Put one on the calendar for trump to stand trial in georgia, and its this second request, but by all means be a boolean move from fani willis considering what weve been talking about for the last two months, weve been talking about allegations of an improper romantic relationship that willis had with her special prosecutor. What sources close to her even acknowledged was a major distraction in this case. But now that willis has at least been told she could remain on the case by judge mcafee. She thinks its time now to push him to put a trial date on the calendar and we could see that come in the coming weeks. Now, look, that doesnt discount the challenges that you still going to face mcafee obviously, was really critical of williss credibility, really criticizing her for her actions that almost got her disqualified from case. And also the threat of his qualification still looms it was over willis and Appeals Court is going to decide whether or not it wants to review mcafee is order that allowed her to stay on the case. Theyve about 45 days and say whether or not theyre going to do that. So all of this swirling, but willis trying to set those case back on track, trying to work towards a trial at a time when shes just emerging from probably the most chaotic two months of her for entire time on this case yeah. Full of emotional testimony, fiery testimony from the District Attorney on the stand. Is that cohen thanks so much for the update. Lets bring in yeah, boris, i dont think its realistic to try this and this given that the judge has made clear that he wants to keep moving towards trial, deciding motions, and so on, that shes seek a trial date and get it on the calendar. But to me 14 defendants are rico case youll have really lengthy three selection processes. It just doesnt seem to me. Were almost in april that its likely that this can be tried in the summer, especially because as has been noted, the last two months, really nothing has happened while weve been absorbed with the disqualification motion. Nothing has happened on that front, but a lot is happened if were looking at whats happening outside the court in terms of public opinion, you talk about how long it would take with all of those defendants for a jury pool. We also have the added issue of what people may or may not have been following during that very emotional explosive, revealing testimony yeah, we do. I mean, the judge in ruby commented that were still a ways away from picking a jury. So time will pass and it will dissipate the impact of any statements like that. But you know, people for peoples memories are funny, right . If theyre following it, they likely will remember what happened in the last couple of weeks. So really what youre looking for is not so much time to go by so that people forget. You need to pick people who just really havent followed this at all. I think thats definitely possible. I think wed all be surprised as close please. We follow the news. How many people in a jury box dont do it themselves but when you talk about a case that involves names like donald j. Trump and some of the other boldfaced names here its likely that a lot of people will have some idea of whats happened here. And the defense is going to keep beating those drums about the improper relationship that just qualification and so on so i do think that Jury Selection is going to be an issue here and the further away it gets the better it is for being able to find a jury that doesnt have any biases in place one more thing that is still out there that needs to be determined. The Supreme Court its going to weigh this question of president ial immunity, right . How could that decision and the amount of time that it takes to get to that decision and publish it potentially impact this Timetable Set by fani willis so it only impacts donald trump himself, of course, because hes the only one who has a president ial immunity arguments. So all of these other 13 defendants still in the case. It doesnt impact them at all. But were expecting to hear from the Supreme Court by june, which is where when theyre year ends. If somehow how they actually picked a jury and empaneled the jury before we hear from the Supreme Court that thats it for chunk, right . He of course, would be out of the case if he wins. But theres a possibility that even if he doesnt win, that they draw the line somewhere. A jury gets in paneled ultimately, he has to be dismissed out of that and Double Jeopardy has attached so its very complicated. But again, it does only impact donald trump. I mean, remember we have 13 other defendants here who fani willis is looking to try and the president ial immunity issue doesnt have anything to do with them. All right. Jennifer rodgers, always good to have your Expertise Stay with us though, because were also following some other developments this time out of new york york, where the Attorney Generals Office is now making moves suggesting that the state at this point may start to try to see some of the former president s assets if he fails to pay that nearly half 1 billion bond in his civil fraud case, something that as we know right now, he cannot do his lawyers who have argued hell be unable to satisfy that and theres that deadline looming only about four days away. Cnns Kara Scannell is on this kera. What are you learning that Letitia James is weighing here what moves is she making toward this . So earlier this month, just about a week after the judge finalize the 400 million judgment that trump personally faces new york Attorney Generals Office filed this judgment in westchester county. What that means is that it sets the stage or makes it possible for her to potentially move forward to try to seize assets in westchester . Thats where he has a golf course also the family compound known as Seven Springs in a state across thing over three different jurisdictions, but it doesnt necessarily mean that shes going to