would select the first woman and a year or so ago, former president trump was making very clear, it seems there are two versions of things right now. >> you are absolutely right. thanks very much. to our viewers, thanks very much, i am wolf blitzer in the "situation room." erin burnett "out front" starts right now. ♪ . "out front" next, putin not backing down, warning the u.s. is not listening to his demands. a second top aide to former vice president mike pence meeting with the january 6th in the. why they believe he is a key witness tonight. more than half of teachers in the united states plan on leaving their jobs sooner than expected because of covid. the president of the national association of education is "out front." good evening, i'm erin burnett.

"out front" tonight, putin breaks his silence, speaking for the first time publicly since december. putin taking questions during a meeting with ironically a nato country, claiming the united states has broken its word and is forcing his hand in ukraine. >> there are mk-41 launchers on which tomahawks can be installed. that is, these are not anti-missile but strike systems that will cover our territory for thousands of kilometers. isn't that a threat to us? let us imagine ukraine is a nato member and stuffed with weapons and there are state of the art missile systems like in poland and romania, who will stop nit crimea, let alone dumbas, a russian sovereign territory. let us imagine ukraine is a nato member and venture such as combat operations. are we supposed to be at war with nato? >> his demands have not changed,

trickling down, crimea was originally annexed by russia. no one has done much about it. which remains the reason why putin believes he can control more of ukraine. here is something else, what you see only that image there, he was side-by-side with the prime minister of hungary. despite the strong man increasing autocratic tendencyings, hungary is a part of nato. the prime minister today said of russia's demand on nato, said, quote, the president was very clear around said that russia's demands for security guarantees are normal and should be the basis for negotiation. and i agree with that. that is the opposite of nato's position so a nato member said the exact opposite. that is a problem. let's remind nato's stance on ukraine that is nato has a right to expand that. putin can't stop that and nato is a hurt one all defend deal. >> we will of course make sure

there is no missile with standing about nato's commitment to protect and defend all nato allies. >> that's nato. if you hurt one, all rise to the defense. that's the deal. that's the fundamental part. hungary's prime minister then continued saying hungary is able to be both a member of nato and in his word so able to quote maintain excellent contact with russia. well, putin has no such relationship with ukraine, no friendly leader who can glad hand with nato gabing with putin saying all of his demands are completely unreasonable and let's go along with them. it was clear from his words in the press conference today, changingi that is still his number one goal. he put out more propaganda video, a flurry of military drills, including testing russian anti-aircraft missile systems and advanced obstacle training and shooting exercises.

putin putting out moments ago, the military came equipped with a hospital, classrooms, recreation facilities for soldiers, an indication that russian troops could be there for a while. the united states is making it clear, it's not just propaganda footage and pet 'ulance from putin. he is able to invade imminently. >> we believe that he has enough capably to move now, if he wants to. and he continues to add to that capability and those options. and he could depending on what his goal is here, what he wants to do, he could move imminently. and at any time. we have seen him provide that kind of sustainment capability with respect to those force and, obviously, that does include, you know, field hospitals and

doctors and nurses. and the kind of things you would need to do to be able to medically care for troops in the field. >> putin is clearly prepared for war. and it is a war that happens, but according to ukrainian president, will engulf europe. >> there will be a tragedy in case of powerful nations against our state. and, therefore, i am being very opened. this is not going to be a war of ukraine and russia. this is going to be a a european war, a full-fledged war. because no one is going to give away territories to some people any longer. >> "out front" live in ukraine again tonight. so mathew, how are putin's words today being interpreted in ukraine in.

>> reporter: well they won't be doing much to ease the kremlin's pants. seeing the prime minister, the leader of a nato member and european union stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the russian president in that way, we have reminded the ukrainians that the rest of the alliances, the western institutions, that putin wants to split so much already divided when it comes to how to deal with moscow. but more than that, vladimir putin's words, he said that there is no russian plan to invade ukraine again. remember it did it in 2014. but what he set out at this news conference was scenarios in which there could be an armed conflict. so, you know, that's something that would have been alarming here. particularly when you couple it with the fact that russia continues to build up forces near the ukrainian border, close to 130,000 russian troops poised potentially on an order to come into this country and the ukrainians know that very well.

