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
You re more skilled at reading tea leafs, where do you think jack smith s document investigation stands today well, before i opine on that, i just want to make two points for viewers out there that may not be entirely clear on this. the office of the director of national intelligence who this letter calls on to conduct the investigation has no authority to conduct a criminal investigation. so even if you were inclined to think that there was something, you know, some what ligit about asking for intelligence community to investigate, what they have the authority to do is what they ve done which is examine the danger to national security from all of these documents having been improperly handled. they have no authority to investigate a crime. in terms of jack smith, you know, this is this is a case where i have actually felt, you know, some months ago was further along than the january 6th investigation. i think jack smith saw the value in talking to evan corchran.