submitting its proposal for the start of the federal trial over january 6th. their suggestion, april 2026. this as the fbi is investigating death threats. plus, 1,000 people still unaccounted for in hawaii. state officials fear many of them could be children who are off from school that day. the mayor of maui is my guest and a russian general turning up dead. the second one this week. were they targeted by putin? let's go "outfront." and good evening. i'm erin burnett. "outfront" tonight, the breaking news. trump's legal team just proposing a new date for his federal january 6th case. the date, april 2026. to state the obvious, this is years away and jack smith, the special counsel obviously is pushing for the first court day of 2024, about four months from now. january 2nd. it comes as the fbi is now working with the fulton county sheriff's office in georgia and they are investigating threats being made against the grand jurors who voted to indict trump along with 18 others. in a statement writing we take this matter very seriously and are coordinating with our law enforcement partners to respond quickly to any credible threat and ensure the safety of those who carried out their civic duty. this is coming after we reported that the purported names, photographs, even addresses of some of the members of the grand jury are circulating on websites. some calling for violence against those jurors. american citizen, civilians, doing their civic duty. in a moment, i'm going to speak to daniel jones. a former fbi investigator who first spotted these threats. this is alarming. the context here as we have learned a texas woman has been charged with threatening to kill judge chutkan, who's overseeing the case. according to court documents, the woman left the judge a voice mail threatening to quote kill anyone who went after president trump. and since the 2020 election, we know this. we've heard this. people have come on this program, some of them, to talk about the threats they've received. election officials. mayors. governors. member of congress. all of them receiving these threats because trump turned against them. tonight, the former president is not letting up on the constant veiled threats of violence. in one of his first interviews, he said this. >> it's a witch hunt. it's just a continuation of a witch hunt. they want to silence you. and they mean silence. they are, i think they're sick people. i think they are people that have no idea how the world works and they have no idea the anger they cause. >> no idea the anger they cause. and tonight, cnn is learning trump's news conference as he called it, where he said he was going to talk about the election. we would likely have heard the same attacks and lies about the georgia election, but he was going to try to refute the indictment. that may not happen at all because sources tell cnn few of his advisers new of this event before trump announced it. and since then, trump has been told to bail on it. they fear it could complicate his case. we spoke to trump's former white house lawyer and this is what he said. why trump's so-called press conference could backfire is for this reason. >> there's a good chance that whatever document he produces ends up as evidence against him. it could even end up you know, as the basis for an obstruction count against the author. because it's likely to be fiction. and solely for the purpose of contaminating the jury pool. >> all right. i want to begin tonight with sarah murray. she's "outfront" in washington. so all of this moving quickly. what more do you know? >> it's a huge gap between what the trump team is asking for and what the justice department has proposed, which you pointed out is january of 2024. in this new filing, trump's team says he needs time to prepare for this trial. there's an enormous amount of discovery. they say the government is essentially asking for the kind of timeline that you would see in a misdemeanor case that doesn't involve documents. they also list donald trump's mounting legal problems and point out he's going to have to prepare for trial in the classified documents case in florida. he also has to prepare for trial in the georgia case. also in the manhattan case. so they lay out all the reasons why they believe this is too tight of a time frame in 2024 and why the former president is going to take years apparently to prepare to go to trial in this case. >> we'll see how that develops. i know we're going to hear more from the judge in the coming days on what a trial date will be. you also have information from your reporting about what is next in the georgia case. the fulton county case with fani willis. >> that's right. the next step in this is really the surrender process. that's really the only point where we know in the near term that donald trump and his defendants are going to have to show up in georgia and be processed. we're learning trump's team has been in conversations with the fulton county district attorney's office. we're also learning though that other defendants have begun their preliminary conversations with the d.a.'s office. these conversations are supposed to continue early next week in person and they're going to cover things like what potential bond would be like for donald trump or other defendants. what the release conditions would be like. and frankly, the defendants have an incentive to hash this out with the d.a.'s office ahead of time because as we were talking to attorneys about how this process works, they said if you walk sinto that jail, and this f to surrender before noon next friday, if you walk into that jail without a bond agreement, they're going to book you, process you, and retain you in custody. so it is a good incentive to be meeting and working out these agreements before anyone has to set foot in jail. >> thank you very much, sarah. "outfront" now