They gave word what the judge has decided. Fani willis can decide if she wants to stay or leave the case and take nathan wade with her. So were waiting for more information on this. Welcome to friday. Dana has the day off today. Im bill hemmer live in New York City with my friend and colleague in tow. It will be a ride. Dana it is. Were getting big news this morning. Im Martha Maccallum and this, of course, is americas newsroom. We understand as you just pointed out, bill, that this decision is in. Judge mcphee gave himself a two week deadline. That landed today. Weve come to know this judge a little bit over the course of the last couple of months. Scott mcafee. Whether to disqualify fani willis in response to allegations that she was dating her lead prosecutor when she hired him and that was part of a motivation for hiring him and the two took some rather fancy vacations together and that they may have benefited financially from this Business Arraignment which it was alleged she crea
here. text me, you got my number. let s do it. deal. deal. have a great show pete. sean thanks great show as always appreciate it. as sean mentioned i m pete hegseth in for laura ingraham tonight and this is a special edition of the ingraham angle. it is official, the trump show has returned to the big apple. the former president touched down in new york city late in the 3:00 hour today and then, with every news chopper in new york city on the scene, was whisked away in more than a dozen car motorcade presidential motorcade you might say to trump tower in midtown manhattan. upon arriving there was one quick shot of trump arriving to in the building gave a wave to supporters outside and went to his residents in the penthouse. trump tire is where we find our own nate. nate what is the latest? what can you tell us? pete right now things are pretty quiet here, the former president has not left the pep house since arriving just after 4:00 p.m. east 56th street the side
there have been a number of problems in the past because they don t use electronic filing in this court. it s all paper filing. the media s got to be very aggressive here in getting full access to all filings in this case and to resisting a gag order, especially a gag order of the breath that s being talked about in the press. sol former president trump has been very critical of this judge. can he get a fair hearing in a new york city courtroom considering what he s been up against? well, i don t know enough about this particular judge, david would know that. there s no reason to think that he can t get a fair hearing but i think we need to watch it carefully. i think that if there is a gag order, like david says might happen, you re going to immediately have heavy litigation on that. something else your viewers should keep in mind, in a criminal case it s often very difficult to get the actual charges knocked off on a question of law alone.
if that reporting is correct, and again we ll learn tomorrow, what s your reaction to how the judge will approach this and how both sides will. sol s absolutely right they often jack up the number of counts but this judge is too savvy to base it on michael cohen. there will be charges about business fraud that sort of thing. but another issue though that i think may come up tomorrow and i m concerned about is the idea of a gag order, i m vehemently opposed to them. i think they have first amendmentism cakesings, six amendment implications make it much more difficult to defend a case and encourage witnesses to come forward that sort of thing. and there s great public interest on this case. new york law has a pretty strict standard for it the judge has to articulate specific findings. i could see this judge coming in and talking about some of the posts that he s seen and he s not going to put up with this and that. this is a judge very sensitive to the media presence there and
think there are at least three motions that ought to be filed immediately after the arraignment. first of all as to the prorex you know, i ve been through this with this judge on a high profile case. they re going to process president trump like they normally do. take certain pedigree information and so on. and then he ll go. merchant s courtroom. judge merchant usually allows a still photographer to take a picture sitting at the defendant s table and will move through it pretty quickly. the question is at the arraignment they ll set a motion schedule. that s kind of up in the air i think but they re going to unseal the indictment before the arraignment so at least the lawyers can look at it then. i don t think there was any reason to seal it until now but that s what they ve chosen to do t there are three motions they should file immediately after the arraignment one is a motion to dismiss on statute of limitations grounds very interesting argument there. one would be a motion to di