Fulton county courthouse with all the breaking details, plus running out the clock. Its team trumps legal and political strategy with multiple court dates. Now on hold. It is paused so voters could decide the former president s beit before any of his cases reach a jury. And the white house has a message for republicans trying to impeach president biden, move on shockingly, the house may listen, will bring you that new sin and reporting this hour. Im dana bash. Lets go behind the headlines inside politics we start in georgia where a judge just ruled that da fani Willis Willis can continue spearheading the election case. They are against donald trump if she removes her top deputy in the case, nathan wade, with whom she has had a romantic relationship that is part of a win for the District Attorney, but the rest of the ruling leaves a major stain. The judge went on to Admonish Willis for the relationship, writing, quote, georgia law does not permit the finding of an actual conflict. Four,
the matter said. cnn political analyst and washington post white house reporter josh dawsey shares a byline and joins us by phone. tell us more about what you ve learned, what the president asked the attorney general to do. in the immediate aftermath of a transcript being released on september 25th, anderson, the president was looking for key defenders to go out and say the president did nothing wrong, the president broke no law, the president behaved properly. as you ve seen repeatedly, he said this was a, quote, unquote, perfect phone call. one of the things he wanted was the attorney general to have an appearance where he essentially said the president had done nothing wrong there. thought that he was a very good defender, thought barr was a credible voice and wanted him to do that again. this time bill barr declined. as you saw at the time, the justice department put out a
whistleblower because they didn t witness anything directly. but i m allowing the whistleblower s complaint to come forward. i badger the president to allow the whistleblower to come forward. the director of national intelligence coming thursday. transcript being released wednesday, that s today. instead she gives her 2 minute stiff address. ainsley: worried about losing her party. somebody that wants her position in california wants to run against her is very progressive. she is listening to these progressive individuals. these freshmen senators like aoc freshman congresswoman. steve: listening to members of the democratic caucus who are in competitive districts. what do you think about if we did this thing? she took the temperature of the room and decided to go ahead and pull the trigger. even before we find out all this stuff we are going to find out later today. her counter part in the republican party is kevin mccarthy who observed this about madam pelosi.