Welcome to the NewsHour. The last outstanding criminal case against President Donald Trump can move forward.

Personal scandal forced the Georgia District Attorney and Special Counsel who initially brought the election interference charges off the case.

Up against a court-imposed deadline to find their replacement by today, the head of a nonpartisan state agency

chose himself. White House correspondent Liz Landers is here with more.

This case stems from the efforts in 2020 that President Trump and his allies allegedly

undertook to overturn the results of that election, including pressuring state and local officials in key swing states like Georgia to change the vote counts.

The president and 18 other people, including local election officials and former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani, were charged in 2023 in a racketeering conspiracy case.

Prosecutor Fani Willis brought the charges, but was removed following a legal battle.

For an on-the-ground perspective, Tamar Hallerman joins us now.

She's a senior reporter covering this case for the Atlanta Journal Constitution.

Tamar, thank you for joining News Hour.

Thanks, Liz.

So the head of search for a new prosecutor, Peter Scandalakis, will now be heading up the prosecution.

What do we need to know about him?

And how did he end up in this position?

Pete Scandalakis is a veteran prosecutor here in Georgia, well respected on both sides of the aisle. And for almost 10 years now,

he's headed the nonpartisan state agencies that is tasked with stepping in whenever a prosecutor

has a conflict in this case, which is exactly what happened after Fulton County District Attorney

Fannie Willis was removed from this case because of a romantic relationship she had with her deputy Nathan Wade. So he became the prosecutor here because

he couldn't find anyone else. Is that basically what happened? Yeah, this morning he puts out a

statement saying, I tried reaching out to all of these different prosecutors around the state to see if anyone was interested.

Everyone politely declined, and he felt like he owed it to the public, given the intense interest in this case,

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