good day, i m chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. as we come on the air, former vice president mike pence finds himself at the heart of two special counsel investigations unfolding simultaneously. one into classified documents that the fbi is searching for at his home literally as we speak. he s also facing a brand new subpoena regarding donald trump s pressure campaign to overturn the 2020 election. will he testify, and if so, could that be the key to criminal charges agains the former president? look at this extraordinary video out of southern turkey. a woman buried for 108 hours pulled from the rubble of a collapsed building. but accounts of survivors like her are few and far between with the death toll soaring over 22,000. this morning a representative with the u.n. refugee agency said more than 5 million may have been left homeless in syria alone. i ll talk to him live coming up. plus, a stunning new admission from one of those memphis police o
public outreach to state officials to try to get them to overturn their election results. the gop electors are on the governor s certificate. i m not going to get into a political debate. reporter: the investigation also discovered a nearly 23-minute phone call between someone at the white house and john eastman on the same day the conservative attorney wrote a now infamous memo laying out how pence could block the certification of the electoral college vote. state election officials ignored or violated state law in order to put vice president biden over the finish line. we know there was fraud. reporter: the call came after eastman emailed a trump assistant that he wanted to talk to trump to update him on our overall strategic thinking. trump latched onto this theory and used it to press his reluctant vice president in the days leading up to january 6th. mike pence is going to have to come through for us. reporter: the committee is also calling for lawyers
to you in real life. you are, okay. we re going to need another chair over here. bring mine from here. rachel, as you know, i am crippled with a boston accent. rip pronunciation across the board is wicked hard for me. you ve been saying ultra all day, and i just heard you say, ultra, there is something? it comes at also add some people say it. i ll throw or ultra, as long as people don t know they are talking about light beer, it s fine. i am ultra excited to be talking to you about that, because i listened this morning when america got his first chance to listen to the podcast. i still don t know why it s called ultra. that s one of my questions. i have just been dying to talk to you about it all day, and we will talk about some other stuff here, for a few minutes, i ll be right there. to make your way through the building and get over here we have to get a chair. i ll see you in a minute, thank you, thanks lawrence. donald trump has confessed. he confe
talking about you. i listen this morning when america got its first chance to listen to the podcast. i still don t know why it s called ultra that s one of my questions. i have just been dying to talk to you about it all day, and we will talk about some other stuff here, for a few minutes, i ll be right there. to make your way through the building and get over here we have to get a chair. i ll see you in a minute, thank you, thanks lawrence. donald trump has confessed. he confessed. this weekend, the appropriately titled case of donald j trump versus the united states of america took a turn that no tv drama writer whatever rights because it is so absurd, and the prosecutor would never expected, because nothing like it has ever happened before. happened before. in decades of tv drama and movies, we have seen the criminal suspect worn down by clever police interrogation, or prosecutor cross-examination to the point where the suspect defiantly gives up and could fast
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