Washington, d. C. Im fredricka whitfield. We begin this morning with the apocalyptic destruction in hawaii, the deadliest National Disaster in state history. At least 80 people are dead. And thousands more displaced from the wildfires. And now, rescue crews are bringing in cadaver dogs to help search what is left of burned buildings. Devastation from the lahaina fire, costing an estimated 5. 5 billion am in mountainy county. One lawmaker tells cnn the statement unestimated the possibility of wildfires and failed to plan for emergency issues with the government alert center. The governor has looked at a comprehensive review of the states response all of this developing as we are seeing more videos of harrowing escapes. We got to walk somewhere. Over there. By the beach. [ bleep ]. No, no, no not like this. Not like this. No. [ bleep ]. Oh, my gosh. I mean that family did eventually make it to an evacuation shelter, after taking refuge on rocks, by the ocean. Lets go now to cnns mike val
A former american president and his fixer and a big time ally of his in the tabloid media. It was a plan crafted to cast then candidate donald trump in a positive light in the allimportant tabloids. Using stories that were favorable to him and silencing ones that werent and smearing everybody that got in the way. The witness on the stand today on the Hush Money Trial, details exactly how this scheme worked on a daytoday basis. David pecker, the former publisher of the National Enquirer described a relationship with donald trump that dated back to the late 1980s and noted that trump was one the first people to call him and congratulate him when he bought the National Enquirer back in 1999. So tlir friendship was already long standing by the time donald trump decided so to run for president. The questioning today was the details an the operational aspects of that explicit agreement between trump, his lawyer Michael Cohen, and david pecker. And what they did to boost trumps campaign. And
but really, at the rate the judge is moving, me shiet want to move closer to the prosecution s proposed january 2024 date, so we will see. jessica schneider, cnn, washington. let s talk more about all of this with former federal prosecutor and robert mueller s former special assistant at the department of justice, michael zeldin. also the host of that said podcast. trump is a criminal defendant. and therefore, the court has a right to limit his speech, if he intimidates or harasses witnesses. so what happens if trump completely ignores the judge s order? ultimately, the death sentence for him is that his probation, while out on bail here, will be revoked, and there will be a step back, meaning he will be jailed, that is the ultimate weapon that the judge has. i think though, that she will keep calling them back in, and
brother on an interview during one of his press conferences. he said you have your show for an. reality. a state legislator. average new yorker. you are too stupid to understand what he is saying otherwise. you know, he puts this vale of his own story, his own spin on everything. he bullies, he harasses, he intimidates, he abuses. where is the personal courage in that and i think it s coming back to bite him. for him, he wants to avoid accountability at all costs and he is saying he is running for re-election. rachel: we know you are outraising him at least in the out quarter. seems like an appetite for change. we will see. we never know. i wish you luck though. thank you. the feedback has been outstanding around the state. we are working hard. we have far outraised him.
doesn t even apparently brian williams and al sharpton have been together but doing stories about conservative talk radio. he air brushed as the south as being haters. the only reason you vote for mitt romney you are a hater. if rush limbaugh said that about the liberals today, they are haters, they vote for barack obama, look at things he would be accused of there. al sharpton i m still waiting for tiawa brawley. he intimidates. i m sick of being intimidated but i think people have to stop being intimidated by that and they start to call out their beosz and who employ them. sean: we learn from the daily caller and tucker carlson that media matters for america, they