a russian lieutenant who fought in ukraine has fled putin s army and he s out front to talk about it. the lack of equipment, training, boiling rabbits for food, the atrocities he says were committed by russian fighters. you won t want to miss this interview. breaking news, the pentagon right now is tracking a chinese spy balloon flying over the u.s. president biden asking for military options. what are the chinese doing? plus, fbi agents investigating congressman george santos for allegedly scamming a veteran out of thousands of dollars meant for his dying dog. that veteran is out front tonight. what did he tell investigators about santos? and good evening. i m erin burnett. out front, a russian officer speaks out right here. constantine served on the front lines for three months and is now telling all. the former lieutenant is the most senior russian officer to speak publicly about what he saw and did in ukraine. you re going to see that interview in just a moment. he
it does. in fact, you know, if you look essentially back at past years in which two candidates added up to more than 70% of the early primary polling vote, right, what do we know? there are only two such examples of that, at least when there s no incumbent running, one in 2000. one was 2016 both on the democratic side. look how many people ran in the two years. two in 2000, five in 2016 on the democratic side. so if you are making a bet based upon the polling at this particular point, you would definitely bet far fewer republican candidates than say the democratic side, you know, four years ago when we had north of 20. probably going be in the single digits. multiple, multiple debate nights. just to get everybody in. okay. harry, thank you very much. thank you. so now let s go to former republican lieutenant governor of georgia, jeff duncan. you saw harry s numbers. from the inside, how do you see it? is the race 2024 down to trump and desantis or do you see a
he couldn t have won this nomination with that crew up there. i think ronald reagan looked like the democrat in the room. and i think the dnc should take the social security line of mr. perry and the attack on social security and the ponzi scheme and put out bumper stickers saying, it s not about obama it s about your momma and we ll win. lawrence? al s point is very important, i think the real headline tonight is romney lives, because perry failed. he came into this campaign and steam rolled everyone in the polls. he did not steam role romney tonight. this ponzi thing he got himself in a deeper hole tonight, he said in the ronald reagan library. 193 ronald reagan, today we reaffirm franklin roosevelt s commitment that social security must always provide a secure and stable base so older americans may live in dignity. ronald reagan would have been the wild lefty in the room getting less than 1% of the polling vote in this crowd with huntsman polling above them.
reaffirm franklin roosevelt s commitment that social security must always provide a secure and stable base so older americans may live in dignity. ronald reagan would have been the wild lefty in the room getting less than 1% of the polling vote in this crowd with huntsman polling above them. who did themselves the most harm tonight? rick perry. he had to come in here and perform according to his polls, as a very strong front-runner. he could have created a bigger zns between him and romney tonight. he failed to do that, romney, much more debate experience. performed better than any of the rest of them. and i think helped remind republicans, don t rush to perry. perry loses on the opportunity cost because he could have nailed it down tonight? romney, clearly did himself the most good as far as i m concerned. romney managed to take very solid conservative positions.