move to seize those specific assets if it comes to that the judgment is also in new york where trump has a lot of properties. Trump tower his pentose its apartment there, the hotel at the corner of central park, as well as the office building, 40 wall street. So its essentially making it possible to set the groundwork that if she does want to move forward to put liens on these properties, are moved to initiate foreclosure proceedings. That is in place. They are on notice now, i also check some of the county clerks offices in some of the other places where trump has properties in florida, in chicago. I didnt see any judgments there as of now. So right now it looks like the set, the stage is getting set to move in new york. But of course there is still time, although that clock is ticking as trump is waiting to see if the Appeals Court is going to allow them to post a smaller amount or allow him to not post any money until they appeals over the new york Attorney Generals Office has opposed that in trumps still does not have the money to satisfy that half 1,000,000,000 judgment. Boris, erica in terms of that right. Are there any other options at this point . We know weve been talking about, of course, the 30 comedies that refuse to loan the underwrite that money. And the deadline is bohrs point out is looming as youre talking about, are there any other options left . So trump could potentially take out a mortgage on some of his properties. Thats pretty complicated. A lot of the large Financial Institutions stopped doing business with trump years ago. Also, some properties. There are questions about what their value is. That was the issue in this whole case that the judge found that trump inflated the value. So company is generally would want they do their own homework before deciding whether to issue a mortgage on a property and also mortgage Interest Rates are high right now that makes the cost of doing that pretty expensive. And weve seen trump publicly state that this is an expensive process for him that is one option. There could be a donor that comes in last minute and offers to give trump cash for this remains to be seen if anyone credible is going to do that, and then he could potentially have a fire cell of one of his properties on his own mean the clock there again, its ticking, it seems that is unlikely. Surely trumps are working behind the scenes as theyre facing this deadline. But if not, well see what happens on monday era floras now thank you so much. Lets bring Jennifer Rodgers backend. So jennifer, lets say march 25th comes this bond isnt paid. How quickly will we find out if donald trump is going to have properties seized . Well, itll be still a bit of time, boris, theres a whole Legal Process around seizing assets. First step, apparently, to shames and her team has already started, which is to file the judgments and the relevant jurisdictions, but thats only the first step. And its even more complicated when it comes to Real Property because its not like monday, youre just going to see a team of sheriffs go up and put a padlock on a building or anything like that. Theres paperwork, steps trump may have the ability to challenge some of those steps before things are actually seized. And of course, seizure and then sale and then taking the asset. So it will be while before anything really happens. But i think that will we we will heard something from the court between now and then because theres a lot of scrambling going on, so i expect well hear something from the court one way or the other, whether they send it back to judge engoron for some factfinding about whats been done and possible solutions or whether the cord itself will speak. Well find out we also use carroll pointed out she she went and looked such a miami schlechter, palm beach county, cook county in illinois, know judgments enter there. But when people think of the property that donald trump owns the most wellknown would be of course, marlago and trump tower in new york do you see either one of those realistically being seized i mean, its really hard to say. It just depends on how many acids there are that are in new york, new york assets are easier for the Attorney General to get to because theyre here, they can file more easily. So i think they would probably we start there and remember its not Just Real Estate even though trump doesnt have enough in cash or cashlike assets like securities to cover the entire bill. He has some so you would want to probably start with those liquid assets anyway. And then for the real estate that does exist, some of them, some of that value is already encumbered and other places it says as hes taken loans out based on the collateral of those real estate properties. So its not as if you have the whole value of a maralago for example, even if you knew what that value was, which of course is part of the whole reason that were here in the first place is that those values were exaggerated. So it depends, but but well see what they do it is a complicated picture. Ive one more procedural question for you, jennifer. There was this debate between the trump team and the ag the trump team saying, we looked at 30 different companies, nobody could provide us this massive figure, 464 million. Letitia james argued back essentially saying, well, maybe they cant give you all of that, but you can go to these companies and separately, they can give you small chunks that then add up to that number. Is that a realistic argument from the ag could trump pursue that . Sure. And in fact, the one thing that team trump did say is why dont you make it just 100 loan at 1 million bond and then that we can do so. Then the question becomes, well, then why dont you just do two of those are three of those are four of those or however many you can get there. Theres one of the problem problems here and i think the ag puts her finger on it in her responses, there was not much transparency