Person arraignment in the maralago documents case. Well tell you what happened when his two codefendants showed up in court. Plus new reporting from propublica about Clarence Thomas and his wealthy network of friends who allegedly financed his luxurious gifts and travel. And we begin this morning with a devastating wildfires in hawaii. At least 36 people have died as the flames rip through the island with crews in the skies and on the ground urgently battling three active fires. The flames have destroyed homes, wreaked havoc on businesses and forced thousands to evacuate. Residents seeking safety are flocking to airports and shelters. My family is thinking of just leaving the island completely. We have nothing but the clothes on our backs right now. Everything is gone. Some had to jump into the ocean to escape dangerous flames, swallowed more 2,000 acres of land. Want you to see Satellite Image that captures what the town of lahaina looked like, a Historic Town before and after the blazes. The left part of your screen shows the area back in june and on the right, what it looks like now. All the structures leveled to rubble. Dana griffin joins us from maui. What is the very latest there . Reporter jose, good morning to you. It is 5 00 a. M. Local time. Were outside one of the Evacuation Centers at maui high school. Were starting to see more people wake up, walk around. We have seen some people still sleeping in their cars or going in and out of this Evacuation Center behind me. A lot of them have lost homes, have lost pets, and unfortunately have lost loved ones. Were hoping to talk to more people as the sun rises and thats when crews are going to head back out and just about an hour or so when the sun comes up to assess the damage, get a better sense of how much land has been scorched, how many businesses and homes still remain damaged. There are 300 plus homes, businesses and historical landmarks that have been lost to this fire. And there could be more. We heard from several people, survivors, people who were helping others to evacuate. Listen to what they have been saying. My moms place is gone. My place is gone. Pretty much everybody i know lost everything. I was the last one off the dock. And the firestorm came through the trees and took everything with it. Watching footage of people burned alive in the streets, and people panicking for their lives as they drive through flashpoints where if they were to step out of the car, there is very little chance of them surviving. It is terrifying. Reporter terrifying and very unprecedented. Just wednesday before the sun rose, the gusts of wind that were fueled by Hurricane Dora helped to spread this fire very quickly and thats why you have a lot of people jumping into the ocean for safety. People trying to evacuate, leaving behind their Historic Homes and towns that really is fueled by the tourism industry. We know at least 4,000 tourists are being evacuated to other islands. Some of them staying in shelters, others are catching flights out. There is the officials here have been asking people to not come to maui if it is not essential. But we have still seen a lot of people, you know, flying in, visiting, staying at the hotels and it is just going to be a wait and see kind of thing on how much is gone in the Historic Town of lahaina, 13 miles from where were standing right now. It is devastating. People are exhausted. It is still unclear exactly had those roads will reopen to allow people to go home and if they have homes to go to. Dana griffin, thank you so very, very much. It is such an important place with so much history. I thank you for being with us this morning. And now to the latest on the legal troubles surrounding former president donald trump. A short time ago, trumps codefendants in the classified documents case, walt nauta and Carlos De Oliveira appeared in a Federal Courtroom in fort pierce, florida. De oliveira was not arraigned as he still does not have local counsel. Trump was not at the hearing. He has pleaded not guilty to the new charges. And tomorrow both sides in the Election Interference case expected to appear in a washington courtroom for a hearing on what the former president can publicly say about the evidence gathered in the investigation. Trump is not expected to attend that hearing either. Meantime, newly unsealed Court Filings reveal that a judge granted special counsel jack smith a warrant to get data from trumps twitter account. The filing revealed that twitter now known as x delayed complying with the warrant over a provision that prevented it from notifying trump. The company was fined 350,000. Trump responded in a post on his social media site calling it, quote, a major hit on my civil rights. With us now to talk more about this, katie phang, attorney and host of the Katie Phang Show here on msnbc, and msnbc news justice Reporter Ryan Reilly and christie greenburg, former deputy chief of the Southern District of new yorks criminal division. Katie, what happened in court today . Basically you were expecting to see an arraignment, we have seen this happen with walt nauta before, his own arraignment was recessed on two occasions for him to get local counsel, same thing with Carlos De Oliveira, he showed up without outside counsel, he was in the process of getting local counsel. A gentleman who is a local Criminal Defense Attorney steps up to the podium and says we still have some