nuclear launch sites. will the united states shoot it down? plus, the u.s. providing longer-range missiles to ukraine, double the range of what it currently has. this as zelenskyy warned that putin is out for revenge. and the money questions tonight mounting for congressman george santos, questions now about 37 expenses that were exactly in the amounts of $199.99, one penny shy of having to provide a receipt. let s go outfront. and good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, will america shoot? china s spy balloon right now making its way east now over st. louis. the balloon flying over and lingering over some of america s most sensitive locations, near nuclear sites. cnn has obtained this exclusive video of the balloon over columbia, missouri. first of all, you see below it it s almost hinden burg style. you can see what appear to be solar panels underneath the balloon. just to be clear what you re looking at here is in columbia, missouri, which happens to be
conquering the little city of soledar that seems to be all of russia s victory during the last month. so now prigozhin waits for failure, and that would be the right moment when russian will think it s the right time to switch loyalty from putin who keeps on failing to much more aggressive prigozhin. all right. thank you so much, mikhail for sharing that with us. next we are learning new details about the american paul whelan s life inside a brutal russian penal colony. guards waking him up in the middle of the night, forced to sew buttons on winter coats. his brother is my guest. from trains, planes, hotels, even target? george santos campaign reported expenses from all these places. they all add up to the exact same amount, $199.99, just a penny shy of what would be required a receipt to get reimbursement.
he s the first hero for many years, and he s a hero for the most ultra conservative, the most i would say fascist part of russian society. and as long as we don t have any liberal part in russian society, because most of those people, leaders of that part of russian society have left. now he s an obvious rival to president putin. in the context here, what you re reporting on is how russians are frustrated that their country isn t winning the war. the ukrainians say that putin wants to capture all of donbas by the end of march as part of an offensive. we ll see whether that occurs or not. but that s part of what we understand his goal right now is to be. what will military failure mean for putin and for prigozhin if he does not succeed even in that in the context of what he d
investigation into the poisoning and putin s role in that. he is watching an unprecedented number of russian spies being arrested around the world. he thinks this could help pressure the government to release your brother who was not released along with brittney griner. he counts 16 spies arrested, four others expelled from austria. here s what he said about how he thinks this could possibly lead up to a prisoner swap for your brother. i do think this is a very likely outcome because putin needs to get these people back. they re agents of the state. they re not just some spies that got money to spy. they re russians, professional soldiers. he needs to get them back. with 16 or more of them, he needs to make a trade soon. what are you hearing from u.s. officials, people working on this? are you hear that too? no. we wouldn t get that sort of detail. our family has been watching the
nuclear launch sites. will the united states shoot it down? plus, the u.s. providing longer-range missiles to ukraine, double the range of what it currently has. this as zelenskyy warned that putin is out for revenge. and the money questions tonight mounting for congressman george santos, questions now about 37 expenses that were exactly in the amounts of $199.99, one penny shy of having to provide a receipt. let s go outfront. and good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, will america shoot? china s spy balloon right now making its way east now over st. louis. the balloon flying over and lingering over some of america s most sensitive locations, near nuclear sites. cnn has obtained this exclusive video of the balloon over columbia, missouri. first of all, you see below it it s almost hinden burg style. you can see what appear to be solar panels underneath the balloon. just to be clear what you re looking at here is in columbia,