district attorney fani willis is fates still up in the air as the judge weighs whether to disqualify her and her entire team of prosecutors from the case against donald trump and other defendants for their efforts to overturn the 2020 election in georgia. these people, your honor, is a systematic misconduct and they need to go lawyers for trump and others charged in the case are arguing that willis hired nathan wade, a special prosecutor when they were romantically involved, and then she benefited financially from the trips they took and dinners they shared. she put her boyfriend in the spot paid him, and then reap the benefits from it that she created the system and then didn t tell anybody about it. willis testified last month insisting the relationship began after wade was appointed to lead the trump case and arguing she paid him back in cash when i saw how did they did mr. wade april 2020 2022 around the i don t know, growing up, my daddy had three safes and now, th
they only attacking one in reference to mr. wade. and then she goes on to say, god, is it them playing the racecar where they only question one? no, if she had been truthful with the congregation, truthful with the community she would have said i had a relationship with him. good, bad, forgive me, whatever. that is what she should have said. but she chose to deflect and say them, the reference to them and the others and they. it is obviously a reference to the motion filed by miss merchant. they choose to go after the black man and she then goes on. again, deflecting away. and deflecting to the what i call the third rail, the american society. accusing somebody on the other side of being a racist. so and so is a racist. they are racist. she was the one playing the race card in a way to try to deflect from her own conduct. she goes on to say and her discussions with the lord, god, is that is it that some will never see a black man as qualified no matter his achievements? a
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 doesn t 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
publishing, right? for a higher purpose published with us, the christian faith publishing is an author friendly publisher who understands that your labor is more than just a book color scan for your free riders guide, 800 4551827 tonight on 360 trump lawyers press one, judge to delay the documents case and another to disqualify the georgia da details tonight from a key day on a crowded legal calendar that could push one or both cases past election day. also tonight, president biden says us forces will start air dropping food and to gaza with fears, widespread famine growing and desperation plane to c plus the latest on the winter storm that could dump six to 12 feet of snow. that s feet not which is on parts of california. good evening. thanks for joining us when the trump indictments began coming down and then piling up quickly became clear that one day soon we d have days like this, 12 sets of attorneys in two different courtrooms arguing two of his cases, one in atlant
atlanta, making final arguments for why judge gotten mcafee should disqualify fulton county da fani willis, who s overseeing his election, racketeering trial the other in fort pierce, florida, pressing a federal judge, aileen cannon, to delay his classified documents trial until after the election. a busy day for trump lawyers and for prosecutors. seen as paula reid starts us off in florida former president donald trump at federal court in florida. today for a high-stakes hearing to decide when he will be tried for allegedly mishandling classified documents an indictment was unsealed. charging donald j. trump with felony violations of our national security laws, as well as participating in a conspiracy to obstruct justice trump faces 40 felony criminal charges related to the alleged mishandling of classified information. some seen here in properly stored at mar-a-lago. they raided my house. they did it for publicity reasons. they did it for election interference reaso