No, no, no, this is the truth, the judge. It is a lie. It is a lie. Our relationship was not a secret. It was just private. Did you observe them do things that are common among people having a romantic relationship . Yes. I like grey goose. You never wrote him a check. I dont have checks. Cash is fungible. I gave my daughter her first cashbox and told her, always keep some cash. Most black folks, they hard cash. Im not on trial no matter how hard you try to put me on trial. Just some of the most memorable moments of fani willis and Special Prosecutor that she hired. Closing arguments are set to begin in moments in the hearing that could see both willis and wade disqualified from the Georgia Election meddling case and with that, so begins friday afternoon. Im john roberts in washington. Good to be back with you, cassandra. Great to be great to be with you. Anything could happen here. Im sandra smith. This is a live look right now at two courthouses. More than 500 miles apart. Willis is
Trying to put the d. A. And her defense team on defense. The accusation is that fani willis had an improper relationship with one of her prosecutors and stood to benefit financially from employing him. The subsequent testimony has been salacious at times, heated at others, especially when willis herself took the stand a couple of weeks ago to call the whole investigation bs. And while the alleged conduct is dominating the headlines, it doesnt change the underlying allegations in the original case, which is that more than a dozen people including the former president , have been accused of coordinating to try and illegally overturn the results of the 2020 elections in georgia. Joining us now, host of the Katie Phang Show right here on msnbc, katie phang. We are watching the courtroom. Judge mcafee is sitting down. Katie, give us the initial state of play. Reporter so today are going to be the arguments, you can call them the closing arguments if you want, katie, because this has become
in fact, just standby for a second as we reset this news right now, it is the top of the hour, we have a team of nbc joining us from tel aviv s matt bradley. josh latter man is in london, the chief international correspondent, keir simmons is in erbil iraq. aaron gilchrist staying with us from the white house, erin, i do want you to get as much as you can so feel free if you have to walk away to get that information. keir simmons, we were just talking about this, we have more information, about the breadth of the communication involved in this strike. i want you to give me your take on this. . is this an idea to just spread it, we ve got australia, bahrain, canada, denmark, the netherlands, new zealand, and the united states involved in what aaron has just told us we re now 36 targets in 13 locations in yemen. tonight was all about yemen, your take about that, here? it sounds like, doesn t it, a bigger operation, then we ve seen with regards to yemen so far. but that co
them. this as elon musk says this company will no longer pay for critical satellite after he was told to, quote, f off. will a judge s decision come too late to make any kind of a difference? and they re called the triple threat. three latina women on the ballot in texas. they are republicans and what they re saying about abortion, the border and taxes even has democrats listening. let s go out front. i m erin burnett. inside putin s depraved draft. in a video that you will see first out front, we are seeing just how far russian officers are going to draft new fighters. this video is from st. petersburg, and what you are looking at is russian draft commissioners. they re waiting for men to exit a building. the woman that you hear, you just heard her voice and you see her there, you can hear her saying, who are you? look, they ve got papers. they ve been standing guard here since 7:30 in the morning. the older tells her not to film, asking her if she has kids. why are
prepare to resume federal student loan payments in januar. while he s set to an kel cancel billions of dollars. progressives they are not happy. they say this doesn t go far enough. critics say the move will penalize the responsible american who already paid off their loans by making them now foot the bill for those who haven t paid just yet. there are concerns of the handout will increase inflation and widen the wealth gap. let s look at the numbers. the plan is expected to give the $10,000 handout to those making less than $125,000 a year. that adds up very fast with one estimate putting it at $300 billion over the next ten years and that is on the low end. even still, that amounts to an additional $2000 for every single american taxpayer. karlie, the left says handout to the rich. they complain about tax cuts. make no mistake. this is a handout to the rich. we have the numbers. anywhere from 68% to 70% of loans are going to go to those in the top 60% of the income distri