days have just been released. let s go out front. and good evening. i m erin burnett. out front tonight, putin threatening nuclear war amid humiliating losses in ukraine, russian president vladimir putin today ordering a military draft and warning that he could use nuclear weapons against west. during a rare televised address to the russian nation, the russian president summoned 300,000 more troops to fight and threatened nuclear retaliation. translator: mobilization will begin today, september 21st. i am instructing the heads of the regions to provide the necessary assistance to the work of the military recruitment offices. this is not a bluff. the citizens of russia can be sure that the territorial integrity of our homeland, our independence and freedom will be ensured. i emphasize this again with all the means at our disposal. and those who try to blackmail us with nuclear weapons should know that the prevailing winds can turn in their direction. the prevailing winds c
more than 1,000 people have been detained across russia and heavily policed protests. you always feel worried at a time like this. if you have a wife and kids, i wouldn t want to leave them. it comes as occupied areas announce snap referendums on joining the russian state. for critics, a tiny fig leaf to cover a blatant annexation of ukrainian land and an opportunity to halt ukraine s advancing army by warning the western backers to defend the mother land. even the newest bits. translator: this is not a bluff. citizens of russia can be sure our territorial integrity, our independence and freedom will be ensured with the means at our disposal and those who try to blackmail us with nuclear weapons should know the prevailing winds can turn in their direction. reporter: it s a threat ukraine bristoling with u.s. and western arms has already rejected out of hand. officials recruiting the kremlin of throwing more men into the flames of a war it has no chance of winning. but in
the escalation by the rush slan l russian leader today. what does the french president think? he will be here live with his response. your money and the cost to borrow. historic move by the federal reserve, raising interest rates yet again in an effort to get inflation under control. welcome to the lead. we start on the extraordinary legal trouble for donald trump. there s a sweeping lawsuit against trump, three of his adult children and the trump organization, alleging they were involved in a decade-long financial scheme that allowed trump to fraudulently inflate his net worth by billions of dollars, allowing him to leverage the system for his own personal gain at the expense of others. white collar financial crime is not victimless. when the well connected break the law, to take in more money than they are entitled to, it reduces resources to working people, to regular people, to small businesses and all taxpayers. attorney general james campaigned on a promise of
to get the job done? now, if the answer to those questions is no and i imagine it is for most of use, neither man is really capable of serving as a u.s. senator or the u.s. president. at least not without a lot of people making decisions for him, protecting him from scrutiny and hiding the truth from the voters. of course, this is what is happening in both cases. now, nbc news reporter dasha burns dared to provide facts that helped pennsylvania voters answer the question on their mind. namely is fetterman really well enough to take on the demands of the job of u.s. senator. because of his stroke, he required closed captioning to read our questions as we asked them. laster, in small talk before the interview without captioning, it wasn t clear he was understanding our conversation. mind you, this was the first sit-down interview that fetterman had agreed to since his stroke. so pretty important, don t you think, to be transparent with the voters, correct? and the immediate
wait a minute. someone in the white house was calling one of the rioters? absolutely. and you know both ends of that call? one end. i don t know the white house end, which i believe is more important. so that call that denver writes about reportedly lasted just nine seconds. made at 4:24 p.m. after trump made a video message telling supporters to go home, you re very special. on meet the press yesterday, congressman raskin confirms that the committee knows about this call. watch. i can t say anything specific about that particular call, but we are aware of it. and we are aware of lots of context between people in the white house and different people involved obviously in the coup attempt and the insurrection. in a statement, the committee adds that quote, in his roll on the select committee, mr. riggleman had limited knowledge. the committee has run down all the leads and digested and analyzed all the information that arose from his work. we will be presenting