it is a done deal, billionaire elon musk completing his $44 billion takeover of twitter. i m brianna keilar with alex marquardt this morning. good morning. good morning. john berman is off. and according to sources, musk immediately fired twitter s ceo, the chief financial officer and the company s top lawyer. musk first agreed to buy the company in april, then he spent months trying to get out of the deal, which was finalized just before today s deadline. musk attempted to reassure advertisers, posting an open letter on twitter why he bought the platform, saying, quote, there is currently great danger that social media will fracture into far right and far left wings that will splinter our society and overnight he tweeted the bird is free. reporter: there is a lot of uncertainty at twitter. employees aren t sure what to expect after musk came in, took control and fired the top executives. unclear who the top team is, maybe employees will learn more at an all-hands mee
calls, loved ones on the front lines. they sar their training just for the cameras. they re sitting ducks treated just like pigs. tonight after an arrest republican kari lake is not going to let it go. and world affairs expert ian gram an why he thinks the chinese president was escorted from that meeting. and good evening, i m erin burnett. out front tonight hell on the front lines. new video just into out front from an independent russian news organization. it s a jaw dropping reporting of a russian woman speaking to her husband on the front lines in ukraine. listen for yourself. translator: my love, how are you? translator: i wasn t listening to all the bull [ bleep ] people were talking about, but now we don t know where we re going. we don t have anything to eat and we don t know what our objectives are. translator: it s [ bleep ] hell here. translator: they re [ bleep ] us with rockets. we re in some village under constant shelling not far from where people
russia right now, bracing for what they call the heaviest battles ahead in the fight for kherson. cnn is reporting from the front lines as vladimir putin is lobbing new verbal attacks at the west. also tonight, president biden touts unexpected economic growth as he he tries to rev up democratic voters in the blue state of new york. we ll break down his message and his challenges as recession fears persist 12 days before the midterm elections. and former president trump s lawyers take part in a secret court hearing related to the mar-a-lago documents investigation. why did they meet with u.s. justice department prosecutors here in washington, d.c.? welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. let s get straight to ukraine right now. the front lines of what one official warns will be, quote, the heaviest of battles against the russian invasion. cnn s senior international correspondent fred pleitgen is
all right. thank back. remember when we asked you who wants to bail out a billionaire well tonight we got our answer. thanks for dramatic music. everyone donald trump posted their hundred and $75 bond. the new york civil fraud case. well not him exactly, but an insurance company. he did it and then providing that and promising to pay. let s just call it his knight in shining armor because her name night specialty insurance. remember the original judgment was supposed to be more than 450 million plus you got to add the interest. but trump got it, reduced, not the actual judgment, but the bhante had to pay to appeal and he had until thursday to pay up. so all the talk of the attorney general in new york, letitia james seizing potentially his assets sits on ice for a little while now, while trump appeals the actual cooling. now again, the ruling was that trump lied for years about his finances and overvalued as assets to secure favorable loan terms. now, in a moment, w
we begin with news of a potential meeting between two of washington s biggest geopolitical rivals. kim jong-un may be heading to russia where he would meet face to fmeet face-to-face with president putin. kylie, first to you. how does the u.s. view this meeting? sounds troublesome. well, listen. a spokesperson said that the u.s. is urging north korea to cease negotiations. any arms negotiations with russia. this comes as xi s also saying the u.s. has information that it s kim jong-un who is expecting to have a meeting to engage with president putin in russia. of course, this comes as we have heard from u.s. officials over the last week or so that there are active pursuits between north korea and russia now of an additional arms deal between the two countries. w we don t know exactly when this meeting between putin and kim jong-un could come, but new york times which first reported on the possibility of this engagement is that their reporting is that it s supposed to happe