united states is outfront on who she thinks is behind the attacks inside russia. plus, governor ron desantis about to hold his first major event in iowa as a presidential candidate. he s going all in for evangel voters. can he peel them away from trump this time? and calls for a boycott against chick-fil-a. conservative revolt over a dei executive. let s go outfront. good evening, i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, land, air, and sea. ukraine bracing for an all-out assault from putin, including potentially devastating attacks by russian submarines. this is according to a military spokesperson and our fred pleitgen who is in kyiv where he says they are preparing for what could be a major retaliation by putin. and we re going to check in with fred in just a moment. because that fear is coming after at least eight drones targeted wealthy moscow neighborhoods overnight, an area where putin himself has an estate. this is the first time since the beginning of the invas
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putin spoke out today, blaming kyiv for the massive drone attack. ukraine denies responsibility for it, but one of putin s loyalists in the duma said that the drone attack in moscow is leading russia down to the nuclear line. translator: the situation is not going away. rather, it is escalating. unfortunately, the response could include using all available means of the russian armed forces. tactical nuclear weapons won t be sheathed for much longer. won t be sheathed for much longer. well, the war is escalating no matter how you look at it. yet again, the man leading putin s private army, today, on the heels of all this, once again blamed putin s own military. listen to this. translator: regarding the drones that fly over moscow and in moscow, you stinking animals. what are you doing?
general jack keane but breaking tonight, house republicans looking into what they call the weaponization of the federal government. they say federal employees, fbi employees specifically who have talked about it, have faced retaliation. it s another blow to the bureau that s already enduring greater scrutiny in the wake of the special counsel conclusion that it should not have opened an investigation into the trump-russia collusion case. the john durham report. democrats on that committee today called it a lot of hot air in one of the most heathed hearings on the hill in years. correspondent david spunt starts us off tonight from the justice department. good evening, david. bret, geographic to you. witnesses told congress stories of retaliation and intimidation because they questioned a prominent investigation. meanwhile, this letter obtained by fox news is from the fbi and explains that these men policy why their security clearances were revoked.
republicans are handing out the pens, the pens of the signing ceremony. when we look back down the corridors of time, we see that for almost our first century as a constitutional republic, the sword of presidential impeachment remained sheathed. had there been controversial presidents? oh, yes, indeed. think of john adams and the alien sedition acts. think of andrew jackson and henry clay. were partisan passions occasionally inflamed during that first century? of course. unless there be any doubt, the early congresses full well knew how to summon impeachment to the floor, including the member of this body, senator william