significant step that he has decided not to appeal. they are now willing to put mike pence before a federal grand jury. trump is nervous. he thinks that the special counsel here may know quite a lot. take our support for the people of taiwan. seriously, we are not isolated and we are not alone. it s gonna be weeks upon months to be able to recover. you can see all the way back in the woods. that s the roof of the building. live from london. this is cnn newsroom. max foster and bianca nobilo. this thursday, april 6th nine am here in london , four am on the u. s east coast. we begin with another blow to form president trump. mike pence says he ll testify to the grand jury of the special counsel investigating the january 6th capital riots. the former vice president has signaled that he won t appeal a federal court ruling ordering him to testify under oath about trump s actions leading up to january 6th. but there are some limits to what pence may be willing to discuss. cnn s kat
meeting moments ago, symbolically at the reagan library is beijing warns the chinese government will quote resolutely fight back plus one day after donald trump s arrest and arraignment in new york. two major developments in the federal case investigating him one a cnn exclusive the grand jury testimony. revealing the trump was warned he could not legally sees voting machines, plus the decision from his vice president, mike pence that could set up his own historic testimony before the special counsel. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper, and we start with the world s superpowers on edge and potentially provocative show of solidarity between democracies. moments ago, taiwan s president, sighing when wrapped up a news conference with us house speaker kevin mccarthy on the republicans home turf in california in the chinese government is not happy about it. the top official in beijing warning that size visit could lead to a quote serious unquote confrontation with the united sta
ruling to testify in the special counsel s january 6th investigation. pence is now poised to recount for the first time under oath. his conversations with donald trump leading up to the january insurrection. also tonight, kevin mccarthy leads a defiant show of force in the face of stern warnings from china, the speaker and a bipartisan delegation of u. s lawmakers holding a historic meeting with taiwan s president on american soil. speaking with top democrat who was in the room for the talks. and later this hour, we will go live to jerusalem amid rising tensions in the middle east. there are new fears that violence could boil over after israeli forces raid one of the holiest sites in islam for the second straight night. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. wolf blitzer is off today . i m alex marquardt in your in the situation room. let s get straight to our top story tonight. special counsel jack smith notches a major victory, securing a
washington grand jury has already heard a great deal of testimony. but pence s firsthand regulation recollection of trump s actions and statements could prove crucial, and he probably won t be the only one to provide such testimony. so far, every claim of executive privilege has been rejected by the courts, meaning other insiders may also be forced to testify is what one former manhattan prosecutor had to say about trump s growing legal exposure. we re seeing coming out of, um, the grand jury litigation, a series of rulings and orders coming from the federal bench, limiting executive privilege, overruling claims of attorney client privilege on crime fraud exception, meaning that there was, uh, criminal element to the conversation, so they were not privileged. and so all of this means that the efforts to shield the former president from having his closest advisers testify against him are collapsing. one
grandkids life. from the police. that s not how it s supposed to be. that woman in washington, speaking after she saw a video of her teenage son being killed by police 17 year old delaney oh, martin was shot after suspected car theft last month. his mom is now calling for the arrest of all officers involved in her son s death incident is under federal civil rights investigation. it was launched a day after police released a body cam video of the entire incident. since brian todd has the story. shortly before nine o clock a m march 18th police body cam video shows officers responding to what police say was believed to have been a stolen car near a federal park in washington, d. c inside the vehicle 17 year old delanoe martin asleep in the driver s seat. the car is running in the video just released by the u. s. park police in the d. c. metropolitan police officers