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new york. we have a lot of news to get to on this busy friday morning including a seismic development in the special counsel investigation into former president donald trump. his vice president, mike pence, appearing before the grand jury probing his former boss s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, according to a source familiar with the matter. this morning, new reaction including this from a member of congress who investigated the capitol attack. i think that the vice president has a lot of information. i have no doubt really that he answered the questions openly, honestly, and fully. plus, russia unleashing on ukraine overnight with the worst strikes in weeks. the death toll still climbing at this hour. we re on the ground in that war-torn country with a live report. and later, extreme weather, the iconic yosemite national park closing over fears a massive snow melt could lead to unprecedented floods. intense flooding also suspected to have caused this train dera
predawn attack. the target, an apartment building hundreds of miles from the front lines. and abortion rights advocates score victories in the unlikeliest of places, attempts to impose new bans fall short in a pair of red states. are they one-offs or warning signs for the republican party? we start with federal prosecutors poring over hours of new testimony from vice president mike pence. one of the few people with firsthand knowledge about former president trump s efforts to block certification of the 2020 election. pence s testimony came less than a day after a judge rejected trump s last ditch effort to block it. i want to bring in nbc s ryan reilly who s been covering all of the developments for us. also nbc s vaughn hillyard with the former president and his supporters in manchester, new hampshire, brendan buck who served as an aide to republican house speakers paul ryan and john boehner, and an msnbc political analyst, and carol lamb is a federal former rather for
harris: we had just brought you from idaho the courtroom announcements and results, but let s watch this, this is bryan kohberger accused of murdering those four college students at the idaho university. also that team is ingrid beatty, and both from the idaho attorney general s office. if you don t know me, i m the district judge and i will be presiding over this case. so mr. bryan kohberger, you have already learned a lot of what i am going to tell you that your initial appearance, but i will repeat it to you, because it is important and i want to remind you of these issues.
analyst. welcome all. ryan, we ll go to you first here. what do we know about pence s testimony and where it s going to fit into jack smith s investigation? you know, we know it was rather lengthy. there was plenty to talk about obviously. you can talk about all these things leading up to january 6th on january 6th itself, a lot of material to cover. we saw those vehicles enter yesterday early in the morning and they ended up leaving not until very late, several hours before the grand jury on the third floor of that courthouse here in d.c. a lot of material to cover. it s a really big moment in this investigation, but there s two sort of separate tracks happening. there s the political track and then there s the legal track and i think the way that these two things are intertwining at this moment is really interesting because you have mike pence, who of course, you know, is considering a run for office, and squaring off against his former boss, donald trump, who obviously is running