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
Tweeting from the overflow room, but it sounds like tacopina has managed to run afoul of both of those risks. he has not made any inroads into her testimony. she has told a compelling story. he managed to i m sorry to interrupt. this is big. we have just learned and are able to confirm, mike pence testified before the grand jury today. it s a major update to a story we started with in the last hour garrett haake is live for us what can you tell us,believe, ad
Some women scream. some women don t he raped me whether or not i screamed she started weeping. he was taken aback and asked, do you need a moment? gathering herself with all of the midwestern gumption her lawyers told us she was raised with, she shook her head and so no she pushed back on joe tacopina forcefully and using the platform that she now has and being proud, as you just said, that she is finally having her day in court as 79 years old i know that tacopina thought to question that she didn t call 911. will the jury be made away of the statistics that the vast majority of rapes are not followed by a 911 call reporter: i don t know. we will hear from the experts
In the trial she brought forward under a new law in new york that allows sexual assault victims to sue, even if the statute of limitations has expired. yesterday, her testimony was powerful at times very emotional. today she was cross examined by joe tacopina a brutal cross examination focused on her maemory lapses some exchanges have bristled with tension tacopina has faced pushback from the presiding judge who called some of the lawyer s questions argumentative and repetitive earlier, tacopina pressed her about her failure to recall the exact date of her encounter with trump. i wish we could give you a date, she said she never planned to go public with her claim she changed her mind after the new york times reporting about harvey weinstein