15, right now on cnn this morning, a georgia judge, just hours from revealing weathered Da Fani Willis will be removed from Donald Trumps election version case. Plus Breaking News huge tornado wow oh, my my god. A deadly tornado outbreak. The latest on widespread damage in two states, and the storms on the move right now claus, new reporting on what may have sent a boeing seven at seven full of passengers plunging into a nosedive all right. It is 06 00 a. M. Here in washington. Its also 06 00 a. M. And indian lake, ohio. That is one of several places waking up to scenes like this after violent tornadoes overnight at least two people have been killed in this region after the twisters hit, are meteorologists are fan tracking the damage and storms still out there right now, he will be with us later on in the hour. Good morning, everyone. Im kasie hunt. Its wonderful to be with you on this friday morning. Happy friday. It is decision day for the Fulton County da hours from now, Georgia Superior Court judge scott mcafee will announce whether fani willis can resume her prosecution of donald trump. She is facing disqualification for having a romantic relationship with her lead prosecutor. If willis is removed, it is highly unlikely that the case would be tried before the november election and theres questions about whether it will be tried at all there is also a delay in the new york hush money case Manhattan District Attorney alvin bragg, agreeing to delay that trial for up to 30 days, pushing the start date into late april in another case, trump was in a florida courtroom yesterday, trying to convince the judge that he appointed to throw out the classified documents case against him. Judge Aileen Cannon shot down trumps chief are were going to see whether the former president s still feels this way about her im very proud to have a budget her, but she very smart and very strong. And loves our country all right. Here to break it all down with us. Laura barronlopez, shes White House Correspondent for the pbs newshour, republican strategist, Sarah Longwell is here and cnn political commentator, karen finney also joins us thank you all for being here this morning. I never dull moment as they say big picture. Here laura, let me just kinda start with you on these cases donald trump has been very clear about what the strategy is here. In fact, why dont we just wanted, we just play that this is from february, but its where he says out loud exactly what hes doing. We dont know. Much, going to happen. We want delays obviously, im running for election. I get up. Can you run for election and be sitting in a courthouse in manhattan all day long. We want mileis obviously. Yeah. I mean, that is the big strategy here. And even though this one motion to get the classified documents case dismissed was rejected, he has others, so there are others that still have she has not decided on. Shes shes kinda really all the legal experts ive talked to you say that this judge who he appointed, Aileen Cannon is really taking her time with these motions, ones that other judges, a lot of other judges maybe would have dismissed almost immediately if they had reviewed them. And so this is a tactic in this case, its the tactic in the other cases that hes facing where over and over again as many motions as possible, as many attempts to delay and make sure that the trials dont start until after the election when the other piece of it, sarah, is just muddy the waters confusing people, making it all seemed like the same thing as hes succeeding at that. Hes succeeding right now. I will say when i listen to voters talk, they know the number 91 indictments, but they have a real really hard time separating out which case is which and this is why i was always worried about the new york case going first because if the first case is about porn star, that is a thing that sticks and voters minds. When you are dealing with to menn, where age is a big issue, it actually gives one of them quite an advantage if what everybody is talking about is an issue with a porn star. Theres a lot of i i dont know what to tell you about voting way that is just the way people, people think. And so i think obviously there are cases that are better and worse for trump. What is much worse for trump is if january 6 is a case that people are hearing about right before the election because that is one of the main things that i hear from Republican Voters who are reluctant to vote for trump that makes them want a break with the president. But the new york case is one where the entire rightwing media, will rally around to be like this is stupid, this is silly, and a lot of voters will feel that way. And basically there is a manly vim and bigger are on display that biden doesnt have as im im not making an argument. So what im saying, how do i understand perceive that the perception yeah. I hate to say it, but even in 2016, the fact that hed had some affairs and there was the Porn Star Steph was out there for male voters. That was something of a plus, im sorry to say. Of course we were like we cannot compete with that. But but something thats theirs so bad. This is afi right but it would step the a is really important that im thinking a lot about which is i think one of these democrats have to do is form a narrative about why these cases matter and why they matter to you at home to me as part of why youre seeing the new york case, framed as Election Interference. Because i think theres a narrative there that says in 2,016. 20, 20, this is a man who was willing to do anything to win if it meant spending money to silence people, if it meant inciting a ride on the capitol. Right . Youve got to start to give people a little more of a narrative around why does it matter . No way to remember, great that they remember the 91. Maybe we should get tshirts made. But again, because so much of how people feel about both of these men is pretty baked in. So again, its got to be okay. Because i think some of his supporters think, maybe hes hes got some stuff in his closet, but i still like them. So if weve got to do a little bit more work on that, and ill just say the story, daniels thing, thats a 2016 issue. And so people who voted for trump twice voted for him with that knowledge, the january 6, that is after people voted for him. And so it gives them a reason to say that was new information and im not and look, weve launched a campaign recently, Republican Voters against trump with just exactly that people who voted for trump before arent going to vote for him again, number one reason, january 6 and lies about the election. Yeah. Really interesting. So theres one thing that came out of this newsmax its interview that trump did earlier this week. That i dont think got a ton of attention but it caught our eye here. A big part of what were discussing is how trump has been sort of teflon from normal political