why? let s go outfront. good evening, i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, on the brink. president biden holding a call with key u.s. allies for roughly 80 minutes tonight over growing fears russia is on the verge of invading ukraine. the president saying everyone is on the same page. the call comes as 8500 u.s. troops are now on heightened alert to possibly deploy. as president putin shows no sign of backing down. as their presence on the border enlarged or changed in a qualitative way that ises ses escalating? yes. they are continuing to add battalion troops to their western border, to the border with ukraine. and in belarus as well. the numbers there are increasing. so they have not only shown no signs of de-escalating, but they are in fact adding more force capability. they are in fact adding more force capability. this is just how fast the situation along the ukraine border has deteriorated over the past few days. i want to show you this new video tonight. okay, s
grand jury has been given the green light? well, you know, this investigation has gotten as much attention as january 6th in washington or the manhattan district attorney, but this is a very serious criminal investigation, and the fact that the district a grand jury has been impanelled means there will be subpoenas and possibly search warrants, and this is a big problem for the former president because it all starts with that highly incriminating tape where he appears to be trying to coerce the secretary of state of georgia to commit the crime of election fraud. part of the initial investigation was centered on that phone call, which took place january 2nd. now that a special grand jury has been granted, i mean, do they go wider than that? do they still focus on that? are there other investigative avenues they go down? well, there it has to be broader. because there have to be other people who have talked about the effort that the president made to corrupt the elect