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Assistant us attorney for the southern district of new york elie honig. let s start with georgia. well, there s a lot going on here. obviously. there hadn t been a lot of developments since judge mcafee ruled, and then we have this does this surprise, you know, it doesn t surprise me because we knew the case was going to be appealed. we knew that the court of appeals had agreed to take the case. they did not have to do this. what was surprising was yesterday s announcement when the court of appeals said, okay, trial court, while we re taking this case over the next several months everything stops down there and zach pointed out this is an important point when the trial judge issued his ruling, he said, okay, defendants, donald trump and others, you can try to take this up to the appeals court, but while that s all happening, we re going to carry on here with our normal pretrial business now that s all. pause. now there s no way this case gets tried before the end of 2024 may neck that ....
Trial court judge judge mcafee, found that there were some problems with a conflict of interest, but he said that their remedied by the prosecutor, the other prosecutor on the case, nathan wade resigning now, donald trump and other co-defendants appealed that. and this tells me that the court of appeals in georgia is interests stayed in hearing the issue. i don t think they would have paused this case altogether unless they were taking this issue quite seriously and zach, just to refresh everyone s memory about this, this has to do with the fact that fani willis, the district attorney had a relationship with one of her investigators and what donald trump s defense team was alleging was this prosecution was all about the two of them being able to get money from his salary so that they could go on trips and such, right. is that correct? that s right. that basically she was in this relationship to financially enrich herself and that that influence and impacted the prosecution, includi ....
Close call, jake and even judge mcafee in his opinion, originally finding that there were some problems, but didn t require her disqualification. judge mcafee wrote, we are untethered to precedent here, which means we ve never seen a situation quiet like this. i don t personally believe that they made a strong enough showing of a direct financial conflict of interest as zach laid out in the trial court and judge scott mcafee and the trial court agreed he came to the same conclusion, but i do think it s significant. that judge mcafee found that there were significant issues with whether de willis s testimony was truthful judge mcafee said that in his ruling and he found that fani willis had made improper out-of-court enbo this case, including erracist and judge mcafee raised concerns about that, so it could also be that the court of appeals, it s concerned with those issues of the case. it may perhaps in addition to or perhaps beyond any financial conflict of interests, zach quickly, ....
The da s office declined to comment. and so his trump s lead attorney, steve sadow, at this point that tells you a little bit about how consequential they both view this decision from the georgia appeals court. they re not going to want to add insult to injury here. maybe anger the appeals court before this process even gets going. elie honig, thanks so much. appreciate zach, as well. thank you. we have more breaking news involving another criminal case involving donald trump. the next move in new york after trump s conviction in the hush money case last week, that s coming up next day with us. the most anticipated moment of this election and the stakes couldn t be higher, biden democracy is on the ballot. your freedom is on the back trump, there is nothing we cannot do. we will make america powerful again, the president and the former president. one day two very different visions for america s future. the weight only cnn can bring it to you, moderated by jake tapper and dana ....
Trying to get their support promising them so much. in another term, if given the chance in the meantime, this heat don t parked over the southwest jake. it is a silent killer. praise on older folks in older homes this is the summer we ve got to check on the most vulnerable. it is going to get bad all right, bill, we re in new york for us. thank you so much. we have some breaking news for you now a georgia appeals court has indefinitely paused the georgia election subversion case against donald trump s specifically from fulton county, georgia. let s get straight to see an zachary cohen. zach what s the reasoning here? yeah, jake, the georgia court of appeals, issuing an order that is a stayed issuing a stay on all proceedings at the trial court level until it decides whether or not fani willis should be disqualified from the case. you ll remember that judge scott mcafee was it s overseeing the georgia election subversion case to the fani willis can stay on the case if her lead pros ....