Self gives you credit for credit growth, build your credit bills, credit built savings, built dreams hey guys, the story of sin city. Sunday on cnn cnn good morning, you are live in the scene and newsroom. Im jim acosta in washington. This morning, a monumental ruling drops in the Criminal Case against donald trump down in georgia a short time ago. As weve been reporting on cnn, the judge announced that Fulton CountyDistrict Attorney fani willis is allowed to continue Prosecuting Trump and his allies and the Georgia Election subversion case. But the judge added that the Special Prosecutor in the case, nathan wade, who has had a relationship with willis must be removed for the case to continue the removal of willis and her team would have almost certainly delay the trial until after the president ial election, that is something trump desperately wants in this case and as other legal cases, Nick Valencia has had a busy morning. It continues to be busy outside the Fulton County courthouse. Nick this ruling. I mean, it delivers an ultimatum to fani willis over her relationship with the lead prosecutor. Wade has to go or else walk us through it and at this point and easy ultimatum for her to make, its either her or him that has to go and we know that decision is going to come pretty soon here. We have reached out to nathan wade. We have still not heard back. Weve also reached out to the District Attorneys office, but they have yet to comment. This is a huge win for fani willis, but it does not come without its criticism. The judge Admonishing Fani Willis for her behavior during her testimony, calling it unprofessional, and also saying that theres a potential for her to receive a gag order. Remember, part of what Defense Attorneys were upset about was the speech this now infamous . Speech that she gave immediately after these allegations at big bethel ame, a Historic Black Church here in atlanta during what she addressed to sidestep the allegations or just say that she made mistakes, but that shes not perfect and now shes going to be allowed to continue on with the case that she started investigating more than three years ago, a case that began with an from his phone call from the former president of the Secretary Of State here in georgia, in which he tried to get more votes found so he could win the Georgia Election. The judge here though, handing victory to fani willis and we are waiting to hear from the District Attorneys office, but earlier we did speak to defense attorney scott globin, who represented ken chesebro during his portion of this case, and rob men gave us some insight into what potentially Defense Attorneys will do next after this decision if you were being charged with a crime that could land you in prison for a decade plus. And this was happening. Would you feel like you were getting a fair shake . No, of course you wouldnt. And so i would be very disappointed if i were okay so we should stand by as well. Steve sadow is saying basically in his statement that he is planning and appeal. Hes probably drafting that motion as we speak, but for now, the Fulton CountyDistrict Attorneys office likely celebrating this victory in this decision from scott mcafee jim. All right. Nick valencia down at the courthouse in atlanta. Let us know of anything develops will go right back to you, but lets continue this conversation in the meantime, joining us now to cnn, chief Legal Affairs correspondent paula reid, National Correspondent kristen holmes. And on my left, chief legal analyst, laura coates, legal analyst, elie orange. I am not used to having so many people with i want to do and i mean, this is an embarrassment of riches i dont know who to go to first, but ill go to paula first. Youve been leading this coverage good part of this morning. I have no idea how i mean, i guess she stays on the case. Fani willis stays on the case, but it just feels like this is not good. It just feels lets read this one part of the ruling. This finding is by no means an indication that the court condones this tremendous lapse in judgment or the unprofessional manner of the District Attorneys testimony during the evidentiary hearing. I mean, that it just sounds like yes, the case continues, but it almost feels like is it going to hobble along what i mean, what do you think . Well, lets put this in the larger context. At some point, trumps lawyers are going to have to defend him in a court of law maybe not this year. Based on the facts and the law, but until that they have two goals. The first is to delay all four of his criminal trials. The other is to sow distrust in the criminal justice system. And what weve seen down and Fulton County over the past few months has helped him with both of those goals in this language today where the judge described fani willis is having a lapse in judgment, calls her unprofessional on the stance that you repeatedly made bad choices and its anyways that she lied. He described a significant appearance of impropriety that infects the current structure of the Prosecution Team and basically says, look, your office can recuse, bringing, get ready, your lead prosecutor peter. So while yes, this is about fani willis is fate in terms of leading this. Theres something much more at stake which is trust in the judicial system. So anyone who says that this is a win for fani willis, its a technical victory. But i would argue this. This helps that the trump team. Yeah. And your crush, i do wanna ask you about the political implications because trump is going to run, run out with this, but more, i mean, i have to go to you why let her stay on the case if youre going to go after her in this way. So publicly, tremendous lapse in judgment and so on. I mean, it sounds to me like a gift to the defense if they want to appeal, they want to tie this up further. This absolutely gives them ammunition to try to attack her credibility and taint their own version of the jury pool to try to undermine this is income combination with an earlier this week decision to remove and dismiss some of these charges for not having been what they call properly pled. They were to insufficient to lacking in detail to have them be able to prepare for a defense. You combine those two things. Because they will use this to suggest that she should not be trying this case. But if she is, then hey, shes not good enough to actually have a burden of proof met. But this is actually pretty extraordinary as a result, the judge did not have the legal basis to say that an appearance of a conflict was enough to remove. He does talk about the fact that there there was the lapse in judgment. He does not condone it, but they did not meet their burden. Those who are moving for this particular case is qualifier to say that this goes to the heart of the defendants ability to get a fair trial all of the salacious details and we leaned in for the gossip. I certainly did. But when it comes down to it, none of this trial had anything to do with the underlying facts of this case, even the speech that has been referenced by Nick Valencia and others, where she talks about what they call the playing the race card, identifying why are you just