BREAKING🔥 Fani Willis DISQUALIFICATION Saga - FANI'S Last minute change after Attorney Testimony🚨

in the last 3 hours fton County district

attorney fonnie Willis admitted to a

personal relationship with an outside

prosecutor she appointed to manage the

election interference case against

former president Donald Trump

relationship between her and Wade had

prejudiced the case this is a last

minute change the attorney representing

special prosecutor Nathan Wade's EST

strange wife is speaking with

investigator Zack Merchant and a 176

page Court filing Willis said she and

Nathan Wade developed a relationship in

202 to but that there was no

relationship prior to his appointment as

special prosecutor we'll have more on

this story including one legal expert's

take on the impact on the election

interference case there's another case

that's a big mess and that's fonnie

Willis the RICO case uh for the election

fraud issue down in in Georgia uh she's

going through yet another set of

circumstances right the judge wants to

gag her the judge do well the defense

teams are going to file a motion to to

gag her she continues to make public

statements now if you'll remember in the

judge's decision on the disqualification

issue in which she was kept on the case

but her but Nathan Wade was kicked off

the case the judge made a comment about

gagging her that that motion wasn't

before the court but the judge was very

critical of the public statements she

made the ones in church where she blamed

her race on on the problems that she's

had and and he called them inappropriate

so he's ready I think to uh issue a gag

order he just needs a motion before the

court to do so so today the Fulton

County District Attorney office is

asking the Georgia court of appeals to

let a judge's disqualification ruling

stand what specific remedies are former

president Trump and his codefendant

looking for right now they want to see

judge McAfee's ruling overturn now what

that could include is Da Willis and her

team off the case or the indictment

dismissed altogether the attorney

representing special prosecutor Nathan

Wade's EST stranged wife is speaking

with investigator Zack Merchant it is

her first sitdown interview since their

divorce catapulted into the national

Spotlight it's good to go through a

little bit of background here because it

has been a complex past few weeks the

attorney Andrea Hastings subpoena Fulton

County district attorney fonny Willis

earlier this month seeking to depose her

in Wade's ongoing divorce proceedings

alleging Willis had a romantic

relationship with Nathan Wade whom she

appointed as special prosecutor in the

ongoing criminal case in Fulton County

against former president Donald Trump

and others in the interview we asked

Hastings the question many of you are

asking what proof do you have to support

the allegation that da Fon Willis and

Nathan Wade had a romantic relationship

where does the divorce case between

Joyce and Wade and Nathan Wade stand as

of today as of today we have a

settlement a consent order incorporating

a settlement as to Temporary alimony and

temporary attorney St to somebody who's

not an attorney what what does that mean

so it's in any case it's It's Not

Unusual for us to set up temporary

Financial Arrangements in a case what's

unusual about this situation is that

it's been over 2 years and we're just

now establishing a temporary Financial

Arrangement temporary support for my

client who is not the earning spouse so

and that's because of how this case is

gone um but it's it's a normal part of

the process what's unusual is that it's

taking this long you're a divorce

attorney how long have you worked in in

family law in divorce law I've been in

family law since

2003 have you ever handled a case quite

like this

one

no no I well as far as the the facts go

of the case it's there's not a lot

unusual about it the circumstances

surrounding the case that's what makes

it unusual elaborate on that a little

bit for

me well um you know when we started this

case when Joyce Wade hired me we had no

idea about any of the circumstances

surrounding the case we certainly had no

idea that Nathan Wade had accepted a

position as a special prosecutor so from

my perspective I was approaching it like

any other divorce case I had a a wife

who'd been married for almost 25 years

to a husband a apparently successful

attorney so we were going to undergo

Discovery and all the things we normally

do um and then as we started to peel

back the onion and and questions weren't

answered and things didn't make sense

that's when it turned into something

else you mentioned that when you came on

to the case it was your understanding

that uh you didn't know that Mr Wade was

working as a special prosecutor correct

there have been people who've who've

caught that you mentioned it in some

filing seeking additional Discovery

materials over the more than two years

now that this case has been proceeding

