Will Willis be DQ'd?
The Lead with Jake Tapper
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🗓️ 2 March 2024
⏱️ 67 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You've been listening to the judge there in Georgia, Judge Scott McAfee, who says he will make his decision in about two weeks, that's the max time he gave there on whether or not the district attorney in this case |
| 0:14.4 | Fani Willis will be ultimately disqualified. It is not an overstatement to say |
| 0:18.8 | that the prosecution of Donald Trump in the state of Georgia hangs on what you have just been |
| 0:23.7 | listening to. That last person there who is speaking to the court with Steve |
| 0:27.5 | Seidel that is Donald Trump's attorney here but shortly before that we heard |
| 0:31.6 | from the prosecution as the chief deputy district attorney was arguing against the |
| 0:37.0 | disqualification of his boss, Fani Willis, who I should note was sitting behind members of her staff as the judge is now weighing her |
| 0:43.8 | fate in this case. Welcome to the lead. I'm Caitlin Collins in for Jake |
| 0:47.6 | Tapper on this Friday. Fondi Willis of course is the woman who charged |
| 0:51.8 | Trump with attempting to overturn the 2020 election in the state of Georgia along with a slew of co-defendants whose attorneys were also in that room. |
| 1:00.0 | But now she herself is facing allegations of an improper relationship with the special prosecutor that she put on that case. |
| 1:06.7 | If Wallace is disqualified, the case could very well not happen. |
| 1:11.1 | A lot is at stake here. I want to bring in CNN's chief legal |
| 1:13.8 | analyst anchor Laura Coates, who's been watching every moment of this |
| 1:17.4 | hearing has been in Atlanta as part of this has been going on as well. |
| 1:20.3 | Laura, I mean the stakes here are so incredibly high now that we do have the closing arguments |
| 1:25.3 | and this is really in Scott McAfee's hands, the judge here, what's your sense of how today |
| 1:29.7 | went for each side? |
| 1:30.7 | Oh, the stakes are unbelievably high. We're talking about an 18 |
| 1:34.2 | originally co-defending case which also includes the former president of the |
| 1:37.5 | United States. Take a step back as to why we're here. This is not the |
| 1:41.4 | prosecutor's burden to prove that they should stay in the case. |
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