Phil mattingly will join us now. So, phil, President Biden continues to give pushback, for the Price Tag of these plans. He continues to press ahead anyway. What is he going to say today . Reporter obviously the debate is ongoing, and nascent stages when it comes to the 4 Thrill Onin Infrastructure and economic proposals hes put On The Table for his agenda. Today is about looking into. Theres a reason it applies. As victor was noting, this is about a new program that rolled out on monday. It was part of the is. 9 Trillion Relief Package signed into law a few months ago, about 28. 6 billion for the industry that was cratered. More than 22 Billion revenue lost due to the pandemic. This was specifically tailored for the restaurant. The response has been more than 186,000 applications in its first two days since opening. Obviously the president wants to highlight that and the implementation of what is up to now its cornerstone achievement, but theres a broader purpose as well. When it come
but so far there are none. appreciate your time today and all week on inside politics. hope to see you on monday. have a nice weekend. abby fphillip picks up our coverage right now. a very good friday to you. i m abby phillip in washington. thank you for joining us. an fbi search, a subpoena for former vice president mike pence. right now the feds are searching pence s indiana home for any additional classified documents that may still be there. the move was expected as pence s team has pledged full cooperation with the investigation, and we are also learning that a second location may be searched, as well. pence has also been hit with a subpoena in the criminal investigation of former president trump s role in the capitol insurrection. pence was a key eyewitness and a key victim of the events on and around january 6th. and the special counsel wants to hear all about his interactions with his former boss during that time. cnn is tracking both of these stories. what are we
Because as we have learned, the u.s. has also managed to see a number of these balloons crossing over five different continents, as many as 40 of these balloons across five continents. tracking them would be a lot harder if not impossible if they did not have this very specific method that they developed only in the last year. really fascinating reporting. thank you for that. turning now to the war in ukraine. russia is escalating attacks with missile strikes hammering much of that country. several regions of the country have been left without power today. but russia s launch of an overpowering spring offensive seems to have not materialized, at least not yet anyway. joining us is retired u.s. army major mike lyons. major lyons, thanks for being here. so it doesn t appear right at this moment that russia has begun this spring offensive. do you think that it is still coming? hi, abby. i do. what the russians are doing
Office. abby? yeah. it raises some serious questions about how far how far this goes within that memphis police department. thank you for following all of this for us. reporter: you bet. and a defibrillator saved damar hamlin s life when his heart stopped on that football field, but some high school athletes in that same situation may not be so lucky. the results of a cnn investigation up next. what if it had happened a few miles away from here? it would have been a totally different outcome. you can do cpr until you re blue in the face, and it s never going to restart the heart.
Negotiation and dialogue with his legal team. so it s not something where the justice department is serving the subpoena out of the blue to surprise him or anything like that. they ve been in dialogue with his team. they obviously had gotten sort of as far as they could with where he was comfortable in gauging and potentially a voluntary way. and sometimes a subpoena can be issued because the recipient actually would prefer to be compelled. so in this circumstance i just want to raise that as a possibility, abby, that this may not this move by the justice department to serve the subpoena may not be as adversarial as it might appear. it might be that this way the former vice president can testify, he can do so under oath, and he can do so in a way that he is as a matter of fact and also can say that he s following the rule of law. he is responding to a law enforcement demand for his information. that s a really good point.