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
York times reports that donald trump lawyers resorted to using one of their life lines, kevin mccarthy, and weighing in on his slim house majority for help this time calling on them to pass legislation that would give intelligence agencies authority offense the investigation into handling of the classified documents. they have little chance of leading to action of the legislation they seek given that democrats are in control of the senate and the white house the letter proposed that the justice department should be ordered to stand down, allowing the intelligence community to conduct an appropriate investigation and provide a full report to the committee. we re back with our panel. luke, all i could think was hillary clinton, prosecute jim comey. he wanted to use the justice department literally for anyone that violated a parking ticket but he doesn t want them to