Former Vice President Pence testifies to election probe federal grand jury

Former Vice President Mike Pence testified Thursday to the federal grand jury investigating the aftermath of the 2020 election. Sources say his testimony happened just hours after Donald Trump lost an appeal to prevent it.

Pence has spoken publicly about Trump's pressure campaign to block Congress from certifying Joe Biden's victory, but he has not spoken about it under oath until Thursday.

Pence was poised to recount for the first time under oath his direct conversations with Trump leading up to January 6, 2021. Trump repeatedly pressured him unsuccessfully to block the 2020 election’s result, including the morning of January 6 on a private phone call, and a federal judge previously ruled Pence could be compelled to recount conversations the two men had where Trump may have been acting corruptly.

The former Vice President spent more than five hours with the grand jury investigating his former boss.

In fact, this is the first time in modern history a Vice President has been compelled to testify about the president he served.