we have reached out to the d.a.'s office. on sunday 36-year-old was arrested and charged with second degree assault with a deadly weapon. he's accused of stabbing 23-year-old. now according to the council on american islamic relations, he and three american friends left a rally in austin when a man in a bicycle tore a flag off the back of their car that has a palestinian flag and free palestine. they say he used the "n" word and pulled a man out of the car. when the other three men got out, he was stabbed in the rib. it broke his rib. they want to see hate crime charges presented. we reached out to the public defender for baker. they say they have no comment. >> diane gallagher reporting. thanks very much.

to our viewers, thanks very much for watching. erin burnett "out front" starts right now. "out front" next, we are live at the supreme court where in just hours a crucial hearing to determine whether trump is disqualified from the ballot will begin. it is a decision that could up end the 2024 election. one of the attorneys in the courtroom tomorrow is "out front." plus, putin's american friend, the russian president sitting down for an extensive conversation with tucker carlson who has never shied away from pushing putin's propaganda. the. chinese headlines saying texas is about to secede from the union and a civil war is breaking out in america. why is the communist government letting the lies flourish. let's go "out front." good evening. i'm erin burnett. out front tonight the supreme court front and center. the first case that could impact the 2024 election begins in just hours. the justices tomorrow morning will hear oral arguments there

in an unprecedented case that could help decide the entire election. so colorado's highest court, the supreme court in colorado, has already ruled that trump engaged in insurrection and is, therefore, disqualified from the colorado ballot, disqualified from holding the highest office in land. that ruling removes him from the ballot in the state. this is a ruling that will have massive impact and not just in colorado, in the entire country and maine has also removed trump from the ballot even though a temgts to kick trump off on the ballot in nine other states have failed. what this could do tomorrow is set a precedent that could spread around the country even though colorado alone would make history in the election. now one of the attorneys making colorado's case will be at the supreme court tomorrow is my guest in just a moment. in these final hours before the supreme court takes this first trump election case, we are also waiting to see if trump will formally appeal to the supreme court over whether he is immune from prosecution just because he

was president. 24 hours ago three judges unanimously ruled trump does not have immunity which means the federal january 6th case can proceed and will likely have a verdict before election day which polls indicate would dramatically and instantaneously transform this election according to polls. our legal analyst ryan goodman came to this conclusion. they say the appeals court gave trump until monday, february 12th to appeal this decision on immunity. then the supreme court can decide whether or not to take the case. that decision they expect will happen around february 29th. if the supreme court let that three judge ruling stand without review, then the january 6th trials will start in june and the verdicts could come by september 1st. if they review the ruling and uphold it but do it in formal

review, they deniy it that way, it starts late. it will start in july with a verdict of guilty or not guilty the week before the election. evan perez is out front to start our coverage tonight. evan, this is a crucial moment. this is the beginning here of what could be a lot coming from the supreme court. what are you expecting? >> reporter: that's right. look, the stakes are high for the former president. obviously everything rides on this case. there's a number of other states, as you pointed out, that are waiting in the wings to see how this one turns out. the former president's legal team, we're expecting they're going to make comparison between this, this effort to remove him from the ballot, to venezuela where the authorities say they have disqualified an opposition candidate. they're going to compare that to what is happening in this case. of course, as you pointed out, this is a case that none of us -- none of us really thought was going to get this far and it got here just bir the thinnest

of margins. it's a 4-3 vote by the colorado supreme court. all democratic nominees on that court and you will also remember that the lower court judge had declined to remove the former president from the ballot, although she declared him to be an insurrectionist. we all are expecting there's going to be some tough questions brought by the justices tomorrow. this is a conservative court. they're going to give this a very tough time, we think. obviously we don't know how this is going to go and we don't know how long this will take so for the former president and his legal team, everything rides on how this argument goes tomorrow. >> all right. evan, thank you very much. just outside the supreme court tonight. sean grimesly is "out front" now. he's part of the team arguing trump should be removed from the

ballot. we talked about this as it moved its way through the court. what does it mean to you to be in that room, supreme court justices, for these arguments? >> it's very gratifying for us to have made it here. we made it here in really only five months. we filed the case in september. this is an issue we knew was likely going to make it to the supreme court at some point. we're thankful to the court to put it on such an expedited schedule before march 5th. >> so what is the most important part of your team's argument tomorrow before the supreme court? you heard evan talking about how trump's case will make the case that removing someone from a ballot legally as opposed to via a democratic vote, that they're going to liken that to removing an opposition candidate in venezuela. what's your main argument going to be? >> this is not venezuela. as you know, we won below so we're defending the colorado

