hours. so far wade has earned more than $650,000 for his work on the case. >> he's doing things like billing 24 hours in a day. >> why is that? >> elwith, look, attorneys work hard, and technically it is possible to bill 24 hours in a day, of course. i have never met an attorney ever and i don't think anyone i know has ever met an attorney who has billed 24 hours in a day. and this 24 hours in a day isn't being billed to a private client. it's being billed to the taxpayers of fulton county. >> reporter: no doubt the 127-page legal filing from trump codefendant and former campaign official michael roman has been fodder for gossip but noticeably missling was any direct evidence of an improper relationship. bad optics is something willis has already been reprimanded for once when she held a political fund-raiser for a political rival of one of the case's codefendants. >> i don't think it's an actual conflict. it's a what are you thinking moment if the optics are horrific. >> reporter: persecution not