program in prison tonight, his health failing. his lawyers saying he s been poisoned. and morgues in china oesh flowing full of people who were sick from covid. the government is saying, though, they re not covid deaths. why? we re live in beijing tonight with a special report. let s go out front. and good evening. i m erin burnett. out front tonight putin calls it a war. for the first time vladimir putin using the word war to describe his brutal invasion of ukraine. for ten months it s been called a special operation. in fact the word war has been banned. and then today hours after zelenskyy visited with biden in washington, putin said this. translator: our goal is not to spin the flywheel of military conflict but on the contrary to end this war we have been and will continue to strive for this. war. the word war is not semantics for putin. calling this a war, which again has not been allowed. it s been banned. it has serious implications because it allows putin to
relative to get that cellphone. just to imagine this, ai know w talked about it, but her team showed how it happened. there were some comparisons i saw on the internet. all they had were photographs. they didn t have what we have today video and then phone records you can trace back to people, but it is pretty horrific. the killing is against the vuneva conventions, and then taking the phones that s lootingch and the fact they can do that and sleep at night is pretty mind-boggling. you re talking beweeks and months these phones are being used. it s part of their life, which has a sick banality to it, for lack of a better description. putin used the word war today for the first time. if his use of that word ends up
program in prison tonight, his health failing. his lawyers saying he s been poisoned. and morgues in china oesh flowing full of people who were sick from covid. the government is saying, though, they re not covid deaths. why? we re live in beijing tonight with a special report. let s go out front. and good evening. i m erin burnett. out front tonight putin calls it a war. for the first time vladimir putin using the word war to describe his brutal invasion of ukraine. for ten months it s been called a special operation. in fact the word war has been banned. and then today hours after zelenskyy visited with biden in washington, putin said this. translator: our goal is not to spin the flywheel of military conflict but on the contrary to end this war we have been and will continue to strive for
people are in jail serving realtime for having called the war a war when it was illegal. and it s still technically illegal. so they re saying vladimir putin should also serve seven years. it would be amazing to see what happens here because, okay, could have been a slip of the tongue, but that is not something the russian president has done or a mistake he s made in ten months. it is a word with great meaning to him. thank you very much, evelyn, i appreciate your time. and next was it witness tampering? we have new transcripts coming in from the january 6th probe as we ve been covering it this week. star witness cassidy hutchinson said she felt pressured by her trump aligned attorney. plus look at this picture. the former president of georgia, a pro-russian president and now in prison, and more on his foe vladimir putin on this show in 2017. the only thing that america can afford to show the russians,
this. war. the word war is not semantics for putin. calling this a war, which again has not been allowed. it s been banned. it has serious implications because it allows putin to impose marshal law across russia if he wants to. and putin s use of the word war comes after his defense minister said russia was going to be upping its fighting force by half a million soldiers. so it is unclear whether putin finally slipped up in using the word war, but to be clear it is not a word he has used in ten months. and he said it as we re getting yet another phone call showing the dire straits. this was intercepted and provided to us by ukrainian intelligence. you re hearing from a russian servicewoman and she s talking about how bad things are in putin s army. listen for yourself. translator: they don t give a [ bleep ] about people anywhere. it s everywhere, not just here.