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
Between what happens when a president of the united states is under investigation and what happens when a former president of the united states is under investigation. you think robert mueller was going to go to rod rosenstein and get a subpoena to put mike pence before a grand jury and that rod rosenstein was going to allow that to happen you are seeing the gloves come off on a trump investigation in a way that we didn t see before. some people may say it s aggressive some people say this is how a justice department investigation proceeds at the end of the day, a lot of what s going on in this investigation never would have happened if donald trump was still in the white house let me how much of it is the absence of the protections or the protectors in bill barr and rod rosenstein, whose role as a protector is a known unknown, how much of it is the