2020 election. that official is my guest. let s go out front. good evening, everyone. i m kate bolduan in for erin burnett. out front tonight, we have breaking news. president biden, tonight, defending his administration s response to the surge in cases from omicron and the testing shortage seen across the country. in a new interview with abc news, the president saying when asked saying this when asked if the long lines and lack of testing is a failure. no, i don t think it s failure. i think it s you could argue that we should have known a year ago, six months ago, two months ago, a month ago. i have ordered half a billion of the pills. 500 million pills. i mean, excuse me, 500 million test kits that are going to be available to be sent to every home in america if anybody wants them. but um, the answer is, yeah, i wish i had thought about ordering a half a billion bills two months ago, before covid hit here. president biden misspeaking there, when he was talking about
about using a taser on a driver behind the wheel. let s go out front. and augood evening, i m eri burnett. out front tonight, widespread voter fraud in america? essentially, nonexistent. there is a major new study now blowing up trump s conspiracy theories and his lies about the election, one by one, number by number. the associated press did this. they actually went through, month by months i mean, basically a year here, right? digging through the ballots of these six crucial battleground states. they investigated the discrepancies and, you know, look, all these states have had multiple audits and hand counts and all that and say that i found nothing but the ap went ballot by ballot and that when a they found is stunning. are you ready for this? of the more than 25 million votes cast in the crucial states of arizona, georgia, michigan, nevada, pennsylvania, and wisconsin, the ap found drum roll 473 potential cases of voter fraud. you can see the number of cases
president biden. anderson cooper will join me in just a moment for a preview. you can see that live location there in baltimore, maryland. first, we have breaking news. the fbi just confirming the human remains found in that florida nature reserve are indeed those of 23-year-old brian laundrie. the news coming exactly one month after we learned that laundrie s fiancee, gabby petito, was murdered in wyoming by strangulation. tonight we re also learning about a crucial piece of evidence that could shed light on how petito died. a note booker discovered near laundrie s remains we re learning tonight is possibly salvageable, according to a source. leyla santiago is live. i know you had a chance to speak with an official from north port police moments ago and have learned ed new details about w they founding near brian laundrie s remains. what did you find out? reporter: we ve learned that the belongings and the remains were found about a 45-minute walk from this entrance to the
joining the search for his son. let s go outfront. and good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, the breaking news. we are moments away from the crucial vote on the debt ceiling, which will pave the way avoiding the first default in american history. for now. the vote is scheduled for later this hour. until moments ago, republicans weren t even sure they could get ten of their own party to support the deal that their leader, mitch mcconnell made with democrats. in fact, prominent republicans are publicly slamming the deal republicans put together which would kick the can down the road on the debt ceiling until december 3rd. are you going to vote yes? no way. do you feel like yes. you do? why? we had a plan and we threw it over. do you know why? the threat of changing the rules drive us every time. i think the democratic threats to destroy the filibuster caused him to give in. i think that was a mistake, a serious mistake. were you surprised
democrats the shortest of short-term options to avoid an american debt default. with 12 days to go until the first u.s. default in u.s. history, he blinked. giving democrats until december or up to december to find a way to raise the debt limit on 100% party lines despite saying today, yesterday, and a whole bunch of times before that, that democrats are on their own here. democrats need to tackle the debt limit. there s a clear path to achieve raising the debt ceiling which must happen. america must not ever default. and doing it with democrats only. there is no chance no chance the republican conference will go out of our way to help democrats. well, sure. tonight s delay is better than defaulting in 12 days. okay? so let s just be clear. it s better than that. but it is an embarrassment. you don t run a business or a household and you certainly shouldn t run a country this way. oh, another six weeks till we are about to default? well w we ll do this all again. bu