But breaking tonight, we first told you about this last night. But now at least 36 people are dead and thousands are fleeing their homes as i will wildfires sweep across the Hawaiian Island of maui. The flames have forced some adults and children to literally run into the ocean to avoid blaze. This is a disaster of historic proportions for the island state. President biden is promising immediately help for those affected. And the u. S. Military is assisting in the response. Some historic areas have been totally destroyed. National correspondent William La Jeunesse joins us now from outside a shelter on maui. Good evening, william. Good evening, bret. You know, the fires are still burning. So this remains a Search And Rescue operation. In fact, were told a number of individuals are still up in lahaina. They survived the fire but they dont want to leave because they wont get back. In the video i want to show you is from lahaina. Thats the commercial heart of this island and it was litera
Another legal setback for hunter biden as the judge rules his federal Gun Crimes Trial will proceed as scheduled. A big primary for voters in maryland and West Virginia as republicans speak gain control of the u. S. Senate and Secretary Of State Antony Blinken visits ukraine as the u. S. Sends in more weapons. Rain showers for donald trump start the crossexamination of the key witness in the former president s criminal case. That trial of course centers on 34 case against counts on falsifying Business Records for a payment to an Adult Film Actress who alleged a sexual encounter with mr. Trump ahead of the 2016 election. This is the first ever criminal prosecution of an expresident. Former Trump Attorney and selfdescribed fixer Michael Cohen was immediately grilled on crossexamination about his often profane social media posts. Concerning his former boss after prosecutors on direct tried to link the former president to that payment and the record of it. Correspondent nate foy is outside
mollie hemingway federalist. julie manchester national politics reporter for the hill. host of fox news media buzz howie kurtz. mollie, they are building these blocks on what they call is the weaponization of the justice department and the fbi. this one seems cut and dried. this is a really big problem. when this memo first came out people were really worried about it. christopher wray came to congress and said don t worry about it. it s not a big deal. can i assure you personally. one office and one product. even at that time they were concealing from congress showed that was not true. that the portland field office was incident yal here, los angeles field office actually started an investigation. so we have with chris wray either he was lying, which is not good. or is he incompetent and doesn t know at all what is going on in the fbi that he overseas and it really does speak to this larger issue and also means that congress is going to have to decide do we just keep sending in gr