program in prison tonight, his health failing. his lawyers saying he s been poisoned. and morgues in china oesh flowing full of people who were sick from covid. the government is saying, though, they re not covid deaths. why? we re live in beijing tonight with a special report. let s go out front. and good evening. i m erin burnett. out front tonight putin calls it a war. for the first time vladimir putin using the word war to describe his brutal invasion of ukraine. for ten months it s been called a special operation. in fact the word war has been banned. and then today hours after zelenskyy visited with biden in washington, putin said this. translator: our goal is not to spin the flywheel of military conflict but on the contrary to end this war we have been and will continue to strive for this. war. the word war is not semantics for putin. calling this a war, which again has not been allowed. it s been banned. it has serious implications because it allows putin to
this is wrong? there s no doubt in my mind whatsoever. he would have to say that he did not say these things to her. one of them is after she answers a question by the committee she doesn t recall, she says to him i need to tell them, and he says they don t know what you know. that s telling her to lie. right she s saying i recall and he s saying you don t. that s a lie. nixon lawyer s and senior aides went to jail for those kinds of things. he also says explicitly according to her this is to protect the president. if what she says is true, it s open and shut. the question is can she prove it or could the justice department prove it? and then we have a bunch of correspondenting information. she told her mother, she told a friend, contemporaneous she told someone else so they could arrange a back channel to the committee. he also did something very bizarre. he didn t give an engagement