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
Part you have to decide who the defendants are and who the witnesses are. that might involve some last-minute negotiating with people where you say, this is your moment. do you want to be in the indictment or testifying with us there are other pieces that you have to finish before you can nail this down to go back to the grand jury and seek an indictment mike, we have had conversations with some of your leagues about the work flow into the mar-a-lago documents what is the scheduling what does this subject about that probe? i m not sure. it s hard to see what s going on from the outside as we sit here listening to this, i couldn t help but think of something that will sound obvious but i think is important. we are seeing the difference