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Just ruled that Fulton County District Attorney fani willis can stay in charge of the sweeping election interexperience case into donald trump and more than a dozen others if and only if top prosecutor nathan wade, the man she had a relationship with, goes. Covering all of the angles of this major decision with msnbcs katie phang, and lisa rubin, danny cevallos, and dave aaronberg, State Attorney from palm beach county, florida, thank you all for joining us, katy, walk us through this 20plus pag...

Accountable. In their motion for a protective order, the Justice Department says, quote, such a protective order is needed in this case the because the defendant has released statements on social media regarding witnesses, judges, attorneys and other associates in legal matters pending against him. In recent days the defendant has issued multiple posts, either specifically or by implication including the following which the defendant posted just hours ago. If you go after me, im coming after you...

Likely. Lets start with Fulton County, an Appeals Court will hear the former president s challenge disqualify d. A. Fani willis from his election interference case. What it all means for the trial, which still does not have a start date. Delay is also the word of the day in florida. Judge Aileen Cannon has ruled the classified documents trial technically scheduled to start later on this month, its going to be postponed indefinitely, and why . And what options if any does special counsel jack smi...

County, georgia. And it is a doozy. The first codefendant in Donald Trumps Election Interference case, that rico case that charged a Criminal Enterprise, has flipped. Scott hall is in atlanta an athletearea Bail Bondsman. Hes accused of being involved in the plan to steal sensitive Election Data in Coffey County. He faces seven charges in the fulton case. And now again we just learned hes taking a plea deal. Lets bring in Greg Blue Stein with the Atlanta Journal constitution and former Acting As...

Raffensperger who said, there is no fraud at all, said, well, you are playing with fire because we have criminal authority, and if you dont count these votes, you are subjecting yourself to potential criminal indictment. that is the president of the united states with respect to a sitting secretary of state in georgia. that is not an aspirational inquiry. that is a threat to get him to find more votes. so i think this is something that, again, its something to play for the public, his base, that...

Relitigating last year, two years agos election and not enough on 2022. and as a result, weve seen a lot of these proposals designed to rally trump supporters by playing into these lies, even if they have very little chance of pass, and as nick mentioned, theres not much appetite to pass this ban on ballot drop boxes. even the governor said he has no real inclination to revisit these laws but the very fact that one of the most powerful republicans in the georgia legislature is bringing this legi...

>> cliff, trump is like long covid, right? even after you think youve beaten it, its still manifesting itself in really troubling and in some instances inexplicable symptoms and disease, and in this case, the trump tale is -- its not just extreme politics. its not policy debates. i mean, what greg has been covering, what nick has reported on, is an attempt to rig the electorate. how do -- how does the other side create the more vast and the more politically potent coalition to combat that? >> ye...

Outset, elections that havent seen any fraud. so, what democrats say is, this is just a chilling effect and trying to scare people from voting. so, while the georgia law in march was so sweeping, theres still new elements and i think new things that were going to see both in georgia and around the country that are going to further look to add new limits to voting and mess with election administration as well. >> greg blue stein, theres no evidence that the republicans crafting these laws, these ...

New laws as well. >> greg, really quickly, do you think, with the law in place, that president biden and the two democratic senators, warnock and ossoff, would have prevailed? >> oh, thats a really good question. we definitely saw a sharp dropoff in ballot drop box usage in the municipal elections from last year because it limits the use of those so that alone would have significantly affected democratic turnout because democrats were the vast recipients, the vast users of those ballot drop boxe...

While stacy evans has the endorsements of establishment figures like former georgia governor roy barnes and former georgia senator max cleland. joining us to talk about this is atlanta journal constitution political reporter greg blue stein, former colleague of mine at the associated press. he has written extensively on the race to be georgias next governor. greg, lets talk a little bit about the dynamics here in particular between these two stacys. it seems in some ways theyre representing oppo...