1. Allegations Against Fani Willis: The transcript discusses allegations against Fani Willis, the Fulton County DA, regarding her romantic relationship with prosecutor Nathan Wade, which led to accusations of conflict of interest and potential financial benefits.
2. Resignation of Nathan Wade: Nathan Wade’s resignation from the case is highlighted, prompting discussions about its impact on the legal proceedings and the decision-making within the DA’s office.
3. Criticism of the Legal Situation: Various speakers criticize the legal situation, expressing concerns about selective prosecution, distractions from key facts, and the potential politicization of the case against Donald Trump.
4. Calls for Accountability and Integrity: There are calls for accountability and integrity in the judicial system, emphasizing the need to uncover misconduct, ensure fairness, and uphold the Constitution, irrespective of political affiliations.
5. Discussion on Legal Proceedings and Future Actions: The transcript also includes discussions on legal proceedings, potential appeals, the role of the judge, and the political implications of the case, indicating uncertainty about its outcome and future developments.

WATCH: FANI WILLIS CASE UPDATE

🚨 More Shocking 🚨 This is bad news for Fani Willis | Nathan Wade resigns | Trump Georgia case Nathan Wade, a special prosecutor working with the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office, resigned his post after a judge ruled Friday that District Attorney Fani Willis and her office may remain on the 2020 election case involving former President Donald Trump and his allies if Wade stepped aside. Wade’s resignation as special prosecutor came hours after Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee laid out two options that would allow for the continued prosecution of the racketeering case against Trump and his co-defendants stemming from an alleged scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election in Georgia.

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um effectively as quickly as possible I should say I’m proud of the work that our team has accomplished in investigating indicting and litigating this case Seeking Justice for the people of Georgia goal is to have Donald Trump be wearing an or an orange jumpsuit they’re not going to reach that goal see the corruption I’ve seen the destruction I’ve seen to the judicial system it is deep they are coordinating and there is no question that her text with Mr Wade are just the beginning Trump Chief legal

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spokeswoman Alina habba joins me now so Elena how does today impact This legal situation you’re having the legal situation I’m having shouldn’t exist no matter who’s sleeping with who let’s start there Jesse we all know that um I think that the Fanfare and the craziness that Miss Fanny Willis has brought to the table with Mr Wade has been quite honestly entertaining but distracting from the key fact of the case which is that President Trump did not do anything wrong this case was brought clearly by selective prosecution

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persecution and only for election interference we see that now uh what’s more troubling today is that you know this judge we have has as you said punted he allowed and out but that doesn’t mean that the case should still stand we had three counts dismissed against President Trump three counts dismissed against another defendant that was a great start but let’s not deny what’s happened here Jesse this case was brought intentionally this year it’s old as can be just like Stormy Daniels just

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like a lot of these cases that we’ve seen that are witch hunts to stop Trump from campaigning so while I appreciate all of it and it is quite entertaining I’ll give you that I I don’t disagree with you I think that we can’t be distracted from the fact that this case entirely should be thrown out Miss Willis is clearly uh compromised the taxpayers should be outraged in the state of Georgia and they should take action against her when we eventually see these text messages and I believe we will see them

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and they show Fanny and her lover conniving uh maliciously Prosecuting Donald Trump doing it for fame doing it for Fortune doing it without any sort of judicial Integrity what does that tell you not just about the this case what does it tell you about all of the cases first let’s start Miss Willis went into a church a religious house if anybody has any morals or moral compass how dare you go into a religious house and cry racism that to me was the lowest point of all of this I have to be honest with you no matter what those texts say

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and I’m sure we’ll see what they say and they will say what we think how does it relate to all these cases I hope it opens the door Jesse to us looking at all the Das all the AGS Communications between the White House the administration and collusion between all of them in bringing these cases the same year even though some of these cases are years and years and years old had no investigation or investigations for years and then waited until he was the candidate and obvious candidate uh for the Republican party and nominee so I

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would like it to open the door I hope we get those texts but let’s look into everything I fear that we can’t do that until we have a different Administration in place but more importantly it’s time for the American people to see the corruption I’ve seen the destruction I’ve seen to the judicial system it is deep they coordinating and there is no question that her texts with Mr Wade are just the beginning AJC the Atlanta Journal Constitution now giving word what the judge has decided apparently

