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
David Gura hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Conflicting information from weekend to weekend about what the president may or may not do, david. Geoff, thank you very much. Appreciate it as always. Geoff bennett joining us from the white house. I want to turn to my panel. Joyce, let me start with you. Bearing in mind, youre not an expert on election law, but i want to stick with one point that geoff just raised there about the dangers, the legal dangers of taking a meeting with representatives of a foreign country to offer dirt here on an opposing candidate in a u. S. Election. Help us understand the legal consequences of that. Theres a very specific statute that prohibits this kind of conduct. It makes it illegal to accept or to solicit a donation or a contribution related to a u. S. Election from either a foreign citizen or a foreign government. So on its face, that prohibition would seem to apply pretty clearly. If, for instance, while run
That. given how far we ve come, how close do you think we are to knowing what happened in that meeting, and who is going to be the individual, how are we going to determine when the president knew about this meeting? evwell, i think it s going t be up to the special counsel to determine that. we ve seen republicans at least on the house intelligence committee, which congressman swalwell sits on. they have closed their investigation while he and the other democrats on the committee want to continue to interview witnesses the more we learn about these contradictory and conflicting statements from people involved, particularly in the trump tower meeting. i will note that the president in his tweet is correct in a sense that people do often take meetings in a presidential campaign regarding opposition research about their opposing candidates. what is not normal about this meeting was that it was about, a., information that was stolen. that is, you know, the dirt on hillary clinton that
Doesn t understand civil servants. civil servants and the fbi care more about country and themselves. the reason the president doesn t understand is because he cares more about himself than the country. the new york times is is reporting that george papadopoul papadopoulos, that he was drinking apparently one night in london. he bragged to an australian diplomat that russia had dirt on hillary clinton when the hacked e-mails eventually few weeks later were published, the australians thep reported what papadopoulos told them to the fbi to u.s. law enforcement, tos intelligence community, that helped launch according to the new york times, the russia investigations. do you believe that papadopoulos also told the trump campaign about these upcoming e-mails. the hacked e-mails, the dirt on hillary clinton? i know he spoke to somebody. first of all, if a person is supposed to be the coffee boy, what have they called him, for him to be traveling around the country and meeting with di
Offered e-mails, the dirt on hillary clinton. at some point, those very same e-mails, that same dirt was offered again. not just to low or midlevel trump officials but in fact, to the highest echelons of the campaign at the june 2016 meeting to don junior, jared kushner and paul manafort himself. the russians finally got what they wanted which was a senior level meet with the triumump campaign and offered to interfere in the election. matt, we re talking about the meeting in trump tower, right. yes. with natalia viselitskaya. did i get that right? nailed it. i m going to speak russian at the end of this. papadopoulos was arrested in july. he plead guilty and is now cooperating. he s providing information in an ongoing manner. is that the right way to describe what someone does. h what kind of information might he have about the ultimate meet