Can get better with specialized treatment, go to no cd id com to learn more im Jeremy Diamond in tel aviv, and this is cnn a legal win for donald trump and his codefendants in georgia. The judge dismissing six charges in the indictment against them in the election interference case. As a major your decision about whether fani willis can stay on as prosecutors still looms over all of it. And time might be up for tiktok, the house voting to ban the app if its chinese parent company, doesnt spin it off within six months. A huge bipartisan showing in the vote, but will it pass the senate . And what will President Biden do . Plus americans deployed to haiti, the pentagon sending marines to the embassy in a borne by violence. A nation on the edge of anarchy as politicians and gangs fight for power, were following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central one day after winning enough delegates to become the Presumptive Republican nominee for president. Donald trump. Just receiving another win this time in court, a georgia judge has thrown out six of the 41 counts that trump and some of his codefendants were facing in the state, the former president and more than a dozen others have been accused of racketeering and conspiracy in an attempt to overthrow joe bidens 2020tory in georgia. Cnns Nick Valencia is outside the Fulton County courthouse in atlanta, and nick, the judge said the prosecutors made a quote, fatal mistake here on these charges. What did he mean well brianna, theyre basically saying that the prosecutors failed to include the detail that was needed in order for these charges to stick. They failed the choir detail about what underlying crime these defendants were allegedly trying to its elicit from public officials. These charges have to do with that infamous phone call that trump made to Secretary Of State brad raffensberger, where he said, find more votes as well as the fake elector scheme. That scheme by trump and his allies to subvert the Electoral College and tried to claim that he rightfully won the 2020 election. Here georgia, when he lost the judge saying that these charges should not stick because basically the das office fail to include the appropriate details and this is already in the meantime being celebrated by the defendants and Defense Attorneys, especially the Defense Attorney for the former president steve sadow. This is what hes saying to us in part of a statement saying, quote, the ruling is the application of the law as the prosecution failed to make specific allegations of any alleged wrongdoing on those counts. The entire prosecution of President Trump is political constitutes election interference and should be dismissed. Now this ruling, it comes with a caveat though the judge has left the door open for the da to reindict on these charges if they fill in those details. So this is far from over, but in the meantime, as i mentioned, it is being celebrated and were hearing this as we wait for this consequential decision as to whether fani willis will remain as the prosecutor on this case just a short time. Time ago. Supervising producer jason morris ran into scott mcafee on the steps of the courthouse here and he did say that hes planning to stick to that timeline that he gave himself. So we should expect a decision at the end of the week. Brianna. All right. Nic, thank you for that report. Were joined now by cnn, Chief Legal Analyst and cnn Anchor Laura Coates and laura trump now, personally facing three fewer charges. Thats what it is when youre looking just specifically at him here, how does this affect the case against him . But still, by the way, more than 80 counts that he is still facing. Its entire indictment goes away. So its not a comprehensive wind, but it does show you some of the weaknesses and shortcomings of the prosecutions case in the sense that they are required to give notice. Its part of due process. I need to be on notice. His defense counsel, what are the specific civic natures of the crime that you are charging theyre saying that youre trying to violate are trying to entice someone to actually have an official in georgia, violate the constitution, okay. Which provision . How so . There are dozens, if not hundreds, of ways that could have done be specifics. I could prepare my defense. Now, the judge and you could also try as as was said by Nick Valencia tried to change that in a way that actually meet that requirement, but it still could be used as part of the overarching rico and racketeering case here. But you know, the biggest question today, brianna, is not just what how many charges are going to be left, but who will prosecute this case . Ultimately, the big case were waiting to hear from ms judge about is will fani willis and her for team be the ones to prosecute whatever remaining charges are there that is the looming deadline were all looking to. Yeah. And where do you think judge . Scott mcafee may be on that as we look to the end of the week here well we reported yesterday that there was a Radio Interview he gave where he talked about having a Draft Opinion re to go. But these things take time. He gave a selfimposed twoweek deadline. Thats just a mirror like day or two away at this point in time, but its such a consequential decision that could have very far reaching consequences. Remember, it wouldnt just be funny willis, who would have to step aside if disqualified, the entire team would a prosecutor and counsel and georgia would then step in and assign or figure out who would be the next team to actually prosecute. And that next team would not people hold into the choices of