at this hour officially under russian martial law. putin takes steps amidst the punishing counter offensive. we ll take you to the front lines. our reporter was feet away from incoming fire. you ll want to see this report. and also breaking this hour, we re learning trump s team is deciding whether to allow federal agents to return to mar-a-lago because they say that he still has stuff as a federal judge now says, trump lied under oath about his claim of a stolen election. and senator marco rubio pulls a total 180. he once told a parkland victim s father that he supported raising the minimum age to buy a rifle. now he s taking it back. that victim s father is my guest. let s go outfront. good evening. i m erin burnett. out front, the breaking news. martial law. putin s martial law now at this hour is in effect in parts of ukraine just after midnight local time. russian president vladimir putin doing the move not seen from russia since world war ii. martial law. and this o
investigator reporter and bob woodward of the former president. some of it was played on cnn earlier today but what you ll hear tonight has never aired. from 2016 through 2020 woodward taped his conversations with the former president. he will be releasing all 20 of these conversations on the 25th of this month as an audio book titled the trump tapes which runs for more than eight hours. cnn has obtained a copy and what you ll hear tonight is striking. it speaks to who he was as president, who he is as a person and how completely intertwined the personal and presidential were for him and probably still are. something that s not just apparent in what he says but even more so in how he says it. something the printed word just can t fully convey. the conversations also speak directly to some of what the former president is now being investigated for. namely how he views classified material and a president s responsibility for safe guarding some of the countries deepest secrets a
your podcasts. the news continues with jake tapper and cnn tonight. welcome to cnn tonight. i m jake tapper. tonight with exactly three weeks until the critical midterm elections here in the united states, candidates across the country in key races are increasingly taking extremism to the extreme. but what exactly is the definition of extremism? obviously that depends on who you ask. in a new ad airing in pennsylvania, republican u.s. senate candidate dr. mehmet oz paints himself as a middle-of the-road type of guy. his opponent fetterman is extreme for supporting criminal justice reform and supporting traditional democratic economic plans. guys like john fetterman take everything to the extreme. extremism on both sides makes things worse. we need balance, less extremism in washington. i m sure fetterman would respond that most of the extremism in contemporary american politics is coming from inside dr. oz s own party, but extremism, extremist, that s an insult we r
event, control of the house of representatives is all but gone. democrats can feel the house seats slipping through their fingers, as some experts project republicans could pick up maybe even 30 seats, and they only need five to win back the majority. some in the democratic party are already performing free autopsies. sometimes people want to just not feel as if they are walking on egg shells. and they want some acknowledgment that life is messy. i am worried about the level of voter turnout among young people and working people who will be voting democraticment i think, again, what democrats have got to do is contrast their economic plan with the republicans. tonight we look into the crystal ball to see what a republican-led house of representatives might actually look like. the house gop sees these pending election results as a repudiation of where president biden and democrats are currently leading the country. and that is part of what is driving their legislative ag
wonderful, wonderful, laura, is a reference to steve martin s great film l.a. story when he says he s falling in love. and here i thought it came to mind because you saw me in canary yellow. that s what inspired it. anyway, it was a cinematic theme. i like the trivia. i like the fun facts to start the show. that s awesome. next i ll work on a pop up video for it. very good. and you re awesome too, jake. good evening, everyone, i m laura coates in washington. and i m allison camerota in new york and this is cnn tonight. we re also here with our panelists across the political spectrum there s actually one team in washington with me. and the other team here in new york with me. basically we have so much work we need two studios. it doesn t fit in one. so let s start with all the developments heading up to the mid-terms. the big guns from barack obama to donald trump are about to hit the campaign trail, and we ve also got new polling that tells us a lot abou