it is a location that s just steps away from the highlysitivs sensitive situation room, where some of the nation s top secret likemissions, like the raid on e laden, take place. house republicans openinpuing up their own investigation, calling the events shameful. but national adviser jakesulv sullivan says there is no needan to worry n. n beee situation room is not i use and has not been in use fors months because it is currently under construction. the only people comingtr. inthis and going out of the sit room p in this period have been workers who are getting it ready to go. things got super tense inng . the room. the white house asked point blank if the cocaine belonge tod the biden family. that question did not go over well with press secretarion diy karine jean-pierre. i can just say once and for aly karinel or not, the cocaineh belonged to the biden family. dibiden fad not avoiding the qu. that is not true. we ve answered this questionrue litigated this question
outfront next, russia seizing on tucker carlson s exit from fox. why this obsession? it comes as a top putin official tonight tells our matthew chance about the possibility of a prisoner swap for americans detained in russia. plus, what s old is new again. biden s message today for re-election, eerily similar to what he said on this very day exactly four years ago. will it work a second time? and then a story you will see first outfront tonight. outrage over lawmakers making decisions of white lawmakers making decisions for a city that is overwhelmingly black and democratic. outfront tonight, russia is hiring as a top putin mouthpiece offers tucker carlson a job with russian state television. the most senior russian official to visit the united states since putin invaded ukraine. you heard me there, today, said this, unprompted. translator: perhaps it would be useful to consider how things are with freedom of speech in the united states. i ve heard that tucker c
the election to make more money over and over and over again. and we re going to show you in their own words exactly what happened. and ron desantis s conservative takeover of a small progressive college. one professor who s speaking out publicly is my guest tonight. let s go outfront. and good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, the enemy is raging. those are the exact words of a ukrainian general on the front lines in bakhmut tonight. translator: over the past 24 hours, the enemy is raging, shelling with all they have. they don t really have success on the ground. hence, they are making it up from the skies. they are just breaking this city into molecules. breaking the city into molecules, a city that used to have 70,000 people. we have new video tonight of what the ukrainians are up against. they are on those front lines. these are the men leading putin s fight, these russians from the brutal wagner group are seen patrolling in the area in and around b
grohl. and on that note, i wish you all a very good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late! i will see you at the end of tomorrow! thanks to all of our joining us this hour. it is a rare moment when reasonable people are in agreement with my pillow, ceo, michael and, all prominent election conspiracist. but here is where we are. kevin mccarthy and the gang released 44,000 hours from january 6th to exclusively fox news. well, we are not going to sit back and let that happen. why have all the fights that we got, why would you pick ongoing on going and telling mccarthy he can t partner with tucker? well, because fox, number one, fox is going to sift through it and only put out what they want. you heard that correctly. mike pillow ceo and election denier mike lindell is furious that speaker of the house kevin mccarthy for giving exclusive access to more than 40,000 hours of january 6th security footage t
yesterday, odds are, you saw one of these, an ad for election denier mike lindell s my pillow pillow. or an ad for his my slipper slippers. we school through the entire day, time we will never get back, and counted 30 ads by mike lindell in a 24-hour period. even though that is a lot of advertising for slipper slippers, that is not a scandal. mr. lindell can spend it is as much of his company money on fox as he would like. what is alarming about the sheer volume of fox ad time that is occupied by mr. lindell, what is alarming, is this. on december 17th, 2020, the ceo of fox news was forwarded this email by an executive in the fox news communications department. my pillows mike lindell was on newsmax tonight and criticize fox news quite a bit, saying it look like we were in on stealing the election from trump. he did say that he wouldn t pull ads over it, but he did make suggestive comments about our audience being smaller than before. the next morning, fox news ceo suzanne sc