hey, willie. >> willie: how are you doing? >> stephen: good to see you.is, one of the best reasons to have a late-night show is for willie nelson's bus to pull up on 53rd street and you go and just have a talk with the red headed stranger himself. is this the same bus i interviewed you on about five years ago? >> willie: i think it might be. >> stephen: how much time do you spend on the bus? >> willie: whenever we are touring, i spent all the time out here except when i go into do a show. everything i need here. i change clothes, take a shower, whatever. >> stephen: how often are you touring? >> willie: pretty much all the time. >> stephen: so you're never off the bus except when you're playing music. >> willie: pretty much. >> stephen: what do you like about being on the road? >> willie: i enjoy playing the music. i enjoy the crowds coming in. i enjoy -- it's a great energy exchange out there whether it's me or whoever the entertainer is. people come a long way, pay a lot of money to see somebody they like. they want to come see me, that's great. >> step

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willis. today mr.yd played the race card, which is kind of weird in a case with a black prosecutor and a black defendant. mr. floyd's lawyer claimsthality d.a. willis is just out to get mr. floyd because he's a black conservative. the defense says it's just like with another black conservative, clarence thomas, said he was subject to a hi-tech lynching when anita hill said that thomas had sexually harassed her. so according to the defense, d.a. willis is just another black woman trying to bring a black male conservative down. joy, we don't have time to unpack how wrong and dumb that claim is, but i'm not surprised that d.a. willis felt compelled to show up in the courtroom today to address this herself. >> well, you know he may not want that analogy because in that case that was clarence thomas credibly accused of harassing a black woman. and in this case he is credibly accused of harassing and essentially terrorizing a black woman and her black woman daughter. so he may have stumbled into an analogy r

willie? >> josh lederman near the border of israel and gaza for us, thanks so much. the war between israel and hamas could impact the vote one year from today when americans head to the polls in the 2024 presidential election. on saturday many of the candidates who hope to be the republican nominee, spoke at an event in florida. among them the front-runner, former president trump, and the man stepping up his attacks, florida governor ron desantis. marissa, good morning. >> reporter: willie, good morning. gop candidates flocked to the key state for the freedom summit, a homecoming for two of them but former president trump got the loudest support in the room, not the state's governor. mr. trump took jabs at governor desantis, even bringing on stage the florida legislators who endorsed him including the ones who flipped from desantis. the former president got support from former senator rick scott, something governor desantis brushed off, saying he wasn't concerned when asked about it from nbc

i'm willie geist.s morning the humanitarian crisis in gaza is dire as israeli forces continue to rout out hamas in the heart of gaza city. despite israel's agreement this week to four-hour daily pauses in the fighting, hospitals are running out of critical supplies. prime minister benjamin netanyahu saying today his troops will go full force until all of israeli hostages are released. we're live in israel with the latest. >>> then we will turn to our "sunday focus" on the explosion of new weight loss drugs like ozempic in america. with a new one approved this week after getting astonishing results in clinical trials. we will look closer at the science and the price. >>> plus, on this veterans day weekend, harry smith puts our "sunday spotlight" on the vietnam vet raising money one step and one quarter at a time for an extraordinary group called operation men. >>> and later, a new "sunday sitdown" and a bite to eat with the one and only henry winkler on the candid memoir that walks through a difficult c

willis's proposal kept off a busy week in court. on thursday, sct mcafee judged a request from the office from an emergency perspective order, after videos from key witnesses in the case were leaked to news outlets. willis's office asked for the order after part of the videotapes -- janetll and sidney powell, and kenneth chesebro, and bail bondsman scott hall were all somehow made public. now, we should remind you that they were among those 19 codefendants charged by willis back in august. however, they have all since pled guilty, and have agreed to cooperate with the attorney general's office. win the filing, willis's office argued that an order was necessary, quote, to protect witnesses, and to safeguard sensitive and confidential information during the discovery process. the d.as fice also said the leaks were, quote, clearly intended to intimidate witnesses in this case, subjecting them to harassment and threats prior to trial. jonathan miller, an attorney for former ccoun election supervisor misty hampton, who is one of the code

willie?aaron gilchrist with the president in wilmington this morning. aaron, thanks so much. let's bring in kristen welker, moderator of "meet the press." always great to see you. you are going to roll out a new nbc news poll, that's a really profound snapshot on where this campaign and where this country is right now. we'll start this morning before you get to "meet the press" with the top line number. what are you finding there? >> willie, this is some really tough news for president biden. for the first time in the history of our poll, former president trump is beating president biden in a head-to-head matchup by two points, so within the margin of error. this is consistent with some of the trends that we are seeing. and part of what is so striking about this poll, the president's poll numbers are being dragged down with him getting low marks on his handling of the israel and hamas war. pollsters saying that is notable because historically speaking, they have not seen a poll in which a for

