us about that. >> wolff, a dramatic day here in fulton county, the judge ruling that fani willis can stay on this case, but she does not merge unscathed. on the other side of some blistering criticism, but it's her lead prosecutor, nathan wade, who is now off the prosecuting team >> tonight. the lead prosecutor on the georgia election subversion case against donald trump and his allies stepping down, he says, in the interests of democracy and dedication to the american public, and to move this case forward as quickly as possible. nathan wade handing in his resignation letter hours after judge scott mcafee ruled district attorney fani willis could stay on the case only if wade goes willis accepting the resignation of the man with whom she was romantically involved >> writing, i will always remember and will remind everyone that you were brave enough to step forward and take on the investigation and prosecution in his ruling, mcafee concluding, the defense

failed to prove willis financially benefited from hiring wade, but this finding is by no means an indication that the court condones this tremendous lapse it's in judgment or the unprofessional manner of the district attorney's testimony during the evidentiary hearing, judge scott mcafee wrote rather, it is the undersigned's opinion that georgia law does not permit the finding of an actual conflict for simply making bad choices. mcafee also describing willis fiery testimony last month as unprofessional you've been intrusive into people's personal lives. you'll confuse, you think i'm on trial. these people are on trial for trying to steal an election in 2020. i'm not on trial no matter how hard you try to put me on trial. >> and her january remarks at an atlanta-area church as legally improper oh she play the ways card. but no. >> isn't >> playing the race card when they only question the judge also reasonable questions exist

about the timing of willis and wade's relationship. >> when did your romantic relationship with ms willis began? >> 2022 mcafee writing the district attorney, chose to continue supervising and paying wade while maintaining such a relationship as long as wade >> remains on the case, this unnecessary perception will persist. >> i don't think it's a good day for the justice system. >> defense attorney scott globin faced off against willis during the case when he represented trump allies i can chesebro, one of the four co-defendants, to take a guilty plea. >> i hope and expect that the criminal defense lawyers in this case will appeal this decision. and i hope the georgia court of appeals has a different view than scott mcafee. >> she's not equipped to do the job and that case should end immediately. >> the former president's legal team vowing to fight on. we will use all all legal options available as we continue to fight to end this case, which should never have been brought in the first place. attorney steve sadow said and that attorney for trump here in georgia, steve sadow says he is

going to appeal this decision, which is likely to lead to even more delays prior to these claims coming forward and these districts qualifications to disqualification hearings. fani willis had asked for an august trial date, though it is still unclear if she can get this case back on track for a trial before the november election >> well, nick valencia reporting for us. thank you very much. let's break all of this down with our legal and political experts and laura coates, let me start with you. a fani willis survived today, but not without very serious damage, right? >> there were some really, really thought provoking and condemning statements that were made about fani willis and a lapse of judgment. the judge went on to talk about these issues in detail, including how he felt about her testimony and the credibility of various witnesses. remember these were all attorneys primarily who were testifying, save a couple in terms of one who was a former employee of that office and say you're talking about lawyers very familiar with what a judge may be looking at for credibility assessments and beyond. but ultimately, the

judge found that although there may be some appearances of conflicts, nothing rose to the level to actually deny the defendants it's a fair trial which really truly is the standard here, but that ultimatum came down about the perception nonetheless. and although he did say the burden of proof essentially was on those who chose to try to disqualify or and they did not carry that burden. there was still enough of a concern to taint potentially the perception of the public. and although it wasn't isn't just optics based, it was also a nod towards what he felt was a lapse of judgment, but ultimately, this judge made a decision based on the law which said that there was no basis on mere appearance alone to disqualify, which is an extraordinary measure. >> elie honig, what do you make of this fawning letter from willis accepting wade's resignation of off there's an awful lot of spin happen here, and i think revisionist history, let's be clear about the job that nathan wade did here when he was chosen to lead

