good evening, i m erin burnett, outfront tonight it is election night in america and front and center tonight are trump s lies about the 2020 election, as the january 6th committee lays out its case for how trump tried to overturn the election and knowingly lie to his supporters about it. trump s conspiracy theories are not just a thing about the historical record, you know, that we need to put in there. they re not a thing of the past, they re actually still metastasizing, just listen to two of the trump-backed candidate on the ballot tonight. tonight, will transform our election. you know that they did it to the election in this city. we fought right through to the end. they took the election. we the people know the election was stolen and we are not taking it anymore. so, one of those was adam running for nevada senate, other is katie arrington running for house seat in carolina, where polls closed a the the hour. counting now. trying to unseat incumbent nancy mace
security council official john kirby. and the january 6 select committee just released new video evidence after an abrupt change in the hearing s schedule. this, as we re learning more about a split within the panel over whether to formally seek any criminal prosecutions, including against former president trump. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin with a nation on edge right now at a critical moment for the u.s. economy. tonight, president biden is making a new effort to calm americans fears while also trying to defend his record. here s our chief white house correspondent, kaitlin collins. inflation, it s sapping the strength of a lot of families. reporter: president biden acknowledging the pain of higher prices in philadelphia today. gas is up and food is up, which we re going to get down come hell or high water. reporter: biden promising to bring prices down as t
welcome to prime time weekend, let s get right to the week s top stories. 22 witnesses, 21 days of court, 80 hours of witness testimony later, the first-ever criminal trial of an american ex-president is coming to a close. the fate of the ex-president could be in the hands of 12 every day new yorkers from all walks of life. the prosecution has one last chance to hammer home it s case against trump and closing arguments, that happens tuesday, given that the defense put up just to witnesses, their eight hour cross-examination of michael cohen lasting four times longer than their entire presentation, only the manhattan da is wrestling with the challenge of reminding the jury about all of the testimony presented. all of the documentary evidence, bombshell after bombshell, after bombshell. here s just some of what the jury heard as told by the press covering it. jurors listening intently today as the former publisher of the inquire testified about the confidential arrangement
president s, convicted felon s rants about sharks, electric boats, rather he would be electrocuted or eaten by a shark have everybody talking about his state of minds. at that moment, a merchant of right wing talking points and sometimes even disinformation is going into overdrive with calculated and relentless regional attacks on president joe biden. statements by donald trump on the other hand so unhinged. fox news didn t carry them or broadcast them. didn t air them after the fact. in the words of stephen king that speech was like listening to your senile uncle after he has that third drink. that performance and others like it or reviving questions about trump s stability, mental acuity, questions trump loves to talk about. watch. the next day they ll say he s crazy. the next day they ll say he s incompetent. this is one of the dumbest human beings ever. that wasn t working. i didn t like that one as much. that was bad. i said what do you think about a cognitive test
Thats that this is a question of president ial leadership. At the end of the day, it will come down to the president of the United States being willing to lead in a big picture and in a more macro sense, make a decision what he can support and pull the trigger on it. Here was Lindsey Graham in our conversation just a few minutes ago. What the house sent over is unacceptable to me. The cres can i the militar chs kill the military. I appreciate House Colleagues but we need to get this done. Were inside the 10 yard line. We need a white house that can make a decision and stick to it. And andegreeia, Lindsey Graham has cultivated his relationship with the president and the attempted skill of talking to the president through the television. And i think theres a lot of message sending going on that look, the way out of this is for the president to live up to what he talks about as the tuesday
version of the president from last week when he seemed to embrace willingness to deal with a biparti