Investigation of hunter biden, a special counsel has been announced, signaling that a trial is now likely to fall into legal and political implications. Plus blunt words from a judge to Donald Trumps legal team, reminding the former president he cant intimidate witnesses and warning more inflammatory statements lieutenants require a quicker start to a trial. In hawaii, at least 55 killed, thousands displaced, as fires devastate maui. One official says the Historic Town of lahaina is all gone. This hour, a look at what some has lost to the hawaiians, and what they need most. All of this is coming in right to cnn news central. It is happening again. Another highprofile special counsel has now been appointed, this time its in the Hunter Biden Investigation. Today Attorney Garland announced he elevated david weiss to special counsel status. Hes been leading the yearslong investigation, and he recently requested he be given special counsel designation. The reaction in washington is pouring
our border since just october 1. almost 8 million since president biden s inaugural. those are all record-breaking numbers. the records have been broken and broken again. so clearly there s a crisis. everyone acknowledges this. congress and the president are not acting to do anything to fix it or to reverse this situation at this point. the huge numbers that we talk about all the time, they are numbers. they re important. they impact american cities. they impact the national security of our country and the bottom line of all of that. no one knows any of this better than border patrol chief jason owens. and while this number may sound a lot smaller, it s one that he wants you to know something about. he says it s a huge concern. he just posted these photos. he says that since october 1 border patrol has caught more than 160 coming in with gang affiliations. ms-13. all of them involved likely with murder, extortion, narcotics, weapons, human trafficking. prostitution. so on all
he s a tough man, strong man, very respected. i happen to think he is a good man. the press goes crazy when i say it. we can t have a weak president. we have a weak man who cheats like hell. they cheat at elections like nobody has ever cheated before. i saw shots you wouldn t believe. missile launch, and you hear a bell go. i see this. it s so incredible. they calmly walk to a seat, ding, ding, ding, ding. they have 17 seconds to figure this whole thing out, right? okay, missile launch, boom. and we don t have it here. i really take back i don t know where to begin. i take everything back that i said about elvis in 1977. i apologize to the ghost of fat elvis right here and now. he looked better then joe, we re supposed to talk about how he was talking about orban. i mean, i m just saying i m so distracted. first of all, we go back to what was said over the weekend on x. if he keeps putting i can t unsee that. the bronzer on at this level, white sup
something a more limited escalation from the east. he turned out to be wrong. the u.s. intelligence agencies turned out to be right. i think that s something he s going to have to answer for later in the war. those questions are already bubbling up into ukrainian society. so far they ve left it until after the war to have a reckoning on those questions. the showman, inside the world that shook the world and made a leader out of volodymyr zelenskyy. simon shuster, thank you for coming in this morning. that does it for us. on ana cabrera reports, donald trump back in a new york city courthouse. just moments ago the judge delaying this second e. jean carroll trial. it s on the day trump was possibly going to take the witness stand, now set to happen on the day of the new hampshire primary. the desantis departure. new nbc reporting on the final hours leading up to the end of the florida governor s president campaign. and then there were two. nikki haley finally gets
conflict. all of that of course on the line tonight and of course this saturday morning where will is right now.w. thanank you all l for being g w and thanksks to will. it s time now for ac 360. tonight, which candidate benefits when the roads to the white house freezes over. we re live in iowa where blizzard conditions and subzero temperatures threaten to be a decisive factor in monday s caucuses. also a night after the u.s. and british air strikes on houthi targets in yemen a new message from a top houthi leader. and later cnn s donee o sullivan investigating how skeptical officials can face backlash from conspiracy theorists. thank you for joining us. we begin with iowa three days from the caucuses and the state is being hammered by winter weather. this is video of the capital des moines where the temperature is now 9 degrees. the wind chill is minus 13, and a blizzard warning is in effect. cnn s jeff zeleny is there for us tonight. jeff, i don t know how we conv