the grand jury prior established. Also the big question that gives the issue here, whether there it is an actual conflict or the appearance of a competent will govern this judges ruling. That was a very big issue at the end of the last hearing, whether an appearance of socalled impropriety was enough or an actual conflict as provided by the evidence by those moving for her to be disqualified. Thatll be the rub here in this case. And thats why its so complex. These charges that have been dismissed, could it be dismissed for now situation . Could willis refile these charges with more specifics that the judge is seeking or is this inner are these gonegone . They could rehabilitate in some way this complaint, but that doesnt bode well in terms of the preparation for say, other charges that might be that shes given provided notice and other things as well. But youve got to as a prosecution team, youve got to give the requisite amount of notice in this. And of course, this the judge said was not going on not the entire indictment, that there could be an opportunity if they give more information and what they said was as written these six counts contain all the essential elements of the crimes, but failed to alleged sufficient detail regarding the nature of their of their commission and does not give enough information. And so as you look at it right now, this does not mean he said the entire diamond is dismissed, but theyre going to have to cross every t dot, every i because the team of lawyers behind the over a dozen defendants are looking for any exit ramp out of this indictment. In addition to trying to undermine the credibility and put into question the ability plenty of this prosecution team, who the prior disqualification motion. So youre coming out all fullcourt press against this team by virtue of the weight of this particular indictment, only one charge against mark meadows. Now a single racketeering charges that significant to you . Well, a single racketeering charge is still significant as part of an overall overarching conspiracy of sorts. But taking out a lot of the other things, the solicitation of violation by an oven oath by public officer because somebody who remember wanted to have his case removed to Federal Court does not want to be in Fulton County, wants to be in Federal Court because he wants to have the benefit fit essentially saying, well, hold on. Official duties. Thats what i was involved in. Thats the issue here. You cant touch me there. That was, of course, rejected, but the idea of still having this count does rely on the conspiracy, on the interaction between the other codefendants. Now, you need not necessarily have the communication that was explicit between each in every defendant in a rico action. But the idea of trying to prove that everyone was part of a common scheme or plan does require a level of evidentiary support that if you cant provide other details on the actual pleading might be lacking in the facts. Now, we have a long way to go here, brianna, before youre talking about a jury being empaneled, Motion Practice being concluded, and ultimately the presentation of evidence. You can believe that mark meadows is probably looking to have yet another charge dropped, taking him out of this case entirely yeah, certainly is. Laura coates. Thank you so much. Boris pivoting to the nations capital. Now, were the House Of Representatives this morning passed a bill in sweeping bipartisan fashion that could lead to a tiktok ban the bill requires the abs chinalinked parent company, bytedance to sell off tiktok within about six months. And if that doesnt happen, the hugely Popular Platform would be banned from us app stores. Lawmakers argue that bytedance could be forced to give the Chinese Government us user data or two spread propaganda to americans because of those National Security concerns, it was a rare moment of bipartisan unity. The bill sailing through the house by a 352 to 65 count, the question now is, how does it land in the senate that remains unclear. Lets break down the details with cnns brian todd. Brian first first, looking at the big picture, this is one of the most popular apps in the world to say thats actually an understatement, to say its popular in the us, boris is also an understatement. More than 170 million users of tiktok or in the United States, thats what tiktoks ceo told congress in january. Thats more than half the us population. Its impact on the Influencer Economy is huge and its growing. Of course, you know, the influence or is growing by the minute. Tiktoks impact on that economy is massive. Also, Small Businesses use tiktok to create content to promote their stores and other things with tiktok. So its impact on the American Population is enormous. Now when you talk about the Security Concerns, specifically Security Analysts and some members of congress are concerned that because tiktok is owned by a chinese company, that the Chinese Communist government could lean on the company to basically Download Software a chinese malware that they can use chinese malware to put it on your phone when you download tiktok or download some context tent on tiktok that could steal your personal data from your phone. They could then take that and put it in their databases. They could use it later on to either blackmail you or just use it in another kind of difficult ways for americans. But also they could use it to influence the the american political scene and take a page out of Vladimir Putins playbook and metal in us elections by creating content that promotes candidates that they like, by creating content that