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She is Pleading Guilty to the systems voting breach in coffey county, and as part of that deal, she would testify in other trials and that would include the trial or trials in a second of donald trump. With us now, First Nick Valencia who is outside of the courtroom in georgia and also the senior legal analyst elie honig, and we saw it play out. Sidney powell walked into the courtroom and she had to answer questions, and she said, yeah, she is agreeing to the plea deal laid out to us. And yes, sorry, john, there is a live situation here with police cars going by. But it is a stunning reversal for us here in court, and it is stunning for us watching the case throughout, and stunning if only because brian rafferty, the attorney for Sidney Powell had been maintaining the innocence, and said that the d. A. Had evidence that she was not the driving force behind the breach here in coffey county, georgia, but today, the former attorney for former President Donald Trump did plead guilty to the data breach in rural georgia, and she has to as part of the plea deal write a letter of apology and testify against the 17 codefendants including former president , and other trials to the former president. It is a blow no former president only because she is inextricably linked with the president. She filed meritless lawsuits of voter fraud, and now one of the former attorneys will be used against him as the d. A. Here in Fulton County tries to secure a indictment against the former president. John . All right. Nick valencia outside of the courtroom, and thank you for that. Also with us now, is Katelyn Polantz, and elie honig . Well, it is the eve of trial, and this is where she pusheded for the speedy trial, and she wanted the speedy trial, and so did ken chesebro, and the rest of the defendants and all 17 others this, including donald trump were able to breathe a sigh of relief and have them go to trial and have donald trump as the empty chair, and they would be put up at the Defense Table before the jury, and the prosecutors would have the try the case there, and Sidney Powell was the piece that she was facing most accusations in was coffey county, and relatively narrow part of the racketeering case, and relatively situation of how would this trial go for the prosecutors and now clearly, enough reason for Sidney Powell to be motivated to take this deal to agree to cooperate, and they will use her guilty plea on the six charges of conspiracy to interfere with intentional duties, but they will be a ebl to ask her about all of the other thing, and the rack teerg and conspiracy that she is accused of taking part of as she is testifying likely at this trial in the future against donald trump and others. Our Senior Analyst elie honig is with us, and she has to write an apology letter, and this is not the most important here, and it is the Plea Agreement to work and testify in the prosecutions of others here, a talk about how big of a deal that is. So this is a really big breakthrough for the prosecutors. In order for any Cooperation Deal to work, the defendant in this case, Sidney Powell, she has to do a couple of things. She has to admit what she did, and plea guilty, as we are seeing today, and willing to testify. It is important to understand that there is no such thing as halfway cooperation. If you are a prosecutor, you would not enter into this deal with Sidney Powell unless that you were convinced that she is telling truth, and she would testify credibly in the way that you can put in front of the jury, and see that she is not going to be splitting hairs. If she is going to admit her involvement in the Coffee County scheme, as katelyn laid out, she is also charged in the rack teerg charge here with donald trump, and she has to admit, that, yes, what we were trying to do is to steal the election, and i knew that it was illegal, and in fact, a crime, and all of that is in play for all of the 17 other codefendants here including donald trump. And elie, you think that this could, this also could extend to jack smiths investigation into the case that he is bringing . For sure. So remember that Sidney Powell is not a charged defendant in jack smiths case involving to steal the 2020 election, but she is a unindicted coconspirator, and there are six of them, Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell are two of the six. So in his view, she was part of the conspiracy, and now, we dont know if there is any coordination of fani willis and jack smith, but if i am jack smith, i am picking up the phone and calling d. A. There and saying that you have flipped Sidney Powell, and we would like to talk to her, too, because if you believe that she has come clean, and you can put her on the stand, then we as well would like to put her on the stand, and maybe she has to work out a separate deal with jack smith, but if she has come clean, then if i am jack smith, i want her as a witness. That is going to be interesting and i cant help but believe that she going to testify there. And now, Sidney Powell was at the december what meeting . December 18th. Talk to me about who was there, because that is a source of the drama of what happened before january 6th. I dont want to list everybody off of the top of my head, because i might misspeak one of the heads, but it is the people central to the white house, and i believe that there were people quite high up both in the white house and in the legal world around donald trump and there was shouting at that meeting about what to do that people like Sidney Powell were trying to get oneonone time with donald trump, and did, and i believe that mark meadows was also a person in the room and seeing it play out, and all of that is important in the federal investigation. And how all of these people were very close to trump, himself, and having conversations with him. And elie is talking about the federal investigators of how she was willing to plea guilty in georgia, and it is quite possible to talk to her about the oneonone conversations with donald trump, the defendant, and that they will be taking to trial in march to federal court, and she does split with the trump world after december 18th, and someone who was involved not just in the fundraising effort after the 2020 election talking about Election Fraud, but she is a lawyer and publicly out there in court. And to hit that point again, she never backed down from the Election Fraud theories. And she was, and she plead not guilty, and fighting this georgia case up until yesterday or maybe the begin of the week that in trying continue to fight it. And what a big shift this is. It is. And just knowing her personally as someone that we have seen in court before. She is very much a fighter, and has always been, and she somehow got Michael Flynns plea deal that was signed, delivered to the judge unraveled at the end of the trump administration, and not only that, she had done all, and all kinds of tactics in court to try to unravel that, and even now in this case, you will see her being dilted even if she is not in the trump circle anymore, and she is a lawyer who has the law license at risk in Pleading Guilty to a crime that has some moral underpinning to it, and she is a person who has a lot of information it to, and does she want to be perceived as different than before. And