to xi jinping. his wife reportedly curried favor with the president, as you reported by making moon cakes for her. he disappears. they scrub everything of any evidence of him. obviously he was a huge public figure, the top foreign diplomat. now it s huge that they are acknowledging something did go wrong. what can you tell us? his predecessor wang yi was in the position of foreign minister for a decade. they don t have turnover in chinese upper echelons of their diplomatic ranks. xi jinping basically took qin gang, guided him up through the rairngs gave him the number two diplomat of all of china, the face of china diplomacy, the guy who was the chinese ambassador, who was at the washington wizards gang trying to do a three-point shot and on cnn the next minute blasting the united states and nancy pelosi saying
outfront. plus, new reporting from the k file this hour on where rfk jr. s money is going. why the democratic candidate for president is paying republicans and anti-vaxxers who compared mandates to the holocaust. and a story we ve been following closely outfront. china break its silence about that missing foreign minister who vanished more than a month ago. he s been replaced. no word, though, on where he is or why he was purged. let s go outfront. and good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, no show. there was no sign today of the federal grand jury in the case involving trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. and the reason is unclear. but it was significant because we do know that the jury is expected to meet every tuesday and every thursday. and we do know the activity in this particular investigation has been ramping up. and by all current accounts, is expected to end in a criminal indictment of the former president. trump, in fact, has been bracing f
and forth just fighting with one another. it s what most people are sort of completely fed up with, with the divisiveness and dysfunction in washington really on both sides. so, this is the most direct threat speaker mccarthy has made against president biden. and he s doing it obviously in the context of the clock ticking. this historic indictment of president trump may come at any moment. so, do you think the two are related? you re bringing up the perception is, well, we re saying you weaponize it, so how high do i need to jump? do you think the two are related? well, i can t just speculate as to what prompted the speaker s comments. i know that there are republicans who have very serious concerns about some of the allegations against president biden or the biden family. but the timing of it is certainly suspect. no question about that. right, absolutely. so, i want to ask you about obviously what we re seeing with the 2024 candidates.
since receiving the target letter from the special counsel. and that was nine days ago. the case would, of course, if an indictment comes, as it could at any time, adding to trump s already packed court schedule, which is in the center of the 2024 republican primary season. i just want to show you this calendar so you can see it for yourself. in yellow, those are the known dates for republican primaries next year. and then in red, three of trump s upcoming court dates january 15th, second e. jean carroll civil defamation trial. march 25th is the manhattan hush money trial with the d.a. alvin bragg. and may 20th is the beginning of the mar-a-lago classified documents trial in florida. those are just start dates. once y start, you have a certain number of days or weeks where a trial would go on. so, as you can see, it is going to be a situation where these cases are happening while primary voters are casting their ballots. it will dominate the gop
hours. paula reid is outfront live in washington to begin our coverage tonight. and paula, i started the show with the words no show. we were expecting on tuesday, on thursday, the grand jury which doesn t necessarily mean it s exactly tied to when news may break of a possible indictment. but what do you know about why the federal grand jury did not appear to meet today when this case appears to be coming to a head? reporter: it does appear to be coming to a head. and while this grand jury does usually meet on tuesdays and thursdays, that schedule can be amended to suit the needs of prosecutors. but, as you said, today there was no indication they were in the courthouse. but prosecutors have plenty of other work to do. over the past 48 hours, they have received thousands of documents created by the team of lawyers that then president trump assembled to try to find any evidence of fraud in the 2020 election. erin, late last night, we obtained many of those documents after reviewin