scandal basically since the beginning, right . Since he was insulting john mccains time as a Prisoner Of War i want you to Pay Attention to how this question was asked. Again, this is taking place in this conservative Media Ecosphere that has developed and also a part of trumps answer watch these cases were designed to destroy you . Yes. And theyve helped you and some of us actually, we see i know my audience and metoo, we see that youre protected maybe even by the hand of god has that ever crossed your mind if there is some kind of a protective force because you look at what ive been hit with, these are horrible people yeah. So interestingly enough, i will say tim alberta talks about in his book, talks about this, and how among evangelicals there is this narrative that has emerged around about trump and we saw the ad that he did in iowa. Thats sort of like can tim to jesus and god some folks about it was over the top. I would tend to agree with that, but this narrative is out there actually again, i think we have to take it seriously in the way that, in 2016 with when he said i can do know murder someone on fifth avenue. That seem ridiculous no, we have to take it out. All really seriously. Quick final thought. Well, the only thing ill say is that that is true for his base voters. Is not true for the swing voters to make what he is lost every Election Cycle since 2016. And it just because there are people who rejected yeah, for sure. All right. Our panel is gonna come back later in the hour, coming up here, the father from a School Shooter convicted for failing to stop his sons murder spree, plus a frightening night of tornadoes in the midwest. We are tracking more storms, right now and the gop is pushed to impeach President Biden is apparently going nowhere. Whats the next move . Were here to get your side of the story why do we keep ending up here you cant write this stuff. United states of scandal with jake tapper sunday at nine on cnn. Americans are doing their best to get by, but with an Uncertainty Economy and prices still rising, budgets are stretched sen. 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Its been six months since an Impeachment Inquiry into President Biden was launched by House Republicans this morning, the investigation is stalled there are not enough votes to successfully impeached the president. But republicans fear ending their inquiry would essentially clear biden of any wrongdoing. And thats a political message. They dont want to send heading into the november election. Cnns annie grayer joins me now. Any good morning. Just that set of sentences. Well they dont want to end this investigation because they dont want to act like theyre clearing him. But on the other hand, they dont seem to have enough to actually show that hes done something wrong enough thats worthy of impeachment, like, oh my gosh, what is going on . I mean, its a great question when republicans took the majority and got their committees in january 2023, investigating president and his family was a top priority for them, but 15 months or so in theyve received over 100,000 documents. Theyve interviewed over 40 people, including hunter and the president s brother, their Business Associates, Department Of Justice officials, irs whistleblowers, and they dont have evidence of doing wang. And so the question is, how do you land this plane when the expectation was you were going to be able to deliver some some evidence of wrongdoing and then impeachment articles against the president. And so one conversation is about criminal referrals. House oversight chair james comer, whose co leading its investigation very much wants that hes on television talking about it. Ive talked to him about how many times. But the two other stakeholders in this Decision Making process, the speaker, mike johnson and just cheri chair jim jordan are less committal when it comes to criminal referrals. And they said theres still more conversations need to be had beyond that comer says he wants to do legislative reforms to address socalled influence peddling. But casey, this is just not where republicans thought they were going to be this far into their investigation. Woman, and youve covered like every single step of this all the way along the way. And there were highprofile missteps at a series of points. I mean, theyre first hearing then this issue with the key witness who was arrested for lying, basically i mean in terms of a criminal referrals mean what leg is there to stand on . That unclear and they dont say who these criminal referrals would be four and remember, hunter biden was so key to their investigation, all of the allegations around the president was built around him and hunter came in for his deposition on february 28, south for six hours. He answered every Question Republicans had for him about his business deals, phone calls is surfacelevel interactions that his father had with his Business Associates and some republicans even say, hunter answered our questions. He was wellprepared. There is no more to really get at outofhome. What is it what is the point of doing a public hearing but comer is trying to bring hunter in for public hearing. Hunter refused to do that. Their keys theyre still trying to go after hunter though. They just quietly subpoenaed him for his bank records at at t. So theyre going to try and keep finding new avenues, but nothing it has turned up. And the broad policies i should note, you did this reporting did generate a very lengthy letter from the white house saying that that they write today to two, its clear the House Republican impeachment is over. This was sent to speaker mike johnson. The politics of this, i mean, they they basically cant from the votes for it. They dont have the votes, but the politics and the 2024 election looms large over all of this. Some republicans i talked to you say, we know, we dont have the votes, we dont have the evidence. Lets focus on things we can deliver to Republican Voters and getting republicans and donald trump elected in 2024, essentially, lets move on. Then you have enough their camp of republicans saying, lets drag this out as long as possible. Theres no incentive to ednas. We can continue to just find little lanes here and there and just continue to try and hurt President Joe Biden politically. So those are the kind of two camps that are actively discussing this right now. And they havent come to a consensus about what their timeline is. I mean, i think its just worth noting that the whatever artifice used to be around these things that said, were doing this for the good of the country and not for like raw politics. Its gone, right . I mean, that used to be something that was required here and it just no longer exist. Annie grayer has great reporting. Thank you very much. Have a great weekend are coming up next here. 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