good morning, everyone. we re going to take a minute to announce some good news. yesterday, clant collins is the new host of the 9:00 p.m. hour, opposite side of the day. i am. just when i got into this whole, you know, waking up at 3:30, everything. i had it down pat. i almost brought you a trash can and larmalarm clock. will you ll never have to set an alarm clock. it will be very exciting. f fun to i don t views and i will miss you. of course i m going to miss you. you ve been everything to me. i m not far away. what is also great is the reporting you do every day on everything washington can really be highlighted and featured at 9:00. i m excited for that. and i ll see you a lot. so we have a week left with kaitlan, thank goodness. let s get started with five things it know. the suspect behind that big leak of military secrets was repeatedly warned about his mishandling of classified documents but still was never removed from his post. this is according to new
plus, e. jean carroll s attorney says she may sue trump again after comments he made about her at last night s town hall. putin s spokesperson claiming with a straight face that russia is not, quote, waging war. denying that ukrainian towns are being destroyed. is it a sick joke? let s go outfront. good evening. i m erin burnett. we re hours away from a major change in u.s. immigration rules. this is what s happening on the ground tonight. hundreds of migrants right now waiting between barbed wire and the border wall. waiting for a chance to cross into the united states. and there are tens, if not hundreds of thousands more behind them. in fact, the united nations today saying as many as 400,000 migrants may attempt that journey to cross that u.s. border. the reason is tonight s deadline. at midnight, title 42 is going to come to an end. we have just a few hours here. title 42 has been used nearly 3 million times to turn migrants away from the united states. and there
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is in japan right now. he is meeting with g-7 leaders. ukraine is one of the topics they re talking about. the white house is coming under pressure once again for the f-16 fighter jets made by lockheed martin to provide them to ukraine. what is your sense of whether or not they re going to give on that? i don t think they re going to give. it s a long time frame. 18 months to get them to the battlefield to be effective and train pilots and logistic supply chain. they need helicopters. they need ways to move troops around the battlefield quickly. despite the armor systems given to it them, you bring helicopters to that counter offensive right now, it will allow shock effect and allow troops to move across the battlefield and move across the river. i this think conversation gets tabled again. so those are the argues against sending them, the time it would take to train and get them there and how long it would take before they could use them. what is the argument for sending the f-16s
but the fact that he does tolerate this is just reflective of the undercurrents of dissent and dispute and, you know, the drama in all of this, which is not good for the russian forces. it also reminds us that the russian force that s on the battlefield now is relatively incoherent. you have the wagner group, the paramilitary taking orders from prigozhin. not always listening to the ministry of defense. you have the chechens and their own chain of command. beyond that, erin, you have to look at the russian forces themselves. and you conclude they re not well trained anymore. if they ever were. they re not well equipped anymore. they have taken enormous casualties and enormous losses of armor systems and other material. they re not well led. again, it s not a coherent structure. they re not well disciplined. and by contrast, you see the ukrainians, who are going to field now as many as ten new