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
Talking to journalists. that is where they re going to go to court and say, hey, donald trump has breached this order. and depending on how often he does it, there is potentially very serious penalties for that. so, with an undisciplined individual like trump, there s danger that it s breached and danger of those penalties. okay. judge foegele, what happens then if donald trump does cross one of those red lines? what options are available to judge chutkan? well, i think most judges in the situation like this would use what people would recognize as progressive discipline. if it happens once, they would try to understand why it happened and what the motivation was, whether it was inadvertent or intentional or even if it was a violation. if it happens repeatedly, then it becomes more intense of an inquiry. you also have to look at what the nature of the breach is. if it s something that s really critical like witness
Likely, like you said, they won t want to start until the day after the election. jessica schneider. great to see you tonight. thank you so much. with us now, cnn chief correspondent kaitlan collins, who anchors the source at the top of the next hour, norm eisen, also jeremy foegele, formal federal judge for california s northern district. he currently is the executive director of the berkeley judicial institute. so, kaitlan, i know that the judge, judge chutkan, ruled specifically on procedural issues. but she also really did tip her hand about her overall attitude toward donald trump. you know, he s a defendant here. so, how is the trump team processing that? yeah, this is the first time that they were in the room in front of her before it had been a magistrate judge. this is the first time they were in front of judge chutkan, who, of course, trump has been attacking, his allies have been attacking. they ve suggested they may ask for her to recuse herself.