ryan goodman. allilisa griffin and daniel jones, the former fbi investigator now president of advanced democracy. daniel, you have so much new ma information on these threats. i want to get to that, but this news just breaking about the trial date. so trump putting out april 2026. interesting sarah says his defense is i've got to prepare for the other ones. i understand some of those dates have been set. some are being negotiated. but it seems like this is the one he really doesn't want to have happen. this is the latest date he's requested. >> that's right. i think there's a good chance the other ones are going to move so the very argument he's making that these pieces are in place, i think they're going to move. for example, the district attorney in manhattan has suggested he's willing to move to let the feds go first. also, there's this kind of peculiarity in his brief because they say they will accept the government's recommendation he only needs four to six week to prepare his case. if that's true, why do you need so many years? it's kind of contradictory. i don't think the judge is at all going to recognize that date as realistic. just saying 2018, 2016. i don't think it's anywhere close to. >> it's very much a delay tactic, but taking a step back and thinking about what donald trump is walking into. this next week ahead, he's going to have to turn himself over for his arraignment in georgia. all happening while the first gop presidential debate which he's likely not participating in is taking place. he's also trying to negotiate several different trial dates he's going to have to deal with in the new year which may line up well with the primary calendar. he's running for president to stay out of jail but he's coming up along all these roadblocks along the way of having to deal with the legal system he put himself in. >> daniel, in this context, you've got these threats that we talked about against the grand jury in georgia. as that, we're waiting for him to turn himself in as others. you found these threats. you spotted them online. i know you have a new report with some key examples. how scary are these threats? >> as you've reported, when trump's rhetoric gets at its worst, it leads to a ton of vile information online. and comments, threatening not only government officials, undermining government institutions, but now we're seeing some of trump's statements actually leading to threats against people who are doing their civic duty. serving on a jury. and again, overthe last 48 hours, it's really been a peak. it's starting to increase. the amount of racist language we're seeing right now is really off the scales. incredibly alarming. >> the racist language is off the scales. can you draw, daniel, from what you've seen a direct line between the threats and trump himself? >> i'd say there's four things you can draw a straight line from trump and what we see online and what we don't want to see, which is real world violence. number one is timing. so trump says something and then immediately, we see comments online. that's very simple. a to b. reposting trump statements. he may say something online, someone will post what he said then provide a comment with violent or racist language. they will also boarrrow his language. the terms witch hunt, which you've already mentioned today. rigged election, which we know well. radical left. fake news. so we'll see these terms repeated then finally, we'll see content alignment. say trump actually mentions a volunteer who's a poll worker at a station then we'll see that name online and threats against this person online. so of course you can draw a direct line between what trump is saying and what this violent and racist language we're seeing online and again, eventually, real world violence as we saw on january 6th and as we talk about this woman in texas. and of course, the gentleman in ohio and utah who was just recently killed. making threats against biden. there's a real connection between what trump says, what happens online then what happens in real life. >> ryan, the question is, these threats are right now, spec specifically directed at the grand jury. civilians who just did their job. they weren't on a jury to decide whether to convict him. just to decide whether it met the bar for charges. >> right. >> does this mean, can he be held accountable for this? >> i think he needs to be quite worried about it in the sense of twofold. one is that there is going to be an arraignment hearing in georgia. under georgia law, the judge has to determine that he, donald trump, the defendant, poses no significant risk of witness intimidation and also obstruction of the administration of justice. he's already kind of violated that rule with his statement about jeff duncan, trying to push him not to testify. >> he was very clear. then the fact he's having this causal effect and saying nothing. so daniel's report is known across the country. i'm sure donald trump knows about the report. he said nothing. not to his supporters like do not do this, stand down. what a normal political leader would do in that circumstance. so when the judge has to determine, okay, is this person, can i say that this person poses no significant risk? it comes up. i don't think he'll be detained at stage one but he poses a serious risk. back in d.c., he has now asked for a 2026 date for the start of the trial. what did the federal judge say? if you make inflammatory statements, i'll have to go faster and this is what's happening. that is polluting a jury pool because georgia is a subset of the d.c. case. >> and not only does he not say stand down ever. the famous words were stand by. does he obviously his silence speaks volumes. does he revel in these threats? >> i think he does and i think he knows what he's doing. this is other people kind of following the lead he's already put on his his truth social. i would note georgia's particularly interesting and kind of concerning from a security standpoint because there will likely be cameras in the courtroom. so you'll see the faces of the court officials in the way it's a lot more closed door, the d.c. cases and every one of them faces running into what ruby freeman and shaye moss did. >> which was incredibly documented in the indictment. thank you all very much. i appreciate it. next, as trump faces four criminal indictments, 91 now from all charges, there is now a republican surge ning in the po not named trump. not named ron desantis. who is it? 