mr. gillen. >> i had to lay the foundation here. >> your 2022 disclosure form did not list any of the thousandsands of dollars that mr. wade paid for on trips that you are on. >> that's because mr. wade was paid the money back or he was paid due to the fact i bought the plane ticket or i paid for the hotel. there was never money he gave me. that's not the nature of our relationship. the sometimes the nature of the relationship as they are just paying the woman. the nature of our relationship is companionship and friendship despite the way they like to paint certain women is just not true. >> final question. >> not a single solitary document showing that you had withdrawn cash to pay them back wax. >> that is not accurate. >> mr. cromwell. >> i have one question. can you hear me? >> yes sir. in january of 2022 danger father ever come and visit you? >> you did not. >> i would imagine you have a number of topics to cover with ms. willis so we'll take with more than 10 to 15 minutes? >> i do. >> i think we have reached a stopping point for the day and so ms. willis you can step down now and i remin

mr. gillen might scamper, but there's been no evidence that mr. wade does. object to the phrasing. >> on that issue overruled. >> did you and ms. wade scamper down to the atm machine and have her draw out, for example, on the belize trip just on your payment would have been $2,794? >> yeah, thank you -- >> ms. wade and i didn't go to belize. >> no, excuse me, ms. willis. i'm sorry. >> did you go down to the atm with ms. willis while she drew out $2,794 to pay you in cash? did you go to the atm with her? >> no, sir, she didn't go to the atm. she carried the cash. >> so she would give you the cash. do you have a little place in your house where you just stack up all this cash that you apparently got to repay you for these benefits that you bestowed on her? >> mr. gillen, if i answered that, i'm putting myself in jeopardy if i tell the world that i have cash someplace in my home, don't you think that could be problematic? >> no, i don't. i want an answer as to whether you have a little cash to your house where you have allegedly taken the money that you got fro

mr. gillen? we do? mr. gillen: i thought we did.udge mcafee: if you have arguments about forensic misconduct or anything like that, this will be the time for that as well. email, no, i've talked about that, and things evolved. we did not actually send out a notice adding any other motions, but we have some trials starting next week, the next two weeks. we have some homicide trials already scheduled, so i will be following up with you all to schedule the rest of the pretrial motions that we have. >> on friday, we have 1:00 on the issue of disqualification. judge mcafee: that's right, all things disqualification. anything from the state or any other defense, counsel? all right, thank y'all, we are off the record. go to the border, in the back country, i go there all the time, and people scale overcome, under, around the wall. in san diego, we just exhausted all of our funding for legal asylum-seekers in the processing centers and now they are dumping -- border patrol is dumping off asylum-seekers at bus stations. it is a mess. just be

mr. gillen. >> i had to lay the foundation here. >> your 2022 disclosure form did not list any of the thousandsds of dollars that mr. wade paid for on trips that you are on. >> that's because mr. wade was paid the money back or he was paid due to the fact i bought the plane ticket or i paid for the hotel. there was never money he gave me. that's not the nature of our relationship. the sometimes the nature of the relationship as they are just paying the woman. the nature of our relationship is companionship and friendship despite the way they like to paint certain women is just not true. >> final question. >> not a single solitary document showing that you had withdrawn cash to pay them back wax. >> that is not accurate. >> mr. cromwell. >> i have one question. can you hear me? >> yes sir. in january of 2022 danger father ever come and visit you? >> you did not. >> i would imagine you have a number of topics to cover with ms. willis so we'll take with more than 10 to 15 minutes? >> i do. >> i think we have reached a stopping point for the day and so ms. willis you can step down now and i remind

mr. gillen. look at the top of the invoice. where it says date completed. >> i'm going to want you to do is focus on the date that you have down here, and tell the court what you billed for on november 5th, 2021. i thought it was already in. 14 is in. >> again, mr. gillen, it says completed date, date completed, the dates that you see here are the dates that that work was completed. so on november 5th, i completed the task of preparing the cases for pretrial. that's the date i completed it. >> just read -- >> just read if you would, my question was, read out loud the entry for november 5th, 2021, and how many hours you billed that day. just do that for me, if you would. >> i can't do that. >> excuse me, i believe the witness is entitled to answer his question. that wasn't the question -- >> well the question now is to read a certain entry. >> just read into the record, mr. wade, on november the 5th, 2021, how many hours did you bill the citizens of fulton county for on that day? just read it out, please. >> i completed the task

mr. gillen. >> nothing, your honor. >> okay. mr. stocks. stockton, excuse me. >> real briefly. you said you started dating early 2022 and also used the term personal relationship. and there was no dating, no personal relationship prior to early '22, is that correct? >> help me understand -- i want to make sure i answer you. so -- so -- let's be clear. 2022 was the start of any intimate sexual relationship with the district attorney. >> and that's what i was -- to be clear, in your affidavit you used the term personal relationship. >> got it. >> today you've used the term dating, and your testimony today is that that includes the term basically physical or sexual or intimate relationship, is that correct, sir? >> correct. >> and according your stimony, none of that prior to [indiscernible] >> that's correct. >> that's all i've got, judge. not seeing anyone else, miss cross, redirect? miss merchant, can this witness be excused? >> judge, we ask to keep him under subpoena. we might need him to come back. >> all right, you may step down, mr. wade. and please don't discuss your test