supreme court decision. if you look at the legal issues in the case, they really are pretty straightforward in our favor. the biggest issue for us is just the magnitude of the decision that we're asking the supreme court to make. and, you know, there's been an argument this is anti-democratic, we should let the voters decide. this is the furthest thing from anti-democratic. the last time he was on the ballot he ignored the will of 86 million voters and summoned the mob to attack the capitol during an otherwise peaceful transfer of power. we have very few self-defense mechanisms. >> let me ask you. i understand the argument you're making. you're aware, as i am, that there are many legal experts, some of whom very much believe trump should be found guilty in the january 6th case himself who

think this could be unanimous. you could have liberal justices ruling against the colorado supreme court in this case. is there anything you've seen from the court itself, from the justices on the court itself, that lead you to believe this will go otherwise? >> they're taking this very seriously so they put this on a very expedited schedule. he this appreciated the fact they needed to decide this issue before hopefully super tuesday and they are digging in. and i, frankly, when i first was brought this case was skeptical, but as you dig into each of the legal issues to keep him on the ballot, each one of them we think is a bad legal argument. what you're seeing over in the supreme court if you were there right now, the justices digging in, the clerk's digging in and realizing president trump is disqualified from holding office again. >> trump's attorney tomorrow is named jonathan mitchell.

he is going to be arguing before the supreme court for the sixth time. has done this obviously many times before. you know, obviously i can only imagine what it's like to be in the night before you go in front of the supreme court. does that -- i don't know what the right word is, but give you pause at all? this is somebody who is obviously very experienced. >> no, because at the end of the day, yes, the arguments are going to be important tomorrow. the justices will read the briefs, they'll come to their own decisions about what is right. my colleague jason murray, although he's never argued before the supreme court before, is an extraordinary advocate. as you might imagine, people were coming out of the woodwork to argue this case once it was granted here. we all unanimously on our team decided even though he had not argued before, he was the right person, the only choice to argue this case. >> thank you very much, sean.

i appreciate your time. we will all be watching tomorrow. >> thank you. david axlerod is here with me now. you hear sean laying this out. they're calm, they're confident but i know you warned this case could tear the country apart. those are the exact words you used. you don't use them lightly. why do you say that? >> first of all, let me preface this saying it is stunning three years after president trump left the capitol in disgrace having sold this lie of the election having been stolen from him, inciting a riot, that he is in the position he's in and we're in the position we're in. i'm not here as an apologist for donald trump and i'm certainly not here as a lawyer, but i'm sure that one of the things the supreme court has to consider is what is the impacts of a decision like that? you know, there are a myriad legal questions that we want to consider tomorrow. some will undoubtedly offer off

ramps if they want an off ramp but i'm trying to imagine what it would be like if the supreme court said we're removing the front-running candidate from the ballot and essentially saying to the american people, you won't have the opportunity to vote for him. and i think it would be very, very disruptive in this country. i think it will create a huge reaction. that worries me. it worries me partly because of donald trump. there's so much cynicism about our institutions. you can argue that's why you have to bego the way the colora court does. in the minds of many voters, this would be a subversion. it would draw strong reaction. >> you know, you also have the january 6th case itself, right? this issue that the supreme court concluded that the former

president incited a riot, but the january 6th case is proceeding separately. you just saw the layout there. ryan coming to a conclusion that if they -- if the supreme court concludes he does not have immunity, you would get a notice just before election day. that is an incredible thing to consider, isn't it? >> it is incredible to consider it. it is incredible to believe that the courts and the doj would operate on that schedule. they've been very skiddish in the past about sort of getting involved as close to the election as even months. this is a matter of weeks. i think that -- i don't know what they are and i'm not a lawyer but i suspect whatever villiatory tactics they can

achieve, they will. their goal is to push it beyond the election. one thing about the immunity case, erin. the court is in an krg position. they have another swing at the bat and they may rule against him on that. the they may see that as a balancing act. >> right. right. david axlerod, thank you very much. final hours before a crucial day and year of the supreme jurt new pictures. the united states just took out a hezbollah commander involved in the attack. we understand commander killed by u.s. fire and ukraine's fire power decimated and exhausted. now kyiv is relying on men in their 50s.

