a russian lieutenant who fought in ukraine has fled putin s army and he s out front to talk about it. the lack of equipment, training, boiling rabbits for food, the atrocities he says were committed by russian fighters. you won t want to miss this interview. breaking news, the pentagon right now is tracking a chinese spy balloon flying over the u.s. president biden asking for military options. what are the chinese doing? plus, fbi agents investigating congressman george santos for allegedly scamming a veteran out of thousands of dollars meant for his dying dog. that veteran is out front tonight. what did he tell investigators about santos? and good evening. i m erin burnett. out front, a russian officer speaks out right here. constantine served on the front lines for three months and is now telling all. the former lieutenant is the most senior russian officer to speak publicly about what he saw and did in ukraine. you re going to see that interview in just a moment. he
Coming out in two weeks, everyone should be dubious if thats actually is that seems to be a verbal sign for a verbal indication of know comment at the very least, mike, its great to see you. Its been a minute and makari, i dont know if thanks, i guess sometimes love you. Thank you a new our john there you go. New roc and a new central stars. Now a new phase. And Donald Trumps classified, done humans case begins this morning as never before seen images, surface of an aide, moving boxes, cars, and flying through the air as tornadoes sweep through the midwest in the storm now threatened cities from texas to vermont, and new allegations us warning against p. Diddy, a woman files a complaint saying he drugged sexually assaulted her. Im john berman with kate bolduan, sara sidner is taking care of business. This is cnn new set okay so were following developments in two of Donald Trumps legal battles today, the defense has rested in his criminal trial in new york and walk Closing Arguments won
Those are things that are keeping me up at night like most americans. we run the risk here of trying to make a point and not make a difference if we just focus on these small ground squirmishes around committee assignments. as a republican, we need to push back on statements like marjorie taylor greene s statements. you know, we ve got to make sure we push back on both sides. thank you very much. i appreciate your time. thank you. geoff duncan, former lieutenant governor of georgia. next a story you ll see first outfront. we ll take you behind the technology that captured that horrific overhead footage of tyre nichols beating. the camera was put here to deter crime and to capture crime. and it did what it was supposed to do. plus, see how two brothers who fueled america s addiction to painkillers were making nearly a million dollars a week. by creating what they called the disneyland of pain clinics. humpty dumpty doeses it with a great fall.
Told us on the beat in the witness interviews is the same thing they re telling the investigators, that s a big deal. they re key witnesses. they know him. wiseleberg declined to comment. so if investigators don t ultimately have enough evidence on him, he still may not feel pressure to cooperate or he may try to beat any case at trial. other trump loyalists have tried that tact but most were counting on the back stop of a pardon like what roger stone got and trump can no longer give. it s not likewiseleberg doesn t know top trump org people can t go to jail for what they re doing. you re looking at overhead footage of michael cohen reporting in. it was wiseleberg who literally helped seal cohen s fate. he knows where the trouble can lead. that was back when donald trump was using gangster talk dubbing cohen a, quote, rat.