Two developments in the last hour should be processed with that fact in mind. First, his sudden decision to cancel a Press Conference. Trump had promised a, quote, conclusive report and he would once and for all be proven right New York Times says its a document of more than 100 pages compiled, at least in part by liz harrington, a Trump Communications aide often described as among the True Believers in his false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him through widespread fraud. At least on this one issue, trump appears to have listened to the advice of his lawyers. Abc news reported yesterday, trumps Legal Advisers have told him holding such a Press Conference with dubious claims would only complicate his legal problems. Which wrings us to the second development. An audacious request filed in Court Last Night to push back trumps trial in the federal case regarding his efforts to overturn the 2020 election to april of the year 2026. Yeah. Thats more than five years after the d
Hard questions on maui. How did this wildfire start . How did it grow so fast . Destroy lives all with so little warning . Now a top official in charge of the response to that crisis has quit even as he stands up for how his agency handled the disaster. Plus a historic hurricane. Hilary is now a huge category four storm. It could be the first storm of its kind to hit california in some 84 years. Some areas could get a years worth of rain in just one day. And justice deferred. Donald trumps legal team trying to push one trial years into the future. While the former president backtracks his plans to hold an explosive News Conference monday. Were following these developing stories and more right here all coming in to cnn news central. The origin and the response to the deadly maui wildfires are both under growing scrutiny. Just a couple of hours, residents of the devastated town of lahaina are set to hold a News Conference to address how officials responded to the disaster. It comes after
Charging him in connecith his efforts to overturn the 2020 electi. Include the conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding and conspiracy against rights. Moments ago the special counsel, jack smith, spoke more about the indictment and the charges trump now faces. The attack on our nations capitol on january 6th, 2021, was an unprecedented assault on the seat of american democracy. Its described in the indictment, it was fueled by lies, lies by the defendant targeted at obstructing a Bedrock Function of the u. S. Government, the nations process of collecting, counting and certifying the results of the president ial election. The indictment went on to say that trump had six coconspirators, wolf, but of course it did not name them. This is truly, truly a remarkable moment in american history. The former president of the United States, who is now the current frontrunner for the republi
last night asked that investigators regain access to 125 documents found in that search of mar-a-lago. that is part of the extraordinary appeal to cannon s order which politico puts like this, it aims to a full-throated rebuke of the ruling by cannon, a trump appointee who was confirmed to a seat after trump s defeat in the 2020 election. prosecutors used the filing to describe her ruling as a danger to national security and one ignorant to the counterintelligence work and lacking in an understanding of the complexities of executive privilege. all of it and the bid to continue to use the classified documents from mar-a-lago in the investigation amounts to a bold gamut from doj. once again, from politico, quote, they re going forward with an appeal despite the risk of cementing an awful precedent. we re getting an even worse ruling from an appeals court dominated by trump appointees and they re daring cannon to double down on analysts that legal analysts on the right and left
both sides about gagging donald trump. now, jack smith did win the first round in the d.c. coup case, but that gag order has not been am place. indeed, it was held for this review today. the special counsel s team says donald trump has clearly shown in his violent rhetoric and his calls for violence and his calls for other things that sounds like witness intimidation means he has to be gagged. trump s lawyers say the gag order, first of all, is overly broad. second of all, they think the whole thing in its entirety is basically a violation of the first amendment, first speech rights afforded to everyone, including especially a presidential candidate engaged in free speech, which can include legitimate criticism of the current administration, which oversees the justi department. now, special counsel jack smith was in court today. despite the judge s pushing back at prosecutors at times, we could tell you one headline from the new york times is this, they write that based on