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Willis can stay, but at what cost the lead starts right now Breaking News, nathan wade, the top prosecutor in Donald Trumps Georgia Election case. Resides hours after District Attorney fani willis was given an ultimatum. Either he goes or she does so where does the case against donald trump go from here . Plus huge tornado wow oh, my god utter devastation after a string of tornadoes hits the midwest, at least three people killed, dozens injured, and theres a chance for more Severe Weather tonight. With more than 25 million americans at risk from hail tornadoes, and flooding. And as if boeing needed any more problems today, major news alerts about pilot seats on some aircraft. After report says a Cockpit Mishap may have caused a Passenger Plane to plunge midflight welcome to the lead. Im abby phillip in for jake tapper and you start with a Breaking News from georgia Fulton County District Attorney fani willis can keep her election case against donald trump because her top prosecutor has now reside. That was the one big condition that the judge said had to be met after he decided in a ruling earlier today not to disqualify willis from the case. This is a win for willis if the judge had ultimately disqualified her the entire case against donald trump and his allies likely wouldve crumbled and perhaps never even gone to trial on the other hand, though these Disqualification Hearings have left a mark on the District Attorneys reputation before a jury will hear this case. The biggest one perhaps of her career, and one of the biggest cases in the nation right now, cnns nick valencia is outside the Fulton County courthouse in atlanta. Nick nathan wade, hes resigned. What is he saying in that letter . Abby, this is what we were all expecting, but now it is official. Nathan wade is out as the lead prosecutor in this case. His resignation coming just hours after a judges order basically laid out that he was either him or District Attorney fani willis, that had to get off this case in order for it to proceed, and we had all assumed that it wasnt going to be fani willis and this is what nathan wade is saying in part of his resignation later, bladder i am proud of the work our team has accomplished in investigating indicting and litigating this case, seeking justice for the people of georgia and the United States, and being part of the effort to ensure that the rule of law and democracy are preserved has been the honor of a lifetime. Wade was part of this case, an instrumental part of this case. As for 865 days joining the team in november 1 of 2021, and part of the team that issued historic indictments against the former president and his allies also part of the team that was able to secure for guilty pleas, but ultimately, fani willis was the one that had to stay and she highlighted these accomplishments in a glowing response to nathan wade its letter and this is what the da is saying in response to the resignation, quote, i will always remember and well remind everyone that you were brave enough to step forward and take on the investigation and problem prosecution of the allegations that the defendants in this case engaged in a conspiracy to overturn georgias 2020 president ial election. What happens next . Fani willis could seed with the team she has now, or she can go outside and try to hire a special prosecutor. But if she does that, that comes with its own set of unique challenges, not just the Media Attention around this, but politics as well as the safety issues. The bottom line though, is fani willis is in place and shes the most important team. Most important part of this team. Abby what about nikki and trump and his codefendants, how are they responding to this now that fani willis actually is going to stay on the case, they did not succeed. And ultimately, what their goal was here you know, theyre not altogether happy, but they do in part feel vindicated and i did reach out to ashleigh merchant. She sent me a statement a few hours after the order came out, and this is what merchant is saying. Shes the attorney that first surface these allegations saying, quote, the judge clearly agreed with the defense at the actions of willis are a result of her poor judgment and that there is the rest of the future of this case. If she doesnt quickly work to cure her conflict, that conflict, of course, has been cured with the resignation of nathan wade. But we should stand by for a an appeal launched by Defense Attorneys in this case, principally steve sadow the attorney for the former president , abbie nick valencia. Thank you for that report. And theres a lot to discuss here with my panel of insiders. Lets start with paula reid. Paula nathan wade resigned and fani willis is staying. But this ruling from the judge was pretty scathing. It did not leave her without some black marks on her reputation. Thats exactly right. Well, the judge found that she did not engage in a corrupt scheme to profit from investigating trump and his associates. He criticized her judgment, her honesty, and her professionalism, and now, abby, shes gonna go into a court of law in try a case in front of the same judge, and then lets talk about the court of public opinion. We know trump is trying to undermine trust in the judicial system. He goes after anyone who invested gates him, or brings a case against him. Here. He doesnt even need to make things up. You can just quote from this opinion. So she certainly is not emerging unscathed, but this is a selfinflicted wound it certainly is an elliott. Do you think that ultimately this will have an effect on the case at all to have the lead prosecutor suddenly yanked off of it when theyre trying to move this case quickly forward. Oh, look, its it happens all the time of in prosecution or in government where someone leaves a case, people retire, people move on, and so on. So certainly the Fulton County District Attorneys office can still proceed with the prosecution when someones senior leaves the bigger issue and weve talked about this a paul touched on this a little bit. Theres a Sort Of Public Reputation Issue that comes up and people will certainly ask questions about the integrity of the prosecution and should Fani Willis Have stepped down and thats going to dog the case. Frankly, in perpetuity. But the simple fact is this prosecution can still proceed