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>> yeah, so i think it's very interesting to note here, okay, this is a question from abc news. is the doj handling of the hunter biden case in a non partisan and fair manner. the plurality, very clear here. no, they are not confident that the doj is doing this. just 32% feel confident that they are in fact handling the case in a nonpartisan and fair manner. the fact is, yes, the overall population doesn't necessarily like donald trump but they also don't like the way the doj is handling the hunter biden case. >> thank you very much. i want to go now to ro khanna, a member of the national advisory board for the biden harris 2024 campaign as well. so, i want to talk about the hunter biden actually in a moment, but first, donald trump. we've got four indictments, 91 criminal charges. i have to keep saying that to myself. it's pretty incredible. 91. but he's, it's not just that he's the clear gop front-runner. the republicans don't think he should be charged. you see ramaswany rising, but absolutely nothing has moved the needle. does anything? >> first of all, we have to have the process play out. the seriousness of the charge is that he tried to overturn a election. that goes to the heart of democracy. i was talking to someone this morning who's a desantis supporter who said that the indictments are making him more sympathetic to donald trump, that this is a sentiment among republicans. so there's no doubt this is strengthening him in the republican field. i don't think it's going to help him with independents. >> no, but it is amazing. talking to a desantis supporter. that is where we've seen the erosion. at least in the poll harry was showing. on hunter biden, nearly half of all americans aren't confident the justice department is handling it in a fair and nonpartisan manner. 32% are confident. those aren't good numbers. you were one of the arare democrats to raise questions about how they handled the hunter biden laptop story. they stood by that. so what do you think about this probe now? are americans wrong to question the doj probe and do you support that there's a, that the special counsel is now a special counsel? >> well, i think we need more communication and i think the appointment of david weiss will help. if he comes to congress and testifies. my sense is that the process has been followed, that the justice department has given him the authority to make any decision and that the more he can be transparent and communicate, the better. >> all right, so do you feel, what did you think when your reaction to hunter biden coming up. >> the president deeply loves his son. i think a president who has lost his son, lost his wife, who has gone through such grief, he has understandable emotion and any parent should understand. >> as i mentioned, you are on the advisory board for his re-election campaign. 75% of americans do not want joe biden to be president. that is a higher number than donald trump. donald trump's number's bad. it's 69%. but joe biden's number is worse. more americans don't want joe biden to run than don't want donald trump to run. how do you even. >> sean: that? >> i was on the other side when i chaired bernie sanders' campaign. when he entered, there were a lot of democrats who didn't think he should be running then. people have underestimated this president. the polls don't matter. what matters is how he does. he defeated trump. he had a midterm election that was better than expected. he has passed significant legislation. the economy is much better than people thought it would be. he has earned the right to have a rematch against donald trump. the only person in our party who's beaten him. >> one final question. rfk jr. he's challenging him. still at 20%. i think at 20% when we talked a few weeks ago. very, very steady. kennedy has the highest favor favorability rating of anyone running. 46%. biden the 43. trump and kamala harris at 39. jon king has been doing this amazing report on voters around the country. he's in iowa. he talked to some republicans. here's what they said about rfk jr. >> i think he's a really good guy. >> he's the first democrat i think i've ever listened to and admired what he had to say. might have been another one that i'm overlooking, but this guy, kennedy, he sounds like a real genuine individual to me. he's smart. and he's even minded. he's open minded i should say. >> okay. is rfk a bigger threat to biden or even to trump than it appears? this is a very steady poll performance. >> president's going to win the nomination but i grew up memorizing john f kennedy speeches and bobby kennedy speeches. if someone told me there's a kennedy in the race, i'd go check the person out, too. and he invokes them in every speech. the other thing is he's been talking about some issues like having bases overseas, 800 of them, and we need to look at whether that's justified and not having endless war. some of those themes strike a cord. i have no doubt that the president is going to win the primary. president's going to win in south carolina. he's going to win in new hampshire, nevada and be our nominee. >> thank you very much. i appreciate it. good to see you in person. next, new