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that's the attorney who exposed the

extra marital Affair that fonnie Willis

was having with her favorite prosecutor

Nathan Wade they were working together

on the election interference case

against former president Trump Ashley

Merchant represents one of former

president Trump's

co-defendants and she again got this

started she accused Willison Wade of

conflict of interest and revealed a

trove of questionable cash payments

between them at this hour that Georgia

Senate committee is digging deep Bonnie

claims she hired Wade before their

relationship began Witnesses have

already gone before a judge and

contradicted what the two lovers have

testified to under oath about when they

met what they were doing all the

money we have watched this case go off

the rails live in a courtroom our fauler

Focus team now is monitoring the hearing

and we'll keep you updated on what

happens also developing what is next for

Nikki Haley she dropped out of the

presidential race about an hour ago

former president Trump's overwhelming

super Tuesday performance opening the

door wider for a 2020 rematch in

November I'm Harris fauler you are in

the fauler focus Trump's last opponent

standing made her last stand Haley won

only one state it happened yesterday

Vermont she also won Washington DC over

the weekend not enough to compete with

Trump today in her announcement she did

not endorse

him I sought the honor of being your

president but in our great country being

a private citizen is privilege enough in

itself and that's a privilege I very

much look forward to

enjoying in all likelihood Donald Trump

will be the Republican nominee when our

party convention meets in July I

congratulate him and wish him well I

have always been a Conservative

Republican and always supported the

Republican

nominee but on this question as she did

on so many others Margaret thater

provided some good advice when she said

quote never just follow the

crowd a big night for former president

Trump and President Biden both are now

about 80% of the way toward winning each

of their parties nominations polls have

shown voters are not excited for a 2020

part duh a recent poll shows 57% of

Voters don't want to see Biden run again

53% say they don't want to see Trump run

again but a rematch is likely what we're

going to get Trump during his speech

last night laser focused on the general

election he's the worst president in the

history of our country all of the

problems that you have today I don't

think you would have had any of them

you'd only have success we have no

choice because November 5th is right

around the corner no November 5th is

going to go down as the single most

important day in the history of our

country and this happened just a few

moments ago outgoing Senate minority

leader Mitch McConnell just gave his

endorsement to former president Donald

Trump someone who knows the former

president very well kellyanne Conway is

standing by she's on the Mez with me

today I can't wait and we begin with Fox

correspondent Brian yenis in West Palm

Beach Florida oh so gorgeous Brian

hey Harris yes it is gorgeous out here

former president Trump now the

presumptive Republican nominee reacting

to Nikki Haley's decision to drop out

this morning also to her decision to not

endorse him at least not yet and her

call for Trump to bring more people into

the party Trump posting this on Truth

social writing in part Nikki Haley got

troun last night in record setting

fashion and I would further like to

invite all of the Haley supporters to

join the greatest movement in the

history of our nation Biden is the enemy

he is destroying our country make

America great again Trump won 14 out of

15 states on super Tuesday he now has

995 delegates the former president could

reach the 1,25 delegates needed to

officially secure the Republican

nomination as early as March 19th last

night Trump called for

Unity we have a great Republican party

with tremendous Talent

and we want to have unity and we're

going to have unity and it's going to

happen very quickly and I have been

saying lately success will bring Unity

to our

country in an act of unity this morning

Republican Senate minority leader Mitch

McConnell endorsed Trump writing quote

it is abundantly clear that former

president Trump has earned the requisite

support of Republican voters to be our

nominee for president of the United

States it should come as no surprise

that as nominee he will have my support

this is now a general election race new

Fox News Power Rankings have Trump ahead

of Biden in a rematch with 251 delegates

against Biden's 241 delegates President

Biden and the DNC have $80 million

dollars on of cash on hand that's devil

the money that the Trump campaign and

the RNC have the New York Times is

reporting Trump met with billionaire

Elon Musk and other wealthy Republican

donors here in Palm Beach on Sunday to

try to raise more money musk posted this

morning that he will not be donating to

either candidate in the presidential

race and Harris former president Trump

and President Biden will be holding

dueling rallies in Georgia this Saturday

ahead of the primary there Harris all

right it's on like Donkey Kong good to

see you Brian thank you kellyan Conway

former counselor to president Trump and

Fox News contributor so you always come

with a healthy dose of don't get ahead

of yourself what are you watching for

I'm watching for the cage match rematch

that despite the fact Americans say they

don't want they actually do want you

know for 24 straight years without

interruption Harris this country had a

bush or a Clinton on the presidential

National ticket from 1980 to 2004 and

again in 2016 with Hillary Clinton we go

to McDonald's and Chick-fil-A in the

minivan every night in order number four

uh we like to say we're revolutionaries

we want more choice and options and

change but with so much chaos and crisis

everywhere we look at our own Southern

Border in our communities and

