you can always follow me on twitter and instagram @wolf blitzer. you can always tweet the show @cnn sit room. and the situation room is also available as a podcast. look for us on cnn.com/audio or wherever you get your podcasts. erin burnett outfront starts right now. outfront next, mcconnell blinks after weeks of stalling and refusing to act on the debt ceiling, mcconnell appears to be giving democrats an out tonight. should they take it? and stayty abrams is out front on the new push for voting rights. donald trump says she d be better than the current governor and all the speculation about what she is running for next. plus, heavy police presence at the florida nature preserve where brian laundrie went before vanishing as a laundrie family lawyer changes the timeline of events surrounding laundrie s disappearance. let s go outfront. and good evening, i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, mcconnell blinks. the gop minority leader offering
she is doing such good work on behalf of children and has such a heart of gold and is actually quite a rock for this family. all of his policies are working. it s just that we are not getting any coverage of it. i mean, i have seen it behind closed doors and all he cares about is this country on one hand. and on the other, i m terrified he s not fit for the job. why is she saying this now? well, she says that after spending time in the west wing, that what she saw was an administration that was run on chaos and not about the country. and it was just about survival. so clearly, as we saw, her opinions changed. now, whether or not, you know, she is to be believed, that s up to people reading the book. of course, donald trump has pushed back ard had on this. he said she was never fit for the job. she was never up for it. melania trump, today, released a statement to cnn calling stephanie grisham a troubled individual. um, there s some irony, though, erin, in having these the for
accounts concerning eating disorders and personal intrigue. instagram said eternally starved i have to be thin skin and bone, the account it had promoted through its algorithm broke the company s rules encouraging eating disorders but they only removed the accounts after being contacted by cnn. this experience shows very graphically how these claims to protect children or take down accounts that may be dangerous to them are absolute hogwash. in fact, it was not taken down until cnn brought it to their attention. reporter: a spokesperson for instagram s parent company, facebook, said it uses technology and reports from users to remove content that violates its rules and eating disorders as quickly as it is. adding, they are always working to improve. and viewers affected by issues mentioned in that report can contact the national eating disorder association help line. # but just finally, erin, just
tonight, terrified. that s how trump s white house press secretary stephanie grisham says she feels about a possible return to the white house for president trump. i am terrified of him running for president in 2024. i don t think he is fit for the job. cnn correspondent kate bennet is out front. so, kate, grisham worked for trump for more than five years. she is out with a new book i will take your questions now. i suppose maybe that shows she understood she didn t take them then, when she had the job of of of working with the press. but now, she is speaking out saying she is terrified and he s not fit for the job. what else is she saying? well, she is saying that a second term with donald trump might mean four years of revenge. of going after his political adversaries. of going after people who voted for impeachment. i think her point is, or at least part of the reason she is saying she wrote this book is to
wolf. certainly is. camila bernal, thank you very, very much. and to our viewers, thanks very much for watching. you can always follow me on twitter and instagram @wolf blitzer. situation room by the way is also available as a podcast. look for us on cnn.com/audio or wherever you get your podcasts. erin burnett out front starts right now. outfront next. facebook catastrophe. the world s largest social media company just coming back online after six hours off as facebook is facing damning accusations of putting profit over all else. the lawyer of the whistle-blower who uncovered all of this, and now says the company could destroy her for speaking out is my guest tonight. plus, the clock is ticking. president biden calling republicans hypocritical and dangerous for abandoning democrats in raising the debt ceiling. all as the nation faces the very real possibility of a first default in american history.