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>> sarah, that is what the judges are doing here. donald trump's team has made a lot of arguments to dismiss or deny these criminal cases against him. have them dismissed or delayed excuse me, an in the three rulings that we've gotten this week, the judges have said, no, no, no to the trump arguments in the mar-a-lago case, judge cannon refused to dismiss it on the grounds that trump had argued he had the ability under the presidential records act to claim documents as his own, take them out of the white house. she said that's not a reason for me to get rid of this entire indictment against you in the georgia case related to the 2020 election judge mcafee said he wasn't going to dismiss it on first amendment grounds. he said that the defense just hasn't presented any any authority that allows donald trump to have the speech and conduct the heat that he has and say it was protected political speech. that was what the judge's words were there. >> and then in the hush money >> trials still we'll set to go forward in ten days. judge merchan refused to delay it on the grounds of presidential immunity, but as trump is making all these arguments, as the judges are denying those arguments, his team is carving out little silver linings for him to have when the trials take place in the mar-a-lago documents case the hush money case, both of those the judges have said maybe these issues could come back later and we could talk about them at a later date. judge cannon specifically saying this could be something that could come up again, this presidential records act issue and donald trump's claims about personal records what's going on in trump's civil fraud case at this point is our new developments. there >> there's going to be hearing in april 22. he has lost that case. he's appealing and he had to post the bond to hold off the new york attorney general's office from starting to seize his assets, are collecting. he has gotten that bond but the ag they want to make sure that that money is there and that he's posting the bond appropriately. so there is going to be a hearing before the judge in that case to check out the arrangement that donald trump has with his underwriter, knight specialty insurance company. make sure that that money has been posted or he has it as collateral. well, for $175 million. so in the case that if he does lose appeals, the new york ag's office can go in and find the money that trump says he has all right. >> katelyn polantz, lots of developments. thank you for keeping those all straight for us this morning. john. >> all right. you this morning, donald trump and his allies may push to try a new legal strategy in georgia. a gag order against fulton county da fani willis cnn's sara murray is with us now, a great to see you, sarah b, what are you learning >> well, john luck, we saw when the judge decided that not to disqualify fulton county district attorney fani willis from this case. he did have some sharp comments about the remarks she's made publicly about the case. he all but invited defendant since in the case to ask him for a gag order, but pointed out that was not the question before him at this time. so this is something trump allies and their attorneys have been discussing. should we go forward and ask this, judge for a gag order against fulton county district attorney fani willis, and part of their concern is that willis is continuing to speak publicly about the case she's running for reelection at the same time. she's presiding over the prosecution of this case. and in a number of instances, she's made some race-related remarks including remarks that drew this rebuke from the judge. take a listen to what she said, just last week, as well as the original comments that caught the eye of the judge recently, they tell me now like me to talk about race. well, i'm gonna talk about it anyway >> truth is some >> challenges that come to be in blank >> playing the race card when make we i mean, someone for some other jurisdiction in some other state to tell me how to do a job been doing almost 30 now there are plenty of defendants in this case. we're not comfortable with what fani willis is saying about them publicly, but what they don't want is they don't want this to boomerang back around on them. so they don't want to go before the judge asked for a gag order and say, you know what, have the judge say? look, none of you can talk because we've seen a number of defendants donald trump, of course, rudy giuliani has former attorney david shafer, the former republican party chairman in georgia. all tweeting, sharing their feelings on social media about fani willis, about the case, defendants still want the ability to do that. they also don't want to undercut this appeal that they're trying to bring forward does still have fani willis kicked off the case so we'll see what they decide to do. john. >> yeah, a little bit of a be careful what you ask for here. any sense of when they would want to get this done by sarah >> i think that they want to see a lot of the attorneys want to see if the appeals court will take up this question about disqualifying fani willis, that they continue to hit a dead end at that front. i think that they may talk okay. more seriously about whether to ask for a gag order, john. >> all right. >> watching. all these steps as they progress, sara murray again, great to see you. thanks so much >> okay. >> so the idf justice morning is released. its initial findings into what happened that led to that strike i think killed world central kitchen aid workers. the report calling it a grave mistake, we have more on this and the reaction to it >> and former >> president trump has the republican nomination been locked in? 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they saw these three suv is leaving that warehouse. now the idea says that they thought that the hamas gunman were inside those vehicles this was a mistaken identity or mistaken misunderstanding. and that's why they targeted those vehicles. now, we've separately heard outside of that report from the idf, who were saying that they now believe that they thought they saw some things slung over the shoulder of one of the people. the aid workers inside one of those suvs and harrowing and growing. it is another detail that the idf is released when they targeted the first of those suvs there were survivors and they got out and managed to get in the second suv which was then targeted so all in all the picture we have from the idf leaves, leaves a lot of questions. not least that they thought that they did identify two gunman yet shot up three vehicles. what the, what the world central kitchen is saying is that it's clear that they were world central kitchen were following the protocols they accept and acknowledge that the idf has taken responsibility, that the world central kitchen was doing everything that they should have been doing. an accept that there has been disciplinary action by the the idf and say that's a step, but still say these outrageous killings this report is cold comfort for that. indeed, the idea, they say that the idf has supplied why the mud video to support this report but the world central kitchen say there's nothing they've seen in that videos that substantiates what the idf has put down in the report. we have not seen that video. so of course, a lot more questions out there. and of course that gets to the importance of independent investigation versus and. immediate investigation independent would be outside of the ids. chain of command >> i think this could be confusing to some people watching this. israel has taken responsibility. they said it was a mistake. they are fired. people who were involved yet separately they also seem to be trying to explain how it happened, how those were mistakes were made. is that some kind of a justification? >> you know, what we've seen with the idf. and this is not singular to the idf, but often when there are investigations and reports have a very sensitive issues of very critical issues. the initial report which is what we've just talked about here gives some very thin bare bones which has a misidentification, misclassification. >> then >> you get a few more details that come out, uh, one of those details is that they thought they saw some things flung over the shoulder of one of the people inside one of those suvs. now, the idf is also saying that because it was nighttime it's outside of the report because it was nighttime. they couldn't identify the these vehicles as well. central kitchen vehicles, even though world central kitchen says that they were coordinating with the idf. so yes, there are separate details that are now trickling out that if you will, sort of not muddy the water, but at, but add a level of okay, here's some reasons why this happened. and the idf are very clear this was a grave mistake. it did happen. they say outside the protocols of the idf, a chain of command. they have disciplined people, they are taking responsibility but then the dripping out of other details that are not in the report that can lead to a little bit of confusion in some people's minds. >> well, thank you for helping us clarify it. all, nick, the bottom line here is those vehicles were carrying aid workers. aid workers who tragically seem to some of whom have survived the first strike. and then we're gun down running to another car. just horrible details there nic robertson. thank you very much. for that >> okay >> so president biden's new pitch to try and win over voters who supported nikki haley. could it work? 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