Another defendant. Also a Special Counsel named in the hunter biden case with orders to investigate the president s son and others. The question now, who are the others . We are live in maui, where the death toll just rose sharply. Some especially powerful new video is coming in, which we will bring to you, along with exclusive reporting on how hawaiian officials may have missed Key Opportunities to prevent a tragedy like this. Good evening, everyone. John berman here in for anderson. We begin with what we learned today about how judge Tanya Chutkan intends to handle what could be the most important trial this country has ever seen. Someone who is held and right now running to reclaim the highest office in the land. And on top of that, hes donald trump. The venue, as you know, was a hearing on how he and his legal teammate handled evidence, some of it sensitive, that prosecutors will be turning over to them, specifically what they are allowed to make public. And on that, judge chutkan
Court for the donald trump legal team, who won, who lost, and the comments the judge made that the former president might not want to hear. Also, a former army officer who was an adviser to the Trump Administration explained why his blood ran cold after reading jack smiths latest indictment. Plus, the Vice President talks exclusively to msnbcs Reverend Al Sharpton amid new revelations about her role in the 2024 campaign. Campaign. As i bid you all a very good day from msnbc World Headquarters in new york, welcome, everyone, to alex witt reports. Were beginning this hour with some staggering the numbers. About the wildfires of this devastated murray this past week. The math now says it will cost five and a half billion dollars to be built from hawaiis governor says. We will likely be the worst Natural Disaster in the states history. So, he comes as many residents return to assess whats left, if anything, of their homes. Officials say more than 2200 buildings were destroyed. That majorit
that s what motivates me. it would be disastrous for us to decouple from china. antony blinken travel to china as chinese counterparts continue to publicly criticize the u.s. there is no reason to talk with china right now. the congressional baseball game brings together republicans, democrats, and fans of all ages. know that by the steube deep into left field and bouncing into the bullpen. republicans took it 16-6. brian: straight to a fox news alert now. marine veteran danny penny is indicted on second degree manslaughter charge connected to jordan neely s death on a new york city subway train. mr. penny says he acted in self-defense and to protect those people around him on that car. after neely said reportedly he was going to kill him. ainsley: todd piro joins us with the latest. todd: that indictment under seal right now. the manhattan d.a. is expected to formally announce 24-year-old daniel penny s indictment later this morning. new york city mayor e
Prosecutor who s been investigating the president s son. he got a new title, special counsel david weiss. what s more, quite literally, he asked for it. here to explain, cnn s sara murray. sara, what more do we know about what attorney general garland decided to elevate david weiss to special counsel. there aren t a lot of straight answers on this right now. we saw merrick garland give the press conference where he cited the extraordinary circumstances under this case. of course the president s son being investigated is extraordinary. this has been going on for five years. he said david weiss just came to him earlier this week and requested this special counsel designation. we saw a couple weeks ago there was a plea deal were hunter biden that went sideways where he was going to get slapped with tax misdemeanor charges that he would plead guilty to. that still doesn t fully explain why at this point in the game weiss wants the full powers of a special counsel, although it
i voted for trump the first two times, and if he is a candidate i will definitely vote for him again. i think it would be nice to have somebody come in with less drama and the trauma. i like what trump could do if he just kept his mouth shut. right? so that was the thing. i don t, he s not a good leader. i liked his philosophies and what he was trying to accomplish, but the way he went about it, not good. trump s campaign trip to iowa comes our after judge tanya chutkan put new limits on his ability publicly to discuss evidence related to his four election fraud charges. she also warned trump s team against making any inflammatory or ambiguous public remarks about the case. and the reaction from hunter biden s lawyer on the elevation of david weiss to special counsel. the people need to understand the attorney general and he, and he, mr. weiss, has said for a long time, that he had all the authority that he needed to bring any charge that was appropriate in any place. so, what