you know fani willis, your friends with fani willis, do you know about fani willis's general use of cash that answer and that explanation will work with this judge? >> again, i think when you take the whole story and context, it makes sense. again, she and her father are very close, obviously, from the testimony. this is a man that is looking to protect his daughter at all costs. and if you think many of us, whether it's my relationship with my dad or any others, your dad's gonna give you the kind of advice to help you survive as an independent woman in the world. and i think her father has done a fantastic job in this case. you also heard through the testimony where she says she doesn't let any man feel as though she owes them for anything. and saw when unit those two data points together, it does lend itself to be a credible argument and in understanding why she's trying to honour her father's wishes as well as how it has helped shape her into becoming the independent woman's y'all got to see on the stand today. >> a man who who has a plan is the line of the day. charles coleman, let's

this morning it was announced that there were no questions for fani willis.has been excused from testimony. she's done. we are waiting for the arrival of mr. terrence bradley. if his name sounds familiar to you all, it's because he is the former divorce lawyer for may nathan wade. he showed up yesterday, he eventually took the stand, but then there was immediate legal wrangling over the attorney/client privilege and whether or not it prevented him from being able to provide testimony about significantly the timing of the personal relationship between nathan wade and fani willis. mr. bradley on his way to court according to his lawyers, once he arrives court will resume, and we should hear some testimony from him. >> and so i mean, willis testified for hours yesterday. we're also hearing from several other witnesses. what is the judge considering this morning? >> so the judge based upon i think when you have somebody like mr. bradley back on the stand, the judge is now not going to focus on the finances so much as the time line of that personal relationship, a

she saw fani willis. she conversed with fani willis. fani willis told her there was a romantic relationship. definitely on that, yes. i go back to interog tories where nathan wade tried to conceal by way of interrog tory ex existence of gifts and trips. there is evidence the judge has now that he did not have 24 hours ago. disqualification occurs if there is conflict or appearance. we learned a lot today, those two components have been met. >> kayleigh: follow-up. did the prosecutor make any progress in -- on the backside? >> you know as well as i do, sometimes if there is disgruntled employee, how many times have prosecutors and criminal and civil cases, someone testifying who may have a shady background on key component of the testimony whether or not that relationship existed, that evidence was solid, she has personal knowledge. fani willis lived with her. i think she can testify to that and i think the judge can separate those two issues. >> harris: emily, you want to ask a quick question? >> emily: no. >> harris: leo, we will let y

>> well, liz, fani willis blew that defense out of the water. she said she was staying at a friend's apartment and the same friend that testified the relationship started in 2019 she would pay her via cash app so she does pay via cash app and something important to remember, fani willis is a da and gave this contract to nathan wade and nathan wade is a contractor to full ton county and prohibited from giving the district attorney any gifts of any meaningful size. she knows that and has to file financial disclosures and for her to say she's paying in cash and poof, there's magically no paper trail to any of this cash, we're just supposed to take her word for it? beggars belief when she is an official who has to certify that contractors aren't paying her anything. she should be doubly careful to make sure there's receipts for things like checks and she also did decline to say she needed. she said i don't use checks and her whole testimony was not credit card and will her attitude certainly didn't help things. credible and her attitude didn't help

fani does. again, very convenient because you need a paper trail, right, to show this willis paid nathan wade and was not getting financial benefit from the lord your she was hiring to investigate trump. >> did you keep track of the cash that you paid him at all? did you keep track, a ledger, did you keep track of it? >> i have mentioned i gave him cash three or four times. there is no ledger. this is friends handing money off to each other. >> laura: of course, just friends handing money off to each other. this is ridiculous! just like the idea miss willis did know her ethical obligations as the county d.a. >> did you disclose your relationship to anybody at fulton county? >> no, i don't think so. >> are you aware polk county requires you to disclosure relationship? >> i'm not aware. >> laura: to me, that was stunning. again i'm a she's going after trump for election interference and she doesn't know her own ethical obligations? that was on top of many other stunning moments where both witnesse

fani said no one ever slept over.d he left at 4:55 a.m., did she purger herself? >> you also remember bill clinton lawyer, very smart guy, that depends on what the meaning of the word is, is. i suspect, they will try to defend themselves by saying this wasn't a relationship yet. they were just hooking up. i don't think that is going to fly very well. i give credit to the attorneys here. they clearly already had these cell phone records and text message relationship and went ahead and aggressively questioned. it would be one thing, hey, how many times did you go visit. few off, one way or the other. 12,000 text messages is hard to explain away. 2,000 phone calls impossible. this was a relationship. >> jesse: they were in heat. 12,000 text, clay? they were in heat. what if cell phone records showed otherwise and wade goes at&t cell phone records would be wrong. that is the genius. >> that is a defense. >> jesse: that is the genius that is prosecuting trump. >> you and i roughly same generation, shaggy, they could be on

