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A fatal mistake, sinking part of the case in georgia against donald trump. The lead starts right now six charges dismissed and the election subversion case in Fulton County, georgia, a judge saying a lack of detail led to his decision. What does this mean for the the rest of fani williss case, a Georgia Legal Expert and a close associate of District Attorney willis, join us to break it all down. Plus tik tok taped down a bill forcing the social media giant to cut ties with china or face a ban in the us passes the house with huge bipartisan support. But well go anywhere in the senate and should the Us Government be in the business . Of banning private companies. Ill ask a member of the House Select Committee on china and a question so many people are asking today, do you feel safe flying on a boat . Boeing plane, major new revelations about the Airline Manufacturers work on that door plug that blew off during an Alaskan Airlines flight the ntsb today saying its investigation is being held back by a lack of paperwork and video footage welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper, a big blow today for District Attorney fani willis in the Georgia Election subversion version case against donald trump and his allies, judge scott mcafee, has thrown out six charges in the 41 count indictment against trump, and some of his codefendants. All of those charges relate to multiple instances of the codefendants allegedly soliciting the violation of oath by a public officer. Three of the six charges tossed were against donald trump. One of them tied to that infamous phone call that trump made to georgia Secretary Of State Brad Raffensperger in january 2021. After the 2020 election i want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 notes, which is one more than we have because we won the state he did not win the state. Of course, he lost the state. Now, even though these six charges are out the window, mcafee said the alleged conduct at the root of those charges could still be used by prosecutors as part of the larger racketeering cases, which means the case remains for the most part intact to be clear. Todays ruling has nothing to do with these separate ethics allegations brought against Fulton County District Attorney, fani willis. The judge has not yet decided whether to disqualify her but that major ruling is also expected. This week. Lets go to cnns Nick Valencia in atlanta outside the Fulton County courthouse and nic, this was not the major ruling we expected to get this week why did the judge decided to drop these six charges . Well, hes very clear in his ruling. This is a critique of the District Attorneys office lack of detail. With judge scott mcafee is saying, is that the das office did and include enough detail about what crimes they were allegedly soliciting when they are asking these Public Officials to do essentially their dirty work, these calls, these charges have to do with the infamous phone call as you were mentioning there with the former president , him calling the Secretary Of State, Brad Raffensberger to find more votes. It also has to do with this alleged fake electors scheme. And thats the scheme from trump and his allies to try to subvert the Electoral College and say that he rightfully won the state of georgia when he did not. It also has to do with trump asking one of the heads of the legislature here to call a Special Session in georgia. But the judge is saying that there wasnt enough details about what oath that these Public Officials were allegedly violating what crimes were being solicited by these defendants. So hes throwing these charges out and its being celebrated as a victory for these defendants, including the former president s attorney here, steve sadow who sent us a statement and this is what hes saying in part the ruling is a correct 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. There is a caveat though here, jake and the caveat is that the judge . She has left the door open for the das office to fill in these details and reindict and also most importantly, the most significant count of all is still stands and thats the racketeer during charged. But as you mentioned, we are still waiting for that monumental decision from judge mcafee, which could come really at any at any moment, jake all right. Were also awaiting and nic for the judge to make that other hugely consequential decision in the case whether to disqualify the Fulton County District Attorney, fani willis, from her own case. When might that ruling come down . Well, it could come at any point. We are expecting it to come towards the later half of this week and thats just from the words that we heard from the mouth of the judge himself. He gave a recent interview to wsp radio here in atlanta. Thats a Conservative Talk Roe talk radio. It came as a shock to a lot of us following this case because hes virtually denied every single interview request. But he did grant this interview to talk about his challenger. The challenger he faces for his november reelection bid. And during the course of these eight minute interview, he talked about this pending decision and he said his decision is going to take time. This kind of decision takes time, but hes going to make it at his best understanding of the law he did say though jake, he is on track to make that decision by the end of this week, jake. All right. Nick valencia, thanks so much. Lets