United states of scandal with jake tapper. Sunday, a nine on cnn she can stay, but only if he goes the judge overseeing Donald TrumpsElection Subversion Case in georgia, rules that De A Fani Willis This can remain, but only as long as special prosecutor nathan wade is removed, were gonna break down what happens next and the implications for former president donald from plus deadly tornadoes in the midwest, powerful storms causing widespread devastation. Were going to get you an upclose look at the damage as this storm system now barrels toward millions of americans in the southeast. And going after the nc doublet, a group of female athletes now suing the association for letting in Transgender Athletes compete against them. Were following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to Cnn News Central a major decision today, the election shouldnt interference case against donald trump in georgia. Judge scott mcafee ruling that Fulton CountyDistrict Attorney, fani willis can continue prosecuting the case there is a catch though, if she stays. Nathan wade, the special prosecutor, willis, hired who shes been romantically involved with in the past, must be removed. Todays decision comes after a monthslong effort to disqualify willis from the case with attorneys for trump and his codefendants, arguing that willis financially benefited from hiring wade and that created a Conflict Of Interest. Now, the judge was critical of that relationship. He described a serious lapse in judgment, but ultimately, he wrote in his ruling, Quote Georgia Law does not permit the finding of an actual Conflict Of Interest for simply making bad choices. Even repeatedly. Lets get you live now to Fulton County and cnns Nick Valencia has been following this case very closely. Nick, despite that stern language about williss conduct, judge scott mcafee youre delivering a win for her office a monumental decision, a historic decision, boris, and a technical win for fani willis. But one that comes with a massive indictment on her behavior. The judge, those saying in his order that the Defense Attorneys were unable to prove that willis enriched herself by hiring nathan wade as her lead prosecutor but he was very critical of that relationship, saying that georgia law does not permit an actual conflict even for repeatedly making bad choices. He did have some pointed words for the district but attorney i want to read part of this ruling here. Scott mcafee, the judge saying reasonable questions about whether the District Attorney and her hand selected lead special assistant District Attorney testified on truthfully about the timing of the relationship, further underpin the finding of an appearance of impropriety and the need to make proportional efforts to cure it so it is definitely an admonishment there from the judge and were getting some more sharp words from defense attorney ashleigh merchant. She is the defense attorney. The first surface these allegations against willis and her team. This is the first time that shes responded since that order came out this morning. And this is part of her statement here. Why we believe the court should have disqualified williss office entirely. This opinion is a vindication that Everything Put Forth by the defense was true accurate, and relevant to the issue to surrounding our clients right To A Fair Trial she goes on to say the judge clearly agreed with the defense that the actions of willis or result of her poor judgment and that there is a risk to the fuel picture of this case if she doesnt quickly work to cure her conflict, we do expect a resignation to happen sometime from nathan wade. Weve reached out to wade. We have not heard back he can only imagine that that decision is forthcoming. Big questions, those still remain will willis be able to get this trial back on track for a desire trial before the election. That is the most Danny Question right now. For us. And potentially who she may hire to replace wade, Nick Valencia. Thanks so much for the update we want to turn now to cnns paula reid, apollo, the case now, can theoretically move forward and Fulton County once we find out whether nathan wade will resign, we believe thats whats going to happen. What is the next step on they need to find someone else to oversee this case. And the fact that they had to take time to vet these allegations. This has pushed the trial back and right now boards its really unclear if fani willis well be able to bring this case before the election, but lets take a step back and look at the four criminal prosecutions that trump is facing. I mean, just in the past 24 hours, weve had changes to this calendar there was expected to be the first criminal case at two weeks from now, just in ten days, this was supposed to start as a manhattan District Attorneys socalled hush money case. Though the District Attorney is framing it as 2016 Election Interference Case last night, the District Attorney revealed that they would not oppose delaying that case for 30 days. Trump lawyers are asking to delay it for 90 days. Both sides need to go through Tens Of Thousands of pages of new evidence that theyve received from federal prosecutors. This is a state case boris, that was pretty surprising because this is the only case that was definitely on the calendar. And now its up to the judge how far back that gets delayed. You see the Election Subversion Case, the federal case. Thats on hold while the Supreme Court hears arguments about trumps possible immunity, we are watching and waiting to, see the judge overseeing the classified document case. We expect that shes going to push that back on the calendar for male get pushed back, but then fani willis thought she was going to start in august. That appears Unlikely Force at this point. Its really hard to say for sure if trump will face any of these criminal cases before the november election his legal team, it appears there effort to delay his trials has been successful to this point. Paula reid, thanks so much. Brianna lets talk more about this now with Anthony Michael price. Hes an Assistant Professor of law at Georgia State university, and hes been in Court Following this case pretty closely okay. So first headline here, fani willis, not disqualified from the case as long as nathan wade, the special attorney that she hired goes, which is our expectation here. But judge scott mcafee hes saying that this relationship was a quote, tremendous lapse in judgment, a result of quote, bad choices. He also said willis was unprofessional in her testimony and last month hearing, these are pretty blistering words. What did you think . Well, this is really a huge legal victory for fani willis to the extent that her ability to bring this prosecution will remain in her control because she can decide whether to keep the case or to keep nathan wade essentially in her office. But as a political matter, she drip received a pretty big