biden in michigan even as the president signs his toughest executive order yet on israel. we re live in michigan with a special report on what the voters there really seem to want from the president. plus, ukraine sinking a massive russian ship and launching a missile barrage all while the military is in massive turmoil. the head of the military fired. tonight, the biggest turning point yet in the war. and the number rs in. biden beating trump when it comes to cash on hand. where is most of trump s money going to? let s go outfront. and good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, biden goes to battle taking on trump in a fight for union votes. we now have in large part because of you and organized labor, the strongest economy in the whole damn world. we do! now, biden who s speaking to workers from the united auto workers. now it s one of the biggest unions in the country and the union that s given biden its official endorsement over trump, which is significant.
and many republicans have done that in the past. he really put it down in layman s terms, that you elected me to put america first and to get america back on solid footing with other countries, where they ve had an advantage with us on trade. and when you talk about it in that way, the room loved it. it s the same exact reason he was able to win the election and beat out all the other republicans, because he was very plainspoken about his policies. and the other thing he said was, this is exactly what i m doing now is what i said i was going to do during the campaign. i don t understand why so many people are shocked by it. so i don t see there honestly being some big divide right now in the republican party. there may be a divide by old-school republican leadership in washington. i do think that s pretty clear. but guess what? they lost, he won, and now he s the president and they ve got to work with him. yeah, and as you listened to this address that he gave and you saw this reac
the guys you meet and the women you meet in your state of west virginia who are gun owners and members of the nra? do they see him as a distinctive figure on his own or do they see him as a leader? what is it? the people of west virginia the nra members, the people in west virginia are just pure, sincere law-abiding gun owners. they don t have a commercial interest. they don t have a $1 million salary. they don t have all the fringes that come with the trappings of washington. with that being said, what they re trying to do is basically look at this and make sense. when they start seeing what we ve done to the bill, you know what they said? and you mean the nra in washington is against this? we ve been fighting for some of these provisions for the last decade or more. and i said all i said, guess what? in 1999 the nra leadership in washington, pretty much the same people, were for this. i haven t changed. they changed, chris. congratulations, senator. you re doing something i bel
figure on his own or do they see him as a leader? what is it? the people of west virginia the nra members, the people in west virginia are just pure, sincere law-abiding gun owners. they don t have a commercial interest. they don t have a $1 million salary. they don t have all the fringes that come with the trappings of washington. with that being said, what they re trying to do is basically look at this and make sense. when they start seeing what we ve done to the bill, you know what they said? and you mean the nra in washington is against this? we ve been fighting for some of these provisions for the last decade or more. and i said all i said, guess what? in 1999 the nra leadership in washington, pretty much the same people, were for this. i haven t changed. they changed, chris. congratulations, senator. you re doing something i believe people have to do in politics. if somebody is bad mouthing you, you have to straighten that story out so your friends will know you re right, t
for supporting background checks on something that is already in effect, but hasn t been widened enough to cover all the sales. yeah, we forget i think sometimes that the nra used to support universal background checks. the nra now not only doesn t represent the american public, 90% of whom would like universal background checks, it doesn t even represent its own membership, 3/4 of whom would like universal background checks. the nra represents and is a lobbying group for gun dealers, period. they re about money. if they found out they could sell more guns by scrapping the second amendment all together, they would do it in an eye blink. it s not ideological, it s about money. i noticed there that the way this defense by manchin is put together, he keeps saying the nra in washington, not the nra, drawing the distinction between the people who are members of the nra back in west virginia, which isn t so far away, as we know, but to drawing to states who are member of the nra, many of