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
They only attacking one in reference to mr. Wade. And then she goes on to say, god, is it them playing the racecar where they only question one . No, if she had been truthful with the congregation, truthful with the community she would have said i had a relationship with him. Good, bad, forgive me, whatever. That is what she should have said. But she chose to deflect and say them, the reference to them and the others and they. It is obviously a reference to the motion filed by Miss Merchant. They choose to go after the black man and she then goes on. Again, deflecting away. And deflecting to the what i call the third rail, the american society. Accusing somebody on the other side of being a racist. So and so is a racist. They are racist. She was the one playing the race card in a way to try to deflect from her own conduct. She goes on to say and her discussions with the lord, god, is that is it that some will never see a black man as qualified no matter his achievements . Again, the de
burgers on the grill. let s take a look at some of the week s top stories. with us, the host away too early. white house chief at political jonathan lemire, you asked special correspondent for bbc news katty kay is with us. former white house director of communications to obama jen palmieri. and the president of the national action network and host of msnbc s politicsnation, reverend al sharpton joins us this morning. so get this, a memoir from donald trump s own former white house chief of staff appears to undercut the former presidents latest and many defenses for his willful handling of classified documents. earlier this week you remember this leaked audio from a 2023 meeting seemingly capturing former president trump showing off what he admitted was a classified document. this is at his club in bedminster. about a potential plan to attack iran while he was president. well, with milley, i ll show you example. he said that i wanted to attack iran. isn t it amazing? i ve a
reportedly showing off u.s. war plans against iran with people who were at his golf club in new jersey two years ago. we re going to have much, much more about this seemingly damning piece of evidence in just a moment. plus, the latest from russia following a failed revolt by the leader of a mercenary group against president vladimir putin and his defense leaders. and also back here at home presidential candidate ron desantis unveils his hard right immigration and border policy ahead of a day of dueling events in new hampshire with trump. good morning and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, june 27th. i m jonathan lemire, thanks for starting your day with us. weeks after donald trump pleaded not guilty to 37 felony counts related to his mishandling of classified documents, a damning new audio recording appears to be the clearest evidence yet of his alleged wrongdoing. in the leaked tape which was obtained by cnn last night, the former president seems to show-off wha
it contained the general s own plan to deploy the polling mass numbers of troops, something he urged trump to do more than once during his presidency. this is so painful, you could see when trump was trying to explain this away with an interview to fox i believe that he was like, it was golf plans, it was my pants, it was my shirts. you could hear the papers rustling. that was literally him trying to buy time to think of an excuse. this is in the book and remember, if this is in the indictment, chances are the people who are in that room including the sycophants who couldn t say mister president, please put away classified documents. why are they here? all of those people potentially interviewed. in this memo from mark meadows, it provides corroboration for jack smith