Ex-Vice President Pence does not rule out being witness for Trump's prosecution

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By Tim Reid

(Reuters) — Former Republican Vice President Mike Pence on Sunday did not rule out being a prosecution witness if his ex-boss Donald Trump goes to trial on charges of orchestrating a criminal conspiracy to try to reverse his defeat in the 2020 presidential election.

Asked on Sunday on CBS's Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan if he would be a witness against Trump if the case goes to trial, Pence said he had «no plans» to testify, but did not rule it out.

«But people can be confident we'll obey the law, we'll respond to the call of law, if it comes, and we'll just tell the truth,» said Pence, who is running against Trump in the 2024 Republican presidential nominating contest.

Pence became a central figure in Trump's latest criminal charges on Aug. 1 when a four-count, 45-page Justice Department indictment charged the former president with illegally trying to cling on to power after he lost the 2020 election to Democrat Joe Biden.

Trump pleaded not guilty to all the charges on Aug. 3.

In the run up to the certification of Biden's win in Congress on Jan. 6, 2021, Pence oversaw the proceedings in his ceremonial role as president of the U.S. Senate. He came under huge pressure from Trump to overturn the vote and refused. Some of the Trump supporters who rioted at the U.S. Capitol chanted «Hang Mike Pence!»

That incessant pressure, and the «contemporaneous notes» Pence took in the run up the Jan. 6, 2021 riot, are frequently cited in last week's indictment.

At one point, the indictment refers to a Jan. 1, 2021 phone call during which Trump berated Pence for not participating in the scheme to overturn the election result.

«You're too honest,» Trump told Pence.

Pence's potential testimony and his notes could