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
Something more awful than everything he platforms on his show where does your head go when you try to figure this out well, it is what comes next, what comes next for tucker where does he go what does fox do tucker is not going away tucker is going to continue to talk i saw one report he had more than 50 million downloads on his badly photographed video from last night does he go into politics does he launch his own network we don t know. has fox learned anything from this the answer is probably no. he will be replaced by someone who will probably be less enter ta entertaining, maybe less malicious. it won t be an upgrade it s a moment. for those who wondered, was it worth it for dominion go through everything yes.
If you thought that the doe mip onlawsuit exposing fox for lying to their viewers was going to give tucker carlson a change of heart and he would use his pretend news show to start telling the truth, think about it again. he was back at it last night doing exactly what everyone with a brain expected he would do with the excludes sieve access, speaker and name only, kevin mccarthy gave him to 40,000 hours of january 6th footage. he sherry picked that footage to show little clips showing benign footage and used those clips to lie about january 6th. never forget, tucker, along with most of the people you know at fox, admitted under oath in the dominion lawsuit in those depositions that they never
Dealing with a lot of materials here but those are the first things that really stuck out to me. you re very kind in saying people. i mean, be careful if you have a group text that you don t commit any crimes or get sued for liable because there s apparently a group chat between laura abraham, sean hannity and tucker and they you know, they chop it up about a lot of things and one of the things they were doing, as you were saying, aaron, is complaining that the news people and the polling people they despise and despise them were undermining the story they say is false. let me read a couple of these other things. there s the sidney powell of it, aaron. this is sidney powell communicating with tucker carlson on november 17, 2020. the this is after the election. sorry, just saw this. believe i emailed you the affidavit earlier today. more evidence pouring in. tucker says you keep telling our voters millions of votes are changed by software.
Lie shows from a punitive aspect that they don t care. fox just doesn t care. the fact that s troubling is that it s not just tucker, laura, sean and the whole crew, we know it s not true, rupert mourdock in the evidence says on january 5th, 20 1 21, the day before the 26th, stop the trump myth that the election was stolen. that s the day before the election, joy. he s the head honcho. he could have ordered a directive saying you cannot push this information out anymore and yet they still did. the if you re looking at it as a judge or juror, you re going to say, i m going to hammer then. i m going to make it so they cannot ever do this again. it s fascinating. aaron blake, thank you for going through all of that data. katie fang and curt, thank you. next on the reid out , if you want to rip into tucker carlson as a peaceful gathering,