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Breakdown

S10 Ep. 21: A Conversation With DA Willis

Breakdown

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

True Crime, Politics, News

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

This episode of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Breakdown podcast includes a wide-ranging interview with Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. Willis shares her thoughts on many aspects of the election interference case against former President Donald Trump and others. She also opens up about her possible political aspirations after serving as Fulton’s DA. Episode 21 – “A Conversation With DA Willis” – of Breakdown’s Season 10 – “The Trump Indictment” – also catches listeners up on the ongoing defamation trial filed by two former Fulton County poll workers against Trump’s former personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani. You can download the Breakdown podcast from Apple Podcasts, Spotify or your favorite podcasting platform. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's worth knowing what's really going on.

0:04.0

This is the Atlanta Journal Constitution.

0:08.0

Previously, on breakdown.

0:13.0

Can you imagine the notion of the Republican nominee of the president not being

0:21.0

able to campaign for the presidency because he is in some form of

0:26.4

fashion in a courtroom defending himself.

0:28.8

There's a woman sitting somewhere who knows that I'm going to

0:32.8

her whole life up when this is done.

0:36.1

Covering a beat can be an interesting thing.

0:38.8

Journalists like us spend days and weeks at a time

0:41.5

thinking about and writing about a subject or a person.

0:45.1

But sometimes we can go long, long stretches without getting to speak to that newsmaker

0:49.7

directly, especially if that person is in the middle of a sensitive court case or investigation.

0:56.0

That's certainly been the case with Fulton County DA Fawny Willis.

1:00.0

She's at the heart of this election interference case, at the tip of the tongue of defendants and pundits and critics.

1:06.5

Heck, she's even at the center of this podcast.

1:09.0

But her team has cut back on interviews over the last year and a half, especially after the special grand jury

1:14.6

ramped up its work.

1:16.3

So we were intrigued when Willis agreed to sit down for an end of year interview.

1:20.5

The last time breakdown had an extended sit-down with Madam DA was back in the spring of

1:25.5

2022.

1:27.1

That was before the special grand jury was seated, and that's also when she told us this.

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