mr. gillen -- >> that's not accurate. >> thank you. >> okay. mr. mccullough on behalf of mr. floyd? all right. mr. cromwell on behalf of ms. latham. >> great thing about coming last is -- i have one question, can you hear me? >> yes, sir. >> in the time period between february, 2021, and january of 2022, while you were staying at the condo, did your father ever come and visit you during that time period at the condo? >> he did not. >> that's all i have. thank you, your honor. >> all right. ms. cross, i would imagine you have a number of topics to cover with ms. willis that will take more than 10 to 15 minutes. >> i do. >> okay. then i think we've reached a stopping point for today. and so miss willis, you can step down now. and i also remind you that you're not to discuss your testimony or that of any other witness until tomorrow morning. we'll begin again at 9:00 a.m. we'll do 9:00 a.m. this time tomorrow. before we recess for today, i want to check in on logistics and i'll ask ms. merchant once the testimony of miss willis is concluded how many other witnesses you anticipate calli

mr. gillen, what did you have to add? >> apparently ms. merchant has allowed the state to take screenshots of what they now intend would be the larger perspective on and i disagree with them about the rule of completeness but it is their job when something is admitted that if they have an objection because the context is not appropriate, they then move and the state moves to rule of complete admissibility of the other emails chain they had. so the real issue here is their failure to comply with the rule of completeness once they have the material from the last hearing they took screenshots of. judge mcafee: and now they are being tendered. >> i don't think that he is. it seems to me what is happening here is ms. merchant has tried several different ways to get it in. she wanted everything in and they objected to it and she wanted the segments and that had the witness had been asked about, and that is what she is trying to do. my point is that the rule of completeness is at the time of tendering. if they want something to be complete, that

mr. gillen? >> i've been waiting for this for years. >> i couldn't give up the chance getting up here, governor. good to see you again. >> good to see you. >> we have done some work in the past together, haven't we? >> i will say to you, i can understand why they came to see you, because you're the finest lawyer i've ever worked with. >> thank you. i next to put you in the next -- >> there you go. one or two more questions. you and i working together, when it is appropriate, we had no qualms about filing motions to disqualify the d.a., have we? >> no. >> matter of fact, you and i successfully disqualified the d.a. out in cobb county in the brown case, didn't we? >> we did. >> so whatever needs to be done, should be done. >> represent your client. >> you got that. thank you so much. >> mr. cotrero, are you with us by zoom? >> i am. >> all right. any questions? >> no, sir. >> and mr. cromwell? >> no questions, your honor. >> any redirect? can the witness be excused? the question is you want the exa

mr. gillen. mr. mcculloch and mr. cromwell. >> no questions. >> cross. >> we haven't met before, is that correct? >> correct. >> you are able to see and hear me okay? >> yes. >> i want to start with a couple of things. i think you have made it clear that you never lived at the south full con condie, you never lived at that address with district attorney willis, correct? >> correct. >> never at any time. >> never. >> you never observed or have any information about district attorney wade and distinct attorney willis and nathan wade living together correct. do you have any information about that? >> no. >> when they said that information was sourced to you that's not correct? >> that's incorrect. >> did advertise tricked attorney willis pay rent at the condo while she lived there and you were living elsewhere. >> yes. >> who paid the rent? >> she did. >> nathan wade ever pay the rent? >> no. >> you never told anyone otherwise? i didn't hear your answer. did you ever tell anyone otherwise? >> no. >> all right. let's talk

mr. gillen. >> it's still morning. good morning, sir. >> good morning. how are you? >> just fine. st a few questions following up. when you were talking about when you learned about mr. wade and your daughter, correct, now, did your daughter tell you in around october of 2022 that she had gone on a caribbean cruise with mr. wade to the bahamas. ? >> the answer is i knew my daughter had gone but i did not know who she went with or what the circumstances were. i knew she had gone out of town but i didn't know with whom. >> and did she tell you in november of 2022 that she had gone to aruba and stayed at a resort there in aruba for three days with mr. wade? did she tell you that? >> the answer was again i knew she went out of town. i didn't know where she went. she told me she was going out of town and out of the country and she would be gone. other than that, that was all. >> okay. did she tell you in march of 2023 that she was going to belize for several days with mr. wade? >> same answer. i knew she would tell me she was going out of town and she may or may not have told me where s

mr. gillen. >> it's still morning. good morning, sir. >> good morning, counsel. how are you? >> fine. just a few questions following up. when you were talking about when you learned about mr. wade and your daughter, correct? >> correct. >> did your daughter tell you in around october of 2022 that she had gone on a caribbean cruise with mr. wade to the bahamas? >> the answer is i knew that my daughter had gone, but i did not know who she went with or what the circumstances were. i knew she had gone out of town, but i didn't know with whom. >> did she tell you in november of 2022 she had gone to aruba and stayed at a hiatt regency resort there for three days with mr. wade. did she tell you that? >> the answer was, again. i knew she went out of town. i didn't know where she went. i knew she was going out of town. she told me she was going out of town. she might have said she was going out of the country. other than that, that was all. >> ok. did she tell you in march of 2023 that she was going to belize for several days with mr? >> same answer. i knew she would tell me she was going out o

mr. gillen. >> it's still morning. good morning, sir. >> good morning, counsel. how are you? >> fine. just a few questions following up. when you were talking about when you learned about mr. wade and your daughter, correct? >> correct. >> did your daughter tell you in around october of 2022 that she had gone on a caribbean cruise with mr. wade to the bahamas? >> the answer is i knew that my daughter had gone, but i did not know who she went with or what the circumstances were. i knew she had gone out of town, but i didn't know with whom. >> did she tell you in november of 2022 she had gone to aruba and stayed at a hiatt regency resort there for three days with mr. wade. did she tell you that? >> the answer was, again. i knew she went out of town. i didn't know where she went. i knew she was going out of town. she told me she was going out of town. she might have said she was going out of the country. other than that, that was all. >> ok. did she tell you in march of 2023 that she was going to belize for several days with mr? >> same answer. i knew she would tell me she was going out o