he s always complied with the law, and if compelled by law, he ll follow the law. i want you to listen to one of trump s attorneys now describing as that possibility, listen to this. if you look at mike pence s words and what he s said time and time again, it actually supports donald trump. it s actually, i think mike pence, if this ever goes to trial, and i don t think it should go to trial, i think it should be dismissed. if it ever does make to it trial, mike pence is going to be a star witness for donald trump. you think he s right? that mike pence will be a star witness for donald trump? well, again, i think that there s they ve been saying two different things. because the president himself this weekend refuted the notion that he ever said that mike pence was too honest and more or less castigated him as misrepresenting the facts. yet his attorneys are saying, mike pence will be a great witness because he s honest and he chronicled everything that transpired around ja
he will sign the debate loyalty pledge to support the eventual republican presidential nominee. but i want you to listen to something that the former vice president told our dana bash last sunday, listen to this. the american people deserve to know that president trump asked me to put him over my oath to the constitution. but i kept my oath, and i always will. and i m running for president in part because i think anyone who puts themselves over the constitution should never be president of the united states. how does he justify a loyalty pledge to support the republican presidential nominee, and by all accounts, trump is way, way ahead? i think throughout mike pence s professional career, he s been a republican, unlike donald trump. and so i think that he s always been loyal to the republican party. i think he s acknowledging he ll sign that pledge, but i think it s important to understand, he s running for president against donald trump because he thinks he would be a better pre
it s normal to have a protective order. so more than half a loaf is going to go to doj, most likely, on friday. good point. elie, friday s hearing one day after another proceeding in the classified documents case down in florida, which trump s team cited in its request to delay what s going on here in washington. how will his team keep up as these many hearings and many trials continue to pile on? it s a real challenge, wolf. we now have three indictments on the books. i think we re likely to see a fourth soon. his legal team can only handle so much. the big question that the judge is going to have to decide, now we re talking about the florida case, mar-a-lago, different judge, judge cannon will she move back that trial date? as it stands right now, the trial is set for may of 2024. but since the judge set that date, doj has come this and superseded. they added a third defendant, they added three new charges against donald trump. as a prosecutor, when you
so what are we hearing tonight from the judge who s overseeing this critically important case? wolf, the rocket docket continues here in d.c. the judge who will oversee the january 6th prosecution of former president trump, her name is tanya chutkan. she scheduled this hearing for friday making it clear she wanted to do this hearing about how sensitive evidence in this case will be handled. she wanted to do it this week. the trump lawyers asked if they could push it until next week. wolf, we know part of the overall trump legal strategy is to delay, delay, delay, hoping to push both special counsel trials until after the election. but they also have another hearing on thursday down in florida related to the mar-a-lago documents case. special counsel prosecutors said they d be available any time this week. the hearing is now scheduled for friday. it s just another example of how she wants to move this case along quickly and all eyes will be on judge chutkan on friday because this will