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
bring out pence bring him out bring out pence we want pence mary, my question for you is, you know, that sound seems to tie trump to the fourth crime referred by the congressional committee inciting and aiding an insurrection how much do you that i is of interest or being probed by jack smith? well, i think that a lot of the same evidence that would support some of the other referred crimes will be the evidence that could support a crime like incitement to an insurrection i think that is one he ll really proceed with caution about it is so dramatic. but, again, january 6, what could have been more dramatic than january 6th i said ever since the day after january 6 that i think it is worth investigating incitement