neighborhoods at the gas pump in the

grocery store in the Middle East with

Iran with Putin and Ukraine uh people

are probably going to retreat to what's

most comfortable and familiar what does

that mean it means that right now

president Trump has an enormous

advantage in all the polls against Joe

Biden on the handling of the issues and

the poll questions I love the most that

we should keep our eye on between now in

November Harris are those that mimic the

questions we ask ourselves while we're

filling out that ballot and mailing it

in are going to The Ballot Box so the

ones that say who has helped to hurt my

family who has a vision for the future

who has a plan for the middle class who

has the energy and Acuity to do the job

having said that President Trump needs

to do better among what's called the

double haters in 2016 the campaign I ran

if you looked at the one of Voters who

did not care for either Hillary Clinton

or Donald Trump necessarily he beat her

by 40 points in Wisconsin by 20 points

in Michigan this time they're kind of

tied and Biden beat beat him in 2020

among that group and it all depends on

why you dislike each of them if you

dislike Joe Biden because you think he

has dementia or he doesn't have the

energy for the job or you're mad about

Afghanistan or inflation and anything

else if you don't like Trump's tone or

you don't like Trump's tweets or his

truth social watch him watch him last

night watch him in South Carolina where

he doesn't mention Nikki Haley's name

where he's trying to unify the party in

the Fox News poll that was released over

the weekend among independent voters

Harris they told Fox News pollsters that

20% of them think think Joe Biden has

mostly succeeded in quote unifying the

country 75% of Independents told Fox

News pollsters they think Joe Biden has

mostly failed there's an opening for

Nikki Haley and Donald Trump to come

together the burden's on her though the

burden is on her though to come to the

Republican nominate I hope that this

wasn't just a gap year for her between

all these highly paid speeches and

corporate board ships I hope she's

serious about beating Joe Biden getting

Republican back in the White House last

point that I haven't heard anybody say

except me last night she's a close

personal friender was of Jared and ianas

and it would be great if um some kind of

piece could be brokered here and she can

come back in and endorse the man that

she served as un Ambassador you are

always bringing stuff that we just

haven't thought of yet or thought much

about until you say it and what you're

saying is is she going to set up the

race with Trump is she going to go back

and then finally endorse and and I know

you believe it'll happen those that

double hater thing that's really we'll

get more into that and easy win last

night for President Biden yesterday but

more evidence of what could be a problem

in the general election the uncommitted

or no preference protest over his

handling of the Hamas of the Israel

Hamas War those non Biden votes spiking

from 2020 in the seven states where they

were on the ballot in Minnesota nearly

20% of the vote North Carolina more than

10% of the vote we saw Kelly and what

happened in Michigan yes over 100,000

people voted uncommitted now different

situations across the country I I don't

think this is being talked about enough

it's not just the Arab American Muslim

vote mad at the president it's not just

anti-israel why are you supporting

Israel and not fighting for people in

Gaza all that that's a very angry vote

Yes but it's a primary vote the one that

could stick is electric vehicles and all

the pressure that they put on automakers

in the state of Michigan they did and

they L literally have nothing to show

for it I think Joe Biden because people

don't want them they don't want them and

it didn't work out and it was a big part

of not just the build back better

nonsense but also the quote inflation

reduction act the green New Deal and he

still talks about it they they're so

focused on electric vehicles they don't

realize that unless people see the

fruits of your decisions where you're

spending money that we as a nation don't

have on things we didn't ask for and we

don't quite need if people don't see the

bridges repair the roads running

properly the electric vehicles that

everybody wants some hurts car rental

cancel their whole of it people aren't

this is not this is not affordable for

the average person um plus people don't

want the hassle but they went so far

into this I mean if you got Pete Buddha

judge who's the Secretary of

Transportation having watching uh air

traffic control shut down and leaning so

far into electric vehicles people think

you have misaligned priorities I think

that Donald Trump who won Michigan in

2016 first president first Republican to

do it since 1988 can do it again for

lots of reasons and Gretchen Whitmer the

governor got reelected there just last

year by double digits all right Kelly

and Conway I love it when you come in

thank you so very much for being in

focus and for having me the Georgia

district attorney Prosecuting Donald

Trump is back in the spotlight this is

live this is where we started this hour

it's what we're watching the Georgia

State Senate is holding a hearing on

fonnie Willis's affair with the

prosecutor she hired her favorite guy

Nathan Wade a judge is deciding if she

should be kicked off that case or both

of them for that matter and what does

happen to the case we'll bring you

highlights as we get them plus critics

are going after democrat's response to

the US Supreme Court's decision that

Colorado cannot kick Donald Trump off a

ballot specifically the primary

ballot the idea that a state could

unilaterally disenfranchise millions of

Voters across the country removing from

the ballot the choice of candidate from

Individual people just defies democ

focus of a Georgia State Senate special

committee state senators are digging

into Willis's possible misconduct and

her prosecution of President Donald

