Probation . Probation . Ms. Young, are you certain that is accurate because it is a Misdemeanor Plea and it does not involve violence and im not aware of any policy under georgia law that would prohibit her to have any weapon . I am not certain, judge. I am not aware of any. So, are youware that this may affect your ability to possess firearms . Yes. Let me back up. Mr. Rafferty, have you had the opportunity to go over the accusation with your client . Yes. And have you both signed this accusation . Yes. And do you waive any accusations in this pleading . Yes. And do you plead guilty to the accusations . Yes. And the maximum that you could receive is 12 months to serve on each of the channels in the accusation . Yes. It is my understanding that you are asking the court to sentence you under the first offender act . Correct. Have you plead guilty or nolo to any other felonies in the State Of Georgia or any other jurisdiction . No. And do you understand that if you are sentenced under the first offender act, has your attorney gone over what that means and what that entitles . Yes. And do you understand that if you are violating the first offender sentence while on probation, The First Offender Status could be revoke and you could be adjudicated guilty and sentenced for each charge in accusation . Yes. To you understand that you could successfully complete your sentencing in the first offender act that you could not complete the charges . Yes. And do you understand that you waive all defenses including Mental Health defense by entering this plea . Yes. Do you understand that you have 12 months from todays date in order to file a Habeas Corpus . Yes. And do you understand that unless counsel is permitted to withdraw, he is going to represent you to the end of court or 30 days which ever is lated . We are. And you understand that you have the last day of court to withdraw your guilty plea . Yes. You understand that term Ends On November 5th of 2023 . Yes. And do you understand that any of the filings that you, that we just discussed will be represented by the filings unless you represent yourself . Yes. Do you understand that by Pleading Guilty, you are giving up the right to Trial By Jury . Yes. Do you understand that by Pleading Guilty you are to give up the right to remain silence and not incriminate yourself . Yes. You understand that by Pleading Guilty you are giving up the right to testify others. Yes. Do you understand that by Pleading Guilty that you are giving up the right to counsel all right. Sidney powell is Pleading Guilty to the Fulton County case against her and to 12 months probation to pay a fine and to cooperate as a witness in the investigation into other people, including presumably former president donald trump. I want to get right back to Katelyn Polantz, and quickly, remind us what she is Pleading Guilty to. Elie honig is with us as well. And what is she Pleading Guilty to what she just admitted to doing. Well, kate and john, there are two parts of this Misdemeanor Deal with quite a few stipulations including her testifying in future trials including that of donald trump. The parts of what she had been previously accused of taking part of the racketeering and conspiracy, and that is something likely she would be testifying to, but what she is Pleading Guilty to in this case in Fulton County, georgia, is coffey county, the rural county where there were voting machines, and she is accused of being a part of the group of people hacking them. This is a Misdemeanor Deal, and it is not her Pleading Guilty to the specific Felony Charges that she was charged with, but she is admitting to taking part in that portion of what had happened there in coffey county, and very likely will be speaking in a way where her words can be used against the other defendants accused of the Hacking Conspiracy in coffey county, trying to get access of the Voting System there, but she is part of a much bigger conspiracy case, the racketeering case against donald trump and others which accuses her of being part of the top Echelon Lawyers around donald trump trying to undermine the election, and even though the charges in georgia for her previously, and in this case were specifically about coffey county, she was a person with the white house, in the white house next to Rudy Giuliani at public appearances and part of that effort where various lawyers around the country were trying to put allegations of fraud into the court system, of voter fraud, and those allegations were ultimately false. Elie, we want to get your reaction to this, just because Sidney Powell, and there were few people who pushed Conspiracy Theories in Election Fraud theories in some of the most wild of them involving wednesday wa involving venezuela and hugo chavez than Sidney Powell. Yes, and it is important to remember who she was, and she is one of the donald trump loyalist, and pushing to discount this election. And what is going to happen now is that Sidney Powell is going to testify for prosecutors in georgia and presumably, prepared to testify for jack smith in the case in washington, d. C. , and she is not indicted in that case, but she is going to be a coconspirator case, and provide Insider Information that could be potentially devastating