very good friday morning to you, i m jim sciutto. friday, not a day too soon. i m erica hill. good to have you with us this morning. a significant milestone to tell but in the justice department s two-year criminal investigation into the january 6th insurrection. former vice president mike pence subpoenaed by the special counsel investigating former president donald trump and his role in the attack on the capitol. just ahead, we will take you closer look at what kind of information the special counsel and what to get from the former vp. plus in the midst of so much devastation there are at least a few miraculous stories of survival in turkey after that massive earthquake. a family of six, two parents and their four children, together, lifted from the rubble after being buried for nearly 102 hours. hope for finding more people alive dwindling, though. the death toll has climbed above 22,000 people. those who survived are facing a secondary disaster. the humanitarian x-cris
joining us live. but first, this fox news alert. two interviews and a primetime speech, but a week of talk from president biden only serving to raise new questions. one was about the chinese surveillance craft. the president brushing off its significance and risk after it loitered across the nation just last week. john: president biden claiming the violation of u.s. air space was not a major breach of national security, yet it traveled thousands of miles over some military sites and collected information from the ground to above. and capable of collecting communications and sending them straight back to china. sandra: a far cry to portray it as no big deal, just a balloon. a lot to unpack as america reports rolls into a second hour here. another busy news afternoon on a friday. sandra smith in new york. great to be with you. john: john roberts in washington, good to be with you, sandra. the president getting attention for trying to downplay the classified document
The now muddy nevada desert. Plus, an escaped killer on the loose. The search intensifying after a convict was caught on a home surveillance video. And ukraines fired Defense Minister, president zelenskyy sacking him in the middle of crucial counteroffenses. Hi there, welcome to a special Holiday Edition of early start. Im david culver. We start with what is anything but a relaxing Holiday Weekend for Tens Of Thousands of people at the burning Manifest Value in the nevada desert. They are trapped in a sea of mud out there this morning. What a mess out there. Theyre waiting for organizers to give the allclear to exit the site. That is expected to happen sometime today. Amid a downpour friday and saturday transformed the Dry Desert Dirt into thick claylike mud that traps bikes and organizers alike. Organizers asked the attendees to shelter in place and shelter and food. And also plans to set fire to the iconic Burning Man Effigy in tonight. Police out there are investigating one death at
you get grit, vision, and the creativity to guide you through a changing world. this morning we are learning pentagon and state department officials believe chinese president xi jinping may not have known about beijing s suspected spy balloon and its mission.
object, but what they know about the balloon and the fact that it s part of this massive fleet that s, you know, covered over 40 countries across five continents, they are confident this was used for surveillance and not for weather. picking that thing up off the ocean floor will be a big step for investigators. thanks so much. joining us now washington post columnist josh rogin, the author of chaos under emp: trump, xi, and the battle for the 21st century. first, if i can, to the sits of this. you do have two fundamentally different views, that this is an escalation both in terms of china s capabilities but also the willingness to challenge the u.s. on its soil and the other view as you heard from president biden that this is not a significant jump beyond what it and other countries already do. what s your view? right, well, it s very clear, jim, that the biden administration is working hard to down play this incident because they want to resume their previously pursued path