cause to bring an indictment. >> reporter: then, there are brian walshe's inconsistent accounts. he's been charging with misleading investigators about him and his wife's whereabouts on january 1st, the last day he claims to have seen her. he didn't report his wife missing until january 4th. >> during the time frame when he didn't report his wife and gave various statements that allowed him time to either clean up evidence, dispose of evidence -- >> reporter: brian walshe has pleaded not guilty to misleading investigators but his lawyers have otherwise not commented to cnn on this case. wolf? >> brian todd reporting. brian, thank you very, very much. and to our viewers, thanks very much for watching. i'm wolf blitzer in "the situation room." "erin burnett outfront" starts right now. "outfront" next, putin's purge, the russian president suddenly replacing the general overseeing his war in ukraine just as the russians appear to be on the verge of seizing the

town of soledar. why the major shakeup? plus, resign. more republicans tonight calling for congressman george santos to step down after he lied about his resume. but mccarthy won't show him the door. republican governor chris sununu is "outfront." is trump about to get back on facebook? how the company is making this decision. it is a story you'll see first here tonight "outfront." let's go "outfront." and good evening. i'm erin burnett. "outfront" tonight, putin's mysterious shakeup. the russian president suddenly putting in a new general to oversee his war in ukraine. and there is a huge question tonight which is why what is this all about? because it comes as russia claims its forces are on the verge of seizing the town of soledar. cnn is there, has heard the heavy artillery fire. we're going to show you in just a moment. it is artillery fire that has decimated an entire town. these are new before and after

pictures just into our field team on the ground. here you can see a intoed with homes and apartment buildings. now look at that. only the outer shells of buildings remain. homes and a school to the right. a small town, now gone. everything has been destroyed. and the fate of this town that you're looking at right now soledar is at the heart of this mysterious move in putin's military command. the head of the brutal wagner group yevgeny prigozhin posted a picture on telegram along with the claim that his forces, this private paramilitary group have taken control of the, quote, entire territory of soledar. now you'd think that the russian military would be happy to hear that. but, no. they denied prigozhin's claims. a top kremlin's spokesperson saying this morning soledar is not yet in russian control, that there's only a positive trend. it is an odd, conflicting message in a time of war. it's a mystery, a sign of

something much deeper. and it appears to be at the center of putin's general shakeup. because the man that putin has now picked to run the invasion is backed by the russian military establishment which has failed so miserably in so many parts of this war. backed by putin's minister of defense sergei shoigu and the man that he is replacing has the backing of yevgeny prigozhin of the wagner group. so, tonight, in this play, this chess game, it is a fight for the ultimate military power in putin's regime. and in the meantime russians are dying, a lot of them. it is taking a major toll on the russians alive still fighting. listen to this. here's a new intercepted call that ukraine's defense intelligence says is from a russian soldier. >> translator: they are shipping us back to russia. they are saying that after that

they ship us to the kherson area. if everything works out there in russia, then i'll [ bleep ] never come back. i'll try to dodge. >> reporter: i want to start with ben wedeman who is "outfront" live in kramatorsk. you've been nearby that fierce fighting in soledar. you have heard it. what did you see and hear? >> reporter: what we saw is that the ukrainians still control part of soledar. but as what we heard, the fighting is intense. what's not at all clear at this point is how much longer the ukrainians can resist this russian offensive. medics load a wounded soldier onto an ambulance. another casualty from the embattled town of soledar.

it varies depending on the number of casualties on the front lines. russian forces, mostly troops from the wagner group, the private military company, claim to have control of the entire soledar territory. the battle for soledar may be in its final stages, and it doesn't appear to be going well for the ukrainians. and if indeed the russians do emerge victorious, the villages around it may be the next to fall. ukraine's helicopters still flying, its forces aren't giving ground easily. one soldier says it's difficult but we're hanging in there. despite the fighting, she is staying put with her pigs and cows in a home in a nearby village. we won't leave, she says. you can only die once. i will not abandon my house.

