mr. rice. mr. rice: mr. bradley, at least as of february 15 when you first testified, you said you still consider yourself [inaudible] mr. bradley: yes, i think i did. mr. rice: and you have been friends with mr. wade for over 10 years, correct? mr. bradley: that would be fairly accurate, yes. >> and you recall communicating with ms. merchant about this case and about mr. wade and ms. willis relationship, correct? >> objection. judge mcafee: we can put the foundation when we combine it with the next question where you've got a new point to make . mr. rice: mr. bradley when you , communicated with ms. merchant did you tell her any lies about , mr. wade and ms. willis's relationship? mr. bradley: did i lie? mr. rice: it's a simple question, mr. bradley. you are a lawyer. did you like to ms. merchant when you told her facts about mr. wade and ms. willis's relationship? mr. bradley: not that i recall. i do not recall, i mentioned earlier that i speculated on some things. i have testified to what i

mr. rice? >> thank you. >> mr. bradley, at least as of february 15 when you first testified, you said that you still considered yourself -- [ audio difficulties ] >> i think i did, yes. >> and you've been friends with mr. wade over ten years, correct. >> that would have been fairly accurate, yes. >> and you recall communicating with mrs. merchant about this case and about mr. wade and mrs. willis' relationship, correct? >> i'm going to object. asked and answered. >> we don't have to lay that foundation. combine it with the new question where you have a new point to make. >> mr. bradley, when you communicated with mrs. merchant, did you tell her any lies about mr. wade and mr. willis's relationship? >> did i lie? >> that's a simple question, mr. bradley. you're a lawyer. did you lie to mrs. merchant when you told her facts about mr. wade and mrs. willis' relationship? >> not that i recall. i don't recall. i mentioned earlier that i speculated on some things. i've testified to what i did know. so i can't recall wheth

bragg, final question, mr. rice? mr. bradley, when you are communicating different details of the relationship between ms willis and mr. wade to mrs. merchant, did you lie to her about any of those details? objection. asked and answered twice. >> i don't think he's answered yet. i don't recall ever whether any of it was a lie or not? well, it's done. so at the time you were communicating with us merchant, you are still friends with mr. wade, correct? >> yes. >> and at the time you were communicating with ms murcia, you knew that she was talking to you in her role in capacity as an attorney in this case, correct? >> correct. >> and. you knew that she was going to use that information to somehow benefit and file a motion benefit her client, correct? >> i did not know that i did not go. i'm sorry. >> so as as an attorney yourself you are testifying here under oath the eu had no idea what ms merchant was going to do with all the details that you are giving her about wade and willis has relationship. >> so at the time no, i d

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mr. rice? mr. guillen? the demonstrative 28? do you have a copy for us already, great. do we still have him with us on zoom? i'm being informed that he dropped off zoom, so i will make assigning that he voluntarily has absolute it himself from this hearing. mr. cromwell? >> the defense presentation of evidence is done. all of the witnesses have been subpoenaed. >> i think that's fair. miss merchan, any reason to hold on any of those witnesses? >> i have two short witnesses. >> ok. >> mixed witness of the state. >> for the testimony? >> yes, my name is austin. >> could afternoon. i want to direct your attention -- first of all, how are you employed? >> i am employed, i have my own firm. >> i want to direct your attention to 2021, 2020 two. what was your employment and background? >> i was employed with the wade bradley kimball firm. >> nathan wade and chris kimball? what did you do at that firm? >> i was an associate attorney. >> generally speaking, who in the firm did you work for, what kind of matters did you handle? >> i believe i work for all of them equally, they wo

. >> mr. rice? >> no questions. >> 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. rice. >> no questions, your honor. >> mr. gillian. i have been waiting for this. >> i couldn't give up the chance getting up here, governor. good to see you again. we have worked together in the past. >> i consider you to be one of my best friends and crackerjack lawyer. >> will i say to you on the -- will i say to you on the record i can understand why they came to see you because you are the finest lawyer i ever worked with. >> i need to put you in the next ad. >> one or two more questions. you and i working together when it's appropriate, we have had no qualms about filing motions to disqualify the d.a., have we? >> no. >> you even i successfully disqualified the d.c. in cobb county in the brown case. >> we did. >> whatever needs to be done -- >> you represent your client. >> you got that. thank you so much. >> mr. can troe, you still with us by zoom? >> i am. >> any questions? >> no, sir. >> all right. mr. cromwell? >> no questions, your honor. >> any redirect? can this witness be excused? the question is you want the exact date o