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please welcome back to the show willie geist, everybody! you back >> how are you >> seth: good. we were -- you shared a very nice moment with me as we were walking out. you said your makeup was also very bad during covid. >> i was watching the monologue. my first interview i did during covid, i had people call me after and saying, "prayers up, you have covid." [ laughter ] >> seth: that's how bad you looked >> that's how bad it was and i, like you, appreciate our makeup artists >> seth: yes well, you also took advantage of both makeup and wardrobe, because halloween on the "today" show -- this is a tradition. >> wow, yeah >> seth: this is the highest bar. i'm gonna -- this is -- i'm not just being a homer nbc guy the costumes on the "today" show are other level. >> well, here's our secret we have an amazing team at the "today" show, plus a group you know well -- the "snl" costume, hair, makeup, wardrobe, the wigs, the whole show, so - >> seth: and two years ago -- we actually had you on the same day two years ago, you've been tom brady. you

it's the story of how willy wonka became willy wonka. and i think we did a greatjob., noodle, who befriends wonka. i'm just, i'm so excited and ijust can't believe it. i got an idea. where do we start? here's another heartthrob. now an oompa loompa... ..it�*s hugh grant, but not as you've ever seen him before. i will have you know that i am a perfectly respectable size for an oompa loompa. # oompa loompa... #. but his casting faced criticism over the decision not to give the role to an actor with dwarfism. director paul king of paddington fame explained the decision. dahl describes them as no higher than my knee or about the size of a medium sized doll. and we tried to use the iconic look that they came up with in the 1971 movie with the green hair and the orange skin and sort of merged that with the way dahl described them. making chocolate, of course. roald dahl�*s book has been adored by generations of children and adults alike. filmmakers will be hoping wonka can repeat the success. noor nanji, bbc news. the shortlist for the wildlife photgrapher of the year award

august is when fani willis would like her trial to start. you're talking about, lisa, the entire year, effectively, march until after the election, being filled with courtroom drama for donald trump. >> absolutely. and the one other thing that i would point out, alex, is that fani willis, in her request to have this trial on august 5th, as also told judge mcafee that she wants anyone who's going to negotiate a plea to do so by june 21st, and so that would falls back dab into what we would understand is the interim period between the two trials. >> the interregnum. >> correct. so judge chutkan is done with her trial by june and we're not expecting fani willis to begin to august if she gets her way, the mid-period for the convictions is going to be another decision point about who'going to plead out, because if fani willis gets her way, june 21st is that dropped in time for anyone who wants to negotiate a deal. >> the end of flipping season. you can wear white pants after that. dave, when we talk about what judge chutkan, her ruling today, the

but there's absolutely no reason for fani willis to have lead. if she would present this court in later, it would help. or she is, by the way, crushing it. please deal after plea deal, including people in trump's inner circle. the only person who's desperate here of the criminal defendants, including donald trump. that's why i think if you have to start wondering where this leak comes from, there's no doubt in my mind it's not coming from the prosecutors. >> gwen keyes, what do you expect here in the hearing on this, which the judge has now, on an emergency basis, scheduled for tomorrow afternoon? >> well, i think the d. a.'s team is going to possibly replay this show and several of the others that aired last night to demonstrate how this information was leaked and possibly what the purpose to either undermine the d. a.'s case or worse, intimidate witnesses. obviously the judge also was going to prioritize the integrity of this case along with the safety and security of witnesses. and i think you'll see some very strong arguments to ensure that s

