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
And he has it reads like a brief in the eventual case what he tries to say is, well, you know, people just swept away the documents at the beginning ignoring, of course, the whole focus of the crime that he may well be charged with have to do with his obstructing and not returning after. that s the point he is trying to sort of overwrite. again, as luke s reporting says, for political, not possibly legal reasons. we ve been covering the strum story too long i m old enough to remember that all the people that ran the intelligence agency that were hand picked by him were dummies. the they had to go back to school now he wants them to take over his handling of classified documents. will something he wanted doj to prosecute hillary clinton for. you have to suspend reality and