been diagnosed with cancer and is postponing public duties. he left the hospital a week ago after treatment for an enlarged prostate. joining us is nbc s molly hunter. i understand the palace has just released a statement. what are they saying? chris, that s right. we just got the statement. i m just reading it for the first time as well. the big thing to understand, as you know, we covered the king s health scare last week which was really presented as a routine procedure. he was only in the hospital for three nights. he was in the london clinic right here in central london. right now we have the statement from buckingham palace. it says during the king s recent hospital procedure for benign prostate enlargement of owes that s what we knew. we knew he had gone into the hospital for what he and the palace called a routine procedure. a separate issue of concern was noted. subsequent diagnostic tests have identified a form of cancer. this is coming directly from buckingham pa
Thank you, jomana. We salute this very courageous woman. Erin Burnett Outfront starts right now. Out front next, trump returns the favor backing jim jordan in the race to be the next speaker of the house. Someone whos leading the way on trying to impeach biden and one of the biggest backers of trumps rigged election claims. Plus, breaking news. An appeals judge denying trumps appeal to halt the fraud case. Michael cohen will be out front tonight. Putins latest strike killing a young boy. Tonight there is a threat of more to come. Lets go out front. Good evening, im erin burnett. Out front tonight, Trump Playing King Maker Backing congressman jim jordan and his bid to become the next house speaker. Jim jordan has a long history of doing trumps work for him. In fact, jordan is now one of the heads of the biden Impeachment Inquiry, something that trump, of course, made clear absolutely had to happen. They should investigate the bidens. I call them corrupt joe. Crooked joe biden. I believe
Feel, authorities feel they can next time around and the who will think day get on top of this and start checking social ool media so they can really jump this, get ahead of it? reporter: i m sure there s a lot of discussions and a lot of departments have tech teams that look into things like that. the problem is, suzanne na, teenagers are way ahead of all of us when it comes to knowing new social media and new things to communicate on. snap chat s one of those where they can send a message and then those messages disappear so very hard to track and trace. but this is one of the things that law enforcement will certainly be looking at. we want to find out if it went out across america somehow as opposed to being isolated incidents. we re talking about a number of malls. we showed you a few. it looks absolutely crazy when that happened. i guess folks have to go back to school. sara, thank you very much. really appreciate it.
Alexander, both of whom are up for re-election. then it s on to texas and a conference of education, one of his key issues. he s going to touch down in new mexico to help raise money for the governor, suzanne na martine neds and then off to meet with brian sandoval. mr. bush also set to meet with members of the republican jewish coalition. that is happening at a con seen know owned by sheldon adelson. he said he will decide about a possible run for the white house by the end of the year. the politics of equal pay for women continues to be a headache for republicans in the state of texas. it was yesterday the executive droektor of the texas republican party looked to clarify her party s stance on that issue saying in part, quote, men are better negotiators. i would encourage women instead of pursuing the courts to become better negotiators.