secondly, though they already testified both fani and mr. wade that they were at that condo in hate ville more than ten times in 2021? if you even accept the explanation of the private investigator that nathan wade's phone pinging down in the neighborhood 35 times. that's not inconsistent furthermore, in the response of the da's office filed they were able to point out that fani was in a different place, upwards of ten times in those specific thing in specific times that the defense attorneys are trying to say nathan and fani are there together? so it doesn't even stand for the proposition that the defense is trying to offer it for it's not contradictory. it's corroboration of what's already been testified to all right. thanks. elie. thanks, charlie, appreciate it coming up next new york city's mayor breaking with decades of precedent, he says he wants a change in the sanctuary city policy there that developing news ahead the. lead with jake tapper, ron to you by empower, ke control of your financial future and >> empower what's next? get yo

fani willis's father testified that he moved in with her in the summer of 2019 when fani willis had ao is frequently at her house. that conflicts with the trump team lawyers claim that fani willis began dating nathan wade in 2019. fani willis's father said he never once sought nathan wade at their home and never met him until this year. mr. floyd explained why his daughter had to move out of the house. >> there had been so many death threats and they said they were going to blow up the house, they were going to kill her, they were going to kill me, they were going to kill my grandchildren, i mean, on, and on, and on. i was concerned for her safety. >> the people who are threatening to kill him and his daughter and his grandchildren are the supporters of the clients of lawyers who are all facing him in that room today, some of them questioning him. when lawyer representing donald trump questioned fani willis's father even-handed questioning, her father handled the questioning, as gracefully and professionally as former governor barnes did. there isn't even a hint of anything about prof

fani willis father testified he moved in with her in the summer of 2019, when fani willis had a boyfriendr house. that conflicts with the trump team lawyers claim that fani willis began dating nathan wade in 2019. fani willis father said he never once -- never once saw nathan wade at your home and never met him until this year. mr. floyd explained why his daughter had to move out of the house. >> they have been so many death threats. and they said they were gonna blow up the house, killed her, kill me. they were gonna kill migrant children. on and on and on. it came and i was concerned for her safety. >> the people who are threatening to kill him and his daughter and his grandchildren are at the supporters of the clients also lawyers who were all facing him in that room today. some of them questioning him. when the lawyer representing donald trump questioned fani willis's father, he handled the questioning, her father hand of the questioning as gracefully and as professionally as former governor burns. did there wasn't even a hint of anything but professional respect that attorney john cl

i think fani is a liar. you don't have to be a psychology major that she was putting her hands on her face and could not sit still and when she was getting asked questions she was going off in giving roundabout information. my point is, i think she was lying. host: lake charles, louisiana, melissa. caller: thank you for taking my call. i found the hearing riveting. i could not stop watching it. fani willis completely failed herself. she lost all sense of decorum. she was inarticulate. you could tell that she is incompetent about how to enter a courtroom. how anyone could think she would be able to weave all of the intricacies of a rico case when she can't present herself without losing it completely. she would rather pontificate and filibuster on the simple yes or no questions. i think she was trying to obscure that these were kickbacks and she's putting a million dollars of georgia tax money on a credit card. i don't know why anyone would vote for that woman. the truth will come out in the questions remain

fani willis lied to the court. it's game over for her.he will be disqualified if they had a relationship prior to when they represented to the court. it's a huge deal. like i can't overstate it. >> laura: that's the msnbc one you were talking about. but she was actually trying to play the victim at one point and we will play that a little bit later on. but do you think that works? and, in this case, what if they disqualify her and, of course, her friend, nay tan wade, off the scene but they disqualify maybe her office and then try to restart this investigation? what is your -- what is president trump's view of this in light of calls for the governor's office to step in and certainly start their own criminal investigation or special investigation of this office? >> well, as president trump has long said, this case should be dismissed. not just because of these allegations of misconduct that if proven true, if the court of law proves them true and they certainly appear to be, it should be dismissed on the merits of that also, on the basis o

