firm on september 11, 2001. he was 48 years old. that s it for me. thanks very much for watching. i m wolf blitzer. erin burnett out front starts right now. out front next, breaking news, mike pence releasing his tax returns. why won t donald trump do the same? more breaking news, north korea exploding its powerful nuclear warhead ever? can kim jong-un launch a nuclear attack on the united states? can what really happened behind the scenes? he s my guest. let s go out front. good evening. i m erin burnett, out front tonight, the breaking news p taxing news. mike pence releasing his income tax return. pence following a decades-old
tradition for presidential and vice presidential candidates putting out that in 2015 he and his wife karen made a combined $113,026 and paid $8,956 and their effective rate was 8%. this raises the burden for donald trump to release his. 8%, maybe his rate is lower than that. he continues to refuse to release them. he said they re nobody else s
i m wolf blitzer in the situation room. erin burnett out front starts right now. donald trump taking aim at america s generals. hillary clinton says no more troops in iraq as polls show trump s lead shrinks. plus the putin obsession is, is it a smart political move or is trump being played? what is aleppo? the three words haunting gary johnson tonight. let s go out front. good evening, i m erin burnett. bitter battle, hillary clinton, donald trump in the biggest clash of the campaign so far launching nasty personal attacks on who is fit to lead america at war. tonight clinton slamming trump saying he s scary and dangerous. it s hard to forget what trump did last night. it was a test and he failed it.
he trash talked about america s generals saying that they have been, quote, reduced to rubble. he suggested he would fire them all and hand pick his own generals, since he knows so much about what it takes to be a general. trump firing back citing clinton s use of her pr
nearly 3,000 people were killed when hijackers crashed planes into the world trade center and the pentagon, as old as 85, as young as just 2 years old. lights illuminated the sky, though, late last night in tribute here. they re going to be turned on again this afternoon in honor of the people who died. for a lot of people involved the wounds have not healed even 15 years after. it s the sight of the twin towers collapsing is too painful for many to watch. victims without graves, now memorialized as names on that permanent memorial that i know so many people have seen there in new york. most people when they lose someone, they have a grave to go to and that brings them closer to that person. but for us, this is our parents grave. so it brings us closer and makes us feel connected to that parent. a lot of our parents bodies weren t found after 9/11. so that literally could be where our father s bodies lay to this day. it is a memorial, but it s our grave. we can go the
one thing he did not do was release his tax returns. his running mate, however, did just that. cnn s sunlen serfaty joins me. in terms of the rally, what was he talking about tonight, anything in particular? reporter: it s really interesting. donald trump has the teleprompter tonight, he has prepared remarks but it s really a spot where he s deviated from those prepared remarks. it certainly caught our ear tonight. he s talking about hillary clinton, setting up the private e-mail server, all the controversy over her e-mails and the fact that she did not get charged. here s what he had to say. because she is being so protected. she could walk into this arena right now and shoot somebody with 20,000 people watching right smack in the middle of the heart and she wouldn t be prosecuted. reporter: so some pretty strong language and words there from donald trump. of course, that s just more red meat to this crowd. they ate it up. trump still has not released his taxes. toni
middle of the heart, and she wouldn t be prosecuted. meanwhile, the pundits keep critiquing donald trump, but he is gaining ground. both nationally and in swing states, leading democrats to wonder, why isn t she doing better? also, in the closest thing to a debate that we have had so far, the big loser was the moderator, matt lauer. will the media s rough treatment of lauer impact moderators of the real debates. and as we mark the 15th anniversary of 9/11, congress has just approved letting victims sue saudi arabia. but will the president stop that with a veto? i will ask the nation s first secretary of homeland security, tom ridge. but first, both candidates said shocking things last night that will only perpetuate their high negatives. there s a third party in the race, fighting its way to the debate stage. and the libertarian ticket, gary johnson and bill weld, will be joining me later in the program. this week, johnson finally became a national name in the preside