search teams desperately digging through the earthquake rubble and praying for miracles. plus former vice president subpoenaed, what could mike pence tell the special counsel about trump and january 6. and the fight over america s social safety net, both sides ignoring the cold hard truth, not touching it is not an option. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. this is early start. and we begin with the earthquake disaster in turkey and syria where they are clinging to hope that survivors can still be found alive but that hope fading with each passing hour. but there are miraculous stories. overnight two teenage sisters were pulled from the rubble. and the staggers death toll now approaching 22,000, the number of injured in these two countries near 80,000. and salma abdelaziz is live in istanbul. and the story of the sisters is a heartwarming story amid all the tragedy. and now a secondary tragedy, many are forced in to the freezing cold. what i
a source saying after one instance in which justice department officials were in contact with mr. trump s team, boxes were moved in and out of the room. we re also monitoring the former president s evolving response to this search. he now says the documents taken fall under attorney client privilege and that he wants them back immediately. let s begin with cnn senior crime and justice reporter kaitlin. a lot of developments and things that moved quickly since last monday. tell us what the latest is in this investigation. jim and bianna, one of the most important things we ve learned since we saw the search warrant, in june we have more of what happened that led up to this. in june a lawyer for former president donald trump did attest in writing to the justice department that there would be no more classified documents that could be found at mar-a-lago. at that time, the justice department was subpoenaing everything they had trying to get it back. still, the justice depart
system by adding additional disqualifying items. if we re serious about finding common ground and building consensus, those sorts of things will stand no chance of passing the senate. a lot there of what they won t do. that is john cornyn of course chief negotiator for the republicans in these bipartisan talks on a gun safety deal. a limited deal to be clear, but one that is now building momentum in the wake of the uvalde school massacre. so what is off the table? raising the minimum age to buy a semi automatic weapon like an ar-15. but republicans say that they looking at changing criminal background checks to include essentially scouring the juvenile records which would create an enhanced waiting period. so what is on the table? creating incentives for states to pass red flag laws, those are the laws that when actually used properly can keep guns out of the hands of people deemed a danger to themselves or others about also at issue, improving the background check system t
Picking his running mate. Trump spent wednesday in meetings and phone calls with the finalists. Talking with Chris Christie on the phone. Stuck in indianapolis, allegedly, because of a blown tire on his plane. He spent extra time with governor mike pence. They had dinner on tuesday, breakfast on wednesday. Jeff sessions flew from washington for an audience with the presumptive nominee. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich decided he better get to indianapolis too. He asked for this meeting in indianapolis. He says he now believes the competition is down to a twoman race. I would say that he clearly, i think, is down to two as he hinted in talking to bret baier. Mike pence is a great personal friend. We worked together over the years. He had a fine career in the u. S. House. He ended up as the fourth ranking republican in the house. He was a very good governor. At the same time mike is a good friend of mine. He would be similarly glowing if he was on the show talking about me. I think tru
President elect donald trump hit the next stop on the thank you tour in wisconsin. He turned a rally in wisconsin into a lovefest, praising onetime adversary paul ryan, speaker of the house. It wasnt all kumbaya. The president elect waited for his next nominee, Rex Tillerson. He will face a battle in the Senate Confirmation over his ties to russia. Cnns jim accoosta has the late. Reporter george and christine, donald trump has taken another lap. Trump praised tillersons contacts around the world but he did not mention tillersons past ties to russian president Vladimir Putin. Trump also looked back to his election victory and thanks his biggest supporters here in the state of wisconsin including House Speaker paul ryan who he praised in an unusual way. Heres more of what he had to say. Speaker paul ryan, ive really come to oh, no, ive come to appreciate him. Speaker paul ryan. Where is the speaker . Where is he . He has been ill tell you, he has been terrific. You know honestly, hes lik