On Front next, Don Lemon Live on why Elon Musk is telling him that his ex-contract is, quote,

canceled. The abrupt announcement after Lemon's wide-ranging interview with Musk. We now have never before

seen clips from that interview. What set Musk off? Plus, Putin's red line, the Russian dictator

directly threatening the United States

and again raising the possibility of using nuclear weapons as the U.S. is issuing a new warning

about Putin and nooks. And Senator Katie Britt tonight defiant speaking out today about her

misleading State of the Union story and the new attention she's getting, whether she wants it or not.

Let's go out front.

And good evening, I'm Erin Burnett.

Out front tonight, Elon Musk tells Don Lemon, quote,

contract is canceled, end quote.

Now in a moment, I'm going to speak exclusively with Don Lemon,

and he has clips of the nearly hour and a half interview with Musk.

Clips like this one that we received from Don's production team.

Don, the only reason I've done this interview is because you're on the X platform and you ask for it.

Otherwise, I would not do interview with this interview.

So you don't think, do you think that you wouldn't get in trouble or you wouldn't be criticized for these things?

I'm criticized possibly. I could care less.

We're going to have more clips from Lemon's interview with Musk in a moment.

In a statement earlier today, Lemon writes in part, quote,

there were no restrictions on the interview that he willingly agreed to.

We had a good conversation.

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