State senate panel seeks Fani Willis' text messages in Senate committee hearing

Published: Sep 12, 2024 Duration: 00:02:23 Category: News & Politics

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When a Senate committee meets tomorrow morning, they want to hear testimony from Fulton County district attorney, Fannie Willis, but Willis is expected to skip the hearing as she fights a senate subpoena in court 11 alive. Doug Richard is joining us with more and Doug a lot of folks following this latest piece of the saga. Yeah. And it's kind of been going on for months. Right. Republicans formed this investigative senate committee in response to their unhappiness about Willis's prosecution of former president Donald Trump in an election interference case. They want Willis to answer questions under oath and they want documents. Fulton County's prosecution of Donald Trump stalled after revelations that D A Fannie Willis had a personal relationship with her well paid freelance prosecutor, Nathan Wade who led the case for months against Trump. Shortly after Republican state senators formed an investigative committee to examine the relationship and the Trump prosecution. Jason Estevez is one of three skeptical Democrats on the Republican dominated committee. We haven't seen that before and unfortunately, what we're seeing it used for is a political stunt versus using it for things that we records show that Republicans on the Senate committee have subpoenaed text messages sent between Willis and Wade. But a court filing from Willis says it's too broad and not relevant. The subpoenas also seek every text message exchanged between Willis and former Special counsel Wade for the last five years, regardless of their relevance to any legislative purpose. Willis's attorney writes in a court filing the financial and temporal burdens to comply with the subpoenas would be immense. Such demands would also seriously harm the important work her office does in keeping the citizens of Fulton County safe from crime. So Doug, the question here is when they do meet tomorrow, what will happen? Well, there is an agenda posted. Willis's name is actually on the agenda, but so is the name of a former Clerk of the Senate, uh an attorney for the Senate. Uh Those folks will likely be questioned by senators about what they think is legal in terms of questioning Willis. Um I'm anticipating a pretty short meeting. All right. Well, we will see Doug, thank you so much.

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