politicsnation. tonight s lead, last-ditch effort. senate negotiators have been meeting this afternoon trying to hammer out a deal on immigration. president biden s homeland security chief met with lawmakers on the hill earlier in the day. majority leader chuck schumer delayed the holiday recess, hoping for a breakthrough on a bill that would also include military aid for israel and ukraine. if a bill cannot be made in the next several days, both chambers will have to take it up next year alongside a spending package to avoid a government shutdown. and in the house, there will be the matter of and impeachment inquiry into president biden. launched this week at the origin of that republican leadership. all this as the first presidential nomination contest is now less than a month away and iowa. and black voters across that south are literally so when the states that live in, over voting district maps that they contained designed to suppress the vote in 2024. an
their own extremists into saying they wouldn t do that. now, this is a big story tonight with a real twist. the president is drawing an treatment on that very important from an unlikely source. donald trump himself who is, of course, running against biden right now, running to be president again. but trump is, as politico reports, tying the entire gop in knots by pushing back on something pretty straightforward, the obviously unpopular plan to cut medicare and social security that some conservatives want. now, that s the view from a candidate, while new reporting shows that veterans in the trump administration are part of the possible push to get medicaid or health care funding slashed. now, in the house republicans have some leverage. they narrowly took the majority there. but democrats see this debate going their way. they re relying on a new magic budget word, that word is woke. call everything woke, and then try to cut its funding seems to be the strategy. housing, wo
out front next, russians say they re being shot at with machine guns by fellow russians. disturbing claims emerging of what s happened inside putin s army tonight as putin s reputed girlfriend breaks her silence. you ll hear what she s comparing to kalashnikov assault rivals. china vows to fight act after their balloon is shot down. live with a report from the ground in beijing. and congressman george santos addressing today the long list of campaign expenses that don t add up, like spending $22,000 in an eye tall van restaurant. that s almost 1,000 orders of the rigatoni bollignasie there. i m erin burnett. out front tonight, russians shooting russians with machine guns. allegations surfacing in this new video tonight. these are russian soldiers detailing the threats and torture they suffered at the hands of other russian soldiers. you see them there. according to the regional government of tuva, which is where they are, part of russia bore dooring monday dole i can t, a s
not just for the pictures it is not number one she said she ll e me in the kid kidney she meansee good one can you live with zero kidneys inn for a fact you can live for years without a brain.. [laughter] be successful. now that that s out of the way, a new gallup poll shows recor, number of americans arell identifying asup politically independent 49%, in fact, compared to 25% who identify aso republicanmps and another 25 whs identify as female competitive swimmers. [laughter] sha s shocking since two decadei ago independents accounted for lowest percentage of voters as seen in this easy to understand graph. [laughter] yeah drew that on the way home last night pete hegseth gives one hell of a piggy back right you might be asking what happened since 2004? lfi mean, over joe biden s hairh plugaps turning 60. gallop points to the disillusion meant with the political system u.s. institutions and the two party which is are seen as too s political and too extreme. so yeah you can
and then just told these people to deal with it. so, primetime sent summer, our producer, out to see how they are dealing with it. how has this chemical contamination impacted your life? it s been absolutely terrible. it s uprooted me and my six children. it s making me move out of my house. people don t know if it s safe to drink their water. they are saying yes but then we have fish kills everywhere. i have a well so i worry in six months, you know, what could happen to my water. what have you noticed about the environment since this has happened? it s dirty. there s a lot of dust flying around. that creek is dead. there is not a fish in there. there s not a salmon der. there is no frogs. dead snakes. i don t know where the birds all went but we don t see any birds in our place? do you feel safe. no, i don t. no i don t feel safe i would be a fool to say that i feel safe right now. my throat has been burning, horrible cough, sneezing. congestion.