so there is not much they will have heard today that will have eased their concerns from moscow. at the same time, ukrainian leadership here has been pursuing diplomacy on its own. it's had visits today from the polish prime minister and boris johnson prime minister, they have been in can iiev today giving their political backing to vladimir putin zelensky ukrainian presence and military backing as well. that i think for the ukrainians is symbolically important. >> thank you very much. "out front" now retired colonel, former member of the joint chiefs of staff and national intelligence officer for russia eurasia national intelligence council. i appreciate you taking the time to be with me. colonel, have you putin saying today the goal is to quote draw up into an armed conflict. that that's the goal of the united states and the west. he stood firm on every single one of his demands with missile

presence and his entire list as we played it. what did you take away from what he said today? >> i think the main thing is the reality is, of course, exactly the opposite of this. it is russia that is drawing amid the alps. each of this conflict with themselves and because of their designs on ukraine. what i took away from it is the fact that putin has not changed anything. he is basically rejecting at least so far all of the western positions loaded to ukraine. the fact that ukraine is considered a country that is, at best, a candidate for nato membership, is something that he, of course, rejects out of hand. he believes that all of the things that we associate with western europe, all of the things we associate with the expansion of nato, all of that is a direct threat to russia. because of that, he will continue with his movements, his troop movements plus his

asymmetric activities as well. >> as you say, as he spoke, the ministry of defense put out all those videos so everyone understands, right, what their actions are, putin was very clear today, his demand to nato and the united states have not been met. here is another thing he said. >> it is already clear that the fundamental russian concerns were ignored. >> we have not seen adequate consideration for our three key demands regarding nato expansion. the renunsiation of a deployment near the russian border and the return of the blog's military infrastructure and europe to the state of 1997 when the russian nato finding act was signed. >> he is saying the return of the infrastructure to europe to the state of 1997. i just want to be clear. he says that standing in effect to a that to member who said that russia's security demand were reasonableagrees

with them. that was quite jarring. >> jarring and incredibly counterproductive. the biden administration has worked incredibly hard to afford unity and cohesion among its allies. that unity is crucial to deterrent. with traveling to the kremlin and standing there, calling into question, it is like the utility extension. that undermines the deter rent message that the united states and its allies are trying to sentence. i also think that putin, himself, probably questioned whether or not the united states and its allies will stand shoulder-to-shoulder if push comes to shove and so unfortunately, i think the message there only reenforces that need for president putin. >> so colonel, let me ask you about that. he knew what he was doing and what he was saying and the impolitician is very clear that nato may do what nato does, hungary will do what hungary

does. it's still incredible for a country to come out and say it. it puts it right out in the open and it opens the door to others. how significant is that? >> very significant, erin. the big thing here so keep in mind, that is as key as hungary is to certain things that nato does, it is not france. it is not germany. it is not britain. so those are key factors when putin looks at this in that way. because those countries are going to be very important to the cohesiveness of nato. the smaller countries are important. but the key countries are big countries. if they stay together, then putin has a lot of pressure that he has to deal with and he'll have to calculate differently than he would otherwise calculate. >> which brings me to the questions of sanctions that you raise. obviously, germany is reliant upon russia for its gas coming to the pipeline that goes under ukraine. germany has been low to support the military in anyway.

today you heard say sanction doesn't work. so is he right that sanctions don't work? obviously, they didn't work in 2014. those sanctions are by all accounts much weaker than those now being considered. do you think the sanctions they are talking about would work now? >> well, i think, you know, they are a key part of the deterrent package. the bietden administration i think is trying to make the point that putin faces incredibly clear. on the one hand, the biden administration offered a path to talk about things like arms control. conventional arms control. transparency measures, risk reduction. along with allies, they've threatened a severe passion only of sanctions that evades the costs. the key question is whether or not not to deter putin on something as vital as ukraine. there is a very significant asymmetry of interest that putin exploits. he understands russia cares more

about ukraine than the less. nonetheless, it's very important to continue to go down this path and if they don't end up deterring and putin takes action, implementing those tensions is extremely important to raise the cost and input and export control to start to choke him off, key factors of russian economy that support this aggressive activity across. that is one question. there is still the prudent path to raise the costs and to start to choke russia's ability to sustain this aggressive posture. >> so how long can you wait? you know, the emphasis today from both the videos and you heard admiral kirby talking about was that they're putting in things to stay for a while. right? it's not just hospitals, it's recreation rooms, classrooms, it's sort of we don't have to move our troops out in march when things start to thaw. we can sit around and wait as long as we need to. how long do you think he is willing to sit there?

