southwest airlines in the hot seat after that travel meltdown over the holidays. let me be clear. we messed up. norah: campaign of deceit, our in-depth look at disgraced congressman george santos. new questions tonight about his possible involvement in an alleged ponzi scheme. female top gun, the all-women flight crew kicking off this year s super bowl. and burt bacharach dies at 94. raindrops keep falling on my head norah: remembering the legendary composer. announcer: this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. norah: good evening to our viewers in the west. and thank you for joining us on this thursday night. there is breaking news that we are just getting in. cbs news has learned former vice president mike pence subpoenaed by the special counsel investigating former president donald trump. we ve got new details on that in just a moment. the other big story that is making international headlines, north korea
collapsed. desperate investors and their lawyers scrambled to madoff s east side offices friday looking for their money. they were turned away in the lobby. there has never been a ponzi scheme on the scale of madoff ever. we re talking thousands of people who thought that they had millions of dollars socked away for retirement, suddenly found out it was gone. rose and jack lass say they invested every penny of their savings with madoff. we started to sell our furniture, some of our things that we value, so that we should have some money immediately. then there s 91-year-old ian thiermann. he had to take a job at a grocery store after losing $700,000 to madoff. the human suffering that madoff caused, i don t think we can ever fully grasp. homes had to be sold, college educations truncated. people had to come out of retirement, go to work at whatever job they could get. and for those people, the madoff fraud is never going to be over. what may very well be the final steps o
feeling their pain. this is the biggest point drop that has ever been seen. we are in the midst of a serious financial crisis and the federal government is responding with decisive action. these guys have been gambling with the house money for years and it s our job to bail them out? the largest swindle in wall street history, and alleged 50 if you million dollar ponzi scheme by bernard madoff. you belong in jail, you criminal! the pardon is over.
which was kind of unfair and ann attempt to get money fromalle silicon valley and disguise the donorsd then poured into, s the election. remember, this is not it ne new law. we hadw. elizabeth holmes from theranos. she was a stanford person. h sholmes, e ran an eight billion dollar ponzi scheme. if you remember that big p hillary clintoonzin donor and yu diane feinstein, billionaire, has a chinese chauffeur for 20 years. our no consequences. barbara boxer, our senator fro m the same area. sha e wares a registered chinese foreign and was working with a t state company that helpedhat surveil the waggers. and then we get intot into the hypocrisy of nancy pelosi violating her own quarantinequ that she she championearantid, e her lectures on ice creas m and or twenty four thousand and or twenty four thousand i could go oren and on with the french laundry. gavin newsom, tom steyer, the stanford board trustee, one hundred ninety $1 millin.