tonight. we are bringing you tomorrow's news tonight at 10 am eastern tomorrow morning, the judge presiding over president trump's election subversion case will hold a hearing on which rules will be imposed on the handling of evidence. and, the special counsel's asking that the trial start on january 2nd, prompting an angry response from trump on social media. also tonight, a major move by the supreme court, which marks a victory for the biden administration. the court blocking purdue pharma's bankruptcy settlement, which -- had granted immunity from opioid-related civil lawsuits. the high court will now take up the case itself. more on that, coming up. and, other catastrophe in hawaii. the devastating wildfires scorching and destroying maui, leaving at least 53 people dead. hawaii's governor addressing the catastrophe just a short time ago. >> we have seen today has been catastrophic. but we tell you that there is going to be a team effort to bring our state back. what we saw was likely the largest natural disaster in hawaii state history. >> the governor sent us this photo from his tour of the area and we'll be talking to him about all of this, tonight. but we are going to begin with tomorrow's news, tonight. tomorrow morning at 10 am in washington d.c., judge tanya chutkan, the judge overseeing trump's january 6th case, will hold a hearing on the scope of the protective order. that order will set the rules for the handling of evidence in this case. let's get right now to cnn senior crime and justice reporter katelyn polantz and former white house lawyer james folds. caitlin, let's start with you. from president trump not required to be there at morrow's hearing, we understand, but were you expecting to hear from the judge in this case? >> well, we are expecting to hear where the judge is going to stand on evidence handling. right now there is a legal dispute between prosecutors in this case and donald trump's team about what donald trump is able to talk about with other people, as he is learning about evidence of the justice departments has collected about him. the justice department will give him evidence, as part of what is called discovery, as they prepare for trial. and the justice department wants all of that to be locked down. they will not want to deal to share any of it, they want an order from the judge over top of the. trump's team, they don't want it to be that, broad they wanted only to find certain things as sensitive, that he can talk about, that have the ability to have what trump says is free speech. now, the justice department, they say that this is not about free speech, that he doesn't have a right to publicize things during or before his trial, and so we are going to have to watch to see what the judge does here. taking a step back there is a big, big question of the tone of what judge chutkan will have going forward tomorrow because both the justice department and trump have been raising social media posts from one another. they have been making political barbs in their filings, and so if judge chutkan is going to take a handle on this case and just look at it as a law, it's one way she can do it. but there also is a situation where she is a judge who probably has been seeing many of these posts, including in the filings, and so it is quite plausible that she also may have some things to say about the public commentary of this case happening outside of the court probe. >> thank you for all that kaitlan, james, to you. we have already seen how many times trump has attacked anyone involved in a case against him whether it be a judge, prosecutor, or one of the defendants. you, know this rule for protective order, what are the chances in your mind that donald trump always an order that the judge put some place? >> well, he is known to test the limits, that's what he does. so i wouldn't expect anything different in this instance. i think that his lawyers will be held back in the court, if he's gonna want to exercise a free speech right bang away in terms of attacking the prosecution, attacking their case, and doing that all in the public domain, no doubt about it. going to be very thoughtful about this, i do think that she is going to be very strong with both sides on this and will want to make sure. first and foremost, that witnesses are protected. that witnesses don't feel threatened, that witnesses don't feel intimidated, that none of that was going. on that is going to be in the forefront. also protecting the evidence. there is going to be things that, i imagine, the defense is going to want to jam grandeur a testimony in this. the prosecution is not going to want that to be public in any way shape or form. they're going to want to protect that sensitive information and i think the judge is going to fall on the side of the prosecution in those issues. the broadness of just asking if everything is going to be deemed to sensitive and off limits, i don't think she'll go that far because you do have somebody running for president, but i do think she's going to want to protect those sensitive information and witnesses, first and foremost. >> james,. you talked about trump pushing the limits, but a judge makes a ruling there is a very clear limit, generally speaking. what if he does not comply? what happens then? i can't imagine, this is