fani willis, this is her ex. it is so offensive, i think, to a lot of women watching this and black women in particular to watch her go through this. >> yeah, and i think that was why you saw, she was up there trying to clarify, trying to correct the record as she saw it. black women are never going to answer a question with a simple yes or no because it's usually never that simple for black women. tokatie's point, there was a lot of focus on her money. how much work it took to get to where she was. investing $50,000 of her own money just to win this d.a. race and now she has to defend her reputation, that certainly would explain partly why she was so upset and the clip you played, a lot of people of color, especially black women who were raised by black parents of a certain age who taught us to always keep cash and never depend on another person for anything. she was literally insulted by the insinuation that nathan wade was taking care of her or they were not equals. it sounds like that was part of the reason t

we should have low deli quincies if everyone is working. >> fani wi f fani willis pays all cash. >> ae e,. >> the bidens are so proud of the economy who numbers come out in the morning, they don't want to wait an hour, they want to go out in a half hour, and maybe push the markets. this started -- one hour rule started under reagan as you tracked it in 1985, we had to deal with this for many years. does it matter they wait an hour or a half hour? should we look ascance. >> just look at how much you know carney and o'leary know about the economy, the fact if white house comes out with retail sale numbers saying something ludicrous, you will be red meat for brbreitbart. there are a lot of career staffers at omg and ca t eevarks that un -- that understand the nuances of data. i think that having larry kudlow on tv a half hour after the instance response guys will not have a political affect. larry: i don't think it ever -- >> i supported it, i gave him a quote, i said i think our team will be better, and think ahead. next january, kudlow's you know minions will be on tv a lot. and having

she didn't have any specific she had been fired by fani willis. so there was that but, you know, all of which is a huge which distraction from what the case is all about and what our book is all about, which was a rather elaborate conspiracy to overthrow the results of an election. and, you know, all the serious matters we talk about in the book and which are part of the case, the pressure on state officials the blatantly false testimony by rudy giuliani and georgia legislature that led to all the threats against election workers like ruby freeman human the fake electors, the cyber heist raid in coffee county, rural georgia. all his almost forgotten. and instead we're talking about something that really has no catering on the evidence at all. >> and kaitlan, that's that's what precisely what underscores why this is so problematic for fani willis because because the last thing she wants is for people and potential jurors out there and the public and not to be focused on the really serious matters underlying this case and the problem is for a distri

do >> you think it was smart that fani willis? >> took the >> stand, chose to do it when she first got on the stand. i wasn't so sure it was smart, but i actually thought that she was so raw in a way that it came across as very truthful, very credible. and it was powerful. and in some ways, i think what was happening is as you described it, the optics were that she was on the stand and then she flipped that back and said, i am not right. case the case. all right. all stay with me because our coverage continues here one person we are learning watching fani willis in her hearing very closely is the manhattan district attorney already our paula reid, working horse, her sources and she has some new details coming into out front and the date is now set in trump's hush money trial that is now set to begin in just weeks. a verdict expected possibly this spring, and a crucial witness in the case, michael cohen is going to be here with me tonight. also new details emerging about who police have in custody to the deadly mass shooting at the

how do you think today went for fani willis? >> judge pirro: i have to tell you she was without a doubt the most confrontational combative nonresponsive defiant condescending arrogant witness i have ever seen in a courtroom. especially in a courtroom, and not be taken away in the county bus and held in contempt at the local jail. i mean, this does not happen in courtrooms. she walks in and she literally is so angry, she accuses the lawyer right off the bat of lying in her questions, with her sworn afterwards and the judge doesn't say anything. the judge just lets her. she was out of control. she says that this lawyer is, what is it, contrary to democracy, everything she's doing. meanwhile, you look at wade, this guy is sweating bullets. he knows he doesn't have any evidence on his side. he knows his claim of getting cash as reimbursement is ridiculous. by the way, if this guy ever tries a case against president trump, trump won't have two drinks. -- have two drinks but he doesn't drink, and be happy. all he did was drink water.

deuce, but fani's friend said she was dating lover boy, was fani to timing lover boy and deuce? like everything in fulton county, it's complicated appeared when fani moved out of the house, her dad was living in, did her daddy know where she moved to? >> no, and i did not want to know, and intentionally did not want to know, because i was not -- if somebody stuck a gun to my head and i could tell them, i was not going to tell them anyway. i made up something, but i did not want to know. >> jesse: so fani's daddy does not know where his daughter lives in case a kidnapper puts a gun to his head and demands of her whereabouts, does not know where she lives or where she lives or who she dates, but what does he know? >> before covid was even here in the united states, i have traveled the world, i knew covid was coming before. i knew covid was around before. they may have announced it in '20, but in fact i knew about it, and i knew what was happening in '19. >> jesse: so he knew that covid was coming before fauci and did not tell us? bad daddy. and he pulled a magnifying glass out to

