town of soledar. why the major shakeup? plus, resign. more republicans tonight calling for congressman george santos to step down after he lied about his resume. but mccarthy won t show him the door. republican governor chris sununu is outfront. is trump about to get back on facebook? how the company is making this decision. it is a story you ll see first here tonight outfront. let s go outfront. and good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, putin s mysterious shakeup. the russian president suddenly putting in a new general to oversee his war in ukraine. and there is a huge question tonight which is why what is this all about? because it comes as russia claims its forces are on the verge of seizing the town of soledar. cnn is there, has heard the heavy artillery fire. we re going to show you in just a moment. it is artillery fire that has decimated an entire town. these are new before and after pictures just into our field team on the ground. here you ca
but we are going to look at this. it s not certain that russia did this. but there s enough evidence for this to be looked at very, very carefully. crisco s incredible reporting on who poisoned alexei navalny is featured in the cnn film navalny, which airs on cnn this saturday night at 9:00. it is phenomenal and worth your time. and, next, congressman george santos doubling down despite another member of his own party calling him to step down about lying about his resume and more. will you step down? i will not. plus, breaking news this hour, a second batch of classified documents from biden s time as vice president have been found. these in another location. what are we learning about these documents tonight? we ll tell you everything we know. and congressman katy porter showed us exactly how she felt about 15 rounds to vote to elect mccarthy as speaker. and now she s announced a run for the senate. she s outfront. onds to both o.
it s not an effective attack from the trump allies and how they are prepared to deal with the whistleblower complaint. they re seizing on the fact there was no, in their words, quid pro quo directly. but cnn reporting shows that the timeline, the aid to ukraine suspended matches up with this phone call. and democrats say the implication of the president s actions was enough to tell the ukrainians what his intentions were. it s not even that quid pro quo matters in this. as to the extensive cover-up, that the washington post has done incredible reporting on, how high could this go? what would it mean what would it take to move the conversations, to a data pace that usually contains highly confidential information? that s one of the most interesting parts of the whistleblower complaints. we had a good sense of what the
sanctions when we come into office. so i think it was very, very dangerous at a time when they were not in control of the levers of government for him to do so. gloria, you have some incredible reporting on president trump and where his head is at right now following his trip abroad. lonely and angry? well, i have spoken with a bunch of his friends who talk to him largely after hours. and, you know, these are people he s known for quite some time. and they say that before he went on his foreign trip, he was in kind of a glum mood. and when he came back, it didn t get any better, obviously, because he came back to a whole host of russia stories, including the ones we ve been talking about tonight with his own son-in-law. one friend of his said to me that now the president lives within himself, as he put it, which is a dangerous place for donald trump to be. and he said he sees him emotionally withdrawing because he doesn t really trust a lot of people around him. so here is a presid
know, encouraging women to come forward. who knows? at worst it was possibly foreshadowing something. it was really, it is so incredible. when you think about this president, you don t have to like him. there is never been anything like that about him. he has conducted himself in such an amazing manner. so it is so dirty on so many levels. it really is. dirty on so many levels. that s an epitaph for 2016. thank you both. i m joined now by gabe sherman. msnbc did incredible reporting on roger ailes. i have to talk about this striking similarities here, which are, it is almost unfolding identically to what happened with roger ailes. that s why i don t buy it, this idea of a conspiracy. the idea that this is planned. no. women start to come forward once there is a critical mass, other women want to tell their story. we ve seen it in the ailes came where gretchen karlsson filed her lawsuit. then i reported on six women who