Happening now, breaking news. A new Protective Order just issued 8020 20 election interference case against donald trump. The judge, barring the former president and his lawyers from publicly disclosing Sensitive Information. Also tonight, as the flames ease and the death toll is expected to keep rising, we are getting uptotheminute accounts of the damage from the Wildfire Disaster in hawaii. Cnn is of course on the scene. And the Hawaii Governor will join us live with all the latest developments. And the top prosecutor in the Hunter Biden Probe is elevated to Special Counsel as the president son now appears headed to trial. We are breaking down the legal implications and the political fallout. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. I am wolf blitzer and you are in the Situation Room. This is cnn breaking news. Lets get right to it. Coming out of the first hearing before the judge in the trump election interference case. Cnn justice correspondent is on t
the mid-term 71 days away. listen. it was mon mentally unfair. unfair to people who didn t go to college because they couldn t afford it. unfair to people who paid their loans back and unfair for people who got higher education in an area the government didn t make loans and just bad economics. it s clearly trying to buy votes. simply putting a future cost upon taxpayers so that joe biden can do something about his terrible mid-term elections. not all members of the president s party are on board or even on the same page. progressives are by and large praising the plan but moderate vulnerable democrats are not on board. listen. the answer is not to deny help to people who cannot deal with these horrendous student debts. the answer is not to do what republicans want to do, oh, it s unfair to this person because we re helping that person. i think a targeted approach right now sends the wrong message. a lot of people out there making $30,000 or 40,000 a year that didn
hurt its investigation. all of this as the former president s fight with the fbi could be on the verge of a new escalation. cnn learning that some trump allies are pushing him to publicly release surveillance video of that fbi search. i want to get to cnn s jessica snyder. the justice department has warned that make thing affidavit public would cause significant and irreparable damage to this ongoing criminal investigation. this is high stakes for the doj, alex. this hearing just started. we re seeing that the federal judge has just taken the bench. what we expect is the justice department prosecutors will be arguing to continue to keep this affidavit out of public view, keep it sealed. media organizations on the other hand, including cnn, are asking for the unsealing of this affidavit, saying in their filing it s in the public interest to get more details surrounding the mar-a-lago search. notably, they said it hasn t been since the nixon administration that government use
Ground zero. we have all the support that you could imagine. president biden called me again this morning, and has been extremely generous, approving our emergency request. we re going to be launching programs in the coming days. one of them will be called the hawaii fire relief housing program. in other words, we re going to take short-term rentals and purpose than to house people will be willing to the shelter and getting them signed up. our expectation is that the state will cover all of the cost of the release release process. we are discussing those details with fema. we will bring hundreds if not thousands of units online quite quickly. meanwhile, people will know whether or not there house is habitable, even some of the other individuals that are out beyond the perimeter of the fire, they do not have power. i really do want to remind people what hawaii is like. it is a spectacularly beautiful place. it is also rural and be most isolated landmass on the
Commitments. launching programs, they say, to tamp down on misinformation and propaganda ahead of the mid-terms. if we are to use their record as an indicator what s to come the fairest question to ask if there is a chance in heck that they ll get anything right ahead of the mid-terms? that s not the role the department of justice. the department of justice is not to be the arbiter to tell the news organizations hey, this might be disinformation. and you know what? they were flat out wrong. it was a total lie. it was fiction. not as if they hit the nail on the head. they did the opposite. they skewed the election and it just always happens. every single time it just happens to go against conservatives and donald trump. why is that coincidence there? because of the bias that s there. director wray was hired to clean up that place and he is not the change agent this country needs in order to get the confidence back into the department of justice.