Hey everyone I'm Elise Jimenendez in for Nicole Wallace. We have been watching an extraordinary moment unfolding in the Fulton County Election Interference case.

On the stand, an impassioned District Attorney Fawny Willis, she defended herself against allegations made by a

co-defendant of Donald Trump that her personal relationship with lead prosecutor

Nathan Wade created a conflict of interest and that she should be disqualified from the case.

Here with me in studio, we are joined by MS NBC Legal Correspondent Lisa Rubin.

Plus, former R&C Chairman and one of my weekend co-hosts here on MSNVC, Michael Steele.

Andrew Weisman is here. He is a former top prosecutor at the Department of Justice

and in Atlanta, MS NBC hosts an legal analysts Katie Fang outside the courthouse for us.

Katie Fang, let's start with you the most remarkable thing you saw today.

Foddy Willis on the stand, the district attorney of Fulton County, taking the stand as a witness in the case that she is prosecuting, but of course only within the framing of the pending motion to disqualify her

she came in hot she was angry and she wanted the opportunity to clear her name

in fact she announced before she took the stand that she was waiving any objections

to the subpoena that had been served on her to testify today. But what was more important

than her demeanor was what she said under oath under penalties of perjury and what

Nathan Wade said also under penalties of perjury remember these are both

members of the Georgia Bar they're practicing attorneys they have a lot at stake

if they are found not to have told the truth to the court,

but they both said that a personal relationship did not begin until after Nathan Wade was

appointed Special Prosecutor in and around March slash April of 2022.

He was appointed in November of 2021.

There was a lot of personal information.

Frankly, unnecessary personal information that was brought out and drawn out when they were

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