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 bla
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 mar-a-lago 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 wasn t 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 that s really critical because, of course, you ve 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 you ve 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, that s going to be something we have seen in other cases and january 6th cases i ve seen, a very sort of racist reaction to that, and i think that s something that you really have to watch