a former president, is you going to be held in contempt, how did judge deal with something like that? >> sure, the judge can hold trump in contempt. he couldn't she can sanction him, and she will exercise it. she is a very strong judge, it's going to set the tone very early in this that she is in charge of this case and that donald trump is not in charge of this case. i think she's going to do that very early and i also think that she is going to be, she's gonna take very seriously the prosecution's request to have a speedy trial in us. the prosecution has asked. for trial early january, i don't know if it happens in early january, but i think that the speedy trial visions, d.c. is known to be a rocket docket jurisdiction, so i think you are going to see it here. we are going to have a winter trial date for sure coming out of this hearing tomorrow. >> i want to go back to you, now kaitlan. the special counsel, as we just talked, abd we just heard from james, we arealking about january 2nd starting this trial. it was the special counsels asked for, 2024. i, mean what is the judge saying at this point. what else is being said about this? because that is a very fast date. >> the judge has not weighed in on the trial date from the justice department and she won't. we don't expect her to morrow because the trump team still has time before they can respond and make their asks for a trial. date however, we have heard her talk about timing before, just in the little orders that she has put in the docket. she has moved things along very quickly to get to this hearing that we are having tomorrow about the evidence and that hearing is not a stand-alone hearing about evidence handling and protective order, it is a hearing that sort of works back in time from the trial date. they have to have some kind of order governing the evidence in this case before the justice department given to trump's team so that anybody can get moving towards a trial. the sooner they get that done, the quicker they can set the trial date. so they've got to get something set tomorrow and judge chutkan was not letting this drag out. she really wanted to have this hearing this week. trump's team even tried to put it off until next week, it's not going to be the case. and so we are going to watch tomorrow to see how quickly things will get moving, particularly with this first order that sets up the framework of everybody's next steps to get a look at it and prepare for trial. >> now to you, james. you hear this date, january 2nd, and by many peoples estimation, many attorneys i've spoken with, that is a very fast turnaround for the defendant. is there any realistic chance that the special prosecutor's request for the january 2nd date that the judge actually goes for that? >> like i said earlier, i think we end up with a winter trial date. i don't think it does early january, but i do think that she is going to put him on a strict motion schedule. the motion schedule you saw there was early november, i think you're going to see motions in december, january, and probably a trial date sometime in february. but this is going to be a motion intensive matter, i think that there are going to be a number of issues that the defense is going to raise in terms of the grand jury to make sure that it was charged appropriately and if they have an argument there, they're going to make that argument. they are going to address the first amendment issue, i know we have heard a lot about. that it's something that they're going to raise. i'm not sure it's a real strong motion for them, but nonetheless they are going to raise. it i'm sure there's gonna be privilege issues that are raised again just because they were addressing the grand jury level does not mean that that carries over into this case. i think you're gonna see some of that. it is all going to take a lot of time and this judge is probably going to write on those issues. >> james, caitlin, thank you so much for your insight on this and we will be sticking with you and coming back to you when we get more information. we appreciate you guys. >> thank you. >> now i want to bring in nick, the former assistant watergate prosecutor. he has an opinion piece in the new york times arguing against televising donald trump's upcoming trials. nick, thank you for being here. you say in your piece, andere is the line that really struck me, that it is wanting to testify in a public courtroom. it's a whole different level of public disclosure to testify before the entire world on television. a witness who is named and pictured on television becomes a sitting duck for any trump partisan in seeking retribution. it sounds like you are comparing these possible cases to what someone might say would happen in a mob trial. is that what you are intending here? >> absolutely. this is exactly the same danger that witnesses i had in mob trials experienced. this is even worse because if this is televised all over the world, looked what just happened in provo idaho, with one individual who is targeting joe biden, targeting the dea in manhattan, and others. and then you have the incident right after the search warrant was executed on mar-a-lago where an individual, a trump partisan, went out to cincinnati to the fbi field office to try to shoot people. and the fbi office. so this is