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
Defense attorneys. thank you four all your great reporting to day harry and mary, thank you for starting us off. be sure to check out mary s new podcast. it will smamake you smarter the latest episode of prosecuting donald trump is out right now. after the break, it has been a mystery. why would fox news fire the top ratings getter thanks to old fashioned vek investigative reporting, we re much closer to finding out why and why now.