News, we are tracking devastating and Deadly Wildfires across hawaii. Drought and hurricaneforce winds fueling multiple blazes which have killed at least six people. Hawaiis Lieutenant Governor joins me live this hour. We are following Breaking News out of utah where a man accused of threatening to kill President Biden has just been shot dead by fbi agents trying to arrest him. The Fulton County District Attorney is expected to seek indictments against more than a dozen people as she nears Charging Decisions in her probe of the Election Interference by donald trump and his allies. Stand by for details. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the Situation Room. This is cnn Breaking News. Lets get straight to the Breaking News. The horrendous wildfires scorching the Island Of Maui and that way. We are very grim reports of a rising death toll as authorities urge residents and tourists to flee the fastmoving blazes. Cnn Meteorologis
Sphere about the fact that this investigation exists and there is this concern, wolf, about the former president attacking the investigators themselves. a legitimate concern, indeed. paula reid, thank you very much. let s discuss more of this. democratic congresswoman zoe lofgren of california is joining us. thanks so much for joining us. the fulton county district attorney is expected to indict as we reported more than a dozen people in contract to the narrowly focused charges from the special counsel jack smith. do you think this is the right move? well, you know, it s not something the january 6th committee looked at. we were focused at the federal issues. i m sure that the prosecutor in georgia is proceeding under georgia law. there s some overlap because we do know that there was an effort to have fake electors submit bogus certificates. that probably violates some
14, 2020. that s the day that alternate republican electors signed bogus certificates falsely claiming that trump won the election. here to break this all down for us is cnn s senior legal analyst elie honig of the southern district of new york, former federal state prosecutor. elie, for people watching this from the periphery, let s start with the fake elector scheme. what was it? victor, this was a key part of the effort of trump s team to try to steal the 2020 election. it s important to understand this effort was focused on seven crucial swing states all of which voted for joe biden but by fairly narrow margins. the way it s supposed to work is after the votes are counted in each state, state officials certify the election and send in paperwork saying these will be our allotted number of electors. they will be casting their vote for joe biden. that was done. the problem is people who supported donald trump tried to
On Wednesday, the police received information that two persons at Farookh Gully (Chembur) are using computers to prepare bogus certificates for sale to anyone willing to pay