had with the former president, leading up to that day when he and his family were forced to flee a mob demanding he be hanged. today former vice president pence dropped his appeal of the federal court decision ordering his testimony . this would be the first time that a former vice president testifies about his former boss and a criminal investigation. in this case, the boss who according to testimony before the january, 6th select committee, said he deserved to be hanged. you. if i were you, i would still be livid. with donald trump. i would be so furious. and i know you re a measured man. um but are you still angry? well i must tell you the president s words and tweet that day. we re reckless. endangered my family and all the people at the capitol. and i was angry. but you know, my christian faith tells me to be quick to listen. slow to speak and slow to become angry. and then the christian faith. forgiveness is not optional. forgiving is one thing for getting another. we l
by invent help. call 1 807 100020 invention idea but don t know what to do. next call invent help today they can help you get started with your idea. call now. 807 100020. good evening more than 24 hours after the former president was arraigned tonight. new trouble for him. former vice president mike pence, no longer fighting in court now willing to testify before a grand jury in the department of justice s investigation to january 6th about direct conversations he had with the former president, leading up to that day when he and his family were forced to flee a mob demanding he be hanged. today former vice president pence dropped his appeal of the federal court decision ordering his testimony . this would be the first time that a former vice president testifies about his former boss and a criminal investigation. in this case, the boss who according to testimony before the january 6th select committee , said he deserved to be hanged. you. if i were you, i would still be livid
that as sort of a constitutional win, and they are now willing to put mike pence before a federal grand jury. do we know when he may testify? there is not yet a date that we are aware of for him to go in front of the grand jury, but we know that in other cases with other witnesses, prosecutors have tend to attended to move. pretty quickly to try to get these folks in front of a grand jury and get their testimony. can the former president block it? he can try. you know, he made an executive privilege argument. when it came to mike pence. the lower court was not buying that did not buy the notion that pence should not talk about his conversations with trump. trump would try to appeal on that front again. but he has lost this kind of argument again with mike pence already when it comes to mark meadows when it comes to pets of bologna, the former white house counsel. they have not had success on this even as the trump team insists that the government is plowing through constitution. all no
and now in federal law, there is precedent because mike pence push that back. we both know he has no problem talking about january 6th. he wrote an entire you know, a book where he really focused on it. his entire media tour around his book was about his role on january 6th. i think we should take mike pence at face value that he was standing up for a principle in the constitution and is now moving forward elliot if the former president does decide to appeal with an executive privilege claim would it first go to the appeals court and if you wanted to the supreme court how and if so, how long could that delay things? well look, the courts have proven in these matters. anderson they can resolve some of these issues overnight. frankly if you remember the last time this constitutional question came up before the d c circuit court of appeals, literally, they set the timelines for the parties at midnight and six am the next morning, so they re able to move quickly. if they want to. yes the p
and testified before the january 6th committee. and elliot williams, former deputy assistant attorney general, currently cnn legal analyst are you surprised margaret that he was going to testify? no i m not surprised. look, i think it s not fair to characterize mike pence s resistance to testifying as though he didn t want to cooperate with the special counsel. he had a very narrow grounds on which he was resisting his testimony, which was an actually constitutionally grounded argument and separation of powers like we haven t spent a lot of time talking about the idiosyncrasies of the constitution and the trump era, especially with people who work in the administration. but my pants deserves the benefit of doubt of somebody who has defended the constitution against the backdrop of the argument you made the conversation between the vice president and the president should be kept that the president should be able to have these conversations. that s an executive privilege conversation . h