you can be all of these things and not only can you be here you can lead just like me. setting a legacy she hope will be followed molly hunter, nbc news a nerd, a crier, and a hug. or jacinda ardern, reminding u all that we all have what it takes to lead. and on that beautiful note, wish you all a very good night and a happy passover to thos who celebrate. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late wit us i will see you at the end of tomorrow if you are a superstitiou person, as i am, then maybe yo are familiar with the notion that bad things happen i threes for, example you might get a flat tire and spill coffee all over yourself, and then sprain your ankle all in the same day or if you re donald trump, you might get arrested on stat level charges, and grapple wit a major setback in a federal investigation, and then be forced to face the specter o an ongoing fraud investigation all in the same week the bad things range but le
country was glued to the television waiting for donal trump to get arrested in new york city while all of tha circus was unfolding down in washington d. c., donald trump was losing another battle. an important one a federal appeals cour yesterday rejected trump s latest attempt to block some o his closest aides from testifying about him to th special grand jury investigating the efforts to overturn the 2020 election and the names here would appea to be big ones former chief of staff mark meadows, former white hous deputy chief of staff da scavino. former director of nationa intelligence, john ratcliffe former homeland security actin secretary, ken cuccinelli. these men know a ton about trump s actions and trump thinking around the january 6t insurrection and up until now, quite a fe of them have been, shall we say,
judge gave them quite an elegant solution their whole argument had been, he should not have to testify, because on january 6th, he s presiding over the senate, i that role, he should b immunized just like any othe lawmaker would be, therefore he s protected by the speech o debate clause. therefore, should not have t testify at all the judge did not buy, that th judge rejected the idea that h be wholesale immune from testifying he did buy into the idea tha he would have some limited immunity for just january 6th, but special counsel jack smith does not want what happened on january 6th, he wants all th conversations leading up t january 6th. he s trying to get at what was trump s intent what was his efforts to clin to power, what was his efforts to subvert the election, that all the stuff that happens before january 6th all that stuff is what the judge says that s the beef but they get the benefit of saying we tried to fight it, w did not roll into the gran jury without trying to f
hawaii was too expensive so i brought it here. you know with priceline you could actually take that trip for less than all this. i made a horrible mistake. go to your happy price priceline yesterday s wisconsin supreme court race was the mos expensive state supreme race i u.s. history given the absolute deluge of ads, that was probably prett obvious to wisconsin voters. but i would bet a i would bet good money and, lot of it, the very few of those voters can tell that thi election was technically supposed to be nonpartisan two candidates for suprem court, two very differen beliefs. dan kelly sides with people who want to kick voters off th rolls. he supported trump s attack on our elections. the law enforcement s hands are tied with judges like jane
or if you re donald trump, you might get arrested on stat level charges, and grapple wit a major setback in a federal investigation, and then be forced to face the specter o an ongoing fraud investigation all in the same week the bad things range but let us start at trump s ba news at the federal level. we learned late this afternoon that trump s vice presiden mike pence will in fact testif before the special counsel s grand jury investigating january 6th. trump, and even pence himself, they had tried and failed to block that testimony in a statement today, an aid for pence said pence wil comply with the subpoena he will comply with a subpoena federal judge in d. c. ruled that pence does have som constitutional protections allowing him not to testify on matters related to his rol presiding over the senate on january 6th. as the new york times points out, the judge ruled that penc would still have to testif about any potentially illega acts committed by trump on january 6th or on the da