Terms mr. Pied biden the president of the u. S. Would agree to be interviewed. And a devastating death toll rising on maui as rescue and recovery teams find more bodies and thousands of residents are homeless along with stranded tourists on an island that looks like a war zone. Good day, everyone, a busy day in washington. Im andrea. Where u. S. District judge Tanya Chutkan made quick decisions this morning on the size and the scope of that protective order in the criminal case surrounding Donald Trumps alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 election. In a ruling from the bench, judge chutkan after prosecutors argued that the order was necessary to prevent pretrial publicity and the defense countered that the pregs counsels parameters were extraordinary decided that the protective order would only apply to sensitive materials and not to all of the evidence turned over to them from the Special Counsel. Judge chutkan also added a clause to the order that would limit the universe of people
And that they have the clothes on their back. i think for now that is good enough, good enough until they re able to get back into their homes or at least get word of the missing. that is the number one mission, i think, for rescue workers, for crews on the ground, for local authorities to try to connect people to a growing list of missing. we don t know how long that list s we tried to get that information at a press conference yesterday. there has not been as far as we can tell an official list that is compiled of the number of missing, but that is the number one goal of course for people and folks on the ground here. so it is mournful, it is tough, it is hard to hear these stories, but people are keeping spirits up as far as we can tell. and, steve, you were also at the airport. so talk to me about, you know, the crush of people just trying to get off the island. reporter: yeah, different feeling there, andrea, because we are talking about here locals who have been displaced mai
Pennsylvania s not on that list s that not a toss-up? not yet. it may be by the time we come to the general election. but the ones you named, rick, have 85 electoral votes. those states are the swingiest of the swing states. they re the ones that we d focus on the most if we knew the results in those states today, we could call the election because it would be pretty obvious. and they re all different, but they have something in common. right now because of demographics and other factors they are nicely balanced between the two parties, and they tend to go with the national drift. rick: i m wondering how much it s going to matter who the republicans put up as the nominee, what effect that could have. if we look at a gop nominee is more from the tea party side of the remin party or more from the more traditional establishment side of the gop, how much does that matter? it matters less than people think. am i going to argue that it