a source familiar with the matter tells nbc news smith is overseeing the dual probes involving pence s former boss regarding the classified documents trump took with him to mar-a-lago and the january 6th attack on the capitol. we do not know exactly why he has subpoenaed pence and if it is in reference to one or both of these probes but when a former vice president of the united states is subpoenaed, it is a big deal. according to abc news which was the first to report this news, it follows months of negotiations between federal prosecutors and pence s legal team. not surprising, but spokespeople for both the former vice president and the special counsel have declined to comment. joining me now is my colleague and anchor of the beat, ari melber. peter strzok, former fbi counterintelligence agent, and charles coleman, former prosecutor. ari, i m going to start with you. it is a big deal, but not a specifically big deal because we don t know exactly what these probes are abou
and unfortunately, all it takes is one tenth of 1% who decides they need to take up arms and as we have seen with attacks on fbi field offices, with threats to judges, this is not some idol supposition. that threat is real. it s occurring, and it s ongoing. and these hearings and the projected next two years of hearings are going to do nothing but fan that flame of the crazy edge who is willing to go out and engage in violence. if they wanted to do a legitimate weapon zashz of government hearing, you would have to do something about the january 6th scenario where you had trump s people trying to weaponize the doj, where you had an fbi agent who has now been arrested because he was participating in an attempted plot to set up hillary clinton. you have actual issues that the fbi has had. you know, the intercept story has a story about the fbi having paid a violent felon to infiltrate the racial justice movement in denver. you have issues with the new