Starting next on cnn first of all, if the point of the effort to disqualify fani willis from the Georgia Election subversion case was delay. Then the trump team could count. This is a win. There had been weeks of hearings and judge says hell rule within another two weeks, but each side accuses the other of using the race car. Today, the future of the case, and the relevance of race was i speak to a mayor who met with his cities gang leaders to negotiate a ceasefire. A local activist says, this is a quote, the real killers angle i want to talk. Why does the mayor think this will work . And the oprah effect meets the ozempic craze. Hear from experts on what her departure from weightwatchers just means for the company and what it might tell us about the business of weight loss. Now, im Victor Blackwell. Lets start the show we start here in atlanta with Fulton CountyDistrict Attorney fani willis. The judge says that hell decide within two weeks whether willis will be disqualified from trumps Georgia Election subversion case. The attorney is trying to kick willis off the case, use their Closing Arguments to argue that the appearance of a Conflict Of Interest is enough she put her boyfriend in the spot, paid him, and then reap the benefits from it that she created the system and then didnt tell anybody about it. She didnt even tell her dad about it these people, your honor, is a systematic misconduct they need to go the lawyers for the das office insists that there is no Conflict Of Interest here it is desperate. Its in a desperate attempt to remove a prosecutor from a case with for absolutely no reason. Your honor. Other than harassment and embarrassment robert james is here to talk about this. Hes the former District Attorney for Dekalb County, which is right next door to Fulton County, are good to have you this morning. Its good to be here. All right. So there was no legal analyst. I spoke with if or watched on this network who thought before the Closing Arguments that fani willis would be disqualified from this case based on what you heard yesterday, has that changed for you not entirely. There is a slim chance based off of the argument that its not just a real conflict, which i dont believe theyve established, but theres parents of a conflict and the judge has articulated through his questions that you know, that she could be disqualified because of the appearance of a conflict, not actually a qanon. And you think hed consider that just the appearance would be enough . Well, he could consider that. I dont know if he will and i dont think anyone knows if he will. But the case law in georgia suggest that that is possible. Lets get to this as its known, the church speech. Da willis went to a local church. This was after the motion or she was notified of the motion and she spoke about the focus on one of the three attorneys that she hired, who we now no. Is nathan wade. Lets play it and then what one of the Defense Attorney said about that. Okay first thing they say oh, she wont play the ways. Now but no. Isnt playing the race car when they only question want she chose to deflect and to do two things that are rep. Three, hansel for any lawyer, but particularly for prosecutor she chose to pull out the race card and the god card. Thats what she did. And she wrote it out so what do you think about invoking race . She at that point knew why they were focused on nathan wade. It wasnt about race, it was about a romantic relationship well, i dont know if it was smart. I dont know if it was appropriate, but i do know that it doesnt amount to forensic misconduct specifically when youre looking at forensic misconduct and conversations and context of conversations had publicly about a case, you have to imply or the state that a defense and it is innocent or guilty. In other words, you have to comment on the innocence or guilt of accused. Do you think race is relevant at all in this case . Well, look, races. I dont think you can talk about the american criminal Justice System without at least considering race or discussing race, should those jurors make decisions based on very various reasons that are motivated by race. Often, however, do i think that its a direct issue or do i think its a central issue . I dont think its a central issue, but but i think its going to come into play at some point. Let me ask you about it. You talked about the jury. Would you keep or should da willis keep nathan wade on this team considering his role over the last several weeks in this hearing about potential Conflict Of Interests absolutely not. Well, look, its a massive distraction. Weve already spent the last several weeks talking about everything, but the guilt or innocence of the individuals that char is in the indictment about the mirror to the case weve spent the last several weeks talking about her relationship with assistant da he nathan wade. And so leave him in the case to jurors cannot watch the evidence without watching him. And when they watch him, theyre not going to be thinking about the evidence are going to be thinking about the relationship. And so no, its the distraction is to distracting, assuming that they survived his motion, he needs to go thinking through the ydeer process of trying to narrow down to get a jury. Would you ask about this . Would you have to ask the potential jurors what they think about potential relationship between the prosecutor and the da. And if they watch, you have to get into all this mud. You had better ask about in a case like this are going to send out Juror Questionnaire is most likely. And so before the jurors even come down to Fulton County courthouse, so he had questionnaires in the mail and they had better address that. I mean, ultimately, its the 10,000 Pound Gorilla in the corner, right . And if its not addressed, its going to come back and destroy you all right. Former Dekalb County da robert james. Thanks so much for coming in this morning. Thank you the mayor of memphis is taking and unusual approach to bring down Violent Crime in the city. Hes talking to criminals or alleged criminals in some cases this week, memphis mayor paul young announced that he met facetoface with some of the highest ranking gangs leaders in the city. Uh, heres the context to keep in mind more than 45,000 people in memphis between the ages of 16. 