discuss with former Senior Assistant da for Fulton County, charlie baby, Charlie Bailey, and former Dekalb County District Attorney j. Tom morgan and charlie, we should note you have worked closely with that attorney fani willis and your wife, is part of her communications team. Have you spoken to District Attorney willis since these six charges were dropped . And what do you make of the judges reasoning . No, im not spoken to fani since the judge came out with this order. And my take is this is fairly routine stuff notwithstanding what what trumps lawyer wants to say, a Special Demurer and the judge pointed this out. This is something thats in his words so easily remedy in the federal system, you could file a bill of attainder. You dont even have to go back to a grand jury to reindict good. Lawyers can disagree about whether theres sufficient notice in the indictment as to the charges, and thats really what were talking about here, but not to get too far in the rabbit hole. This is a fixable and it doesnt go to the sufficiency of the evidence which the judge was sure to point out when hes older tom. Lets read the judges reasoning for dropping six charges of quote, violation of oath by a public officer, unquote the judge writes, quote, as written, these six counts contain all the essential elements of the crimes, but failed allege sufficient detail regarding the nature of their commission. I, ii, the underlying felony solicited. They do not give the defendants enough information to prepare the defenses intelligently as the defendants could have violated the constitutions and thus the statute in dozens, if not hundreds, of distinct ways, unquote. What do you make of that . Do you agree absolutely. Jake, the Suits Amendment and the due process clause. So the 14th Amendment State that a defendant must be put on notice of the charges against him and what he did to make them a crime these counts are very convoluted to begin with and at the end of the day, the defendants were not put on notice. But jake, let me just say this deference and mr. Shakespeare, this is much ado about nothing as mr. Bailey said, this is routine. These six counts, i think most prosecutors, including this former prosecutor, would never have included them in the indictment. In the first place, calls her already in the rico count, and the judge in his orders said that they can stay in the rico count so youre saying just to reiterate, you dont think this is that big a deal on the grand scheme of this one case absolutely. As i said, i think most prosecutors would not even have included these caps. The rico count, which is a 20year felony of both of those rico counts are staying in and thats what mr. Trump and the other defendants would like to have taken out charlie, cnn legal analyst, michael moore, a former us attorney in georgia, says it, mcafee is action might mean that the judge does not think the case will go to trial this year. Could that be damaging to fani williss case in and of itself . And if so, how well i disagree with michael on that point. I dont think this indicates anything ea is always decides to reindict. Adding some specific language that the judge is calling for here that doesnt change anything about the trial possible trial date. Does this the judge said is already said the facts, the conduct is alleged in abundance in the indictment and thats when youre talking about getting ready for trial. Its do you have all the evidence that the state is going to use against you and nothing about this order changes that they have all that evidence and have had all that evidence for months now. So i dont think that changes makes it distinction one way or the other about whether it goes to trial before the election or not. Thats going to be judge mcafee decision. But theres plenty of time between now and november to get started, whether thats august, whether thats july, whether thats september tom, he told cnn two weeks ago that if judge mcafee follows the Georgia Supreme Court case law, you believe fani willis will not be disqualified. Are you still expecting the judge mcafee will leave fani willis on the case yes, i believe the judge will have to find that theres an actual conflict and theres not an actual conflict the appearance of conflict is not what the law of demand there has to be an actual conflict ive watched the hearings very closely and i do not believe that the defense has shown that there is an actual conflict certainly an appearance, but not an actual conflict charlie, what do you think i agree with j. Tom on what the law is clear in georgia, there has been a lot of talk about well, its an open question. Its not, its his j tom says this is very clear that actual conflict is the standard here. And as weve talked before, jake, i mean, the Defense Attorneys in this case set up this elaborate crazy theory that they had to prove. That fani willis brought this indictment 41 towns against nine including a former president and not because the evidence and the law required it but because she couldnt afford a trip to aruba and needed to hire somebody that could pay for the cruise. I mean, its so outrageous. Its hard even say with a straight face that and what they had to prove in this hearing. And within a galaxy of conflict, youre not what even in a galaxy that of a conflict, unless were going to sit here and say that people that Work Together cant date, can marry. 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