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fonnie Willis can decide for her own if she wants to stay or leave the case and take Nathan Wade with her so we’re waiting for more information on this welcome to Friday Dana’s got the day off today I’m Bill hmer live here in New York City with my friend and colleague in tow here we go it’s going to be a ride it it certainly is we’re getting some very big news this morning so good morning everybody I’m Martha mcallum and this of course is America’s Newsroom um we understand as you just pointed out

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bill that the that this decision is in judge McAfee said he would give himself a two-e deadline that landed on today so we have all come to know this judge a little bit over the course of the last couple of months his name is Scott McAfee he did decide uh today and he gave himself that twoe deadline as I mentioned and the decision that he has had to make is whether to disqualify The Fulton County DA Vonnie Willis in response to allegations that she was dating her lead prosecutor when she hired him and the accusation is that

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that was part of a motivation for hiring him and that then the two took um some rather fancy vacations together and that they may have benefited financially from this business Arrangement which it was alleged she created for that purpose so Donald Trump’s team and his codefendants say this is all a disqualifying conflict of interests uh the case should be thrown out because of it all these allegations prompting heated testimony we watched it live you’re going to hear now from one of the first Witnesses on

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behalf of Trump’s attorneys she’s a now a former friend and former colleague of fonnie Willis she was emphatic she said she remembered the timeline and she remembered the action when she asked her questions about Nathan Wade senior correspondent Jonathan Siri is reporting live from Atlanta on this part of this story and also what we’re going to hear next uh from fonnie Willis the the uh da in Atlanta yeah uh the the decision is not surprising because the judge really gave fonnie Willis a well probably an

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unpleasant decision but an easy decision because uh if Nathan Wade were to stay on this case as special prosecutor then the da fonnie Willis would have been forced to resign uh from the case along with her entire staff they would have had to stand on the sidelines and so in order for this case to best move forward clearly the DA’s office made the calculation that uh losing this one special prosecutor Nathan Wade would be less damaging than disqualifying the entire office and then having the uh prosecuting attorney’s Council um

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appoint a totally new slate of prosecutors to come in from outside side and handle this case so not a surprising development but a dramatic development Nathan Wade turning in his resignation from the case and the DA’s office accepting that resignation the key here is how to go forward because clearly weight is off but I think that this is such a huge body blow almost a fatal blow toon Willis I think the way forward is she has to voluntarily recuse herself I don’t know that she has it in her but I think she has to say I’m going to

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appoint like a chief assistant who’s going to oversee this case she clearly has no credibility with this judge that could still happen Leslie nobody uh of whom I’ve asked this question thinks that anything in her character points in that direction but you never know I I would feel that the everybody would kind of say you know day late in a dollar short um if that were to happen and if she were to do do that she should have done this um you know prior because of you know the you know just the embarrassment alone not just the delays

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not just a whole new prosecutorial team that has to be caught up to speed um if you will I do agree with Ari there that you know she she should have just appointed you know that I would have appointed you know the toughest person that you can find and the person that’s going to be great with this and and more apt to win but where one area that I disagree with Ari on is when Ari said it should be left up to the voters in November it is going to be left up to the voters voters in November whether Donald Trump will become president again

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or not but it should never be up left up to the voters to decide whether somebody is guilty or not guilty in a criminal court of law that has to be done in the court system in our legal system and that has to be decided uh by a jury uh but going back I don’t think that she would do that but I would agree with Andrew there where you know if if your case is is dirtied if you will um by you um and anything that you’ve done or you’ve said you know better in the interest of democracy if you will um for

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you to put the best team in place to win and if that means you stepping aside uh that’s that’s what you that’s what you do right well let me ask Leslie one more question before I go back to Ari um so the New York case which is the hush money case that’s delayed 30 days because the Department of Justice withheld according to the other side information that they didn’t bring out in Discovery so that that you got a problem there you’ve got the question of immunity on the January 6 case and and

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the documents cases um so those are also running into issues and and waiting for the Supreme Court and you’ve got this Georgia case are you concerned Leslie that these efforts which have been so folsome uh might be coming apart so therefore have we heard the last of this in other words Mr Trump’s side and the other defendants can they come back can they appeal this decision say the kinds of things that you’re suggesting I hope so uh I think that when you refuse to disqualify somebody that should be an