>> you know, putin has a calendar where most of us have a watch. that one thing that you know i think we have to consider. but in terms of actual logistical sustainment, i think the current russian posture will probably allow them to stay in that position in an invasion-type posture for about ten days the of sustained combat. now, of course, he'll move other forces in, do those kind of things that he needs to do in order to keep that momentum going. but after ten days, then it gets a bit questionable and also, of course, depends on how much resistance the ukrainians forward and that could change equation quite a bit. i give them ten days at the outset at the least. >> thank you both. i appreciate your time. next cnn is learning trump gave two executive orders to seize the computers from the 2020

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. tonight greg jacob the former chief counsel to vice

president pence meeting earlier with the january 6th select committee. he's the latest member of the vice president's inner circle to meet with the committee. as you know now the former chief of staff mike short did so as well. jacob has been a significant interest to the committee because he played a key role pushing back on efforts to persuade trump, pence, i'm sorry, to fought certify the election. it all comes as former president trump's advisers drafted two versions of an executive order. the time to draft two versions. tell meant this, what more are you learning about greg jacob and his testimony. >> reporter: well, his appearance shows even though the committee has had tough time getting top allies to cooperate, they are making inroads in pence's world to better understand what was happening at the white house in and around january 6th. now as pence's general counsel he played a critical role in

this effort to persuade pence not to certify the electoral results. jacob has always sent his son by the committee. but it became more prominent that conservative lawyer john eastman advising trump sent jacob an e-mail during the riot blaming pence for the violence at the capitol. in his interview comes as cnn reported pence former chief of staff mark short was interviewed last week and all of this begs the question whether pence, himself, will cooperate with the committee and all this comes amid-our new reporting traump ally drafted two executive orders to seize voting machines after the elections. one version. tasking the pentagon with seizing machines and the second version instructing the department of homeland security to carry out the same tasks, even though according to all reporting a top dhs official told trump attorney rudy guiliani that dhs didn't have that power. while neither memo was issued,

it shows the length the trump advisers were willing to go to as a part of a broader effort to undermine the election results. >> thank you very much. i want to bring in mathew travis. he served in the trump administration as deputy texter of the cyber security infrastructure agency which, of course, is a lead federal agency responsible for elections security and our chief political analyst gloria borger. two draft executive orders to seize voting machines. first they try the pentagon. then the dhs. clearly, there were a lot of efforts made. is there any possible way to get this done? is there anyway this wasn't a big point looking at this, an intended coup for all intents and purposes or is it possible trump truly believed all of this stuff about the voting machines? >> erin, good to be with you again. i think he must have believed a lot to go this far to have executive orders drafted. i haven't seen the dhs version.

if it's anything like the dod calling it a hair brained plan is too kind. it's absurd and sinister, absurd because on face of it, it's unconstitutional, article 1 section 4 gives the authority over federal elections to the states. and in terms of authority, most americans don't realize how many law enforcement authorities and regulatory authorities homeland security has. it doesn't have this. when i was at sisa, we were looking to strengthen the election security, we had to get concept, per mention to do vulnerability assessments or malware assessments. we barge in and seize the machines is laughable. it would never have been carried out. also i think it's also sinister in that you take it apart, homeland security which is professionally responsible to patriotic security and emergency management and when poppize it for political purposes for all dhs employees and alumni.

