more on those headlines in a moment. first, let s round up the sports news. what are fans making a chelsea of today s appointment? england s women have the chance of lifting more silverware later when they take on brazil in the finalissima, a match between the european and south american champions at a sold out wembley. our sports reporterjo currie is there for us now. the world cup will be with us before we know it, a big chance for thise england players to impreess sarina wiegman. after a ny after any major tournament the result was a freshening up of the squad and the likes of ellen white and jill scott are no longer around, there are big injuries to players who are not available for these two games and there are players in the euro squad who have not been selected so there are opportunities for new players coming in to try to impress a sarina wiegman, heading out to australia this summer, but tonight will be a massive occasion, some players potentially making their debuts
on the stand? plus, after yesterday s horrific shooting in nashville, tennessee, renewed calls for gun safety legislation while kevin mccarthy is not saying a word. so how can we get anything done? the 11th hour gets under way on this tuesday night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle coming to you live from our nation s capital, where former president trump s number two has lost his bid to testify under oath. a federal judge has now ordered former vp mike pence to appear before the grand jury investigating january 6th. pence, of course, has been fighting special counsel jack smith s subpoena. he argued his role as president of the senate shielded him from testimony. but the judge said he can be questioned about alleged illegality on trump s part. tonight, pence hinted this thing ain t over. i have nothing to hide. i have a constitution to uphold. i upheld the constitution on january 6th. i believe we did our duty that day under the constitution of the unite
start, former vice president mike pence will testify against his old boss, what dropping his appeal means for the case against trump and more bad news for the former president. top national security officials testify against him in the 2020 election subversion probe plus put your hands up in some noise for brandon. ahead we re going to have my interview with chicago s new progressive mayor elect brandon johnson, about how he pulled off his upset victory. what s going on everyone welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m omar jimenez in for the wonderful christine romans a lot to get to this morning, so let s get to it. we re gonna start with former vice president mike pence, deciding not to appeal a federal judge s order for him to testify in the case against donald trump. we don t know what date the date yet, but pence will now testify to a grand jury in a special council probe into efforts by trump and his allies to overturn the results of the 20
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
counsel investigating donald trump could finally get testimony from former vice president mike pence. that could be incredibly significant. you know, it s a month of pushback, and now pence, it appears, is going to finally testifying. the special counsel s investigation into trump and his actions on january. six. a spokesman for the former vice president says he will not appeal a judge s ruling in order that he must appear before the grand jury that s investigating the insurrection and trump s efforts to overturn the election. that means pence could testify about the one on one conversations he had with trump leading up to that day, including what we know is a heated phone call that happened the morning of the riot when pence, refused trump s efforts to get him to try to block the certification of president biden s win, plus a cnn exclusive this morning as cnn sources are telling cnn that former national security officials have testified that trump was repeatedly warned he di