a to do list including sop of the most precedent setting decisions as they prepare to present closing arguments. add to that list what to do with the mountain of evidence they have accumulated specifically about donald trump s role, hands-on role as the driving force behind the campaign to overturn the 2020 election. one that would ultimately endanger his own vice president and members of congress. here s what committee chairman bennie thompson said about this when speaking to reporters on tuesday. i think now that the department of justice is being proactive, i think it s time for the committee to determine whether or not the information can be beneficial to that investigation. so thompson added in that press avail that the committee will issue an interim report in october followed by a final report by the committee at the end of the year. all the vital work by the the select committee happens as the existential threat to democracy posed by trump and his big lie, a threa
as we begin day 202 of russia s war of choice, ukrainians are pushing on with their two front counter offensive which has retaken russian occupied territory at a blistering pace. in parts, ukrainian officials claim their forces are just miles from the russian border. in liberated towns and villages, there is evidence everywhere of a hasty russian retreat. tanks and other weapons left abandoned. for weeks, ukraine has been publicly hinting at a counteroffensive at the south. plans for their independence day last month or thereabouts. but it appears the russians might have been duped by abeyance which. with this major push in the northeast. numbers are hard to verify, but in less than two weeks, russia might have suffered one of its biggest losses of the war so far. here is the ukrainian president. since the start of september, our soldiers have already liberated 6000 square kilometers of ukrainian territory in the east and south. we are moving further. the russian ground r
times higher than when president biden took office. bill: threatening to make it worse a possible strike by tens of thousands of railroad workers. could happen as soon as friday. stoppage would cost the economy $2 billion a day. that leaves about a third of the u.s. freight in the lurch. dana: biden administration is working to broker a deal between unions and rail companies. the dispute is already impacting service with amtrak suspending some trains. kelly o grady has the latest on the possible rail strike and edward lawrence reporting on the inflation news from the white house. the inflation year-over-year 8.3% ticks down a little bit. the federal reserve would like to see the number around 2%. the federal reserve is going to be focused on the core inflation. inflation without food and energy prices. that number went up for the first time in five months and rose substantially to 6.3%. that will spook the federal reserve. the biden administration will tout the overall
mary peltola who takes her seat in congress tomorrow, joins me tonight. we begin on the 60th anniversary of john f. kennedy s historic moonshot speech announcing his goal of putting a man on the moon and bringing him home. today, president joe biden announced new steps in his own moonshot vision, ending cancer as we know it, a cause he s truly passionate about since the passing of his son beau. we face another inflection point, and together, we can choose to move forward with unity, hope, and optimism. i believe we can usher in the same unwillingness to postpone, the same nation purpose that will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills. to end cancer as we know it and even cure cancers once and for all. and while biden was busy presidenting, his predecessor surprised everyone today, returning to d.c. looking a bit disheveled, apparently to play golf at his course in virginia. the golfing field trip comes as donald trump s legal team is doubling
silver bowls. so where are they now? let s go out front. good evening. i m erin burnett. erin burnett outfront. russia s epic meltdown in a stunning and rapid turn of events. ukraine now has putin on the run. you can see over on the top right of this map highlighted in solid yellow, you can see the land that ukraine has recaptured in a week. that is now land that russia captured in five months. in one week, more land taken from putin than he was able to gain in more than five months. ukraine has now taken back more than 2,300 square miles total according to president zelenskyy. the onslaught was so swift and so unexpected that russian troops fled any way they could, disguised as locals literally taking bikes and stealing them and trying to bike away. this was far from an organized planned retreat. it was chaotic. these are some of the images we are now seeing of ukrainian forces. this is just one village. look at the utter destruction there. just completely destroyed. repor