judge mcafee: mr. rice? [inaudible] judge mcafee: to that end, is there a particular text message in there you think was not? i understand you're saying, well, maybe one of them has already been admitted. but otherwise, just having a omnibus here are all the relevant text messages exhibit. is there an authentication objection? is there any other kind of objection like that? >> yes, they didn't authenticate that all of the text messages were from him and between ms. merchant or the context. i think that is the problem. if the state was to provide a specific text chain from a cell phone extraction, there would be an objection because the state would be making the determination as to what is relevant. all of the information should be turned over and it is for the parties to object or for your honor to determine which parts of the conversation are relevant or not. i don't have all of the conversation. the conversation starts in september. so there's a few text messages, september and then we jump to january. ms.

. >> mr. rice. >> no questions, your honor. >> mr. gillian. i have been waiting for this. >> i couldn't give up the chance getting up here, governor. good to see you again. we have worked together in the past. >> i consider you to be one of my best friends and crackerjack lawyer. >> will i say to you on the -- will i say to you on the record i can understand why they came to see you because you are the finest lawyer i ever worked with. >> i need to put you in the next ad. >> one or two more questions. you and i working together when it's appropriate, we have had no qualms about filing motions to disqualify the d.a., have we? >> no. >> you even i successfully disqualified the d.c. in cobb county in the brown case. >> we did. >> whatever needs to be done -- >> you represent your client. >> you got that. thank you so much. >> mr. can troe, you still with us by zoom? >> i am. >> any questions? >> no, sir. >> all right. mr. cromwell? >> no questions, your honor. >> any redirect? can this witness be excused? the question is you want the exact date o

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. >> mr. rice. mr. gilman. >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon, sir. >> a few questions here. you saw the book here, "find me the votes." this is an exhibit -- >> is that your copy? >> it is. '22. making an evidentiary contribution here. to this. >> you are tendering it. at this or the state? >> objection for relevance at this point. relevance? >> are you using this with prior statements? >> yes, your honor. concerning her financial situation. and then she gave these interviews. to the authors. so this would document that. after questions about it. >> wary of entering a 300 page book, because i don't know if every single line would pass hearsay, et cetera, et cetera. i don't know if it has to be evidence for the record, doing what you need to do. >> your honor, i understand. >> we will move from there. >> thank you, your honor. >> i think mrs. merchant asked me some questions, yes. >> six interviews to the authors of this book in a sit down. >> entered how many interviews she gave. >> in your opinion, how long did they last? >> two to three. maybe 20 or 30 minutes. >> gave may

then, when we had a plan at night, we sent imam's rice in the morning. mr. askdinim's rice was black all over. third, faiziya , let's hold a ceremony in tehran. the imam said that it is not expedient now, the shah has failed in qobn and as a result, it is now brutal . you may hold a council and do some special mischief in tehran, which the people cannot tolerate now. you go to work. spread the word. we came until 4 pm . we did some propaganda work. we said the imam of the ceremony near 4 pm let's say that you should start a small ceremony and finish it wherever the regime comes . it's interesting that we had our first ceremony when you were passing by. there is a mosque there that is very small and spiritual. it was very good. instead of savak closing the door, he ran away on the bus and went to karaj. he says that we weren't there at all. we also arrived at night . the door behind us was closed . we sat there and said allahu akbar. the so-called anthropologist amin al-dawlah the next night in the mosque of mr. osmanreza gharavi. the next night in the mosque

. >> mr. rice. >> refer to mr. gill. >> thank you. >> thank you, your honor. good afternoon, mr. wade. >> good afternoon, sir. >> a few follow-up questions. i would like to start off with the exhibit number 4 that you should have up there, those are the interrogatories. >> no, sir. >> they're not up there? >> i asked her to compile them all. now you can grab them. >> yes, sir. >> okay. now, these are the interrogatories that you had filed on may the 30th, 2023 in your divorce case, correct? >> yes, sir. >> now, you went over in part some of those interrogatories but what i want you to do -- i want to get down to the specific language to clear up exactly what the interrogatories asked for, and exactly what you answered, ok? >> yes, sir. >> now, if we look on the interrogatory that i believe as we indicated really i think on page 2, the one that starts off describe each instance in which you've had sexual relations, you see that one? >> yes, sir. >> all right. now, that interrogatory begins describe each instance in which you have had sexual relations with a person other than your

