moscow where putin spent this morning trying to justify his war in ukraine to the russian people. you know, keir, for his part, president biden seemed to speak directly to the russian people, saying putin chose this war. the west was never planning to attack russia, but my understanding is russian tv didn t air biden s speech. so what did the russian people hear from their president? reporter: for president putin, it was an uncompromising and at times, hard to comprehend speech, chris. he used the word, war, a number of times and folks who pay close attention will know that s usual for putin. he calls the invasion of ukraine his special military operation and described this as a war with the west. a war for russia s survival. suppose you could say in that one respect, one word, there was agreement between president biden and putin. the word war. and i suppose you could also say some agreement that this is more now than a conflict over territory. it s a conflict over ideas.
cnn this morning starts right now. [ clapping ] that was a woman waving to the crowd rescued after 92 hours in rubble. her mother pulled out just a short time later. good morning, everyone. these are just a few miraculous earthquake stories coming out. the truth is that hope for survivors is fading fast. families in syria and turkey bracing for the inevitable. they may never be reunited with their loved ones as the death toll nears 22,000. former vice president mike pence subpoenaed in the special counsel overseeing mr. trump s role in the insurrection. will he invoke executive pruf le doctor privilege. and what he said about desantis and donald trump and more. we re going to go to syria. hope is turning into dispair. the death toll topped 22,000. rescues shifting to recovery four days after the catastrophic earthquake. families facing a grim reality they will likely never see their loved ones alive again. we ve seen desperate heart broken family members join the sear
we begin in memphis. the parents of tyre nichols are demanding justice as they prepare to bury their son. the funeral hours from now. you are looking at live pictures now from memphis. a church where the service will be held. the nation still reeling from the horrific video of police officers beating and kicking him and there is new developments this morning to tell you about. cnn has obtained the initial police report which was much different from what we saw on that video. cnn has also learned that the city of memphis is preparing to release more videos. civil rights leaders, the vice president mike pence set to attend the funeral. last night tyre s family spoke at the sanctuary where the dr. mart hear martin luther king gave his speech the eve of his as says nation. protect my wife. she is fragile right now. we need that. trust me. we got to stay strong for her. so justice for tyre. justice for tyre! justice for tyre! to begin our coverage we bring in shimon prokup
top of the hour. a busy wednesday morning. we begin with breaking news this morning. cnn has learned that the fbi conducted a search at president biden s home in rehoboth beach, delaware. the search taking place this morning as a special counsel investigation into the president s handling of classified material picks up. mj lee is at the white house. paula, what more can you tell us about this search. was it expected? sfwlr it was absolutely expected. back when the classified documents were discovered in the office, his attorneys went and also searched his two homes. one in will mington. they say they did discover classified materials at his wilmington home, but they did not uncover any at this property. once this baim the subject of a special counsel investigation, ten days ago the fbi conducted its own search of the wilmington house. it lasted 13 hours and did uncover additional classified materials. so it was very much expected that the fbi would also go back to the reho
newsroom and good to have you with us, i m erica hill. i m jim sciutto, and soon former vice president pence could be answering questions, because he has been subpoenaed, and what the special council is wanting to learn from him and what it could mean in terms of executive privilege. and plus another major review in tennessee after the death of tyre nichols, and the shelby county district attorney is expected to review all prior cases involving those five officers is charged for their role in nichols death, and what that could mean. and if the death toll continues to rise in turkey and syria and we are hearing of remarkable stories of survival and one girl survived after 107 hours under the rubble, and hope is understandably dimming in hopes of finding survivors as the crews continue their search there. we begin this hour with vice president pence who is under investigation in regard to former president trump, and so, in regard to this subpoena, what does the white hous