the death toll for the wildfires numbers rising as we witness the scope of the disaster. we ll look at the island s needs with a member from the red cross. plus donald trump making an appearance at the iowa state fair but all eyes are on georgia as a district attorney there prepares her case for the grand jury. and months after suffering cardiac arrest in the middle of an nfl game, damar hamlin is back in action. cnn sports coy wire joins me live on his incredible road to recovery. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with laila harrak. we ll begin in hawaii where days after wildfires decimated par parts of maui the death toll is rising. moments ago authorities confirmed 93 deaths. the fires now the deadliest in the united states in more than a century. that number is expected to climb even more in the coming days as crews sift through the devastation caused by the fires. governor josh green says the area has suffered some $6 billion in losses. so
perpetualing fraud upon the american public. they are not journalists, they are liberal hacks who don t like or trust the tens of millions of americans who voted for donald trump. of course they were not going to of coer what a former president of the united states was saying in his own defense, but we will. this is a very sad day for america and it was sad driving through washington, d.c. and seeing the filth and decay and all of the broken buildings and walls and graffiti. this is persecution of a political opponent. this was never supposed to happen in america. if you can t beat them, you persecute them or prosecute them. laura: shame on the media for not covering this case as it should be covered, or those remarks. none of us should be surprised. new york times, washington posts, teaming with co-conspib r spirrators. they seek to help the party in power and interfere with the next presidential election. their coverage today was reminiscent of how simpson case was ha
we are following breaking news. sum it up this way life today on capitol hill is something. a wild scene unfolding as house republicans were starting to move toward holding the president s son in contempt of congress for defying a subpoena to appear and testify. as the house hearing got under way, the target of that investigation, hunter biden, surprised the committee and walked into the committee hearing, leading both sides to effectively start shouting and accusing each other of essentially saying what are you so afraid of. melanie zazona seeing all of it unfold. she joins us again. thrill these at risks theatrics are common on the hill. this was unusual. reporter: yeah, and it s important to remember that this hearing was already going to be contentious. if you take a step back and remember that house republicans are recommending that the president s son be held in contempt of congress for refusing to appear for a closed door deposition back in december. but hunter
Join the millions of people taking back their privacy by downloading duckduckgo on all your devices today. an unexpected appearance followed by a quick commit, but he did exit, but he did show up. hunter biden shocking the oversight committee by showing up at his own contempt hearing just briefly. they were just starting debating if they should hold the president s son in contempt of congress for failing to comply with a subpoena last month. he sat in the front row for a few minutes before leaving just as abruptly as he arrived. i want to bring in defense attorney and former federal prosecutor shan wu. we are looking at the video of hunter biden walking into that committee meeting. was this a good idea for hunter biden to show up even though he didn t testify or say anything? but he was there.
Own butts because they re thinking if this happens to them, maybe it could happen to me sometime. they don t want to do that. on the prosecutorial end, i think if we look at the examples of meadows and scavino, i think it was, those are instances where contempt was referred to the doj. they didn t do it. probably the off-ramp they use sudden there had been negotiations, there had been an effort at accommodations. meadows i think had turned over documents. didn t look like a cut-and-dried case. i think unfortunately for hunter bi biden, garland has shown themselves so worried about being criticized for favoring the president s son that he might lean the other direction and lean toward adding contempt to the basket of charges they ve already put on hunter biden. because he is facing other charges, and that is definitely a legal battle there. i want to go just quickly to mo moskowitz has been speaking to msnbc. i want people to hear what he has to say after that