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
intense fighting back underway in gaza. could another temporary truce be on the way? cnn has learned that israel and hamas are continuing to negotiate actively negotiating the release of more hostages. the latest on that. plus former president trump s attorneys are in a fulton county courtroom right now defending their client for the first time as they try to have his charges in the georgia election subversion case thrown out. and kicked out of congress. an historic move the house e expels george santos. he s calling his ouster dangerous. we re following these danger developing stories and many more. we start this hour with a return to war. israel and hamas back to fighting after a week-long truce. now this video shows the iron dome intercepting the first rocketing targeting israel since the truce ended this was near tel aviv. in gaza, israeli air stieks hit the south. israel ice military dropped leaflets drking palestinians to evacuate the area which was described as a f
a very important friday. we will reconvene the courthouse gang for this hour to go over what we have all been through and, alex, just a word about a banana republic. i despise the term and have despised it for so long now because it carries the assumption that countries that grow bananas, and we know where they are, somehow inherently have inferior governments to ours. which we have proven many times before is not true and nothing proves that better than the trump years and, oh, by the way, we grow bananas in hawaii. agriculturally and ethically, great points, lawrence, as always. thanks, alex. have a great show. thanks. well, it was a one word sentence that changed donald trump s life. he wasn t expecting to hear that word yesterday. at 4:15 p.m., judge merchan told defendant donald trump and his lawyers, the prosecutors in the courtroom, quote, i m going to excuse the jury about 4:30. we will give them a few more minutes and then we will excuse them. donald trum
, the better it is for the defense and so, donald trump and todd blanche were nearly giddy that the jury was going to go home for a second day. without reaching a verdict. donald trump that he was going home without a verdict today. he just had about 15 minutes to kill, and what we saw was a donald trump at that defense table we ve never seen before. he was joking, laughing, smiling with todd blanche. they were chatting and laughing almost incessantly. todd blanche laughing so hard at one point doubling over so that his four head almost touch the table in front of him. they thought they were going home today without a verdict. it was almost a jubilant, giddy donald trump but that changed very quickly when the judge merchan came back to inform the parties that the jury had reached verdict. the jury had a verdict after only nine hours of deliberation, which is not a long deliberation for a 34 count indictment and so donald trump watched his jury under the courtroom for what
guilty doesn t mean you ll get 33 others, the folks at this table like you know a lot more about this case than the general public and one of the things we know is that charge one through four change to the earliest checks written by the donald j. trump trust, not by trump personally. those were checks that were the signatures either of one of his sons with allen weisselberg, there were two checks written in february and those cover counts one through four. when i heard the guilty, on count one, my immediate thought was, this is going to be a clean sleep because there were some folks who thought we could get a mixed verdict here that the jury would blame donald