and will there may be some delay, but its hard to see how the removal of even one senior prosecutor dooms anyone yeah. And ultimately this ends up being really about fani willis and her judgment jay tom morgan, judge mcafee admonished her behavior pretty much throughout this decision describing her actions as bad choices, saying she made a tremendous lapse in judgment and slamming the manner of her testimony as unprofessional, by the way, testimony she chose to give how much damage did the judges decision due to williss reputation here and it has it impacted her ability to prosecute this case and perhaps get the guilty verdict that matters the most here against trump abby, happy friday. I hope you all are doing well. A couple of points. The defense can appeal, and im sure they will. From what mr. Say dow has already released in the judge has to decide whether hes going to let that Appeal Go Forward. If you less Appeal Go Forward to the Court Of Appeals case could be in light as much as a couple of years secondly, this is a perfect example of be careful what you ask for mr. Wade is no longer in the case. So you have a lead. Prosecutors never tried to felony case before out of the picture. And this gibbs, ms willis, a chance to put in a prosecutor who experienced and what theyre doing. And then finally, when this case finally, just go to trial, what un are talking about today will long be forgotten. It has been my experience that jurors have memory of a gnat the jurors have a memory of a gnat. Ill remember that 1 to charlie bailey, you know, the players here while youve worked closely with da willis and your wife is part of her communications team. Whats your sense of how shes taking this decision today . We got a window. I think in a little into our psyche earlier when she talked testified she seemed pretty angry about all of this well, she has calls for the angry about a bunch of defendants led by Adjudicated Sexual Assaulter and donald trump questioning her and calling her corrupt. And lets not lose sight thats what the Defense Attorneys did. Would their motion here and the overarching thing, abby, is that the judge slapped that down the eye dear that fani willis brought this case, not because the evidence and the law required, but because she couldnt afford a cruise to aruba and had to hire someone one that would then pay for it. That is what they alleged in the motion that was slapped down firmly by the judge today. And as to the company comments about the judge, about her professionalism on the stand, even judges can make mistakes and i would take strong disagree he met with that depiction, i think fani was real on the stand and i think that people Fulton County and the people of america saw someone that rightly took umbrage weve called corrupt and called it out fani willis was originally aiming to take this case to trial in august. That would have been already a pretty aggressive timeline. You heard jay tom saying maybe years. Do you have a sense of what the timeline really could look like now, you had always seemed like that was ambitious to bring a sprawling rico case against this many defendants as early as august and now with lost a few months based on these proceedings. And now she needs to find someone new to lead the case. So abby, its really unclear if this case could even possibly go before the election. And former President Trump is reelected. Its unclear if it will go at all because then wed have the issue of trying a sitting president. But right now, abbe in the past 24 hours, theyve been a lot of developments and right now its unclear if any of trumps four criminal cases will go forward. The one that before the election the one that was on the calendar, manhattan District Attorneys case, just last night, the da they wouldnt oppose a 30day delay. Defense attorneys want a 90 day delay, and abby, as we youve seen, if you grant one delay, theres always a possibility you come back, ask for another delay. That was the only case that was firmly on the calendar. The two federal cases, one in limbo, the january 6 case until the Supreme Court rules on immunity, classified documents case. Were still waiting for a firm date from Aileen Cannon at this point, abi it is unclear if former President Trump will face criminal prosecution before november and that is in fact The Big Picture here of all of this. Charlie, a final word to you, fani willis is up for election in november. Whats the landscape here . Because she faced a fight for reelection . Well, right now the one person is qualified to run against her in the democratic primary should take place in may. Another persons quality well, fadh, to run against her in the general election in november. Im not concerned about either of those. I think fani willis, well win the nomination, renomination and easily. The democratic nomination. And i think shell dispatch with any Republican Opposition in november easily as well all right. Jterm and charlie they thank you both very much for joining us today. Paula and elliott stick with us a little while coming up backs. Could another trump trial that was scheduled to start later this month now be delayed until the summer. 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But today, lawyers for donald trump said thats not enough. Thats because federal prosecutors just handed over more than 30,000 documents in this case, the trial was set to begin in ten days on march 25th. Cnns paula reid and Elliot Williams are back with me now. Uh, paula whats going on here . First of all, its interesting that theres so many pages of documents being handed over at the last possible second, it seems yeah. As you said, this was supposed to start in ten days. This was the one criminal trial against former President Trump that appear to be firmly on the calendar. And then you see even prosecutors are saying, look, were okay if you delay this a month, whereas Defense Attorneys want to push this case back three months so that they have enough time to go through these Tens Of Thousands of pages of new evidence. And this new evidence comes from a federal Prosecutors Office in new york. This is a state case. Now, these are being handed over right now, even though the District Attorney actually requested these documents from federal prosecutors over a year ago earlier this year, though the trump Team Subpoena these documents and have been