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Well, john and kate, we had heard discussions were going on between the Fulton CountyDistrict Attorneys Office and jenna elliss attorneys as early as last week, and this morning we saw a stakeout of the defense attorney Nathan Wade Walk into court with ellis, and then all of this came in and schedule some impromptu hearings and this is a bombshell to the defense, and for every plea deal that is cut, the walls of the defense is going to be crumbling in on him, and we were the only Correspondent Team inside of the courtroom to see jenna ellis tearful apology in the courtroom to address this in open court. In the frenetic pace to address challenges in other states including georgia, i failed to do my due diligence. I respect election integrity, and if i knew then what i know now, i would have refused to represent donald trump. I look back on this experience with deep remorse. With those failures, your honor, i have taken response before the colorado bar who censured me, and i take responsibility before this court and i apologize to the people of georgia. Reporter she appeared to implicate Rudy Giuliani, and appeared to help him when he lied to georgia legislators, when he appeared three times in 2020, and ellis and others who cut similar deals will have probation, and she wont see the inside of the jail cell and she will have to do 100 hours of Community Service and pay a fine, and like other deals, she is going to have to testify in front of other codefendants and other trial proceedings. Kate and john . Standby, because with us is our chief judicial affairs, paula reid, jenna ellis seemed to point the finger at other people involved here saying that she relied on information from senior attorneys of what they told her, and the implication is Rudy Giuliani in the hearing and that she was providing Sensitive Information and talk to me how this plea deal, and now the four plea deals fits into the Fani Willis Deal in Fulton County. And she has charged 19 defendants in this sprawling rico case, and it is significant that she now has four of them, and three of the individuals have worked closely to help former President Trump and the legal challenges to overturn the 2020 election. Now, all of the individuals as nick said have agreed as part of the deals that are particularly generous as the ones handed out over the past several weeks, you have to help them to build their case against the other defendant, and of the three individuals who were working on the trump legal team, only ken chesebro mentioned President Trump in plea deal hearing, but we expect more deals, and that is how the cases work. You start with 19 people, and then try to thin the herd, and try to focus the eventual case on the key players and this is former President Trump, and likely Rudy Giuliani, and mark meadows and a few others. The trump team has tried to suggest that the plea deals indicate that the case in Fulton County is weak. Now, lets unpack that based on the reporting, and anybody who watched hearings, because they are all televised could see that perhaps the prosecutors were not ready the bring a four months long trial quickly against the two defendants, and they were likely under some pressure to hand out the plea deals, and the fact that they have gotten cooperation with the expectation of more is a sign of weakness, and the question is when could President Trump and the associates go to trial. This is a case that is expected to take over four months to put on, and if you are looking at the 2024 calendar with the other trials and the election event, it is impossible to see where it could fit on the calendar, and so it is something that could not happen in well over a year. The plea deals could continue the happen, and certainly more people who could enter the pleas if they choose to do so, and so at this point, you have to Pay Attention to what is going on there, and get new developments every day. Nick valencia, the only correspondent in the courtroom, and i am looking at the excellent reporting by the team, and thank you. And now, former federal prosecutor jessica roff and u. S what do you make of this today . Well, aim glad to be with all of you, and it is significant any time you have codefendants aggreeing to testify against their other codefendants, it is a big deal and not something that trump and other people want to hear. I was interested in a couple of things. One, that, you know, the sentence itself, the plea itself, it is in line with what we have seen, probation, and first offender, and in fact, the state has agreed it is not a crime of moral turpitude, and not affecting law license and things like that, and it is interesting to see that, but i was also interested to see how far away they stayed from talking about donald trump. They talked about the Trump Campaign, and they talked about other lawyers giving advice, but as an individual, as a person, you didnt hear much information about specifically the president because ms. Elliss is going to have impact on john eastman and Rudy Giuliani when she said that i wish i had not paid attention to other lawyers who are more senior than me, and they have