today fulton county district attorney fani willis had to endure the stupidity and what she called theies of the lawyers for one of donald trump 's criminal codefendants. gwen keyes and harry litman join us next, on that. >>>next, on that. >>>next, on that. >> the first inkling that something was wrong was i started to notice that i couldn't do things without losing my breath. i couldn't make it through the airport, and every like 20 or 30 yards i had to sit down and get my breath. every physical exertion seemed to exhaust me. and finally, i went to the hospital where i was diagnosed with afib. when i first noticed symptoms, which kept coming and going, i should have gone to the doctor and told them what was happening. instead, i tried to let it pass. if you experience irregular heartbeat, heart racing, chest pain, shortness of breath, fatigue, or light-headedness, you should talk to your doctor. afib increases the risk of stroke about 5 times i want my experience to help others understand the symptoms of atrial fibrillation. when it comes to your health, this is no time to wait. when

if i were fani willis, i would be seeking that. anyone who comes close, whether you're a witness, a juror, you are putting yourself at risk because when donald trump calls out the mob on you, they respond. and he knows this. he knows this for years. he's used it. his victimhood narrative, weaponization of the department of justice, weaponization of the georgia department of justice. this is his narrative. >> now it also puts all of these people in the cross hairs of donald trump now that they're testifying against him, they flipped on him. a lot of them are the most important witnesses. let's play sidney powell. she gets to one of the key questions of whether or not donald trump knew he lost the election. here's sidney powell. >> were you ever around when someone, anyone, told donald trump that he had lost the election? >> oh, yeah. >> who? >> pat cipollone, eric hirschman, derrick lions all thought he had lost. >> was that in the december 18th meeting? >> yes. >> what was president trump's reaction when this cadre of advisers woul

district attorney fani willis did not leave this hearing to her very able team of assistant districtorneys. she handled it herself. as the proceeding wore on, much more tediously than it should have because of what district attorney willis called the absurdity of the defense lawyers, district attorney willis gave up on the polite language of the courtroom that her staff were urging her to use. >> and you're so dense you don't know to proffer evidence, proffer, when the condition is that she is a witness? it's not just disingenuous. it's a lie, your honor. >> she meant that the defense lawyers in the hearing today were lying, something you almost never hear lawyers accused of in court. in the very rare cases where that does happen, the lawyers who were accused of lying always jump up and object. always. not today. the criminal defense lawyers appearing for defendant harrison floyd, accused of trying to intimidate witnesses in the case, did not find a way to object when just attorney willis called them liars. >> the absurdity of the defendant's argument, the defendant falsely claims th

they adopted the -- their son willie two years ago. were here last year and now you have brought us this amazing story of jeffrey and stephanie. tell us about your journey or decision to adopt a young man into your life. >> we decided, in there pretty much that we are going to adopt and it was actually before we got married. and so we got married on of the later in life. but we wanted to help guide children and be that structure, you know, for children who have been in foster care and just be nurturing for those children and so definitely was in light of our life. >> dana: and jeffrey, tell, tell me a little bit about willie. what has it been like. looks like he is a pretty productive young man. >> yes, he is. the one thing is when he first adopted willie, it was great -- he was -- but not yet adopted before the process. word "no," willie is a very competent and -- like you see before -- i coached him for two years and middle school. basketball, baseball, he is in the rotc program in high school. he plays the trombone, he plays the dru

and so, i take him to crossroads, and willie is, like, offering him weed.>> and all of a sudden, what a a cool guy up here >> jimmy: yeah, love that -- >> you know? i was excited him to throw willie on, like, citizens arrest >> jimmy: yeah, "don't you smoke the grass. >> that's right. >> jimmy: yeah >> "taking you to jail." >> jimmy: yeah, but you're performing with olivia rodrigo >> yes >> jimmy: that was one of the surprises in the thing sorry, i just ruined it. >> surprise! >> jimmy: surprise, act surprised. when you're watching, when you're streaming tomorrow, act surprised. but you recently sang with olivia rodrigo in nashville. >> yeah, at the blue bird cafe you know, she is - >> jimmy: real deal. >> she's the real deal she's precious, she's a great songwriter - >> jimmy: yeah >> she's -- i mean, she seems kind of unaffected by all of it, you know she doesn't seem like somebody - >> jimmy: she's handling it well >> yeah, she is. i mean i -- when i was 19, her age, i was like, "how do you fill out this application for college? you know what i mean >> j

