this as one former wagner group commander flees to norway, and his lawyer is outfront tonight to tell his story for the first time. plus, just in to outfront, new details about the investigation into biden s classified documents. we now know more about who federal investigators have been speaking with about the case. and ron desantis launching a new charm offensive. he s trying to shed the notion that he s dry and reserved, those are the quotes. why now? let s go outfront. and good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, convicts on the front line. new audio into outfront of the chief of the brutal private russian army fighting on the front lines in ukraine, the wagner group. the chief yevgeny prigozhin s influence with putin has been surging. this is what prigozhin is now telling convicted criminals who have finished their tours of duty with him about staying out of prison. listen for yourself. translator: don t drink a lot, don t use drugs, and don t
cnn newsroom. good to be with you. thailand is reeling right now after a massacre inside a child care center. at least 36 people were killed, including 24 children. they were gunned down or stabbed. the children inside were sleeping at the time. investigators say the shooter was an ex-cop who had been fired and just appeared in court on drug charges. one of the teachers described the moment she saw the shooter. translator: around noon i saw him enter the gate. the staff was having lunch. i suddenly heard what sounded like fire crackers. he pulled the gun from his waist, loaded it and was about to point the gun at me. i called to another teacher who was holding a kid. i didn t expect him to also kill the kids. authorities say the gunman later killed his own wife and stepson, then took his own life. mass shootings are extremely rare in thailand. what else do we know? reporter: this is a peaceful, quiet area that is now believed to be the scene of thailand s deadlies
Week. Just ahead this is a political stunt. I think that it would be very unusual to actually see a referral of impeachment. He looked as though he had been put through an awful lot. He looked tired. Certainly clothing looked weathered from being out there. Wet. They have lived their own personal nightmare. I cant underscore enough that the family sustained. We obviously dont want to see russia get anything that would help them kill more ukrainians. Russia desperately needs ammunition, potentially from north korean sources as well. Live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. It is thursday, september 14, 9 00 a. M. In london, 4 00 a. M. In washington where for the first time u. S. President biden is speaking out about the republican Impeachment Inquiry. At a fund raising event, he said republicans want to impeach help because they want tohut down the government, referring to the looming shutdown in abouo weeks time. He add that he is not focused on impeach
to say about the possibility of taking the witness stand in his own defense in the classified documents case. and also ahead an update on president biden s covid status following the first lady s infection as he s set to leave today for a major summit overseas. good morning, and welcome to way too early on this thursday, september 7th. i m jonathan lemire, thanks for starting your day with us. and we ll begin with the first major hearing for the fulton county election interference case that ended in a loss for two defendants. sidney powell and kenneth chesebro were denied their requests to split their trials. the pair each requested speedy trials but did not want to be in court together. district attorney fani willis is still pushing to keep all 19 codefendants together, trying them all on the expedited trial date that chesebro was granted. now, fulton county superior court judge scott mcafee did not seemed convinced that could be possible. it just seems a bit unrealistic
with impeachment plans. we are going to have the very latest coming up. donald trump jr. will respond to all of this. who also have a full report from our crisis, and it is a crisis at our southern border. but first, on saturday without any republican support, the u.s. senate passed their own version of the $1.9 trillion so-called emergency covid relief bill. but unfortunately, this far left a spending spree, socialist spending spree, yeah, has next to nothing to do with the emergency relief. ted cruz, only 9% of the bill is actually dedicated to health care. some, by the way, foreign health care. both of the spending includes a $350 billion budget bailout that will go to irresponsible blue states, compliments of hardworking taxpayers from responsible red states who elect governors and assemblies and senates that actually balance their budget, keep taxes low, fund their pensions. yeah, you get the idea. legislation also provides one time a $1400 payment to certain people whil