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
being in san juan. that does it for andrea mitchell reports. you can follow u us @mitchellreports. here is stephanie ruhle. thank you very much. former mueller is set to testify on the hill in less than 48 hours. what do lawmakers want want? we ll be speaking to one of those members who s set to grill him. president trump is still attacking four congresswomen of color. now calling them troublemakers. we ll dig into trump s strategy. the 2020 candidate says the economy s lights are blinking red. we ll look at senator elizabeth warren s plan. president trump just spoke with reporters ahead of a bilateral
meeting with kazakhstan prime minister. he spent some time blasting robert mueller in front of congress. mueller is due to testify on wednesday in front of the house s judicial and intelligence committee. joining me now is kristen welker. she was just inside the oval office minutes ago. after the mueller report was released, the president said i am totally exonerated and all set
That jack smith is pursuing where he knows who he wants to talk to. he knows where the facts led him. he prevails in court until he gets, in this case, the testimony by vice president mike pence. yes we ve seen it ever since he was appointed to sort of a steady stream of people going into the grand jury and jack smith taking up cases of refusal to testify first to the district court chief judge in, this case it was others if the side takes it up to the court of appeals, he s winning there. so here, you know, the question at this point is will the trump team either try to seek a full review of the entire what is called the endtire court of appeals or will they give up as they did with other cases as they did in trump s other high level officials.
Which is direct evidence. we have testimony by lieutenant colonel vindman who understood it as a demand. sondland said he instructed me i had to work with giuliani and giuliani conveyed his instructions, and mick mulvane asaying get over it, we did commission it to 2016. so that s an overwhelming amount of evidence. that s why judge napolitano on fox news says he thinks it s an overwhelming amount of evidence in favor of impeachment. i think that s what the american public will be presented with, and on wednesday, they ll have constitutional experts explain what the legal standard is. so that they can judge what is an abuse of power. i appreciate all of you very much. thank you. and next, an ex-fbi lawyer is speaking out after two years of her silence. the reporter who broke that story is my guest next. and could the m word win votes for joe biden?