her 81-year-old mother has lived here for more than 40 years. we had a good life here, she says. -- heads the soledar military administration. i'm delivering aid, he says, and reminding people they need to evacuate before it's too late. svetlana says she will heed his call. everyone is tired, she tells me. we can't take it any longer. as soledar burns, there is little time to waste. and as dire as the situation is in soledar itself, what we saw is that in the surrounding villages, there are a lot of ukrainian troops. they don't seem to be particularly alarmed that the russians are about to come. they're well dug in, they seem

to be well supplied. we saw more ukrainian reinforcements coming in, perhaps to launch a counterattack or perhaps to provide cover for an organized retreat from soledar itself. erin? >> all right, thank you very much, ben wedeman, on the ground near soledar tonight. and "outfront" now retired army lieutenant general mark hertling. general, i appreciate your time. when we were showing those before and after pictures, one thing that i hope stands out to people is the size of soledar. this is a small town. this is not a big city. it is a small town. it is a town obviously almost entirely destroyed, i would go as far as to say it is completely destroyed in terms of being able to live there. is there strategic advantage to controlling it? >> there is no strategic advantage to this. this is a personality class within russia. the ukrainians realize that in order to take back territory in the donbas, they cannot allow

any further advances by the russian army, or in this case the wagner group under prigozhin. but one of the lessons they teach you in the war college, erin, and it's true in any organization, personalities matter. and when you have the kind of clash of personalities you see in the russian army with servoykin, prigozhin, mr. putin, they are having problems getting advances all along the front that they sought to obtain from the beginning of this war. soledar is not a strategically important town. bakhmut to the south of soledar is also not strategically important. the ukrainians have defense all around those areas. they don't want to give up an inch of ground. so they are going to fight. and, truthfully, this may become a tactical victory. prigozhin's wagner troops may eventually gain the town of soledar. but if they do, it may be a

tac tacti tactical empiric victory. >> announcing his fourth general in less than a year to oversee the war in ukraine specifically. which obviously is not a good record. but the man who is now in charge, gerasimov, ran a military which we have all seen its performance on the battlefield. so what do you think of gerasimov now suddenly be entrusted with this top command and replacing -- >> it would be equivalent of taking general milley in the united states and putting him at the front lines of an operational campaign. he has been at the forefront of the russian military. that's navy, air force, naval, infantry, all those things. so it may be a foretelling of an attempt at future attacks in different areas of operations with navy and air forces.

but i believe it's -- again, it's a personality-driven move. it is in fact a demotion for gerasimov, and it's also a demotion of surovikin who was given command and didn't do all that well. so it's troubling to me and it's confusing to me why mr. putin did this other than potentially to place blame on gerasimov who's considered an insider in the kremlin. >> all right. thank you very much, general hertling. and "outfront" now, lead russia investigator for belling cat who identified the russians involved in poisoning russian opposition leader alexei navalny. let me just start there. this just happening here over these past days. why do you think russia and putin now have just put you on

the wanted list? >> new year, i don't know. the answer is there's no explanation. we have not been able to get any answers to the charges of being most wanted. he has been put on this list for a violation of a russian law. it's completely anonymous. there's no way for me to defend myself from an anonymous charge. the lawyers can't find out. the bulgarian government and citizens have been asking russia to explain why and they are not giving the answer. i think it's a fatwa, a message that to other journalists as well that don't meddle -- don't do investigations into russia. >> and yet you continue to bravely do it and continue your investigations. and you more than anyone know at what possible cost. >> we investigated a series of assassinations done by the russian state. and one of them is the attempted assassination of navalny. but many other opposition leaders were targeted by the same security services in russia. some of them with a fatal

outcome. >> so, navalny right now, i will ask you about that. you've got new details surrounding his poisoning. what are they? >> well, it's more details to the picture we took together with cnn we painted two years ago almost. we found out more details that showed the effort that the russian government went into destroy the evidence of what they had just done. there are more people that were sent to clean up after the poisoning. and also what we find out is more evidence that they were trying to do something to the other people around alexei navalny. for example, maria -- who is the lead investigator -- >> yes. we see members of the security services going to her hotel a couple of days before the poisoning and we're still trying to find out why. but there's more granular details as to exactly how they ran the operation. >> let me ask you about putin and the news we have today that we're talking about, this new commander for ukraine, general

