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
Supreme court, that s saying something. that s an extraordinary admission that this legal argument borders on the absolutely frivolous, and i think we already now have this under oath all right don t go anywhere. when we come back, the justice department s other big major unprecedented and historic investigation into the ex-president and his desperate last-minute ploy for the allies in congress and the house specifically to step in and bail him out of the classified documents probe. another sign that special counsel may be inching closer than we know plus, the dote minutian trial was going to unearth about tucker carlson s very, very, very nasty messages about his own bosses at fox among other things how years of offensive thoughts and words and comments said on tv were permitted. new reporting that these words from tucker that we haven t seen