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election interference trial. we ll have legal analysis on both of these big developments in just a moment. plus new polling on president joe biden s re-election bid and the major concern that most americans have about a possible second term. good morning and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, august 29th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin this morning with a decision that sent waves through the nation s capitol yesterday, a start date for donald trump s federal election interference trial. in washington, d.c. district court judge tanya chutkan ordered jury selection to begin on march 4th of next year, just one day before super tuesday. now, prosecutors when asked for the trial to begin in early january of next year while trump s lawyers had proposed that it not start until april of 2026. yesterday judge chutkan said that neither of those dates were acceptable but that, quote, this case is not going to trial in 2026. the ....
welcome to the beat. i m katie fang in for ari melber. big developments in two cases involving donald trump. the new york election interference hush money case, that trial now delayed by at least 30 days for the judge to consider arguments about evidence in that case. the southern district of new york has only now handed over more than 100,000 documents to manhattan district attorney alvin brag in recent weeks with 15,000 pages turned over just today. also today a long-awaited ruling in the georgia rico case with a big decision. the judge overseeing the case against donald trump declining to disqualify district attorney fani willis ruling one of them must step down from the case to continue. the lead prosecutor, nathan wade, this afternoon taking the fall, resigning his position, quote, in the interest of democracy and, quote, to move this case forward as quickly as possible. today fani immediately accepting his resignation. the judge may have shot down his attempt ....
just ruled that fulton county district attorney fani willis can stay in charge of the sweeping election interexperience case into donald trump and more than a dozen others if and only if top prosecutor nathan wade, the man she had a relationship with, goes. covering all of the angles of this major decision with msnbc s katie phang, and lisa rubin, danny cevallos, and dave aaronberg, state attorney from palm beach county, florida, thank you all for joining us, katy, walk us through this 20-plus page decision and the choice willis has to make now. so, ana, msnbc first to report this 2346 page ruling that came from judge scott mcafee. the process has taken a few months, and so to that extent, if there was a win, the win would be for the defense for the delay. however, ultimately judge mcafee saying no actual conflict of interest was proven by the defense. it was their burden to have to show it through competent evidence during the course of the hearing. the judge reporti ....
subpoenas for and asked questions of some of the lawyers associated with donald trump s efforts to over turn the results of the 2020 election. among the names, some of them you probably recognize. sidney powell, for example. so central sp spending baseless accusations of voter fraud. and then emily knewmon who worked with her and mike roman and we told you last week about rudy giuliani s conversation with investigators. the result of a so-called proffer agreement. we now know that meeting actually spanned eight hours. and of particular interest, that infamous white house meeting back in december of 2020. and heated clash in which sidney powell put forward a plan to have our country s military seize voting machines all in order to rerun the election. and thanks to the committee, there is an abundance of public testimony related to that meeting. some of the participants in their own words. i was asked, are you claiming that the democrats are working with hugo chavez and ....
good morning and welcome to cnn this morning. it is saturday, juul 8th. i m victor blackwell. look who we have with us this morning. erica hill joining us. good morning, my friend. nice to be with you today. good to have you. so i was wondering if i would acknowledge this or not, so i guess i m going to do it right off the top. i have, i think, glitter all over my face, if you see me shiver. i think the makeup artist hit the wrong powder. it s not your natural glow because i notice any time around you you do sort of radiate a little bit of a glow. you know, element in the room. if you see a little shimmer, the brush hit the wrong makeup pad. we re going to take care of it later. i like the fact that you say it wasn t from being in the club. okay. here s what we re watching for you this morning. it was a very difficult decision on my part. by the way, i discussed this with our allies. in an exclusive interview with cnn, president biden defends his pos ....