DA Fani Willis takes the witness stand & fights to stay on Trump's criminal case

The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle

MS NOW, Stephanie Ruhle

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🗓️ 16 February 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Fulton County (GA) District Attorney Fani Willis testifies in a fiery hearing related to Trump's election interference case. Willis blasted efforts to disqualify her from prosecuting the case as "contrary to democracy." Meanwhile, House Speaker Mike Johnson blocks the Senate aid package to Ukraine amid growing questions about his leadership. And the humanitarian crisis in Gaza worsens as a major hospital comes under siege. Annie Linskey, Joyce Vance, Ankush Khardori, Reed Galen, Donna Edwards, Clint Watts, and Hala Gorani join.

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0:00.0	Tonight the heated hearing in Georgia, Fannie Willis on the stand, setting the record straight
0:06.2	about accusations of misconduct.
0:08.3	Plus, the date is set for the first criminal trial of Donald Trump and questions surrounding Mike Johnson's
0:14.6	leadership after legislative losses and an upcoming budget battle.
0:18.3	Then backlash for the top Republican who warned of a serious national security threat while we learn more
0:25.2	about details about what it is as the 11th hour gets underway on this Thursday night. And
0:33.0	Greetings everyone, I'm Simone Sanders Townsend in for Stephanie Rule.
0:38.0	We are now 264 days away from the election
0:42.0	and it has been an eventful day in Donald
0:43.9	Trump's court cases. We begin in Georgia where DA Fawnee Willis took the stand
0:48.0	and fired back against allegations of misconduct in the election
0:51.8	interference case.
0:52.8	My colleague Blay and Alexander has more.
0:56.5	Late today, Fulton County District Attorney Fawnee
0:58.9	Fawnee Willis herself took the witness stand.
1:01.4	And I've been very anxious to have this conversation
1:03.7	today. I ran to the court in an often contentious back and forth. It is a lie.
1:10.2	It is a lie. Willis was pressed about details of her personal relationship with Nathan Wade, who she hired a special
1:17.5	prosecutor on the Trump case.
1:19.7	You and Mr. Wade met in October 2019 at a conference? That is correct. I think in one of your motions
1:25.9	you tried to implicate and slept with him at that conference, which I find to be extremely
1:30.0	offensive. Willis's testimony was a shocking twist in a fiery evidentiary hearing that focused on allegations
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