A search for answers. The atf now in maui investigating what sparked a catastrophic wildfire, as crews search for more than a thousand people still missing. And in the aftermath of the disaster, a top Emergency Management official stepping down even as he defends the response to the fires. Plus, delay, delay, delay. Donald trumps legal team testing the limits of that legal strategy, proposing to start one of his special counsel trials in april of 2026. Will the judge buy their reasons for the setback . And serious skepticism from the white house to the pentagon about ukraines current strategy and where kyiv is targeting its fight against russia. We are following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. We start this afternoon with major growing questions on the cause and the response to the deadly maui wildfires. Right now, the atfs National Response team is joining the investigation. The death toll remains at 111. But a thousand people
The criminal indictment weve covered in manhattan, florida, and washington, d. C. Mr. Trump continuing his unrelenting attacks against d. A. Fani will is throughout the morning, claiming that this prosecution is the latest, quote, witch hunt against him. Mr. Trump is also promising a press conference next monday morning, where he is going to release some reports that he says it will improve there was Election Fraud despite multiple court cases, saying he won the presidency fair and square. And the campaign as with previous indictments have addressed a flurry of Fundraising Emails to try to turn this latest legal woe to financial gain. Garrett haake is here, katie phang, Chuck Rosenberg, msnbc legal analyst lisa ruben and former fbi general counsel. Chuck rosenberg, power panel, and i will start with you if i can. When i read this social media post by donald trump, he promised a large complex and detailed report by monday, to refute this indictment. Is it bound with footnotes and where
To sell the platform or face a ban. [chanting keep tiktok ] norah the protests tonight from users. It is 90plus percent plus of my familys income. Its how we feed our family. Norah the Cbs Evening News starts now. Good evening. Im norah odonnell, and thank you for being with us. We want to begin tonight with the fate of social media app tiktok hanging in the balance. In a rare moment of bipartisanship, the house voted overwhelmingly to pass a bill that would an the Popular Platform unless it severs ties with the Chinese Communist party. President biden vowed to sign the bill if it passes the democraticcontrolled senate, and if the bill becomes law, it would give tiktoks chinesebased Parent Company bytedance six months to sell the videosharing app or it would be removed from app stores and webhosting services here in the u. S. Now, tiktoks massive Lobbying Efforts were not enough to stop the crackdown, despite a flood of phone calls to members of congress and these online influencers wh
In less than 12 hours the District Attorney fani willis will begin presenting her election interference case to a granary in georgia. Indictments for donald trump and his allies could come down as soon as tuesday evening. Breaking tonight, we are learning about one possible focus of witnesses presentation. A Voting System breach in Coffee County. That is a rural heavily republican area of the state. Now, Text Messages and emails reference in public Court Documents show that lawyers working for trump, coordinated a visit to Coffee Countys Election Office along with Data Specialists hired by ex trump lawyer and Conspiracy Theorist Sydney Powell. The big breaking siren tonight, cnn is now reporting that those Text Messages are indeed part of fani williss investigations and to understand the importance of this revelation i want to give you a little bit more context about it lets go back in time for a moment here. On January 7th 2021 the date after the capital Insurrection Data Forensics Ex
And also tell us is it going to happen before the election. Could i Say Something . I think the fact we have to make a Television Show every night gives us a weird perspective on this. Were like what is everyone waiting for . You got to wait. We went through the indictment. Were ready. Were familiar with the evidence. Lets do it. Lets go. Lets get it onair. 11. 6 million pages of discovery. Lets go. Thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. The article starts with this, the woman cannot believe it, she is in the same elevator as Rudolf Giuliani. Oh, this is a thrill. Its a random new yorker in the year 1985. 1985 was the year Rudolf Giuliani made a name for himself. It was the year giuliani pioneered the same prosecutorial tactics that now very much look like they could be his downfall. But let me back up just a little bit. This is carmine the cigar gallante. And in the late 70s he flew a little too close to the sun. He was shot at pointblank range in an Italian Restaurant in bro