returns to the white house, predicting that trump might not leave voluntarily this time. also tonight president biden says he s decided on a response to the deadly u.s. attack the deadly attack that killed u.s. troops. the world is waiting to see what he decided with the president saying he holds iran responsible. also we are seeing dramatic new images of an undercover raid in a hospital in the west bank with israeli commandos disguised as nurses killing suspected terrorists in hiding. i m kaitlan collins, and this is the source. tonight with donald trump well-positioned to close in with the lead on a third republican presidential nomination, one of his former top aides is stepping up his warnings on what a second trump term could look like. and when i say former top aide, of course, there are many who have issued similar warnings about what could happen including trump s own vice president mike pence. but this is one who had an office just steps away from the oval.
trump onsie and just have it on hand rapid response every time ron desantis says something to differentiate himself from donald trump. yes, they ve been playing that a lot, but i say gif. the differences go on. thank you,nc my friend. and thanks to you at home for joining us this evening. it was november 12, 2020, and there was a lot going on at the time. it had been less than a week since the networks called the 2020 presidential election for joesi biden. donald trump was just beginning his campaign to deny that result and try and overturn it. just a few days prior trump s lawyer, rudy giuliani, gave his infamous four seasons landscaping press conference to contest thela election results. we all remember that. trump had decided to deny president-elect biden to the classified presidential daily briefing as was the custom in presidential transitions, which in t retrospect seems a bit ironic. just one day later senator lindsey graham would make a phone callou to brad raffen
is it true or just a trap for the ukrainians? it comes as ukraine is reeling from the deadliest missile strike in months tonight. plus, the head of a software company hired by trump to investigate voter fraud tells me he found nothing. now the doj is talking to him. and robert f. kennedy jr., whose own family members won t vote for him as president because of his antivaccine views, is polling at nearly 20%. what s behind that surge? let s go outfront. good evening, i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, they re gone. those are the words of one man who just barely survived the deadliest strike in ukraine in months. at least 23 people were killed. these are the newest pictures we have where russian rocket slammed into an apartment building. translator: those were our neighbors. there is no way they survived. a grandmother, daughter and two grandkids live on the ninth floor. they re gone. a mother and daughter lived on the seventh floor. they are gone. those innocent
cowardly feckless response to this crisis downs unfold in realtime. how dangerous is this for our national security? we ll have a deep dive into that. let us be clear this balloon wasn t out for a joy ride. chinas was collecting intelligence absolutely testing your president and the u.s. response. day after day went by and any attempt to assure any of us that they didn t collect intel is not credible to me. is it not possible they had technology maybe we don t know about? we stopped them from collecting intelligence. do you know that for sure? i don t think anyone could answer that question honestly tonight but america needs answers. it s about our national security. why did joe biden fail to respond when he became aware of this incident? first on saturday, january 28th, the spy balloon flew over alaska. joe biden did nothing. two days later on monday, january 30th, it was flying over canada. joe biden continued to do nothing. by tuesday of last week, china s eye in the sky
they got him. and got more including the deadline from the review well past. today having gotten what they wanted they were called onto do something they ve notably not done in any court filing or proceedings so far, namely back up what their clients and allies are suggesting saying these documents were declassified. for the government s part today they signaled their willingness to take this all the way to the supreme court. jessica schneider starts us off and joins us now. let s talk about what the trump legal team told the special master. yeah, well what s interesting is their response to that ultimatum from the special master where he said he might have no choice but to accept the government s claims that 100 of those documents are classified, if trump s team doesn t step windup the proof that the former president declassified them. and that s really something that trump s legal team has resisted repeatedly asserting both in person in court and in legal filings. so, you