Can Fani Willis survive Trump's Georgia case?
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🗓️ 2 March 2024
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Can Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis survive former President Donald Trump's Georgia election case? USA TODAY Domestic Security Correspondent Josh Meyer has the latest.
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USA TODAY National Correspondent Deborah Barfield Berry examines an enthusiasm gap among voters of color.
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| 0:08.0 | Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson and today is Saturday March 2nd, 2024. This is the |
| 0:18.7 | excerpt. Today a look at the latest Fani Willis hearing, plus Russian opposition leader Alexi Nivalney is |
| 0:28.0 | laid to rest and we examine an enthusiasm gap among voters of color. |
| 0:33.0 | Final arguments wrapped yesterday in the hearing over whether Fulton County District |
| 0:37.5 | Attorney Fawny Willis should be disqualified from former President Donald Trump's |
| 0:41.9 | Georgia election fraud case for having an affair with the private lawyer she hired Nathan Wade as special prosecutor in the indictment. |
| 0:49.5 | I caught up with USA Today domestic security correspondent Josh Meyer for the latest and what happens next. |
| 0:55.8 | Josh, thanks for wrapping on today. |
| 0:57.8 | Always a pleasure, Taylor. |
| 0:59.4 | So Josh, what did we hear in defense closing arguments here you know so the defense lawyers |
| 1:04.5 | were really throwing everything they could at Fulton County District |
| 1:08.6 | attorney fawny Willis and special prosecutor Nathan Wade they use terms like liars |
| 1:13.7 | cheaters love-struck teenagers they accused them of playing the race card to |
| 1:18.6 | cover up their misdeeds and milk the lucrative gravy train of the Donald Trump election fraud case in Georgia, |
| 1:25.0 | pretty much everything they could to try to get the judge to disqualify them from the case. |
| 1:30.0 | And on the other side, what did we hear from prosecutors in their final arguments? |
| 1:33.7 | So the prosecutor is, it was one guy, Chief Deputy District Attorney Adam Abate, and he said that |
| 1:39.1 | lawyers for Trump and the other defendants failed to prove any of the many allegations they've been making since January 8th when the allegations first surfaced in a court motion. |
| 1:48.0 | He also said that unlike the claims from the defense attorneys, they don't have to just approve the appearance of a conflict of interest that they actually have to prove a conflict of interest occurred with regard to Willis having an affair with Wade and also going on vacations with him in which Wade paid for some of the |
| 2:04.8 | vacations with money that he earned from Fulton County. |
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