willie got together with her. >> willie, good luck. >> you don't mean that. >> i do.t all. reba mcentire is always up for a little friendly competition. there it is. oh, that was clean, too. the country icon unwinding at the end of another sold out cross-country tour. this one with new stops at the hollywood bowl and the world's most famous arena. you're here because you just wrapped up your latest tour, and you did it at madison square garden, and i was surprised to hear it was the first time you'd ever played there. what was that experience like for you? >> i went into it's just another arena because it holds such history for me and my family. grandpap roped there during the rodeo in the '30s. daddy roped there during the rodeo in the '40s, and it felt like they were with us there at madison square garden saturday night. >> how do you describe the sensation of walking out on stage? what does that feel like? >> everybody wants to be loved and accepted. i'm no different. i mean, we're up there on the stage razzle-dazzle, but we're very insecure people on the inside. a

fani willis saying this trial could go into early 2025. obviously past election day. what does that mean for trump? music to his ears? >> in general trump's strategy in pretty much every one of these cases has been to try to delay, delay, delay, push it is far down the line is fossil, hopefully something will happen in his favor by then. he could win the public to his side. in his side he is the most unusual legal strategy of all, which is he could win the presidency, which would make some of these cases unlikely to come forward and the federal cases he could potentially pardon himself ordered you jade to drop them. it's a very unusual case. so probably anything happens later he likes. having said that, it would create an insane situation if we have a presidential election where the presidents potentially on trial as the election is heating up and reaching its peak, and it's unresolved, for trying to overturn the previous election. we are so far off the map politically at that point. it's hard to even know what keys to adhere to. >> at that point, we are so far from n

thank you very much. >> stephen: thank you, willie! willie nelson, everybody!es steve mazan,

it's the story of how willy wonka became willy wonka. and i think we did a greatjob.friends wonka. i'm just, i'm so excited and ijust can't believe it. i got an idea. where do we start? what was the best thing about the whole experience? i mean, just being on set and just having, you know, getting like a second family, basically, with everybody. chocolate of the world. ooh! here's another heart—throb. now an 0ompa loompa. it's hugh grant, but not as you've ever seen him before as he takes on the role of lofty, complete with an orange face and green hair. i will have you know that i am a perfectly respectable size for an 0ompa loompa. # 0ompa loompa, dumpedy—dee. but it's something of a departure for grant, who's best known for playing quintessentially english gentlemen in films like notting hill and love actually. huh! but his casting faced criticism over the decision not to give the role to an actor with dwarfism. well, it's obviously something because you said, "huh." director paul king of paddington fame explained the decision. well, i think the great thing about t

tina willis silver. sylvia excuse me, who was a longtime resident of chinatown in immigrating from samoa to the penguin in housing projects some 30 years ago, where she raised her six children and grandchildren and rose to be the president of the penguin residents improvement association. prior to, i believe, the first and only non-chinese or asian resident to hold that role. and while it wasn't her place of birth, she considered chinatown her home and cared deeply for it. and that's why even after her son in passing in samoa on october 13th, her family made sure to bring her back to san francisco for a proper farewell. she leaves behind three generations right here in san francisco. may she rest in peace. are there any other roll call items seeing none, madam clerk, would you please read the in memoriam? yeah. today's meeting will be adjourned in memory of the following beloved individual on behalf of president peskin for the late tina willis silva, we are adjourned. >> call the san francisco disability

willie and denny. also our architect that did the rendering for brian's rfp is here with us and steve zenseki. you should run the and, we love the asian neighborhood design which is a community architecture firm that helped us design a lot of sros, he's architect for expansion project and because of steven, we managed to almost close the project construction and planning for opening in january or february of next year. so thank you, steven. [applause]. so mayor is right, it took a whole village to put this project together. not only do we construction money but renovation. but mayor, in order for us to charge $4,000 versus $10,000 we need the city to step in for operating subsidy while we're applying for the license, which might take. so last comes n please help me thank kelly, our executive director of the department of disabilities and aging along cindy. our go-to person, tiffany and paulo, we run two sites. actually two blocks from here, at the venus restaurant is a innovative program run by dos, ev

