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
It s a story that makes her heroic, i think, to a lot of women women, all of us watching. she s enormously brave to relive these moments publically. the strength of her testimony, i think, highlights the dilemma that joe tacopina faces as he cross examines her this is obviously not a criminal rape prosecution this is a civil case involving battery under new york law, defamation under new york law. nonetheless, when you have a rape victim on the witness stand, as the attorney who is cross examining her, you run two risks. if you don t push on the story, the jury will believe the victim who is testifying. they will believe she s credible then the other risk is that if you push too hard, you will anger the jury you will make the victim look sympathetic. it sounds this morning from what we have heard, obviously, there are no cameras, but we are reading words people are live