to donald trump. And she was in the room where some things that maybe if not did happen, but at least discussed, and some of the contentious meetings that took place in the white house before january 6th, and how can the prosecutors now use her . So, you use her to bring your jury into the very room. She is going to be guide, and the narrator, and say s i was in this room with donald trump, with Rudy Giuliani, and this is what we discussed and here is who said what and what we knew. And in order to take this deal and plea, Sidney Powell is going to have to acknowledge it was illegal and a crime, and that going to lend a lot of credibility to prosecutors assertions that what donald trump did was knowingly a crime, and potentially a crime, and now they have ultimate insider and someone who is steadfastly loyal to donald trump to the narrative and now she has flipped an come clean and now she is a prosecution witness. She was on Election Night at the white house watching the returns come in, and this is according to some of the testimony to house investigators though she declined to speak about a lot of stuff, and that is what you are getting at, and she can speak to basically everything in terms of Donald Trumps involvement. But is there any limit, elie, to what in terms of the plea deal, and i dont even know if the details need to come further out, but is there a limit to how the prosecutors can use her, and what she can testify to . So typically, typically the cooperation has to be not partial, and well, you can tell us some details or some facts or testify about some people and not other. The standard Cooperation Plea Deal is that you to give up everybody, and give up everything, and you have to be willing to testify in this court and any other court where you are needed. And so again, the implications here go to the Fulton County d. A. s charges in georgia, but also to jack smiths charges and the federal case in washington, d. C. , and she going to become a potential witness for him as well. And talk to me about the timing here, katelyn, because the Jury Selection is getting under way within days, and she has asked for a speedy trial, and Kenneth Chesebro has also asked for a speedy trial, and explain the po ten tential on t other trials. Well, it is significant, because she was in the room at the white house until m midseptember, and this is showing how the system incentivizes people to avoid trial and to cooperate prosecutor, and she is doing this right before the trial is to begin with the Jury Selection at the end of the week, and november 5th is the date procedural where the guilty plea, and the no turning back on this guilty plea, and that is whenever the trial is going to formally kick off for her, and previously her and ken chesebro, and with that setup, it is alleviating the need for the prosecutors the try her, but, john and kate, just following her case, and following her as a person over not just the 2020 election, but the whole way through the Trump Administration and a lawyer representing michael flynn, and this is quite a surprise to see Sidney Powell to see the second person in this 19person trial in georgia to cooperate, and she as a person is incredibly set in her beliefs, it appears. I remember she used to wear a blazer that said carpe diem on the lapel. And she has branded herself as such. And her lawyers were looking very much to specific pieces of evidence that they had identified believing that and they could fight this case and win, and this is clearly not the decision they are going with at this time. And isnt that the one the release of the cracken. Sorry. Final question. Yes, release the cracken. And now, elie, if you are representing any of the defendants, including dronald trump, what is the client . Tell me any time you spoke with Sidney Powell, and any meeting that you were with Sidney Powell, because now the prosecutors have all of that, and you have to be prepare to crossexamine her, and there is a standard line that every Defense Attorney will use to crossexamine her, and you are telling the prosecutors what you want to hear, and the prosecutors are used to that, and the main thing as a prosecutor, did this person have access, and clearly she did have access to the key meetings that you talked about and do we believe her testimony now, and had she come clean, and can we back her up, and clearly the Fulton County d. A. Has answered yes, and jack smith is going to say yes, and now she is a crucial witness, and this trial, and perhaps multiple trials. The Breaking News is that Sidney Powell has plead guilty in the Fulton County case, and will serve as a witness in the investigations and the prosecutions of others. I would say maybe Rudy Giuliani is the only other person that it would be so significant to essentially cooperate at trial. It is a sprawling case, and we will have to see where the tentacles go, because as Katelyn Polantz said, she had seize the day, and now she is going to seize the deal. And now, the other parts of this case. We are seeing jim jordan and the maybe stalled quest to become the next speaker of the house. And what the House Republicans have just decided to do. The coverage continues after this. We are following Breaking News right now. The House