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
That jack smith is pursuing where he knows who he wants to talk to. he knows where the facts led him. he prevails in court until he gets, in this case, the testimony by vice president mike pence. yes we ve seen it ever since he was appointed to sort of a steady stream of people going into the grand jury and jack smith taking up cases of refusal to testify first to the district court chief judge in, this case it was others if the side takes it up to the court of appeals, he s winning there. so here, you know, the question at this point is will the trump team either try to seek a full review of the entire what is called the endtire court of appeals or will they give up as they did with other cases as they did in trump s other high level officials.