willie just put it best. in the united states, our men and women in uniform put themselves between civilians and the enemy. hamas, that death cult, they do just the opposite. they put civilians between people that are coming to bring justice to them for their terrorist acts, they put civilians between them and the people that are looking for them. >> we have richard haass and many others coming up to talk about this and we'll continue our coverage. >>> we also are going to preview the high-stakes meeting today between president joe biden and chinese president xi jinping. and we'll show you what president biden had to say about donald trump's veterans day speech where he called his political rivals vermin. ycht along with joe, willie and me, we have the host of "way too early" jonathan lemire. and u.s. special correspondent for bbc news, katty kay joins us as well. let's get back to the politics here at home. big news late yesterday, a potential government shutdown in just two days is looking a lot less likely

funny willis is aware of this. which is washington go-ahead asking for the day which they think is realistic. i do think that his attorneys are gonna push back as much as they can on that. and i expect that if it is denied, they will try to appeal it and get that they moved further into the future. >> before we go, there is one more new case. new reporting. not a new case but reporting that the classified documents case. the one in florida. it's about four months behind because of some of the judges decisions. this is judge cannon who was appointed by donald trump. charles what do we think is happening there? what is going on? >> i think that donald trump's legal strategy has been very affected. because we have the judge that is willing to work with him, she is obviously a trump appointee and she hasn't given them everything that they've wanted but she's done enough where they can move the camp further and further down the road. there's documents. they've dragged their feet to get security clearances that they need

fani willis wants to set donald trump's georgia trial for august 5th, 2024. how that could shake up his bid for the white house, just three weeks after the republican convention. and exactly three months before election day. and, buyer you rustin. the -- march on washington finally gets his due, in the critically acclaimed movie, rustin. the star of the movie, colman domingo, joins me live to discuss his top score worthy performance. i'm jonathan capehart, this is the saturday show. s is the saturday show. >> this morning, the federal government is open, for now. late thursday night, president biden signed a short term funding bill into law just one day before the deadline. but the -- please, hold the applause. the stopgap law, with the laddered ctiing resolution, kicks the cado the road until next year. funding some federal agci until january 19th, and the rest until february 2nd. the only silver lining in all of this is that congress has bought itself a little more time to negotiate a long term plan. and yet, that extra time might not be enough to protect h

willie? >> richard haass, thank you, as well. we'll be reading your analysis this morning on the substack letter, "home and away." >>> coming up next here, both of donald trump's adult sons took the stand yesterday in the new york civil fraud trial against the trump organization. msnbc legal analyst lisa rubin was in the courtroom for all of it and joins our conversation next on "morning joe." ♪ ♪ wake up, gotta go! c'mon, c'mon. -gracie, c'mon. let's go! guys, c'mon! mom, c'mon! mia! [ engine revving ] ♪ ♪ my favorite color is... because, it's like a family thing! [ engine revving ] ♪ ♪ made it! mom! leave running behind, behind. the new turbocharged volkswagen atlas. does life beautifully. when you have chronic kidney disease... ...there are places you'd like to be. like here. and here. not so much here. farxiga reduces the risk of kidney failure which can lead to dialysis. ♪far-xi-ga♪ farxiga can cause serious side effects, including ketoacidosis that may be fatal, dehydration, urinary tract or genital yeast infections, and lo

what willie said yesterday was so clarifying. that u.s. troops do everything they can to stand between the person with the gun and the civilian. hamas does everything they can to put the civilian in between themselves and the person coming to get them, to get retribution for the terror attack that they had before. richard, even the term cease-fire, if you're an israeli and you hear the term cease-fire, it's laughable. because cease-fire is defined so loosely when you're talking about hamas. a cease-fire means hamas rains rockets down on israel, and they can only hope they can shoot them out of the sky before their women and children and grandparents are killed. >> the term is nonsensical when you're up against a terrorist organization whose charter and whose behavior is to kill jews and destroy the jewish state. hamas has tactical pauses at most. the answer is, israel needs to agree to the pauses, in some ways to push back against the cease-fire. since a cease-fire makes no strategic sense for israel given the threat they face, the reason

