new picture of the embattled republican congressman performing as a drag queen in brazil, pictures santos denies are of him. let s go outfront. good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, president biden makes a promise, a promise to ukraine to give whatever it needs. all the help they need. it comes as the u.s. today targets the private russian military force the wagner group, designating it a transnational criminal organization. the wagner group is what is leading putin s war right now. right now making the only known progress on the battlefield for putin. that means the man running russia s most powerful private army is making a name for himself. here is yevgeny progozhin, publically declaring his men are the ones that captured a key city outside of bakhmut. translator: we can safely say that the settlement of one of the most important suburbs of bakhmut has been completely taken under the control of wagner pmc units, exclusively by wagner pmc units. klishchi
around santos. a complaint has been filed against him with the federal election commission. federal prosecutors are looking into his finances. law enforcement in brazil say they intend to reinstate charges connected to a stolen checkbook back in 08. he has called them distractions, but we ve got a lot of distractions here, erin. thank you very much, omar. harry enten is were me now. harry, look, scandal and some of this, whether it s just pathological lying, some of it is criminal if it happened, pure out criminal. house speaker kevin mccarthy, though, still refuses to call on santos to resign. he gave him two committee assignments. why? well, he has a slim majority, and if george santos resigns, then that will trigger a special election, and we know from the past presidential vote in new york s 3rd congressional district that joe biden won there. he won there rather easily, won there you can see on your screen right now by eight points over donald trump back in 2020. and the fact