I believe in the american people, and i believe in the fact that jurors will listen fairly and impartially. And for people who say they wont, dana, those are people who believe only in themselves, like donald trump and not the american people. Former Vice President mike pence says he has no plans to testify in a federal trial of trumps efforts to overturn the 2020 election, but he says he will comply with the law if called to be a witness. The day before january 6th, if memory serves, they came back, his lawyers did, and said we want you to reject votes outright. They were asking me to overturn the election. I had no right to overturn the election. You can say right here that you will rule out voting for donald trump again for president . Dana, i will tell you, i dont think well have to make that decision. What if you do . Im confident ill be able to support the republican nominee, especially if its me. Lets get some reaction now from one of the contenders vying for the republican nomi
things? well, there s one thing in between that, which is that some people have already taken the position that trump s not eligible to serve as president because there s a pardon in pt of the constitution that says people who have participated in an insurrection aren t eligible to serve. there s all kinds of questions about whether this applies to trump. but there are lawsuits throughout the country trying to keep trump off the ballot. there s this other hurdle not getting attention now, but i think we re going to hear a lot about it over the next year. if he does make it into office, if he is qualified to serve, it s an uncertain question as to whether or not he could pardon himself. he certainly has a lot of power over the justice department, and we ve been reading stories about how there are plans to try to, you know, politicize the justice department so that it would be more political and so that it