with the grand jury investigating donald trump s attempts to overturn the election and his role on january 6. the former president reacting to john allen. mr. president, what do you think of mike pence testifying today? i don t know what he said. i have a lot of confidence in him. pressure rising. calls for president biden and house speaker mccarthy to restart talks on raising the debt ceiling and mounting fears over the real-world impact of a potential and historic u.s. default. good day. i m andrea mitchell in washington. for the first time in modern history a vice president has testified in a criminal probe about the president he once served. mike pence spent seven hours before the grand jury thursday in the special counsel s investigation of donald trump s attempts to stop the peaceful transfer of power and trump s role in the capitol attack. pence was brought in by jack smith early in the morning thursday after just the night before the appeals court rejected don
predawn attack. the target, an apartment building hundreds of miles from the front lines. and abortion rights advocates score victories in the unlikeliest of places, attempts to impose new bans fall short in a pair of red states. are they one-offs or warning signs for the republican party? we start with federal prosecutors poring over hours of new testimony from vice president mike pence. one of the few people with firsthand knowledge about former president trump s efforts to block certification of the 2020 election. pence s testimony came less than a day after a judge rejected trump s last ditch effort to block it. i want to bring in nbc s ryan reilly who s been covering all of the developments for us. also nbc s vaughn hillyard with the former president and his supporters in manchester, new hampshire, brendan buck who served as an aide to republican house speakers paul ryan and john boehner, and an msnbc political analyst, and carol lamb is a federal former rather for
Right here on nbc at 8:00 p.m. eastern tomorrow. that does it for this edition of andrea mitchell reports. remember, follow the show online, on facebook, and on twitter @mitchellreport thes. make sure to watch inside with jen psaki on sunday at noon eastern when she speaks with katherine clark, ron klain, and british ambassador to the u.s. karen pierce. alex witt is in for chris jansing reports right now. a very good day to all of you. i m alex witt in for chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. donald trump proclaiming confidence in mike pence, even after his former vp spent hours testifying in front of a grand jury. so what questions are left to be answered, and what does all this mean for jack smith s effort to build a case against trump? plus, nearly two dozen people are dead in ukraine including several children after russia launches a devastating