to overturn the election making a major move tonight. will pence cooperate? plus new reporting into upfront this hour. biden has a new obsession. the president zeroing in on a certain republican in florida. our phil mattingly reporting tonight. senator john fetterman still hospitalized tonight, after feeling light headed. it comes after he suffered a massive stroke last year. fellow stroke survivor and country music superstar randy travis is out front tonight to talk about his road to recovery. let s go up front. good evening, welcome to all, this is a special addition of out front tonight, i am erin burnett. you tonight, the special counsel with a major move. former vice president mike pence has been suspended. the special counsel jack smith calling it as part of his criminal investigation into trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. of course, pence was there that they and all the days before and after and on that day, the mob threatened to hang him, remember that? h
dear colleagues, your subcommittee could become part of a proud history of serious, bipartisan oversight, stretching from the teapot dome investigation to the boeing investigation to the watergate hearings to the tobacco hearings to the select committee on the january 6th attack. or you could take oversight down a very dark alley, filled with conspiracy theories and disinformation. a place where facts are the enemy and partisan destruction is the overriding goal. appears house republicans are going to go with the dark alley path. the first hearing for the subcommittee to investigate the, quote, weaponization of the federal government was nothing but grievance politics. meanwhile, in the senate, minority leader mitch mcconnell is trying to distance the party from a fellow republican senator. who could that be? it comes as president joe biden takes his post state of the union message to florida, keeping the focus on the fate of social security and medicare. and the admi
group, the russian army that is now dominating the battlefield. another outfront first. a young chinese woman who took on the country s strict covid policies posted video, if you are seeing this, i ve already been taken by police, and now she is missing. there are other fears that other young women may also be argued the. let s go outfront. good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, the breaking news, 42 rounds. that is how many shots were fired in the monterey park mass shooting that left 11 dead inside a dance studio. according to a press conference that just wrapped up moments ago. the l.a. county sheriff was there and answered questions about the motive behind the horrific attack, including rumors that it was committed due to jealous, relationship issues. here s what he said. we re hearing those things too, but have not confirmed any of that information. it s part of what our investigators are diligently looking into. so many questions tonight. here s w
plus a look ahead at what is expected to be one of the key political storylines of 2023. trump versus desantis. more on that ahead. we are going to start with some breaking news. kevin mccarthy set to hold a call with a gop conference in about an hour s time. he s facing some tough numbers in his fight for the house speaker. abc s ali roth joins me now from capitol hill. ali, what more can you tell us about your scoop. just about an hour from now, this big gop meeting. yeah, lindsay, my colleague haley talbot and i getting the scoop about an hour ago that really explains what kevin mccarthy is doing in these last two days before that make-or-break moment, the speaker s election on tuesday. sources are telling us that in less than an hour at 4 pm he s going to hold this call with members of the house gop caucus, really trying to solidify every last gop vote, every ounce of support he can be for that critical vote on tuesday. the last thing he wants to happen is for, is to no
and some of the most extreme far right members of the gop will have real power in the house thanks to kevin mccarthy s desperate deal making to become speaker. and also ahead, another tragic scene in ukraine. we ll have the latest on a deadly helicopter crash outside kyiv. good morning, and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, january 18th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we begin in washington where the white house is making efforts to tamp down criticism about a perceived lack of transparency in the classified documents case involving president biden. in a phone call with reporters yesterday, a spokesman and senior adviser fielded questions. and both republican and democratic lawmakers have called on the white house to explain why it took until this month to inform the public that classified material had been found at the penn biden center in washington, d.c. and the documents were discovered back in early november. when asked yesterd