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
This in the spring of 2017, my colleague emily steele and i wrote a story that led to the ouster of bill o reilly. at that point, when o reilly was taken off the air, i certainly don t think that we ever thought that the person who came after would be like tucker carlson and that all these years later, we would still be talking about the culture inside of fox. and abbey grossberg is set to depose tucker carlson for her trial. those stories continue thank you so much. it was another day of really dramatic testimony from e. jean carroll in new york. we are live outside that courthouse next. don t go anywhere.