the list of high-profile witnesses and dominion s fox news lawsuit may get longer. as rupert murdoch could be forced to testify. and students across the countr walked out today, demandin more to stop gun violence. some say they don t want fea in their school? as the 11th hour gets underway on this wednesday night. good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle. there is a brand-new legal threat for donald j trump. and it comes about 24 hour after his arrest on felony charges here in new york former vice president mike pence will not fight a judge order to testify before special counsel, jack smith, and his grand jury that panel is looking into the former presidents attempt to overturn the 2020 election just a few months ago, pence said this about resisting th special counsel subpoena i will to fight the biden doj subpoena to appear for the grandchildren. the idea of subpoenaing former vice president to testify in court against the president with whom they served i believe it
from the arraignment hearing was released, and it seems relatively clear that although it is not listed in th indictment itself which is a very barebones document. that the theory that the da is working with is this notio that trump created false business records in order to conceal a conspiracy that ha the goal of interfering with the 2016 election. that was the catch and skill schemes. this effort to keep importan formation from voters. and in violation of both state and federal election law they are involved there. you need, this trial coul start right around the time th gop primaries get underway have republicans fully realize that there could be a lot of legal proceedings while th 2024 campaign is rolling it is a good question i a not quite sure that that reality has sunk in all th way. i also think that it is stil very far out i mean, right now what we have seen as the republican party including former president
guard by that indictment specifies how donald trump personally signed checks to his so called former fixer michael cohen, trump cohen and others in the trump organization also set up catching kill schemes where they would pay to have stories about trump out of the media, and that included the payment to stormy daniels, michael cohen. since then you ll remember has gone to prison and faced a backlash from trump, and here s how he reacted to being a key witness in the investigation. my loyalty belongs to my wife, my daughter, my son and my country , and i believe that it s important that everyone who commits a crime be held accountable. and if those crimes were relevant enough by the southern district of new york to hold against me, then certainly it should be. it shouldn t matter that it s donald j. trump or former president or anyone. he refuses to listen to anyone. he allows his worst nature to