claims that maui's firefighters did not have immediate access to bodies of water that could have been crucial to killing the fire. maui's mayor responds, next. plus, one of putin's closest allies revealing the russian president is no longer his old self after the attempted coup. i brought in ensure max protein with 30 grams of protein. those who tried me felt more energy in just two weeks! uuuhhhh... here, i'll take that woohoo! ensure max protein, 30 grams of protein, 1 gram of sugar. enter th$10,000 powered by ptein max challenge. ♪ ♪ i have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. thanks to skyrizi, i'm on my way with clearer skin. 3 out of 4 people achieved 90% clearer skin at 4 months. and skyrizi is just 4 doses a year after 2 starter doses. serious allergic reactions and an increased risk of infections or a lower ability to fight them may occur. tell your doctor if you have an infection or symptoms, had a vaccine, or plan to. nothing on my skin means everything! ♪ nothing is everything ♪ ask your dermatologist about skyrizi. learn how abbvie could help you save. tonight, hawaii's attorney general just ordering an independent review into the response to the maui wildfires after residents were forced to flee with virtually no warning. the death toll tonight, a catastrophic 111 people killed including children. a number that will rise. the governor believes more than 1,000 people could still be missing. i'll be speak wg the mayor in a moment, but first, bill has been there in maui this week. you've been seeing the damage. you've been talking to people there. searching through the ashes. tell me what you're seeing. >> reporter: well, it's that number, more than 1,000 still missing this long after the fire that has all of our attention right now, erin. a lot of the communications are back up. the power is steadily coming back on. so you'd think anybody cut off from family would have been able to communicate but i recently just spoke to urban search and rescue veteran from fema who's here from texas along with a growing number of teams and canine teams to try to find things. he says this is unlike anything he's seen before. take a listen. >> what's been really powerful is the fact there's a number of local firefighter and pd that have lost their homes, lost their everything, and they're out there working side by side with us. so this is something very personal to us. so to be able to help them and to see them working in their own destroyed community is really powerful. >> reporter: they're sifting through, looking for life, you know. proof of life at the granular level, erin. and the most gut wrennching ide to think about is that school had yet to start in lahaina. a lot of kids were at home staying with relatives while their parents worked. so the greatest fear is how many young souls were in that now over 1,000 missing. >> 1,000 missing so long after as you say the power on. it is very sobering to even think about it. bill, thank you very much and i do as promised now want to go to the mayor of maui county. look, mayor, i'm so sorry. you know, we hear about this number of 1,000 people missing. cell phones are back working. it would appear if people were alive, we would know. do you have any sense of where this stands? >> no but thank you for your concern and for all the outpouring of not just donations, but sympathies and care for our community. we know there are 111 that were recovered, or remains were recovered. we continue to search. searched about 45% of the affected area, which is about a five square mile area. they, the number is very fluid as to how many folks are missing. we're not exactly sure of that. a number, however, we do thank the fbi who's doing a lot of the data search on cell phones. phones that are located that they were able to find those folks. we're continuing to do that. asking for family and friends to provide us not just with name, but also with cell phone numbers that can get them. that does assist the fbi's team in tracking and tracing folks. so we are asking for that. >> so let me ask you about the children because we have heard from several state officials that school has been canceled on the day of the fire because the power was out. so school had been canceled and many of those children were at home around the community. so it has raised this horrific fear that many of the victims and yet unknown victims could include these very young children. do you believe, mayor, that this is possible? there's a part of me that says look, it's children. we would know if they were found by now. because someone's looking for them. so you would have an active list of how many were missing or not missing. do you feel that you know how many children are missing or not? >> of course we care and we love our children. as we do our elders. and anyone else that's involved. we don't know and i would not want to speculate if there are any of those that are missing, we don't have them categorized by age or group. so i just don't want to speculate. i know that there are families that are working to assist in this. and we're just going to have to continue to use the resources that are there. we have over 200 search and recovery folks. 