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
I spent. [background noises] the committee will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare a racist of the committee at any time by this hearing is entitled semi annual report of the bureau of financial protection. Without objection all members will have five legislative days within which to submit extraneous materials to the chair or inclusion in the record. I now recognize myself for four minutes to give an Opening Statement. Thank you director for being here today. As the director you wear a lot of hats. You are a member of the federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Financial Stability oversight consult. This committee spent a lot of time understanding how regulators reacted to the failures of Silicon Valley macon signature bank. Given both the fcic have equal rolls in the failures i am looking forward to hear about your involvement in the decisionmaking process. As we said the fdics chair grunberg and pfister bar testified before this committee there
I spent. [background noises] the committee will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare a racist of the committee at any time by this hearing is entitled semi annual report of the bureau of financial protection. Without objection all members will have five legislative days within which to submit extraneous materials to the chair or inclusion in the record. I now recognize myself for four minutes to give an Opening Statement. Thank you director for being here today. As the director you wear a lot of hats. You are a member of the federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Financial Stability oversight consult. This committee spent a lot of time understanding how regulators reacted to the failures of Silicon Valley macon signature bank. Given both the fcic have equal rolls in the failures i am looking forward to hear about your involvement in the decisionmaking process. As we said the fdics chair grunberg and pfister bar testified before this committee there
District council, the tech policy summit with live coverage. That event is already an progress and just got avoid tn social media where we did nothing for 25 years. The good news is Speaker Mccarthy to together a task force to do this. The good news is that speaker johnson and checking jeffreys ours putting together the Informal Working Group soon. Theyre trying to get some major ai bells done this year. Among them are the create the ai acts. Even some people like ibm do not have enough resources to compete with the huge databases of openai, of google, microsoft. We need databases that are available to businesses, researchers. This creates a large database, probably not as large as if you scrub up 6 trillion words, maybe 40 of them are not true. There will be all kinds of stuff about nazis and qanon theories. The idea and a Community Dataset is you let scientists of a curated data set is you let scientists build them for us. Another basic part of ai safety is the notion of not allowing