gerasimov, a name that many have become familiar with. but he is a person that the wagner group chief yevgeny prigozhin has displayed publicly. and now suddenly the person who hasn't, you know, has sort of been his nemesis on this is getting this big promotion. what does this mean? >> it means a couple of things. one thing it mean that's by promoting the chief of staff of the army to the position of a field commander, essentially running the show, you can't any more call this a nonwar. you can't call it a special operation. it's a real war, and it's come out finally. second thing is that putin has been between two power -- he's in the middle of a power struggle. and prigozhin actually showed his teeth. he showed that he wants a piece of the action, wants to be in power. but putin ultimately had to take the side of the anti-prigozhin establishment, which is the ma military establishment team. and now you see both sides are

now upset with this outcome. and prigozhin is going to do something more, i think, to claim power. >> so we should be watching that? >> yeah, in the next couple of days i think there will be more lashing out by him. >> and another story that we've been following closely here is the plight of the former president of georgia now in prison in georgia, which of course is a country that putin had invaded obviously and is now run by a pro-putin government. we have some images of him now in prison, extremely frail. it's quite disturbing to see him. and i spoke with his son and his lawyer recently. they said that they had dna of his brought to u.s. medical facility, tested his hair and nail samples. here's what they said about it. >> those tests along with some of the blood tests we have seen revealed heavy metals. arsenic, mercury, among others.

so that is what told us that he was being poisoned. >> i understand he's reached out to you as best he could from prison. what did he say to you? >> well, he reached out publicly on facebook message, and he asked for help in investigating his own poisoning because he doesn't trust his own government, his own authorities to do that properly. it's a very unusual appeal, obviously. we'll do our best to address that. the georgia government is reaching out to us. we can do it without collaboration. >> you certainly. but what you hear here is consistent with other things that you've seen. >> it is. there is motive, and there is symptoms that are consistent. we have to find if there is a possibility by travel, the right type of people, the right profile of specialists. that may take a few weeks or a few months to discover.

but we are going to look at this. it's not certain that russia did this. but there's enough evidence for this to be looked at very, very carefully. crisco's incredible reporting on who poisoned alexei navalny is featured in the cnn film "navalny," which airs on cnn this saturday night at 9:00. it is phenomenal and worth your time. and, next, congressman george santos doubling down despite another member of his own party calling him to step down about lying about his resume and more. >> will you step down? >> i will not. plus, breaking news this hour, a second batch of classified documents from biden's time as vice president have been found. these in another location. what are we learning about these documents tonight? we'll tell you everything we know. and congressman katy porter showed us exactly how she felt about 15 rounds to vote to elect mccarthy as speaker. and now she's announced a run for the senate. she's "outfront." onds to both o.

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>> wow. >> santos is on defense over the long list of lies that he told about his history and his background before he was elected. now these included basic things where he went to high school, where he went to college, also where he worked, his religion, even that he founded a nonprofit for animals, his mother's passing. there's no record of these claims of his resume. and other statements of his that are facing scrutiny including saying his ancestors fled the holocaust, saying that his mother survived the 9/11 terror attacks. he has also been charged with embezzlement in brazil for allegedly using a stolen checkbook back in 2011. when you add all that together, none of which came out during the election itself, mccarthy stood by his man today. >> i try to stick by the constitution. the voters elected him to serve. if there is a concern, it has to go through the ethics. we'll let it move through that. so he'll continue to serve.

