Of Fulton County fani willis, a judge rules she can stay on the case if she removes her lead prosecutor nathan wade. The judge adds that the romantic relationship between willis and wade has the appearance of impropriety and that she should not have given a speech accusing critics of racism. We will have the trump teams response and our legal experts on just how this could impact the prosecution. The president makes his first comments about Chuck Schumers controversial speech about Prime Minister netanyahu as hamas offers a new ceasefire and hostage release deal while israel proposes a Military Plan to invade rafah. This as some emergency food, some, arrives by ship for starving palestinians. Its not yet on shore. A live report from moscow on putins socalled election and a new g7 warning to iran not to send Ballistic Missiles to russia. President bidens Top National Security Spokesman John Kirby will join me next. Good day, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington. A Major Developmen
Include possible coconspirators. What youre watching is the cover of that page of the indictment if we can put that up on the screen. That would be great. Here with more, we go back to Law Professor and fox news computer jonathan turley. Jonathan, im looking at that. If youre looking at the document that made it to the media talking about ten specific indictments. How do you read it as your background as the great Law Professor that you are . Youre talking about ten indictments, it has not profile of a racketeering case. Thats where willis gained her fame as a local prosecutor. You often will have large numbers of people linked in a conspiracy. To make out that case you have to esta conspirators. Few crimes are on a predicate crime list, the basis for racketeering charges. In this case theyre likely to use crimes like fraud and combine all these ago force in a large comprehensive conspiracy. Thats the most likely thing here. The problem is not that racket, the rico statutes were design
Im jose diazbalart and we begin with Breaking News out of georgia. Just in the last hour, Fulton County judge scott mcafee dismissed some of the charges against former President Donald Trump and some of his codefendants in the States Election interference case. The judge said six these counts in the indictments lack sufficient detail. Joining us now, msnbc legal contributor and host of the katie phang show, katie phang, also catherine christian, an msnbc legal analyst, and greg blew steen, political reporter at the Atlantic Journal Constitution and an msnbc contributor. Katie, what exactly did the judge stay, which charges were they, and how significant are they . So, jose, this is not the ruling on the motion to disqualify the District Attorney fani willis. Were going to start with that kind of ground work. But what it does do is it dismisses six of the counts in the indictment that was secured by fani willis from a grand jury. And thats another important point because this was not an
ukrainian offensive through this area. where they don t. i think they needed them. donald trump, the campaign trail, amidst new reporting today on classified documents and potential pressure campaign involving the irs to let his freedom caucus fracture is, the latest on an inept effort to oust marjorie taylor greene from the gop organization. plus, you are following some extreme heat that continues to stifle parts of the country as well as a threat of severe storms and others. an alarming health development, cases of malaria, cropping up in the u.s. from the first time in decades. all of that and a troubling new trend in the wake of anti-trans legislation around the country. people forced to go to the black market to get medication they desperately need. that story is ahead this hour as well. you don t miss that conversation. we begin though with ukraine. now, 500 days into its fight for survival after the russian invasion. the president just signed off on what may be his
71 felony counts in two jurisdictions, in new york and in south florida, to say nothing of a grand jury in fulton county, georgia, that may indict trump as early as next week, also a federal grand jury in d.c. investigating trump s role in the january 6th insurrection. in this case, the documents case, trump s attorneys are asking for trump to get special treatment, to be treated unlike every other american, to take into consideration trump s status as the frontrunner for the republican presidential nomination. the lawyers write that trump is, quote, currently the likely republican party nominee. this undertaking requires a tremendous amount of time and energy and that effort will continue until the election on november 5th, 2024. quote, mr. nauta s job requires him to accompany trump on most campaign trips around the country. the schedule makes trial preparation with both defendants challenging. whether judge cannon buys into this idea that the ex-president and walt nauta ar