Trump in the state election interference

case they're talking with Ashley

Merchant who represents one of the

co-defendants of Donald Trump she's the

one that popped the top on this whole

case and now she is going before this

committee let's watch it live him to

verify the accuracy of what you were

claiming it happen I did not want to say

one word that had not been verified cuz

he was the source yes he's the guy that

was his law partner and his divorce

attorney yes who probably knew as well

as anybody in the state they had been

best friends also all right and so what

let's pull these up Senator DOA when did

you start you kept these text messages

somehow I did so I actually he um Mr

Bradley uses a Android I believe um and

so it it was it was not easy to just

download them and I'm not the most Tex

saavy person um I also there's a lot of

texts that just went into things that I

didn't think I thought would just

embarrass people people and weren't Rel

relevant so what I did was I

screenshotted the texts that I thought

were relevant um I tried to use those in

court but the prosecutor kept objecting

and saying I was hiding things because I

wasn't showing all of my texts so they

just kept on and on for days saying I

was hiding things I was hiding things

and I I explained to them I let him look

through my phone they scrolled through

all my texts who's they it was um Adam

abot was the prosecutor okay um so he

just kept saying you know that I was

where's the beginning of that text

where's the thing after that where's the

other part of that text um these aren't

complete you know rule of completeness

kept objecting and I had just

screenshotted the texts that I thought

were highly relevant but weren't

slanderous I guess I don't even know the

word but you know there were some that

that like you know that Miss Willis's

daughter had failed out like things like

that they were just ugly they didn't

need to they didn't need to be admitted

oh yeah I read that we I had just I had

tried really hard to just screenshot the

relevant ones but they kept saying that

I was hiding stuff and I wasn't showing

the whole thing so when they objected to

my text coming in the screenshot

um they said they wanted the whole text

chain and the judge ordered me to if I

was going to admit the text to go figure

out a way to download all of them so I

bought a program for 20 30 bucks and

took three hours um and I was very proud

of myself for finally figuring out how

to do it um but I was able to make a

copy of it and then redact our phone

numbers so this actually showed like

when they're read when they're what were

you all right so up there on January 5th

at 9:50 a.m. mhm you're asking what what

do you read the question so so I'm

asking him do you think it started

before she hired him you're talking

about the affair yes the affair and

what's his response his response was

absolutely itug to admit the email where

I sent him that so um I sent him a copy

of the motion that weekend when I was

review when you know I wanted him to

review it and then he had a text he

didn't write me back by email but I I

submitted my email so that you could so

that the court could see exactly when I

sent it and when he responded and then

he responded that everything looked good

cuz I asked you know I said I'm sending

you this motion I need you to look at it

um and then he responded that everything

looked good in it he actually he

actually told me at first he wanted me

to make some changes because I had not

included the information about how much

money he had received I had only

included the information about how much

Wade had received and you know I didn't

know that it was it wasn't really highly

relevant to my motion um but he was like

oh that's going to tip them off that I'm

talking to you and I don't want he did

not want anybody to know that he was he

was talk talking um he was very

concerned about what I'm going to let

you just read through this chain okay

all right we left off up there um

absolutely it began before it began when

she was a judge in South Fulton when was

she a judge in South Fulton she became a

judge in August of 20 of

2019 and I did an open records I first

asked um actually I first didn't open

records and they all right so they're

going back and forth that was really

interesting actually we got to see how

the original text M messages between the

divorce attorney for Nathan Wade and

also his uh former law business partner

um was texting with this attorney for

Trump codefendant Ashley Merchant and so

now that we get to see when they were

opened what dates they were sent I mean

it's all out there and easy to

understand senior correspondent Jonathan

Siri is at the Georgia state capital in

Atlanta he's been watching as we have

been uh and monitoring since the hearing

began Jonathan what can you tell us that

specifically stands out at this point to

you yeah well the senate committee

hearing is learning more details about

what defense attorney Ashley Merchant

says she was able to learn about the

Romantic relationship between district

attorney fonnie Willis and Nathan Wade

her special prosecutor in the Georgia

election interference case let's listen

to some

highlights he said that they met at a

judici conference before he was very

specific that it was before she became

da cuz that was one of the things that

he could he couldn't remember when the

judicial conference was but he knew that

it was before she became da and he told

me you know they met at hotels um he

would go to her her place um and he's I

remember him saying you need to find her

um her bestie who they had a falling out

that's the person whose condo it was

that they would meet

at actually merch is an attorney

representing former Trump campaign Aid

Mike Roman Roman who was a codefendant

of the former president had filed a

motion with Merchant to have da Willis

removed from the case a judge is

expected to rule on that by mid-march

now the committee chairman today asked