going after one of my one of my prosecutor, not the rest of them. Even that he said did not rise to the level of disqualification. So yes, this takes a hit, but he did say they are so far removed from the actual Jury Selection to provide a permanent taint on a jury pool. He knows this is down the road. Amnesia might set in. Yeah, and it may an elliot it may help fani willis case. If the case is delayed to some extent because it does provide a little distance between now and when this case gets going, i suppose i mean that that would be music to this trump teams years as well. But i mean i just wanted to show that the part that the judge has about nathan wade. I mean, this is also brutal, patently unpersuasive explanation for the inaccurate and interrogatories he submitted in his pending divorce case indicates a willingness on his as part to wrongly conceals relationship with attorney. As the case moves forward, reasonable members of the public could easily be left to wonder whether the Financial Exchanges have continued to result in some form of benefit to the District Attorney or even whether the romantic relationship has resumed. And as laura was saying, this has nothing to do with i mean, as as fani willis said, im not the one on trial ill trump in these codefendants are on trial, but the judges goes after fani willis and nathan wade, if they were as if they were on trumps only and theres theres other language along those lines where i was just trying to find it here yeah. I think that the possible men udacity, i think is the word he uses referring to fani willis and nathan wade. Now, it is important for any Judge Writing Opinion like this to substantiate what how hes landing at the decision hes coming to some of that is assessing the credibility of witnesses. Can i as the finder of fact and law, actually believed the things that are being said to me. Now, a number of these statements total wine of is this a Credibility Finding . Are you taking a pot shot at the prosecutor and the refute . So for instance, one of them referring to fani willis being unprofessional on the Witness Stand serves no purpose whatsoever. It doesnt speak to the witnesses actual credibility. She was angry right. Now. Dont get me wrong. Thats great. Like laura says to the Human Element of all this, some of the intrigue and so on. But it doesnt help now i have to push back on you a little bit, jim, that even if this trial is delayed, nothing in here helps fani willis and her case. Do you enter the point that krystyna are talking about a little bit earlier, a lot of this actually hertz, the credibility of the office that said, does it ever seen the legal correctness and sort of the political or moral correctness of all of it. Legally, this is sound. You do not have a basis for removing this prosecutor from the case, but theres all kinds of political stuff that we did. And this is happening in the middle of a Political Campaign obviously, kristen and trump is going to run wild with us. Hes already been doing it out on the Campaign Trail at these rallies, talking about fani willis and nathan, where hes almost sounds like struck and lisa page, its the same very, very similar. Im sitting at a table with lawyers and i am not a legal person, but i can tell you what you need gold person and thats what happens when lawyers, when i look through this, i see how Donald Trumps team is going to take advantage of it. Now they said what you would expect for them to say, which was that they were disappointed. We got a statement from trumps lawyer, steve sadow. He essentially said, while respecting the courts decision, we believe that the court did not afford appropriate significance of the problem lets take each Auriol Misconduct Of Willis and wade, including the financial benefits testifying on truly about when their personal relationship began, as well as well as extra judicial mlk church speech, where she played the race card and falsely accused the defendants of their and their counsel of racism. Then he continues and says, we will use all Legal Options available to continue to fight to end this case. What should have never been brought in the first place . Thats exactly what youd expect, right . Theyre not happy. Fani willis gets to stay on the case that moving forward, they want this case would be dismissed. However, when you actually look at how theyre going to use this, donald trump is going to repeat some of these lines and rallies. And im getting a lot of pushback already online for saying that Donald Trump Trump is going to use this and his supporters are going to eat this up, but this is what ive seen for the last several years. Donald trump takes a statement, true back in the internet. Well but donald takes the nugget of truth and fact from this report and then well blow it up and his people will believe them and not just as people, he will be able to reach other people by using in this because that is the tactic he has used since 2016. I will say yes, this is as you mentioned, paula, its a win ish, but theres a lot of good information in here to actually buttressed the credibility of fani willis. It might be surprising. One part in particular, this judge called bs on the idea that two people who brought this motion had proven that the money that was given as a salary was it was a through line to what was used for the vacation that was their burden. Just like itll be the burden of the prosecutors at trial to make their case. Also, another aspect of here that they said this was the theory of the defenses case. The Defense Mean Trump in and council that they were bringing this case and prolonging this case, an effort to sustain their romantic relationship. Go to West Virginia and drive. There are nashville at different points in time. The judge essentially said, well, that cant be true, that she was trying to prolong. I only did she asked for a trial date in six months . After she brought this case, she said that she didnt want to sever these defendants. You wanted them all to stay together. Everything that she was doing was trying to expedite this case, which belies what they were trying to articulate and so on that realm, she has some legs to stand on. I do agree. This, judge, if you thought robert hurs one line about biden was problematic, this is a whole a lot of her know what im trying to office wants to hear it, but im suspecting its one of those. You dont have to go home, nathan wade, but you can stay here. Yeah. Its closing time. All right. Guys. Standby. Weve got a lot more to talk about. Were going to squeeze in a quick break. Well be right back. Happy to the golden boy of new jersey. I engaged in an affair with another man. Did you want to be outed again night at states of scandal with jake tapper are gonna go to therapists if theyre having an interview which i definitely new episodes sunday a nine on cnn when i first learned about my do patreons contracture, my physician referred me to a Hand Specialist and im glad he did because when i took the tabletop tests, i couldnt lay my hand flat anymore. The firstHand Specialist i saw only offered surgery. 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