newsroom and good to have you with us, i m erica hill. i m jim sciutto, and soon former vice president pence could be answering questions, because he has been subpoenaed, and what the special council is wanting to learn from him and what it could mean in terms of executive privilege. and plus another major review in tennessee after the death of tyre nichols, and the shelby county district attorney is expected to review all prior cases involving those five officers is charged for their role in nichols death, and what that could mean. and if the death toll continues to rise in turkey and syria and we are hearing of remarkable stories of survival and one girl survived after 107 hours under the rubble, and hope is understandably dimming in hopes of finding survivors as the crews continue their search there. we begin this hour with vice president pence who is under investigation in regard to former president trump, and so, in regard to this subpoena, what does the white hous
hello, and welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing your day with us. right now the fbi is at mike pence s indiana home trying to track down any classified documents that perhaps went home with the former vice president. it happens as pence also grapples with the big subpoena from the special counsel investigating donald trump. plus, ready or not, joe biden holds off on formally announcing he s running again but says he feels good about how the voters feel about him. and the death toll in turkey and syria now get this north of 22,000. countless souls remain under the rubble. hope in short supply as survivors grapple with what s next and with what they ve lost. translator: we are four families staying in this vehicle now. thank god we came out fine. but the buildings we live in are uninhabitable now. not only us but all the entire neighborhood we live in is like that. my whole family died. my father, mother, brother, sister, an
the state of the union exists to eternity to some degree for all of these republicans. i think that s why the state of the union was so critical for the president on this issue itself. he s been talking about rick scott s plan since april of last year. like three weeks after it came out. democrats would say we don t really nobody knows who rick scott is, why are you so focused on this. now everybody knows the plan, and everybody knows who it is. 30 million people who watch plus, whoever s watching on streaming, thank you. they know this is elevated to a level where it is a national conversation. that s exactly where the white house wants it to be, especially because they have the where the white house wants it to be if you re a good government person out there thinking, wait, social security, medicare do have solvency issues, they have to be dealt with. that s usually done with a bipartisan commission. what all this means is we re going to go through at least one more preside
not the republican plan. and that s the view of the speaker of the house, as well. i mean, it s just a bad idea. i think it will be a challenge for him to deal with this in his own re-election in florida, a state with more elderly people than any other state in america. our great reporters back at the table. you can say i disagree with his plan or say that which is secretary generally it s a bad idea which is that it s essentially a bad idea. and almost saying senator scott has a bad campaign. bad blood. it s interesting, i was in the state of the union on tuesday, and we ve been talking with republicans accusing president biden of lying about what republicans have floated and then all the receipts that have posted in the days since, including the rick scott plan which is still on the internet. it has been changed, and he has said he wants to sunset legislation including social security and medicare, and it s not popular, it doesn t poll
repeatedly expressed support for privatizing social security and medicare. this is when he was a tea party conservative and he had the backing of the top grass roots and even donald trump endorsed him, and basically the paul ryan plan that many of us remember was a huge political issue in this race. he very fully embraced this plan. you know, the government would basically subsidize for seniors either to go out to get a private plan or to have a traditional medicare plan, and the democrats called it a voucher, and republicans called it a premium support system, and it is basically the same thing. let s take a listen to what desantis said in one of those interviews. i would not change social security and medicare for the people on the program or near retirement at 55 and over, just because i think that there are settled expectations there, and there are proposals like paul