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
you? i know you ve got jack smith overseeing multiple things, right, one of which is the classified documents at mar-a-lago. this is specifically january 6th, right, the criminal probe into the former president of the united states. so the fact that he is subpoenaing pence in that probe at this time, does that signal something to you about where jack smith, the special counsel, is headed? it does. it signals and suggests that he s nearing an end stage. you only go to pence after you ve already establish what had the other witnesses are going to say so that it can be the most informed back and forth in terms of what they say and ask him with the grand jury that they have as much visibility and information when they re asking him those kinds of questions. they already know some of the answers to those questions they can verify where he s coming from. he is the grand pubah that you would only reach out to him after everything is said and done. it s a strong sign that jack smith is reach
this fbi investigation, and democrats are looking around. they see her terrible poll numbers. they see a lot of her liabilities. the fact that she can t necessarily effectively talk about some of what they view as their best themes, income inequality and they re concerned about not just, by the way, the servers and the e-mails, but the foundation questions and ear ethical baggage. the question is as jason states it, does somebody else get in. does barack obama decide to start distancing himself from her? does some grand pubah in the party call her out? which case all of this could tumble down. who is going to do this? he would have a terrible time beating her. wee have to organize late. john kerry may get in after he wins the nobel peace prize later this fall for the iran deal. that s the only real plausible threat to her, don t you think? absolutely. look, she s trying to reassemble barack obama s new coalition