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
Everything the insurrectionists were doing that day, do we have a special counsel? do we have an investigation into trump and his inner circle do we have mike pence before a special grand jury today you know, it s such an interesting question, nicolle, because without cassidy hutchinson, i think one thing we don t have is a january 6th committee in front of the house that has this tremendous public appeal and perhaps it s that house committee investigation that jump starts doj. i m, you know, one of those prosecutors that mike is talking about. i was on record early. preet and i discussed on our podcast, the fact that doj wasn t investigating the first year merrick garland was on board. and the way you know that there s a prosecution under way and an investigation under way is exactly what we ve seen in the last year we ve seen witnesses subpoenaed to the grand jury and they protest. they try to get out of testifying, and that s how these sorts of investigations become