Republicans are headed back behind closed door and the point is looking at options with regard to the fight over the speaker. Jim jordan spoke to lauren fox, and listen to this. Just ask you at this point, do you think that Empowering Mchenry for a short period of time might give you more chance to win over some of the skeptical republicans . We are going to bring the conference together and look at all kinds of options at the conference. All kinds of options and manu raju is at the hill. What is happening now, manu . Well, it is a lot of confusion that is happening around the republicans who are still in the state of turmoil more than two weeks of the unprecedented ouster of Kevin Mccarthy and leading to a state of paralysis, and no legislative action can occur on the floor until a speaker is elected and we have seen it time and time again, the republicans are badly divided over who should lead their conference. Jim jordan after failing on the second ballot yesterday losing 22 republican votes, the question is whether he is going to go for the third ballot, and i am told from the republican sources that the number could grow up to 30 no votes assuring that he would not get the speakership, and a lot of questions, will he step aside, and decide that another candidate is going to emerge who will struggle to get 217 votes, or will the republicans move ahead to empower the speaker Patrick Mchenry the authority to oversee the floor, and all of that is going to be hashed over at a critical meeting at 11 00 a. M. In a matter of minutes, and this is coming as many of the republicans are pointing the finger at the eight republicans who are the ones who voted to oust Kevin Mccarthy. And now i caught up with bob good over what has happened, and if he regrets what has happen and he made it clear that he didnt. Reporter it is worth what has happen and that you didnt get jim jordan, but you may get someone more moderate than Kevin Mccarthy . What do you think would have happened over the last couple of weeks for the American People for the last two weeks . They would have moved on the appropriations bill. And they could have moved for well, again, they have not well, the house did not move on anything. And they said they would do a lot of thing, but it didnt happen. Reporter and this is what the feeling is among a lot of the republicans that, the question is what did they ultimately get out of the process, given that many of the hardliners like bob good want jim jordan to be elected, but the people angry at the hardliners dont want to reward them by electing jim jordan, and therein is the problem of get beg hind a candidate like jim jordan, and if another is nominated, getting to 217 is challenging, and this is leading to more questions and chaos and more division as the chamber is paralyzed as they debate to move forward with giving Patrick Mchenry the Interim Speaker more power to allow the legislative process to work, and they are badly divided on that as well, because they need the democratic voting to work there, and now, Patrick Mchenry walked into the speakers house, because they are noncommittal of whether they would even support that idea of supporting Patrick Mchenry. And now, the idea of hypothetical question, and that is the hypothetical questions, because that is what we get the answer from politicians. Okay. Back to jiyou. And now, i understand that Patrick Mchenry the speaker protem just walked behind you, and would you support him, support empower him and giving him more authority, if it came to a vote on the house floor . Possibly, yeah. I think that it depends what he worked out our leader hakeem jeffries, and Leader Jeffries has reached out many times to the republican conference and folks like moderates like mr. Mchenry and said, kind of put together a bipartisan Unity Coalition that could sideline the extremists and make sure that the house functions again. What do you think that democrats should get in return for supporting mchenry and empowering him . I can only speak for myself, and i am not speaking for the conference or my caucus, i think that we should not have a government shutdown, and i think that we should have a vote on aid to israel and ukraine and the security needs. I am hoping that we can possibly make a motion to vacate one person moving to remove the speaker goes away. Those are the things that i would look for and my colleagues and other colleagues would have thoughts, but that is what i would be looking for. I shift locations here to put up the intelligence of the Israel Defense forces on this explosion at a hospital inside gaza. You were on the intelligence committee. What your assessment of the israeli position that this is an errant rocket from Islamic Jihad . I was actually in the skiff, in a classified briefing yesterday morning, and i was looking at the evidence carefully, and i have not seen evidence of israel being responsible for this particular attack, and that being said, i am just concerned generally about what is to come in the gaza strip. We have to spare innocents at all costs. Do you think that israel and or the United States should release more of this intelligence that they say shows that it was a rocket from Islamic Jihad . As long as they could protect the