it is important because after back-to-back humiliating defeats for the speaker of the house.

breaking news. u.s. strike in iraq killing a

commander responsible for deadly attacks on u.s. forces including one that killed three soldiers in jordan. this is the aftermath of a drone strike that we understand targeted that commander's vehicle while it was in baghdad. alex marquardt is "out front." this is striking the car, killing a commander in baghdad, they say. the what more do you know about the strike and who was killed? >> reporter: erin, you can see in the remarkable video how precise the strike was in the strike in eastern baghdad. they carried this out against kh which has carried out strikes against the u.s. all across the region. the biden administration says this is direct retaliation for the u.s. service members from the attack at the jordan base a week and a half ago. the first set of retaliation we

saw friday night. that was when b-1 bombers attacked 85 different targets in iraq and syria, seven different facilities. that was designed to degrade the capabilities of these militia groups. tonight's attack was specifically against militia leadership. the commander who was killed we're told his name was wassim hasan. he was in charge of logistical targets. this is causing diplomatic trouble for the u.s. the u.s. did not tell iraq they were carrying out tonight's strike until afterwards. iraq is saying this is new aggression saying this

undermines all understandings between iraq and the u.s. major question is whether the u.s. strikes will deter attacks by the militant groups. there have been almost 170 in iraq and syria since october. >> alex, thank you very much. also developing tonight, you oo crane on the verge of this massive military overhaul and perhaps even bigger. it has been nine days since zelenskyy told his top commander he's fired. he's publicly said the changes he's about to make could go well beyond him. a major point of why they are in this position is tension between zelenskyy and his top commander is how much to expand the draft. this is the reality. as the war drags on, ukrainians on the front lines are older. they are fighting well into their 50s and a draft has been at the core of this fred pleitgen is "out front" with this story you'll see first "out

front". >> reporter: the explosions are dangerously close as the drone from the 92nd assault brigade set up their bird, attached the bombs and head off into battle. while drone technology is the realm of tech savvy youngsters, one of the pilots here is over 50. one way or another, everyone should serve. if you have do not want to fight, what kind of citizen are you? ukraine is badly outgunned by the russians but the reality is they're also outmanned. unable to recruit enough soldiers willing to join the military, especially younger ones. decimated and exhausted, ukraine's top general has called for a new mobilization drive maybe including up to half a million people. president volodymyr zelenskyy is

unconvinced and sources tell cnn he has informed zelusny he will be fired with differences over troop numbers. mobilization is unpopular and some are protesting for their spouses to be demobilized. antonina says her husband is too old to be serving this long. my husband is 43 years old, she says. it is difficult for him to endure all this time on the ground, jumping from shells and performing all those tasks and there are many people like him. >> i'm here for my dad to come back, her son says. some say they need more people to give those who have been in combat nearly nonstop a breather. the commander of this launcher is 59. in it ukraine people can only be drafted until they're 60. all of ukraine is at war and each and every man who thinks he lives in ukraine must go through it, he says.

it's irreversible. people here are tired. ukraine's parliament is working on a law to make mobilization more appealing and possibly allow soldiers to exit the military after three years, but back at the drone unit they don't believe the talk. there should be no illusions, he says. also among soldiers whom politicians have given hope there will be demobilization, there will not be any. erin, that cleared the first hurdle in the ukrainian parliament today but it has a long way to go before it can be enacted. the lack of manpower is something soldiers have told us is a major issue. they say they need more people, not just to put them in the trenches, but also to rotate people out who have been fighting so long. erin? >> fred. last summer on those front lines, i was amazed how much there were older people and how long they had been away from their families without seeing them, up to a year in some

cases. "out front," putin's american ally. sitting down for a conversation with tucker carlson who says putin is not a threat. meltdown. criticizing their own house speaker. blocking a border bill they had demanded. what's going on?

