today, police departments across this country are taking steps to make sure the asian communities remain safe. it s a busy hour on the hill. the government s top doctors are making a house call. they are testifying as we speak. in a few moments, the cdc director s stark warning about one of the covid variants ripping across the country. right now, the secretary of homeland security is testifying before a house committee. his message so far about the increase of migrants crossing our southern border. all of that coming up. we start with that breaking news there in atlanta. police say the suspect, 21-year-old robert long, is likely behind all three shootings in and around atlanta. georgia state troopers arrested long tuesday night driving 125 miles south of atlanta. officials say it appears he was going to florida. reporters and analysts with us now. blayne alexander has been on the ground in atlanta. she has the latest on the shootings. tom winter following the investigati
alleged seeking to dismiss charges that district attorney willis had engaged in a romantic relationship. the filing didn t provide evidence to support that. with us more to talk about this is blayne alexander in atlanta, joyce vance back with us. what can you tell us about this filing? reporter: this was a filing that came out just last night within the last 24 hours or so. this was filed on behalf of michael romain, one of the lesser known co-defendants. they are alleging the d.a. and special prosecutor wade who we have seen are involved in what they are calling a clandestine, romantic relationship. they don t bring any direct evidence to support these claims. instead, citing sources with knowledge and raising questions about the which willis hired wade in the first place.
getting a conviction, that that would be an ethical sort of issue. it doesn t look, even if you take these allegations at face value and believe them, like they would trip the georgia stat statute. these allegations have a public impact. perhaps they re designed to prejudice potential jury members. the lawyer has played it straight up in her pleadings. she s a lawyer with a good reputation, known for her competence. it s remarkable here we don t know what the factual basis for these shocking allegations are. i think what we will have to do is agree to withhold judgement until we hear more about the basis for the allegations that she s made and willis response. blayne, we don t expect any response in the immediate future. but there is a response getting
office, only to have secretary of state brad raffensperger then, a republican, immediately contradict his testimony. joining me now, blayne alexander in atlanta, and catherine christian, former manhattan assistant district attorney. blayne, bring us up to speed on the testimony of raffensperger. there was a clear division on how he and mark meadows described the phone call from donald trump. meadows was on the call looking for more votes. reporter: they described it completely differently. what we heard from mark meadows during his nearly four hours on the stand, he laid out his duties as the chief of staff and said it was customary to set up phone calls between the former president and anybody else. he said he thought it was basically his way of kind of trying to settle some outstanding legal issues in the least litigious way possible. that was mark meadows. when we heard from
into trump s election interference case. prosecutors want to get started in january. trump s team wants it to begin in april, april of 2026. joining us right now is nbc s justice correspondent ken dilanian, blayne alexander in atlanta, and greg bluestein is a political reporter for the atlanta journal constitution. christy greenberg is a former federal prosecutor. good to see you all. blayne, first walk us through the arguments in atlanta today. i understand we re also learning more details about the arraignments. reporter: yeah, lindsey. that s where i ll start. that is breaking news. we have an arraignment that is on the calendar for former president donald trump, september 6th at 9:30 a.m. that is what has been entered. of course, there are still a number of questions around this. would he appear in person? would he appear virtually? would he wave his appearance altogether? we don t know. we do know that has now appeared on the docket. there s a date set for rudy