Nathan Wade's advisor interrupts interview with CNN's Kaitlan Collins as he is grilled on fling with DA Fani Willis

Nathan Wade was in the middle of an interview with CNN when the disgraced Donald Trump prosecutor was suddenly interrupted by his media consultant in bizarre scenes. 

Wade was being questioned by CNN's Kaitlan Collins about the timeline of his relationship with Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. 

Collins asked Wade when his romantic relationship with Willis began, but just as he was about to answer, he was interrupted by a man who told him to stop and remove his microphone.

Wade has seconds earlier revealed that he still 'regularly speaks' with Willis, and noted how the election interference case against Trump 'will live on' despite him being removed from the case. 

'When did the romantic relationship between the two of you start?' Collins then asked. 

Trump prosecutor Nathan Wade was in the middle of an interview with CNN on Wednesday when he was suddenly interrupted by a 'media consultant'

Former prosecutor Nathan Wade was being questioned about his relationship with Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. The pair are seen together in a photo from August 2023

'Yes, so we get into...  there's been this effort to say that, OK, these exact dates are at issue and these exact dates are,' he began to answer. 

It was at that point, Wade suddenly appeared distracted and looked off camera stating that he was being 'signaled'. 

Wade and his media consultant then went to huddle in the corner of the room for almost a minute as they whispered to one another, presumably to discuss how to answer the question. 

Collins appeared bewildered as she sat waiting for Wade's return. 

Willis had begun answering a question when he was in interrupted by his consultant who told him to take his microphone off

In the background, a CNN producer was heard telling the cameraman to 'keep rolling.'

When Wade got back to his seat, Collins resumed her line of questioning, asking Wade if he was 'ok'.

'Just to revisit the question, it was to clarify when the romantic relationship started and when it ended,' Collins told Wade once again.

'I don't choose to say or do anything that would jeopardize the case or the court's ruling,' he said 

'I believe that the public has through, through the testimony and other interviews, the public has a clear snapshot that this is clearly just a distraction.

'It is not a relevant issue in this case. And I think that we should be focusing on more of the facts and the indictment of the case,' Wade responded, pushing to change the subject.

The pair then went to huddle in the corner of the room to whisper to one another

Collins was left sitting in her chair while Wade stepped away in the middle of his interview

He added: 'Certainly I would have never done anything that would have jeopardized that hard work…I do believe though the timing of the personal relationship I had was probably bad, it was bad timing but you don't pick and choose when those things happen.

'What I believe is this whole conversation is a distraction that's all. It's a tool to stop the train, to slow down the inevitable, which is the trial of the defendant's name in the election interference case.' 

Collins asked Wade if a sitting president could be put on trial.

'I don't believe it looks good to the rest of the world, but I don't think there is anything that would prevent that from happening', Wade said.

Collins suggested she did not think a sitting president would be sent to jail.

'We know that sentencing is entirely up to a trial court. And it's up to the court to determine if the appropriate sentence is jail time', Wade added.

The appeals court might hear arguments in October over Trump's efforts to have Willis removed from the election interference case she brought against him.

 Willis arrives at a press conference with Wade after a Grand Jury brought back indictments against Trump

Former President Donald Trump said following arguments at a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., that Fulton County, Georgia DA Fani Willis was 'totally compromised,' following allegations she had a 'romantic' affair with a private lawyer acting as a paid special prosecutor 

What is known is that Wade was hired by Willis to lead the investigation on November 1, 2021 - just one day before he filed for divorce. 

Wade has testified that the relationship between the two started 'around March' 2022. 

Willis, meanwhile, told Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee that it began 'between February and April' of that year. 

But neither Willis nor Wade have given a precise date of when their tryst began. 

The pair have also given different answers for the time periods as to when their  romance ended. 

Wade has said things came to an end in  June or July 2023. Willis has August 2023 as her end date for the relationship.

'The only thing I regret is the timing of it', Wade has said previously. 

Last week the appeals court froze Trump's criminal trial proceedings for which he faces 13 felony counts, as it takes up his appeal to remove Willis from the case.

'The Georgia Court of Appeals has properly stayed all proceedings against President Trump in the trial court pending its decision on our interlocutory appeal which argues the case should be dismissed and Fulton County DA Willis should be disqualified for her misconduct,' Steve Sadow, Trump's lead Georgia defense attorney, said in a statement. 

Wade was the former special prosecutor in Fulton County and helped lead former President Trump's criminal prosecution in Georgia.

He resigned from his position in March after Judge Scott McAffee, who is overseeing the case in the Superior Court of Fulton County, ruled that Willis could only stay on the case if Wade stepped down.