putin talks to an american friend. the russian president turning to tucker carlson to speak. carlson's conversation with put con putin is expected to be released momentarily. the kremlin is eager for it to be seen. why? just listen to the answer fawning over carlson. >> translator: we receive many requests for interviews with the president. there is no desire to communicate with such media outlets and there is hardly any point in it. there is hardly any benefit from it. he has a position that differs from the others. >> he, carlson, has a position that differs from the others. and so while putin sees no

benefit in sitting down for an interview with a journalist, he does see benefit from a conversation with carlson because of this. the. >> hard to see why he's a threat to us. i don't think putin -- >> we should probably take the side of russia if we have to choose between russia and ukraine. might be worth asking yourself, what is this really about? why do i hate putin so much? has putin ever called me a racist? does he eat dogs? these are fair questions. the answer to all of them is no. vladimir putin didn't do any of that. >> carlson has also given putin cover when it comes to claims that russia blew up a crucial dam. remember that dam in the russian-controlled area that putin had taken control of. >> it's not like he's willing to wagging war on himself. that's where you're wrong mr. and mrs. cable news consumer.

vladimir putin is that sort of man, the man that would shoot himself to death in order to annoy you. we know this from the american media. >> the american media, separate from himself. but it's not just defending putin's invasion of another sovereign country, it's also personal slams against volodymyr zelenskyy which you will see is a veiled pullout of zelenskyy's jewish heritage. >> a persecutor of christians, a friend of blackrock. >> ever since tucker carlson landed in moscow the state-run media has said it all. they've treated him like a true celebrity, down to the details of when and how he charged his cell phone. they ran video of carlson eating at a fast food joint and the fawning goes both ways. >> reporter: most americans have no idea why putin invaded ukraine or what his goals are now. you've never heard his voice.

that's wrong. >> actually, that is wrong. that is not true. we do hear from putin regularly, we hear his voice, and what he says is written about we play him on the show. here he is in a four hour press conference in december specifically telling all of us what his goals are now. >> translator: there will be peace when we achieve our goals. they haven't changed. this is the demilitarization and denazi if i case of ukraine and its neutral status. >> there's the goals in his own voice and he says they haven't changed. the world knows why putin invaded ukraine. he handed out a document why it is not a country in the summer before he invaded. he said, quote, the statehood of ukraine will be in question. he wants total domination of ukraine. he's never said it's anything else. he's very clear. for real journalists who have traveled to russia and reported on the facts, they have been

jailed. evan gorscovich has been jailed. he's languishing. another is in a penal colony. everyone wants to hear from putin. cnn asks for an interview. we have asked peskov. "out front," we have the wife of vladimir karamirza. he was arrested after putin's decision. evgeni, i know we have spoken many times during this war. your husband is in prison right now. 25 years. he just moved to another penal colony. i know you have had to deal with the reality that you might not see him again because he called the russian government a, quote, regime of murderers.

obviously it is not a country of free speech. what is your reaction when you hear the kremlin saying this is a real interview with putin now? >> good evening, erin. it's a pleasure to join you again. well, you know, even if i didn't know anything about mr. carlson, about his career in journalism and about his questionable opinions about certain things, there would be still alarm bells ringing very loudly in my head. take, for example, the fact that according to this kplaucall, mr carlson is a journalist telling the truth. we're talking about a country where people telling the truth end up behind bars and are being treated as spies, foreign agents and traitors like my husband who was sentenced to 25 years for so-called treason for denouncing

the crimes caused by the russian army in ukraine and consistently denouncing repression by the putin regime inside the country. this is the reality. in 2022 alone over 200,000 independent online media resources were banned, were blocked by the russian authorities and the remaining independent media outlets were closed down and banned and a countless number of journalists were forced to plea the country fearing persecution. those who stayed behind do their work anonymously because they're under constant threat of arrests or forced exile. this is the country that we're talking about where truth is being consistently persecuted by the authorities. of course, the fact that mr. carlson is there is -- well, it's not only atrocious, but vladimir putin needs him. you see, the reach of his own

propaganda -- >> the russian television. >> -- is limited. those are one of the most notorious propagandists ever. their reach is limited. now mr. carlson has over 11 million followers on twitter and other social media so vladimir putin needs him to put out that image of reality that he himself promotes through propaganda. that image of reality on which his claims against ukraine are legitimate. meanwhile, four more civilians were killed in shelling today in kyiv and people in russia continue being thrown in jails and tortured there for telling the truth about the nature of this regime. >> evgeni, i know a week from today is your 20th wedding

anniversary. you had a chance to briefly -- your husband called briefly. they allowed one call. on the last call you had 15 minutes, and you didn't speak to him because you gave those 15 minutes to your three children so they could speak to their father. what is the latest you're hearing about how vladimir is doing? i know and it is important people understand that his health is not good. >> vladimir has been moved to a so-called special regime prison colony, which is the harshest grade in the russian penitentiary system. he's still in a solitary cell, the bed is affixed to the wall. he doesn't get any human contact except for -- he's still allowed to see his lawyer, rarely. and -- well, it is -- the last time the kids were able to speak to him was the end of last year.

