Indicted, highly classified documents in bathroom and the ballroom down at maralago. And federal judge aileen cannon, the Trump Appointed lawyer who came to this case with only three years on the bench and with very little experience in running criminal trials. Cannon whose rulings in the case so far have repeatedly drawn scrutiny and reversals and rebukes by higher courts. And now judge cannon is under fire once again for what the Washington Post diplomatically calls, quote, an unusual order regarding jury instruction. Quote, even though cannon has not yet ruled when the trial will be held or a host of other issues, shes skipping ahead to the very end, to Jury Instructions, asking prosecutors and Defense Attorneys to consider two different hypothetical situations. Writing in part, quote, in the first scenario the jury would be allowed today review a former president s possession of a record and make a factual finding, whether it is personal or president ial, using the Definition Set f
Welcome to prime time weekend. I am nicolle wallace. Lets get right to top stories. In a Perfect World we would not actually start the show where we are going to start it today, opening our broadcast with the results of what amounts to a legal circus, a spectacle and diversion. The ruling from Fulton County Superior Court judge scott macv was actually a victory for rule of law in the matter of the d. A. S relationship with special prosecutor nathan wade the judges ultimatum amounted to this. Either leave wade behind her help the prosecution of this case altogether. Turned out to be an easy choice for d. A. Willis to make. Remember what she said when she announced the indictment. The states role in this process is essential to the functioning of our democracy. Georgia, like every state, has laws that allow those who believe that results of an election are wrong, whether because of intentional wrongdoing or unintentional error, to challenge those results in our state courts. The indictme
House. Im sure you have heard that. Ainsley Brooke Singman spoke exclusively with the former president last night and joins us now. What did he say . Thats right. I spoke with the former president last night who says his fourth indictment comes during a, quote, dark period for our country but he wont let it stop him President Trump telling me this is a consideration of the greatest and longest running witchhunt in american history. I will make America Great again. Now, late Last Night Trump was indicted by Fulton County georgia d. A. Fanny willis alongside 18 others that included personal attorney Rudy Giuliani. Former white house Chief Of Staff mark meadows and even kanye west former publicist. Traveled to the home of an Election Worker in Fulton County. These charges come after a years long criminal investigation over his alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 president ial election in the state sparked by a phone call he made to georgias Secretary Of State back in December 2020 charge
Mcdonalds says its aware of a Technology Outage impacting restaurants, and that the issue is being resolved. They said its not related to a Cyber Security event. Joining us now from new york is michelle fleury. Not michelle mcfleury as i would be tempted to say in other circumstances. What is going on . Restau ra Nts Restaurants have been affected overnight and it seems to be able to play a big issue in bangkok, australia, also where you are in the uk and ireland. Some stores had to close reportedly because the it systems went down, people were not able to order because of the touchscreens are not able to place mobile orders. In some cases they went back to pen and paper to take orders and that old thing of accepting cash. All of this has been accepting cash. All of this has been a black eye for the chicago based company who have come out and said it is not related to a Cyber Security attack but they have not given any more details about what caused the outage. They said in a statemen
Just ruled that Fulton County District Attorney fani willis can stay in charge of the sweeping election interexperience case into donald trump and more than a dozen others if and only if top prosecutor nathan wade, the man she had a relationship with, goes. Covering all of the angles of this major decision with msnbcs katie phang, and lisa rubin, danny cevallos, and dave aaronberg, State Attorney from palm beach county, florida, thank you all for joining us, katy, walk us through this 20plus page decision and the choice willis has to make now. So, ana, msnbc first to report this 2346 page ruling that came from judge scott mcafee. The process has taken a few months, and so to that extent, if there was a win, the win would be for the defense for the delay. However, ultimately judge mcafee saying no actual Conflict Of Interest was proven by the defense. It was their burden to have to show it through competent evidence during the course of the hearing. The judge reporting there was an appe