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Reacting to a report that former vice president Mike Pence has been subpoenaed by special counsel Jack Smith and will have to face questions about Donald Trump's actions on and before Jan 6th, a former prosecutor claimed the former VP will eventually have no choice but to come clean about what the former president asked him to do to subvert the 2020 election.

Appearing on MSNBC with host Cori Coffin, former Pentagon prosecutor Glenn Kirschner said there is no way that Pence will be able to claim executive privilege and would face contempt of court charges if he subsequently refuses to testify.

Early Saturday morning, Donald Trump used his Truth Social account to lash out at one of his frequent targets -- CNN -- and then attacked HBO host Bill Maher whose "Overtime" segment is now carried on CNN late Friday nights.

Of late, the former president has been flooding his Truth Social account by reposting memes and complimentary comments from his followers. Saturday morning, he got back into the swing of things after a Friday night post about the 2020 election that he still insists was stolen from him.

During an appearance on MSNBC's "The Katie Phang Show" early Saturday morning, longtime Donald Trump "fixer" Michael Cohen was asked about his upcoming interview this coming week with investigators in the Manhattan District Attorney's office and then was asked about the former president's state of mind as he faces possible criminal charges.

Speaking with the MSNBC host, former attorney Cohen claimed he believes that Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg has enough evidence to drag the former president back into court and that the investigation appears to be ramping up.

Reacting to a report that the Department of Justice just recovered a laptop from a Donald Trump aide that contained classified electronic documents, an MSNBC legal analyst predicted it will be added to the long list of charges that the former president has not been forthcoming about his growing stolen document scandal.

Speaking with MSNBC host Katie Phang, attorney Danny Cevallos called the new revelation a "huge problem" for the former president.

As former President Donald Trump continues to paint himself in a corner with his variety of legal lawsuits and defenses, he is running out of time to try to convince the legal system once again that he can use executive privilege to toss out conversations between him and former Vice President Mike Pence.

With special counsel Jack Smith serving Pence with a subpoena, MSNBC columnist Steve Benen said that Trump will try his previously failed strategy of a former President claiming executive privilege that was denied during the House Jan. 6 Committee's investigation.

According to CNN legal analyst Norm Eisen, the very fact that special counsel Jack Smith has issued a subpoena to former Vice President Mike Pence as part of his investigation into Donald Trump's actions surrounding Jan. 6 should be of great concern to the former president.

As CNN had previously reported, "Justice Department prosecutors had reached out to Pence’s representatives to seek his testimony in the criminal investigation, according to people familiar with the matter. Pence’s team had indicated he was open to discussing a possible agreement with DOJ to provide some testimony," however that went nowhere, hence the Smith subpoena.

During a CNN panel discussion on Vice President Mike Pence being subpoenaed by special counsel Jack Smith, senior CNN political analyst Dana Bash suggested Donald Trump's advisors are whistling past the graveyard in the belief that the former president won't be indicted by the Department of Justice.

Speaking with host Jim Sciuto, a smiling Bash labeled their hopes that Trump won't be hauled into court "wishful thinking."

Legal experts came together with MSNBC's Joy Reid on Thursday to talk about the significance of special counsel Jack Smith subpoenaing former Vice President Mike Pence.

Civil Rights lawyer Charles Coleman walked through some of the questions that Smith will probably ask. He explained that it became clear that Pence knew that the attempt to overthrow the election by refusing to accept the electoral college votes wasn't legal.

Former Vice President Mike Pence has been subpoenaed by Jack Smith, the special counsel investigating former President Donald Trump's involvement in the plot to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Pence, who previously refused to give testimony to the House January 6 Committee last year, was the target of a coordinated pressure campaign by Trump to block the electoral count of various swing states that had voted for President Joe Biden.

On CNN Thursday, political commentator David Chalian outlined how this is coming at the worst possible moment for Pence, who is currently taking steps that suggest he wants to run for president in 2024.

ABC News broke the story on Thursday that Mike Pence had been subpoenaed by special counsel Jack Smith.

Speaking to MSNBC's Ari Melber, former prosecutor Renato Mariotti said that it's not clear that it's necessarily an escalation in the investigation, but he explained that Pence wouldn't be a target in Donald Trump's document scandal or the Jan. 6 scandal.

Special counsel Jack Smith has subpoenaed former Vice President Mike Pence to testify in ongoing investigations into former President Donald Trump, ABC News reported.

It was announced earlier Thursday that Trump's national security adviser Robert O'Brien was subpoenaed to address both Trump's potential mishandling of classified documents and another probe into efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. It's unknown what information Smith is seeking from Pence.

Special counsel Jack Smith has subpoenaed former President Donald Trump's national security adviser, Robert O'Brien, CNN.com reported Thursday.

He is wanted to answer questions about Trump's involvement in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol and the attempt to overturn the 2020 election as well as the documents scandal. Trump stole over a dozen boxes of documents from the White House, refusing to turn them back over to the National Archives as mandated by the Presidential Records Act.

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said that it is "almost inevitable" former President Donald Trump will be indicted in a new interview with Jordan Rubin published by MSNBC Friday.

"It’s almost inevitable that there will be charges, because the evidence is just so overwhelming," Raskin told Rubin. "Interference with a federal proceeding — in this case, the joint session of Congress, counting Electoral College votes — was not only the crime, but it was the whole point of 'Stop the Steal.' That was Donald Trump’s complete and obvious and naked intent to get people to go in and interfere with the counting of votes and to stop it, delay it, postpone it by any means necessary. So that just seems completely straightforward. And that’s just one of the referrals."