Great to have all of you wit us cynthia, i ll start with you given the appeals court speier dismissal of trump s motion, trying to block his former aides from testifying, wha chances does he have to no block pence s testimony, and what with this look like i this appeal work to go to th supreme court? he has zero chance. he will lose in a district court. and he lost in the distric court already. he will lose on appeal, and my conscience, the supreme cour will take it i would say slim to none, an slim has walked out the door all right, hayes, you thoughts on this i mean, we don t know th specifics of what trump former aides are being asked but there are reports that federal prosecutors are lookin into whether, you know, th former president and his advisers scammed donors by using false claims of vote fraud to raise money, an specifically, they re lookin into the time period between november 2020 and of course th insurrection, and later in january 2021 yes, i think that there i
Before a grand jury in one o the federal probes is facing trump filed an appeal earlie this week and asked a cour yesterday to take immediat action and blocking pence testimony in the special counsel s investigation into trump s efforts to overturn th 2020 election. of course, this is on brand fo the ex president trump has already tried to block other former aides fro testifying before the same grand jury, citing executive privilege. a federal appeals court ha since denied that emotion an some of those aides have begun testifying, including the like of stephen miller and trump one-time director of nationa intelligence, john ratcliffe joining me now is my saturda night panel, hayes brown writer and editor at msnbc daily. we cynthia alksne, msnbc legal analyst. she is also former federal prosecutor and mike lyon, host of can w please talk broadcast.
Ethicalguidelines that wer required of him. that makes no sense. he has to have known that this is a transaction that should have been reported and if this is his argument, w should not be on the bench a this point maybe he should consider retiring if he can t keep trac of those sorts of things in hi head i m just saying, there is no way that anyone who is in that position would not know that you have to disclose to sort o deal period. the troubling thing, cynthia, for me at least, tha propublica reports - sorry, after its report, sleet confirmed that thomas s mother actually still lives at th house that is now owned an completely remodelled bike photo. i think, from my opinion, that that complicates things even for their for their justice. this was a time selling th house and moving on. no his mother still lives in th house that was paid for by crow
The federal probes is facing trump filed an appeal earlie this week and asked a cour yesterday to take immediat action and blocking pence testimony in the special counsel s investigation into trump s efforts to overturn th 2020 election. of course, this is on brand fo the ex president trump has already tried to block other former aides fro testifying before the same grand jury, citing executive privilege. a federal appeals court ha since denied that emotion an some of those aides have begun testifying, including the like of stephen miller and trump one-time director of nationa intelligence, john ratcliffe joining me now is my saturda night panel, hayes brown writer and editor at msnbc daily. we cynthia alksne, msnbc legal analyst. she is also former federal prosecutor and mike leon, host of can w please talk podcast. cynthia, i ll start with you given the appeals courts prior dismissal of trump s motion, trying to block his former aides from testifying, wha chances does he have to not no