close to new year's vladimir was allowed one 15-minute phone call with the kids, and that was the first phone call in over half a year. divide 15 by 3, that means five minutes each and i was literally standing there with a timer because i couldn't let any of our kids to speak for more than five minutes to their father. of course, yes, i didn't speak to him at all because i didn't want to take that time away from the kids. now vladimir putin requests for a phone call on our 20th wedding anniversary and a couple of days ago he received an official denial. that paper said that the reason for the call was not justified enough. that was not on the list of exceptional circumstances which would allow such a call.

u unlike, for example, death. that's when he could talk to me. this is the reality of vladimir putin's russia. >> evgeni, thank you very much. it's important we all hear it. i appreciate it. and i want to go to max seiden, the bureau chief from "the financial times." you hear evgenia speaking. you know her husband and "the wall street journal" writer being jailed. what is your reaction when tucker carlson said he's doing this to inform the people and no other western reporters bothered to do it? >> erin, it's frankly something even by tucker carlson's standards to have a go at -- what's the accepts if you are

not covering the russian sides against ukraine. they're all in prison right now for that reason. they made telling the truth about the war illegal. the idea no one has done this is ridi ridiculous. the reason it's his first interview he's given to a western journalist since the start of the war is kind of a flex. christiane amanpour and others have complained about it. we don't want to do that because we don't like their point of view. tucker carlson has a different point of view. that's why they're doing this. quite clearly they think putin

is going to get a much easier ride than he would from someone like emma gerschowicz. you, me, many, many, everyone has requested that interview many, many times. so, you know, you -- what does it tell you that they praised him today? obviously the interview is done, right? it's been done here for a while. it's going to be released shortly. what does it tell you that the kremlin praised tucker carlson today? >> this is really quite a rare opportunity for them to get their message out to the trump crowd in the u.s. you look at what trump has done, torpedos more u.s. aid to ukraine and congress, this is the sort of thing that russia wants. for them it's a way to

communicate with those before next month's election. what putin's trying to do is show everyone russia is an isolated russia, they have friends in china and are going south. that's why having a famous american they can fawn over. >> max, i appreciate talking to you. thank you so much. i know it's late where you are. thank you. next, republicans in disarray tonight. they are pointing fingers at each other after a string of failures. >> he needs to count votes before it comes to the floor. plus, a civil war in texas. texas declaring its independence. this is what you are seeing in china. this is a story you'll see first tonight "out front."

growing up, my parents wanted me to become a doctor or an engineer. those are good careers! but i chose a different path. first, as mayor and then in the legislature. i enshrined abortion rights in our california constitution. in the face of trump, i strengthened hate crime laws and lowered the costs for the middle class. now i'm running to bring the fight to congress. you were always stubborn. and on that note, i'm evan low, and i approve this message. two leading candidates for senate. two very different visions for california. steve garvey, the leading republican, is too conservative for california. he voted for trump twice

and supported republicans for years, including far right conservatives. adam schiff, the leading democrat, defended democracy against trump and the insurrectionists. he helped build affordable housing, lower drug costs, and bring good jobs back home. the choice is clear. i'm adam schiff, and i approve this message. tonight the republican party and in fighting after back-to-back humiliating defeats on capitol hill. today there was a block in the senate after republicans blocked a deal that they had demanded. over on the house side speaker mike johnson targeted by fellow republicans because he lost two major votes last night, one because he counted wrong. congressman thomas massey said getting rid of speaker mccarthy has turned into an unmitigated

disaster. >> he needs to count votes before it comes to the floor. as bad as pelosi was, she knew the votes before it took place. >> it's unclear why we barrelled ahead with a vote knowing that the votes were not there. we did not need to embarrass ourselves. >> that was congressman gallagher there on the hugh hewitt show today. hugh is with me now. hugh, it's like gallagher said, we didn't need to embarrass ourselves, the quote, right, that he said to you. yet that's what happened. the counts was wrong. how bad does this make republicans look and the new speaker? >> well, they got head faked. they thought congressman green was not going to come in with a democratic yes vote and they were going to successfully impeople secretary mayorkas and they got head faked. mike gallagher and thomas

