the list of high-profile witnesses and dominion s fox news lawsuit may get longer. as rupert murdoch could be forced to testify. and students across the countr walked out today, demandin more to stop gun violence. some say they don t want fea in their school? as the 11th hour gets underway on this wednesday night. good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle. there is a brand-new legal threat for donald j trump. and it comes about 24 hour after his arrest on felony charges here in new york former vice president mike pence will not fight a judge order to testify before special counsel, jack smith, and his grand jury that panel is looking into the former presidents attempt to overturn the 2020 election just a few months ago, pence said this about resisting th special counsel subpoena i will to fight the biden doj subpoena to appear for the grandchildren. the idea of subpoenaing former vice president to testify in court against the president with whom they served i believe it
unprecedented. i believe it s also unconstitutional well, this is all unprecedented. meanwhile, fresh off his arraignment in new york, the former president is doing th one thing we have seen him d consistently, attack, attack attack today he called on republica lawmakers to defund the doj an fbi, until they, quote, come t their senses trump s legal team is no staying silent either. here is his defense attorney earlier today. after seeing that indictment, and knowing what the law i regarding federal election campaigns, i don t think we re getting close to a - on this case it s going to fall on it merits, on legal challenge well before we get to jury trump s allies in the house are also keeping the pressur on manhattan da alvin bragg. after we ve seen all that yesterday, i think people thin it s even more politically tha we thought this case never should hav been brought, and what shoul happen, now it get dismissed we re not going to stop o this nothing changed. we
trump s rivals defending him robustly coming out with statement after statement sa that this is the political prosecution persecution in som cases. people are saying that that being, said could there b cracks in? this could people start lookin at this and saying, well, at the end of the day i want to b president as a result, i wil try to use this upcoming possible trial against forme president? and then people start really doing the math about when an how you could do that. i think that question is whe we will continue to have to ask. obviously the prosecution wa pushing for a prosecutor pushing for a job certai january. former president trump s lawyers are saying they want t do that more in late spring of next year. so will be something tha really watch is how this timeline plays out we do know that it is gonna be in the middle. all of this is really happenin in the middle of the 202 presidential campaign. especially because forme president trump has alread announced he is running fo
that being said, feather cracks in this could people start looking a this and say, well, at the end of the day i want to b president, as a result, i want to use this upcoming possibl trial against the former president? and then people really start doing the math of when and how to do that i think that question is one that we re going to continue t have to ask. obviously, the prosecution was pushing for and the prosecutor pushing for a trial to start i january. former president trump s lawyers are saying they want t do that more in late sprin nexteer. so something to really watch i how this timeline plays out. what we do know is it s goin to be all of this is really happenin in the middle of the 202 presidential campaign. especially because forme president trump has alread announced he is running fo president. so, he s already in the middle of his presidential campaign will dealing with not only these problems, in, new york but also the host of other legal problems we ve bee covering