a very real problem and, putting this trial on with witnesses who are broadcast all over the world, it is going to create problems. i mean, even saw what happened with the january six committee. cassidy hutchinson testified, but afterwards, she had to go into hiding and had security. there is only so much of the government can do in protecting people. there is a witness protection program, but you can't put everybody in that program and there is no way that you can guard against every crazy not out there who might try to do something. >> nick, i want to talk to you about the public's right to see this, to know about this, this is a defendant like we have never had before in our country's history. not only was he the president, but he is a leading gop presidential candidate, and a former reality tv showman. is your argument against televising the trial, or live, streaming it because of who is on trial? >> absolutely. this makes all the difference in the world. it is not just a danger to the witnesses, but, let's face, it there is one thing that donald trump excels at and that is reality tv. and if there is any way that he can use this trial to appeal to his partisans, to put a wrench into the trial by virtue of appealing to the wider television audience, he is going to do it and that is just not a good thing for our justice system. what we really need in terms of transparency is the process and media doing a much better job of covering this trial and having people sit through that trial and understand trial practice, techniques, and are able to report on that on a regular basis, using transcripts that can be brought forward on a daily basis. >> all right, i'll tell you what happened when i covered one of these trials, it wasn't donald trump it was the oath keepers. i sat there for the whole six weeks is that every day you've got the evidence brought down to the reporters at the end of each day, and so we are able to report it out being both in court. so we'll have to see what the judge does and how the doj response to all of this, but there is a lot of interest and a lot of people who want to be able to watch this gavel to gavel. it's not likely to happen. nick, thank you so much for your arguments there. >> thank you. >> up 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those are businesses there. this drone video gives you just a really big perspective on what people are going through and why authorities are telling people to try to stay away from this particular area, although maui is, by the way, still functioning, still, open it's just that the area of lahaina is not. the death toll, we have learned tonight, has climbed to 53 people but there are still people, missing so officials are warning that the number of dead will likely grow. the number of uncounted for people at this point is 1000. if >> let's get an update from hawaii's governor josh cream now. governor, the last time we talked to you you are racing back to your home state. you're not only the governor of hawaii, or a resident there. what struck you first when you finally saw the destruction there in line? >> well, it does definitely appear that a bomb went off. that is the feeling, of course it was a, fire that was spread by gale force winds, about 80 mile per hour winds on the back side of hurricane dora, which passed hawaii. we have never seen devastation like this before. our heart goes out to so many families. we have confirmed 53 of our people have passed and, you know that number will rise. our greatest tragedy in the past since 1959 was loss of life in 1960. it is devastating, lahaina has essentially been burned to the ground and i walked the entirety of front street in lahaina with our mare and senator -- it was quite shocking. i'm an emergency room physician, i've seen a lot of injuries and tragedies in my life, but i've never seen devastation that extensive up close in the state. >> i am so sorry and we're looking at some of these aerial pictures of just every single building and home, one after the other, burned to the ground. how many people are still unaccounted for at this time? you said there are quite a few people that you're not sure where they are. >> yes, one of the challenges is telecommunications have been very limited because of the extreme heat and destruction of the fibers and there is no internet access or telephone access right now. power is down. it is difficult to know, for example, one of our -- with some people who have suffered minor burns. others who are just displaced from their homes. the reason that we can't let people go into lahaina quite yet to get back to the residents's is because we have to respect those who have passed and the police will began to do search and rescue with experts to find any other fatalities that occurred in the area. so we're asking people to be patient. we are expecting many more buildings -- one of the initial count was 270. one building i believe, it is a pretty clear indication that that number is going to be over 1000 of houses and businesses. the good news is that, after my arrival, we were able to in about 25-minute make the request to the federal administration for support and within six hours, president biden was very generous and approved our presidential disaster declaration, which means we'll have a lot of resources