Much. You bet. The news continues right here on cnn its friday, march 15, right now on cnn this morning decision de for the da, a judge in georgia about to rule whether fani willis will be kicked off Donald TrumpsElection Subversion Case, plus a deadly attack on civilians waiting for food and water in gaza. He israelis insisting they had nothing to do with it. Wow. Oh my god wow breaking news, deadly tornadoes sweep through ohio and indiana were tracking that destructive storm all right, it is 05 00 a. M. In the east and that includes randolph county, indiana, where they are waking up to this reports of Tornado Damage in the area roughly between indianapolis and dayton, ohio police in logan county, ohio are reporting to People Killed were gonna get much more from our weatherman, Derek Van Dam are coming up later on in the hour as the sun starts to come up their good morning, everyone. Im kasie hunt. Its wonderful to be with you on this friday. We made it in the next few hours. Uh, judges expected to announce whether District Attorney fani willis will remain as the prosecutor in the Georgia Election subversion case. The defense is seeking to disqualify willis for having an intimate relationship with her lead prosecutor, nathan wade judge scott mcafee, who is up for reelection, telling cnn Affiliate Wsb that his ruling wont be based on politics. Joining me now is bob q psaki is editor in chief at the hill. Bob, good morning. Its wonderful to have you a morning thanks for being here so lets talk about this, judge. I mean, he obviously really in the hot seat here. This is the last day he said he was going to make a decision basically by the end of this week. Here we are. Its friday. What what are the pressures on him here and what is your sense of which way this is leaning right now . Well, i this has become such a mess. I mean, i think in many the ways this was the strongest case against trump. But this has become a bit of a sideshow. So in some ways, i think if she is disqualified, it could actually help the prosecution. But this has been a disaster. And as you know, the trump team has been looking to delay and also throw everything at her and its worked at least in a pr sense. Yeah. Lets watch. Actually it mean trump has been pretty straight up about what shes trying to do here. Lets just remind Everyone Wants his comments we dont know whats going to happen. We want plays, obviously, im running for election. I get up. Can you run for election and be sitting in a courthouse in manhattan . So that was back on february 15th. And this is just one of four of his trials. But so far the delay strategy does seem to be working for him. Yeah. And certainly in the primary, these indictments did not hurt him, but convictions are a different thing. And now were moving into the general election. Think that theres a real risk that his poll numbers do take a hit. However, right now if you look at the battlegrounds hes winning most of them he is. And this is very different than 2016. Remember, he was behind the whole time. Now hes winning. You mean in 2020 biden, but well against biden, yes. But even in 2016, he was also behind. So this is a new spot for trump but while things are going well this year, you got to expect the unexpected yeah. What is your sense of i mean, he again, that was outside of a courtroom and he been complaining, well, i should be campaigning. Im in this courtroom. He usually doesnt actually have to be in court for these things. I mean, he didnt debt that. There will be a time when he may have to be there . Yes. But we have not gotten to that point yet. Correct. What is your sense of the difference between a general election decision to show up in the courtroom versus a primary campaign one, because we are firmly in the general election now. Yeah, i think theres a real danger for trump, as you said, hes Making Choices now to appear, there are a lot of things going right for trump, but at the same time money is a problem for trump because these legal fees are piling up and i know the rnc Republican National committee may help him. But at the same time, i do think theres theres courtroom fatigue, so i think he might be wise to not go in the courtroom at least when he has a choice, because as you mentioned later this year and in multiple cases, he may have to show actually show up. Yeah. What is it . What do you make of whats going on in the new york case . Because we learned yesterday, alvin bragg went along with a delay in that trial late april. And it does seem like this was actually a mistake on the part of Southern District of new york prosecutors who just turned over a whole bunch of documents that now both sides need time to review that. Just play straight into trumps trumps hands. I think it played into his hands, yes. But at the same time, it looks like The Big Question is which trials are going to start before the election . Because thats part of trumps game plan. This one is going to start before the election. It looks like, but i think that was a misstep and thats why theres saying okay, we can go for a delay, at least a short delay, a month old whats your sense of where the new york case fits in terms of like if were going to rank these things as level of risk to Donald Trumps political fortunes where is the new york case on that list i think its not at the top. A harvard harris. All recently that if hes convicted on the january 6 charges, the numbers flip for biden, but in these other cases, yes, they get closer. Biden gets closer to trump, but hes not winning. So i think the january 6 case is one. Hes got to worry about the most. I think the hush money case, its not as strong as georgia, but as we talked about, georgia does just a