Financially benefited from hiring wade and that that created a Conflict Of Interest now, todays ruling is a major victory for willis and her office. But it came with some Harsh Criticism from judge scott mcafee, Who Rebuked Willis for the relationship. And now says that it leaves a stain on the prosecutions team. Cnns Nick Valencia is live outside the courthouse. For us in fulton county, nyc. Youve been watching this case unfold for months . What stands out to you about the decision today well look, fani willis, there were some real concerns that she would be disqualified before today. And as it stands, shes going to be allowed to stay so long as she gets rid of the man whom she was romantically involved in and those close to fani willis or allies. They are seeing this as a big win its a huge win even if its only a technical win on paper. And even if it does come with some blistering criticism from the judge a massive indictment on her behavior. He called some of her testimony on Febru
the republicans to come to his defense and call for future pardons and destabilizing department of justice and the call of other republicans here, and we are through the rubicon, and what are we doing here is what i say to the party. this reads clear as day, and the photos are, there and the photos are there, and this is very similar to what many of the republicans were criticizing hillary clinton for, except it is 1,000 worse. i think it is just requires a moment to think about the gravity of this. it does seem like a lot of the language that we are hearing of the spokesperson from former president there, and some of the elected officials is pretty dangerous language that is clearly designed to just di side the country as much as possible all to the benefit of one guy, the former president. well, there is an overwhelming majority of voices out there at this point in time, and we will see how it plays out, but last night, chris christie was not here singing from that hymn
expected to be extended. we are in day zseven and more hostages expected to be released this hour. this as secretary of state tony blinken is meeting the top officials in tel aviv. and yet, a shooting in gaza may threaten the truce. and now, the strike back at advertising. tell them to go blnk themselves says elon musk. how is that working so far? i m john berman with sara sidner. this is cnn news central. the new york republican george santos slammed his colleagues for bullying him. he is facing an expulsion vote tomorrow coming in the wakes of the ethics report that he ripped off campaign donors and used the money for himself, and santos has plead not guilty to a slew of charges. let s begin with what you are hearing on capitol hill, manu raju. i have been talking to lawmakers about the george santos issue, and the republicans are deeply divided of whether or not to expel him from the house of representatives. some of them are torn about whether or not to vote for
arraignment judge to say not to speak to other defendants, and it is the defendant s best interest, but this is a unique circumstance where all of the people are with him in a functioning or dysfunctioning organization or organizations, and the trump organization and campaign, so it is an unusual circumstance. but it would be wise for all of those individuals who are working with donald trump themselves to refrain from having any conversations with donald trump relating to anything relating to this case, because they are putting themselves at risk, and they have much greater additional risk than donald trump duds, because they have donald trump dead to rites. if the government is creating a list of witnesses in this case that he can have interaction with, maybe not about this case, but he can have interaction with, what does a list like that look like when it includes not only the co-defendant in there today, and also the spokesman
they now feel it s a sea change, and what the people around the president think the president s ex pour could be. loose way with information and facts was his best defense now think the president is in danger and exexposed. how does that affect a white house operation that was dysfunctioning on a good day? it s the perfect question, right? this is hardly a well-oiled machine humming along with people that were rowing in the same direction or trusted or liked each other. this is a team of people that does not trust one another. it s a team of people that did not like each other. it s a team of people that is more walled off than any white house staff i have ever heard of. the people who were some of my former colleagues in the bush administration are still viewed with suspicion and distrust by the trump campaign dead-enders. i m told that distrust is only