Likely. Were following the legal and political implications. Plus a warning to Donald Trumps legal team from the judge overseeing the election interference case, saying more inflammatory statements will require a quicker start to the trial. We are live outside the court. And the death toll as they have yet to even start searching the hundred of burned out buildings. Well take you live to maui. Were following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. Another controversial investigation that could have some pretty big repercussions for 2024 is escalating. Today a Special Counsel was designated in the federal probe of hunter biden. Attorney general Merrick Garland named david weiss to the role. Weiss has been leading this investigation. Yes, he has. Hes been leading the investigation into hunter biden for the past five years, in fact. This week he asked himself to be elevated to that role of Special Counsel. Were following that in realtime.
more clarity on whether or not weiss still plan tuesday come to capitol hill some time in the next couple of months. kara, these republicans angry that weiss, that the special counsel is not someone new, that simply the u.s. attorney has been designated. do they have a point? how unusual is it that the attorney general stuck with weiss and didn t approve someone else for this investigation? i mean it is unusual the requirement under the provisions of the law for a scial counsel is to appoint somee who is impartial and fair. weiss did stay on. he was a trump appointee, someone that was not appointed by biden. of course this is his son under investigation. we have seen in other investigations that they have brought in outsiders, people have not been involved. even in jack smith s case he did keep on a number of the top attorneys who were working on this carb, although it is unusual weiss is staying in this role although he does have five years of knowledge where this investigation ha
kara scunel, lauren fox, all over this breaking news. thank you both. let s turn to another special counsel case today. this morning was the first hearing in the trump election subversion indictment. it was focused on setting up rules how trump can handle certain evidence in the case, but the judge also sent out some clear warnings of her own regarding what the former president says publicly about the case. cnn s kaitlan palanz is outside the courtroom in washington. what happened in that courtroom today? reporter: there was a clear signal from judge tanya chutkan that there is justice and there is politics and donald trump as a criminal defendant charged with multiple federal crimes, in her court justice is going to have to come first. one of things she said specifically is that the fact is that he, donald trump, is running a political campaign currently hato yield to the administration oice. and if that means he, trump,
and this just in sam bankman freed, has been ordered back into custody after violating the conditions of his bail. kara, one of the allegations is that he was tampering with witnesses. yeah, alex, that s right. and the judge finding today that there was probable cause to believe that bankman freed attempted to tamper with witnesses twice. that visual you see on the screen is bankman freed arriving to the courtroom today. that is the last time he ll be walking as a free man. he s expected to go to trial october 2nd, but the judge revoking bail and prosecutors asking for this because the tipping point seemed to be bankman freed spoke to the new york times about a person in this case. this is a top executive at ftx
the president, hunter biden after investigation of a plea deal stalled. now republicans are blasting trump s appointment for the job, david weiss, saying they don t trust him to be impartial and presidential candidate ron desantis said this before an audience in iowa. and it s like if he were the special counsel, if he were republican he d be in jail right now and we all know that. let me bring in cnn anchor of the lead jake tapper who s also our chief washington correspondent. what do you make of these criticisms? i think there are some legitimate questions about this whole situation. first of all, i do think it s fair to question why would u.s. attorney weiss be appointed to special counsel? usually a special counsel is an outside attorney. it has happened before. durham came from inside, and the attorney general has the right to do that, but it is odd. second of all, this was a this plea deal was picked apart by the judge, so one could ask why would you stick with the