days have just been released. let s go out front. and good evening. i m erin burnett. out front tonight, putin threatening nuclear war amid humiliating losses in ukraine, russian president vladimir putin today ordering a military draft and warning that he could use nuclear weapons against west. during a rare televised address to the russian nation, the russian president summoned 300,000 more troops to fight and threatened nuclear retaliation. translator: mobilization will begin today, september 21st. i am instructing the heads of the regions to provide the necessary assistance to the work of the military recruitment offices. this is not a bluff. the citizens of russia can be sure that the territorial integrity of our homeland, our independence and freedom will be ensured. i emphasize this again with all the means at our disposal. and those who try to blackmail us with nuclear weapons should know that the prevailing winds can turn in their direction. the prevailing winds c
that should motivate you. will you sue him for us? we re going to sue him. we re going to be a real pain in the [bleep]. president trump cannot avoid justice in the great state of new york. since i ve been in office the past two years, my office has either led or joined to 68 lawsuits against this administration. martha: okay. you get the idea. after three years of investigating real estate properties on their books, a high profile announcement that she s suing all of the working trump family mens. andy mccarthy is here on developments this hour. but first, this huge story as well today. a cornered vladimir putin drafting up to 300,000 reservists, recruiting at russia s prisons as well to battle back ukraine. while warning america and its allies that he s not bluffing when it comes to his nuclear and war capabilities. a short while ago, president biden was at the u.n. calling for a unified push back to russian aggression, also calling out china for transparency over t
now. president biden was wrong back in december when he predicted that inflation was at its peak and said this. i think you ll see it change sooner than quicker, more rapidly than it will take than most people think. leader mcconnell is standing by. first, gene sperling. good to have you with used too. the question that comes up again and again is that the messages that we received from all left fields of the white house and treasury have been wrong. so how did you get this so wrong? well, martha, the white house and the treasury department were saying last year and i can t stress this enough, reflected the overwhelming economic consensus in the private sector, in the u.s. and other places around the world. it wasn t so much it wasn t the people were wrong with the facts that they had. it s that things happened after that that affected the outcome. so we had not just delta, but omicron. we had gas prices at $3.31 january 17 when putin first started doing military ex
what a crazy day in the markets and for the economy. just when we thought the inflation news couldn t get worse, it did. a sign of what is coming. wholesale inflation that makes you think wait a minute. the retail inflation that is bad could get worse. susan li with more. the dow down sharply this morning after the near record high inflation numbers for producers. wholesale prices coming at 11% higher than last year. you couple that with the steepest consumer price increase and 41 years. we know that americans and companies are paying a lot more for their goods these days. meantime, you have america s biggest banks kicking off what wall street sees as a crucial earnings season to check on the health of corporate america. the biggest lender in the country, j.p. morgan and jamie dimon confirming that his prediction of a economic hurricane down the road has not changed. he points out that the u.s. economy continues to grow in the job market hand consumer spending remains healt
rather have, they want the plant back with everything it had or what you re going to have. i will be dumbfounded if you find anybody other than for pure sentimental reasons saying i d rather have the coal plants. i ll end by telling you another quick story. when we moved from scranton, when coal died in scranton, everything died in scranton. my dad was a coal miner and my grand grandfather was a mining engineer. my dad was in sales. there was no work. we left to go to delaware where the oil plants were. but i remember driving home when you take the trolly in scranton going out north washington and adams avenue. within 15 blocks we didn t live in the neighborhood. the most prestigious neighborhood in the region in the town where the scrantons and other good decent people live. there was you d go by a wall that my recollection is was somewhere between 15 and 18 feet tall. it went from essentially a city block. you can see the coal piled up to the very top of the wall from i