memories of the men and women he served. with the news continues with erin burnett, out front starts right now. out front next, new reporting from the white house this hour. ready to go. those of the words of a biden adviser tonight about a 2024 run and we will tell you what else is going on behind the scenes tonight. all new reporting from our phil mattingly here at the top of the hour and ron desantis s new target is a small liberal arts college. his goal is to turn it into a conservative school, and the man desantis is putting in charge, reportedly making more than double than his predecessor. and the space race is up for an investigation inside of china spy balloon making operation. named after physicists neil de grasse tyson is out front. let s hear what he has to say about the extraterrestrial life. let s go up front. and good evening, welcome to the special edition of out front, i m erin burnett, tonight, ready to go. that is an exact quote, those are the words of a bi
texas a little song by morgan as well but we are glad you re here. we are assuming rachel will be here soon. because it tells to stick with the shop because we love her so much we hope she s listening. we are honest with the audience or ants will and nine. not just a shot of delta back to the capitol. all of it isn t chinese supply balloon is evacuate a highlighter and a sharpie. [laughter] that s all that less. that would be what would be laughed at. speaking too much about the balloon. rachel has disappeared, note cards, sharpie, and heater. looks quite certain she s on assignment will find her tracker and when we identify her will bring her to you. in the meantime good morning dallas, good morning will, good morning rachel wherever you are. we got to fox news alert. pentagon confirming a second chinese spy balint was found hovering over latin america yesterday. caller: versing over montana has now been spotted flying near kansas city, missouri. will remain in the u.s
getting some of our biggest clues yet about the directions special counsel jack smith is taking the politically fraught and complex and unprecedented investigations of an ex president by the justice department. there are major developments in both the january 6 investigation and the probe into the classified documents. we ll get to that in a minute. but we begin with what we know about the sprawling criminal probe into the capitol insurrection and the coup plotted by the ex president and his allies and including those in the administration and in congress. as the new york times reports, jack smith steps us the pace, sorting through a mountain of evidence from the january 6 committee and looking to interview witnesses that did not speak to the congressional panel. from that times report, quote, did former president trump consume detailed information about foreign countries wild in office? how extensively did he seek information about whether voting machines had been tampered
opponents. the source of embarrassing allegations about his son s personal affairs as well as a figurative side dish to main course what could be serious legal trouble. the potential legal and political fallout. first, jessica schneider. for years republicans have been going off about this laptop and hunter biden never publicly acknowledged that it was his. why is he taking legal steps now? they are ramping up their approach here. it s coming at the same time they are girding themselves for this real fight with congressional republicans. so what they are doing tonight, they are fighting back against a number of people they say allegedly got into hunter biden s laptop, that was left at that delaware computer repair shop, and they are fighting against the people who disseminated the contents of that laptop. these contained business documents, emails and photos and some potentially salacious materials purportedly belonging to hunter biden. what biden s team is saying is that t
plus, hunter biden is now fighting back and now calling for a criminal investigation into those sharing his personal information. and the lead prosecutors in memphis is considering additional charges in the beating death of tyre nichols. this is what we are watchingt that hour. thank you all for being here. i m kate bolduan, and several stories developing overseas. russia is releasing a fresh barrage of missiles in the hub city of kramatorsk. you can see the search crews there, and so many scrambling for safety, and our cnn crew was caught dangerously close to that. also big news out of asia. secretary of defense lloyd austin just announced increased military access in the philippines. it is coming as the fears are growing over a potential chinese invasion of taiwan. also news out of the middle east. iran is threatening to retaliate over a drone attack on an iranian military facility. we go to fred pleitgen. you and your team were close to these military strikes i