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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 ....
And i think there s nobody better who can explain that than the vice president who was the point of the anger and the effort to try to get the vice president to do something that was against the law. he refused to do it, as he said. he had taken an oath to the constitution and he was not going to breach that for donald trump with his harebrain scheme which we don t even know how it would played out had he done what trump wanted, other than he would be breaking the law. certainly wouldn t have guaranteed trump the presidency. but it would have been just a flagrant violation of the process for counting votes. so, this is timely. this is a big deal that they re bringing him in to get him on the record. the executive privilege will not hold as ryan said. the nixon case establishes that. yeah. nixon s privilege was much broader than even this. so, it s going to it s going to go down to the count and it s proceeding nicely. ryan what does this signal to ....
Being cautious, the dare to be cautious campaign, put it out there. greg it is not in his nature. this is what challenges the winners. you do not play defense. gregg: i want your reaction from david axelrod. the statehouse in massachusetts, here it is, the clip. play this. axelrod trying to make the case for obama against romney right in front of romney s former statehouse and it ended up badly. a disaster. the most harebrain scheme giving us an indication of what is going on inside the obama campaign which is mayhem. they don t know what they are up to. the whole bain thing . gregg: i thought he had a ....
Jersey will teach him a lesson coming up later. the tea party has a dandy of an idea for caribou barbie. they want our favorite northern psycho talker to take over the rnc. sounds like a harebrain scheme to me. it might be brain surgery after all. that coming up in the playbook. this is the story that is breaking. it s the story that has me fired up tonight. at this hour, the presidency of barack obama i think is at a cross roads. the majority of american people want tax cuts for those who are earn $250,000 a year to expire. now, the majority of the house, the majority of the senate voted for bills which do just that. once again, mitch mcconnell and the millionaire republican obstructionists in the senate blocked what the american people want over the weekend. senator bob menendez hammered the republicans for their tactic, do you allow yourself to be held hostage and get something done for the sake of getting something done, when in fact it might be perverse in its ....
Advisors. professor, first, you credit trump for admitting he flip-flop but you say it wasn t his idea. explain. basically, as you pointed out in your opening, donald trump is never really talked all that much about afghanistan. when he has talked about it or did during the campaign, he basically would talk about why are we spending so much blood and treasure over there. i want to get us out. as he admitted that was his first instinct. he doesn t have any idea how to do that without it leaving to calamitous consequences. you could argue when steve bannon was working he did come up with a harebrain scheme with betsy devos brother that the idea u.s. armed forces would withdraw and be replaced with contracto contractors that prince and others would run. that was quickly dismissed. ....