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
They were all false. he said in an interview with the washington post. yet, more proof piling up that team trump knew full well that any and all claims of fraud were baseless even if they sold the big lie to millions of americans. brand new momentum in jack smith s january 6th investigation in the form of new evidence and the target of trump s unprecedented pressure campaign to overturn the election on the verge of testifying in jack smith s investigationinto january 6 is where we begin today with some of our most favorite reporters and friends. new york times congressional reporter is here also joining us, harry litman, former u.s. attorney and former deputy assistant attorney general. mary mccord is here, a former top official in the justice department s national security division and charlie sykes joins us mary mccord, this feels like this sort of patience, deliberate, and maybe aggressive, maybe you don t think it, is but legal strategy