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
As a politician, and we sort of have covered him and judged him. a lot of people covered him more expertly than me, but he does try to harness, you know, a mid western folksiness what is mike pence, the witness before the grand jury like or what do you want to bring out in mike pence the witness? you think you re going to use mike pence as a trial witness, what you want is you want him to be earnest, you want him to tell the truth, and you want him to tell all of the truth. and that s an interesting question here, because we know that this was lengthy testimony that suggests that there weren t a lot of objections. or maybe it suggests that there was some back and forth. some questions that pence didn t want to respond to, because we know that the judge had given him the opportunity to reject to specific questions on the grounds that they violated his speech or debate clause privilege since he was acting as