this team, he had less felony prosecutorial experience, then every single assistant district attorney in that office, he had zero. he proceeded to obtain an information or an indictment, excuse me, that was in part defective. that's why we saw six counts dismissed last week. he says today that he resigned to do the right thing for the american people, but he didn't resigned yesterday or last week. he resigned today because the judge forced him and the judge made some damning findings about nathan wade, the judge's ruling said that nathan wade provided inaccurate information to a different court in his divorce proceeding and then provided, quote, patently unpersuasive and testimony in this case. nathan wade has not covered himself in glory. he's off the case now, and i'm not sure the judge didn't do it favor to the fulton county da's office by forcing his removal. >> interesting s. e. cupp by the judge had scathing words for fani willis in this ruling. does this ultimately play into trump's hands? >> 100%. i mean, we know that

trump doesn't have a problem lying about these cases. >> anyway. and >> those lies are dangerous. and his fans believe them. but when there's a hint of impropriety, he doesn't have to lie. he can discredit the entire case, the entire office, and it doesn't have to be true, but he gets let's to do that with a bit more believability and not just this case, right? he wants to save the entire system is rigged against him. that affects every other case. he's up against. he will use this and fani willis's quote, unquote, unprofessionalism, her lapse in judgment judges words, he will use this to discredit all the cases around him. and i think her her actions, her decisions will have pretty big ramifications, not just legally for donald trump but politically in his favor. >> well, let me follow up with maria cardona marie, are you concerned the controversy around this case? as fundamentally damaged it in the eyes of the public.

>> well, it certainly wasn't unforced. error on behalf of what is otherwise, i believe a brilliant woman and de fani willis. but i think what the what her team and what democrats were at large are going to focus on are what but this decision was, which was the judge found that there was no legal basis to disqualify the da, that there is still and we all need to keep our eyes on this and for fani willis, this is eyes on the prize. there is a mountain of evidence that donald trump and his coconspirators allegedly were involved in one of the most egregious in serious crimes in american history, as they tried to overturn and still in american election, that is the bottom line. and whenever this case gets tried and it probably won't happen, maybe it will, but democrats cannot focus on well perhaps this is going to be one of the things that brings down donald trump. no,

we have to do that on our own. but whenever it happens, this is going to be something where donald trump, even if he gets elected, is not going to be able to make this go away. so i think at some point he is going to have to face the music for those very serious alleged crimes. and let's also keep in mind that even with the scathing commentary of this judge fani willis is a very popular da where she is from and with all due respect to his honor, i disagree and i know many many women disagree about his commentary on her testimony. they thought that she came out to defend herself, that she was somebody that was standing up to her rights and that was something very attractive to many people. and wolf on >> that point, if i can just say when you're talking about going for a jury, particularly one in which you're talking about the county in which some of these crimes were alleged to have happened in the

overarching conspiracy case. at the end of the day, the jurors are not going to be simply weighing whether they believed that there was a relationship between fani willis or any member of our staff, including if she is in fact the person to try the case. but ultimately, this is going to be about a jury trying to weigh the behavior of not just donald trump, but the co-defendants in this case. and for every different angle that is being pursued politically, whether it's conversations about the race card, there will often be a powerful retort by the prosecutor houston, to suggest, well, i'm glad you mentioned that. what about ruby freeman and shaye moss? oh, a coordinated attack against donald trump. i'm glad you mentioned that. how about a coordinated attack in terms of a conspiracy? so they do have counterpoints that will be raised when this goes to trial. it will likely be for the for the election, but those are so powerful tools in the arsenal of any process. get her yeah, lots going on. i'm laura. let me just follow up with you. and unrelated development maybe on a related but another legal

development facing trump, a judge has just delayed trump's new york criminal trial by 30 days, less than two weeks before the trial was originally supposed to be given. the delay is so attorneys could review records that the real prosecutors just turned over. what is the significance of this? >> well, first that was the amount of time, but alvin bragg was willing to give the of course, trump's team wanted longer. they didn't even divide or split the baby. they gave what alvin bragg suggested, they actually have the fact that there was a document dump documents that were provided from the us attorney. that's the federal entity, not to da alvin bragg, who requested the documents over a year ago from the fdny. if i'm not mistaken, that it came just two weeks for the start of a trial is really an extraordinary thing to have happen because had it happened after the trial had begun, they'd have ample ammunition to suggest misconduct of some type. now, what's in the documents going to be the most important >> important factor, are they >> going to be things that tend to show his innocence or his guilt? that's the bottom line.