>> i want to ask you about that in a moment, should trump run and win again, gloria, the "new york times" says trump was in these executive orders, that he asked former attorney general bill voss whether they can seize voting machines and directed rouge rouge to calm and say could the dhs do it and that became a subsequent draft order. it isn't because trump believed it and people were doing it. he was actively driving every step of this. >> right. that's very important. that is exactly what the january 6th committee is going to look at. what was the president's intent here? you know, we tend to look at january 6th. we say, there was the insurrection. what we need to go back to is right after the election, and look at exactly what then president trump was doing, what he was directing, what questions he was asking, what he was

telling people to do and what was his intent? which was to overturn a free and a fair election and that's what the committee is going to get to. >> and, matt, you also point out here, you mentioned that that all these professionals who were there trying to do their best job. you also, though, are making a point. that if trump learns and wins again, the people who were there, that stopped this. we said these people who are now testifying before the committee, they won't be there next time. they're not going to take those jobs. they won't be there. these unseen heroes. >> i am confident chris krebs nor i will be appointed in a second trump turn the. even our deputy secretary pushed back. if that's what you are worried, if the president was get tag type of advice from those that drafted the administration, it's

unsettling to think the kind of individuals he may appoint to a new one. that should give all voters pause. >> how far is pence getting, he has fred jacob. it seems they are getting significant cooperation. >> look. mark short was suspended. he came and testified. greg jacobs, former counsel for the vice president, came and testified. these are people with eyewitness accounts. these are the people who were in that january 4th meeting when he was saying mike pence can overturn this election. he can dessertfy this election. greg jacob and mark short were with the vice president on the day of the insurrection when eastman was e-mailing him saying this is all q4 fault. this is all your fall. so you are getting first-hand accounts here. the big question remains to be seen, which is, will mike pence testify? if he does testify, would it be in writing? would it be in person?

or do the pence people believe that this testimony that you are getting from his top aides should stand on its own and be enough without the former vice president? >> all right. thank you both very much. i appreciate your time. >> sure. next, the rnc with major cash advantage tonight. but it's a very different story when you look at this, we will show you the numbers. first, what could the triefs crisis be for schools? a new survey says 55% of americans plan to leave their jobs sooner than expected. ththe president of the natation educational association isis "o front" next. dove m men+care. smoother, healthier skin with every shower. ♪ three times the electorlytes and half the sugar. ♪ pedialyte powder packs. feel better fast.

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new tonight, former president trump endorsing a primary rival for republican tom wright. one of the ten house republicans who voted to empeach trump. hours after trump's team announced the political organizations, a war chest of $122 million. this is how they will spend it, righting the wrongs they see a. trump spokesman said, in part, there is no question the make america great again maga wave is

a crash across the mid-terms and carried 40 all the way through 2024. after donor met in trump's circle at mar-a-lago. so, dan, you haven't been afraid to call out donald trump on this show. this is an unprecedented war chest for a president. obviously, you so are able to speak to people on that inner circle. what do you think this money means and how significant is it of a hawk? >> reporter: well, first, let me set the stage here. the rnc plus the dnc combined have cash on hand of $121 million. trump has on hand 122 million. that shows how how formidable he has been with an average contribution of $31. i think it's a formidable war chest. as a republican, it has me worried, we will get caught in this cross fire or friendly fire and that could be disastrous for us in the mid-terms. >> well, i mean, he is using some of this money to take out a

lot of the people, people like you want to represent the republican party. so there is that specific issue to it, too. you know, you heard me mention the spokesperson who said, oh, this is going all the way to 2024. you recently said, desantis would be a formidable candidate should trump not run. huh said, he was trump but smarter and more disciplined. >> absolutely. >> does that sound an awful lot like trump all the way along, lately in a few ways. here are a few examples. >> we will ban critical race theory in our classrooms. >> we're going after critical race theory. >> with the republicansb, there will be no defunding of the police, i can tell you that. >> florida is a law and order state. we will not allow law enforcement to be de-funded. >> there is a word echo. there is people like you who i know would prefer desantis to be the republican nominee. do you think he has any chance of beating trump, especially

when you look at an average donation of $31 per person and trump alone raising more money than the republican party than the democratic party combined in. >> i think anyone has a chance. if we are being honest, trump's numbers are formidable. his fundraising ability is formidable. he lost the election. he got more votes than any republican presidential nominee has. he is a formidable voice. i think somebody like desantis, he has $60 million cash on hand, i think he had a formidable name and record to run on. there is a loan for a deisn't tis or a nikki haley and feel trump is a melting ice cube and will be less formidable the closer we get to 2024. >> you call him a melting ice cube. you have been very clear. yet you come on and say, top republicans senators won't rule out supporting trump if he's the republican nom einto. senator cornyn, i will support the nominee of my political party when he was directly