around what the trump team actually did and what negotiations are actually were with these 30 companies. So it very well may be that theres the opportunity to piece together smaller bonds to make up the whole amount. The issue is just making sure that the people people can be whole at the end of this, if at the end of the long appeal, the large judgment is still upheld, then they need to be paid. So thats what the bond is four, but theres no reason they cant be a bit creative about how to make sure that money is there one scenario, as you mentioned, we wind up seeing a Factfinding Mission to figure out just how extensive the trump team his research wasnt in trying to get this bond. Jennifer rodgers, appreciate the time. Thanks so much thanks. Of course so were keeping a close eye on the dow because it is flirting with a historic number. Look at that nearly nearing 40,000, a number of the index hasnt seen since it was founded, 120 plus years ago, cnns Rahel Solomon joining us now with more so obviously the market doing, doing well. The Historical Context here though, just over 15 years ago, the great recession, the dow was at 6,500, just a couple of years ago. Right . It was just around 20,000. So the fact that we are now closing in so quickly 40,000. What should we make of that jump yeah. I mean, its really been a remarkable period, i think just the last few years and certainly the last year or so. So if youre looking at the markets right now, are as of late, you see investors really seizing on a few things, three things in particular, one, the prospect of rate cuts in 2024, the fed just yesterday essentially reiterating their outlook, three rate cuts in 2020 for investors like that, you see, investors reacting to the fact that the us continues to show signs of pretty solid growth, investors like that. And then also when youre looking at tech stocks, its the Artificial Intelligence boom. And so thats sort of fueling the market enthusiasts because im that we have seen as of late, but aerope, youre absolutely right. If you take a step back, if you take a look at the broader perspective of the dow over the last few years. At times it has been a bumpy ride. It has been a volatile, right. And we can pull it up for you if you look at late march of 2020, for example, you see the dow plummet. I mean, its pretty dramatic there you see the dow plummet to about 18,000. Lets call it 213 points in late march. This is also around the same time, march, of course of 2020 the emergence of covid. Remember and so this is also around the same time that the fed comes out with these unscheduled march meetings, announcing that theyre slashing rates. It was really traumatic. It was a very dramatic period for. The markets we actually found one of those clips from march of 2020. Take a listen to chairman jay powell we reduced the target range for our policy Interest Rate by one percentage point bringing it close to zero. And said that we expect to maintain the rate at this level until were confident that the economy has weathered recent events so guys, rates for at practically zero. Imagine, i mean, the difference a few years can make, right . So fast forward a few years. Were still dealing with supply chain issues from covid many places around the world are dealing with a decadeshigh inflation, including here in the us and you see the fed do the opposite. You see them boost rates to a level at a level and at a pace that we havent seen in a really long time. And the fear guys was that anytime in the past the fed has had to boost rates as much and as quickly as they did, it almost always meant a recession, but that didnt happen this time, at least not yet. At least not in the data we see so investors are reacting to that. Now i just talked to mark zandi, the chief economist of moodys analytics. And i said, mark, look, i mean twothirds of americans roughly are invested in the stock market, whether its individual stocks, whether its there for one k, what do they make of this news . What do they make up the markets . And he said he sent me a statement. He said, as someone once said, the stock market isnt the economy, but its not not the economy. The soaring stock market is a strong endorsement of the strength of the prospects for lower Interest Rates. And another good lesson to never bet against the american economy. He did also tell me guys though that at times socks go up, socks go down, they go all around. So keep your your eye on the long term, but perspective is important and a little bit of advice, courtesy of mark sandi will take it. Does that mean i should or should not look at the four with k today, really, i think thats what we all should today, right . You deserve erica yeah real thing. Thanks so much for help. We do want to go straight to cairo overseas right now. Sure. Secretary of state Antony Blinken is speaking to the press. He is on another tour of The Middle East anticipating major talks tomorrow to exchange potentially hostages in gaza, for palestinian prisoners. And lets listen in to the Secretary Of State giving an update now on where talks stand if and as the Palestinian Authority pursues reform, im also convinced that the region will strongly supported regional integration is one of the Building Blocks of lasting peace and lasting security and that includes normalization for israel with its neighbors yesterday, i had an opportunity to meet again with Saudi Crown Prince mohamed bin salman, as well as with Foreign Minister and we had a very good discussion about the work that weve been doing for many months now on normalization. And that work is moving forward. Were continuing to make good progress. I believe we can reach an agreement which would present a historic opportunity for two nations. But also for the region as a whole so i think if you look back on these past couple of months since i was here in january we have been working very closely together with o