you know, in america today, you're innocent until proven guilty. >> we should note santos of course is admitted to many of these lies. manu raju is "outfront" on capitol hill. despite what mccarthy says, the voters can't do anything right now to kick santos out of office, right? i mean, they voted based on what they were given, a lot of which was untrue. but they can't do anything about it now. >> yeah, they can't. and the only way that they could do that is if there were a special election. the house could vote to expel him that would require two-thirds of the chamber. or he could simply decide to resign. he said he is not going to resign. one big reason why republican leaders are not calling on him to do that, this is a democratic district -- making kevin mccarthy's margin in the house, which is already narrow, even tighter which is one reason why they are aligning themselves with george santos and trying to help him weather this storm. this could go through the ethics

committee. but that is a process that will take a while. but that doesn't mean he has widespread support. there are no freshman republican members of congress who are calling on santos to resign, saying his lies have gone too far, including his lies about having family that escaped the holocaust, and apparently lies about being jewish. >> all right. manu, thank you very much. it is bizarre. "outfront" now, republican governor of new hampshire chris sununu. let's start with speaker mccarthy says santos should not resign, that voters have made their decision. voters made their decision based on information which was false. so maybe -- hard to imagine -- >> i think he should stay right in there. i can't wait to see what we'll find out next week. it's a joke. of course he's got to resign. when you've lost public trust, you've lost the ability to do the job. they can't kick him out, but he's got to do the right thing and resign. but clearly this is not an individual who has any sense of doing the right thing. so it's a joke at this point.

>> it seems that way. and mccarthy is saying this is about the constitution and innocent until proven guilty. again, santos has admitted to the loo is. 15 rounds of voting to become speaker. he made a lot of concessions to win over these republicans that voted for him to get those final votes. santos stood by him, by the way, for all 15 rounds. are you worried about how much mccarthy gave up? are you worried that he's not going to be able to stand up to them? >> not at all. and i think the one mistake mccarthy made was he had what is traditionally a big discussion and battle behind closed doors out front. he said he had the votes in the beginning. and once that happened -- >> i wish he had had it out front actually. >> they've traditionally just kept it behind closed doors, as do republicans. you can have these internal fights. they got something done, they got him elected, they got their rules -- >> so you're not worried that he gave up too much? >> no. what did he give up that i -- >> that's it, we don't even

know. >> i'm clearly not worried about it. i think if there was huge that he gave up, matt gaetz and gang would be touting it to the world. matt gaetz got the ability to raise a lot of money and all of them did. i think they were just driving this to raise a heck of a lot of money for themselves to be obstructionist. they clearly had no plan b. they just kept dragging this on as long as they possibly could. and then they said, okay, we've raised enough money, let's get it go. >> you said you believe donald trump is losing his influence over the republican party. >> does anyone not think that? >> speaker mccarthy came out and said this about trump's role in mccarthy's victory as speaker. so here he is. >> i do want to especially thank president trump. i don't think anybody should doubt his influence. he was with me from the beginning. thank you, president trump. >> the former president did a

great job closing in those 20 votes the first 15 times -- or he didn't. look, i get what he's trying to do there. he's trying to walk a line in all of that sort of thing. look, and he can do that, that's fine. but as a party, clearly we're moving on. and donald trump is a voice of the party. he has an influence over the party, but it ain't getting any better. that's why you're going to see more people jump into the race. he announced he was going to run for president at his weakest political point. he then made a bunch of horrible missteps with having dinner with kanye or ye and whatever we're calling him now, and the white supremacist. the former president said i didn't know who i was having dinner with. you're the former president. how'd he get into your house? that kind of nonsense, i think people go, ugh, this is just another story of the week from the former president. you're going to have other candidates get in the race. it's going to be exciting, for the right reasons. >> trump's announced, you haven't ruled it out.

your fellow governor in florida ron desantis. ron desantis as of now, he's got a record in his state, but there's one thing he seems to be emphasizing. and it is this. >> i view the wokeness as a form of cultural marxism. this wokeness will destroy this country if we let it run unabated. unfortunately, the woke mind virus has infected a lot of institutions in our country. we fight the woke in the legislature. we fight the woke in the schools. we fight the woke in the corporations. we will never surrender to the woke mob. florida is where woke goes to die. [ cheers and applause ] >> is that effective? there are many in your party saying this touches on a cultural trend. >> i think he's absolutely right that the wokeness is really invading this culture in a very negative way. now, where we might disagree is should the government come in and fix woke? well, the government is never

