And Demolition Man . Our reporters are following the latest developments. Lets begin with nbcs katie phang who has more. What happened and where does it all go from here . Reporter yeah, so now that the dust has settled a bit and weve had a chance to look at the order that judge mcafee ordered this morning, i want to start by saying to viewers this is not a ruling on the disqualification of Fulton County District Attorney fani willis. What it is is something that happens in common course in any type of case, civil or criminal. In this particular instance, when the District Attorney gets an indictment, the defense can seek to dismiss certain counts on legal grounds. What judge mcafee has done in Fulton County has said that because the state says in its indictment that certain of the defendants including donald trump relied upon violations of the United States constitution and the georgia constitution, because theres so many different clauses and so many different amendments that are con
and he was frustratesed that he didn t see that the flow of the people in the country had been diminished of the he was particularly concerned that people might accuse him of not following through on campaign promises to tighten immigration and close the borders to some people. and he had this list, and that got his ire going. let me ask you about the sourcing, berg in mind you can t reveal a whole lot, six people to your colleagues to talk about the conversation that took place. two of them remember these in send dairy comments. the other four said they didn t recall making them. but the two that did said they were notable enough that they wrote them down chblt what can you tell us about the sources behind this? well, this is from my colleagues mike sheer and they should talk about their own sources. we feel very confident about our
non-establishment. it s basic. what did we tell the american people we were going to accomplish. if we are making progress it will be fine. if we are not, that s when they will continue to be frustratesed. that s the case right now. let me go to health care. are you satisfied though that how many different ways do you have to try to do this, where you just the consensus isn t there? this was a party line vote and they couldn t. there is three that went public against it which you and i both know they were probably the brave three. there is probably double that that are glad they didn t have to make that vote. i know how frustrated i am, and how frustrated the people are. the thing that bothers me is that six republican senators back in july voted goence the exact same legislation. it was offered as an amendment. the exact legislation they had supported 20 months ago and that they had campaign on that they had told the voters in their respective states they were going to support
unconstitutional? yes. and i can understand why you might be a little frustrated with the language. i m not frustratesed. i m happy as a clam. let me stop you because i don t have much time. i ve got a lot of ground to cover. okay. i don t mean to wax too metaphysical here but at what point does an act of congress or an executive order become unconstitutional? well, it all depends on what the act does. i mean, at what point i can look at a statute and say i think that s unconstitutional. does that make it unconstitutional? i think the issue we faced at the downof justice is to defend this executive lawyer would require lawyers to go in and argue that this has nothing to do with religion. but at what point does a statute or an executive order become unconstitutional? is it some apriori