mess right now we should note in georgia, the judge did leave the central piece of the case standing, the racketeering charges. Right. But he did take out six of the charges that were included in there. He said theres no basically legal basis for that. How much weaker do you think that means . The georgia case, if at all . I well, its not a good headline for prosecutors when those things because those charges, according to the judge, too vague. So i think that big picture, its not a big deal, but pr wise, its a big deal that when charges are getting tossed, thats at least a mini victory for trump, right . Well when his whole goal is also to muddy the waters, make it look like the system is out to get him absolutely. I totally does. Earlier. Sure. All right. Bob q. Sack for the health. Thanks for getting us started up. Next case. I really appreciate it. Come back soon. All right. 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Scott, good morning. What more do we know about this tragedy . Hey, good morning, casey. Yeah. So this happened in an area called the Kuwaiti Roundabout it is essentially a central area where aid trucks, the ones that are able to get in usually stop and unload what they have. And because of the the levels of hunger, famine in many cases, and really desperation. It obviously attracts a crowd and that it seems is what we had here when this attack took place, as you said, witnesses describe what sounded like tank or artillery fire israeli say it wasnt them. But the hamasrun Health Ministry says that this was a deliberate attack by israelis. Now we know that the idf troops are typically stations near to that round about and there was another incident of violence on wednesday when seven people were killed after the idf idf opened fire, they didnt comment on that particular incidents, but they did confirm that they struck separately on wednesday in Aid Distribution Warehouse Run by unrwa killing five people. They they said they they took out a hamas commander, unrwa says that, look, this was in violation of International Law in the israelis knew precisely what they were hitting because they had the coordinates in advance as they have with the 150 other unrwa Food Warehouses or Distribution Sites that have been hit since the outset of this war scott, how is this going to impact Aid Shipments that are set to arrive in gaza today probably not directly, but obviously it is a reminder for that shift that they are entering an active war zone and obviously given the level of hunger, given the level of desperation than it is all the more risky and all the more challenging to ensure that this is a smooth orderly handoff of these pallets of aid. A packed into this ship, which by the way is a spanish ship. Its called open arms. It is normally used for shipping, search and rescue. It is towing a barge carrying some 200 for tons of aid. Were talking about the absolute basics flower rice, beans, canned goods, lentils, things like that. There has been a barge or excuse me, a jetty constructed using rubble from the destruction in gaza. Its about 60 yards long or so. The ship, as we know, it can be seen from offshore, just a few miles its offshore when it will actually approach. We dont know how the distribution will work. We also dont know that casey all right. Scott mclean of force and assemble. Scott. Thank you now to this, russians are heading to the polls today for day one of a threeday election that is all but decided before a single vote was ever cast. Vladimir putin is expected to secure his fifth term in office any credible challenger has been killed, exiled, jailed, or banned. The widow of Opposition LeaderAlexey Navalny is calling for voters to turn out collectively at noon sunday. Thats the last day of voting as a show of opposition support port. Cnns Matthew Chance joins us live now from moscow. Matthew, good morning to you at russians can vote either for putin or for one of three kremlin approved candidates. Whats the mood in the city today . Well, i mean, look, you joined me inside a Polling Station in Central Moscow where people have already started to come out and on cast their ballots. The cast their votes for one of four candidates. But as you say, because of the sort of inevitable outcome of this lecture putin victory. Theres not a great deal of excitement amongst the voters about what the outcome will be. Its more of a dutiful, patriotic but the thing that people are doing coming out to register their support for that preferred candidate. Again, this, this is the Polling Station. You can see a couple of people here that have come to register that theyll be getting them Ballot Papers and then they can sort of like tick the box. They want and do that either electronically with these machines here or put them into a halep box over there, look the reason its such an inevitable outcome is because the opposition in russia has not been permitted to stand in these elections. Theres been Blanket Coverage of Vladimir Putin on state television. And of course, the really critical that the critics of the kremlin like Alexey Navalny like people who have been sort of campaigning against Vladimir Putin for many years, well, theyve been silenced, jailed, exiled, or of course, in the case of laminar okay so if Alexey Navalny he died in his Arctic Penal Colony last month. And so that sort of crackdown has really sort of center a repressive atmosphere across russia. And so again, as i say, this is russia going through the motions of a democratic process, but no one really seriously doubts that Vladimir Putin at the end of it, is going to emerge as president for our fifth president ial term. 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