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breaking news. more classified documents from biden's time as vice president found these at a second location. they were found during a search conducted after other classified documents were found in biden's office -- in biden's former office back in november just before the midterm election. evan perez is "outfront" in washington. and, evan, this is not a headline they would have wanted. what more are you learning about a second batch of documents? >> it's not a welcomed headline, especially as merrick garland, the attorney general, is weighing next steps whether to launch a full criminal investigation on this issue whether to perhaps even go to the direction of bringing in a special counsel to do an investigation. those are among the things that could happen next. and what we know from this is that the biden aides did a broader search after finding those initial documents that they turned over to the national archives. of course we know that there were ten classified documents

that were found there. we don't know how many documents of classification levels were found in this batch. but obviously what this does is it raises more questions. are there other documents? and certainly among the questions that you hear, you know, people at the justice department in the fbi who have, which is are there possible other classified documents at other locations? because we know, obviously, it's been a number of years since joe biden left the vice presidency. so, we don't know whether there is additional searches being done, but that's certainly among the things that the justice department will be considering as to whether or not to launch a fuller investigation. >> evan, thank you very much. and i want to go now to the democratic congressman katy porter who has announced she is running for a u.s. senate seat in the state of california. congresswoman, thank you for your time. i'm glad to speak to you again. we knew you were coming on and this news comes out. more documents in another

location, that's pretty much all we know right now. what's your reaction? >> classified documents belong in classified settings. and if we're having consistent problems across parties with exiting government officials not putting those classified documents where they belong, then i think that's something that we should take up. oversight isn't about partisanship. it's about making sure that protocols, procedures, rules, laws that keep us all safe for being followed. i'm assuming that will happen in this case and i'll follow up to make sure it does. >> one source close to the legal team for trump tells cnn, quote, this is huge for us. now, of course, trump hid and didn't -- hid his documents, didn't give them under subpoena. so it's a different situation on the face of it. however, do you think that this actually helps trump, that it shows that in the case of biden, you know, that other people have classified documents. does this muddy the waters? >> trump's problems are of his own making with regard to classified documents, and they are extensive.

and, as you note, the situations are different. i think it's important, though, to go back to the first principle. as i said, classified documents belong in classified settings, and they should be treated as such. and we should take corrective action if it's been a problem. and i think we should take corrective action with former president donald trump whose allegations are much more serious and much more grave for our country's national security. >> absolutely. now, the white house declined to comment. biden was finally asked about it yesterday. he answered the third time that he was asked. now he didn't explain how the documents got there or why. this is a crucial point. why it wasn't disclosed when they found the documents in november because they found them six days before the midterm election. it didn't get disclosed until just this week. do you think biden and the white house should've been more forthcoming? >> i think that we need to conduct appropriate oversight. and, as i said before, oversight isn't a partisan responsibility. we have rules and laws, and they

should apply to everyone regardless of party. that said, i do not have, and i don't think the american people yet have all of the facts that they need to know. so i think we should be grateful that this classified information is safe and is secure and that we ought to be looking forward to make sure that we're preventing these incidents from happening again by anyone of either party. >> you're running for senator feinstein's seat. she hasn't yet announced that she's stepping down. we did learn that congresswoman barbara lee is planning to run for that seat. she hasn't formally announced, though. did you have any conversations with feinstein -- >> i reached out to senator feinstein through staff. and i'm hoping to get a chance to speak with her and continue to learn from her. she has been an incredible trailblazer. and the path that she has created for women in politics in california and across the country is one that i am really proud to follow in. senator feinstein will make her

own decision in her own time. and i have respect for that. >> so last week i was sitting here every day watching you sitting there every day, and we all remember watching you reading a book in the chamber because the title was "the subtle art of not giving an f." and there you were. i don't know if in that case your shirt even matched the cover of the book. let me just ask you, though. it looks like you were pretty far through in that particular picture we're showing. did you learn anything from the book? >> yes, i did. i'm on about page 90 right now because we eventually elected a speaker so i got to stop reading at about 2:00, 3:00 in the morning and go back to my apartment. but the book is helpful. i think one of the things it reminds us is that there are going to be trying times. there are going to struggles and pain and problems in any life, in any industry, in any job, in any undertaking. congress is no exception.

