Stay from the source tonight, a surprise win for donald trump is some of his criminal charges were thrown out in the state of georgia. What . Judge called fatal, and the prosecutions case and an even bigger decision that is looming that could come at any moment. Also, congress has started the clock on tiktok, the house overwhelmingly passing a bill that would ban it nationwide. And President Biden says hell sign it if it reaches his desk, but thats a big f. Well take a look at the National Security 30 threads, as well as the political threats. If lawmakers cut off the app that is used by 170 million americans. Also tonight, a Potential Trump Running Mate it is posting about her brand new teeth that south dakotas governor is now facing ethical questions about that new smile will dig into that video that some are calling down my bizarre. Im kaitlan collins, and this is the source fresh off. Of clinching the republican nomination for president as he did last night, it was the win that very few people saw coming, not even really donald trump. The judge that is presiding over his election conspiracy case in georgia, has now dropped six of the 41 counts in that indictment against trump and his codefendants. Three of those six charges that were dismissed were pending against trump himself, including the one that was tied to that infamous phone call that we all remember to Georgia Secretary Of State after trump lost the 2020 election so i want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 loads, which is one more that we have because we won the state judge scott mcafee cited what he called a fatal lack of detail from the prosecution to support the specific charges that he dropped today. But he also made sure to note and this is important here. Im quoting judge scott mcafee. He said, this does not mean the entire indictment is dismissed. The heart of this case, in fact, relayed the vast bulk of it does still remain intact. And donald trump is still facing ten criminal counts in georgia meanwhile, there could be a bigger decision coming in that state, though in the next 48 hours, the judge is still weighing whether or not to remove the District Attorney, fani willis from this case over those accusations of a conflict of interests that stemmed Momentum Relationship that she had with the lead prosecutor she hired on that case judge mcafee confirmed to cnn today, we rarely hear from him outside the courtroom that he is still on track to issue that decision this week. Im joined now by cnn legal analyst and former us attorney for the middle district of georgia. Michael moore and cnn legal analyst and former federal prosecutor, Jennifer Rodgers and michael, let me just start with you since all this is its happening in your home state. What did you make of judge mcafee is rationale for dismissing these charges . Well, im glad to be the both. I mean, what was filed by the defenses a very standard motion thats filed by the defendants in many cases in georgia, its a demurrer. Our challenge to the sufficiency of the indictment and the law says the defendant is entitled to an indictment its basically perfect in form and substance. And so the judge simply looked at it. He said, look, youve got this these allegations and the indictment that who youre saying he tried to solicit people to violate their oath, but you need to tell me what part of their oath what part of the constitutional provisions whether its a State Constitution Or Federal constitution provisions as they take an oath to uphold both youve got to spell that out in the indictment so that the defendants have some knowledge before they go to trial of what they may have to prepare and presented a fast again. So while its a significant win, i think for the defendants, it certainly is not fatal to the entire indictment and the District Attorneys matter of fact can go back and reindict and clean those charges up, or there could be an appeal of the judges ruling, or frankly, they could just move forward because so many of these allegations are wrapped up in the rico charges weve heard about that those those charges stand so this might be a cut on the case. You can think about chopping down a tree. There are few good ax blows, but to the trade today, but its still standing. If there are many more blows and it may topple. But right now, the, the case is in play and they stands just with a few fewer counts. The rico charge parts, of course, is the conspiracy charges at the heart of this. Thats count number one. And so jennifer, when you look at this and what this means for fani willis, the District Attorney here. I mean, this is obviously not something any prosecutor wants to have happened to them, but does it mean that she made the case to brought how did you read it . It doesnt mean she made the case. You brought to me means they made a mistake grand jury, when they were in the grand jury, they needed to present more evidence, more specific language in the indictment. So its really more embarrassing than Anything Else to be honest with you, because all of the facts that underlie these counts that have now been dismissed are part of the rico offense. All of that evidence will still come in. They still have a charged in a rico that is the big ticket here as far as potential penalties so it really