>>COURTNEY: CLOSING ARGUMENTS ARE SCHEDULED FRIDAY IN A HEARING THAT COULD DECIDE THE FUTURE OF THE TRUMP ELECTION INTERFERENCE CASE. >>RUSS: ATTORNEYS FOR DONALD TRUMP AND SOME OF HIS CO DEFENDANTS ARGUE A ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN D A FANI WILLIS AND ONE OF HER SPECIAL PROSECUTORS POSES A CONFLICT OF INTEREST SO SERIOUS THAT SHE
SHOULD BE REMOVED FROM THE CASE AND THE INDICTMENT DISMISSED OF FOX. FIVE I TEAM REPORTER RANDY TRAVIS JOINS US NOW TO EXPLAIN WHAT JUDGE SCOTT MCAFEE WILL BE CONSIDERING HERE. READY YEAH, >>COURTNEY: THE JUDGE ALREADY INDICATED HE’S LOOKING FOR ANSWERS TO TWO MAIN QUESTIONS. WHEN DID THE RELATIONSHIP START? AND DID WILLIS BENEFIT
FINANCIALLY BY HIRING NATHAN WADE TO RUN THE TRUMP INVESTIGATION, AS IN MANY COURT DISPUTES? THE ANSWERS DEPEND ON WHO YOU BELIEVE. >>>>: DISTRICT ATTORNEY BONNIE FA N I LAST NAME IS WILLIS. I DON’T KNOW THE DAY THAT WE STARTED. MHM. SEEING EACH OTHER, BUT IT WAS EARLY 22. WHEN DID
YOUR ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP WITH MISS WILLIS BEGIN? 2022 THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN AFTER FANNIE WILLIS BROUGHT NATHAN WADE INTO THE TRUMP CRIMINAL PROBE, PAYING HIM AROUND $700,000 TO DATE, BUT IN A STRANGE FRIEND AND FORMER D, A STAFFER ROB YERTY TESTIFIED THE TWO ACTUALLY BEGAN DATING THREE YEARS EARLIER. THAT’S ALSO
WHAT FORMER WADE LAW PARTNER TERRENCE BRADLEY TEXTED ONE OF THE DEFENSE ATTORNEYS. BUT WHEN BRADLEY WAS QUESTIONED UNDER OATH, HIS STORY CHANGED, INSISTING HIS TEXTS WERE SPECULATION. I DO NOT HAVE KNOWLEDGE OF IT STARTING, UM OR WHEN IT STARTED. UM. KAREN SHE TOLD ME THAT IT STARTED WHEN THEY WERE BOTH MUNICIPAL COURT
JUDGES THAT CORRECT THAT IS INCORRECT. DEFENSE ATTORNEYS FILED A MOTION ASKING THE JUDGE TO CONSIDER CELLPHONE TRACKING RECORDS FROM 2021, WHICH THEY SAY SHOW WADE SPENDING TIME AT WILLIS’S HATEFUL CONDO AFTER HOURS. WILLIS’S TEAM ARGUE THE DATA IS UNRELIABLE AND WANT MCAFEE TO IGNORE IT. A MAN IS
NOT A PLAN. A MAN IS A COMPANION . I DON’T NEED ANYBODY TO FOOT MY BILLS. THE ONLY MAN WHO’S EVER FOOT MY BILLS COMPLETELY IS MY DADDY. WILLIS DENIED UNDER OATH PROFITING FROM HER DECISION TO HIRE WADE, INSISTING THE TWO OF THEM ROUGHLY SHARED EXPENSES WHEN THEY VACATIONED IN
CALIFORNIA AND THE CARIBBEAN, BUT THEY EACH TESTIFIED SHE ALWAYS PAID HIM IN CASH, AN EXPLANATION THAT LEFT DEFENSE ATTORNEYS BEFUDDLED. YOU DON’T HAVE A SINGLE SOLITARY DEPOSIT SLIP. TO CORROBORATE OR SUPPORT ANY OF YOUR ALLEGATIONS THAT YOU WERE PAID BY MRS WILLIS AND CASH , DO YOU? NO SIR. NOT A SINGLE
SOLITARY ONE. NOT A ONE. THE MONEY THAT YOU PAID MR WADE THE CASH IN OCTOBER OF 2022 YOU DO NOT KNOW WHERE THAT MONEY CAME FROM. I DO KNOW WHERE IT CAME FROM. IT CAME FROM MY SWEAT AND TEARS. IT IS UNLIKELY THAT JUDGE MCAFEE WILL RULE FROM THE BENCH
AFTER THE CLOSING ARGUMENTS TOMORROW. WHAT IS LIKELY IS THAT WHICHEVER SIDE LOSES IN THIS CASE WILL BE APPEALING, MEANING THE CASE WILL BE DELAYED EVEN >>COURTNEY: LONGER. I MEAN, IS IT EVEN POSSIBLE TO SAY WHEN A TRIAL COULD POTENTIALLY START? WELL NO, NOT REALLY. NOT UNTIL YOU GET ALL THIS WORKED OUT,
DECIDE WHO IS GOING TO BE THE PROSECUTOR IN THE CASE WE DID GET LIKE AAA TASTE OF WHAT A TRIAL MIGHT LOOK LIKE IN THIS HEARING, THOUGH THERE WERE NINE ATTORNEYS EACH ONE OF THEM GOT A CHANCE TO ASK A QUESTION. CROSS EXAMINE EVERY WITNESS NOW IMAGINE 15 ATTORNEYS BECAUSE
THAT’S HOW MANY DEFENDANTS THERE ARE IN THE CASE, EACH DOING THAT WITH EVERY WITNESS OVER A THREE OR FOUR MONTH PERIOD EVEN IF THE TRIAL COULD START LATER THIS YEAR, IT SEEMS UNLIKELY IT COULD BE FINISHED IN TIME FOR NOVEMBER , >>RUSS: AND EVEN THREE OR FOUR MONTHS SOUNDS WILDLY OPTIMISTIC
IN TERMS OF GETTING TO A VERDICT ONE WAY OR THE OTHER VERY MUCH SO, ROSS