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
hello and welcome to all of you watching us here in the united states, canada and all around the world. i m kim bruen herber. ahead on cnn newsroom. clinging to hope that survivors can still be found, trapped under the mountain of rubble in turkey and syria. well, the u.s. vice president, mike pence was subpoenaed by the special counsel investigating donald trump. what we learned from his testimony. and, russia s new offensive appears to be getting underway in zaporizhzhia s energy infrastructure among the targets. it is ten a.m. across turkey and syria with the death toll from monday s earthquake has now risen to more than 21,000. the hopes are fading that rescuers can find any more survivors. this is the scene in southern turkey, emergency crews blow their whistles when they hear noises under debris that call for silence. but the destruction is immense, an entire neighborhood reduced to rubble under the thousands of families left homeless. many are sleeping in their cars or
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
battlefield efficiency but now is sudden about face. we have completely discontinued the recruitment of prisoners into wagner pmc, he writes. those who work for us now are fulfilling all their obligations. ukrainian intelligence recently gave cnn access to two convicts recruited by wagner who the ukrainians captured on the front line. they said they were speaking with us willingly but we re disguising their identity for their own safety. they were 90 of us in our first assault, he said. 60 died in the first assault killed by mortar fire. a handful remained wounded. the men say they were cannon fodder but retreating was not allowed. we were given the task of taking a place and we had to take it at any cost, he says. we couldn t retreat without orders because if we didn t comply, we would be killed. four months personally went to russian jails with his offer even for murders and rapists,
ukrainian intelligence recently gave cnn access to two convictions recruited by wagner captured on the frontline. and they said that they were speaking willingly, but we re disfwizguising their identity. and he said 60 killed and a handful wounded. and that they were cannon fodder but retreating was not allowed. we were given the task of taking a place and we had to take it at any cost he says. and we couldn t retreat without ordering because if we didn t comply, we d be killed. and an offer even for murderers and rapists. fight six months in ukraine and if you survive, you will be free. only a handful of my unit came to money, most came because they had long jail sentences. but also some who had only 12