Survival to take the precedence over the best interests of israel. He has been too willing to tolerate the civilian toll in gaza, which pushing support for israel worldwide to historic lows. Israel cannot survive if it becomes a pariah. The highest ranking jewish elected official in the United States calling for a Leadership Change in israel, now five months into its war with hamas. Well have more of Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumers important comments and the reaction to them straight ahead. Plus, an update on Donald Trumps efforts to get his classified documents case dismissed. Well have expert legal analysis for you on that in just a moment. And while trump was in a courtroom, President Biden was on the Campaign Trail in another key midwest battleground state. Good morning and welcome to Way Too Early on this friday, march 15th. Its friday. We made it. Barely. Im jonathan lemire, thanks for starting your day with us. And well begin this morning with a series of developments in D
To republican control of the senate. Stop garvey. Adam schiff for senate. Im adam schiff, and i approve this message. 1808836464. Thats 1808836464. Im Fred Pleitgen in tehran. And this is cnn welcome to. Cnn news central. Im Boris Sanchez alongside jessica dean in washington. And in just moments were going to see some pivotal humans in the Georgia Election subversion case against donald trump and his codefendants, Attorneys For Trump and his codefendants are going to deliver Closing Arguments in their push to disqualify the person who brought thats sweeping case, Fulton County District Attorney, fani willis. They claimed that willis financially benefited from her romantic relationship with one of her top prosecutors nathan wade. Now the judge will ultimately decide if the defense proved those explosive allegations were going to take you live inside the courtroom once those presentations again, which we are expecting momentarily, but first lets take you to Zachary Cohen who was outside
No, no, no, this is the truth, the judge. It is a lie. It is a lie. Our relationship was not a secret. It was just private. Did you observe them do things that are common among people having a romantic relationship . Yes. I like grey goose. You never wrote him a check. I dont have checks. Cash is fungible. I gave my daughter her first cashbox and told her, always keep some cash. Most black folks, they hard cash. Im not on trial no matter how hard you try to put me on trial. Just some of the most memorable moments of fani willis and Special Prosecutor that she hired. Closing arguments are set to begin in moments in the hearing that could see both willis and wade disqualified from the Georgia Election meddling case and with that, so begins friday afternoon. Im john roberts in washington. Good to be back with you, cassandra. Great to be great to be with you. Anything could happen here. Im sandra smith. This is a live look right now at two courthouses. More than 500 miles apart. Willis is
Trying to put the d. A. And her defense team on defense. The accusation is that fani willis had an improper relationship with one of her prosecutors and stood to benefit financially from employing him. The subsequent testimony has been salacious at times, heated at others, especially when willis herself took the stand a couple of weeks ago to call the whole investigation bs. And while the alleged conduct is dominating the headlines, it doesnt change the underlying allegations in the original case, which is that more than a dozen people including the former president , have been accused of coordinating to try and illegally overturn the results of the 2020 elections in georgia. Joining us now, host of the Katie Phang Show right here on msnbc, katie phang. We are watching the courtroom. Judge mcafee is sitting down. Katie, give us the initial state of play. Reporter so today are going to be the arguments, you can call them the closing arguments if you want, katie, because this has become
to mike tobin in chicago on the holiday crime surge showing no signs of ending. mike? starting in philadelphia, edward, identification of the gunman through the official channels. no answer for a man walking up the street in philadelphia and randomly shooting at people. the man had an ar rifle and 9 millimeter pistol and ski mast. he had a scanner to listen to the police. his first victim fled into a house and died of his gunshot wounds there. more information about the investigation is waiting. law enforcement made it clear this gunman will face multiple counts of murder and a psalm. another mass shooting on the west side. a holiday gathering right @midnight after the event shut down. gun fire created panic and blood shed. a lot of foot traffic, vehicle traffic. still file works were being shot off. people trying to flee the area from the multiple gun shots. it was difficult for them to navigate in to the area. back to the latest information in philadelphia, police the