elie honig, Pleading Guilty days before the trial is to begin, and kenneth chesebros trial is set to go next week on tv, and very shortly, we will see the Election Fraud trial playing out before our eyes, and what is Sidney Powells guilty play impact going to have on that, and what are you expecting . One defendant at the trial, and not two, and Sidney Powell is out. And so, it is so important that we, the public will is that donald trump and the other defendants will get to see it play out, and that is a strategic advantage for them, and the d. A. Said that my evidence as to any of the 19 defendants and two of whom have plead guilty, Sidney Powell, and scott waul, and they are going to be sessentially the same as o all of the defendants. So when she tries the case, she is going to put u on the entire case. That is going to be fascinating about what happened behind the scenes of donald trump, and he could well take on the damage in some respect, but tactically, donald trump and other defendants can sit back, and watch, and take notes somewhere over the last few minutes, Sidney PowellPleading Guilty. And elie honig and Katelyn Polantz in the studio with us. Thank you, my friend. And we are also watching the developments in israel and gaza. Children were among the dozens of people who were rushed to the hospital after a blast in khan yunis. Plus, the antisemitic acts rising really across the globe, including here in the united states. Look at this picture, a swastika sprawled graffiti on the building of an iconic building in new york. And plus, some changes in the air, and some reporters on the hill say that jim jordan is not going to hold a third speaker vote today. And yet more twists and turns. That is a Breaking News right there. No speaker vote today. All right. Big Breaking News from capitol hill on a vote that we have just learned will not happen today. Cnns lauren fox with the very latest on capitol hill. Jim jordan is backing off, lauren. Where do things stand . Yeah, we are expecting in the private Conference Meeting according to multiple sources that me and the cnn colleagues have been talking with that jim jordan is going to point to lean to the resolution to empower Patrick Mchenry to january rather than running again today on the floor for House Speaker there. Is some thinking behind this. He is not expecting to drop his speakership, but it is going to give him more time to shore up the support, and will it work over the next several months . It is unclear, because there are a number of proponents who say they will not back him, and it is not clear that more time is going to change their minds, but on the legislative front, Empowering Mchenry for several months would essentially allow him to clear the deck for any future speaker on the toughest and most difficult legislation to pass through the House Republican conference including ensuring that the government is funded after the November 17th Deadline and coming together with the democrats on a full spending bill in november, and ukrainian aid and israeli aid, and as the white house is planning to send up a supplemental request, and so that is why jordan may be planning to support this resolution to empower mchenry, but it is significant news that jim jordan is not expected to run on the floor for speaker today on the third ballot after he lost 20 and more members on the second ballot. John . I think it is safe to say that he is backing off and pushing for another vote today, because he was headed for a defeat, and bigger defeat. He was going to lose a third ballot, and now at least he has a pause, off ramp, and empowering Patrick Mchenry to serve as some type of speaker protem until january, lauren. There is a lot of let in there, and what does it mean that the house can and will not be able to do in the next two months . Well, right now, because mchenry is in the interim role, the belief is that he did not have the power to bring the legislation to the floor of the house and not even a resolution to say that the house supported israel, and in a bigger and expanded role, he could bring the legislation to the floor, and acting as any other speaker would, and that is again so essentially because that Government Funding deadline is coming november 17th. That is going to give the lawmaker less than a month to figure out what to do and even if they want to move forward with a shortterm resolution, at some point there has to be a Ig Beer Conversation of how to fund the government for a longer period of time. And i would note that mchenry was the architect of the deal to set the cap numbers for the full Year Spending deal, and for the last several months mchenry has been warning that as the republican conference is having the squabbles of how the fund the government, the prediction is that they would end up back in what was included in the debt ceiling deal, and one of the Big Questions is what are the democrats going to do and would they support this resolution . They have openly signaled they would be supportive, but that they wants asurances that government is open, and promises on the ukrainian aid and israel lead, and the ties to the debt deal in may, the democrats have faith in him, but it is one of the outstanding questions that we have, john. Yes, and the democrat from illinois told me, yeah, he would support Empowering Mchenry for some time, and that what the democrats have said, and the fine print, and they could get it in the next fut hours, and loft new things reporting here, and as you have reported, jim jordan is suggesting that he wants to be the speaker and might give it another try in january. Of course, january is a long ways off, and we will have to wait and see, but he is not one to out and out quit, correct . Yeah, that is interesting, and before this all came out, i did talk to Warren Davidson who is a close ally of jim jordan this morning, and he said that the conference needs time to heal. Think of what has transpired within the last 16 days. A speaker oust and another candidate came to the forefront and won in a closed door meeting, steve scalise, and he could not get the votes, and he dropped out, because of the jordan detractors and then jim jordan was running, and lot of bad blood, and a lot of raw nerves in the words of warren david is that the thinking of jordan allies to give it some time, and jordan is not dropping out, but see if he can get there over the next several months. A whole lot of dysfunction is to put it another way. Lauren fox, thank you very much. All right. Coming up for us, we have new air strikes in Northern Gaza this morning. The idf says they have hit hundreds of targets, and we have new video coming in next. Alex mateo, hey hows business . Great. You know that loan has really worked wonders. Thats what u. S. Bank is for. And youre growing in california . Yup, socal, norcal. Monterey . All day. A branch in ventura . Thats for sureah. 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The Israeli American and her granddaughter who were thought to be hostages of hamas, but who have now been found dead according to their families. 80yearold woman and her 13yearold granddaughter were kidnapped from their kibbutz by hamas, and according to a relatives in the united states, their identity was confirmed by the ids. And now, as recently as this morning, there could be as many as 203 hos