Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper this hour, a forceful moment today from the israeli ambassador to the United Nations trying to get the world holds attention about atrocities of war against israel. The rape cannot continue. The Sexual Violence cannot continue hamas must be eliminated rapist mass murder, and must never be given a free pass by the un. And terror cannot, can never be tolerated hey underscoring that he says acts of Sexual Violence by hamas, including raping women held hostage, have not stopped. What the Ambassador Says needs to happen before any kind of ceasefire between israel and hamas can be reconsidered. Plus the election days so big it goes by Super Tuesday. Were on the cusp of it primary contests in 16 states plus American Samoa cant forget them. Why tomorrow means so much, no matter which date you may live in. And leading this hour. Efforts to take donald trump off 2024 ballots in maine, in illinois, and colorado now shut down that in the wake of todays unanimous
Will be putting out yet another fake indictment of your a favorite president , me, at 5 00 p. M. Provided and they do this 2. 5 years ago . Why did they wait so long . They wanted to put it right in the middle of my campaign. Prosecutorial misconduct. A grand jury who will decide whether or not to indict trump over election interference, they met earlier today. Hes outside the d. C. Court house where they ran meeting. Can you give us your report . What did you see . Good afternoon. Obviously, that truth social post was made by the former president at 4 41. Being that there was going to be this 5 00 news. We have not yet yet. All day long about whether or not we could see indictments come. Security around this courthouse did pick up your noticeably the first thing we notice is when we came here, dana, it was no federal protective service but some patrol cars out in front of the courthouse still here behind me. The grand jury as you mentioned gay men met today. Slowly they trickled all a
Nomination making his way down the steps as he prepares for another afternoon in court. Its an extraordinary situation to say the least of a former president and someone who is currently running. We have amazing fox team coverage. We have dana perino, Shannon Bream and jessica tarlov. First, lets go to david spunt live outside the federal courthouse where we expect the former president will pull up a short time from now. Hi, david. Hi, martha. Its symbolic here today. You cant see it on camera. Were just feet away from the u. S. Capitol blocks away from the white house. The former president will make his way here, as you said, in motorcade. He will head before the Magistrate Judge. He wont be placed under arrest in handcuffs or mug shots. We know he will specifically be fingerprinted. Once hes here, hes in the custody of u. S. Marshals. Hes not in the custody of the fbi. Hes not going to have his hands behind his back. He did say he would be arrested today. I want to put up this truth
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
Its very significant. The weight of resources are no longer in your favor, i dont care how much money you necessarily have. What theyre doing now is likely expected a not guilty plea where he will formally tell the court he has notice of all the charges against him, and they will set some date in the future in terms of when he will have to either have discovery provided to him, there likely is not going to be a Motion Schedule for the things that you would argue about what would come into evidence, thats going to be longer down the road. But the notion of a rap sheet is so significant with these different indictments, particularly because of this reason normally if somebody has charges against them, trials in the same vicinity, youre talking about maybe if they are convicted theyre going to run concurrent sentences, meaning this one will run on top of the other and the other. Its not going to be youll serve five years for this one, then ten years for another, five for the next. It will