Im going to turn you over into the trusted hands of one mr. Wolf blitzer, who is in this Situation Room, which just is actually in Philadelphia Today it is Debate Night in america and we are now just a few hours away from what will be an historic President Ial Debate. And the first Facetoface Meeting between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump. Good evening to all im Erin Burnett im Wolf Blitzer in philadelphia. Welcome to our viewers here in the united states. And around the world. This is a Special Edition of the Situation Room. Erin, the unprecedented Showdown Tonight will be thank you. Place right here in philadelphia. These are brand new pictures were getting right now the Debate Stage former President Trump now making his way to the city of brotherly love. Cnn is learning. He will be joined by two family members, Eric Trump and his wife, lara trump. And wolf. The stakes obviously couldnt be higher. This is a Razortight Race from every single poll. Early
parade. president biden signing executive orders, but is it enough from the members of his own party? good evening. i m erin burnett. the january 6th committee says it learned from trump former white house counsel today. pat cipollone spending eight hours behind closed doors with the committee. as you can see weeding that marathon session tonight. we know his testimony was taped and we know the committee says it was important. mr. cipollone did appear voluntarily and answered a whole variety of questions. he did not contradict the testimony of other witnesses and i think we did learn a few things, which we will be rolling out in years to come. have you learned any significant new information from him? i think a few things, yes. the answer is yes and obviously nearly eight hours, that is a lot of time with a crucial witness. that is the january 6th committee. as for the justice department s investigation for that insurrection day, a stark warning from the director,
globe so what is monkey pox and how is it spreading? let s go outfront. outfront tonight, the u.s. opening the floodgates for ukraine. a massive $40 billion aid package about to be signed into law, so that brings the spending from the biden administration and the united states to $54 billion in just 60 days to aid ukraine. it sounds enormous and i want to be clear, it is enormous, in fact it is more than the united states spent on the entire foreign aid budget in 2019 in 60 days to ukraine. it is important to note, this is a bipartisan thing, the ukraine aid bill, and once the bill passes will be flow to seoul so president biden can sign it in his trip to asia and tonight, president biden pledging more aid. so the money coming at a turning point in the three-month war, ukraine s top military commander saying tonight, and i quote, tonight we are not just defending ourselves, we have conducted a series of successful counter attacks. so russia controls mariupol and the war i
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one early draft described the work of the january 6th select committee as a quote a democrat-led persecution of ordinary citizens engaged in non-violent and political discourse. mitch mcconnell taking issue with not just the language used but the purpose moved in general. i do. but the issue is whether or not the rnc should be sort of sending out members of our party that may have different views of the majority. that s not the job of the rnc. reporter: tonight cnn learning that former mike pence had not intended to rebuke donald trump last week, he declared trump is wrong. pence changed his mind and admonished trump after the former president criticized him in statements. i have no right the to overturn the election. the presidency belongs to the american people and the american people alone. now tonight yet even more information about efforts by those close to the former president to try and get in the