. >> mr. rice. >> no questions. >> mr. gillen. >> it's still morning.ood morning, sir. >> good morning. how are you? >> just fine. just 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 w

mr. rice? all right. thank you. mr. galen. >> thank you, your honor >> good afternoon. this white good afternoon, sir. i'll do i'll follow up questions i like to start off with the exhibit number four that you should have up there. those are the interrogatories >> no, sir >> there they're not up there. remember i asked her to compile them all. now, grabbing if you wanted me >> yes, sir. okay. >> now, these are the interrogatories, the eu had filed on may the 30th, 2023, in your voice case, correct >> yes, sir. now, >> he went over in part some of those interrogatories but what i want you to do because i want to get down to the specific language to clear up exactly definitely what the interrogatories asked for. an exactly what you answered. okay? yes, sir. now, if we look on the interrogatory that i believed as we indicated, that there really i think on page two the one that starts off, describe each instance in which you've had sexual relations. you see that one? yes, sir >> right. >> now that interrogatory begins, describe each instance in which you have had sexual rel

. >> okay mr. rice. mr. >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon sir. >> a few questions here. you saw the book here that was shown to you, correct? >> yes sir. >> this is an exhibit number 20. >> is it your copy? >> it is. >> what number is at. >> 22. i'm making a contribution here to this. >> tendering it -- you are tendering it. there is no relevance at this point. >> are you using this for a prior statement? >> yester honor concerning her financial situation and laying the foundation for that and then she gave these interviews to the authors and so this would document that and we want to get it in the record and ask your questions about it. >> for future purposes i'm wary of entering an entire standard page book because i'm not aware of every single page whether it's hearsay or relevant. do what you need to do with it. your honor and to stand. >> i'll let you go from there. >> thank you your honor. you asked about this before correct? >> i think ms. merchant asked me some questions. >> and you gave six inter

. >> mr. rice the question, ms mr. keelan >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon, sir >> a few questions here. i want to you saw the book here. find me the votes that was shown to you, correct? >> yes, sir. your honor, i would like to just attended this as an exhibit number 20 years. >> is that your copy? >> it is. all right. what exhibit a second? >> 22. all right. >> i'm making the condi the evidentiary contribution here. to this now >> you're tendering is with addition to the state and objectives. to. the relevance at this point no relevance to this point >> mr. gallant, you are using this to the prior statements? >> yes, your honor. >> statements that she made concerning her concern her financial situation, in laying the foundation for them that she gave these interviews to the authors. and so this would document that i'm gaps gurkha get this in the record, asked her questions about will be could market for he's my purposes. i'm a little wary of entering an entire 300 page book because i don't know exactly what every

. >> okay mr. rice. mr.> good afternoon. >> good afternoon sir. >> a few questions here. you saw the book here that was shown to you, correct? >> yes sir. >> this is an exhibit number 20. >> is it your copy? >> it is. >> what number is at. >> 22. i'm making a contribution here to this. >> tendering it -- you are tendering it. there is no relevance at this point. >> are you using this for a prior statement? >> yester honor concerning her financial situation and laying the foundation for that and then she gave these interviews to the authors and so this would document that and we want to get it in the record and ask your questions about it. >> for future purposes i'm wary of entering an entire standard page book because i'm not aware of every single page whether it's hearsay or relevant. do what you need to do with it. your honor and to stand. >> i'll let you go from there. >> thank you your honor. you asked about this before correct? >> i think ms. merchant asked me some questions. >> and you gave six intervi

gilbert rex mr. rice? [inaudible] thank you. >> thank you your honor. good afternoon mr. white's frigate good afternoon sir. a few follow-up questions. i would like to start off with exhibit number four that you should have up there. those are the interrogatories. they are not up there? let's remember asked her to compile them all. [background noises] yes, sir? >> okay. now these are the interrogatories that you had filed on may 30, 20s with her divorce case, correct? >> yes, sir. >> you went over in part some of those interrogatories but what i want you to do because i want to get down to the specific language to clear up exec at the interrogatory is asking for in exactly what you answered, okay? >> yes, sir. >> have a look on the interrogatory i believe as we indicated i think on page two the one that starts off describing each instance in which you have had sexual relations you see that one? >> yes, sir. >> that interrogatory begins to describe each instance in which you have had sexual relations with a person other than your spouse during the course of the marriage in

