happening now, joe biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy can just wrapped up their first high-stakes talks on raising the nation s debt limit. mccarthy telling reporters moments ago that he thinks he and the president can find some common ground. also tonight, mourning in memphis, as tyre nichols is laid to rest three weeks after he was brutally beaten by police. we ll take you inside the emotional funeral and the urgent outcry for police reform. and cnn is in the trenches with ukrainian soldiers on the eastern front, as officials in kyiv warn that russia is gearing up for maximum escalation of the war. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. stories. important developments in the debt limit showdown right now. joe biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy just wrapped up a very high stakes meeting at the white house. their first face-to-face since mccarthy won the gavel. our reporter is on c
and also the truth. thank you for that. i appreciate it. have yourself a great weekend, we ll see you next week. you too, ali. donald trump has spent six years stress testing our democracy, our laws, our norms, our sense of decency and today, two years after he left the white house and disgrace after his failed attempt to overturn joe biden s presidential victory, he s likely to test us again. donald trump is out of power and facing legal and financial peril for which he believes running for public office concealed him. his hasty presidential announcement in november, nunes before marco island as a special prosecutor to investigate him. all this pressure that trump is facing is likely to make him more desperate to recapture his position and our attention with these same fluid in the zone playbook, lies, hateful rhetoric, undercutting democracy, he s been doing it at a breakneck pace online over the last few days. a church in florida called donald trump out for doing j
zelenskyy last week. that meeting comes at a critical juncture for the war amid new questions about the quantity and quality of u.s. support. and exactly what specifically makes the new mexico da so sure about the charges against alec baldwin, that could land him in prison for years. it wasn t that we were trying to charge him with a felony. it s that what his actions did matched the case law for involuntary manslaughter. but let s start exactly two years out from inauguration day, seeing the early contours of the presidential strategy, that the white house hopes will get joe biden back to the oval office for a second term. the goal to spotlight pooud s legislative achievements of the past 18 months and contrast that with what a white house spokesman predicted would be republicans divorce from reality political stunts. to that end, politico reports the administration is giddy that only soft of the biggest bomb throwers are now on the oversight committee believing they a
davos. the winter playground of the rich. and not far from many of those rich and those closest to putin where they ve enjoyed a life of luxury. plus, a navy veteran is accusing congressman george santos of stealing thousands of dollars. you will hear his story and the moment that he realized it was the same man accused of deceiving voters on everything from where he went to college to his religion. that veteran speaks out in an interview you ll see first outfront tonight. and also the chilling evidence against brian walshe, the husband accused of murdering and dismembering his wife in massachusetts. evidence authorities say includes googling, can you throw away body parts. let s go outfront. good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, the davos deception. so the elite luxury alpine ski resort in davos, switzerland, is the center of the world s elite tonight, hosting right now probably still lots of parties going on, who s who in the world of money and polit
shootings that targeted the home of democrats. the arrest warrant detailed the conspiracy he allegedly orchestrated to, quote, cause death and serious injury to democratic officials. and there are disturbing new details tonight including what police say was found in a car that was registered to pena, driven by one of his alleged co-conspirators. fentanyl, nearly 900 pills, as well as more than $3,000 in cash, and two firearms of ammunition. plus, in another story, the question many are asking is, how low can someone go? or allegedly go? because a navy veteran now says that congressman george santos promised to raise funds for life-saving surgery for his cancer-stricken dog before he was ever elected to congress. but then took off with the money. now, santos, for his part, denies this story. and we have his response for you tonight. and there are new details tonight about what investigators found when they searched the home of the alleged killer of four college students in ida