fani willis is an elected prosecutor. from washington and made mischief, and giuliani and meadows are top of the list, as you say, then there are political officials within georgia who didn't comply with their duties, and i think you may see a whole series of pleas leading up to david scheffer who is the most guilty person among the local georgia electors. sure, prosecutors draw lines like this and if they have drawn it in particular giuliani is in tremendously bad shape. he has no money and really he would have to go through the exercise, pay for the exercise only to get a very little bit of time off for at best if he admits his guilt. this is especially bad news for him today if it's true. we knew it about trump. we had a pretty good idea about meadows who still has legal claims, it is a body blow to giuliani. >> let's talk about that, the difference between trump, giuliani, and meadows in this whole thing, because obviously fani willis and jack smith want to get at donald trump. rudy giuliani, what's the difference in

if fani willis were here right now, d.a.d the american public how long it took your office when you were an assistant d.a. to try the case. the answer is years. and that's the issue here. how long will this take. jury selection in and of itself with let's say upwards of five defendants going to trial should take a matter of multiple months, and we should all be prepared for that. >> greg, i understand there's some news breaking regarding one of the codefendants in the trial, harrison floyd, what can you tell us? >> yeah, the fulton county district attorney's office has asked to revoke harrison floyd's bond. we're just getting that legal motion just a few minutes ago for allegedly sending tweets that would violate the order of his bond. the outlines of his bond that were harassing to potential witnesses. we're not sure exactly the scope of the tweets yet. the order just came in. he has been very active on his twitter account. he has about 25,000 or so followers on x, and he's been very active on it. there's a lot of social me

willis ask the questions herself.ndant, floyd posted about ruby freeman at least nine times in a single day and last year, she talked generally about how unfounded accusations that she committed election fraud offended her life. >> i won't even introduce myself by my name anymore. i get nervous when i bump into someone i know in the grocery store who says my name. i'm worried about who's listening. i get nervous when i have to give my name for food orders. i'm always concerned of who's around me. i've lost my name and i've lost my reputation. i've lost my sense of security. all because a group of people starting with number 45 and his ally, rudy giuliani, decided to scapegoat me and my daughter, shay. >> following by floyd's attorneys denied he harassed, communicated or was involved with anyone in the case. insisting he was just exercising his right to free speech. blaine alexander is with us from atlanta. also with us, barbara mcquaid. do we have any idea why willis is taking the lead today and who is she questioning

. - [willie] gavin is no stranger to the national spotlight.x marriages here in san francisco - [steve] of a san francisco mayor turned california governor. - [willie] and i mean, half of the agenda for this governor is going to be taking on donald trump for the white house. - [steve] turned proxy for president biden. - [willie] he's practiced at deflecting the presidency question. - [gavin] no, it's not the moment. - [steve] gavin newsom's insistence he is not running for president is not stopping the persistence of people around him from wondering, even from the man who helped launch his career, willie brown. - [steve] mr. mayor. - yes. - steve large, cbs 13. - hello. - [steve] i met up with the former san francisco mayor at one of his favorite cafes. (cups clink) (horn toots) - i got it on time too- - you did too. - don't forget that. - okay. - to talk about gavin newsom's future. so i thought, what better way to look into his future than to look into the person who appointed him to his first public office. - oh, you remember that. - i asked

fani willis. she is seeking an august 5th trial date for donald trump and 14 other defendants in the case. that's less than a month after the republican national convention and just three months before election day. just hours ago tonight, a judge in colorado rejected a bid to keep donald trump off the 2024 ballot. that challenge is based on s effort to overturn the 2020 election results, when they just said, trump did engage in insurrection. with that, let's bring in our lead off panel to get smarter. jon allen is here, senior national politics reporter for nbc. we annie linksey, is also here, white house reporter for the white house journal. and former new york prosecutor and attorney charles coleman, who i believe, it must be founders day for the -- hence the sweater. charles, we'll start with you, happy founders day. let me start with the news out of colorado. here is the secretary of state reacting to the judge's decision to keep trump on the ballot. >> having the court say that the former pr

they cannot go willy-nilly into this gaza city area.y need to do it in a controlled methodical way. and the best way to do that is to surround the area and conduct precision attacks with boots on the ground on targeted areas like the al-shifa hospital. >> what we know about the tunnels so far, they could likely be housing hostages. how does that complicate it all? >> it complicates it greatly. your spot-on target that is the main problem. otherwise you can do things like flood the tunnels. you could cut off the air supply. but when you have hostages down there, that greatly complicates the whole thing. all the more reason to have soldiers that are trained in how to take out the bad guys. that's the only way you can have a chance of saving the hostages, by using people that are trained in this. you're not going to be able to use probably technology, and you're not going to be able to do some kind of a mass weapon because you take out the bad guys, you're going get the hostages. they've got to do it, the only way possible precision attack