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issue that you can take up to the court right away cuz it’s a final judgment if she’s in the case she’s in the case if they can’t do it now they can certainly do it if they get convicted but if I were Trump’s lawyers I would make every effort to try to bring this case to an appell at court now it’s a good record because he basically finds her lying basically finds that he paid for all of their trips there’s documentation of that then the burden should shift back to her to prove that she paid him back

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she can’t do that no proof no receipts no nothing um you’re still left with this Rico approach this racketeering approach which many people said just does not fit uh what does Alan d say I once had a client um his name was Guido and he was in prison and he called me he say what’s this Rico stuff it’s anti-italian why did they name it Irving why didn’t they name it Rico it’s designed for and it was it was designed to get the mafia it wasn’t designed to get political figures who have a

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reasonable argument argument I disagree with fundamentally that they could have challenged the election through a different slate of electors that’s all legal stuff that’s not Rico stuff and so this case should be dismissed all of the cases against Trump should be dismissed the only one that has any plausible possibility of winning is the Florida case where he waved a document in front of a journalist and said this used to be classified I could have Declassified it but that’s not a Smoking Gun that’s a

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smoking cigarette butt it’s a minor minor could be even smoking hearsay I mean no one knows for sure who said what to whom in those kind no there’s a tape of that but we don’t know whether he actually showed the document to anybody and whether the document actually contained classified material knowing trump it could have been a blank piece of paper he was puffing you think this Georgia case just going to wind up going up in Flames one way or the other I think it will go up in Flames I think it’s never been a strong case at all and

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I think this will delay it probably beyond the election look the goal here was to rush convictions particularly in New York where a jury will convict a ham sandwich named Trump and to try to get a down in dirty conviction knowing they may be reversed on appeal after the election it’s the personification of election interference Professor alen dwoods the best of the best um this such your pleasure to see you on set pleasure to see you talk soon yeah I’m just looking um Jonathan standby at the letter from Nathan J Wade Esquire um he

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writes to D a Willis the furtherance of the rule of law and democracy is and always has been the north star of our combined efforts in the prosecution of those who are alleged to have attempted to overthrow the results of George’s 2020 presidential election our team is dedicated to ensuring that a Fulton County jury in a Fulton County courtroom renders a true and just verdict in this case he goes on to say I’m proud of the work uh he said you know basically according to the judge’s decision um I

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will resign immediately I offer my resignation um effectively as quickly as possible I should say I’m proud of the work that our team has accomplished in investigating indicting and litigating this case Seeking Justice for the people of Georgia and being part of the effort to ensure the rule of law um and he goes on to say that he’s sure that the team will be successful Ari uh your reaction to this news and do you understand it that their relationship began in 2019 and continued until the last time he spoke with

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her yes as relate to having uh the 2022 relationship with district attorney Willis I’m going to say because my marriage was irretrievably broken I was free to have a relationship you’ve been intrusive into people’s personal lives you’re confused you think I’m on trial these people are on trial for trying to steal an election in 2020 I’m not on trial no matter how hard you try to put me on trial I don’t need anything from a man a man is not a plan a man is a companion well uh that is just a slice

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of what we got from uh the da fonnie Willis in Georgia through the course of all of this we’ve got analysis from former Federal prosecutor Andrew chaski but first let’s go to Jonathan Siri who’s been covering this case all along in Atlanta big morning Jonathan yeah very big morning the story is unfolding as we speak the Atlanta Journal Constitution is reporting uh that uh Fulton County district attorney fonnie Willis has been ordered to eat either step aside or she has to cut prose cut ties with her special

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prosecutor in the case Nathan Wade before uh the case can go to trial attorneys for former president Trump and several of his associates had asked the judge to disqualify the da from Prosecuting the case they argue Willis’s romantic relationship with uh prosecutor Wade creates a conflict of interest Willis and Wade have testified under oath the relationship began after Willis hired him but Willis also faces challenges outside the courtroom take a listen the biggest risks that fonnie Willis has are political nature she has

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an election coming up which is now contested both in the primary and in the general election Martha it sickens me to hear him say this as a furtherance of democracy if this was about democracy the Democrats wouldn’t use the courts to indict Donald Trump they’d go to to November and let the American people decide that’s what a democracy would do but in America’s bluest counties fton County Georgia New York County which is Manhattan in New York City The Bluest of bluest counties were the bluest of

