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thanks for sticking around. it s friday. we have a lot going on a major show the d.a. who made history by indicting donald trump is under a lot of scrutiny. he has a very interesting record, a record that includes beating trump in court previously did you know that? we have been working on one of our special reports around here, and we are going to air it for you live tonight on manhattan district attorney alvin bragg. that s coming up we begin on the federal side of thing where is the criminal probe of trump continues he is a criminal defendant in new york but the federal case involves a star witness who was also targeted for harm or assassination by then sitting president donald trump when i say those words out loud here, it almost sounds like extreme or hard to remember, but that is really what happened you might think if you were defending yourself in the case where you re accused of causing harm to your own vice president, you d want him to testify and say on y ....
Donald Trump loses bid to block Mike Pence from testifying, according to courts. Donald Trump, the former President of the United States, just lost his appeal, attempting to block ex-Vice President Mike Pence from testifying to a grand jury. ....
Washington rejected trump s privilege claims to try to stop other aides from testifying. again, not prediction, precedent. a recent president in the same court system that people have to comply with these probes there may be some limited privilege claims, right. that can happen, just like there s other secrecy claims there s lawyer/client privilege that operates for all these individuals. but the idea that donald trump can come in the ninth inning and stop the process or stop pence s testimony is something most judges have already ejected. meanwhile, one of trump s top loyalists in the white house, steven miller, was seen at the courthouse, so was the former director of national intelligence, john ratcliffe, forced to testify, all this pursuant to the special counsel that merrick garland appointed and there is this contrast here between donald trump now under indictment if new york, preparing for a criminal trial there, so he can try to stay out of jail. that s how serious it is ....
Appeal them, so now you re absolutely right, trump is coming in and trying to gag pence because pence has said no appeal and he might try and revive not just executive privilege but the speech or debate claim, which i think would go nowhere because that s really held by the vice president and not the president. with respect to executive privilege, i agree with joyce, i think there s no chance this u.s. supreme court will entertain it and executive privilege, trump tried to do it last year with respect to the january 6th investigation, asserting executive privilege. he lost that 8-1 in the supreme court. only clarence thomas was willing to side with president trump the pence one is not materially different, if anything, the case for piercing executive privilege is much stronger i don t see much delay in this i expect court will lose in a matter of days, probably next week, and then they can try and go to the u.s. supreme court and ....