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
The, for lack of a better term, the blue collar level of those that trespass and broke into the capitol. and it wasn t only until many months later, if not perhaps a year later, that they really started to bear down on those who were directly around the president. and because of that, it delayed everything i think that, you know, there s certainly enough former federal prosecutors around that would say that in the aftermath of january 6th or even right after trump left office let s say if you were at the justice department and you were so afraid to do anything around trump in the days after january 6th because maybe you were afraid trump wasn t going to leave or whatever, that the former federal prosecutors will recollect i m sure easily say, well, why wasn t it that as soon