those are the >> exact words of a defiant fani willis. she is, of course, the georgia da overseeing trump's election interference case and she took the stand for hours today in a high-stakes hearing, which just ended a hearing that focused on her relationship with nathan wade, who is her top prosecutor in the trump case. >> and it was a show >> trump and his allies, lawyers pride into salacious, deeply personal details and willis his private life. and willis did not back down, turning the tables on them how might feel it's like a woman doesn't have the right to keep our private life private. and i'm speaking on this because there have been all these intimations, you've been intrusive into people's personal lives. you'll confuse, you think i'm on trial. these people are on trial for trying to steal an election in 2020. i'm not on trial no matter how hard you try to put me on trial. >> that is though exactly what trump's legal team wanted, which was to put willis on trial, hoping that if they can get her disqualified, that will sink her cas

i can't overstate it. >> it was a tough day for fani willis. she came in hot and emotional. >> the only person who benefited here was donald trump and the other defendants. >> what is mind blowing is that the probing questions into the personal life of trump's prosecutor could possibly sink that case. >> if he disqualifies her from this case her entire office is removed from the case. >> dana: you don't usually see that kind of agreement but you had it yesterday. >> you have to recognize that with all of his challenges donald trump has a certain amount of luck. having fani willis as an alternative cinchs south carolina. he would win anyway. this is an absurd tee. you watch this person and you think she really was going to take on the former president of the united states and a whole bunch of people under a rico claim that almost everybody agrees is absurd and now we discover not only that all humans are flawed, but in her case, i think it's also fair to say that she is probably violated the law herself by signing documents as she herself admitt

trial on the fani willis/nathan wade affair. long time. it won't be resolved anything like february 15th. >> the key question for tomorrow and everyone will be watching for will the d.a. fani willis have to take the stand and testify under oath about her love life? it really is a decision will make and it will depend what the earlier witnesses say. harris, back to you. >> harris: thank you very much, steve. leo terrell, fox news contributor and attorney. i wrote down a note. there are some losers in this whole thing. first the taxpayers who put up the money for wade's salary. she paid him the most of everybody in the office and then his wife in their divorce right now and where we've gotten some of the receipts from her. your thoughts. >> i will tell you right now it's the divorce case that may come back to bite nathan wade and fani willis, why? there are documents allegedly in the divorce proceeding that contradicts what nathan wade and fani willis have said in this proceeding. that is going to be a major issue. these two attor

fani willis lied to the court. it's game over for her. she will be disqualified. >> i could watch a bravo tv episode or salacious details about a romance. >> dana: which means, jessica, it's a good day for president trump. this case -- we will get to the judge on this in a moment, but it looks like it's not going well for fani willis. you imagine all those other defendants are thinking this case could get thrown out. >> jessica: i am not sure i would comment on that. the trump team and what they are happy about, if she's disqualified, it's another de delay. he was in court in new york today trying to get the alvin bragg court lengthened. they don't care about this, but they care about the election interference case. i agree with much of what has been said. i think that there were some moments where she had legitimate reason to be upset. when she was holding up the documents saying "you lied in here," the lawyer had lied and put in the documentation that is they had spent time in her condo, she said that's not true. that's where the disagr

john floyd, who was the father of fani willis.l be interesting testimony to hear any moment now, we're waiting for him to take the stand. what we just did witness was i think they're very small world of the georgia legal profession. right there. the former governor of georgia, roy barnes testified that he was offered at one point the job of being special prosecutor in the election fraud case against donald trump and others. and also testified a little bit to the qualifications of nathan way to ultimately did lead up that investigation. michael moore are you are part of this small world there. what did you hear? what was most important? >> well it was good to see governor barnes. he's a he's a great guy and a friend and a great lawyer. but to me the contrast and is very stark between the kind of lawyer that she talked about having as a special counsel and somebody who's never secured a felony case and ends up being lead counsel in this case. and so i think the contrast that she's drawn may come back to divider and i don't think the

we were introduced to fani willis's dad yesterday when fani brought him up several times and said only man who ever paid all my bills is my daddy. clearly they are close. i am sure she is watching this right now and this was really hard for her to see and she is probably thinking, was this relationship worth possibly blowing up my career and seeing my father on the stand, as well. >> harris: talk about watching, something phil holloway said, she was not supposed to be watching nathan wade yesterday, there was sequestration order in place and he felt she came out and reacted emotionally to whatever nathan wade said. my big question, when you say the state, you mean the defense in all of this. in terms of handing trump's case over to someone else, all those people will have been defending her in this. >> emily: great point and she brought that up when she said, i'm not on trial here, it is donald trump. she at all times is kcognizant f her north star. i have to make this point, when you flip to the back of the bar magazine, it talks about everyone disbarred or disciplined, 95% is mismana