asked, will you support trump? john thune, will you support him? well, i've said i'll support our nominee. that's not what you are saying. it doesn't seem to be melting with them. >> i'm not elected. i don't have a party base to pander to. the fact of the matter is this is like the fable you hear when are you a kid, the emperor has not clothes and everyone is afraid to tell him he has no clothes. trump has raised a ton of money and no doubt would be the odds on favorite to win a primary. is there a lane for somebody like nikki haley or governor desantis or senator tom cotton to take him down? absolutely. remember, when we were talking about this in 2015, none of the talking heads are the kinds of people on your show took trump seriously at all back then. he kompgd out everybody and came away with the prize. so i think there is a lot of tape left to play. we could all be surprised once

again. >> a republican state candidate in michigan. told people to bring if under to polling places and to to so in order to protect republican election observers. let me play what he says. >> if we can't change the tide, which i believe we can, we need to change the tide. >> what do you make of this? top republican donor, long-time republican. could you, i mean, could you placebo you are hearing this sort of thing? >> i think that's absolutely ridiculous and completely not necessary. look, that itself the kind of thing that would happen in a ba naen na republic that shouldn't happen in a george washington republic. we all need [ inaudible ] -- there is no place in our society in my opinion. >> i appreciate your time, always great to talk to you. >> thank you. next covid causing teachers to

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. tonight, new warning signs for schools across the u.s. a survey of students finding 55% say they will leave their job sooner than they've ever planned due to covid broadly. that is almost double the number of teachers who said they thought about quitting in july of 2020 when the pandemic had already started. so the numbers have started as schools have reopened. 80% of teachers say they have heavier work load, jobs remain opened and there is a massive shortage of substitute teachers. sometimes during omicron in new york city, if you would call the substitute teacher hot line, you are a public school, no one will answer the phone. "out front" now, becky pringle,

president of the national association, the largest teacher's union in the country. so, becky, you know, you see these results, more than half of teachers plan to leave the profession sooner than they originally planned. that number has doubled since the pandemic at the worst of the pandemic, right? it's now doubled since then. how worried are you? >> it's good to be with you, erin. let me dpin by saying we are surrounding our educators and students in ridgefield, with all of our support and assistance as they grieve the loss of another student. i have been traveling all over the country and i have been hearing anecdotally that ed indicatorse hearing anecdotally that ed indicad /* educators are planning to leave their profession, i want to talk how extensive this crisis was. we were shocked, honestly, 55%

of educators who reported to us that they plan to leave the profession or retire early and when you look at our teachers of color, it's even worse. 62% of our black teachers and 59% of our latino teachers are reporting the same. so this is a national crisis that we must address. >> so what are the reasons? i know when you look at what happened in chicago, right, with the teacher's union not wanting an in-person school. they didn't think it was safe. there are other teachers who have different concerns. right. maybe they want more vaccine mandates or less vaccine mandates or maybe they're frustrated they have to mask in school. maybe it's the opposite. it sort of seems like no matter what side of an issue you are on, that could be a reason that you have just had enough. are you, indeed, seeing all of those reasons? >> we are seeing all of those reasons. we have all watched as our

educators all over this country have stood in the gaps for students for almost now two years. they had just, just listened to the challenge, they have been heroic in their efforts. but the reality is, that they have been experiencing prolonged and extensive stress asking, being asked to step up to do more than they have ever done increased work loads, substitute shortages, continued shortages among our teachers and they are reporting to us that not only are they losing their preparation time to plan for their students, but they're using their lunchtime as well, that kind of stress is leading to that mass exodus that we are seeing across this country. >> and, obviously, you know, the impact on teachers. we know there is still this profound and still unloan impact

on many children as well. and we still have districts around this country, where kids are not in-person school. flint, michigan, students there have been virtually learning since january 5th. they aren't scheduled to go back until january 7th, which is monday. these are districts that have fallen behind now are getting less in-person schools than other districts. math and reading scores broadly in michigan have been dropping since 2019 in the 3rd through 7th great. how much damage are school closures doing? >> 96% of our schools across this country opened back up after our, after christmas setting and new year's holidays. they opened back up to in-person learning. we saw within that first week so many of our educators, not that they're educators, but our

