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
Now. Thank you for joining us. Im ana cabrera in for chris jansing. Disciplined but not disqualified. A Judge Issuing A highly anticipated decision over Misconduct Allegations against fani willis. She can remain on the Election Interference case against former President Trump, but under one major condition. Well break it all down. Plus donald trump is on the offensive. His legal team vowing to fight to end the georgia case, how his Campaign Plans to use his court dates for political gain. And the big question hanging over it all is when will the trials actually take place. The one we thought was set to begin here in manhattan could now be delayed. And this as special counsel jack smith battles to keep his two federal cases on track. This hour we have a team of corespondents and legal experts set to explain where the Time Line Stands for each of these trials. But lets begin with the breaking news out of georgia, judge scott mcafee ruling that fani willis should not be disqualified from
Welcome back to the weekend everyone. Special prosecutor nathan wade has officially stepped down from the Georgia Election interference case. His resignation coming hours after judge scott mcafee found there was no actual conflict stemming from nathan wades relationship with fani willis and the prosecution of trump and his codefendants could continue as long as either nathan wade or fani willis resigned. Joining us to discuss it all is our friend, katie phang, attorney and host of the Katie Phang Show right here on msnbc and our other friend, justice and Legal Affairs analyst, Anthony Coley. Coley is a former Senior Advisor to attorney general merrick garland. Anthony coley wrote a piece for msnbc. Com talking and has tweets. That without sufficient evidence that the District Attorney and the prosecution, you talk about willis making a strong argument for why she said stay on the case against trump but she needs to remove her team, the attorney from whom she had a personal relationship
Results of what amounts to a side show. A legal circus, a spectacle and a deliberate diversion but here we are. But first we should make clear that todays ruling from john mcafee was actually a victory for the rule of law and for fani willis herself. In matter of the d. A. s relationship where naman wade, the judges ultimatum amounted to this. Leave wade behind or halt prosecution of this case. It turns out to be a easy choice for d. A. Willis to make. Remember what she said when she announced the indictment. The states roll in this process is essential to the functioning of our democracy. Georgia, like every state, has laws that allow those that believe that results of an election are wrong, whether, because of intentional wrongdoing, or unintentional error, to challenge those results in our state courts. The indictment alleges that rather than abide by georgias Legal Process for election challenges, the defendants engaged in a Criminal Racketeering Enterprise to over turn georgias pr
His sunday in wilmington, delaware, after he and former President Trump held dueling rallies in georgia yesterday. This as mr. Biden faces backlash for saying he, quote, shouldnt have called laken rileys Accused Killer an illegal. Welcome to fox news live, im mike if emmanuel. Lawmakers are pressing President Biden the take action on the border crisis e as migrants continue to stream across the border. Lucas tomlinson is live from the white house with the latest. Hello, lucas. Reporter the president s about face came after he received significant pushback over using the word illegal to describe lake aren rileys killer, that pushback coming from the proigs of his own party. I shouldnt have used illegal. I should have its undocumented. And, look, when i spoke about the difference between trump and me, one of the things i talked about on the border is the way he talks about vermin p the way he talks about these people polluting the blood. Reporter cold a new abc poll, 36 of Americans Trus