being taken to slaughter. rupert murdoch admitting his fox hosts endorsed, his word, trump s election lies on air. and that s not all he s confessing as fox fights a $1.6 billion lawsuit. and an outfront investigation tonight, our david culver traveled to the epicenter of the covid-19 outbreak, the virus likely leaked out of that lab in wuhan, china. let s go outfront. good evening, i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, exclusive new information about putin s staggering losses. russia has now suffered more combat deaths in ukraine than in all of its wars combined since world war ii. this is according to a new analysis by the group csis. you ll remember we were bringing you those satellite images every day as the buildup happened. the number of russian deaths per month now, they say, is 25 times higher than it was in chechnya, 35 times the number killed in afghanistan. in a moment we re going to have much more on this new analysis. i also want to bring you tonight th
americans only finding out about this now? plus republican congressman jarj santos even more scrutiny tonight over a mysterious $700,000 contribution to his campaign concerns about how, where it was spent and where did it go. in a story you ll see first outfront russians speaking out against putin s war, one calling it a terrible mess, complete chaos. all of this on camera to cnn. you ll see it first here. let s go out front. and good evening. i m erin burnett. out front tonight on the defensive. more classified documents and a special counsel. president biden says he does want to tell the american people everything he knows. let me i m going to get a chance to speak on all of this, god willing, soon. he says he wants to speak but right now the white house isphasying a barrage of questions over the classified documents and so far the administration is speaking very little. but, again, i m just not going to go beyond what the president said. i m just not going to go
justice department. his message was unambiguous. it was time for me, jeffrey berman, the u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york and lifelong republican, it was time for me to take one for the home team. he came into my office and closed the door, quote, you re not going to believe the conversation i just had with o callaghan, before sharing the details. the top leadership at doj wanted me to bring criminal charges against a private attorney who had once been president barack obama s white house counsel and they wanted me to bring those charges before election day. i said, you have got to be f ing kidding me. i wish, he said, but no. doj s rationale for this demand had nothing to do with evidence or law. o callaghan kept reminding him that our office had just prosecuted two high profile trump loyalists, republican congressman chris collins and crump s private attorney, michael cohen. he related that o callaghan told him bluntly, quote, it s time for you guys to ev
that s how it starts. that s the very beginning. this was written by jeffrey berman who ran sdny in southern district of new york for half of trump s time in office. he was fired from that job at sdny and fired loudly in a way that made a difference. we ll have more on that in a second. that s important. but now since he is the former u.s. attorney, he has written this book. to put it in the public record how trump and his administration tried to force federal prosecutors to go after trump s political enemies to go after democrats, to help trump s allies. regardless of the law. regardless of the crimes committed or lack thereof. geoff berman was told to bring the prosecution before the midterm elections. told to do so because some republicans had been prosecuted and so now it was time to prosecute a democrat. he was told to even things out. berman refused to do it. he didn t bring that prosecution. so, yea rule of law for a second. what happened after geoff berman refused
bellwether, where voters made abortion rights the centerpiece of his campaign in a swing district. molinaro tried to tie democrats and the white house to high prices and the economy as well. ryan s win appears to show, once again, that abortion rights are a powerful motivator in helping democrats get people to the polls. as meet the press first put it out this morning, this red wave is looking much more like a ripple. and roughly 1,000 miles south of here in florida we now know who will take on republican governor ron desantis in november. it is a familiar name in that state, charlie crist. he s been the governor there before and he s running again. he told our colleagues on morning joe his plan to defeat desantis relies on not playing dirty. i m going to beat him because i m running on love and love always wins. and if he wants to run on hate and culture wars and dividing people and making people hate each other, that s his turf. it s not mine. he s trying to tear my s