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outfront next, pence subpoenaed. the special counsel investigating trump s efforts to overturn the election making a major move tonight. will pence cooperate. plus, new reporting. biden has a new obsession. the president zeroing in on a certain republican. and senator john fetterman still hospitalized tonight after feeling lightheaded. it comes after fetterman suffered a massive stroke last year. fellow stroke survivor randy travis is outfront tonight to talk about his road to recovery. let s go outfront. good evening. welcome to all. this is a special edition of outfront. i m erin burnett. new tonight, the special counsel with a major move. former vice president mike pence has been subpoenaed. special counsel jack smith calling in pence has part of his criminal investigation into trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. of course pence was there that day and in all the days before and after. and on that day, the mob threatened to hang him. remember that? and he w
to overturn the election making a major move tonight. will pence cooperate? plus new reporting into upfront this hour. biden has a new obsession. the president zeroing in on a certain republican in florida. our phil mattingly reporting tonight. senator john fetterman still hospitalized tonight, after feeling light headed. it comes after he suffered a massive stroke last year. fellow stroke survivor and country music superstar randy travis is out front tonight to talk about his road to recovery. let s go up front. good evening, welcome to all, this is a special addition of out front tonight, i am erin burnett. you tonight, the special counsel with a major move. former vice president mike pence has been suspended. the special counsel jack smith calling it as part of his criminal investigation into trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. of course, pence was there that they and all the days before and after and on that day, the mob threatened to hang him, remember that? h
on your wallet. president biden will announce a move to help keep energy prices down for americans less than three weeks before the all-important midterm elections. the president will announce the release of another 15 million barrels of oil from the strategic preserve. of course, in the past few days gas prices have been dropping in some areas but on average they re still up 17 cents a gallon from a month ago. of course, the cost at the pump factors into the economic worries voters will carry to the polls and could be a problem for democrats since they re the party in power. cnn s phil mattingly is at the white house. phil, what do we expect to hear from the president? you know, ana, not a lot of levers the president can pull in an international economy and global market like the oil market. this, what the president will announce is one of them. both an actual action, announcing the sale of another 15 million barrels from the strategic petroleum reserve but also in sending
united states authorizing this unprecented search? yeah, andrea, what o sources have told us about the search warrant that was executed is that it was it did specify that the fbi was going to be looking for claified information. and information from the president related to presidential records. but this is something that officials, not just in the fb but in the national archives as well has been dealing with over almost a year now. the bac and forth between trump s counc and the arcves started shortly after auguration, once they realized that there were items missing in the archives as they were going through the presidential records that they had. d 15 boxes were already picked up in january. that continues and there was more extended back and forth. d the only reason why archives hadn t stopped that process of continuing to recover additional items on top of these additional boxes of classified and presidential records is because classified information was found