cnn poll numbers show america s deep pessimism about the economy might be easing up. every hour 70% of americans don t want a biden/trump rematch. alan weisselberg on the verge of pleading guilty for if the second time. this time to a purge charge. donald trump creates a culture of lying. if you are associated with him, have to be very, very careful for taking a risk. four of the seven migrants charged. this attack last week on two new york police officers may be fleeing to mexico. what we re seeing is a collision of things that have deeply affected new york and the country. i wish he would have killed us instead. the mother of the oxford, michigan, shooter, defending herself. who is responsible for storing the gun. my husband is. good friday morning, top of the hour. i m phil mattingly in new york. a week that saw donald trump and joe biden squaring up for a likely new rematch. donald trump s lead is up four points, identical to what it was in the fall.
k c cnn this morning continues right now. good morning. it s friday, the top of the hour. in just a few hours, president biden and first lady and the secretary of defense will head to delaware to join grieving families of three american families killed in jordan and attend the dignified transfer of their remains at dover air force base. on thursday, the pentagon chief confirmed a multi-tiered response is coming. it s unclear when the u.s. plans to launch that retaliation. sources telling cnn, iran did appear to be surprised by the attack by the proxies. overnight, iran s president said he would not start any war but did vow to, quote, respond strongly to bullies. here we are again. this is coming the day the president signed the executive order targeting israeli settlers who attack palestinians. he is going to meet later today with the families of the fallen american soldiers. as he is navigating this at home as well and dealing with everything that s going on in the
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
The difference in 10, 20, 30 years is really not that big. from the standpoint of the uni universe, it s not that big. it s not certain which is a better way to die. incredible, no big deal if you die 30 years early, in a country average life expectancy is 59.8. that s a sick thing to say. imagine that, zero disregard for human life. in a moment i m going to speak to the russian investigative journalist a regular here on our show who his new reporting on how many russian soldiers are now turning to god. in fact, he says russia is now naming battalions after saints and russian media bizarrely claims once the battalion name got changed people stopped dying. first, fred pleitgen is out front on the ground. mercenaries in brutal battles around bakhmut in eastern ukraine. among the assault force, convicts, charging in waves, suffering devastating losses. wagner praises his groups