and there have been folks who've

wondered how that could be um so I just

want to put it to you why didn't you

know that Mr Wade was a special

prosecutor until at least somewhat

fairly far along in the process well I

can tell you

that to the extent that it was public

knowledge it wasn't in any public Circle

that I was a part of or that Joyce was a

part of and we did not actually learn

that he was the special prosecutor until

around the time that the indictments

came out and in Discovery we ask about

sources of income with specificity and

the answer that we received repeatedly

was Nathan J Wade PC so we didn't have

any

information objective information that

would tell us anything about that until

it became a source of public information

and that's when we started down the hole

of trying to get information with regard

to his income those were the things that

weren't making sense he didn't seem to

have very much in the way of income but

he seemed to have a lot of money at his

disposal and when we learned this that's

when we started doing subpoenas to fton

County um and open records requests to

figure out what on Earth is going on you

mentioned something that I want to kind

of circle back on the open records

requests and The subpoena I think the

divorce case really got dragged into the

national Spotlight when you subpoena

bton County district attorney fonny

Willis to sit for a deposition in this

case and I want to spend a little bit of

time talking about that and let's start

here da Willis tried to quash that

subpoena um there was a hearing the

judge stayed The subpoena uh at the

time before that hearing da Willis filed

a motion in response trying to quash The

subpoena and she wrote that your client

was using the legal process to harass

ass and embarrass the district attorney

and I'm quoting here she said in her

filing that doing so was obstructing and

interfering with an ongoing criminal

prosecution what did you make of that

when you read it in her

filing I was

astounded

that she would make that type of

assertion against an individual another

member of the bar um I understand

intellectually what she was trying to do

but I don't take too kindly to people

threatening my clients or myself and

that's what it felt like to me it went

too

far you took it as a threat of criminal

prosecution correct that if we proceeded

with this

deposition that we would be prosecuted

criminally for it that's how I took it

did you you raised that concern in a

response filing of your own um did you

ever hear a response from da Willis

about

that let's talk about the subpoena

specifically you wrote in a motion and

this is where uh we have to peel back a

little bit from the legal le as best we

can although you know we'll hash it all

out but we we want to be sort of as as

clear about all this as we can because

there's a lot of motions and counter

motions and oh yes um and that's that's

the nature of these things but you wrote

in one of your motions in support of the

subpoena to get da Willis to sit for

that deposition you wrote that you

wanted to depose her to gather

information about the nature of the

relationship between da Fon Willis and

Nathan Wade and in that filing you wrote

that it was your belief that the two of

them were engaged in a romantic

relationship correct what kind of proof

do you have to support the notion that

Mr Wade and da Willis were engaged in a

romantic

relationship so let me say one thing

about the subpoena when we first issued

the subpoena we didn't list the reason

for the deposition and we did that on

purpose um it was only after her filing

that when she demanded to know why we

were going to ask her questions that we

reissued The subpoena with that

information on it I just think that I

just want that out there um but we

received documents like I said I did the

um sorry I'm jumping around I did the

open records request this was late fall

and once I received those documents I

issued a formal subpoena for evidentiary

reasons and I received those in November

it was shortly as soon as I received

those we filed a motion for a temporary

hearing because I had information about

money I did not have information about a

Rel relationship at that point and it

wasn't until we received a handful of

documents from Nathan Wade on the Friday

before Christmas December 22nd that I

had information that

indicated with a reasonable degree of

certainty that there was definitely more

than a boss employee relationship

between the two of them when you say

information help me understand what that

is is the natural question of anybody

who watches this is going to be be okay

what was it so you say you obtained

information what information did you

obtain what proof did that show to you

that there was a relationship between da

Willis and Mr wne I received documents

that indicated as you've seen um that

they have traveled together ostensibly

not for business purposes I'm I can't

think of a business reason for them to

