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
summary judgment of a massive ought yen of viewers, a past logical fear of a ratings defeat and witches ease brew against in a network s own working journalists and fact checkers. we should tell you at any moment we re expecting breaking news in the form of fresh filens from dominion and fox, to lay out any arguments in the case. while we wait, for years we have turned to phrases lie inside the bubble and the echo chamber to describe that relationship between fox news and its viewers. never before has it been so plain to see from the outside. the discovery filings show that fox hosts were telling their viewers what they knew they wanted to here even when the very same fox news host communicated the truth to one another in private, which was different from what they were broadcasting. dominion s case may very well wrest on their ability to get a jury to understand that distinction. today, though, the story goes even further in the form of something rare. a highly visible i
the latest on the fierce storms that struck overnight in mississippi, killing at least 23 people. the trouble with trump, as his legal setbacks mount new concerns about donald trump s warning of death and destruction. and his first official campaign rally in waco, texas. 30 years after they branched oven in red. joe has, visit marjorie taylor greene made with insurrectionist. i ll get the inside scoop from one of the only two democrats on that tour. congresswoman jasmine, caucus i m jonathan capehart, this is a special hour of the saturday show. katie fang is off this weekend. we begin this saturday with breaking news and an update on the devastating tornado and wind storm that swept through mississippi overnight. the monroe county coroner told nbc news that at least 23 people are dead, including a father, and his little girl. his wife and two other children were reportedly taken to an area hospital. mississippian regency management agency officials say search and rescue reso
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
Testify. the executive privilege is basically gone at this point. the court has ruled, over and, over again dating back to richard nixon s time that executive privilege will yield when you are investigating significant crimes before the grand jury. and mike pence can say he s a legislator all he wants, because on january six. he is president of the senate presiding over the ceremonial opening of the envelopes the electoral college vote. it doesn t make him a legislator. and think about this, jonathan. lindsey graham, who actually is a legislator, for better or worse, he is a member of congress. he tried to avoid testifying before a grand jury by claiming speech or debate clause privilege, every job up to including a supreme court said, lindsey, that s not the way works, go into the grandeur in georgia testify about everything that doesn t involve