Submitting its proposal for the start of the federal trial over january 6th. Their suggestion, april 2026. This as the fbi is investigating death threats. Plus, 1,000 people still unaccounted for in hawaii. State officials fear many of them could be children who are off from school that day. The mayor of maui is my guest and a russian general turning up dead. The second one this week. Were they targeted by putin . Lets go outfront. And good evening. Im erin burnett. Outfront tonight, the breaking news. Trumps legal team just proposing a new date for his federal january 6th case. The date, april 2026. To state the obvious, this is years away and jack smith, the Special Counsel obviously is pushing for the first court day of 2024, about four months from now. January 2nd. It comes as the fbi is now working with the Fulton County Sheriffs Office in georgia and they are investigating threats being made against the grand jurors who voted to indict trump along with 18 others. In a Statement W
american troops? the strikes that we have taken in the past have definitely had an impact on degrading and disrupting the activities of some of these groups. clearly they have decided to keep conducting those attacks and now it s had lethal consequences for american troops and so we will weigh an additional set of options before us, the president will make his decision to respond appropriately. the attacks need to stop. does the president have all the legal authority he believes he needs to respond to these attacks? yes. what is the legal basis? constitution, commander in chief, self-defense of our troops. president has the authority to take the action he needs to protect our troops and our facilities overseas under article 2. thanks. the president faces a great deal of political pressure here at home with the republicans, for example, calling for direct strikes on iran. does the president feel that pressure and how much does that pressure weigh on his decision-ma
again i m stephanie ruhle. alongside my partner ali velshi, covering our breaking coverage of this historic friday as the government has unsealed and estimating devastating 37 count and i meant against former president donald j trump. also the leading tender for the presidential nomination for the republicans. he s accused of mishandling documents and blocking efforts to get them back for mar-a-lago. the charges against him included violating the espionage act, improperly retaining national defense information. within the indictment, photos of what the government says are boxes containing classified material. onstage at mar-a-lago, in the ballroom, stacked to the ceiling in a bathroom. let s take a look at that. there s a toilet or. they re in a bathroom, classified government documents, piled up inside a storage room and spilling out across the floor in another room. today, for the very first time, we heard from the special counsel himself, who has spent some six months
chris jansing reports. at this hour, donald trump s republican rivals not sounding much like rivals after he s kicked off the ballot in colorado. what they re saying including the candidate pledging to withdraw from the state s contest if trump can t compete too. pressure mounting on israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. his tense meetings with the families of hostages and where negotiations stand right now to bring them home. plus, the threat is far from over as a volcano continues erupting in iceland, what it means for thousands of people forced to evacuate right before the holiday. and it s the most wonderful time of the year, unless maybe you re headed to the airport. the record-breaking travel as families head home for the holidays. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. we start with donald trump s republican opponents rallying around after the colorado ruling. nbc s vaughn hillyard is following that for us. what are they sayin
pennsylvania, casey, bob casey, wrote after the debate fetterman has a clear record of public service, knows the commonwealth, cares about pennsylvania, will be a great senator. like no comment at all about the debate itself. i thought it was just kind of interesting that the two senators had those reactions. clearly a rorschach test. clearly how they want people to view this, through a particular lens. either they know, or only two weeks away from the midterm elections, so these are the candidates. these are the options. so, i guess the reflecting that in terms of how they want people to have an understanding of what happened. and our panel will have very strong feelings. they wanted to. and they ve got very strong feelings about how john fetterman performed. i mean, obviously all eyes were on him. and it was challenging. it seemed like it at certain times. yeah. so, okay jake, thank you very much for setting the table for us. all right, guys. did you even see