40 cadaver dogs, 30 working at a time. ten resting. so there's all possible resources to try and answer that very question that you're asking. >> the emergency chief in your county was asked whether he regretted the decision not to use those emergency sirens on the island and of course, everyone's talking about that particular decision. he stands by it though, mayor. he says he did not regret it because he says it could have caused people to run away from the water. obviously, they're in hawaii. the fear people have is tsunamis. you get a siren, you may run up towards the fire. that's the argument he's making. here's how a state senator who represents lahaina has responded to that. let me play it for you. >> i've heard the line that oh, people would have panicked and ran up to the mountains because it's a tsunami siren. the reaction of the community to that is utter disbelief. it's insulting to think people would be that clueless. that they wouldn't know that sirens blasting was because of the fire. >> mayor, what do you think? is he right? do you think the sirens should have been activated and it's an insult to their intelligence to argue otherwise? >> well, of course i think we as leaders should do everything we can to protect our community. we are going to, there's obviously an investigation going on by the attorney general as there should be. whatever information they're seeking from us, we will provide. we will cooperate. we want to do everything we can to protect our community and to help them in every possible thing we could have done is what we should have done and should always try to do. we will find out what could or could not have been done as this investigation goes on but of course, the main focus for us now is the focus on the loss of those families and try to bring closure to them. >> mayor, thank you very much. i appreciate your time. next, another russian general cut from putin's inner circle turning up dead. the second to suffer an untimely death just this week. so were they killed? and the republican governor of texas well-known for his hard line stance on immigration, but now some of his own supporters think he's taking it too far. >> we can have border security without cruelty. 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>> well, in most other countries, if you were to hear this headline, you would say you know, the guy died of heart attack or cancer or whatever. but in russia, there have been so many murders, poisonings, people thrown off buildings, mysterious deaths, that you have to apply some probability that this guy was killed. particularly since he was somebody who was effectively sidelined and ousted for his performance on the war in ukraine. and remember, there was just oligarch after oligarch who were dying in these mysterious situations who were clearly murdered. >> he was the second russian general just to die this week. the other one was putin's personal bodyguard. has overseen the building of his black sea palace. he was in prison, had just become eligible for parole and suddenly is dead. his death came out of nowhere and it does raise some suspicions of foul play. since the start of the war, as you point out, there have been many suspicious, at best, bill, deaths of prominent russians. are you surprised that this keeps happening and that no one does anything about it? that no one starts to talk and turn on him? >> i'm not surprised at all and i'm 100% sure that many of these deaths are the result of murder. when you put it into the context of what's happening with the war, it makes complete sense. russia has lost more than 250,000 soldiers since the start of this war. that's based on ukrainian estimates. that would be 17 times more people killed in this war in ukraine in 533 days than were killed over ten years in the soviet invasion of afghanistan. life has no meaning in putin's russia. death and murder are par for the course. it's part of their life. part of their culture and an every day occurrence in russia. >> the belarus president was one of putin's closest allies. gave an interview and talked about putin. he said putin was not weakened by wagner's mutiny and. if someone thinks he has been weakened, it's nonsense. he is more mobilized, cunning and wiser. bill, lukashenko is going to say what putin wants to hear, but is putin more cunning, more mobilized post prog? >> he's going to say anything he can to butter up his boss. putin is humiliated. remember, he was on a march towards moscow to take over the country. putin called him a traitor. an enemy of the state. and then a week later, prigozhin is having tea at the kremlin with putin. then welcoming leaders at the summit. so the whole thing sounds ridiculous. putin has not been, he's not wiser or stronger. he's humiliated and there's no way to unhumiliate him from this fiasco. >> one way russia is continuing to fight this war is they still have the money to do it. the ruble has tanked. we looked at german exports to russia have plunged but have more than doubled to other countries like kazakhstan. they're getting what they need somehow and a new report about switzerland says russia is funneling a lot of money through there right now. putin's long-term girlfriend and their children took there along with many oligarchs and others in putin's inner circle. how instrumental is switzerland to putin right now? >> switzerland is really a terrible place as far as the western alliance is concerned. we've put sanctions on russia. frozen russian assets. gone after oligarchs. done everything we can to starve putin of his financial resources. in fact, what switzerland is doing is continuing to allow russia to keep all their dirty money there. out of the 200 billion of russian money that's in switzerland, only 7.8 billion has been frozen. more than 95% of it is still there and available to the russians. and so switzerland really has to you know, kind of get serious about this. othe otherwise it's a major sort of loophole in the whole sanctions program where we're trying to starve putin of his financial resources. >> bill, thank you very much. i appreciate it. >> thank you. so next, razor wire lining the texas border with mexico. it is all part of the immigration crackdown by the state's governor. but now some of his own supporters are calling for change and we're tracking a major hurricane getting stronger. right now, heading straight for the u.s. guys, c'mon! mom, c'mon! mia! 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