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
Preserve his presidency and overturn the rightful election of joe biden that man was mike pence. what did he do in that conversation or private conversation to say, you gotta do the right thing it s all that kind of conversation we have been talking about for six years with the way mafia don talks. you have to do the right thing there s negative consequences if you don t. pence can talk about the history of the presidency. two years ago he said x to me. i knew he wanted me to do y. that first year he said this he can testify to trump s state of mind in a way that almost nobody else can, because trump was trying to persuade him to violate the law, obstruct the official proceedings and commit a traitorous act kind of a trai against the united states. i think, mike, so much of what the committee left in terms of bread crumbs was right to the door of what rick s talking about, what trump knew even if you go through and look