now coming to the people of hawaii, those who have lost homes or loved ones. so it is all hands on deck, whether it is federal, state, or county. but i would expect that about 1000 individuals are gradually going to be accounted for, meaning that we are going to sign them and rhea 80 -- reunited with her families. but there will be additional fatalities in those homes. >> that's hard here and hard to watch. this is paradise for even the people who lived there and those who come to visit, i know tourism is about 80% of the economy there in maui. i do want to ask you what you think, how long you think people will have to be in shelter? how long is it going to take for you to deal with this large scale of the disaster? >> it's a very good and complicated question. one reality is that individuals are without power right now. so a lot of those individuals are going to get the power overtime and some of them will seek extra shelter. the mayor has done an excellent job setting up shelters and getting that available for people, but permanent housing is going to take time. we just announced that we will be initially pursuing at least 2000 hotel units or other residences to put people. in >> governor josh green, thank you so much for sharing what you saw today, what you experienced today and what it will be experiencing and the residents there for many years to come. i appreciate you coming on. >> you bet, thank you very much, aloha. >> aloha. >> up next a new report on the extent of justice clarence thomas is luxurious and expensive travel, which has been bankrolled by several of his millionaire friends. and, in a major move, the high court blocking the six billion dollar opioid settlement that would have given the wealthy sackler family immunity from civil lawsuits. the panel joins me next to talk about both of these important stories. 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because there's another part of it, and that is optic. >> sure, it is a crime that none of this is criminal. it's outrageous. but the real fall does live with the supreme court, which has no rules governing a lot of this behavior other than disclosure rules, which taught justice thomas did violate. you can be a junior civil servant and can't expect any of these gifts. i clerked for a while for merrick garland and he got a small picture from somebody and immediately reported it and kind of freaked out a little bit, because he didn't want to have any appearance of impropriety. we don't know if there was a quid pro quo, here if there's a particular case were -- parenthetically, if the january six cases do go to the supreme d certainly the grounds for recusal. but here we don't have that smoking gun, but i don't think we need that smoking gun. with every other court in the country there is a responsibility to avoid the appearance of impropriety and the fact that the supreme court has no rules to govern itself, that is what is inconceivable. >> a lot of people have a hard time wrapping their heads around because of the rules for other federal judges and judges and prosecutors. >> jason, today, 2024 presidential hopeful and governor of florida ron desantis weighed in on this reporting about justice thomas. here's what he had to say. >> clearly there is a concerted effort to try to demonize justices thomas and aledo in particular. some of these liberals like ginsburg, she used to do different things. so i want to come together and say maybe there should be these rules and get on the same page, that's fine, but this is being used i think to clarence, i think it's being used to attack justice alito and those are two justices that have served with honor and integrity. >> is it basically a good political move right now for any of these gop candidates to stand by justice thomas no matter what days that is coming out? >> absolutely. whether i agree with this or not, the facts in the case on this, but for governor desantis to come out and support justice thomas and alito, to figurehead of the conservative movement for years on this, i think he has to standing by and saying nothing on it just lets the continued politics of personal destruction move ahead. and i do think that there is something to be said about the fact that there is a lot of stories about justice thomas that have come out over the last several months. i'm not saying that what he has done is right, but optically, at least from a conservative republican base perspective, it seems focused just on him and now justice alito, as well. >> jessica, i'm curious. but clarence thomas, like the other justices, have a lifetime job. i don't know anyone else in the country that has a job that is for a lifetime, where you decide, and then that's a decision that you make. but otherwise he makes somewhere around $300,000 a year, which is publicly out there. so, what are your thoughts with how people are responding to this and how this might affect the electorate when you consider all this, plus you see all of this money, hundreds of thousands of dollars in gifts and flights being handed to this justice? >> i think people are continuously losing faith in the courts and some of it has been some of their decisions, but i also think that you look at this and the average person says that his entire life, it appears, have been bankrolled by these