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
And good morning to you, everyone. Welcome to cnn this morning. It is saturday, september 30th. The last day of the month. Im amara walker. October is almost here. Im omar jimenez in for victor blackwell. Amara, good to be with you, so close but so far away. I feel close to you. Same to you. Great to see you, omar. Were watching a lot of news this morning. In fact, here we are again. Just hours away from a Government Shutdown. Lawmakers still cant agree on a deal to fund the government past midnight. Were specifically talking about the house right now. The last ditch efforts are under way to keep that from happening. And the impact of a shutdown could have a huge impact from our National Security to clean drinking water. Well discuss. And flood waters ripped through parts of New York City, submerging cars, disrupting mass transit. Look at those images there. Prompting water rescues. Well show you the damage left behind and where were tracking more rain this morning. Police make an arre
tonight trips to luxury resorts, a tour around the bahamas and a 126 foot yacht with a full bar and a baby grand piano, and 26 private jet flights, including at least two and a full on 737. those are just some of the lavish gifts that justice by wealthy benefactors, given according to a new investigative report by propubly ka. all of the gifts which in many cases thomas did not disclose coming from these four billionaires on your screen. propublica estimated that the value of these gifts is likely millions of dollars. justin elliott is out front now. he s a reporter who worked on this investigation, and you and your team have done, i mean, just incredible work on all of this, so i mean, you have a lot of detail about what is a very opulent lifestyle, right?
they can and are trying to deny those facts. our job on this program is to bring you those facts and we will do that tonight. but first, you have to hear this, it s a sound of what propubly ka reports are the voices of little kids from central america being held at a custody and border protection area last week, sobbing for their parents.
the sense that black lives matter is seen as the threat? black people are overpoliced, over incarcerated without being activists. when you add the activist on top of that, we are being surveilled, we are being criminalized for our activism and we are being targeted by local law enforcement and we re being targeted now by the federal government. and i think that s a shame, especially when we see people like in las vegas, the white domestic terrorists who killed over 60 people. this government is focusing on the wrong group of people. yeah. i recommend everyone go back and read a.c. thompson s chilling report in propubly ka. thank you all very much. thank you. coming up, it s been a month since hurricanes irma and maria