they have every right to review things they should do. so before trial, it's unfortunate, didn't happen much sooner. >> le what do you make of this delay? >> so well, if i just read the letter from the judge and it's clear to me the judge is taking this quite seriously now it's important for people to understand how this all came about. and again, we're talking about the new york hush money case three years ago, federal prosecutors at the justice department decided not to charge donald trump for the hush money case. they generated a whole bunch of documents and a big part of the reason they didn't charge that case is they were not comfortable banking on the testimony of michael cohen. now, donald trump's team has been trying to get those documents from the feds for over a year. as laura said, but only in the last couple of weeks has donald trump's team actually been given tens of thousands of documents? and now trump's team is saying this is an issue we need time to go through this and the judge's letter today makes clear he's not happy with prosecutors federal or state, and you want from them all right, guys. thank you very much. excellent conversation. >> laura will be >> backed by the way later tonight, 11:00 p.m. eastern to

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and unsurprising at the same time, the two men serve side-by-side, essentially, donald trump was the boss of mike pence and mike pence was one of the most loyal soldiers. so the former president up until january 6 when he blocked a pressure campaign mounted by the former president and his allies to overturn the 2020 election today, no real mention of january 6 when saying he would not endorse former president donald trump. but this is what he had to say. >> donald trump is pursuing and articulating an agenda that is at odds with the conservative agenda that we governed on during our four years. and that's why i cannot in good conscience endorse donald trump in this campaign. >> now for vice president, there is pinning it to these conservative values. we know that he also has launched this $20 million effort to secure conservative values. he's really trying to path chart a path for himself as this reagan conservative within the republican party that really has started to come i'm completely under former

president donald trump. but while he doesn't mention trump, but his behavior right away or at all, you have to remember what happened when depends entered the race, which was essentially donald trump went after me, call them weak, said he didn't have the courage to overturn the election do and needed to be done in january 6 pence has stood up to donald trump on that, essentially saying that trump is wrong about what pence's power was on january 6. what is power was in terms of certifying the election? >> it's >> not that surprising. again, this is where he ended up, but it is surprising that he unequivocally said in an interview that he is not endorsing them. he could have just ignored the question. you could have said, oh, i'm going to answer that at another time. instead, he made a decision to say in fact, i am not supporting my former boss, i am not supporting former president donald trump it's very significant moment in deed, kristen holmes reporting for us. thank you very much. i want to bring back cnn, political commentators, s. e. cupp and maria cardona esy. this is a remarkable shift from mike pence, at least my perception.

what do you make of him saying he can't endorse his former running mate what is remarkable, this is a vice president saying he's not going to endorse the guy he served for four years and certain very loyal, loyally. >> that >> is remarkable however the reason on policy disagreements feels a bit like a cop-out to say he's now at odds with the conservative agenda. trump has always been at odds with the conservative agenda, whether that was the debt and the deficit limited government family values, protectionism mike pence seem to be fine with all of that. and in fact, donald trump exploded the debt and the deficit with mike pence's help. it's just crazy to me that mike pence can't say after all of this time now that he's made it official, he's not endorsing him. it's because donald trump is dangerous. it's because he led an insurrection it's because he's corrupt, it's because he's facing criminal indictments. it's because he's anti america and anti-democratic.

