block representatives adam schiff to eric swalwell from returning to their post on the house intelligence committee. schiff and swalwell are outspoken californian democrats who previously served as impeachment managers during the impeachment of donald trump. republicans also sought retribution against ilhan omen, the congresswoman, saying remarks she said in the past which he publicly apologized in 2019. two congressional terms ago. this is the first time republicans have been back in power in the house. on thursday, all but one republican members voted to remove omar from her seat on the foreign affairs committee. that s not even a half of it. in addition to keeping members of committees, republicans created the so-called select subcommittee on the weaponization of the federal government. which will be shared by ohio representative jim jordan. jordan has repeatedly compared his subcommittee to the church committee. one of the most respected and effective channels in congress
viewed justice clarence thomas as key to stopping the certification of the election. the former director of national intelligence is my guest tonight. let s go outfront. and good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, biden s major speech this hour, with just six days until election day, president biden any moment now will deliver a major speech. the topic is the threat to democracy, and it comes on the heels of a violent attack on the house speaker nancy pelosi s husband paul. biden betting this will turn the tide of the midterms. but as he prepares to speak, only 9% of likely voters say voting rights and election integrity are the most important issues to them. 51% say the economy is their number one concern. 51%. and today that issue was front burner. the fed raising interest rates by another three-quarters of a percentage point. rates have been rising at an unprecedented pace with mortgage rates above 7% for the first time in 20 years. you can see the stage
is through diplomacy, as you said. but the ripeness, the ability for diplomats on both sides to come to some kind of area, depends on the how rape that situation. is it is not ripe yet. for either side, ali. the ukrainians don t want to stop all they are pushing the russians out. ukrainians want first, to push the russians out of their country. the russians, putin in particular, has not figured out, has not realized, has not gotten it, that he actually is losing this battle. and, he would like to have a cease-fire in place. so that is, putin is in a bind, ali. sooner or later, there will be a victory. i think. in terms of the ukrainians being able to push the russians out of the country. at that point, there will be the time for diplomacy. we are looking for options of peace, that could be one. when you when i talked last february, as this was wrapping up, i m not sure whether either
because it says a lot about prigozhin s ambitions and his standing in putin s inner circle. members of putin s inner circle don t usually descent from his policies. prigozhin has become more and more embolden in terms of challenging the russian defense minister for influence. he s been telling people he wants more resources, more responsibility, more everything for wagner forces, who are operating in ukraine at a large scale. upwards of 5,000 mercenaries now operating in ukraine. the kremlin is walking this tight rope, putin in particular. it s not only prigozhin who has confronted him. it s other senior officials who are saying you need to change something about the way this war is going. u.s. intelligence officials are concerned about that. some of these officials are saying you need to do something more, potentially drastic.
most one of the grandest miscalculations on the world stage of anybody in our lifetime. yeah, that moment at the end of the last jedi comes as luke skywalker brushes off his shoulder and he tastes the planet, which i never understood, but you are right about the former president. he throughout his time as a candidate and as president of the united states was wildly deferential to vladimir putin. we saw him in helsinki side with putin over the u.s. intelligence agencies about their assessment of russia s election interference, and he hasn t backed off of that. we know he has been drawn to strong men, putin in particular, and was praising as savvy, smart and canny. we have seen trump have to back