viewed justice clarence thomas as key to stopping the certification of the election. the former director of national intelligence is my guest tonight. let s go outfront. and good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, biden s major speech this hour, with just six days until election day, president biden any moment now will deliver a major speech. the topic is the threat to democracy, and it comes on the heels of a violent attack on the house speaker nancy pelosi s husband paul. biden betting this will turn the tide of the midterms. but as he prepares to speak, only 9% of likely voters say voting rights and election integrity are the most important issues to them. 51% say the economy is their number one concern. 51%. and today that issue was front burner. the fed raising interest rates by another three-quarters of a percentage point. rates have been rising at an unprecedented pace with mortgage rates above 7% for the first time in 20 years. you can see the stage
overrun why junkies and vague grants. the speech came together at the last second. looks like a hail mary to me. nothing is sticking so they are going with january 6th. you think the president would close hard with a powerful message about the economy, but you d be wrong he s going with republicans are going to start a civil war. he is going to blame republicans for the actions of an insane, fairy loving, obama supporting illegal alien drug addict who hammered paul pelosi in the head. by the way we have fresh details on that attack a little later in the show it. looks like one of the biggest security failures of all time. speaking of break-ins. remember the democrat katie hobbs running for arizona governor her campaign headquarters got broken into and she blamed her opponent kari lake? right before we just came out on to air we found out that it was actually an illegal alien who broke into her office. and the democrats released him from jail already and didn t tell ice so he
also, why are migrant families still being separated at the u.s. border and being left in limbo? i am ayman mohyeldin. let s do it. we begin with an important seismic shakeup in the israeli government. benny gantz, one of the three core members of israel s work cabinet and benjamin netanyahu s top political rival has resigned. in a press conference today he said quote, netanyahu prevents us from moving forward to real victory, and accused his far right coalition of prioritizing political convictions of her work strategy. last month gantz made a public ultimatum, resent a plan for the day after the war in gaza by june 8th or else. it was one of the most visible signs of division within the emergency wartime government. a team of political rivals who had until recently projected unity, but netanyahu has not produced a plan for gaza s future beyond rejecting a two state solution and insisting on israel s long-term security oversight over gaza and the west bank so gantz followe
enforcement, roamed the corridors hunting for officials, and erected gallows to hang the former vice president mike pence. it was an enraged mob that had been whipped up into a frenzy by a president repeating over and over again the big lie, that the election of 2020 had been stolen. it s a lie that fueled the dangerous rise in political violence and voter intimidation over the past two years. even before january the 6th, we saw election officials and election workers in a number of states subject to menacing calls, physical threats, even threats to their very lives. in georgia, for example, republican secretary of state and his family were subjected to death threats because he refused to break the law and give into
dangerous rise in political violence and voter intimidation over the past two years. even before january the 6th we saw election officials and election workers in a number of states subject to menacing calls, physical threats, even threats to the very lives. in georgia, for example, republican secretary of state and his family were subjected to death threats because he refused to break the law and give in to the defeated president s demand just find him 11,780 votes. just find me 11780 votes. election workers, like shae moss and her mother ruby freeman were harassed and threatened. just because they had the courage to do their job and stand up for the truth, to stand up for our democracy. this institution, this