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Were following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to Cnn News CentralFulton CountyDistrict Attorney fani willis has survived an effort by former President Trump and his allies to get her kicked off the Election Interference Case against him in georgia today, the presiding judge, scott mcafee, ruled that willis can continue to prosecute the former president and his codefendants. But only if she removes her top prosecutor, nathan wade, with whom she was romantically involved with trump and his team had argued that she financially benefited from hiring wade and that created a Conflict Of Interest. And even though todays decision marks a legal win for willis and her office, the judge was quite critical of her saying that she demonstrated a tremendous lapse in judgment. That is a quote. And ultimately he wrote in his ruling, quote, georgia law does not permit the finding of an actual Conflict Of Interest for making bad choices even repeatedly cnns Nick Valencia is joining us now from outside of the courthouse in atlanta. Nic take us through what the judge said here well look riana, there was as recently as this morning some serious concern among those close to fani willis that she could be disqualified. And we know that those within the District Attorneys office, were preparing for either one of these scenarios to play out. But this is its a when a technical win for fani willis, even if it does coming come with a stinging rebuke of her behavior, the judge in this case, scott mcafee, calling her unprofessional during her testimony, at times during these disqualifications hearings being very critical that she was in a relationship with her top prosecutor, nathan wade, but he did say that this was not about politics that he played this right down the middle and this this is what he said in part of his ruling. Their conclusion to his ruling, a reasonable observer, unburden by partisan blinders should believe the law was in partially applied that those accused of crimes had a fair opportunity to present their defenses than that any verdict was based on our criminal Justice Systems best efforts at ascertaining the truth there are some that have come out in Big Critical Of Scott Mcafee is decision including those among conservatives and republicans. But we should remind our viewers that scott mcafee himself is somebody with concerns primitive bona fides during his college years, he was ahead of the law republicans. He was also a member of the Federalist Society and he has been celebrated and really touted as fair by both sides on this hey there are still some Big Questions about what happens next Going Forward. When will we see nathan wade make an appearance . Will we hear from fani willis . It really seems at this point only a matter of time before we get a resignation from nathan wade, even though we havent heard from him in and also the big question right now at this hour is will the da try to get this case back on track before the November Reelection . Briana. Yeah, that is the big question. Nick valencia, live horse outside the Fulton County courthouse in atlanta. And with us now we have cnn chief Legal Affairs correspondent, paula reid, that the timelines the question here, because theoretically now this case can move forward. Fani willis had been pushing for august. That seems increasingly unlikely. It seemed ambitious when she said it before these questions about possibly disqualifying her were even raised. This is a sprawling rico case with over a dozen a dozen defendants. And now weve lost time going through this process to analyze whether she should be be disqualified. Now shes also likely going to have to find a new lead prosecutor. So it seems unrealistic, but this case would go before the election. But now theres a question about whether any of these criminal cases, four cases that former President Trump is facing, whether any of them are going to start before the election. Because in just the past 24 hours, the one case that we keep saying well go is expected to start intended days. Prosecutor said they would not oppose a 30 day delay. Defense attorneys for a former President Trump are asking for a threemonth at 90 day delay. The issue there is reviewing Tens Of Thousands of pages of new evidence handed over by federal prosecutors. Then do the january 6 case that cant go until the Supreme Court weighs in on the question of immunity. And were still waiting for judge Aileen Clean Cannon down in florida to tell us where on the calendar shes gonna put the classified documents case. So at this point, its unclear if any of these cases are going to go, but i think whats significant, especially about whats going on down in georgia as we know, trump wants to delay as many of his cases as he can, so i can get some dismissed or make it very difficult to bring cases against a sitting president if hes reelected, but its getting a lot of help from justices. For example, the Supreme Court could resolve the immunity issue months ago, they were asked to they declined their help drawing this out, and then the case of fani willis, me, she had it romantic relationship with the lead prosecutor on one of them is highprofile criminal cases in the country. And the questions that that raised help to delay this case. Its possible it wont go before the election. And if hes youre theres a possibility it wont go at all. Bestcase scenario for getting as much done as possible before the election would be what in terms of the cases going thats right. Would be the shortest possible delay in manhattan, 30 days though, if you have one side asking for 91 side asking for thursday, its more likely itll be 45 and then maybe get one of the federal cases in before the election. But that would mean that the Supreme Court would have to give a decision maybe before the end of june or aileen cannon would have to put and keep the classified documents case in august, but man, at that manhattan case gets pushback 60, 90 days. That calendar is so crowded. I dont think you you can say anything is for certain before november all right, paula. Thank you so much for that. Boris lets get some perspective now with former federal prosecutor, renato mariotti, were nadeau, thanks so much for sharing part of your afternoon with us. So, judge mcafee essentially saying that there was no Conflict Of Interest, but in odor of menn dasa the essentially a stain of untruthfulness. What did you make of that language and the ruling overall first of all, i thought it was a very down the middle of fair, reasonable decision by the judge, one that neither side can be completely happy with. On the obviously, its true that the defendants are going to be unhappy that fani willis is not on the case, but obviously nathan wade is