is promotes negative information for candidates that they dont like. Putting misinformation out there about elections and voting. Theres all sorts of ways that they could do that tiktoks ceo, his name is xiao chu. He told Congress Last year, basically that this is all malarkey, that this would never happen. He said, quote, is our commitment to this committee and all of our users that we will keep this free from any manipulation by any government. We will protect the us user data and firewall it from all foreign access. But heres the problem, boris, that if the Chinese Government wants to lean on tiktok for information or to do some of these things that Security Experts are worried about. By chinese law, the company cannot say no yeah. So there you have it that theres also been evidenced from employees that have gone public saying that bytedance has specifically requested usu user data. And if bytedance has it, that means its one step away from the chinese. And again, if the chinese, if anyone in the Chinese Communist government wants to just kind of sidle up to an official at bytedance and say, oh, can you give us information . Shan on this particular politician in the us . Hes gotta do it. Yeah. So thats a real concern. So lets say this bill becomes law and theres no sale, theres no divestiture within six months. What happens to those 170 plus million users thats a really good question. They could maybe some of them could conceivably filed lawsuits to try to prevent this, to forestall it, you could kind of see that coming down the line because it is so popular in the us, theyre getting theres going to be a lot of bandwidth behind an effort like that. So its going to be a messy process and its going to, its going to impact a lot of people economically, were going to actually do a piece for later today on sit room on, on the Economic Impact of a tiktok ban, it could be really enormous and it could really be fought over in the courts. Yeah, look forward to watching that later tonight on situation and brian todd, thanks so much for the details, of course. So lets discuss with a democrat who voted against this bill. We have congressman ro khanna of california with us, his district. We should mention include food, silicon valley, were bytedance and other social Media Companies have offices. Congressman, thanks so much for sharing your afternoon with us. You said in an interview in january that tiktok should be forced to sell to an american company. Isnt that what this bill does . Why did you vote against it . No, it doesnt. I would support a bill like this. This is blatantly unconstitutional and i dont think the courts would uphold it. And the reason is if the sale didnt happen, it goes to a band. The Supreme Court has said it has to be the least restrictive alternative when you look at free speech, which 170 million americans perkins free speech, is that impact . And we could have said that there should have been financial penalties if there isnt a divestiture, we should have said that we need a strong data privacy but to ban it, i dont think survives. I think it would be struck down nine to zero by the Supreme Court. Thats a fascinating perspective. There was also some criticism over in this bill, the role that the president would have the Executive Branch would have and designating an app belonging to a Foreign Company based in a rather a foreign country based in a foreign country, deeming that country and adversary and thereby going after that technology. Im assuming that that might be a concern of yours as well. What is because, you we have a robust tradition of speech in this country and we have a lot of a foreign magazines, former foreign publishers because we believe that the American Public can get information and make responsible decisions and we want debate and that has been the Supreme Courts decision. Now, i believe that chinas ccp poses a threat. Lets focus on what they can do to invade taiwan and make sure that we have enabled superiority. Lets focus on making steel and our manufacturing is brought back home and not have a trade deficit. But this is not the top concern when you look at the Chinese Communist party and its going to affect the lives of Many Americans. There were 50 folks, influencers and craters in my office. Theyre not 20. 30 yearolds. These are 40, 50yearold most biden supporters, trumps supporters are using this as Small Business. And i think theyre going to be a lot of people very upset fortunately, its unconstitutional pushing all but politicians are basically out of touch with a lot of americans there are a lot of politicians on tiktok. Youre on it. The biden team is on it as well. Im curious to get your perspective as a tiktok user on employees complaining through Media Reports that the company bytedance and tiktok, through bidens through tiktok, i should say, has tracked journalists that they have closely watched users who have consumed gay content. Theyve complained that despite public statements that information is siloed, bytedance executives are able to ask the folks working in tiktok here in the United States for user data. And that in many cases employees have complied with that. There are Real Security concerns, arent there . There absolutely are. But, you know what theyre also Security Concerns with meta and facebook that engaged in surveillance and allow their platforms to be used for interference in the 2000s section there, respectfully, congressman, but there isnt a law the United States. This is the meta has to hand over private data without a warrant to the us government. That is the law in china by dense h