february 11th, i m stan stein, filling in for my friend ali velshi. we begin this hour with the latest signs at the justice department s investigation into donald trump s escalating and shifting to a more advanced stage. on thursday, nbc news learned that former vice president mike pence was subpoenaed by jack smith, the special counsel appointed by attorney general eric garland, to handle the justice department investigation in the january six. and donald trump s handling of classified documents. the subpoena was filed between pence s legal team and the doj. it s taking a hard look at the scheme to mistake electors to falsely declared trump the winner of the election in states that joe biden actually won. in december, just about a month after he was appointed, smith subpoenaed local officials in the spring state, the trump team targeted in effort to overturn the results. trump it had his way, would ve paid a critical role. which is why this subpoena is a significant mileston
getting supplies into the city. it may make their position unsustainable. sam, the big question here is who s side s time on. right? the russians are hoping that they have such in advance, such manpower that if they can keep up this grinding fight, if they can wear ukrainians down that that will work out for them, ukrainians are hoping that if they can just hold on they re gonna get those nato weapons, beginning with western battle tanks, german leopard 2 tanks, onto the battlefields they re hoping that will produce a major advantage for them for them. i ll tell you the one year anniversary of this warm, is looming heavily over both sides. sam. i imagine, thank you so, much nbc raf sanchez s, live from kharkiv ukraine. we appreciate it. this time next week we ll be back in ukraine to mark one year from the russian invasion, will host this show and the primetime hours next week. live from ukraine, starting
died while underground. but this is just absolutely amazing to watch, and it astonished me, because what would ve been hearing from experts sam was at 72 hours is the golden window when you can expect to still find people alive. but stories like that give rescue workers hope. and that is why we are still, today, as a couple of minutes ago, hearing these rescue workers telling everyone to be quiet. because they still expect to hear voices from underneath the rubble just like those people that we re hearing when i first got here to turkey on monday. sam. nbc s matt bradley, live from turkey, thank you for your invaluable reporting on this unfolding tragedy. switching now to other matters, don t call it a balloon, but the u.s. has shot down a second high altitude object. we will speak with former ambassador of china or, gary, lock on the potential implications of it. this is velshi. s velshi ber.
its attacks on ukraine s already battered infrastructure ahead of the one year anniversary of the invasion. yesterday explosions were heard across ukrainian capital of kyiv, officials say they targeted several high voltage facilities, disrupting the country s power supply. we now know that president biden will be returning to the region at the end of the month, to mark the one year since the start of the war. the president will arrive in poland on february 20th, and spend a few days meeting with leaders, including polish president. joining me now live from ukraine is nbc news foreign correspondent, ralph sánchez, let s start with the pace of russia s winter offensive. what are you seeing about it and what does it mean for the future months? sam, we re seeing the russians attacking in a slow grinding way along some 800