removed and the judge i think it was fairly clear thought that fani willis was not truthful and nathan wade was not truthful and he was very up said about that. And i think suggested that there may be some ethical problems for the two of them. So i think the judge ultimately here was trying to go Above And Beyond really the legal standard. The legal standard, actual Conflict Of Interest was very high. That wasnt mad here, but he required fair way to get off the case because you just thought it created an appearance of of, of an issue here and he did not want anything a staining this a highprofile case where the public is going to be seeing the criminal Justice System at work so i think its a safe bet that willis is going to decide to stay on and have wade step aside. How does that now impact the case . I think that slows things down. It, nathan wade was brought in to carry a heavy heavy or essentially to be actually doing a lot of the work in the case if you believe his bills, he spent hundreds and hundreds of hours working on this case . So now somebody else has to pick up that laboring or get up to speed and fill that gap in the team. You have to believe that thats going to take some time and some shuffling on fani willis decide on our team. And by the way as paul pointed out a moment ago, she took on a lot here with all these defendants rico counts, and so on. So its a big case yeah. Looking back at some of the language that judge mcafee use, he said that willis exhibited a quote tremendous lapse in judgment, making bad choices, even repeatedly. He also called her testimony unprofessional im wondering how that might affect a jury pool if that kind of language potentially moving forward says grounds for an appeal. Like, what are the ramifications from using that kind of language . Well first of all, theres personal ramifications for finding well as saving the judge at one point alluded to the fact that there may be other bodies that are taking a look at this at the Bar Association so forth. I mean, prosecutorial ethics issues there. So there may be a separate issue that find willis has that the judge alludes to within this case . I think all of that should be kept away from the jury, but its never a good thing for a prosecutor to have the judge suggesting that you are not fully candid with him when you were on the Witness Stand or that you are unprofessional, you will we hold prosecutors to a higher standard than a typical attorney thats how it should be in the law. And the fact that the judge overseeing the case has a dim view of the Prosecution Team and the process. The lead prosecutor has to be very concerning for the Prosecution Team and means theyre going to have to tread much more carefully Going Forward. Were not on my reality. Appreciate the analysis. Thanks so much thank you. Brad. The Trump Campaign has already working to capitalize financially on judge mcafee is ruling in the georgia case. They sent out this Fundraising Text to supporters not long after the judge rebuked a da a fani willis, but allowed her to stay on the case. We have seen a national correspondent, Kristen Holmes with this now on this, how else is trumps Team Responding to this ruling today . Well, look, we reached out to both donald trump to the campaign to try to get a sense of where they are and they sent us this a statement from Donald Trumps attorney in georgia, which gives you an idea of just how linked to the campaign and the legal issues are at this point. And this is what they said. Its unsurprising said, while respecting the courts decision, we believe the court did not afford appropriate significance of the problem prosecutorial misconduct of willis and wade, including the financial benefits, testifying untruthful about when their personal relationship began, as well as willis extra judicial mlk, quote, church speech, where she played the race card and falsely accused the defendants and their counsel of racism we will use all Legal Options available to continue to fight to end this case, which should never have been brought in the first place. So obviously theyre saying theyre going to appeal and again, not surprising because the goal was to get rid of fani willis on this case. Theyre saying it didnt happen, so were not that happy. However when you are talking to various senior advisers, when you were talking to members of trumps inner circle, his allies, they are very happy with this because they believe there is a message here in this ruling that can be spun to trumps advantage. All of this lapse in judgment, all of this narrative around whether or not Fani Willis Cross the line or did not . Yes, they couldnt prove it legally, but but im talking about politically in the court of public opinion, and that is one thing that donald trump is very good at doing is taking nuggets of truth, taking lines out of Something Like this, and spinning it up to get his base really revved up and supporting him through this legal process. The other grid part about this briana for them is that they believe that this will now delay the case past that November Flexion . Certainly. And how are they feeling in general right now about all of the cases . Because when you look at the four criminal cases and now you have this delay in the manhattan Hush Money Case it looks like its entirely possible. You only have one case that goes before the election. Yeah. And i think that thats really very good for them. They are very happy about what theyve seen him. Remember, one of the best legal days that they have had was the Supreme Court deciding to take up president ial immunity because one of the cases they were the most worried about not being able to delay was the case here in washington dc, Election Interference january 6. This gave them an opportunity to perhaps push that trial beyond the november election. The golan, all of this was to push each of these trials beyond the november elections. So with those federal cases, donald trump, if he is elected, could dismiss them also. Yes, he wouldnt be able to dismiss the georgia case but how is a sitting president going to go on trial definitely possible, but thats going to lead to a lot of complications, something that they would address down the road, but they are feeling very good right now about where they stout stands legally, particularly as you said, they were thinking they were were gonna go to trial at the end of this month. They were telling me they were already planning. Okay. Wednesdays, saturdays. Those are the days will be on the campaign trail. The rest of the week will be in court that clearly does not seem like its happening least a soon as they thought it was. Again, in a very good headspace around all the stuff. All right . Kristin, thank you for that. 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