you can't say all the very obvious things he has to say. >> they >> now have policy disagreements. it's just so mealy mouth and a pretty i think impotent way to end what was once a pretty promising political career for mike pence. >> interesting maria, as all of us remember, pence was a very loyal vice president to donald trump during his presidency how surprised are you by this? >> well, i am surprised because i thought his cowardice would continue since it has been reality up until now. so why now? i suppose, and frankly, i would have had a lot more respect for him had he said, i cannot in good conscience endorse someone who called for his maga supporters to murder me because that's exactly what donald trump did. and so moving forward, you know, look, it does give democrats a talking point by saying donald trump's

own vice president did not endorse him, does not believe he is up for the job. and so that's one thing that it gives us. but at the end of the day, i really don't think it matters because let's remember, mike pence doesn't even really have his own base because he never was really able to stand up for what he believes i see. >> do you think this decision by >> parents could potentially impact independent voters out there or maybe even republicans who are skeptical of trump i mean, is maria just indicated the pence has no constituency. he's really irrelevant in the republican party and listen, i mean, a bunch of us are, but he's, he's made himself irrelevant because in carrying trump's water, he turned off principled conservatives like me but in not carrying it all the way across the finish line, i can write six. he become, became traitorous to the rest of the maga republican party. so i'm not sure his opinion

matters all that much. and for independents and moderates, they're certainly not taking their lead from mike pence's political compass because we've, we've not really seen it. point due north this entire time. >> it's interesting, maria mike pence, reference january 6 during that fox interview, we all remember him having to be evacuated from the capital is the rioters were storming the building and chanted for him to be hanged. do you think pence would be declining to endorse trump if not for the events of that day yeah, that's a really good question. wolfe, i would like to say, again, giving him the benefit of a whole lot of doubt here that maybe he does believe that donald trump has turned around on conservative principles, but to ses point, he did that for four years with my in pence's help as vice president. and so that's why i

said earlier that i think i would have more respect for him had he made that issue had he made january 6, the fact that donald trump is dangerous, that he tried to steal an american election, that he inspired the maga folks to come and attack the capital murder ordering policemen, calling for murdering the vp if he had lead with those those reasons, wolfe, i would have had a lot more respect for him and maybe we could say, well, that was the reason that was the red line in the sand for mike pence. but then again, why did it take so freaking long? >> maria cardona and s. e. cupp to both you. thank you very, very much coming up. >> president biden >> commenting today on senator chuck schumer's call for new elections in israel. what the president is saying as israel appears to move ahead with military plans in southern gaza space shuttle columbia, the final flight premieres sunday, april 7 at nine on cnn

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israeli prime minister and called for a drastic change as a lifelong supporter of israel it has become clear to me the netanyahu coalition no longer fits the needs of israel after october 7, i believe a new election is the only way to allow for a healthy and open decision-making process. about the future of israel. >> the inflection point that the biden administration now stands in on the israel-hamas war, only growing clear each day the annual st. patrick's day visit to the white house by the irish taoiseach on friday, usually a more lighthearted and festive occasion this year, clouded by the dire situation in gaza, sitting next to biden in the oval office, the irish prime minister, again, calling for a permanent ceasefire in the war, we need to the ceasefire as soon as possible and later expressing his disapproval of the way us weapons are being used by the idf. >> none of us like to see

american weapons being used in the way they are. the way to reuse the moment is not self-defense. >> president biden already under immense pressure at home for his refusal to call for a permanent ceasefire. and recently drawing his first so-called red line in the war would invasion of rafah, would you have urged him not to do would that be a red line? >> is red light, but i'm never going to leave israel. >> but netanyahu's office announcing friday that the prime minister has now approved of plans for a military incursion into rafah and a civilian evacuation of the area. the biden in white house, eager to see those purported plans, we have made it clear to israeli counterparts that we would welcome the opportunity to sit their plans, but making clear how challenging that undertaking would be accommodating for 1 people in a confined urban environment. with not a lot of geography is a very, very tall or for any

