service and fbi have come up empty, failing to find fingerprints, video or dna to link any individual to that small bag of cocaine found in a west wing lobby. another massive hack from china on u.s. organizations, reaching as far as the in box of the secretary of commerce, even as secretary of state blinken today was trying to warm up relations with a top chinese official in indonesia. i will get reaction this hour from senate intelligence committee chairman mark warner. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell back from the nato summit in lithuania. president biden continuing his foreign trip in finland today, nato s newest member. was pressed whether the allies could trust the u.s. to remain in nato despite opposition by trump republicans to remain in the alliance. president biden also was trying to patch over differences the u.s. has with allies, including great britain, our closest ally, over not giving ukraine a clearer time line of when it could join nato once the wa
inside eastern ukraine where the war is playing out. horrors striking a city center as a top russian investigative reporter has new details for us about the phone calls leading up to the insurrection against putin. that reporter is my guest. and my full explosive interview with the ukrainian foreign minister, why he thinks the threat to putin is far from over, and his fears of an attack on europe s largest nuclear power plant. plus, a wagner commander speaks out to cnn about yevgeny prigozhin s bold coup attempt and what s next for the man who humiliated vladimir putin. let s go outfront. and good evening, i m erin burnett. welcome to a special edition of outfront. we are live tonight in eastern ukraine in the city of dnipro, a city on the road to the front lines of putin s war. behind me, you see blackness. but there is a city behind me of nearly 1 million people. it is just completely dark. after curfew completely dark. the street lights behind me are all shut off
extremists. a phrase you can expect to hear a lot of in the coming months. these two likely opponents and spends zero time on threats from a broad, on china or russia in this particular ad. 60% of americans have low confidence in the president s ability to handle an international crisis, which is likely on the watch of this next president. 80% of americans are dissatisfied with the way that things are going in the country right now. a lot to dig into as we start to get a look at the shape of what is to come over the next several months of this election. we ll talk to bill and brian in just a moment. first to peter doocy standing by. hi, peter. martha, a surprise. president biden s first remarks since the big announcement did not mention the big announcement. instead, he stuck to his recent stump speech with lines like this. it s a fact that our economic plan is working. we now have to finish the job. there s more to do. the republican national committee s first crack a
search, they didn t find anything. appreciate it. coming up, we look at some of the issues house republicans plan to investigate when it comes to the first family, from hunter biden s business dealings, to claims about the presents brothers, that have also drawn scrutiny. what it means for the 46th commander-in-chief, ahead. (dog barks) silverado zr2, trail boss, and custom trail boss. because adventure is everywhere. new reporting into cnn about the biden documents infestation. what sources are telling us about who federal investigators are talking to. cnn senior justice correspondent evan perez joins us now. have you learned, evan? we know that the investigators are doing the initial review, talk to a number of people associate with president biden. one at them, it turns out, is patrick moore. he s a long time biden campaign a attorney election lawyer who was present when the first batch of documents were found back in november. he was among the people there who
and some of the most extreme far right members of the gop will have real power in the house thanks to kevin mccarthy s desperate deal making to become speaker. and also ahead, another tragic scene in ukraine. we ll have the latest on a deadly helicopter crash outside kyiv. good morning, and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, january 18th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we begin in washington where the white house is making efforts to tamp down criticism about a perceived lack of transparency in the classified documents case involving president biden. in a phone call with reporters yesterday, a spokesman and senior adviser fielded questions. and both republican and democratic lawmakers have called on the white house to explain why it took until this month to inform the public that classified material had been found at the penn biden center in washington, d.c. and the documents were discovered back in early november. when asked yesterd