre-trump normal. dangerous elements of the far right would crawl back into their dark caves and corners that want harm done to the foundations of our most prized institutions, relentlessly maligned for years under donald trump would repair themselves. maybe even overnight. simply because trump is no longer the person sitting behind the resolute desk. sadly it appears that any of those hopes were in vain. more proof this afternoon that the destruction he left in his unhinged wake, the moral wrought he spread quietly continues to spread to this day inside some of our most important and revered institutions. considering chilling new reporting in today s the new york times, cataloging attacks on the fbi. the piece centers in part on a somewhat dishonest effort by a group of former agents calling themselves the suspendables. they wrote a letter earlier this month of accusing the fbi from discriminatin
with receiving gifts, including race car tickets from qatar. as recently as last month, menendez was still receiving and attending senate classified briefings. this is obviously not the only allegation against him as it relates to a foreign government. should he even be allowed into these briefings? do you have any sense of why, why this is being allowed to happen? look, this is that s really up to the senate, they govern themselves in this regard and they have the ability to remove senator menendez, if they want to, takes two-thirds vote in order to do it and they ve got real soul searching to do whether or not they want to continue down the road of allowing them into these classified briefings, giving them access to these classified briefings and right up to the point of removal. obviously, he has due process rights, these are only allegations that have been brought against him, but at the end of the day, they re serious allegations and if we re the president of the united states
the u.s. senate will have a classified briefing today. first classified briefing with senior intelligence and defense department officials. what s your sense right now of lawmakers understanding and what they could possibly do to get in front of this very fast-moving technology? i actually think they re doing the right thing by taking these briefings, by holding their own educational briefings and bringing folks like sam altman into capitol hill. if you think about it, we didn t have lawmakers taking social media regulations seriously until it was far too late, ten years into the process. we have this type of technology rolled out to the masses about six, seven months ago and already we re having white house classified briefings, briefings on capitol hill. they re doing the right thing there. what they need to do, phil, is get consensus. right now i think there is a bipartisan understanding that we need to do something around legislating with ai. no one knows exactly what we re going
tonight, house speaker kevin mccarthy telling reporters he is okay with embattled republican george santos attending classified briefings. the full house is set to be briefed on china tomorrow morning. and this comes with santos defending himself against attacks from senator mitt romney who hold him that he didn t belong in congress during this tense exchange just before last night s state of the union. it s not the first time in history that i ve been told to shut up and go to the back of the room. especially by people who come from a privileged background. and it s not going to be the last. and i m never going to shut up and go to the back of the room. and i think it s reprehensible that the senator would say such a thing to me in the demeaning way he said. it wasn t very mormon of him. making it about privilege. santos facing growing calls to resign not because of privilege but because of his many lies with one of his fellow republicans calling him a,