fani willis taking the stand in atlanta today.iness as democrats are discovering fani willis georgia county prosecutor brought charges against donald trump faces charges own judicial reckoning over conflict of interest if the case now collapses in an ethical ash heap it will play into mr. trump's campaign claims that he is the victim of partisan prosecutorial abuse. with that bring in our panel harold ford jr. former tennessee congressman, co-host of "the five." olivia beavers, congressional reporter for politico, and byron york, chief political correspondent for "the washington examiner." byron, i will tell you what, it was a long day of watching courtroom drama in a while let alone a d.a. what about it. >> it was a lot of sorted talk in this whole thing about when when fani willis and nathan wade actually began an affair. did they have sex before this date or after this date. all of this she talked about dealing a lot. a lot of the her financial finances in past. her father cash in her house which makes it hard to prove i person

and fani willis wanting to investigate jones but she stopped doing so.ocked her on the grounds that d. a. willis had helped raise money for jones's democratic opponent in jones's district -- now, judge mcburney did not say that any laws were broken but in the courtroom, he called fani willis's actions, what were you thinking, moment. judge mcburney wrote in his opinion, quote, an investigation of this is significant, garnering public attention, putting so many political nerves in our society. cannot be burdened by the district attorney's notice. the district attorney does not have to be a political as her investigations do. now, it's possible that that judge in the current criminal case, judge mcafee, could make a similar determination here with regard to miss willis prosecuting the election conspiracy case or not. but then, there is georgia's republican controlled legislature. the georgia senate has already launched an investigation to the ableist which they could use as a record -- or forced her to testify under oath, which could be of interest to the

you look at this fani willis case.sly be thrown out just like the rest of them. they have all been tainted by politics. this is about election interference just like every other indictment against donald trump right now. you just had the special counsel come out and say we're not going to actually charge joe biden with anything although he took documents that he wasn't supposed to have as vice president. you can't take classified documents and declassify them. only the president can do that, because this guy doesn't have all of his faculties about him, his mental a cutie is not there. let me remind people, this guy is the president of the united states. it is horrifying we're in this situation. they should of course drop the case against donald trump but you see, larry, they're not doing that. yes, we better be on guard, we better be ready to go. we need to have the most lethal and precise political fighting machine the country has ever seen and that is what we plan to do on the republican side of the aisle. this is a

but fani willis even more questions. but fani willis has so far definitely taken some real liberties in a positive way for herself, in a way that she's answered the questions from the defense attorneys so far. >> our colleague did a magnificent job of hacking through the level of minutia that we have spent watching today. let's take a big step back and make sure that we are not missing the forest for the trees. why are we here? >> so the judge had a motion made by fani willis' team to say this is all legally irrelevant. that there may be issues here, but they're not relevant to a disqualification motion. and he said they may be. and this is what i'm interested in. he said, what i'm interested in is not just did she have a relationship or technically even when it began. the main thing that he said he's interested in is the financial piece. is there some proof that she is in some way directly or indirectly benefiting from the contract that fulton county has with the lead prosecutor, mr. wade. because the allegation is that

fani willis goes away. what happens to this case down fulton county? i mean, that's the big question hanging over. all of this, lauren, zach, thank you very much. the other big news, as i mentioned, a judgment new york has set march 25th as the start date for donald trump's first criminal trial. this is for his alleged scheme to cover up hush money payments to two women, kaitlan collins. team. trump is not happy about this trial date. we heard that play out earlier this morning. >> yeah. but they now seem resigned to the fact that jim that that is going to be the trial date and the judge here offered no wiggle room on their pushback to march 25 being the trial date for what is happening here in manhattan. and it was just within moments that they were inside the courtroom behind find me where that judge summarily dismissed their efforts to try to get this case thrown out, and instead scheduled that court date and very quickly, they moved on to the nitty-gritty of this, which was the talk about the jury negotiations and what questions potential jurors ar

the fani willis indictment also about election interference. i think it's significant alvin bragg is talking about it as election interference. that raises the stakes. it's not quite so much about tawdry hush money payments. it's about the idea these tawdry hush money payments were going to defraud the american electorate about who this man was when he was a candidate. and again play tuesday context about the other indictments. it paints a really damning portrait. this is man who before he was president, while he was president and then after he was president in the mar-a-lago document indictment was doing crime. like those are the allegations. before, during, and after. and i think if you take them all together this may not be the most consequential one in terms of democracy, but it is part of a larger pattern deeply disconcerting. >> that's really interesting logic. some people have said, oh, but the others said this is so much more serious. this is going to undermine the gravity of the other ones by starting with something trivial. >> this is

