The Election Year . And hawaiis governor says more than 1,000 people are still potentially missing as fema is acknowledging challenges with the Relief Efforts there, well get an update from a top official and a new look at the harrowing scenes on the ground. Im kaitlan collins. This is the source. We begin with exclusive new reporting on the hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees that Rudy Giuliani is now staring down and the desperate attempts he has made to get former President Trump to cover them. With his attorney in tow, im told that Rudy Giuliani traveled to maralago in late april on a mission to make a personal appeal to trump to pay his legal bills. By going in person, giuliani and that lawyer, Robert Costello believed they could help explain face to it is if a why trump needled to assist his attorney with those ballooning legal bills. They argued that really, it was in trumps best interests to do so. But apparently, it fell on deaf ears. Trump is notoriously strict abo
Paper. and he acknowledged that arraignments in this case are now scheduled in the state court on september 6th. and so the clock begins ticking. evan perez is in washington tonight. evan, you watched this doj hearing very closely today when the judge set the trial date for march 4, 2024. what else did we learn? reporter: we learned there was a lot of discovery that has already been turned over from the prosecution to the defense. and that s one of the reasons why john lauro, the former president s lawyer, stood up in court and gave a really strenuous and impassioned plea for the judge to just give them more time. of course, they re asking for two years to prepare for this trial. the judge was not buying any of that. she said, one of the things that he was raising obviously was the fact that the former president is running for office, he s got three other indictments. let me just read you a part of what she said. she said, setting a trial date does not depend and should not defend
If you violate the law, you re going to be charged. the fulton county district attorney has asked the judge to set a trial date for march 4, 2024. it s unlikely that will hold. but if it does, that will mean the former president s trial in fulton county would begin just one day before the super tuesday primaries. thanks for watching the whole thanks for watching the whole story. captions by vitac www.vitac.com