NY judge delays hush money trial

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🗓️ 15 March 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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MSNBC's Katie Phang hosts "The Beat" on Friday, March 15, and reports on Trump's first criminal trial being delayed, a lead prosecutor stepping down in the Georgia RICO case, GOP dysfunction in the House, Senator Bernie Sanders pushing for a four-day work week, and more attempts by Republicans to reframe abortion bans. Melissa Murray, Renato Mariotti, Melissa Murray, Dave Aronberg, Eugene Robinson, Juanita Tolliver and Robert Reich join to discuss. To listen to this show and other MS podcasts without ads, sign up for MS NOW Premium on Apple Podcasts. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the beat. I'm Katie Fang in for Ari Melber. Big developments in two cases involving
0:06.4	Donald Trump. The New York Election Interference Hush Money case, that trial now delayed
0:12.0	by at least 30 days for the judge to consider arguments
0:15.8	about evidence in that case. The Southern District of New York has only now
0:20.5	handed over more than 100,000 documents to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg in recent
0:26.8	weeks with 15,000 pages turned over just today.
0:31.9	Also today, a long-awaited ruling in the Georgia RICO case with a big decision.
0:37.0	The judge overseeing the case against Donald Trump declining to disqualify District Attorney Fani Willis
0:43.2	over her relationship with lead prosecutor Nathan Wade.
0:46.8	R ruling one of them must step down for the case to continue.
0:51.0	The lead prosecutor, Nathan Wade, this afternoon taking the fall
0:54.4	resigning his position quote in the interest of democracy and quote to move
1:00.3	this case forward as quickly as possible.
1:03.5	DA Fani Willis immediately accepting his resignation.
1:07.2	The judge may have shot down Trump's attempt to disqualify Willis, saying the defense failed
1:12.0	to prove the existence of an actual conflict of interest.
1:15.0	But he did find that their relationship does raise a quote significant
1:21.0	appearance of impropriety that infects the entire
1:24.3	excuse me current structure of the prosecution team.
1:28.0	Fannie Willis while admitting to the relationship has denied any wrongdoing, vehemently defending herself at a hearing last
1:36.2	month.
1:37.2	You're confused, you think I'm on trial, these people are on trial for trying to steal an election in 2020.
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