drumming day from judge mcafee, but at the same time, i think that a lot of people whove been watching this case, people in Georgia Legal Circles In Particular have thought that a lot of the things that were going on in the aftermath of these allegations and in the runup to them, were kind of dicey. And so theres really nothing new in this, but i, but i really do think that she will walk away with a huge victory, but she will be a little bit more battered and bruised. Than she was before. The judge did call comments that willis made in january at an atlanta area church about the case legally improper. He said a gag order isnt the question before the court, but i wonder if you thought he was basically saying and he might be inclined to grant one if hes asked to do so based on public comments, shes made about the case whats really important to understand about that dynamic of the opinion is that we dont want das to ever not even remotely discuss the facts. Innocence, or the allegations of wrongdoing in a substantive way in The Public Eye and so we dont want to take the jury pool. What fani willis did in her church beach was speaking very broad generalities, and that happens a lot because das and georgia and the case of many states are partisan, only 11 officials. So they will make Campaign Speeches well make appearances in the public and talk about their philosophies generally. But what she did here for judge mcafee was a step too far in impugning the character of the Defense Attorneys and perhaps coloring the view that people in Fulton County in the jury pool here would have the case thats been brought against entrepreneurs allies in an improper way. Okay. So i think shes, shes been warned pretty significantly by judge mcafee to not step out of bounds and to really always speak through legal filings in terms of effecting a jury pool. He seemed to say he said in this filing that theres enough time between now when this has been this decision has come out, and when Jury Selection selection will begin, that its not going to affect that he says it shouldnt get in the way, but what if potential jury members have heard about this, about this evidentiary hearing . Do you think that could be a factor in Jury Selection . They may be asked about the voir dire process, which is the process which we screen potential jurors through, was going to be complicated no matter what, in large part, because this case is so salient and so politically polarizing, itll be very hard to find a panel of jurors who dont have some kind of Pre He Ordained notion of what this case is about and who can a the evidence fairly and impartially. That was always going to be an issue. But i think time is to the das benefit here and to everybody, the entire judicial system has benefit here because people have a fairly short memory and thats especially true the year like 2024, whether it will be so Many Political issues, so many trials that donald trump has in other places that this may be just a blip in peoples memories in the long term, by the time we get to a trial, which may be very late 2024, or even early 2025 at this rate thats your expectation. Shes pushing for august, but thats what you expect on timing theres a lot more that we have to go through, i think before we can talk about an august trump trial of two things are true. There are other important pretrial motions that are still under consideration by judge mcafee, one of them being one about prosecutor a president ial immunity and the supremacy clause, which is related to a case that the Supreme Court will hear next month. So he may want to hear what the Supreme Court has to say about that before he weighs in. And that might take some time. And there are other sundry issues that have to be addressed and the other important key dynamic here is donald trump cant be in multiple places at once. So if there are other criminal trials that are happening in the summer or early fall, then Fulton County will have to wait their turn. Its not implausible that will have a late summer trial perhaps, but i think at this point its impractical. All right professor, very interesting, especially there on the timing. We appreciate it, professor Anthony Michael christ. Thank you thank you for Us Donald Trump and his team, a voice didnt know time in fundraising off of judge mcafee is decision which allows Fulton Countys Da A Fani Willis to stay on his elections version case in georgia just moments after the decision dropped, his campaign sent out a text to his supporters that reads, quote, fani willis can continue the witch hunt against me, rigged system against us the message also had a link to a Fundraising Page cnns Kristen Holmes joins us now tracking the response from trump world other than fundraising, what else you hearing person in the world of trump where now we have a complete political and legal alignment. I reached out for a statement and i got a legal statement. From trumps lawyer in georgia on this case, and this is what they said, its not surprising is that while respecting the courts decision, again, this is steve sadow who has been the Fulton County lawyer for trump. We believe that the court did not afford appropriate significance to the Prosecutorial Misconduct of willis and wade, including the financial benefits testifying on truthfully about their personal relationship when it began, as well as willis extra judicial mlk church speech, where she played the race card to falsely accused the defendants and their counsel of racism goes on to say, we will use all Legal Options available to continue to fight to end this case, which never should have been brought in the first place. Unsurprising there that theyre saying that this is not what they wanted, that they are going to continue to fight this. But if youre talking to people in trumps inner circle, this is good for them. They believe that this it is a win. They believe that fani willis sure. Shes staying on the case. Thats why they are saying, oh, this wasnt what we wanted, but she does come out of this damage and thats their belief. The other part of this. So you have to remember is that donald trump does everything through messaging and the court of public opinion, there is no doubt, no conflict of conflict on this ruling. It is very clear and very skating when it comes to fani willis, donald trump is going to use that language. He is going to turn this into something against fani willis. They also believe that taking nathan wade off the case could help them in the long run because they have to bring someone else who is that person going to be . Do they have to get caught up . Again, this goes to that delay, delay, delay tactic, boris, Kristen Holmes, thanks so much for the reporting. Appreciate it. As always. Still have this hour on Cnn News Central, daylight reveals complete devastation in parts of indiana and ohio. 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