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bluest prosecutors who will never lose a reelection unless it’s from the left indict Donald Trump you’ll never see these things brought in a purple County you never see them brought in a red County and it’s not because they have an adherence to democracy in the case of Georgia now with the Nathan Wade it’s because the judge ordered him to break up with his girlfriend it’s the judge ordered his girlfriend to break up with him from a legal point of view that’s why he’s stepping down not in

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furtherance of democracy it’s because what he did was unsavory what the da did was unsavory and at its most UN fundamental level bringing charges against a political opponent is even more unsavory than any of the personal and saavyy behavior they engaged in that’s I I just he wrote that in that letter and it just rubs me the wrong way not about democracy you know uh Leslie there was an event that fonny Willis attended at the White House um she claimed that she had no interaction with the vice president who was speaking at

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that event when she was at the White House but obviously there’s a lot of uh discussion from Republican quarters about the coordination that has potentially happened in this concerted effort to go after former president Trump and we haven’t heard from fonny Willis we have only heard from Nathan Wade at this point I want to play um control room if we can the Andrew Weissman who was part of the uh Russia investigation team um going after former president Trump he he wants fonny Willis to be gone he wants to go the whole way

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and clean the decks of this team and he thinks that would be the best thing for the prosecution let’s watch this again from Andrew Weissman earlier today and as for the case itself judge McAfee struck down six counts against former president Trump and five of his associates saying the prosecution failed to provide enough details on how the defendants allegedly committed the crimes now if Willis remains on this case if she Remains the chief prosecutor she’ll have to decide whether she appeals that decision on the six counts

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whether she seeks a new indictment or whether she goes ahead and prosecutes the case on the remaining 35 charges uh but again according to this reporting by the Atlanta Constitution uh da uh fonny Willis has a uh has has a major decision to make whether uh she uh removes herself from the case or whether she cuts ties with special prosecutor Nathan wade back to you guys okay a couple things here Jonathan do you know when the judge will be in court will that be today or not and based on the reporting I know it’s slim thus far do we know if

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he gave her a deadline to give him an answer meaning the judge yeah we don’t know about a deadline uh this ruling was uh issued by the judge outside of the courtroom entered in the computer system it has just now appeared and uh we are now scouring it along with the rest of you uh trying to figure out the details all right well we’ll give you some some space to get that done Jonathan thank you with the breaking news no and let me tell you why and I know my second with you guys know I’m just honest I’m not like everybody think

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oh Leslie I get on Twitter she has the Democratic talking points yeah this is what I have I I have no Democratic talking points um I have truth and this is my truth um I don’t think even if he is found guilty of all of these he is going to spend one second in jail and if the goal is uh you know and and it’s not going to keep him off the ballot it’s not going to keep people for voting for him it’s actually done quite the opposite and I many others predicted that and you know he could you know

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again uh be president so if if what are you doing this for your democracy would have to do with politics right what are you doing this for if you’re doing it for for legal reasons it’s like impeachment it drives me crazy if you know you’re not going to remove the guy from office and I’m talking democrat or republican maybe it is a waste of taxpayer time and money so with this you you know you got to follow it through you you you know you go to go with the letter of the law but I have never been

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you know a huge cheerleader of these simply because you know my question is a what is your goal and B are you even going to reach it and if the goal is to have Donald Trump be wearing an or an orange jumpsuit they’re not going to going to reach that goal in my humble opinion Trump laer Fanny V is compromised the expresses outrage over AED misconduct by Georgia prosecutor Fanny V accusing her of Malia targeting Donald Trump for prosecution they anticipate incriminating text messages between vas and her lover suggesting

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cusion and a lack of Judiciary Integrity the condemns vs for invoking racism in a church deeming it Moro point they advocate for a thorough investigation into all district attorneys and attorneys gener implying widespread corruption and collusion with the White House they call for transparency urging the American people to see the corruption within the Judiciary System they suggest seizing government phones and sub poing Communications to uncover misconduct they advocate for accountability regardless of political

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affiliation emphasizing the need to cleans the Judiciary system of political influence and upo the Constitution they stress the importance of taking action and holding individuals accountable for genuine crimes rather than political motives the concludes by urging a top down kup of the system