understanding here. there s both sides have something at risk here. if you get the court involved in connection with the fight over a subpoena depending on the panel and depending on the time frame, it could take a long time to get vice president pence s testimony and he might be ordered to give more testimony than he might otherwise want to give. by the same token, it s possible for the justice department if they went forward with a court battle, might not get everything it wants. when you have a former official like this with claims to executive privilege but also made some given some to people that say he waved those claims because he wrote a book about it, there s an ability for each side to come out ahead and look a little better than they would have otherwise looked if they go and fight. so i think and hope this is a negotiated thing that happens relatively soon. and evan, do you think that is what is going to happen? what does this tell us about the timeline speaking with mi
happening now. another american community shattered by another mass shooting this time at a virginia walmart. the massacre days after the slaughter inside a colorado nightclub. we ll have new details on both cases this hour. also tonight, former president mike pence reportedly open to some testimony in the justice department s criminal probe of january 6th. this despite rejecting a similar request from the house committee investigating the insurrection. and in ukraine tonight, critical infrastructure once again taking a beating from russian attacks. several people are dead in the latest barrage including a newborn child. stand by for an exclusive cnn report from the war zone. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. wolf blitzer is off tonight. i m alex marquette and you re the situation room. we begin coverage tonight with heartbreaking new details on the massacre inside a
and so he doesn t really have that way to avoid this. i think also, it s been clear that the former vice president has, you know, certainly he had the option of trying to raise, you know, his executive privilege as vice president and he hasn t done that yet and so i think what you might expect is they ll figure out a way to arrange for him to answer perhaps some questions that he s already kind of gone over in his book and what we re told, alex, is that when he wrote the book and before he published the book, they envisioned that the justice department was going to come knocking. yeah, they knew this was coming. they knew it. evan perez, stay with us. i want to bring in our senior legal analyst prete. thank you for joining us. i want to ask you about how pence why pence might be inclined to comply with this criminal investigation because there s also the chance that former president trump tries to intervene. so what kind of legal fight could we see ahead?
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justice department s criminal probe into the january 6th insur insurrection. the doj is seeking testimony from former vice president mike pence and that pence is open to some level of cooperation. cnn senior justice correspondent evan perez is on the story for us. evi evan, what indications do we have pence could comply with the request? i think what you re hearing from people around the former vice president is that first of all, this is a criminal investigation and so he can t just reject out of hand a request from the prosecutors but they do, i think, want to reach some kind of accommodation where by, you know, they can negotiate for him to appear and provide some kind of interview. that would be the ideal way by perhaps they limit the questions he can answer. you know, of course, the former vice president just published a book in which he describes a lot of his interactions with the former president around this key