as i was watching congress struggle to elect a speaker and to begin governing, i think it was a reminder that these problems are present. workers face them every day. and as somebody who's working on behalf of the american people, we were having a day of struggle. >> certainly. all right, well, congresswoman, porter, i appreciate your time, thank you so much. and next the thousands of flights canceled and delayed. quiet skies for part of the day. passengers stranded for hours after the system in the u.s. that provides pilots with safety information failed. what in the world happened, and what is the biden administration saying tonight? plus, is former president trump about to return to facebook? new light tonight is shed on the conversations taking place inside facebook right now about that.

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corrupted. the entire country's skies were shut down. you think about other times that happened. 9/11. this was just a snafu? transportation secretary pete buttigieg telling cnn this could be an indication that the faa is outdated and needs to be replaced. well, that's a problem. harry enten joins me now. let's just start with the people impacted by this who were flying all across the country. this is unbelievable to think of the skies empty. people have gotten used to bad times at airports, but this was unbelievable. >> this is unbelievable. as you were hinting at, it's just part of this sort of long train of problems that passengers have faced as they've tried to fly. we had southwest, all those delays and what we essentially know is that passenger complaints since, let's say go back to 1998, they're up 547%. you look at since 2019 just before prepandemic, up over 300%. the fact of the matter is, is

that passengers are getting sick and tired of all of this. they do not like all these delays. what a big shocker. but this is just something that's really wearing on the airline industry at large. >> and it is unbelievable to think -- i mean, of course we've got so many aging infrastructure. doesn't just mean bridges. it means the systems that actually keep planes in the air and people alive. in a sense, it's terrifying when you realize how frail it is at best. the reality is that people used to like the airline industry. >> this is, i think, you know, we're so used to the idea of we're going to be sit on these planes and we're not going to have any meals or our flights are going to get delayed. but the fact is think about the glory days of flying in the sky. think about the late 1960s. i wasn't alive back then, but my mother tells me it was quite nice to fly. and when you look at the favorable view of the airline industry, it was well into the '60s. compare that to now when we're in the '20s. we're basically losing a favorable rating of about a

point of the airline industry every single year. >> i'm just curious what has a 67% rating in this country of favorability right now. >> doctors and nurses are pretty much. >> so what keeps customers coming back? >> the prices are so inexpensive. that's what keeps people coming back. compare it to where we were back in 1995. prices have dropped by nearly a third. >> even with the recent post-pandemic surge? >> yes, compared to 2019 it's dropped by about 8%. one of the fun things i like to do is try and find fun, interesting cheap flights. you can actually fly from trenton, new jersey, to atlanta. just $25 on frontier. >> wow. this saturday. >> this saturday if you want to go. you can visit the homeland down in atlanta. >> thank you so much, harry. trying to put a smile on what is and big picture, of course, a really disturbing thing that

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decision in this country. donie o'sullivan speaks to insiders about how this is being made. >> so, facebook has a big decision. >> she gets to go first. >> reporter: facebook is about to make one of the most consequential decisions in the company's history, should it let former president trump back on its platforms? >> in general i don't think it's right for a private company to censure politicians or the news. >> reporter: facebook banned him and said they would reassess the decision in two years. facebook says the decision is imminent. >> i had people to say to me you will do anything for a dollar. you don't care and quite the opposite was true, there was a lot of deliberation. >> reporter: a democrat and a republican here, both had senior jobs at facebook's offices in d.c. where they worked with politicians on using the platform. >> i think the decision to take trump off the platform was