. >> mr. rice mr. galen i've been waiting for this i couldn't?the chance getting up here. got her good to see again, see ukraine doesn't work in the past together, have i consider you? you'd be one of my best friends and cracker jack lawyer. >> well, i will say to you on the record that i can understand why they came to see you because you're the finest lawyer that i've ever worked i need to put you in the next day. yeah. there you will get that, but that one or two more questions you and i working together when the appropriate when it's appropriate. there's, you know, we've had no qualms about filing motions to disqualify the da. have we know that affect you and i successfully disqualified the da out in cobb county and the brown case didn't we? >> we did. >> so whatever needs to be done. sure. that your client you got that. thank you so much. >> mr. kaltura, are you still with us via zoom >> i am, your honor. >> all right. any questions? >> no, sir. all right. and ms mr. cromwell, from his lengthen no question. >> all right. any redirect, mr. bo

rice. well , mr. mortazavi, a question arises here, do these 11 items in one basket have to be bought together? suppose a family feels that they want to. if he buys rice or chicken, he doesn't want this to be a balance and adjustment . think that he is not interested in one item in these 11. did you predict that this will happen or not? he can buy from these 11 items according to his needs let me ask a little more easily, that is, if a household decides to buy chickens with all this subsidy money, that 743 thousand tomans, it is not possible for them , it is not possible for them, according to the amount of the share that has been determined. the same amount, for example, one kilo of chicken per capita per month can be purchased from the electronic goods platform . yes, the table is specific, you have the same 11 items in the previous sections, and they will be the same 11 items in terms of weight, for example , there are dairy products and low-fat milk, cheese, and eggs. there is chicken, there is chi

mr. askar al-din's rice in the morning. it was black inside. the imam said that we are ready to hold a ceremony in tehran for the third day of faiziya . the imam said that it is not expedient now. the king has failed in the past and as a result, he is brutal now. maybe you will hold an assembly and do some special mischief in tehran , which the people will not tolerate now. you go to preach. do. we came and did promotional work until the 4th of faizia around 4, we told the imam to hold a ceremony. he said to hold a ceremony, start small and finish it wherever the regime comes. it 's interesting that when we held the first ceremony in goz-bashi, there is a very small mosque with a very good priest. instead of sabak closing the door on the bus, he ran away and went to karaj to say that it wasn't us at all. we also arrived at night. in general, imamate means leadership from within the people, with the people, at the feet of the people, in the language of the people, as much as the people can tolerate, so our electoral system , our islamic democrat

mr. rice? >> no further questions, your honor. >> mr. gillen? >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon, sir. >> a few questions here. i want to -- you saw the book here of "finding the votes," that was shown to you, correct? >> yes, sir. >> i want to tender this as an exhibit, number 22 -- >> your copi? >> it is. >> all right. what exhibit is that going to be? >> 22. >> all right. >> i'm making the evidentiary contribution here to this. now -- >> you're tendering it. is it -- position of the state? >> object to the relevance at this point as to -- there's no relevance at this point. >> mr. gillen, are you using this to -- prior statements -- >> statements she made concerning her financial situation and laying the foundation for that, and that she gave these interviews to the authors. and so this would document that and get this in the record to ask her questions about it. >> we can market for impeachment purposes, i'm wary of entering an entire 300-page book because i don't know every lean if it would pass hearsay or relevance, et cetera. i don't th

. >> all right, mr. rice. >> defer to mr. gillen. >> thank you, mr. gillen. >> thank you, your honor. >> good afternoon, mr. wade. >> good afternoon, sir, a few follow-up questions. i'd like to start off with the exhibit no. 4 that you should have up there. those are the interrogatories. >> no, sir. >> remember, i asked her to compile them all. so now you can grab them. >> they're right here. >> yes, sir. >> okay, now, these are the interrogatories that you had filed on may the 30th, 2023, in your divorce case, correct? >> yes, sir. >> now, you went over in part some of those interrogatorinter. what i want you to do -- because i want to get down to the specific language to clear up exactly what the interrogatories ask for and exactly what you answered, okay? >> yes, sir. >> now, if we look on the interrogatory that i believe as we indicated, they're really, i think, on page 2. the one that starts off describe each instance in which you've had sexual relations. you see that one? >> yes, sir. >> now, that interrogatory begins, describe each instance in