military to do. >> the white house, of course, has been pushing for that temporary ceasefire and hostages deal. and there has been some movement with hamas offering its counterproposal to israel, but us officials have said that they were cautiously optimistic about this still on the direction that it's going. but the israeli officials, on the other hand, have said that hamas's demands are still ridiculous. so it is just entirely unclear wolf, if, and when this deal is going to come together and every day that there is not a ceasefire wolf, the pressure on president biden is continuing to mount will mj lee at the white house for us. thank you very much. right now, let's get a little bit more on the upcoming israeli operation in rafah, assuming it happens, seen as jeremy diamond is in jerusalem, he's got new information. jeremy, what is the tiny house office now saying about these plans? >> well, wealthy israeli prime minister has now approved a dual plan to both evacuate the civilian population from rafah

and also to carry out what would be a major israeli military offensive into that city where 1.5 million palestinians are currently living, many of them display please, from other parts of the gaza strip. and so the questions are mounting about the feasibility of carrying out that evacuation plan and where exactly they would go. and while these really prime minister has now approved those plans after a discussion with the war cabinet, the israeli government hasn't actually release any details about it. exactly how this would work. all we've heard so far from the israeli military is that they are looking at creating humanitarian enclaves in central gaza, which would have food, shelter, water, field hospitals in cooperation with international partners. but no real details beyond that. and the us government, for its part, including secretary of state tony blinken saying that they haven't yet seen those plans from the israeli government, and they are also emphasizing that they do need to see those plans to ensure that it is not only feasible to

move that population, but also to know that the accommodations where they will find themselves afterwards will be appropriate. >> and jeremy give us the latest of the first humanitarian aid delivery to gaza by sea >> yeah. well, if the world central kitchen facilitated this operation, nearly 200 tons of food, which would make about 500,000 meals arriving in northern gaza earlier today 100 over 100 pallets of aid were unloaded. and now questions about how exactly that aid will be distributed. we've seen, of course, major security issues surrounding the distribution of that aid in part because of the enormous desperation on the ground. in particular, in northern gaza, working cases of acute malnutrition are rapidly rising, but there is some hope that more aid will soon come in. this maritime corridor, set to be expanded more ships set to make their way from cyprus to gaza. and the israeli military has now begun a pilot

program to allow aid to go directly by land into northern gaza after of course mounting international and american pressure. >> critically important, this humanitarian aid gets in to help all those people. jeremy diamond. thank you very much. let's dig a little bit deeper right now, joining a cnn political, a global affairs analyst, barak ravid, barack. thanks for joining us when you look at these new biden comments today and the looming israeli military terry operation in rafah, assuming it happens, are we seeing potentially barack and unprecedented moment in us, israel relations? >> good evening, wolf. well, no doubt. >> we're seeing >> one of the most serious crises in the us in the history of us-israeli relations. and look what we had here in the last few days we had the most senior jewish politician in america voicing very, very harsh criticism of benjamin netanyahu >> and then a day later, >> we had the most senior

zionist politician in america, president biden, backing this criticism. and i think it tells you a lot on where not only the white house, but where do chronic party is right now and where the us-israeli with right now, barack, what, what more can you tell us about the status of these talks on potentially hopefully a hostage deal and at least a temporary ceasefire well, i think there were several steps forward in the last 24, 48 hours. the fact that hamas gave its response and i would take with 100 pounds of salt the reaction to public statements from the israeli prime minister's office called the hamas response, proposed stress and delusional, et cetera, et cetera. what i hear from people who are directly involved is that come masses response was much better

