illusive deal. senators race to find an immigration compromise before christmas. we are making significant progress. and how will president biden balance the needs on the border with pushback from his own party. a return to failed trump era policies is not the solution. plus, abortion struggle. a case in texas hits a nerve. any comment on the kate cox decision in your state? senator cruz? do you support that kate cox decision? could republicans coalesce behind a coherent message. and impeachment saga. the gop plows ahead as hunter biden strikes back. there is no fairness or descentency in what these republicans are doing. and new reporting on the threat that speaker johnson faces from the right. we have to go back to doing things the right way. today was a abysmal failure. inside the corridors of power, inside politics sunday starts now. good morning, and welcome to inside politics sunday. i m manu raju. it is been a busy weekend on capitol hill. w
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
no right to my testimony. that was mike pence last year talking about the january 6th committee which never sent him a subpoena, but now he is facing one this time from the special counsel investigating former president trump s role in the attack on the capitol. meanwhile on capitol hill the first hearing for the select committee on the weaponization of government goes pretty much exactly as you would expect with republicans hitting their usual list of grievances. and also ahead the state department releases new details about the chinese surveillance balloon. it comes as a prominent republican defends the response from the biden administration. good morning, and welcome to way too early on this friday, february 10th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. former vice president mike pence has been subpoenaed by the special counsel investigating donald trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. according to an nbc news source, pence s subpoena
the s&p 500 losing 17 #, the nasdaq fell 633. all of this was sparked by new numbers indicating inflation is not going anywhere but up. any time soon it appears. food prices, other essentials, skyrocketing in the latest cpi report. consumer colonel not far behind. and the president, who is boasting about having inflation under control is facing criticism tonight. we will talk with democratic senator joe manchin in just a moment but, first, white house correspondent jacqui heinrich starts us off live from the north lawn. good evening, jacqui. good evening to you, bret. either the white house expected far better numbers or the person who planned this party had an unfortunate scheduling oversight. gathering democratic lawmakers on a sweltering south lawn on the same day a new inflation reading came in hotter than expected. while the stock market plummeted, james taylor played a song about death on the white house south lawn you can sing this song when i m gone. the day
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