billionaires and i think that the average person sees that and they say you are supposed to be this paragon of virtue. that is what we think about the supreme court or what we help them to be. they decide on the most important issues of our time, ethical, political, moral, and so to see them taking all this money and not disclosing, it according to propublica's reporting, i do think people find that disturbing. >> all right. joey jackson, i'm not making you talk about. this eye moving on to another really big issue that happened today. the perdue case, where you have all this oxycontin that went out into the public, hundreds of thousands of people were killed, were addicted and died from it. what is happened is the bankruptcy settlement has been blocked and now the supreme court is going to look at this. what do you make of this. a lot of people have said that no one has ever gone to jail for, this but there was a settlement that they came to it sand point. >> and a very big settlement. it was very significant in the area of six billion dollars and it was approved by a judge and the rob was this. whenever a lawyer settles in litigation if you want the settlement to be final. you want, when you make a pay out for that to be it, for you to control the balance of your life to ensure that, in the future, nobody comes our. you so now the family, what do they have? 12 billion dollars? this is what we are going to do. on the half of the company were going to put up a six billion and we're going to take it through bankruptcy courts as they do with masks litigation. and of course this is a major issue, so many people dying as a result of this opioid crisis, it's a threat. so now you have the settlement, significant settlement but here is e rub. while the company is on the hunt for six billion, the immunity, it is really protection from legal liability, would go to the individuals in the family. and to the extent that they are not bankrupt, why should they get the benefit of the bankruptcy protections? so there is the issue where if you are not bankrupt,, well why are we going through bankruptcy court to immunize you from any future liability? so the issue really centers around, from a legal perspective, whether you can do that and the outcome of that is going to be significant for them and other cases moving forward. >> the supreme court, rules it has a much bigger footprint as to how it affects other cases. weijia, you know, the family withdrew billions of dollars before this happened. we have this element even go forward when you know that that is still on the, table that they are not completely broke? >> not at all, and i think what is troubling maybe about this aspect of the settlement is that we don't know what possible misconduct they may have engaged in. if you sit on the board of an organization or company you have certain limitations on your liability, that is why corporate -- exists but not certain activities with a fraud and negligence and so forth. but this is a blanket immunity, covering all of that. and you know we pierced the corporate rail, as lawyers like to say all the time when necessary, i think about the supreme court case of hobby lobby where the supreme court believes of the -- or imputed to the company so now hobby lobby itself has religious beliefs. so here it is the opposite of piercing the corporate rail, now we are putting of liability on the company which is doing this payout and not checking to see, not allowing possible integration against individual members of the family. and, i think it's a very complicated legal, case but ethically and morally, i think the fact that we know that this family had control of this incorporation, it was basically a family company and to just blanket immunize these folks. i will point out, the victims, the organizations representing the victims have actually opposed this step because they want to get the money, just as joey, said this will delay they're getting their compensation. but i think you pointed to this real sense of injustice when the extremely wealthy family that control this corporation also seems to be getting off scot-free. >> i want to thank you all for being on the panel, even though i was the only as in a whole sea of days. >> but that stands for special. >> thank you joey. just ahead, the wife of an imprison opponent of vladimir putin speaking out tonight. her husband spoke out live on my show and then hours later was thrown in jail in russia and sentenced to a very long prison term. it is an important interview, and that's coming up next. your heart raceses. 