“I think that the vice president, you know, had his own case based on the Speech and Debate Clause. He was pleased that for the first time a judge acknowledged that it applied to the vice president of the United States,” Pence adviser Marc Short said in an interview on NewsNation afterward.

“But he was willing to comply with the law, and courts have ordered him to testify.”

Pence was poised to recount for the first time under oath his direct conversations with Trump leading up to January 6, 2021.

Pence’s meeting with investigators comes as he is exploring a possible challenge to Trump for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024, with his testimony likely to cause more friction between him and his former boss.

Both Pence and Trump went to court to hold off his unprecedented subpoena. But trial and appellate judges ordered Pence to testify about his direct conversations with the then-President.

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