Financially benefited from hiring wade and that that created a Conflict Of Interest now, todays ruling is a major victory for willis and her office. But it came with some Harsh Criticism from judge scott mcafee, Who Rebuked Willis for the relationship. And now says that it leaves a stain on the prosecutions team. Cnns Nick Valencia is live outside the courthouse. For us in fulton county, nyc. Youve been watching this case unfold for months . What stands out to you about the decision today well look, fani willis, there were some real concerns that she would be disqualified before today. And as it stands, shes going to be allowed to stay so long as she gets rid of the man whom she was romantically involved in and those close to fani willis or allies. They are seeing this as a big win its a huge win even if its only a technical win on paper. And even if it does come with some blistering criticism from the judge a massive indictment on her behavior. He called some of her testimony on Febru
Community to figure out what the hell happened . Sunday, april 7 at nine, cnn good, morning you are live in the cnn newsroom. Im jim acosta in washington at this hour. E jean carroll as just 60 minutes to challenge former president Donald Trumps most recent legal move last week, trump hosted a nearly 92 bond to appeal a federal judge. Juries judgment in which they ordered him to pay more more than 83 million to care for repeatedly making defamatory statements about her. But despite the multimillion dollar fines for defamation just moments ago, trump once again made comments about carroll on cnbc calling her names, claiming he never met her and insisting her accusations are false despite a federal jury ruling that hes liable for sexual abuse Marshall Cohen is following this developing story for us. Marshall, What Happens Next . Well, one hour from now, E Jean Carroll has a deadline to tell a judge if she has any issues with this bond arrangement. As you mentioned, donald trump on friday
if you re in the white house, and you know this discussion, and you know there s been this kind of oh, where there is basically an informal vote around the room about should we push for passing the bipartisan senate bill through the house immediately, as fast as possible. and then get to the other part of the bill later, or should we keep them both tied together? would you be voting for let s ask the speaker to try to get it through as fast as possible on its own? so we can have a bill signing ceremony at least on that? lawrence you know this really well. from an optic standpoint, and also to help with virginia, of course you d say let s celebrate the one. the problem, is with that comes all of the deal, making and you don t have big margin. no margin in the senate and very low in the house. that really is the most important thing, you can t do anything risky that would unravel. it s incredibly important.
hostage-taking situation if we don t get every single american out and what he said was, they are also going to go to those places we abandoned and learn how to do stuff. what in the world are they going to find? we know we left stuff behind in other areas. we ve got to go back in now and i ve had generals tell me, steve, especially saying this to you that this will be a new engagement in terms of pushing the taliban back and it s going to take a lot of people on the ground to do that. you don t think were going to need the british and the french and other allies to do that? wow. what are we doing? and i don t mean us, i mean the white house. emily: harris mentioned, for example, bagram airbase, the decisions we were hearing were from an optic standpoint but the criticism for president biden is certainly coming from all sides as it sort of rare to find even one person that is defending right now is fumbling on the flat-footed and is that this
2nd, the justice department gave mueller this expanded area when he said, what do you want me to do with this case? and now he s saying, why did you give this case to mueller when it seems tied to the russia investigation? you should have given that to new york. it has political sort of legs, but i don t think it has legal legs unless the judge says that rosenstein lacked the authority under the regulations to expand mueller s mandate. so i think it was not a good day from a political optic standpoint, but i m not sure the judge has legal standing to dismiss the indictment on the basis of his sort of political belief that prosecutors need to be closely tethered to a mandate more so than mueller seems to be, in his estimation.