Developing this morning, threats to judge and jurors. New questions about the safety of the people working on the cases against donald trump. The scope of destruction in hawaii heartbreaking. The death toll from the wildfires still climbing and more than 1,000 people are still unaccounted for. There are new questions as to how the fire started. Were live on the ground in maui. Searching for front line fighters on facebook. Wagner turning to social media to recruit new soldiers for the war in ukraine. Im kate bolduan with sara sidner and john berman this is cnn news centralcentral. Developing right now. New chilling threats against a judge and jurors involved in cases against donald trump. This is what we know. Police say a trump supporter in texas is in custody after she allegedly threatened to kill the judge presiding over the 2020 federal election case if trump does not get elected in 2024. In georgia, new concern for the grand jurors who just issued an indictment against trump. Phot
i m in for nicolle wallace. the final day of e. jean carroll versus donald trump with closing arguments focused on a high-stakes question. what is the price to pay for using one of the world s most powerful megaphones to defame someone. first up her attorney addressed the factor looming over the trial, that is, trump s continued attacks on e. jean carroll. she pointed out trump spent the entire trial continuing to engage in defamation, trump dramatically stormed out of the courtroom. the judge noted the incident and kaplan continued. cnn repts that she said, quote, the case is also about punishing donald trump for what he has done and what he continues to do. shd trump tries to, quote, normalize conduct that could hardly be more abnormal. she went on to say, quote, typically when someone is found liable for defamaon, they stop making those statemeven if they don t like t jury s verdict, even if you d t like the jury s decision you follow it. those are the this trial is also
fortunately, that is okay. we have a lot of cash, we have great assets. governor desantis, i want to present to you this participation trophy. [laughter] now, i m probably you re probably not going to win the election, right? but we re proud of you for trying. as of this moment, we are going to spend suspends presidential campaign. we are not a racist country, brian. we ve never been a racist country. coach, jerod mayo. [laughter] lessons that i ve taken from bill. hard work works, all right? hard work works and that is what we are all about. law enforcement response of robb elementary school on may 24th, 2022, and in the hours and days after, was a failure. it was even seen slamming his hand on the table and muttering, quote, this is a con job. that s within earshot of the jury and the judge, who at one point, has a threatened to kick him, the civil defendant, out of the courtroom. that s a nasty man. he s a nasty judge. he s a trump hating guy. the supreme c
in the second defamation case brought by e. jean carroll. march 25th is the scheduled start of the criminal trial here in new york. it s over trump s 2016 hush money scheme, according to prosecutors. and in may, either 20th or 27th. trump s federal criminal trial over the mar-a-lago documents is set to begin. all of these dates could, and will likely, change, case. kate? joining us right now the norm eisen, house counsel for the democrats in donald trump s first impeachment trial. sara lays out what the calendar could look like today or does look like today in this moment. if a calendar is stacking up like that with court dates like that, what does it mean? well, kate, thanks for having me back. it means that we re not going to
set for this year and the second defamation trial of e. jean carroll set for next year. you have three important cases, the mar-a-lago case, the alvin bragg, 2016 election interference case where the allegation is the former president falsified documents for hush money payments to avoid a 2016 scandal and, of course, the jack smith federal case. so my guess is it s good for the da to be aggressive. if it were the only case it probably could go in march. but i guess we ll see slippage there. the place we won t see slippage is the federal january 6th case, it s lean and mean, it names trump only, smith defined it to go fast and i think that s going