24 are either outofschool or out of work nearly half of them live in poverty. Thats according to a nonprofit in the city. The meeting was put together by Community Activists who say more gangs have formed and something has to change what i think has happened is that We Progressive Leucine new gains, formalize. This is not the traditional area of where you just have four or five gangs. Are you able to . Lets talk to four or five individuals . We have hybrid gangs and youre talking about these gangs are popping up in various communities joining me now is memphis mayor paul young, mr. Mayor, thank you for being with me. This is really interesting now, i will say youre not the first to do this, but youve only been on the job for a couple of months . Right . It local media has covered this and there have been some passionate and mixed reactions to this. Why did you do it . Well . I think is really, really important for us to engage the subjects of our conversation when we are talking about change in our community, our city has had a big issue around our crime over the last couple of years. And its been top of mind for everyone. And i thought that it was really important for us to not just have dialogues about how to change the community in our board rooms, but we ought to take it to the streets. Weve got to talk to the people that are actually engaged in activity. And what came out of the conversation is that they want to be a part of since i had that dialogue and since the media has announced it, there are other that have reached out to me saying they want to meet and figured out how they can be part of what were trying to create in the years that ive interviewed former gang members, ill say its not that theyre aspiring to criminal activity. What they want is to belong, what they want is to provide what they want is protection, what they wanted some purpose and some place somewhere so how do you provide that to these young people who are now in gangs well, when we had the conversation, i mean, it was it really just kinda took me by surprise. How heartfelt some of their requests were and i will say that this was just a conference it wasnt a negotiation, but they were telling me what they thought needed to happen in their communities to change weve had an epidemic of car breakins and what they said was that our young guys just need something to do. They steal cars because its funny, because theres a lack of activities in their community. They need ways to earn income and we that inspired me to think about how we can change our programs. And then the last thing that i thought was really compelling. They said, well, if people in our neighborhood saw you, if they, if they actually got a chance to talk to you facetoface and direct. You can change their perspective. This so that taught me the power of mentorship. And so the things that our Community Needs arent new it just, its just something that we have to lean into and make happen. I want you to listen to a community activist. There who spoke to okay. We have the full screen here. Lets put it up. This was the quote from a Community Activists there who says, im going to tell you the truth about something. The real killers angle and want to talk. They got to understand how much bloodshed has been out here. Its going to take real people from the streets to reach the real killers and to that you say what . I agree. I mean, i want to talk to any and everybody and i noted its going to take more than talk but at the end of the day, we have to start somewhere. I firmly believed that were going to have to have a balanced approach for public safety, one in which we hold people accountable. And there are some people that we dont have to go take do the criminal Justice System. But there are many others that if we can intervene and change their lives now, we can make a big difference in our community k darrelle cowen, you know his name. Hes the community activist. We heard from just a couple of minutes before we came to you, who helped broker the meeting . He told my team that these arent the citywide gangs of people think crips and bloods and its just two sides going at each other. He estimated 40 to 50 neighborhood gangs and school gangs and clicks across memphis. And that some start looking up to these gangs at 8. 9 years old you have a budget to put together over the next couple of months. How will that and having to focus on the other end, not the hierarchy, but those those children who are starting out influence how you spend your money in memphis i mean we had a Budget Retreat yesterday with our city council and we are all committed to finding ways to put resources towards supporting those organizations that are changing the lives of our young people and we have a couple of months to get it done, but we are all committed to it. Were going to find those resources and make the investments necessary. Really quickly. You went in asking for not negotiations, but asked for a sevenday ceasefire. Did you get it from the ones that were there . We didnt see any any shootings from those, and so were going to keep the dayo. This is going to be living dialogue. Were not talking any and all well, keep pushing it. Memphis mayor paul young, i wish you success in the effort. Thank you so much. Heads up for tomorrow night on cnn. 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Im Natasha Bertrand at the pentagon and this is cnn its not clear yet if there will be a hostage deal leading to a ceasefire in gaza by monday, President Biden sounded optimistic earlier this week, but now hes saying it may not get there. What is clear is the pressure ramping up on israel to get aid to people in gaza. The United States now plans to do air drops drop food into the area in the coming days. And President Biden says that he wants israel to do more to get aid to civilians. And this week, we saw Arab Americans send President Biden the message that they feel hes not addressing the humanitarian crisis enough with notable number of Voting Uncommitted in michigans primary but theyre not the only key part of the coalition. Hell need to read to get on his side for reelection. That may be feeling a bit alienated. Surveys also show how Black Americans increasingly sympathize with palestinians and are against sending israel more aid here to talk about this is christopher shell. Hes a fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for international peace, which has surveyed Black Americans on the conflict. Christopher good to see you and first for people who are asking, well, why are we talking only about Black Americans . Well, for the Democratic Party for a democratic president , there is no demographic that is more reliable than black voters beyond age, beyond region income education, religion, black voters are reliable for a democratic president. Hes going to need them. So lets start here. After what we saw, the shooting and the more than 100 deaths at that aid food aid station in gaza city. How do events like that impact . The black support for this war and for this president exactly. You bring up a really good point. African americans are a significant voting bloc for the Democratic Party. So its important that the administration tunes in