details to iron out. Im confident well be able to do so, i should file notice of appearance by tomorrow. He asked for more time. August 25th, the next major hearing in the classified documents case. The judge responded that judge cannon did not want to have it take that long. That she wanted to have counsel situated as well as de oliveira arraigned prior to the August 25th Hearing so she reset the arraignment for next tuesday at 10 00 a. M. Katie, help us understand, what is going to happen that tuesday and then the 25th, how are all of these things playing a part in maybe in delaying that process . There is delay that has already been baked in. De oliveira has not been arraigned. The rules of Criminal Procedure would allow de oliveira to wave his appearance as long as hes retained permanent counsel to represent him. So if that form gets done, he will not have to appear on tuesday here in fort pierce. Two, that August 25th Hearing is critical. Under the classified information procedures act, section three, the motion for protective order where we have seen a lot of news reporting, trump saying he wants to make maralago a skiff to be able to review the discovery in that case, that hear, will take place about the terms of that protective order on august 25th. And so in order to keep with the existing Trial Deadlines that have been established by judge cannon, everything needs to be done, everybody has to have counsel, it was fascinating though, quickly, when you looked at the courtroom and the seating, you saw walt nauta with his counsel, de oliveira with his current counsel and you did not see donald trump but his counsel was present in the form of todd blanche and chris guys. Nbc news learned that extra Security Precautions have been put in place around the judge in the Election Interference case in washington . We started judge chutkan being escorted by three u. S. Marshals around the courtroom. Last week, the day that donald trump had his Court Appearance when judge chutkan wasnt yet she was assigned to the case, but not overseeing the case, she was going around as normal inside the courtroom. With a few more extra sets of eyes on her. Just is very unique situation where you have these very high profile people sort of circulating around the court, but now she does appear to have additional security and i think thats really critical because, of course, youve seen already donald trump put some focus on her and frankly the fact that she is a black woman is something that is going to be very critical here because youve seen the sort of ire that donald trump has pointed towards particularly women of color who have sort of crossed him or who have brought charges against him in the past. So, thats going to be something we have seen in other cases and january 6th cases ive seen, a very sort of racist reaction to that, and i think thats something that you really have to watch out for in the aftermath of this. There is going to be a lot of particular scorn i think focused on her just based on what we have seen in the past and the focus that donald trump is putting on her at this moment. And we were speaking about this issue of trumps lawyers asking the judge overseeing the classified documents case to order the government to reestablish a secure facility, a skiff at the trump maralago resort where they could safely discuss National Security documents. Prosecutors say he illegally kept there. How unusual is this . It is a preposterous request. It needs to be coordinated with the senior officials, the Intelligence Community and the Security Authorities that apply. Maralago is not authorized as a location to store, possess or review classified materials. It wasnt at the time of the indictment. And it certainly isnt now that hes been charged with recklessly retaining National Defense information at that very location. So, there is no precedent for a criminal defendant to be permitted to keep the nations secrets in his own home, much less one thats charged with mishandling them. So, the reasons given by trumps lawyers about it would be an inconvenience to go to another location, those just do not outweigh the severe risk involved with giving those very documents back to donald trump at his home. And, ryan, meanwhile, what were prosecutors looking for had they asked to see data from trumps twitter account . Very important data they can get from that including ip addresses of who was sending messages. Multiple people had access to Donald Trumps account. Including his social media manager dan scavino. Important to see who was posting what messages from where and thats information you can get from twitter or x on the back end. Interesting to see any direct messages that were sent, though it is not clear if donald trump was actively engaged in sending people direct messages through that. But something that is important for prosecutors in building this case and that delay in turning over that information from Twitter Now X was certainly impacted i think the case as it went forward. Twitter initially just wasnt really interested in complying with the warrant because it wanted to notify the former president first. Is it unusual for the government to go into peoples social media accounts and request all kinds of information including we were hearing from ryan maybe direct messages, et cetera. Is that normal . It certainly is not unusual. Ive served many twitter Search Warrants when i