Good evening. I m erin burnett. Outfront tonight, decertify the election. That is the demand coming from none other than the former president, donald trump, and it comes in a new letter to georgia s secretary of state, brad raffensperger. The secretary is outfront exclusively tonight to respond for the first time to trump s new attempt to overturn the results of the election nearly 11 months after the election. So trump claims in his letter that there is a new report of invalid ballots and says, quote, i would respectfully request that your department check this and, if true, along with many other claims of voter fraud and voter irregularities, start the process of decertifying the election or whatever the correct legal remedy is and announce the true winner. That letter was sent three days ago. The election results and been certified and audits again and again and the true winner is still joe biden. Trump did not win 321 days ago in georgia, and there has been zero evidence since to c
insurrection. let s go ut out front. good and good evening, i m erin burnett. out front tonight, biden s urgent pitch to save his voting bill. today, president biden traveled to georgia using the power of the presidential bully pulpit to make his case in a speech after exhausting every other option at winning over all of his own party. last year alone, 19 states not proposed but enacted 34 laws attacking voting rights. their endgame? to turn the voters into a mere suggestion. today, we call on congress to get done what history will judge. pass the freedom to vote act. pass it now! which would prevent voter suppression. biden, you know, obviously, wants to do something here. he wants this done, and given the big lie from trump, of course, it is crucial that americans pay attention to what s happening here. the reality of it is, of course, trump s lie has been turned into a political weapon. his push to replace fair election overseers of both parties make this issue an ur
2020 election. that official is my guest. let s go out front. good evening, everyone. i m kate bolduan in for erin burnett. out front tonight, we have breaking news. president biden, tonight, defending his administration s response to the surge in cases from omicron and the testing shortage seen across the country. in a new interview with abc news, the president saying when asked saying this when asked if the long lines and lack of testing is a failure. no, i don t think it s failure. i think it s you could argue that we should have known a year ago, six months ago, two months ago, a month ago. i have ordered half a billion of the pills. 500 million pills. i mean, excuse me, 500 million test kits that are going to be available to be sent to every home in america if anybody wants them. but um, the answer is, yeah, i wish i had thought about ordering a half a billion bills two months ago, before covid hit here. president biden misspeaking there, when he was talking about
200,000 troops on the ukraine border. the u.s. and russian leaders speaking today for two hours and one minute amid escalating tension as biden weighs new sanctions against putin s inner circle. the kremlin, meantime, quickly releasing video of the first moments of the call. hello. good to see you, again. and the biden administration, quickly, claiming that russia will be held to account in ways that it was not when president biden was vice president biden and putin annexed part of ukraine with zero force from the u.s. here is biden s national security adviser jake sullivan. the president was crystal clear about where the united states stands as we pursue diplomatic channels, we will also prepare for all contingencies just as we have been doing for weeks now, including through the preparation of specific responses to russian escalation, should they be required. specific, robust, clear responses should they be required. as president biden looked president putin in the ey
i i m erin burnett. out front tonight the breaking news, another trump ally possibly going to jail. steve bannon now indicted by a federal grand jury on two counts of contempt of congress. cnn learning that bannon, who has a warrant for his arrest so they would arrest him if he didn t turn himself in, we do understand that he is expected now to turn himself in in his own volition on monday. today s indictment coming after the former president s chief strategist refused to subpoena from the house select committee investigating the january 6th insurrection. attorney general merrick garland writing in a statement that there will be consequences if you defy congress saying, quote, since my first day in office, i have promised justice department employees that, together, we would show the american people by word and deed that the department adheres to the rule of law, follows the facts in the law, and pursues equal justice under the law. today s charges reflect the department s st