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. >> mr. rice. >> good morning, ms. yeartie. ere you aware in 2021 of any trips, social trips that ms. willis and mr. wade took together? >> no. >> are you aware of any social trips that ms. willis and mr. wade took together in 2022? >> no. and are you aware of them in 2020 or 2021 spending the evening together overnight? >> no. >> no further questions. >> mr. gillon. >> no questions, your honor. >> mccullough? >> no questions. >> and mr. cromwell. >> no questions. >> ms. yeartie, we haven't met before, is that correct? >> correct. >> you're able to see and hear me okay? >> yes. >> all right. i wanted to start with a couple of things, now i think you've made it clear that you never lived in we'll call it the south fulton address, the south fulton condo that you were leasing. you never lived at that address with district attorney willis, correct? >> correct. >> never at any time? >> never. >> all right. you never observed or have any information about district attorney wade -- district attorney willis and nathan wade living togeth

mr. rice >> morning, ms he already are you were you aware in 2021 of any trips? social trips that ms willis and mr. wade took together >> no >> you aware of any social trips that ms willis and mr. wade took together in 2022? >> no >> are you aware of them in 2024, 2021, extending the evening together overnight? >> no >> mr. guillen know like mr. mccullough and mr. chroma of questions you're on this cross i. >> do ask some questions. thank runner. >> is already we haven't met before. is that correct >> correct. >> you're able to see and hear me. okay >> yes. all right. >> i want to start with a couple of things now. i think you've made it clear that you never lived and we'll call it the south fulton address. the south fulton condo that you releasing you never lived at that address with the district attorney willis, correct? >> permanent. >> and never at anytime? >> never. all right >> you never observed or have any information about district attorney wade and district attorney willis and nathan wade living together, correct >> correct. >> you have any information a

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rice. it is mr. trump speaking after his way. but now there is a spirit that i have never seen. we ran to great races, but there's never been ever, there's never been this bird like this. and i just want to say that i have never seen the republican party, so unified as it is right. never been like right now we're laughing stock all over the world. our country is going to be respected again. respected like never before . as i suppose guessing, i can speak with authority about the presidency of donald trump's in his book, the room where it happened. john bolton office, a detailed accountant of his 17 months as president trump national, c adviser and 2018 and 19. if all that seen was us ambassador to the united nations under george w bush, bush, john balls and welcome to the day that we appear to be heading towards the presidential election rematch between a trump of jo bite. and in the forward to the new paperback edition, if you book the room where it happens, you say donald trump is on fits to be president. why? well, he's not confident to handle the job. he didn't know much abo

on monday, mrs. rice mitchell and the sfsg team came together to make it everybody's priority. we doing this with all of the departments where we're all talking about each individual kid? and one thing i'll note is that we were doing it just for kindergarten. the goal is very ambitious. 48% by 2024. and initially we said we were going to go from 24% to 48. but when we looked at the kids this year, the young people this year, they were at 31. so it is not as ambitious. it's still huge, but not as ambitious as it was before. um, so working with rpa, working with central office leaders now going into our schools and talking to our administrators, to say, how can we help you? we're not asking our schools to do more work. we're asking our schools to tell us the strategies that they have put in and then tell us what we need to do to double down on it. so this is where we need your help, right? right. this is an initiative. and i just we have to be real. we just bought $40,000 worth of decodable readers that that aipac is going to facilitate getting out into these families, these paci

now please recognize the gentleman from arkansas the land of rice and ducks mr. crawford for five minutes for a quick thank you, mr. chairman, thinking secretary for being here. how often do energy with the president's council of economic advisers? i'm sorry how often? works how often you interact? works interact with the chair yesterday. i would suggest you are not singing from the same hymnal. you just said inflation was on a downward trajectory when the economic advisors just said grocery stores are actually causing inflation to increase and that's a savings as recently as february 1. in fact here is an article i am happy to share with you biden takes aim at grocery chains over food prices. it's says your present biden's printer queue source of overcharging shoppers its food costs remain a burden for consumers in a political problem for the president. he coins the phrase off he coined it but use the phrase shrink inflation to describe how packaging smaller portions and targeting the same price as having an impact on prices at the grocery store as well. these a

condoleezza rice and mrs. bush decided to make it white tie, and it was going to be five courses instead of four courses. and know just a lovely spring dinner. as we were working on the guests, as we had the idea to hold two spots for. something to do with the kentucky derby because the queen was staying in versailles, kentucky, going to the derby friends and then she would up here. so i well why don't we invite owner whoever win the derby winner the owner and bush says, well, that's a great idea, but let's see who wins. and she says, and then you got to figure out, you know, they would fit in come into a state dinner. and i said, oh, i'll take care of all that. so she called me as soon as the dinner was over and. it was the year that calvin burrell came across the finish line and through his hands up in the air. and she said, i'm sitting here, george and some friends. and she said, we forget the owner. we want to invite calvin burrell in the state dinner and. i said, well, that sounds good to me. so i had the