just days before the election, who is kathy bartlett and could she win? and good evening, welcome to a special edition of outfront, live from kyiv tonight i m erin burnett and russia with a new warning and a massive show in force. this comes as the u.s. is flexing its military muscles 700 miles south of ukraine. thousands of troops from america s allies join americans for military exercises in north macedonia, at some point, hundreds of paratroopers to the sky to demonstrate how quickly the alliance could respond to an attack. while it s important to note these exercises were planned for putin s invasion, it s always the option to hold them up, the u.s. with that and other exercises since the conflict began, no doubt the message was aimed at putin and it comes as former president dmitri medvalev gave a warning, quote, that russia will strengthen the number of air defenses and ground and air forces as well as naval forces if sweden and finland join nato. they probably will,
Chris Matthews debates hot political issues with politicians, newsmakers and Washington leaders. Comes from giuliani, who attempted to downplay the criminal aspect of collusion with the russians. Rather than deny that collusion took place, he now today argued that collusion isnt illegal. Lets watch. Ive been sitting here looking in the federal code trying to find collusion as a crime. Its not. Collusion is not a crime. I dont even know if thats a crime, colluding about russians. You start analyzing the crime. The hacking is the crime. The hacking that certainly is the original the president didnt hack. Of course not. Thats he didnt pay them for hacking. Its so much fun. An apparent shift in strategy. Giuliani now appears to be saying that collusion is not so bad after all. You saw him there chuckling about it. And also 150e78d to undermined the credibility, however, of President Trumps frequent and categorical denials that there was no collusion. Which has been a familiar refrain from
walgreens, walmart, limiting the number of cans customers can buy in each transaction wolf. very tough, heartbreaking to even think about it. thank you brian tod for that reporting. to our viewers, thank you very much for watching. i m wolf blitzer in the situation room, erin burnett outfront starts right now. outfront next, live from kyiv, as russia issues a chilling warning. official says putin, quote, will put out more air and ground defenses if countries join nato. just how much ukrainian forces are relying to win on the battlefield, plus federal process kurlts reportedly launched a grand jury investigation on trump, how did classified documents end up in mar-a-lago and serving documents
italian prime minister at the white house today. he was asked about sitting down with the president of iran to talk about easing tensions. let s listen to that. i do believe that they will probably end up wanting to meet, and i m ready to meet anytime they want to. and i don t that from strength or from weakness. i think it s an appropriate thing to do. if we could work something out that s meaningful, not the waste of paper that the other deal was, i would certainly be willing to meet. do you have preconditions for that meeting? no preconditions. no. they want to meet i ll meet. anytime. no preconditions. but remember the heat that then candidate barack obama took after saying he d meet with leaders of enemy nations with no preconditions? that was back in 2008. well, today all we re hearing from the right a now familiar deafening silence. whatever trump does is fine with them. as long as they get their tax cuts and their regulations removed on the environment. we ll be right b
basically took a billionaire for them to say if you look at the predicate for trump, it s economic angst is the bogeyman. we all know it s tribalism. right? and if as long as he s their tribal warrior, build that wall, build that wall, they re going to stick that 44%, 43%, they re going to stick with him through thick and thin. he can play porn stars left and right. they re sticking with him, right? the problem is for the broader republican party, who they actually have to win in the suburbs. that s the problem. go ahead, elena. koch, they were able to get their tax cuts. so the key for them is being push the policy platform into tariffs, into trade, into things that they re concerned about what the president is saying. so this is their way to try and wrangle himself. it s business to them. oil and gas. they don t like mass transit. they don t like anything. just lots more oil and gas out filip the round table s sticking with us. up next comedian sacha baron cohen pranks an