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( ♪ ) constant contact. helping the small stand tall. how white do you think your teeth really are? let's try the tissue test. ooof, still yellow. whitening toothpaste can only do so much. there's toothpaste white, and there's crest 3d whitestrips white. so much whiter! crest. the white house is pushing back on recent cnn poll that shows declining support for the war in ukraine. but our next guest say that supported attention to the war is needed now more than, other as well as attention putin's regime. joining me now is as guinea a -- she's the wife of imprisoned russian opposition politician, vladimir carr moves out who spoke out live on my show and was jailed, in russia, hours later. also with me is you know diamond, he's an international human rights lawyer and the creator of the price of conviction podcast and part of vladimir's advocacy team. thank you so much for joining us tonight. >> thanks for having, us sarah. >> i'm going to start with you, yevgeniya. as i just mentioned, your husband vladimir was on my show back in april of 2022 and was being very outspoken about what he thought of the putin regime and the war in particular. and then he was jailed hours later. he had already been poisoned twice, he has since been convicted by the russian courts and sentenced to 25 years in prison. i know he is, appealing but how is he doing now, both mentally and physically? >> well, thank you very much for paying attention to vladimir's case,, sara and shedding light on the situation in russia in general. vladimir appeal was actually rejected just a few days ago. so the court left the sentence unchanged, the sentence of 25 years and so now the next step is the transfer to the regime penal colony. we don't know when that was going to happen because, of course, in two days were not dealing with a normal legal system, or not dealing with independent courts. and so there is no knowing beforehand what might happen and what to expect. he might be transferred tomorrow or in three months. we only know that this transfer is a very dangerous period in the life of any -- -- authorities often lose prisoners during chance for. >> when you say that they could be lost, and if then they do make it to these penal colonies, are you worried that your husband might not make it through his imprisonment and through this chance for? >> absolutely. as is the case for any political prisoner in the russian federation today. basically, the regime is currently using all measures, all repressive measures that we used in the soviet union against how protesters. these measures are beside those -- that go up to 25 years for so called high treason. these measures also include extreme violence, physical violence, sexual violence, and denial of medical care, punitive psychiatry, you name it. >> you are describing torture on many different levels, both a physically and psychologically. i think a lot of people would be extremely disturbed to hear that is how things go, although we have seen this in other cases as well, in russia in particular, i do want to go to what vladimir told me during our interview. let's listen to a bit of the interview we did in 2022 before he was jailed. >> this regime, it is not just corrupt, it is not just -- authoritarian, it is the regime of -- it is important to say it out loud, and it is really tragic, and it took a large scale war in the middle of europe which under pretends not conducting against ukraine, where most western leaders to me able to rise to the true nature of this regime. >> why is it that those words scare vladimir putin to the point where he would jail this person who was simply saying what he thinks about the regime? >> those are the exact same things that he sided as the evidence used against vladimir. pointing out the caution and criminality and impunity that are the root causes of this war. that is, we would not have a war in ukraine or untold destruction on our environment, global food shortages, we wouldn't have putin sending tens of thousands of russians and ukrainians to death. if it were not for his regime, and their decisions. so vladimir brings this into direct focus, and this is exactly what vladimir has dedicated his life to standing up against, holding the putin regime accountable, and laying the groundwork for democracy in russia. >> i want to talk a bit about what is happening in russia, and what has happened during the time that vladimir -- has been in president, you have had yevgeny prigozhin use his own military to stage a failed coup if you will, when it comes to marching its way into moscow. they did not go all the way, but there was a plan to do so, yet he is walking around free and still able to do some of the things he does, and he has a whole army that he commands and the mercenaries he commands, the wagner mercenaries, why is it let someone like -- is in present and being put in this position, and not someone who actually went forward and became what looked like out first was called an enemy of the state in russia, i will start with you. >> i see the situation as a very simple one. you have got a precociousness part of the system. that's part of the system, he does not really represent any danger to the system at self, to the regime in the kremlin because he is driven by the same interest that vladimir putin and his own circle, whatever supports him are driven by. the same interests. these interests contradict the interests of those people who like my husband speak against the regime, and speak against the war. those people, those people represent a much bigger threat, existential threat to the regime. because, they denounced the crimes of the regime, and they question its policies. they condemn its policies. they do it publicly. and, they showed to the russian population that russia can be different, it can be a democracy, it can be a country that will not be a threat to itself and its neighbors. >> thank you so much. we will be right back. 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