Morning today, President Biden is heading to Florida And Georgia to see Helenes Devastation firsthand that visit comes as the Homeland Security Secretary gives this dire warning we are meeting the immediate needs with the money that we have. We are expecting another hurricane hitting. We do not have the funds. Fema does not have the funds to make it through the season your that right. Were also getting this exclusive new video of asheville, North Carolina Power lines and equipment still scattered everywhere, houses crushed by trees as Power Poles dangerously lay across lines Coming Up. Ill speak with people in charge of a Food Bank and an Animal Shelter are still helping their communities even as they recover. Good morning. You are live in the cnn newsroom. Im Jim Acosta in washington new evidence from special counsel, Jack Smiths office, the unsealed brief weighing in and add more than 165 pages provides perhaps the clip heroes picture. Yet of smiths 2020 Election Case against former
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
his folks said no. they saw him as a co-conspirator potentially but he didn t play along. the secret service plot, again, in that kind of witness interview, they re going to ask him, were you just suspicious, fearful, or did you know? had someone told you there s someone on the team that might try to do your harm? they re already outside. was there an inside plot? there s a big difference between i was being careful and fearful, and no, i had evidence that there were people inside the u.s. government potentially, allegedly, trying to close the circle on the coup plot. and charles coleman, let me bring you in on this same point. because mike pence seemed to know something, because he went to the trouble of going to a previous vice president of the united states to ask him if it was legal, if it was feasible in any way for him to participate in saying no to the elector slate that was being presented to him. he did check on that. so he had some knowledge and