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
insurrection, a insurrection which the police welcomed the insurrectionists inside the building. we thought it was funny. what we didn t note, though, last night was the moment where that airhead reporter claimed that a police officer was killed by the mob that day. now, if you watch television, you ve heard that line so many times, so many times that you may not even notice when people say it anymore. they ve been saying it constantly for nearly two years. police officers were killed. many of them. why are they saying that? it s not true. it s proofbly a lie. it s in no sense accurate. no police officer was killed by the bythe mob on january 6th. anyone who thinks so, explain who was killed, what s that officer s name and how was he killed? we don t expect takers on that offer. the question is, why do they keep telling us that? there s a reason. there s always a reason. they re telling us likely so we won t ask too many questions the next time we read about another january 6
Fired and i mean, everyone took it, but you wouldn t. why? uhh, so, i was fired in marc, but even before that, umm, we were put on let me back up a little bit. we were first put on we had to file for religious accommodations, starting november 1st of 2021. and, umm, while that was pending, we were placed on leave without pay. so through the whole process we weren t getting paid at all. and then after that was denied, umm, they eventually terminated us. tucker: yeah, and treated you like you were a leper, like you were unclean, morally unfit to live in this country. what did that to you? yeah. you know, it was horrible. we worked through the height of the pandemic. by the time the mandate for us came down for us, you know, like, we felt that the pandemic was already over, you know, the height of the pandemic was done.