down their fani willis speaks out on the georgia election subversion case. and just how long it could last. we'll talk about next. - some labels... - keep you safe. - but other labels... - are hurtful. - when it comes to people... - let's ditch the labels. - and start with a simple... [all] "hello." - some labels... - keep you safe. - but other labels... - are hurtful. - when it comes to people... - let's ditch the labels. - and start with a simple... [all] "hello." well new tonight, fani willis, the fulton county -- former president donald trump and many others in georgia. says that the election subversion trial could play out well past next year's presidential race. >> i believe the trial will take many months, and i don't expect that we will conclude until the winter or the very early part of 2025. >> mark your calendars, nearly better 2025 means that by the time there is a verdict, governors will be president of an elected by then. and that includes, maybe, the former president donald trump. now, if it goes past, say, inauguration day, and he wins the el

. >> i want to read both of you a request for emergency protective order from fani willis today. it says this. the release of these confidential video recordings is clearly intended to intimidate witnesses in this case subjecting them to harassment and threats prior to trial. it constitutes indirect communication about the facts of this case with co-defendants and witnesses and obstructs the administration of justice in violation of the conditions of release imposed on each defendant. going forward, the state will not produce copies of video reportings to any defendant to prevent disclosure. defendants must come to the district attorney's office to review videos.

a key fact for jack smith fani willis will be a personal involvement. he was briefed by chesebro directly on the fake electors plans. he's talking directly to sidney powell about these theories of election fraud, which are debunk. he is not a passive observer being advised by lawyers. he's engaged in discussions and controlling and understanding a plot. those are two significant things, very relevant in both case. >> federal prosecutor had for this question, trump has been charged with the civil rights era crime of denying the vote and their actual votes and the right to vote. it seems that knowing there was never any fraud goes a long way toward proving that trump intended to deny people their votes. >> yes, exactly right. if the civil rights charge requires mindful deprivation of a right, the fact that he disregards the actual evidence of fraud and moves straight to the political coup, those flanks in the multiprong to disrupt the joint session is very telling on his intent. the other thing that powell indicates very directly is she was present or rep

issuing interstate death threats to the fulton county sheriff and fulton county district attorney fani willis in georgia. the death threats specifically said that they were being threatened because of the prosecution of donald trump. judge chutkan's limited gag order preventing donald trump from attacking the prosecutor and witnesses in the case in washington, d.c., but because the gag order has been temporarily suspended during the appeal, donald trump decided that he was free to attack jack smith yesterday. and while he was asked it, he added an obsession of his.

willis appeared in person. first time she's done so since that original indictment of donald trump and his rico codefendants was filed back in august. lots happened since then. willis argues one of the trump codefendants, this individual, harrison floyd, should actually have his bail revoked, should be held in jail before trial because of online posts because she and her office alleges amount to illegal witness tampering and intimidation. >> look at the evidence. he violated his court order, and there are real consequences for allowing defendants to intimidate witnesses. your honor, we're asking his bond be revoked and he be remanlded today. >> remanded today. his lawyer for go to jail right now that is big ask. judges weigh these kind of things on a case by case basis. but willis says floyd already targeted one of the victims allegedly according to the indictment been through so much at the hands of donald trump and his hench people, election worker ruby freeman. we covered her story back on the january 6th co

willis and her team i currently having to deploy to protect their safety. and so while it is an unfortunate part of the job, i think the key thing here is that these charges, this indictment, one, will hold the person accountable, and obviously the person is innocent until proven guilty. but accountability is important because that then leads to a deterrent effect. so what do you want is these types of threats to stop. and one of the ways that you do that is holding people accountable who actually make them. >> andrew, we've seen the deterrent effect among potentially violent trump supporters after the january 6th prosecutions swooped down on these people. donald trump begged them to show up in manhattan for his first indictment, and they did not show up. and the two dozen people who did were not even slightly violent. same thing in florida, same thing in georgia. nothing. and it appears as though that massive federal prosecution of those hundreds of trump supporters for january 6th as had some kind of serious deterrent effect about what they're doing now,