was a prosecutor, as did many of the prosecutors in my office. It is very routine and it is also routine not only to obtain those Search Warrants, but to have a nondisclosure order that goes along with them so that the person whose twitter account or social media account youre trying to search is not notified that youre doing it. Why is that important . Because you dont want them to start to destroy other evidence. You dont want to notify them of an investigation so that they can potentially flee from prosecution or notify other coconspirators. Any number of reasons you want to keep that kind of Search Warrant quiet and not notify the person who is the subject of it. So, what twitter did here they said, look, the warrant itself, we recognize that it is valid, but we want too to tell donald trump about it. They didnt turn over the information what they recognized was a valid Search Warrant until there was a warrant much later. Again, this is not normal behavior. Twitter normally not only provides the information, but doesnt make the notification. And here they made an exception and you have to really question why. It seems like it had to be a political calculation because there is really no other basis for them to have deviated from their normal procedures. Katie phang, wondering your thoughts on that. It is an unusual thing and yet everything in these cases are unusual. Yeah, i think that we have really worn out the active unprecedented. It is unprecedented to see a former president of the United States facing multiple criminal indictments, perhaps a fourth one in Fulton County georgia next week from fani willis, the Fulton County d. A. Jose what youre seeing happen here, though, is the attempt to negotiate the calendaring of all of these multiple cases, the multiple hearings, the multiple lawyers, the rescension of lawyers, it is not easy. My hat off to not only the judges, but the court staff. There was some irritation expressed by the judge today that things were done to prepare for this arraignment and the fact that there was no local counsel for Carlos De Oliveira, you can tell that didnt go over so well, there was clearly a lot that went into making sure everything was safe and prepared and so, jose, at the end of the day, trump has a lot to juggle in terms of the chess pieces if hes playing chess. Katie phang, ryan reilly, christie greenburg, thank you for being with us. Appreciate it. Coming up in a couple of minutes, were going to witness another historic moment in the space race. Virgin galactic will launch the Space Shuttle containing a cabin full of civilian passengers. Youre going to be watching that launch on msnbc next. Dont go anywhere. Were back in 60 seconds. Youre watching jose diazbalart reports from new york. Re watching jose diazbalart reports from new york thats why this qb profers the new five meat beast. And this qb profers it. And if we profer it. 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Virgin galactic set to launch its first Space Tourism flight with paying customers. Among the three passengers on board are a mother and daughter who won the opportunity to take part in todays historic launch by winning in a lottery. And joining us now, gadi schwartz. Also with us, adam frank, Professor Of Astrophysics and author of the book the little book of aliens. Were looking at this, tell us what it is that is happening now. Well, the mother ship is launching, flying basically, bringing the spacecraft up to high enough altitude where it will be released and then the second ship is actually a rocket. The Rocket Engines are going to turn on and blast up at mock 3 and then the engines will turn off and it will coast up to above what we call the von karman line, about 100 kilometers or there it goes. Adam, check it out. There it goes. Look at that turning on. Is this like one structure that is holding this thing . It looks like two airplanes, but it is one, right . It is two airplanes and then the rocket ship is a separate thing. The airplane takes it up high, the rocket ship is dropped and then the rockets turn on and this is what will go up into suborbital, will reach space for about four minutes, and the passengers will be able to see the earth, that beautiful curve of the earth. And feel weightless. Look how fast theyre moving. What is this what are they experiencing right now . Right now theyre experiencing a lot of acceleration, right . Theyre being pushed back in their chairs. It is like when you hit the gas, but big time. And then eventually when the rocket turns off, theyll feel as weless. Theyll feel the weightlessness of space and see the curve of the earth. Thats unbelievable. You cant really do that anywhere else, right . Youre saying it is mock 3, three times the Speed Of Sound . Yes, yes. Thats what they need. They need to this doesnt have enough energy to get it actually into orbit, but it can get it far enough that it is above the atmosphere. Check it out. It looks like theyre in a it is zero gravity, right . Tell us what this is. Four minutes of this. Four minutes of it . Lets listen into this, adam. Pilots have unlocked the feather, the preparation so they can raise the feather here momentarily. Theyre engaging the rcs as well. The feather is now starting to move on its way up. Everyone is up out of their seats. It is incredible. Theyre all it is amazing. Theyre all going to the window and taking in this just absolutely