fani's office has a whistleblower and the whistleblower recorded fani.e beacon gave the recording to prime time. the whistleblower amanda tim cincotta fani's aid stealing money. fani's office got a federal grant for a half million dollars. it was supposed to go to gang prevention. but the aid allegedly blew the money on travel, computers and swag. the whistleblower confronted fani and recorded it. >> he wanted to do things with grants that were impossible and i kept telling him that we can do that. he would take me off and tell people i wasn't doing what i'm supposed to do because i questioned him. because i helped write that grant. i knew what was in that grant. he told everybody we are going to get macbooks and get swag and use it for travel. i said you cannot do that. it's a very specific grant. >> it was clear to me and i'm not saying that your assessment is wrong. >> what did fani do next? fired the whistleblower. seven armed men escorted her out of the office. fani said the whistleblower didn't meet her standards and fani's a denied he stole swag.

fani willis has brought in fulton county.he legal take precedence here, and not just these bad optics? how did we even get to the point where this is happening in court? >> certainly's lawyers we want the law and legal issues to be taking precedence. i've got, here i have to be honest, i think the d. a. mishandled this, her response. she should've come out much more quickly, much more pointedly, frankly the facts she described today at length could've been a condensed into a page or two, an affidavit, and submitted to the court. it what should've happened, but it didn't, and that's where we are today. in terms of the legal versus the optics, though, the near term problem for her is a legal problem and i agree with the view that most other people articulate today, which is that she probably will not be disqualified if the shape of the evidence remains as it was today. however, the optics are not entirely within her control, right? we call it the optics, but who is watching? potential jurors are watching, her constituents are w

again, and wage started working for fani willis in 2021. so the question is, did this relationship start before that or after that one of her apparently now former friends want to fani willis is now former friends, is testifying that it's much earlier, which is potentially a problem for willis. watch. what that former friend had to say there's no doubt in your mind that from 2019 until 2022 ms willis and mr. >> wade, we're in a romantic relationship no doubt. >> did you observe them through things that are common among people having a romantic relationship? >> yes >> so jay asked, can you give us an example >> hugging qizan >> sophia, is this simply a question of who we believe because it does seem like people are telling two different stories i mean, we'll fani willis specifically says no, it didn't happen on this timeline >> yeah. i mean, look there is no through line in terms of how she financially benefited, as well as write this taxpayer contract that the prosecutor was under, as well as the friend who is saying that she believed the r

does not have to pick up where fani willis left off. they could do whatever they want, finding somebody to do that though that's going to be difficult if fani willis is disqualified and there's no timeline, right? today, they could slow walk it, they could try to expedite it, but they've got to get to speed regardless. and of course, really important to think about here, as you mentioned, the underlying case, none of what's death today goes to the heart of the facts alleged against any of the content and some have already pled guilty, by the way, it's right or went so important here to think about is if this if you're a jury, and here we are in fulton county, right in front of this courthouse. you've got jury pools who are going to be watching it. there are cameras in the courtroom who are going to be worn watching to figure out the credibility assessments, not of the witnesses, but of the prosecutors who are bringing this case. so if there is some indication that there has been mistruths in africa david's are courtroom pleadings and fi

do when it comes to district attorney fani willis. there has been an absence of evidence presented to the court that would justify the disqualification of fani willis at this time. georgia low is very specific. you have to have an actual conflict of interest. how is that defined in georgia? law where a prosecutor has a personal stake in the conviction of a defendant. there has been no evidence presented about the defense. whether you think it has been very may see, whether you think the optics are not so good, that maybe your opinion. but that opinion doesn't count when it comes to the law in a court of law. judge mcafee has the ability to assess the credibility of the witnesses that have testified. he is a fact finder, as well as the person who looks at the law. if you look at the people who testified, the only person who may have said proportional isn't ship again prior to nathan wade being appointed special prosecutor is a former employee of the fulton county district attorney's office who was forced to leave her job because of bad

fani and the special prosecutor onecut the trump case in georgi nathan wade her boyfriend, they'r oeccused of having an improper relationship and benning from fulton county taxpayer dollars, fani willis hired her boyfriend wade paid him over $650,000 in the case and then they used the money to go on a series of luxurious vacations together, cruises in thtogee bahamas along with trip aruba, belize, napa valley. that's not all. wade lacked the qualifications for the job of special prosecutor iionsn the first plai listen to this. in fact, according to a court filing, there is no evidence that nathan wade has ever, ever handled a felony case.as so howe. did wade end up being appointed to lead one of the d most high-profile cases in us history? and by the way a rico case which was ridiculous from the beginnincag to boot? it ibes an exorbitant salary on top of everything else. now that is one of the big questions at the center of today's hearing. now willis appointed wade to lead this case in november of ls 2021. and in a sworn statement, he previously claimed their s romantic relationship