students falling down because of the omicron variant. 20% of our students say we did see temporary return to virtual learning because of that. because of educator shortages throughout our schools. we did see that. we are absolutely concerned. we want to be in person with our students. so it is absolutely essential. especially right now, that we continue to employ all of those mitigation strategies from vaccinations to making sure we wear masks, social distancing. all of those things to keep our students and our educators safe. >> becky, thank you very much. i appreciate your time tonight. >> thank you. next, we'll take you inside beijing where human contact is highly controlled ahead of the olympics, a completely walled off city. they are now use rog boughts to do everything from completely serving every food you buy to buying drinks. senator joe manchin saying the president's build back better bill if manchin's word is dead.

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tonight the beijing olympics is becoming a tale of two bubbles. inside around the clock guards, robots serving food and drink and daily pcr tests. outside, no access to the olympic events or family members inside. this couple, one inside the bubble and one outside the bubble and both are out front with tonight's unique inside look. >> reporter: the motto of beijing's winter games is together for a shared future. a nice sentiment, but daily life in the chinese capital is far apart from the life within it. too great is the risk of omicron for china as they try to maintain their zero covid policy. in the week leading to january 30th, 237 symptomatic infections

were reported. arrival testing registered around 200 positive results. the closed loop system means those visiting from other countries won't be able to freely wander and check out the iconic tourist sites like this one, the forbidden city. for them it is truly forbidden. >> for athletes, organizers and journalists, beijing has become a series of bubbles. our hotels, sporting venues and places like this media center are as much as the city has to offer. literal walls, security blocking us from freely moving about. we are covid tested every day outside the hotel. technology takes the place of many lost interactions. here at the media center a robot serves our food and there is a robot bartender mixing and

serving our drinks. only a limited number of beijingers joined our closed loop to look after and transport all of the people connected to the games and they will need to stay separate from family and friends for weeks, quite a sacrifice as the lunar new year's holiday overlaps with the olympics. as covid disconnected beijing from the international event they are hosting it has disconnected the people here from the rest of their country. >> normally major cities like beijing are empty. all of the folks that lived here go back to their home provinces. this year because of the outbreaks happening over china, they are asking folks to stay put so you have crowds like this gathering at the more popular spots. crowds that won't get to be there as the medals are contested and won. no sporting tickets are on sale. the government will issue some

to a lucky few. beijing 2022 is a tale of two cities. >> the guests, so close but so far. >> beijing, china. that is amazing. not just, you know, the wall but that there is a wall and there is a space and there is another wall. it is unbelievable. next, the build back better build is dead. dead. dead. making it very clear. that is what cjoe manchin says but that is if you talk to him.

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ghkt democrats divided about the build back better plan after senator joe manchin said this.

>> i don't know what you are talking about. >> you have not had talks about that since december? >> not. no. >> what build back better bill. i don't know what you are talking about. senator majority leader chuck schumer is saying dead doesn't mean dead. >> we are fighting hard on build back better. we are moving forward on build back better. you will see how we do that as we move forward. >> putting aside there is great potential for a comedic skit, this is not comedic, deep division in the democratic party. is it dead or not dead? >> for all intents and propers it is dead. in order to get it through the senate, you need joe manchin's support and the rest of the 49 colleagues on board to get

something through along straight party lines and that is not happening. manchin said he hasn't had any talks since december 19th. that is when he said he can't move forward and there would be significant changes. chuck schumer at the beginning of the year focused on the issue of voting rights, forced joe manchin and sinema to oppose changing the filibuster rule and blocked the proposal from going forward. now the focuses shifts to confirming a supreme court nominee. if people can say washington can talk and chew gum at the same time. they are wrong. the focus right now will be on getting the supreme court nominee confirmed. manchin told us earlier today he wants to focus on other issues like dealing with inflation and

avoiding a government shutdown by the middle of february. getting an agreement from house democrats, senate democrats, joe manchin making it likely that it is, in fact, dead. >> dead means dead. thank you very much. thanks to all of you. anderson starts now. good evening and we begin with new reports showing the former president was deeply involved in the attempt to overturn the 2020 election than previously overknown. this is a first. reporting that for the first time identifies him as the driving force behind his effort to overturn the election that he lost