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
washington grand jury has already heard a great deal of testimony. but pence s firsthand regulation recollection of trump s actions and statements could prove crucial, and he probably won t be the only one to provide such testimony. so far, every claim of executive privilege has been rejected by the courts, meaning other insiders may also be forced to testify is what one former manhattan prosecutor had to say about trump s growing legal exposure. we re seeing coming out of, um, the grand jury litigation, a series of rulings and orders coming from the federal bench, limiting executive privilege, overruling claims of attorney client privilege on crime fraud exception, meaning that there was, uh, criminal element to the conversation, so they were not privileged. and so all of this means that the efforts to shield the former president from having his closest advisers testify against him are collapsing. one