we owe them action. we have to do more to stop the gun violence of ripping communities apart and ripping apart the soul of the nation, protect our children so they learn how to read and write instead of duck and cover in a classroom. president joe biden expressing solidarity with the victims of the nashville school shooting as we learn new details about how police were able to stop the shooter within minutes of entering the building. plus a federal judge said former vice president mike pence must testify into the probe into donald trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. and the latest from israel as benjamin netanyahu and president biden trade word amid ongoing protests across that country. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, march 29th. i m jonathan lemire thanks for starting your day with us. we begin with the latest from nashville. we re learning more about the victims, the shooter, and the police response to the tragedy. we ll begin
the twice impeached disgraced ex-president to overturn his election defeat. it s a glaring and unavoidable fact that mike pence one of the key stories of january 6th and the person that the entire plotry lied on doing what trump wanted him to do. he never testified about what happened to him or what made his whole family and the secret service detail run or what happened to the country for that matter under oath. today we have news of a potential break through on that front specifically. a federal judge ordered mike pence to testify before the federal grand jury under oath. that grand jury is investigating the january 6th insurrection and donald trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. judge boseberg rejected donald trump s and mike pence s efforts to block a subpoena. trump s lawyers asked the judge s predecessor to limit pence s testimony claiming certain issues were off limits because of executive privilege that protects communications between the president and some
a victory for mike pence and the argument his testimony was shielded because of his constitutional role on january 6th as legislative branch. pence argued the speech or debate clause which can protect lawmakers from discussing legislative activity granted him immunity from testifying. while pence does have some limited protections from that, the immunity does not prevent him from testifying about alleged illegality on trump s part according to the judge. pence did appear on news max last night to talk about it. i have nothing to hide. i have a constitution to uphold. i upheld the constitution on 6:00. i believe we did our duty that day under the constitution of the united states. we re currently speaking to our attorneys about the proper way
judge s predecessor to limit pence s testimony claiming certain issues were off limits because of executive privilege that protects communications between the president and some member of his cabinet. at the same time, the vice president s lawyers asked for his testimony to be protected under the speech or debate clause as part of the senate. the judge s ruling was not a complete victory for jack smith. nbc news reports, quote, the ruling from judge boseberg said pence does have some limited speech and debate protections. the immunity would not prevent him from testifying about conversations where there s alleged illegality on trump s