more to fear at this point. And if she knew then what she knows now, she wouldnt have worked for the Trump Campaign, and i can guarantee you that this is something that trump who is headed to another new york courtroom did not want to hear. And now, with this jenna ellis plea deal, it has to do with the aiding and the abetting of the false brwriting and it h to do specifically with the Georgia Legislative Subcommittee where Rudy Giuliani is there, and i did false stuff, but how threatening is that to Rudy Giuliani . I think it is very effective and she relied on him, and saying that there were multiple lawyers who had greater Expert Experience and expertise on them, and she wished she hadnt, and so it is pointing finger squarely at giuliani and increases pressure on him, and not clear to any circumstances that giuliani would cooperate, and perhaps he would enter a guilty plea at some point, and this is increasing pressure on him to do so, and she could be an effective witness on the point that she was making that there had not been fraud of the voting in georgia and the things that she plead guilty to Aiding And Abetting falts statement faf the people she had reported on as fraud, and saying it is false, and acknowledging it is false, and the testimony even in a case against trump and others of how she has come to understand how that is false allegations can be powerful in the legal case against them in respect to knowingly engaging in conduct of overturning an election, and publicly acknowledging that those were false allegations of fraud. I was in the middle of it, and i was the one pushing this, and saying this many false ballots and this, and knowingly, and now know that those are false statements and saying to a judge in a courtroom that as part of the plea deal. Michael, do you think that from what we have seen so far, that cutting the plea deals, and three of them being former trump attorneys what does this, and is this wrong to assume that this could be a Domino Effect then of this will lead to more people looking to get plea deals . Well, i mean, the plea deals have been offered basically of a firstyear lawyer would advice a client to take this deal, and no jail time and no record, and you can have first offender, and this is going to be sealed after a period of time, and these are easy decisions to be made if you are going there, and if you are looking for the Domino Effect, and with these particular defendants, we are not at the top of the line, and starting at the middle and below and if you dont see necessarily if you think about it, pushing the domino at the top, or push it in the direction of the top, and this is pushing it towards the middle, and i will point out, too, you know, even as she talked about the other lawyers and the advice she got, remember, that is exactly what donald trump is going to say. That is, i relied on people to tell me what to do, and i relied on lawyers and i relied on the Political Consultants and people close to my campaign, and this is her excuse, and you count on that is the excuse that you hear from the people higher up the chain. And so, it is going to be laying out the case, but it is going to be somebody Pleading Guilty in the indicted case to admit things, but i dont know if we are necessarily on the top, and maybe it is putting the pressure on giuliani and eastman and other people, and they may need to feel additional pressure if they want to feel pressure going up the line of the dominos, but it is significant any time somebody pleads guilty in a case and agrees to testify the prosecution feels like it is a good day. And still a long way from over which is very true for sure. Great to see you both. Thank you very much. All right. That is in a Fulton County courtroom, and dramatic events taking place in a new york courtroom where Donald Trumps former fixer, Michael Cohen is facetoface with donald trump for the first time in five years. Five years, right . Yep. And he is set to take the stand in a civil fraud trial, and this is the case where donald trump has already been found liable for committing fraud, and trump by the way, he has been found guilty, not guilty, but found liable, and fined for violating a gag order ahead of the testimony, and cohen says he is looking forward to being in the same room as trump. My credibility should not be in question, and yes, i plead guilty to a 1001 violation of lying to congress, but i requested that people continue to sentence, and the sentence is that i did it at the direction of in concert with and for the benefit of donald j. Trump. That is Michael Cohen before heading to court, and Brynn Gingras is there. Yes, we are expecting some drama there before they get to court, but the drama is that before court started four members of the general attorneys team, and one member of the trump team tested positive for covid, and the trumps attorney asked the judge to basically put a halt to the proceedings saying it is irresponsible to proceed forward and the judge said that is exactly what they are going to do. So someone has been on the stand today, and we expect Michael Cohen to be up next, and when he t does enter the courtroom, it is going to be