shot down today as we re getting new information about what the biden administration does and does not know about the object. plus, florida governor ron desantis cracking down on election crimes. but is there really an election crime problem? guess what. we ve got the numbers and you will come to your own conclusion, i hope. and congressman george santos accused of mpaying for puppies with bad checks worth more than $15,000. i m going to talk to a reporter who spoke to the amish puppy breeders, who say they were scammed. he went and met them. let s go outfront. good evening. welcome to a special edition of outfront. i m erin burnett. tonight president biden giving the go-ahead for the u.s. military to take down another object hovering high above the u.s., this time over alaska. that object said to be about the size of a car. they said it was a threat to commercial aviation, passenger jets. tonight our phil mattingly is reporting one of the main reasons that president bi
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
national security interests and threats as best we can. thanks, admiral. real quick, is there a timeline for recovery of this object? you d have to talk to the pentagon, i don t know. guys, again, this just happened in the last hour and a half and they re still assessing where this thing landed and the degree to which they can get to it. on the poland visit, i know in the statement that you put out, it says that the president is going to meet with leaders of the eastern flank countries. are any other european leaders, nato leaders expected to join the president on this trip? we re still putting the agenda together. the predominant reason is to talk to those nations who are literally on the eastern flank of the nato alliance. but i can t rule in or rule out there may be additional attendees that the president may have. thanks very much. back to lula, is there going to be any commitment to the amazon fund by the united states during this visit? let s have the visi
a russian soldier is sentenced to life in prison in the first war crimes trial of this now three-month long invasion. the soldier admitted to killing one man but ukrainian president zelenskyy says as many as 100 ukrainians are now dying each day near the frontlines. we re tracking developments there, but first, let s go to japan where president biden is on the second leg of his trip to asia, and will ripley is in tokyo for us. will, the president wanted to send a strong message to china on this trip. but today a bit of a mixed message. yeah. and it certainly is a mixed message when it comes to the white house staffers but not a mixed message from president biden because as you mentioned, this is at least the third time he s publicly stated the united states would come to taiwan s defense militarily if thigh china were to attack. for more than 40 years the united states has had a policy of strategic ambiguity, leaving it an open question whether the u.s. would get involved m