Good morning. It's Saturday, February 11th. I'm Sam Stein, filling in today for my friend

Ali Valshi. Today on the show, we'll have the very latest on what the U.S. military is calling a,

quote, high-altitude object shot down over American airspace

over Alaska. Plus, what we know about the FBI search for classified documents at former

Vice President Mike Pence's Indiana home. Former Pence aide Olivia Troy will join me later in the show.

And Congressman Bonnie Watson Coleman will be here to talk about

the long fight for police reform and a piece of American history you probably don't know about.

But we begin this morning with the latest signs that the Justice Department's investigation

of Donald Trump are escalating and shifting to a more advanced stage. On Thursday, NBC News learned that former vice president, Mike Pence, was subpoenaed by

Jack Smith, the special counsel, appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland to handle

the Justice Department's investigations of the January 6th insurrection and of Donald

Trump's handling of classified documents.

The subpoena follows months of negotiations between Pence's legal team and the Department

of Justice.

It's also the latest indication that Smith is taking a hard look at the scheme to submit

fake electors to falsely declare Trump the winner of the election and states that Joe Biden

actually won.

In December, just about a month after he was appointed, Smith subpoenaed local officials and

swing states that Trump's team targeted in its efforts to overturn those 2020 results.

Now, if Trump had had had his way, Pence would have played a critical role in that scheme,

which is why this subpoena is a significant milestone in the special counsel's investigation.

The efforts to overturn the election hinged on convincing Pence not to declare Joe Biden the legitimate winner

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