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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 ....
ukraine. the lead with jake tapper starts right now. welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper. we start with breaking news, the united states military has taken down another high-altitude object flying over the united states this afternoon. the white house announced the object was shot down at 1:45 p.m. eastern time at the direction of president biden. u.s. officials say it was flying off alaska s northern coast at an altitude of 40,000 feet and was approximately the size of a small car. as of now, the administration is not offering many more details than that. we re calling this an object because that s the best description we have right now. we do not know who owns it, whether it s it s state owned or corporate owned or privately owned. we just don t know. the context, of course, is crucial. last saturday, less than a week ago, the u.s. military shot down what the biden administration says was a chinese surveillance balloon. they did this off the coast of the ....
committee evidence that he played a central role in a widespread plot to overturn the election. today lashing out at the panel without saying how he will respond to their subpoena. more behind the scenes footage of nancy pelosi and republican leaders while the rioters were running through the capitol to make sure the electoral count would survive the insurrection. tonight s debate in georgia. the first face-off between herschel walker and senator raphael warnock, with control of the senate hanging in the balance. joining me here, pennsylvania democratic candidate for governor josh shapiro on his race with republican election denier and january 6 protester at the capitol doug mastriano. fred guttenberg, the father of jamie, one day after a florida jury recommended the killer get life in prison, not the death penalty. good day, i m andrea mitchell in washington. the fallout from another january 6 hearing. including donald trump s reaction this morning. questions a ....
have because we won the state. tomorrow s hearing comes amid new and promising polling for the investigative committee. the marriage of americans now say they believe the former president should be charged with some sort of crime for his role in the insurrection. there is the polling right there. six in ten also say the panel has carried out a fair and impartial investigation so far. and the committee sights are still on two big names, including former vice president mike pence. they say subpoenaing pence is not off the table. and he also has eyes on the wife of justice clarence thomas. well, we want to know what she knows, what her involvement was in this plot to overturn the election. she has said that she is willing to come in and testify voluntarily. we re glad to hear that. joining me now is capitol hill correspondent ali vitale, want political investigate every reporter and msnbc legal analyst paul butler. everybody welcome. these hearings have been gang buste ....
You? i know you ve got jack smith overseeing multiple things, right, one of which is the classified documents at mar-a-lago. this is specifically january 6th, right, the criminal probe into the former president of the united states. so the fact that he is subpoenaing pence in that probe at this time, does that signal something to you about where jack smith, the special counsel, is headed? it does. it signals and suggests that he s nearing an end stage. you only go to pence after you ve already establish what had the other witnesses are going to say so that it can be the most informed back and forth in terms of what they say and ask him with the grand jury that they have as much visibility and information when they re asking him those kinds of questions. they already know some of the answers to those questions they can verify where he s coming from. he is the grand pubah that you would only reach out to him after everything is said and done. it s a strong sign that jack smith is reach ....