five years since the two men have been in a courtroom together. And that going to be dramatic, and what the testimony is going to entail is when they were in the room together working together, and when Michael Cohen was trumps personal attorney, and when he talks about his net worth and they would fudge the Financial Statements and get better deals on loans and to work in the Attorney Generals Office and that is the Pivotal Moment in the case of this civil trial. We will see when this that happens, and we will continue the give you those updates from the courtroom, guys. Keep us posted there, brynn, and a lot going on there. Kate . And the field is shrinking fast. The republicans are narrowing down to field to be the house speaker. They started with eight candidates and now down to five. With such a slim majority in the house which is how they got into this mess, will they need the democrats to help get this over the finish line in the end, and get the house working . Democratic congressman steny hoyer is going to join us. Plus, we are watching overseas, the United States, qatar, and egypt in negotiations trying to get more hostages freed. What hamas is saying, and what hamas is willing to do, and we have new reporting of the complications behind the scenes to try to free these innocent civilians. Violence has erupted in the occupied west bank, and dozens of palestinian have been killed or arrested by the Israeli Security forces. Ahead, sara sidner is going to take us inside of a jewish settlement. We take a closer look. Breaking news from capitol hill, and they have completed another round for house speaker. Dan meuser dropped out, and gary palmer dropped out, and then the second round jack bergman was out, and now we have learned that Pete Sessions was out, and now jack scott is the low vote getter of the last round so four candidates left as they go into the fourth round of voting, and we were told that tom emmer is the leading vote getter. We were told that he has 100 votes at the moment, and we need to get to 110 or 111 depending on how many are voting to secure the republican nomination as it were for house speaker. So that is what is going on in the republican world right now Behind Closed Doors. We will bring you the update when we get new information on the fourth round of voting. In the meantime with me is democratic congressman and former House Majority leader steny hoyer, and congressman, how close are the republicans getting to figuring this all out . Well, when you are mentioning that tom emmer has 100, of course, they need 217. So they have some ways to go, and of course, this has happened before, but we need to have a bipartisan path forward. And republicans need to keep that in mind, and the house has now been shutdown for three weeks, the world is on fire, and ukraine is still being assaulted criminally by putin. Israel is at war, and we need to help them, and we need humanitarian aid and we need to be concerned about the indoe Chinese Security so that there is a lot to be done, and shutting down the house for three weeks because the party, the Republican Party is so deeply divided, divisive and dysfunctional is bad for the American People, and bad for Global Security so that i am hopeful that the republicans will decide to come to a consensus and a bipartisan agreement with the democrats so that the house can work on behalf of the American People, and on behalf of the international security. All right. We did get confirmation that tom emmer got 100 votes to get the republican nomination, and to go to the house floor, he will need a majority of the republican votes there, and it has been suggested by some democrats, including Dean Phillips from minnesota, along with tom emmer, and he said he might vote present On The House Floor which would lower the threshold if tom emmer is the pick, and would lower the threshold for the total number of votes that he is needing to get the gavel. Would you vote present to help tom emmer to get the gavel . Oh, it wont speculate on who is nominee or what they will have within their own party agreement. And again, 217 is the magic number, and they have been unable to get to that for scores of votes to this point in time. And what you will see is a Democratic Party united and the leader has said ready, able and ready to move forward the republicans with a bipartisan path forward to do the work for the American People, and that is where we are, and where well be. You said 217, and fewer than 217 if people voted present, but be that as it may, if you were to work with the republicans in any way, and you are call for a bipartisan plan, and what specifically, congressman, would you want for a promise from a republican who wants to be speaker . First of the all, let me point out that we have had a number of bipartisan votes already in the congress which have allowed us to move forward, and to keep government open, and that is a bipartisan vote of over 300 people to fund ukraine and over 300 people and over seven votes on that issue, and we have voted to make a deal in effect, and spending levels for this coming fiscal year, and this is a big bipartisan vote. We have voted to make sure that the