fani became the minister of education in a situation where you and dr. haji babaei sobh decided to make the five grades of the primary class 6 grades, the head of the human resources center came to the first meeting of the council of deputies, where i was in that meeting, and announced that mr. with 5, for example, the first grade, the second, the third , the fourth, the fifth grade, once your sixth grade, without any other plans, mr. doctor, we have started our work, we should have hired dr. fanny, i say that you made this decision in 2012. did you read the sixth grade of the tasmim news agency ? mr. fani's interview says that the government used up all the recruitment ranks before, we didn't have them . you also accept that forgiveness was in your responsibility period, but let me see, mr. doctor, when the entrance channel of education becomes farhangian university, it was your order that you will become a teacher, according to the order of the supreme leader, who specifically trains teachers from the university's channel and mosque, please do not inte

it yes and that's consistent with the fani that i know. i mean, this is a strong, independent woman who doesn't rely on anybody and doesn't the need a man to make her way in the world. and i think that's one of the reasons on top of being called corrupt and everything. but a child and god that she was so angry about these allegations and she has full right to all right. >> charlie bailey. thanks so much for your time. i appreciate it much more on the dramatic day in fulton county, georgia ahead. we're also following other breaking news. a former fbi informant charged in connection with a case involving hunter biden what that means for the republicans investigation in the house, stay with us the situation room with wolf blitzer didn't night it six point cnn >> chris came to turbotax because i switch gears from delivering part-time to streaming full time. >> so i made their moves count filing with 100% accuracy and guaranteeing their maximum refund intuit's turbotax have morning's cough, congestion. i'm >> feeling better all in one and done

i think fani is a liar. you don't have to be a psychology major that she was putting her hands on her face and could not sit still and when she was getting asked questions she was going off in giving roundabout information. my point is, i think she was lying. host: lake charles, louisiana, melissa. caller: thank you for taking my call. i found the hearing riveting. i could not stop watching it. fani willis completely failed herself. she lost all sense of decorum. she was inarticulate. you could tell that she is incompetent about how to enter a courtroom. how anyone could think she would be able to weave all of the intricacies of a rico case when she can't present herself without losing it completely. she would rather pontificate and filibuster on the simple yes or no questions. i think she was trying to obscure that these were kickbacks and she's putting a million dollars of georgia tax money on a credit card. i don't know why anyone would vote for that woman. the truth will come out in the questions remain

fani willis went to investigate her jones, she was stopped from doing so.eorgia judge, judge robert mcburney, blocked her. on the grounds that d.a. willis had helped raise money for bert jones's democratic opponent in jones's race for lieutenant governor. now, judge mcburney did not cite any laws broken, but in the courtroom, he called fani willis's actions what are you thinking moment. judge mcburney wrote in his opinion, quote, an investigation of this significance, garnering the public attention it necessarily does and touching so many political nerves in our society, cannot be burdened by legitimate doubts about the district attorney's motives. the district attorney does not have to be apolitical, but her investigations do. now, it's possible that the judge in the current criminal case, judge scott mcafee, can make a similar determination here. with regards to miss willis's prosecuting the election conspiracy case. or not. but then there's georgia republican controlled legislature. the georgia senate has already launched an investigation to d.a. willis,

yesterday some fireworks from fani willis. she came in with a combative attitude and immediately tried to take control. >> it's highly offensive when they try to implicate you slept with somebody the first day you met with them and i take exception to it. >> bill: the key issue is when was nathan wade hired? was he hired before the affair with willis began or after? also the finances came under a lot of scrutiny. wade said when he and willis traveled wade paid by credit card, willis returned cash to him. when it was challenged willis hit back hard. >> i don't need anything from a man. a man is not a plan. a man is a companion. and so there was tension always in our relationship, which is why i would give him his money back. i don't need anybody to foot my bills. the only man who has ever foot my bills completely is my daddy. >> the judge has said there won't be a ruling today and also cautioned there is a low bar in the case. the appearance of misconduct could be enough for disqualification. >> harris: that was an important pa

