I'm Ben Myceles from the Midas Touch Network and this is a breaking news alert.

Another big win for special counsel Jack Smith in his criminal investigations of Donald Trump.

We are now learning that former vice president Mike Pence will not be filing an appeal

to the district court order which compelled him to testify before the criminal grand jury

in Washington DC.

Folks, what this means is that in very short order former vice president Mike Pence will

be providing under oath testimony, which he was previously trying to avoid before a criminal

grand jury in Washington DC about mostly all of the information he was privy to about

Donald Trump's conduct leading up to the January 6th insurrection.

You will recall from our previous reporting that former vice president Mike Pence had tried

to object to the subpoena that he was issued by special counsel Jack Smith asserting

what's called the speech and debate privilege.

Essentially, what former vice president Mike Pence was arguing is that because as a vice

president he had a dual role and also was the president of the Senate, he argued that

for all of his legitimate legislative conduct that he engaged in as president of the Senate,

he should be shielded from having to give testimony under Article 1, Section 6, Clause 1 of

the United States Constitution, which is called the speech and debate clause which protects

lawmakers in the House of Representatives and the Senate from having to testify on issues

that involve legitimate legislative activity.

Judge James Boesberg, who is the new presiding judge, the new chief judge of the Federal

Courthouse in Washington DC, almost in all regards overruled former vice president Mike Pence's

objections and judge Boesberg essentially said, look, for a limited period of time where you

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