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
There were steps before they went in and testified. is there anything about the eight hours that strikes you you have covered a lot of investigations seems like a long day. tim has a better sense of what went on in this period of time than anyone else. you have to wonder and think, were there any conversations between trump and pence in which it was just the two of them? you have to think that there was something that was said at some point when it was only the two of them in the room. maybe pence never told anyone about or didn t tell many people about and had to answer questions about today. i m sure that at some point in that questioning, he was asked about one on one interactions with trump who knows? i mean i don t know democratic congresswoman