Out front next, trumps legal team just hours away from facing the judge in the January 6th Case in court for the first time. This is the special counsel jack smith wants to start trumps trial january 2nd. And the death toll rising in maui as Search And Rescue operations are frantically underway. Im going to speak to a woman who narrowly escaped a wall of flames. Her incredible story. Plus, all the republican president ial candidates heading to iowa, our john king just returned from there. Were talking to voters, and he will be at the magic wall tonight. For us, lets go out front. And good evening, im erin burnett. Outfacetoface, trumps team set to meet judge Tanya Chutkan. Chutkan is the judge overseeing the January 6th Case, and their meeting comes as the clock is ticking. Trump now on notice to reply to jack smiths formal request for the trial January 6th Case to begin,anuary 2nd, 2024. That would put the doj case to hold trump to account for trying to overturn the elec ahead of all
latest on the fight and the fallout. good evening. reporter: just a few days ago, twitter owner elon musk made headlines when he challenged meta ceo mark zuckerberg to a cage match. that cage match is still tbd but a legal battle between the two might actually be heating up. twitter is reportedly threatening to sue meta the parent company of facebook and instagram that is owned by zuckerberg alleging that a copy twitter with its remarkably similar new social media platform threads. that officially launched last night and is even being there for the twitter killer. in a letter published by the media reporter max bottani, musk s lawyers sent a cease and desist to zuckerberg claiming that mehta has engaged in systematic his appropriation of twitter s trade secrets and even hired a former twitter employees. musk responded to the lawsuit making headlines by tweeting, quote, competition is fine, cheating is not. fox news reached out to meta for comment. director andy stone respo
country. crowds gathering to pay their respects to the former prime minister of japan shinzo abe. what happens feel like an incident that shook the foundations of japan s safety. the funeral and services for the prime minister will be held monday and tuesday with at attendance limited to close family and friends. i m pamela brown. you re in the cnn newsroom on this saturday. hundreds of pro-choice protesters in the streets of washington today demanding more action. a day after president biden signed an executive order to try to protect abortion rights. our brian todd has been out with the crowds, brian? pamela, an intermittent driving series of rainstorms didn t stop hundreds of protesters from gathering here in franklin square park and marching over to the white h house. a very ipassionate crowd. some were threatened if they pressed against the white house fence. some did that and actually tied themself to the white house fence briefly but we didn t witness arres
and ease pressures, the risk is stalling the economy and opening the door to recession. and primary lesson, south carolina voters voted to impeach trump. the banner republicans were warned they vied for opponents up and down the ballot. the crackling dispute now between the january 6th committee and a republican member of congress. the republican member in question from georgia. here you see a man taking photos of stairwells and hallways, not your typical capitol tour highlights. the committee says he led this man and a few others on a tour of the capitol complex january 5th, 2021. the committee says that same man took this video outside the capitol on january 6th shouting threats at democratic lawmakers. we re coming in like white on rice, for pelosi, nadler, schumer. even you, aoc. we re coming to take you out. cnn s ryan nobles up on capitol hill for us. tell us more. reporter: john, i think maybe each one of these individual pieces of evidence by itself may not be a
now it s an improper purpose based on what we heard from hershman saying the only thing i want to hear from you is orderly transition. if you don t do that, you re improperly there. you have a case, but there s still work to be done. cheney talked about the eastman memo, the notion of who was in the house? who was in the room where it happened to say this is what we re going to do. the conjuring moment of figuring out what to do next. i think that might be the piece that is most lacking, but this was a phenomenal stride toward supporting each of the elements. right. and the big lie is the first step to proving that criminal case, to prove that they knew it was a lie, and it was a lie and that they knew it was a lie. and then they vhave to connect t to what they did with it. i thought the last portion of the hearing was interesting, because we the end to forget about the grift. the quarter of a billion dollars they raised by lying to people about the election, and lying on m