thank you so very much for your time. the pentagon right now tracking a chinese spy balloon that is flying over the united states. this is not a balloon, as you may envision it, it s the size of three buses spotted by a commercial plane. what the president and his military advisers are doing about it tonight. plus, update to a story first out front, the fbi investigating congressman george santos alleged scheme to thousands of dollars from a veteran, meant to save his dying dog. the veteran is back with me. what did he share with the fbi. the sky camera that captured the fatal beating of tyre nichols. we ll take you inside that sky cop operation and talk to the man who placed that camera in just that exact place that captured the brutal arrest. i remember when i first started flying,
that? it s just noncontrollable lying. he doesn t care what he says. there s no repercussions at the time when he was saying all these things, he really believed he could get away with everything that he said. and he was for a long period of time. he s in his 40s, right? this gentleman has been doing this for a long time. he s very good at it. he s very intelligent. rich, you sit here tonight, you have two dogs and now i know because of all of this they re getting service trained, you re going to get another dog today happens to be your dad s birthday. happy birthday, dad. how are you doing right now? i m doing great. just i ll be doing a lot better when i stop seeing him on tv so much. it s an open wound. every time i see him it s like pouring salt into it again. but i m not in that bad place i was six years ago. since this has all been going down, my dog has been getting a lot more love from me every time i come home, i bring them a big bag of pig s ears.
what does it mean to you to see this being investigated, though, now? just being there for richard from the beginning. i love richard. he knows that. and seeing him being a victim at the time and vulnerable and now seeing richard at this point it s been a long, long road to get here. and being a police officer, former police officer, i really want to see justice because this is bringing life back to richard. closure for this whole entire incident that has happened. we just saw him, manu raju was asking the question about the investigation into this. he had nothing to say about the fbi investigation. in fact, as you know, rich, he s trying to clean up all of the lies that he has proven to have made about many other things. and here is what he said in an interview earlier this week. no, i don t think lying is excusable, ever. period. i am sorry. i m deeply sorry. i have been calling supporters to apologize directly to them.
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 managed to
federal investigation. are you concerned about the fbi investigation? i am not. have you spoken to the fbi? mr. santos, you re facing a federal investigation here. this is very serious. can you explain to your voters and your constituents what happened with this veteran? the conversations that you had with him? mr. santos? met with silence there. we spoke with that veteran, rich osthoff in an interview you saw first outfront last month. george santos promised to get his dog a life-saving surgery and set up a gofundme page in 2016. after $3,000 of donations poured, he stopped answering his calls and texts. he never saw a dime and his dog died just four months later. rich osthoff is back out front with me now along with the new jersey veteran s network who intervened and tried to help osthoff get the money. of course you also spoke with