Merchant whether she had reason to

believe that Willis or Nathan Wade were

coordinating with the Biden White House

over the course of the Trump

investigation

listen Open records for

the the White House access and we had

records that uh Miss Willis and the

mayor of Atlanta were at meeting with

the vice

president fonny Willis and Nathan Wade

have testified that they did not become

romantically involved until after she

hired him to help investigate the Trump

case in November of 2021 but as you

heard from uh Ashley Merchant's

testimony earlier today the defense is

ing that the romance started much

earlier than that Jonathan I just want

to get this straight because I've got a

former US attorney coming up next I want

to make sure I have my facts straight

what was the deal with a meeting at the

White House did you say the vice

president kamla

Harris uh said that several people were

meeting at the White House of course the

nature of that meeting was not expressed

it could have been some a democratic

event or a social event but the

implication that they're trying to get

at was that allegedly there may have

been some coordination with this case uh

but uh they don't have any hard evidence

of that at this point because the

receipts and this is something that

Ashley Merchant pointed out that Nathan

Wade submitted are very vague they just

mention that he met with white house

councel or met with white house but

doesn't go into any detail as to what

the meetings were okay I got it thank

you Jonathan very great reporting uh

Brett Tolman former US attorney and

former Senate Judiciary Committee

counsel I I do want to drill down just a

second on on the White House meeting and

and how that comes into play is that

purely politics or as a former US

attorney is it something that you look

at as information

what well I will tell you I think you're

right to be asking questions about it

and here's what the the public needs to

understand there's really no

circumstance for the white House Council

or anyone in the White House to go

anywhere near this if their goal is to

make sure that it is an objective review

of potential criminal activity of an

opponent of a political opponent if

however you are coordinating and you're

wanting to take down a a political

opponent that's Temptation that the

White House I think probably gave into

was to to have conversations and look at

the the four different criminal Cas most

of them at this point have had

conversations with the White House just

prior to charges being brought that's

not coincidence that's cordination yeah

uh all right I I wanted to hit that

because that seems to be a bigger issue

now that we're hearing about it in a

different venue a state senate committee

special Committee hearing and now you

get into what you just pointed out two

men battling it out and it takes you

back to what Donald Trump said days ago

when his US Supreme sueme Court Victory

happened 90 you can't keep his name off

a ballot no State can do that what he

said was stop using your your high power

President Biden of the doj and let's

fight this out between the two of us

it's very interesting to put that in the

context of was Nathan Willis were was

fonnie Wade was anybody or excuse me

Nathan Wade and fonny Willis was anybody

on that prosecutorial team particularly

those two lovers talking with anybody at

the White House so it's it is

interesting I'll continue to ask the

question uh all right real quickly your

Top Line about what's come out today and

when they met and what

matters well I think there's folks that

have been saying for some time now

what's the big deal why you know so what

so they have an affair does that really

uh does that really impact the

underlying criminal investigation here's

why it does Harrison why it's so

important you have a legitimate inquiry

into the ethics of the sitting da you

have to know whether or not there's a

compromise to those ethics because that

brings into question her prosecutorial

discretion whether she was capable of

exercising it

appropriately then when she lies about

their Affair now you have a bigger issue

now you have potential obstruction of

justice right now what should be

happening in the next few weeks you

should have a criminal investigation

open for obstruction of justice and an

Ethics investigation for lawyers who are

willing to lie in the courtroom uh Brett

Tolman always great to have you thank

you very much for handling the breaking

news with well what will we learn about

the border and the nation's other crises

at tomorrow night's State of the Union

Address I think what you'll see in the

State of the Union is a massive effort

to shift blame because that's what Joe

Biden seems to be doing most of the time

blaming other people that illegal aliens

who committed theft offense

as lak's alleged murderer did cannot be

shielded by the lack immigration

enforcement policies of the Biden

Administration how many more bills named

after victims of illegal alien crime

must the house consider before Democrats

and the Biden Administration act to

secure our borders and prevent other

senseless tragedies like this one the

bills that name

Americans as victims of illegal

immigrants say their names while

Congress is now working to prevent

another tragedy like lak Riley's murder

the president has yet to utter her name

Republicans are challenging him to do

just that tomorrow night at the State of

the Union Address but the white house

looks like it's

dodging I do want to always acknowledge

and extend our deepest condolences uh to

to her family and to her friends and the

people who who loved her I don't have

anything to share about the president's

speech as it relates to that particular

question that you have uh but we you

know we want to always uh always be sure

that we left lift up the families who

have lost their loved ones in that way

the president State of the Union Address

will be the latest one ever delivered

Politico is billing it as seriously high

stakes the Biden team seems to be hoping