have gone to Aruba or to Napa Valley and

we've issued subpoenas as a result of

those documents that we received from Mr

Wade that have gone

further when you say gone further the

latest that I've seen in the public

record so far are the exhibits attached

to your response to the emergency motion

seeking to quash The subpoena by da

Willis uh there were reported credit

card statements in there that showed

some flights booked um for both Mr Wade

and da Willis you say that you've

obtained new information that goes

further

can you elaborate on

that I don't know if I should at this

point we have let me let me answer it

this way and tell me we have issued

subpoenas based on specific items

contained in those documents and we've

received information back that gives

more detail with regards to what we

learned in those credit cards

statements can you can I actually show

you and and

maybe you can help me understand the

credit card statements better I have

them here um and sometimes I it's I'm a

visual learner sometimes absolutely and

one of the things that I noticed is that

the credit card statements them

themselves show flights to San Francisco

and Miami booked right um on behalf of

passengers named Nathan J Wade and fonny

Willis but you in your filing and in our

conversation here have also mentioned

trips to Aruba and other places can you

point to where in these credit card

statements those pieces of evidence come

up I don't think that

the um the Aruba trip is actually in

these credit card statements it was a

part of the cruise that they went on um

the Royal Caribbean cruise that's in

here uh they flew in and out of Miami

and from Miami they flew to Aruba okay

and it's your belief that that was a

romantic getaway

yes did joyn Wade have a sense that I

can take this back from you did Joyce

and Wade have a sense that this was

happening she did

not one of the things that some folks

have asked about and I want to make sure

you have a chance

to elaborate on it however you choose

um there's a timing question so the

subpoena to Da Willis to testify in the

ongoing divorce case came on January 8th

of this year on the same day a defendant

in the ongoing criminal case in Fulton

County filed a motion to disqualify da

Willis also alleging that da Willis was

engaged in a romantic relationship with

Nathan Wade so on the same day two

separate allegations of the same

romantic relationship there are those

who've wondered whether you coordinated

efforts with anybody who's seeking to

disqualify da Willis from the criminal

case in Fulton County to those people

what would you say I would say

absolutely not we didn't know about a

potential romantic relationship between

Nathan Wade and Vonnie Willis until

immediately Before Christmas when we

came back after the first of a year we

prepared and issued the subpoena we were

actually trying to serve her the week

before and we were not able to perfect

service we finally perfected service on

the eth which I understand I've learned

since that um because this question has

been asked of me that apparently that

was a deadline in the criminal case for

filing motions um I had no idea about

that there certainly was no coordinated

effort what I can say is that adult

adultery is not only a grounds for

divorce in Georgia but it's also a

factor that the court considers in

Equitable division of property so as

soon as I received information

indicating this potential relationship I

went after it as for other people and

the timing of when they did what they

did what they were looking at and where

they got their information I can't speak

to that a total

coincidence I don't generally believe in

coincidence but in this case it

literally happened on the same

day how has this case impacted

joyin so joyin

is she is an incredible woman she's kind

she's sweet she has some health issues

that have gone untreated um because she

has not had access to resources to to

take care of herself and needless to say

in the last few weeks as all of this has

gone on it's it's taken a definite toll

on her she's she's definitely

struggling I know the terms of the

consent order have not been made public

um is Joyce ly satisfied with the

current outcome of the case and and

that's a strange phrase I say current

outcome but this

is not a final disposition correct is

she satisfied with where things stand

now I think that I can without revealing

any confidences say that yes she's very

pleased with where things stand at the

moment can you

share anything about the terms of the

current

agreement beyond the fact that we

established temporary support and and

that Mr Wade is paying attorney's fees

and litigation

expenses I

can't do you have a sense of when a

final disposition will be reached in

this case it's been a two-year long

process

now Nathan Wade has a list of documents

that he has to get to us

and after we receive those

documents we are going to try to mediate

the case within 45 days and if we are