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
To insurrection. determining what trump knew about the intelligence that suggested there was going to be violence on that day, what he had been briefed on before january 6th, what did he know when he made that bullying call to mike pence? did he know that it was the crowd that was going to come, try to actually physically, you know, capture mike pence and do something really terrible to him? what did he know about that? that is something the prosecutors have to investigate. they would certainly not bring a charge like that without really feeling competent in their evidence that s the kind of charge of course, anything involving the former president, any charges are going to be lambasted by his supporters as being part of a political witchunt, et cetera, et cetera. but this one, i think, is one that they want to be super scrupulous and button down if they re going to bring something like that. my guess is they focused on the others but they re not counting this