ex-president it all but ensures that special counsel jack smith will hear from the key witness who none of the other investigations into the trump cou plot not the fulton county d.a. has ever heard from under oath we re, of course, talking about mike pence a ruling handed down wednesday night by a federal appeals court rejects an emergency request by trump to block mike pence s testimony. new york times reports this, quote, the 11th hour ruling by the u.s. court of appeals for the district of colombia paves the way for mr. pence to appear before the federal grand jury as early as this week the ex-president has a few legal options left including an appeal to the supreme court but as nbc news reports, quote, in previous instances, where appeals sent senior aides must testify, his legal team has opted no the to fight the decision further and those witnesses have quickly appeared before the grand jury and trump s argument that executive privilege prevents pence or any of his ai
I said are you out of your f ing mind and he said words to the effect of there s been violence in the history of our country to protect the democracy or protect the republic we had an extended discussion, an hour and a half to two hours on january 5th and when i pressed him on the point, i said, john, if the vice president did what you re asking him to do, we would lose 9-0 in the supreme court wouldn t we? and initially he started, well, i think maybe he would lose 7 huf7-2 and then he said, yeah, we would lose 9-0 i listened no a few times this appears to be sworn testimony of eastman s knowledge of the unconstitutionality of the eastman plot which is coined a blueprint for a coup it is also clear from the testimony that those individuals listed that trump and pence are in the room when they have this