A search for answers. The atf now in maui investigating what sparked a catastrophic wildfire, as crews search for more than a thousand people still missing. And in the aftermath of the disaster, a top Emergency Management official stepping down even as he defends the response to the fires. Plus, delay, delay, delay. Donald trumps legal team testing the limits of that legal strategy, proposing to start one of his special counsel trials in april of 2026. Will the judge buy their reasons for the setback . And serious skepticism from the white house to the pentagon about ukraines current strategy and where kyiv is targeting its fight against russia. We are following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. We start this afternoon with major growing questions on the cause and the response to the deadly maui wildfires. Right now, the atfs National Response team is joining the investigation. The death toll remains at 111. But a thousand people
Trace Trace Gallagher in los angeles. Sandra and john have the day off. We all remember the chinese spycraft that flew over the u. S. For a week, and chinese citizens suspected of being spies who posed as tourists to infiltrate Military Bases in alaska and the heart of the city, doj busted communist part for running secret police stations to spy on Chinese Nationals on u. S. Soil. Lawmakers warn the ag scheme is one of the worst troubling yet. Put china in control of the global food supply. A aishah former cia Station Chief dan hoffman, but first bryan is in iowa and that is where lawmakers met to talk about the theft by the ccp. So, bryan, what did farmers say about this threat . Yeah, hi, aishah. Farmers are particularly concerned about the secret patented genetically engineered seeds that are the target of chinas theft. In 2016, there was a Chinese National here in iowa who dug up genetically modified corn seeds and was convicted in 2016, and sent to three years in prison. U. S. Agr
let me close with this. as much as i m excited about this journey, i simply want to say this. it s really not about me. it s about that 7-year-old girl named jordan who brought roses to the stage for my mother. it s about 12-year-old who came on the stage. you see, america is a city on the hill. we are the beacon in the midst of darkness. we have an unusual responsibility. we have the responsibility to prove that self-governance works. we have the responsibility to share for thousands of generations what america has done for me, she can do for you. this can t be a another presidential campaign. we don t have time for that. we need a president who persuades not just our friends at our base. we need a president that persuades. we have to do that with common sense. conservative principles, but we have to have a compassion for people. we have to have a compassion part people who don t agree with us. we have to believe that our ideas are so strong and so powerful and persuasive th
Thank you for joining us. Im trey gowdy and it is sunday night in america. Aunties israel protests have turned College Campuses into dangerous zones for jewish students. Co the purpose of free speech is ti register dissent. It has now been used as free text for hate and hate typos the exchange of ideas. Hate quells reason. S why go to college if so sure you have all of the right answers in the first place . Because the right answers never judge someone based on race, religion, nationality, or gender. The Biden Administration has been reeling from the decreasera in support among young people. Mi so biden wants it both ways,is support israel but wink and nod at the antiisrael he voices in his own party. What is happening on theng o socalled elite College Campuses is too much even for him. This is a deeply, painful, a painful moment for many communities, and w de understand that. But what the president believes freespeech debate and nondiscrimination on College Campuses are important here
remember the idaho murder suspect brian kohberger. he is now claiming that cell phone records will back up his alibi he was simply on a nighttime drive to see the moon and stars. dan springer in seattle with more. in reality, brian kohberger s new alibi sounds like his old alibi with more detail. bottom line he doesn t have anyone to place him at someplace than the murder scene. his defense team will have a former police officer and cell phone tracking export to try to poke holes in the prosecution s case to his movements the morning of the murders. yesterday s filing his lawyer wrote mr. kohberger was driving in the early morning hours of november 13, 2022 as he often did to take a hike or run or see the moon and stars. he drove throughout the area of south pullman, washington west of moscow, idaho including a