overdue. we had a number of instances he posted things for any other user would have been in violation of our standards. when the looting starts, the shooting starts. >> reporter: did you think in that moment it was right to kick him off? >> i thought in that moment it was, in the lead-up to that moment i was still defending keeping hip on the platform because as horrible as some of the things that he posted, i still just couldn't get myself past the point that i thought that people deserve to know what the people that are representing them have to say. >> reporter: while trump's social media ban was welcomed by many in the u.s. it was criticized by free speech advocates. facebook says it is assessing the risk to public safety and risk of imminent harm and giving trump -- the barometers facebook has assessed in terms of figuring out if he should be allowed back on essentially what it is is the

mood, the feeling. >> it's a judgment call. i think it's very important to recognize that both of these decisions are going to have a ton of impactful consequences and it would be foolish to think that either way is an easy decision. >> reporter: whatever facebook decides will set a precedent for political speech on the platform. elon musk has already restored trump's twitter account although the former president hasn't tweeted yet. katie and crystal disagree on what facebook should do. >> this is where this mirrors a debate we'd probably have internally. >>ing looking at is there imminent violence happening which is different than incitement to violence. it's a nuanced type of approach so i don't necessarily see that happening. you don't see other january 6ths that have happened. >> i recognize katie is making a distinction between imminent and -- >> incitement. >> he is willing to use this platform to create that kind of energy and activity and i think that means he loses his privileges to have access to it. i also think there's been no shortage of hearing from him.

it's not like because he hasn't been on facebook or twitter that he's had any trouble getting his message out or had any trouble making sure people know how he feels about things. i don't think he's entitled to an account on there. >> tens of millions of americans voted for donald trump. for those tens of millions of mers they're going to say, facebook is a platform of censorship. >> they can still talk about donald trump and the election and have all that dialogue. >> i would be more inclined to let him back and then make sure they have a very clear set of criteria about what are the thresholds that require the company to either take down content or demote it or eventually take him off the platform again for what he is saying. i don't think it should take another january 6th level event in order to do that. >> reporter: erin, we know from speaking to folks at the company they are deliberating this right now. we're expecting to hear what they're going to do in the next few week, look, many people in the u.s. back in january 2021 saw as the tech executives did a

need to shut donald trump up. they thought he might incite more violence. but at the same time, because they were able to pull that rug from trump, politicians, some like angela merkel, former chancellor of germany and macron in france had issues with it and said these platforms shouldn't have as much power. this is going to be a decision watched really closely by world leaders around the globe. >> yeah, world leaders and all americans as we see -- >> washington, d.c. >> all right, donie, thanks to you very much. next nine days after suffering cardiac arrest on the field, buffalo bills safety damar hamlin is out of the hospital. i'll tell you what his doctors are saying right now. responds to both of you. our smart sleepers get 28 minutes more restful sleep per night. proven quality sleep. only from sleep number. welcome to my digestive system. with align probiotic. when your gut bacteria is out of balance. you may feel it but st one align daily helps promote a balanced gut and soothe occasional di.

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just look around. this digital age we're living in, it's pretty unbelievable. problem is, not everyone's fully living in it. nobody should have to take a class or fill out a medical form on public wifi with a screen the size of your hand. home internet shouldn't be a luxury. everyone should have it and now a lot more people can. so let's go. the digital age is waiting. just look around. this digital age we're living in, it's pretty unbelievable. problem is, not everyone's fully living in it. nobody should have to take a class or fill out a medical form on public wifi with a screen the size of your hand. home internet shouldn't be a luxury. everyone should have it and now a lot more people can. so let's go.

the digital age is waiting. finally tonight headed home, the buffalo bills announcing damar hamlin has been released from a hospital in buffalo. his condition improving. the bills tweeting a statement from his doctors saying, we are confident that damar can be deafly discharged to continue his rehabilitation at home and with the bills. some remarkable recovery for anyone including a 24-year-old who just over a week ago on monday night football was resuscitated on the field after his heart stopped. thanks so much for joining us. "a.c. 360" begins right now. good evening, we begin tonight keeping them honest with the congressman who cannot do the came for himself and the house leadership who so far won't do it fo