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we ll see if it shows up. anderson is now. good evening. so it begins. four years the day after he entered the 2020 race with the video condemning the former president s comments after a white supremacist rally, joe biden is running for a second term. he appeared in a video released saying we still are in a fight for the soul of the nation. he spoke about the need to, in his words, defend democracy. repeatedly spoke of the need to stand up for what he termed personal freedom. this time, not just against the extremism of a former president who hopes to retake the white house, but a republican party, the president believes is enabled by him. we protect our rights, to make sure that everyone in this country is treated equally and everyone is given a fair shot at making it. but, you know, around the country, maga extremists are taking on the bedrock freedoms, cutting social security that you paid for your entire life while cutting taxes for the very wealthy, dictating what de
right now, a high stakes meeting behind closed doors adds congress clashes over trillions of dollars. house speaker kevin mccarthy wants to force president biden to the negotiating table. the big problem, his own party might not be on board with his plan to hold a vote today. the clock is tick to go cut a deal. rolling out the red carpet. the nuclear threat when president biden is preparing for a state visit with south korea s president this morning. we will bring you those important moments ahead. an urgent manhunt across multiple states after four detainees escape a mississippi jail, one of them suspected of shooting and killing a man right after he got out. the latest from police coming up on cnn news central. we begin on capitol hill where right now republican house leadership is meeting behind closed doors discussing a big course reversal in their one-year plan to raise the debt limit by $1.5 trillion while making deep spending cuts. speaker kevin mccarthy and
on tucker carlson s sudden exit from fox reportedly getting a ten-minute notice. what was the rush? new reporting tonight. plus, the georgia d.a. investigating trump reveals her time line for possible criminal indictments against trump and his allies. it is specific, and the reporter who broke that story will be outfront. and a story that you ll first outfront tonight. diamonds, furs, luxurious vacations, the wife of one of the men behind putin s deadly invasion living it up. let s go outfront. good evening, i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, fire. we are learning new details about how tucker carlson s sudden exit from fox news went down. a source telling cnn that carlson was not given a heads up, and according to the wall street journal, which is also owned by fox s parent company, carlson was also notified ten minutes before the network publicly announced his part departure. it was so abrupt that the network was still promoting his show right as the news br
program that he was not timely in notifying the public about his stroke when it occurred just before the primary. nor was he forthcoming about his cardiomite yop thi. and i said he was refusing to debate his opponent in an effort to run out the clock by not agreeing to a debate until many pennsylvanians had already voted. i also defended an nbc reporter criticized noting he had trouble understanding her small talk. basically, i thought the coverage of fetterman was being determined by empathy alone, not objectivity when the facts demanded both. so now comes the news that the junior senator from pennsylvania admitted himself to walter reid medical center on wednesday night for treatment of clinical depression. his office released a statement while saying he experienced depression without tlout his life, it only became severe in recent weeks. he s receiving treatment on a voluntary basis after examining him, the doctors told us that john is getting the care he needs and will so