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engaged in an improper conduct in the trump case. and she's been in hot water for this type of thing before. >> this is the second judge. now who's been dealing with the case, jazmin bernie, the first one says toll the da that she'd used by head judgment. there was a problem, an appearance problem. and so now we have a second round of that that refers to when fulton county judge robert mcburney blocked willis from filing charges against one of georgia's face electric because she had held a fundraiser for his opponents. >> so what are you thinking moment, if the optics are horrific, willis, a democrat and fulton county's first female district attorney, had been in office for only one day when then president trump called georgia's secretary of state in january 2021 and urged them to find votes to overturn the 2020 election results in georgia the single mother of two in her early 50s says she was raised by a single father. her father himself was a lawyer and a member of the black panther movement. her name fani is swahili and means

prosperous. originally from california, willis attend attended howard university in washington, dc, then got her law degree from the emory school of law. she forged her professional reputation with successful prosecutions in a massive cheating scandal in atlanta's public schools. and by bringing anti-corruption charges against rapper young thug, a workaholic that is very driven, very smart and very like, if you're on a case, it's step one, step two, step three, get to it from here. >> analysts say the pressure on willis to be above reproach in the trump case will be enormous and one veteran attorney advises her to toe that line as far under the radar as possible. >> but i'm fani willis. i want to in retreat from the limelight of this case right now in the sense that let your line prosecutors let the team you assembled be the face of this case. >> analysts bradley moos willis should stay in the background so that when the public sees this case playing out in the months ahead, especially in the

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invasion of ukraine, dozens have already been confirmed, have been killed and wounded in the attack. and the ukrainian say, one of the reasons why it appears to have been so deadly is that it was a so-called double tap attack. the ukrainians are saying there was an initial missile strike that then, first responders moved in and while they were at work trying to save people, a second missile strike took place. the ukrainians are ready saying that there our first responders among the killed and wounded in this attack. and of course, a desk that has been a town that's been getting a lot of both drone attacks and missile attacks, especially recently, you recall that only about a week ago, ukraine's president volodymyr zelenskyy himself was on hands together with the greek prime minister, greece of course, an important nato ally of the us, when a missile strike also took place, a member of the greek delegation was saying that it only took place about 500 yards away from where these leaders were. odesa, of course, as you know, wolf is an important port town

for the ukrainians. also very important for grain exports. wolf, very important indeed, fred pleitgen, thank you very much for that report right now russians are voting in presidential elections as vladimir putin heads toward an inevitable fifth term in power, our chief global affairs correspondent matthew chance is covering the story from moscow for us. matthew, have there been any signs of opposition, serious opposite? position so far >> i think the half been, yes. wolf, in fact, we've been some quite surprising shows of defiance at polling stations in various parts of the country. there's been a couple of incidence of people going into polling stations and pouring die green inke dye into the ballot boxes to ruin all the paper ballots that had been put there. that's a show of defiance on the one hand, there have also been a number of instances of arson attacks, both inside and outside various

polling stations in the russian capital and some petersburg. the second city of russia and elsewhere as well. i mean those acts are extraordinary in a country where dissent of any kind, never mind, attempts to disrupt the election like this are greeted with a very heavy handed legal response. the individuals concerned have been taken away by the author or it is, and the authorities say they're going to be facing very tough at legal action. as a result, but it all points wolf to the degree of frustration under the surface in russia, there's all comes against the backdrop of the war in ukraine, of course, which had just been hearing about, which is causing brutal casualties here in russia as well and of course, that crack down on internal dissent in russia along with the death of the country's most prominent opposition leader, alexey navalny last month as well. so there's a lot of simmering frustration beneath the surface and some of that is bubbling to

the surface with these protests at polling stations during the selection, wolf well, we know the results. matthew we won't know them for another few days because unusually this >> presidential election in russia, voting is taking place over a three-day period. remember, russia is a big country, are 11 time zones as well. so we probably won't be getting results back in till monday morning. and so the sometime to go now some voting still to go before we get to that point, matthew chance out of the scene for us in moscow. thank you very much into our viewers. thanks very much for watching. i'm wolf blitzer in the situation room. i'll see you monday morning, 11:00 a.m. eastern for cnn newsroom until then? thanks very much. once again for watching. you can always follow me by the way, on x, formerly known as twitter, and instagram at wolf blitzer, the situation room is also available as a podcast wherever you get your podcasts, the news continues on cnn tonight down

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