erin burnett: outfront breaking news, former vice president mike pence subpoenaed by the special counsel. we re getting new details into cnn this hour. we have the very latest as this story is breaking. plus, new video into cnn of russian brutality against their own soldiers. we have this video out russians running over their own dead and injured. and new questions tonight about congressman george santos. we have a new report saying he was charged with theft after a series of bad checks were written to dog breeders. a lawyer who has known him since middle school said he asked her to help fight the charges. let s go out front. good evening i m erin burnett. out front, subpoenaed. former mike pence has now been subpoenaed by the special counsel investigating donald trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. pence, of course, was at the center of trump s efforts to cling to power. trump repeatedly pressured his then vice president who, of course, was the one who wa
around the world. the search for survivors, is transitioning from rescue mission to recovery of the dead. we re live this hour. mike pence subpoenaed by the justice department. and the case of the suspected spy plan. the pentagon has released details about what they found inside. the world health organization is warning of a looming disaster of survivors of monday s earthquake in turkey and syria. people have been forced to the bitter cold, huddling around fires. and without proper sanitation and medal resources, the worth is yet to come. workers are making graves for the thousands that were killed. this makes this earthquake deadlier than the one in 1999. the search and rescue team is on the ground in turkey, setting up a tent camp and looking for survivors. turkey s foreign minister says his country has received offers of insistence from 16 world organizations. the world bank pledging $1.8 billion. no matter where you look, it doesn t seem to be enough. cnn s nick p
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almost all of his challengers continue to tiptoe around his growing pile of legal baggage. former congressman will hurd was the only candidate at the linner dinner in iowa who dared to call trump out. donald trump is running to stay out of prison. and if we elect [ boos ] i know. i know. i know. i know. i know. listen, i know the truth the truth is hard. cnn s kyung lah is on the campaign trail today with former vice president mike pence. how are iowans responding to the gop media blitz? reporter: well, i think you heard at least if there s any criticism like will hurd took at last night s dinner is that they weren t so welcoming. it is those types of comments that really this field is
is forcefully pushing back against president biden s very public criticism of president xi jinping at the state of the union. outfront now, will ripley who the about is in taiwan. reporter: fiery new rhetoric from china escalating the suspected spy balloon scandal. beijing blasting president joe biden for criticizing chinese president xi jinping. can you think of any other world leader who would trade places with xi jinping? not a joke. can you think of any who would? i can t think of one. this man has enormous problems. reporter: china says biden s remarks are highly irresponsible and violate basic diplomatic protocols. problems complicated by a growing pile of evidence, pieces of the downed balloon pulled from the sea off the carolina coast. proof the pentagon says china s weather balloon claim is nothing but hot air. a chinese foreign ministry spokesman says i have no