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Former Vice President Mike Pence's "historic" testimony before a federal grand jury investigating Donald Trump's efforts surrounding the January 6, 2021 insurrection and to overturn the 2020 election should allow Special Counsel Jack Smith to reach a decision "soon" on whether or not to charge the ex-president.

"Expect decisions soon from Jack Smith. Very little reason to dawdle now, particularly on MAL charges," said Andrew Weissman, referring to Trump's unlawful retention and refusal to return classified documents he kept at Mar-a-Lago. Weissman is a former FBI General Counsel, served two decades at the Dept. of Justice, and was the lead prosecutor during Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation.

During a hearing, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) made a bizarre claim while opposing the idea of climate mitigation programs: Nobody needs these programs because taxes weren't necessary to make the glaciers melt during the previous glacial maximum in the Pleistocene epoch.

The clip was flagged by Esquire's Charles P. Pierce on Thursday afternoon.

Former Vice President Mike Pence’s “historic” testimony before a federal grand jury investigating Donald Trump‘s efforts surrounding the January 6, 2021 insurrection and to overturn the 2020 election should allow Special Counsel Jack Smith to reach a decision “soon” on whether or not to charge the ex-president.

“Expect decisions soon from Jack Smith. Very little reason to dawdle now, particularly on MAL charges,” said Andrew Weissman, referring to Trump’s unlawful retention and refusal to return classified documents he kept at Mar-a-Lago. Weissman is a former FBI General Counsel, served two decades at the Dept. of Justice, and was the lead prosecutor during Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.

Former Vice President Mike Pence testified for several hours in the January 6 investigation led by Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith — after months of Pence stonewalling and raising constitutional objections, and Trump being denied a last-minute legal motion to block the testimony from taking place.

This was one of the keystone legal victories Smith needed to secure, Sara Murray explained on CNN's "The Situation Room" on Thursday.

At the top of his show, less than an hour after news broke that former Vice President Mike Pence was seen entering and leaving the grand jury Thursday, Ari Melber had a list of why he's such a major witness.

There are low-level staffers, Secret Service agents, and even Trump's former chief-of-staff, who have appeared before the grand jury, but no one is as big as Pence, he explained. No one can sink Trump more than Pence can.

NBC News is reporting that former Vice President Mike Pence spent 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Thursday speaking before the grand jury impaneled in Washington, D.C. by special counsel Jack Smith.

Wednesday night, the final appeals court shut down Donald Trump's demand to keep Pence silent. The only option left for Trump was for him to appeal to the Supreme Court. But before Trump could do it, Pence was sitting before the grand jury answering questions.

The Washington Post revealed that behind the scenes, former President Donald Trump hired a law firm at $750,000 to find voter fraud in the 2020 election. They found nothing.

The 2020 election is becoming the most investigated election in history, and each time it confirms that there was no widespread voter fraud and Trump lost.

Former President Donald Trump released another angry video on Thursday projecting his frustration over United States Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith's criminal investigation into the classified materials that he hoarded at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida.

In his rant, Trump — while referring to himself in the third person — alleged that President Joe Biden's document snafu was also a crime, even though no such evidence has emerged implicating Biden in an illegal act.

Andrew Weissmann, who previously worked as a prosecutor with special counsel Robert Mueller's team, explained that former President Donald Trump seems to be running scared to the House Republicans for help as the Justice Department probes continue.

Speaking to MSNBC on Thursday, Weissmann discussed Trump's failed attempt to block former Vice President Mike Pence from testifying to special counsel Jack Smith. The only option left for Trump is to appeal to the Supreme Court with his executive privilege argument, but the legal experts don't think it would be successful.

Reacting to a U.S. Court of Appeals order that slapped aside Donald Trump's hope of keeping former Vice President Mike Pence from appearing before a grand jury investigating efforts to subvert the 2020 presidential election results, a CNN legal analysts called it another in a long line of losses for the former president – with no end in sight.

According to the Associated Press, "It was not immediately clear what day Pence might appear before the grand jury, which for months has been investigating the events preceding the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and efforts by Trump and his allies to subvert the election outcome.

When former President Donald Trump leaves politics, there are many more to lead his charge among right-wingers, an expert said in an interview with Salon Friday.

There's little debate Trump has been seen a figurehead to extremists, reporter and author Jeff Sharlet said. And, since he left the White House in 2021, that movement hasn't faltered. On the contrary, said Sharlet in the interview, it's only growing bolder and more determined to seize control.

A federal panel for the D.C. Court of Appeals has denied former President Donald Trump's last-ditch effort to block a subpoena for former Vice President Mike Pence to testify to the January 6 investigation being led by special counsel Jack Smith, reported CNN on Wednesday.

"The former president has repeatedly tried and failed to close off some answers from witnesses close to him in the special counsel’s investigation. This latest order from the DC Circuit Court of Appeals likely will usher in Pence’s grand jury testimony quickly – an unprecedented development in modern presidential history," reported Katelyn Polantz. "The unanimous decision, from Judges Patricia Millett, Robert Wilkins and Greg Katsas on the DC Circuit, came in a sealed case on Wednesday night that CNN previously identified as Trump’s executive privilege challenge to Pence."