erin burnett: outfront breaking news, former vice president mike pence subpoenaed by the special counsel. we re getting new details into cnn this hour. we have the very latest as this story is breaking. plus, new video into cnn of russian brutality against their own soldiers. we have this video out russians running over their own dead and injured. and new questions tonight about congressman george santos. we have a new report saying he was charged with theft after a series of bad checks were written to dog breeders. a lawyer who has known him since middle school said he asked her to help fight the charges. let s go out front. good evening i m erin burnett. out front, subpoenaed. former mike pence has now been subpoenaed by the special counsel investigating donald trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. pence, of course, was at the center of trump s efforts to cling to power. trump repeatedly pressured his then vice president who, of course, was the one who wa
so, john, trump has been extremely vocal, right, about his anger against trump for certifying the election on january 6th. again and again and again, right? this is a matter of public record, just to remind everybody, rights of what trump said and how crucial pence was in this moment under investigation. here is trump. i think mike has been very badly hurt by what took place with respect to january 6th. i think he s been i think he s been mortally wounded frankly because i see the reaction he s getting from people. why didn t you just hand it back to the legislatures. why didn t you and there s about countless where that came from, john. but does it matter at this point now you have pence subpoenaed in the special counsel investigation into trump. does trump s public ire and enhimty over this issue and pence s behavior matter? well, it does matter. it shows trump s intent.
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Baer matter as americans behavior matter as americans watch to decide how they see this east way? yeah either way? yeah, the house judiciary committee is known for its theatrics. we ve seen this over the last couple of months. the last hearing we saw from them was pretty much without a lot of the theatrics that we know of. you know, in the past month that committee has been described as a circus, and we didn t really see that last week. so, you know, this next hearing on monday, i think all eyes are going to be on the committee again. it s going to be a little different of a hearing, sort of giving like a cliff notes version of both of these reports for republicans and democrats. we know right now that democrats are meeting to kind of have a mock hearing and sort of prepare for the unexpected and the expected arthel: well, they also have to prepare to make it interesting. [laughter] yeah, that s very, very true. i mean, we ve heard hours and hours and hours of testimony, an
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