doesnt mean much at the end of the De Except A Little Bit of embarrassment. But of course, what could mean a whole heck of a lot is fani willis herself and whether or not she stays on this case and michael, as you looked at what the judge decided here and throwing out some of these, there was some legal analysis today that because he has only throwing out some of these and not this entire indictment as he made clear this signifies what he may decide on fani willis herself, a decision that is going to come in the next 48 hours. What do you believe it means i think you ever cited thats a better tea leaf reader than i am. I dont think he put a lot of information into the solder about what he may do. The one the one footnote that caught my attention really was where he said, look if the da wants to appeal this decision, i would probably go along with an appeal and let them go on up and they can take a challenge and having Appellate Court decide whether or not im right or wrong. That tells me frankly that he that he is probably thinking this case is not getting tried this year. He would have no problem with some delay through the appeal those process on that, whether or not that has any bearing on the District Attorney. I dont know, but we do have a fairly wellreasoned order on this demurrer. He laid it out. Explain this thought process, what the legal ramifications where i think youre going to see the same type of order. And itll just be a matter of whether or not he thinks theyve proven that connection between the financial problem all of the disqualification motion, or whether or not he thinks that the appearance of impropriety is so bad that he cant let the case go forward with that kind of baggage. I get on it. Yeah. And jennifer, i mean, we heard from steve sadow, trumps attorney in this case bragging today, saying that this means the whole case should be dismissed because these few charges were they would certainly like to see that, but but when you actually look at the heart of this and whether or not thats going to happen. Whats your sense . Oh, thats not going to happen. I mean, this just qualification is whats up in the air now, but the rest of the charges are solid. If she if shes off the case, it ends the entire case because its not clear that another prosecutor would well, thats for sure. If she is off the case, i think this is its probably never going to trial, certainly not this year. I dont know that any other prosecutor in georgia will want to take it up or has the resources frankly, to take it up. Jennifer rodgers. Thank you. As always, michael moore, great to have you both on. And of course, the drama in georgia is just one of several legal battles that trump is fighting this week and going to be doing for the next foreseeable future. And the E Jean Carrolls civil case here in new york, a judge has approved his 91 million bond, and tomorrow their Presumptive Republican nominee is not going to be on the Campaign Trail. Hell be in a florida courtroom. She has been using as his Campaign Trail thats for a hearing in the maralago documents case here with me to talk about that cnn political analyst and senior Political Correspondent for the new york times, Maggie Haberman whats your sense, maggie, of how trump is responding to what happened . I mean, steve sadow, his attorneys calling it a victory, how does he see what happened today . Trump in his socks are very happy about what happened today, but it is a temporary victory. It will be the bigger question is going to be it happens in terms of fani willis staying on this case, but this case is being fought and they all are but this one in particular, the georgia case, is fought on a pr grounds because there is an expectation this will not get heard this year at the rate that its going. And so anything that trump and his team can do to chip away at a perception of validity in their minds is a good thing again legally this is a temporary win. But in the political realm, this is helpful to him. I mean, they kinda take the winter, they can get because theyve had so many losses lately, but tomorrow, he is going to be in that courtroom in florida. He doesnt have to be there. Right i know weve talked about how its a political strategy, but is it also a legal strategy to show . Im showing up here. I care about this to judge cannon in any way. I think its less important that donald trump be at these hearings than say walt nauta, his codefendant, carlos de oliveira, his codefendant, because those are people who i think are in a certain way in greater jeopardy and would be in greater jeopardy at sentencing. I think trump could not show up. I do think he wants to be there there is an argument and lawyers have made this to me. They did is better for a defendant to be in court. We know that trumps sort of overlearned the lesson of not showing up to the first E Jean Carroll trial in 2023. However, based on how trump behaved in the other civil actions in new york, one was another E Jean Carroll trial. One was new York Attorney general trial. Im not sure how much which is presence helped him. This is a different setting. This is a judge he appointed and its a different case. And also whats notable is theres this fight going on between trumps attorneys and the doj in this case over revealing