attempt on his life last fall. erin burnett outfront starts right now. outfront next, bitter battle. more than 30 town as cross eastern ukraine under fire tonight as new and graphic video shows the brutal russian losses on the front lines. and congresswoman ilhan omar getting kicked off a committee. and governor ron desantis publicly praising a lawyer who s going after trump s election deniers. let s go outfront. and good evening, i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, under fire. more than 30 towns across eastern ukraine facing bitter fighting in the overnight hours tonight. and we have new video to show you tonight from the front lines, this is from where we believe is near the town of voldahar. and it is graphic. this is the first video. it s important to understand the context of what s happening on the front lines. we believe there are russians standing by this tank. they drop that small munition, and the russians are killed. it s gruesome and graphic. you r
it s called christ of the ozarks. christ of the ozarks was the subject of a huge a suspiciously huge fund-raising operation by gerald l.k. smith. he died in 1976, but that statue still stands 1 in arkansas toda. but gerald l.s. smith is about to have another moment in the public eye because what he really wanted to be remembered for, even more than that statue, was a nationwide movement that he tried to build, a movement that he named and that he led and that he promoted tirelessly and that he wanted to outlive him forever. the motive behind the term christian nationalist is easy to define and simple to interpret. we believe that the destiny of america in relationship to its governing authority must be kept in thein hands of our own peopl. we must never be goonchd by aliens. we must keep control of our own money m and our own blood. in other words, we must remain trueor to the declaration of independence. that is nationalism. woe believe that the spiritual symbol of our s
forgiven. he is no longer a famous figure. but in his day, he was a famous fish guy. a preacher and political figure. at one point, he ran for senate in michigan as a republican. in 1944, he ran for president against fdr. he ran for the ticket on the america first party, which he had founded. gerald l k smith did not go far with that bid or the bid as a republican. either if gerald l k smith, is remembered for anything, today it is probably mostly for this, this is a statue that he erected in arkansas in the 1960s, it is called christ of the ozarks. crisis of the ozarks was a suspiciously huge fund raising operation by gerald l.k. smith. he died in 1976. but that statue still stands in arkansas today. but gerald l.k. smith is about to have another moment in the public eye. because what he really wanted to be remembered for, even more than that statue, was a nation wide movement that he tried to build. a movement that he named and that he lied and that he promoted charsley. an
but what can we expect? this is a republican party that is now run by conspiracy theorists, qanon folks, and folks who would rather run a circus than a house. the president will also address police reform. and, andre, your son was killed by officers executing a no-knock warrant, which was not related to your son. he was in legal position of a gun. officers said they considered that a threat. prosecutors said there wasn t enough evidence to justify charges against any of those officers. now of course you re there tonight with congresswoman omar because she is putting forth legislation named after your son, which would end no-knock warrants. when you look at congress and you look at the division there, do you have hope that this legislation will pass? i do. i have hope, and i believe that it will pass. and i actually i know that as everything happens in seasons and it s time for something to
against jewish people, just the latest in months and months of anti-semitic rants that he had been posting to gab. his bio on gab said, quote, jews are the children of satan. that s the sort of account description that might have raised red flags on a normal website. it serves as par for the course of gab. it is a social media destination for people who have been kicked off of other websites, qanon folks, holocaust deniers, all the best people. in the aftermath of the tree of life massacre as everybody s attention turned to this online cesspool gab s founder bragged that the site was getting its highest traffic ever after the shooting. turns out the massacre was great for gab. that guy, the founder of gab is a real peach after ten african american people were killed in a buffalo supermarket earlier this year. he endorsed the shooter s online grievances about black people and jews are supposedly