town of soledar. why the major shakeup? plus, resign. more republicans tonight calling for congressman george santos to step down after he lied about his resume. but mccarthy won t show him the door. republican governor chris sununu is outfront. is trump about to get back on facebook? how the company is making this decision. it is a story you ll see first here tonight outfront. let s go outfront. and good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, putin s mysterious shakeup. the russian president suddenly putting in a new general to oversee his war in ukraine. and there is a huge question tonight which is why what is this all about? because it comes as russia claims its forces are on the verge of seizing the town of soledar. cnn is there, has heard the heavy artillery fire. we re going to show you in just a moment. it is artillery fire that has decimated an entire town. these are new before and after pictures just into our field team on the ground. here you ca
Youre not here tonight because youre afraid of being on the stage and defending your record. Youre ducking these things. Thats Chris Christie with a direct attack on donald trump. And christie wasnt the only republican president ial candidate to address the former president s absence from last nights debate stage. There werent that many other attacks, though. But well bring you that and other big moments from last night. Donald trump actually wasnt watching because he was instead on a stage by himself in michigan speaking to a crowd of mostly nonunion auto workers and criticizing the union strike against detroits big three. And meanwhile in washington it appears that farright republicans in the house are ready to shutdown the government over one key funding item. Well tell you what that is just ahead. Good morning and welcome to way too early on this thursday, september 28th. Im jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting your day with us. Weve got a big show ahead, and we begin this morning
senator brown, chairman of the senate banking committee joins me now. senator, i asked elizabeth warren, and ask you tonight, what s the official channel to you folks in the senate about, what they you think about how they re. going well, the schumer and mcconnell and democratic leader in the house all took default off the table. mccarthy won t. look at this, way chris. speaker mccarthy went to new york, went to wall street, maybe three weeks ago. he got his marching orders. his corporate wish lip list, and he has no control of his right-wing extremist caucus and we ve got to keep the pressure on. you do that in part and we ve all talked about this in the democratic side, you do that in part by showing what these cuts will mean, what his budget cuts would mean, or what default would mean, that s two benefits, cuts to meals on wheels, veterans benefits, default would be something that would be worse. as biden said, we re not a bad deadbeat nation. we pay our bills. mccarthy s got to
you folks in the senate about, what they you think about how they re. going well, the schumer and mcconnell and democratic leader in the house all took default off the table. mccarthy won t. look at this, way chris. speaker mccarthy went to new york, went to wall street, maybe three weeks ago. he got his marching orders. his corporate wish lip list, and he has no control of his right-wing extremist caucus and we ve got to keep the pressure on. you do that in part and we ve all talked about this in the democratic side, you do that in part by showing what these cuts will mean, what his budget cuts would mean, or what default would mean, that s two benefits, cuts to meals on wheels,
and i think people inside realize that was a massive mistake, and i hope it won t be repeated again. joining me now is jennifer horn, former chair of the new hampshire republican party. jennifer, i saw the tweet and the, finally, again, this is done at a staffer level, not the principle that the candidate is saying, but this is the kind of think that everybody does this about everything, the normal part of testing campaigns. what is your reaction to hearing dissent this going, oh no, oh god? it s just the degree to which they all lacked courage. no one becomes the nominee for the party whether they re running for town council president of the united states it didn t occur agenda straight to show the difference between themselves and their opponent. and in this case, for republican primary president, we ve seen over and over again that donald trump s opponents are afraid to take them on. he s got a strong among republican primary voters are s authoritarian attacks on disney and the