now. new reporting from the white house this hour ready to go. those are the words of a biden adviser tonight about a 2024 run. and we re going to tell you what else is going on behind the scenes tonight. all new reporting from our phil mattingly at the top of the hour. plus, ron desantis new target is a small liberal arts college. his goal is to turn it into a conservative school and the man desantis putting in charge making double his predecessor. space race, inside china s spy balloon-making operation. famed astrophysicist kneel degrasse tyson is out front. let s go out front. good evening. welcome to this special edition of out front. i m erin burnett. tonight, ready to go. that s an exact quote. those are the words of a biden adviser tonight telling our phil mattingly about the president s plans to announce he s running for re-election. up until last week president biden publicly said he s not ready to make a decision on 2024. he kept using that words, i
memories of the men and women he served. with the news continues with erin burnett, out front starts right now. out front next, new reporting from the white house this hour. ready to go. those of the words of a biden adviser tonight about a 2024 run and we will tell you what else is going on behind the scenes tonight. all new reporting from our phil mattingly here at the top of the hour and ron desantis s new target is a small liberal arts college. his goal is to turn it into a conservative school, and the man desantis is putting in charge, reportedly making more than double than his predecessor. and the space race is up for an investigation inside of china spy balloon making operation. named after physicists neil de grasse tyson is out front. let s hear what he has to say about the extraterrestrial life. let s go up front. and good evening, welcome to the special edition of out front, i m erin burnett, tonight, ready to go. that is an exact quote, those are the words of a bi
$1.9 trillion covid relief bill makes its final passage. that s expected wednesday. thursday president biden will deliver the first prime time address of his presidency to mark one year since the nation shut down. we re also tracking fallout from that bombshell interview of the duke and duchess of sussex, whose allegations of racism and neglect have plunged the royal family into crisis. the interview is airing right now for the first time in britain. we ll go there live later this hour for the latest reaction. first, let s get the details of the new cdc guidance just out for more than 30 million americans, who were fully vaccinated against covid-19. our national correspondent, erica hill, is working the story for us. erica, new freedoms for those lucky enough to be fully vaccinated. reporter: that s right. that number is above 30 million here in the u.s. of people who are fully vaccinated. this guidance, we ve been waiting for it, for weeks at this point, as people are just
reforms. so that s something ron desantis has to answer if he does run for president. but he is putting this is time and effort, very specific and very explicit. it s also rank hypocrisy. we re talking about taxpayer dollars here. this small liberal arts college he wants to turn into a conservative college, this is an ideologic exercise of power. this isn t about we want things to be more neutral and fact based and not politicize. we want explicit bias to bias implicit bias the money we re talking here is apparently taxpayer funds. yes. the least conservative thing you can possibly imagine. by the way, just to be clear, he says it is. desantis a few weeks ago talking about new college. it s important that your tax dollars are funding institutions that you can be proud of. the mission that you can have confidence in and i think you re going to see that i think you re going to see some really positive results very quickly at a new college. it is by statute supposed to be
he can take any culture war issue and make it his own and rile up the gop base. but i don t see him doing a lot of really serious conservative policy reforms. that is something desantis will need to answer. this is time and effort. this is very specific and very explicit. it is also rank hypocrisy. we re talking about taxpayer dollars here. this small college he wants to turn into a conservative college, this is an ideological exercise of power. it s not about we want things to be more neutral in fact based and not politicized. this is explicit bias and with the money we re talking about, it s apparently taxpayer funds. that s the least conservative thing you could possibly imagine. by the way, just to be clear, he says it is desantis just a few weeks ago, talking about new college. it is important that your tax dollars are funding institutions that you can be proud of. the mission that you can have confidence in. and i think you will see, that you will see some really posi