the names of the witnesses here, and we spoke with one of them on monday, trump employee five, brian butler. As you know, and this is what he told us in part about what he witnessed you noticed that he had bought they were the boxes that were in the indictment. The white bankers boxes thats what i remember loading. And did you have any time any idea at the time that there was potentially us National Security secrets in his box and no clue. No he had no clue. I mean, we were just taking them out of the escalate, piling them up. I remember they were all stacked on top of each other and then were lifting them up to the pilots i mean, if this goes to trial, he is a central witness in all of this. Hes a central witness. Hes describing a scenario where the former president put a lot of his employees, not just people who worked at maralago to people who worked for him and his postpresident ial life as a, as direct aids in, in, in a dangerous situation because they are handling boxes that had classified material. Brian butler as far as i know, it does not have a security clearance. And so a lot of people were around these documents who dont have Security Clearances joining the core service at maralago . Exactly. I mean, thats not thats not their fault. Thats the material that was taken by the former president and they are then in this moment of jeopardy. What strikes me about what hes saying and to your point about him being a key witness, there are many, many brian butlers. There are many people who worked for trump, whether it was in the white house, whether it was on the campaign, whether it was at maralago, who whether it was in the documents trial or the federal january 6 trial, who will testify . Phi and it will just not be a good fact set for him. So as much as he is going to try to take control of the narrative outside the courtroom where there wont be cameras in any of these trials. There will still be a lot of testimony that gets her that its just not going to be helpful then i think thats a really good point because weve seen these oneoff instances where someone who is close to him turns on him or they illegally cooperate against him because they were placed into georgia is where were in the middle of it. But this would be to situations and these two cases where it would be a stream of the closest people around him and documents, it would be everyone whos worked at mar alago from cooks to people run the car service to bodyman. It january 6, the case in dc, its everyone who worked in his cabinet and his administration, and its not actually that different. The type of circumstance that were talking about, the specifics of it is in terms of the alvin bragg trial, which is the one thats starting in less than two weeks. The central witness there as Michael Cohen, trumps former fixer and lawyer. And that is a narrower case with fewer witnesses. Its really pretty dependent on cohen, but there is document committed evidence. There are there are emails, there is written correspondence, there are financial records. Theyre going to be part of that record. Its the same basic idea. Its somebody who was in a situation where they said they were doing something for trump or trump wanted them to do something and you just see that on a much bigger level with the january 6 or documents case. Yeah. And you just you also see hes tried to what kind of learn his lesson, i guess you would say Michael Cohen always says, you know, having him keep people in the fold and pay for their attorneys. Theyve tried to do that. Marlago, but they havent been successful mean brian butler, they they tried to pay for his attorney, who was like, no, im gonna get my oh, yes. In fact, they tried to reach out to him to get them in attorney and he didnt return the phone call from the trump lawyer who reached out to him. Youre absolutely right that there is a pattern that they observed there, i think are other complicating factors and some of these cases, but the end result has been trying to keep people in the tent and it does not always work. Are you surprised that trump hasnt said anything about that interview, those comments he talks about E Jean Carroll every five minutes calls are mrs. Bergdorf goodman. He hasnt said anything about brian butler. I dont know if its visit his Release Conditions that hes not supposed to talk about the witnesses here. I think that a lot of it is about not talking about witnesses in a particular federal case because there has been so much much concern from the government about Witness Intimidation in that case in the E Jean Carroll case he did go many, many weeks without doing it when he started doing it again, it was right after he posted that bond and i dont think those two are unrelated. Now, you could make the argument. Hes posted the bond is over. Hes certainly not helping himself with his appeal by doing that well, you would think he would learn his lesson on that since its costing him i think some of these lessons like Filing Lawsuits that he ends up paying the other sides legal fees for. He has to learn several times magazines. As always great to have you. Heres a big question for a lot of people who maybe on their phones right now is tiktok about to be banned in the United States . 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