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
In the trial she brought forward under a new law in new york that allows sexual assault victims to sue, even if the statute of limitations has expired. yesterday, her testimony was powerful at times very emotional. today she was cross examined by joe tacopina a brutal cross examination focused on her maemory lapses some exchanges have bristled with tension tacopina has faced pushback from the presiding judge who called some of the lawyer s questions argumentative and repetitive earlier, tacopina pressed her about her failure to recall the exact date of her encounter with trump. i wish we could give you a date, she said she never planned to go public with her claim she changed her mind after the new york times reporting about harvey weinstein