mcclintock are not going to vote. they have a four vote lead and majority leader scalise was not there. it is not the end of the world for republicans. i think if the supplemental that is expected to pass the senate tonight with aid for israel, ukraine does not get through the house, that will be a substantive defeat that will leave a lasting mark. >> all right. but do you see that getting through? i mean, you know, there had been the whole you've got to put it altogether, the border with the foreign aid, if you don't do that, we won't do it. now it's you've got to put them separate or we won't do anything. putting aside the confusion and bizarreness of that, putting ukraine with israel, do you have any confidence that a bill like that is going to go through? >> going to be close. i think speaker johnson is going to have to take a deep breath and seek support from democrats. there are more than a handful of

republicans. i think they will eventually pass this. i want to correct one thing, erin, give you my perspective. the border bill or the border legislation is not a fiasco. they asked james lankford to get the best deal he could. he did that. he brought it back. there was no border wall and a number of other things in it that simply the republican caucus could not go for it. the republicans made their best offer. james lankford brought back the best that he could get and the republicans said not even close, not going to go. now we're back to just the foreign aid and i hope it passes. >> when you hear, you know, some republicans saying, as they have, maybe it was in the height of the emotion after that border bill after all of this work and a very serious senior conservative senator, lankford, putting his reputation and time on the line to do it, now saying that this is going to hurt republicans in swing races and they deserve it, do you think that will not be the case when it comes to election?

>> no, i don't. senator lankford, no one is as admired as senator lankford. everybody loves him. what he brought back wasn't good enough. what matters are facts and the first three years of president biden's presidency 8 million people across the southwestern border uninvited, he has not finished the wall. he has not maintained the wall. we don't even know how many people got over that were not encountered. the open border fiasco is still bi biden's problem. it will be in tomorrow's paper. the number of aides that have been dispatched by team biden to stop embarrassment and tony blinken backpeddaled on aid. >> hugh hewitt, i appreciate talking to you. thank you. >> thank you, erin. next, china's fake news campaign centers on texas right

now and claims of looming civil war there. why is beijing, the government there, pushing out this false story? and prince william speaking out for the first time since his father's cancer diagnosis tonight.

tonight, civil war on the brink, texas declaring a state of war, headlines like this are being blasted across china. they are doing little to stop this, even though it's false. why does the chinese government do that? what's happening?

will ripley is out front. >> reporter: where information is power, where fact and fiction collide, a digital drumbeat of disinformation from china. the u.s. state department it's threatening the fabric of the free world. >> reporter: one of beijing's latest campaigns focusing on texas. a tidal wave of disinformation surging across social media in china in recent weeks. zeroing in on tensions between texas and the white house, over illegal migrants spilling over the border from mexico. >> if texas declared independence -- >> reporter: speculating about texas declarie ie ing independe. chatter of a u.s. civil war getting hundreds of thousands of likes, shares and comments, mostly untouched by beijing's

army of online sensors. >> this is the dark side of globalization. >> reporter: not isolated. the state department releasing a report on what it calls the people's republic of china's information manipulation. >> you look at the pieces of the puzzle and put it together, you see a breath taking am mission on the part -- ambition to seek domination in key regions world. >> reporter: a multibillion dollar coordinated campaign of distortion and disinformation devised by chinese government. exploiting divisions within the united states. china's foreign ministry accusing the u.s. of hipyphypoc. beijing blasting the state department report as disinformation that misrepresents facts and truth. labeling america an empire of lies. the u.s. says china's digital awe uthoritarianism accelerated

magnifying per seceptions of ch in america. a distraction for beijing growing with problems at home. from china's real estate crisis. new homes never finished, prompting protests by angry buyers. to a plunging stock market, skyrocketing youth unemployment, and rapidly aging population. beijing and washington battling for information dominance. one key point on this fake news of a looming civil war in texas. this is not the first time. just the latest example on the chinese internet of information twisted, manipulated. the u.s. says it's part a campaign by the chinese government, to poison the information space that's crucial for democracies to function. weaponizing disinformation, existing fault lines and divisions in the united states with one goal, reshape global

opinions to benefit china. >> will ripley, thank you very much. next, prince william breaking his silence on his father's cancer diagnosis tonight.

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