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
Theories. that s where this is coming frot and the nra are trying to use libertarian type arguments to stop it because they don t like any database that shows you have guns. terrorists are gang members or murderers or other people. let s put them all out there. if you are so proud of your gun, put it out there. shannon: it s public information. we ll see how people want to use it. we know chicago need some kind of help. if it s a step in that direction. it s a p.r. stunt. hopefully they will do more. shannon: thank you very much. thank you. sean duffy planning to step down september 23rd. he says the baby due in late october is going to be their ninth child, it has a heart condition that s going to require extra attention and care. rachel campos-duffy, we know
Stops he said that. on his facebook page. what do you make of that? good argument. however, i think the last part that stacy mentioned where he says this is for entertainment only, et cetera, negates ostensibly his intent. or at least he s staring down legal authorities. the other thing i would say is any time you re going to make speech a crime, i think i d be a little bit careful and you have to worry about slippery slope type arguments. that s why the aclu and other groups are in here. stacy laid out the legal test. is a reasonable person in fear? but he s claiming it should be a subjective test in his own mind which is harder for the government to prove. that s the debate. he s threatening to kill someone. that s beyond saying disparaging comments, right? it s well beyond it. first amendment rights are cut off if you re saying words that constitute a crime. and i say this guy s been very clever by putting out that this