Have been hit the hardest. This is the first earthquake of such magnitude to hit the area in more than 100 years. Lets go right to nbc news Foreign Correspondent matt bradley. What do we know about the efforts that are underway . Yes so far we are seeing local authorities and the military trying to bring people out of the wreckage. As you, said the death toll is now at 8000. It was only a couple hours ago the death toll is at 800. A couple hours before it was at 600. As you know from the earthquake that happened in turkey back in february, they have a way of climbing very high after Rescue Workers are able to get in and extracting dead bodies. Thats when we start to see these numbers going up and up. As you mentioned this is a 6. 8 magnitude earthquake according to the geological survey. That is the strongest earthquake to strike this country and 123 years. As you mentioned, this was in the high atlas mountains. About 50 miles away from the historic city america. There was some damage
special prosecutor jack smith s investigators asked gradually witnesses in washington d. c. how drunk rudolph giuliani was when he was advising donald trump? it is a crucial, legal question for the trump defense team who have already said they intend to use and advice of counsel defense blaming everything donald trump did on the advice he got from lawyers including the one who, to me, looked and sounded drunk every time he spoke publicly about the presidential election in 2020, and on january 6th. we will discuss the finer legal points of drunk legal advice later in this hour, after we begin with a sober assessment of the breaking legal news of the day in georgia. at 2 pm today, federal judge steve c. jones issued an order to both sides of the case after hearing a full day of testimony yesterday, and defended mark meadows motion to move his
points of drunk legal advice later in this hour, after we begin with a sober assessment of the breaking legal news of the day in georgia. at two pm today, federal judge steve see jones issued an order to both sides of the case after hearing a full day of testimony yesterday, and defended mark meadows motion to move his criminal trial from fulton county courthouse, in georgia, to the federal district court, in georgia. judge jones ordered fulton county district attorney fani willis and mark meadows criminal defense lawyers to each file a brief by five pm on thursday, answering exactly one question that the judge has after that hearing. would a finding that at least one, but not all, of the overt acts charged occurred under the
determination to be made before the election. guys? all right, big day for both of you guys, kaitlan polantz and evan perez, thanks, guys. joining us right now, we have a crack team in here with us today. eli honig, national correspondent for the washington post, philip bump, who also has a great book called the aftermath, and former press secretary under donald trump, sarah mathewses, as well as cnn political analyst and politics reporter for the new york times, astead herndon. i will not forget you again, even though you re not in the studio. so happy you re back. thank you, i appreciate it. i m going to start with you, eli. what should we expect from these hearings today? hopefully getting a date? also seeing, maybe, a case laid out for us, right? yeah, so i think, first of all, starting with the mark meadows motion to move into federal court, we re going to see live testimony we re not going to see it, because it s not going to be on camera, but the judge will see
trump s lawyers and the investigation of the former president is not slowing down this week. mark meadows motion to move his case to federal court and possibly have it thrown out. there s also a hearing in jack smith s federal election hearing case where a trial date may be set. we ll be following both important hearings so stay with cnn for the latest throughout the day tomorrow. and thank you very much for skwroeupbg us this evening. it s been a long afternoon and evening. glad you re spending it with us. i ll see you next weekend of course. and the cnn original series what happened to rudy giuliani is next. coming up. hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around