how do you think fani willis did yesterday?ink in a way, it showed how disorganized the trump lawyers were. they seemed a little bit thrown off. is my analysis incorrect? >> i think that's right. it was a really roller coaster day. it started off, i think, very well for the defense. they had a witness who said that the relationship started a lot sooner than -- and earlier than fani willis and mr. wade said. mr. wade, i think, had certain credibility issues in terms of what he said on the stand. he had trouble answering certain questions it seemed like softballs, and so when we were talking about this and watching it yesterday, we thought, this is going pretty well for the defense, at least initially. i thought fani willis really changed that outlook when she testified, and right now looking at the actual issue which the judge said he's concerned about, which is was there any way in which she was profiting from this relationship? in other words, was she getting money from the state contract for mr. wade? there is right now -- th

fani willis. now, in case you weren't able to watch the hours hearing, what a disaster. well, we have all the highlights need to see. but first, let's set out how we got here. anthony and the special prosecutor on the trump case in georgia, nathan wade, her boyfriend. they're accused of having an improper relationship and benefiting from fulton county taxpayer dollars. now, fani willis allegedly hired her former boyfriend, wade, paid him over $650,000 in the case. and then they used the money to go on a series of luxurious vacations together cruises in the bahamas, along with trips to aruba, belize and napa valley. and that's not all. we'd like to qualifications for the job of special prosecutor in the first place. listen to this. in fact, according to a court filing, there is no evidence that nathan wade has ever ever handled a felony case. so how did wade end up being appointed to lead one of the most high profile cases in u.s. history? and, by the way, a rico case, which was ridiculous from the beginning to boot. >> it is an. it is a exorbitant salary on top of everyt

fani willis. the reason why i say that is all of this testimony that we're hearing since yesterday and today has to be considered in the framework that this is an evidentiary hearing. again, this is the time for the defense and the state to put aside and to put to bed any of the innuendos, the salacious rumors and the gossip about what's going on and actually put up or shut up, present that evidence that would substantiate the relief that you're seeking from the court. in the absence of being able to are prove that legally, there is no reason for mcafee to disqualify fani willis and by default the entire office of fani willis from this prosecution. but you also have to consider that because it's just the judge in this case that's hearing the evidence, he's weighing the credibility of these witnesses and to hear from someone like a former governor in the state of georgia and to hear from somebody like the father of d.a. fani willis to consider their motivations as to why they have testified the way

is it relates to monies that fani willis might have gained as a result of the relationship. none of that was there it was about when they were together, when they would what did you tell me how much gossip visit. and so the reality is no no on credibility, but i'm looking to the issue of qualification or disqualification and how this impairs the relationship against the president. it's a distraction, a deflection talk to me about the process, talk to you about the indictment, talked to me about the lack of fairness and that process, not whether someone was with someone on any particular date. and so that's what i was looking for and i was disappointed not to hear. >> let me get karen's thoughts. karen did this testimony today. do you think that it move the needle at all given how little bradley? he has allegedly been able to remember. >> but i agree with what joey saying. it's very strange to me why none of the testimony either on the first day of the hearing or this day today of the hearing focused on a financial conflict of interest and things like what how did you decide

what has that been like for fani willis?oh, well, i need to some extent she had gotten used to these terrible threats. you, know she's got pretty thick skin, but in the days leading up to the indictment, they were coming in fast and furious on her personal cell phone. there were there was one person in particular who was calling her on a regular basis with the computer disguised voice, really creepy, we heard the tapes, we have them, saying that he was gonna rape, her saying he was gonna lynch or, using the and word, then he started talking about her daughters. and he pronounce the names correctly, and he indicated that he knew where they live. and that was -- that cross the line for. her that was really rattling, then a couple days later her office, her security team discovers this assassination threat on a maga website. it -- the best time to shooters when she leaves the building. and they set up this elaborate operation with a body double to be able to smuggle her out of the building and -- in civilian clothes, t-shirt, b

fani willis said things that are incorrect. trump's lawyers filed a motion to have fani willis testify again in light of the new evidence that the relationship began earlier than stated. explain how that testimony could jeopardize her case against trump and her career. a prosecutor can't perjur herself on the stand in which she prosecutes. >> that is correct, lawyers are of the court and held to a different standard. courts are to assume things we say are true. she cannot lie under oath. what they are alleging in this instance is that she and wade lied about the date of their relationship. contradicted by evident just released. this is compelling evidence, cell phone evidence. not so much triangulation of the cell phones, that could be explainable. they could testify they were not where the cell phones said, it is imprecise science, you can't contradict the 180 phone calls per month, 12,000 text messages, that is significant amount of con contact. if the judge decides to remove fani willis from the case, that is her whole offic