To republican control of the senate. Stop garvey. Adam schiff for senate. Im adam schiff, and i approve this message. 1808836464. Thats 1808836464. Im Fred Pleitgen in tehran. And this is cnn welcome to. Cnn news central. Im Boris Sanchez alongside jessica dean in washington. And in just moments were going to see some pivotal humans in the Georgia Election subversion case against donald trump and his codefendants, Attorneys For Trump and his codefendants are going to deliver Closing Arguments in their push to disqualify the person who brought thats sweeping case, Fulton County District Attorney, fani willis. They claimed that willis financially benefited from her romantic relationship with one of her top prosecutors nathan wade. Now the judge will ultimately decide if the defense proved those explosive allegations were going to take you live inside the courtroom once those presentations again, which we are expecting momentarily, but first lets take you to Zachary Cohen who was outside
No, no, no, this is the truth, the judge. It is a lie. It is a lie. Our relationship was not a secret. It was just private. Did you observe them do things that are common among people having a romantic relationship . Yes. I like grey goose. You never wrote him a check. I dont have checks. Cash is fungible. I gave my daughter her first cashbox and told her, always keep some cash. Most black folks, they hard cash. Im not on trial no matter how hard you try to put me on trial. Just some of the most memorable moments of fani willis and Special Prosecutor that she hired. Closing arguments are set to begin in moments in the hearing that could see both willis and wade disqualified from the Georgia Election meddling case and with that, so begins friday afternoon. Im john roberts in washington. Good to be back with you, cassandra. Great to be great to be with you. Anything could happen here. Im sandra smith. This is a live look right now at two courthouses. More than 500 miles apart. Willis is
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 doesnt 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 has become
place as the first son faces up to 25 years behind bars. we ll watch how it goes. good morning. feels like we were here a week ago. ainsley: court tv. this is america s newsroom, i m dana perino. great to be here no matter what the news is. the jury is seated and opening statements have gun. first lady jill biden is there as well the show of support coming ahead of it could be a rough two weeks for her son. bill: prosecutors expected to call three of hunter s exs. ex wife, ex girlfriend and the widow of his late brother beau. prosecutors try to prove he lied on an application for a gun. dana: let s go to rich edson in wilmington, delaware to get us underway. another strong showing from the first family here as the first lady has arrived. hunter biden arriving as well for the first day of opening statements in this federal gun case. hunter arrived a half hour ago with his attorney abbe lowell. shortly after that jill biden. another s.u.v. showing up with hunter s s
fani willis matter in atlanta, georgia will not be decided pre-election time. the statement from trump s attorney we look forward to telling the judge why the case should be dismissed and fulton county d.a. be misconduct and violation of the georgia rules of professional conduct. in a bigger sense here do we believe right now that the only case for sure that will be decided was the one last week here in new york? if we believe that, with a supreme court still yet to rule on the issue of immunity and not fully understanding the appeals process, is the bragg case settled for now? and is that the only case that will be settled prior to the election? i think the answer to your second question is yes. the other three cases will not make it to a jury or a verdict between now and the election. as to whether or not the supreme court will reach down and take