News, we are tracking devastating and Deadly Wildfires across hawaii. Drought and hurricaneforce winds fueling multiple blazes which have killed at least six people. Hawaiis Lieutenant Governor joins me live this hour. We are following Breaking News out of utah where a man accused of threatening to kill President Biden has just been shot dead by fbi agents trying to arrest him. The Fulton County District Attorney is expected to seek indictments against more than a dozen people as she nears Charging Decisions in her probe of the Election Interference by donald trump and his allies. Stand by for details. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the Situation Room. This is cnn Breaking News. Lets get straight to the Breaking News. The horrendous wildfires scorching the Island Of Maui and that way. We are very grim reports of a rising death toll as authorities urge residents and tourists to flee the fastmoving blazes. Cnn Meteorologis
defamation lawsuit against fox news brought by dominion voting systems. today judge eric davis asked the pool of prospects a number of questions, things like whether they watched fox news, for instance, or whether they have ever volunteered as poll watchers now once selected, the final group of jurors will be tasked with deciding whether or not fox news acted with actual malice in the aftermath of the 2020 election when fox news aired false statements about election interference thanks to the result of a pre-trial hearing, the falsity of those claims, those claims about election fraud, those conspiracies about hugo chavez and the machines flipping results of the election are a given. judge has already ruled on that. they are presumed false. such spur yious claims will notb debated before the jury. we have now in our possession the newly uncovered recordings, the source of all that upheaval which shook yesterday s hearing with the judge we told you about that when we came on t
Brandnew information breaking out of the criminal trial. Day two of testimony from Michael Cohen. His witness resume as you would know would lead most people to begin with one single fact, he lies as he breathes. Cohen has been convicted of lying to congress and even admits he is a liar. He is forced to untangle now some of those lies after admitting he submitted false invoices. When your Testimony Stabs even yourself. Im Harris Faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. Who knows if thats true . Who knows if anything he says is true . Yesterday cohen testified about his close Working Relationship with the former president. He says trump knew the reimbursement for a payment to the Sex Film Worker Stormy Daniels, ahead of the 2016 election, would be labeled as legal services. But some Big Questions over whether the jury will believe cohen, an admitted and convicted liar. Right now he is still under the prosecutions direct questioning. That has been many hours. One headline on whats to
Maccallum this is the story. Right now former President Donald Trump facetoface with his ex trace attorney in Court Michael cohen getting into specifics about conversations he said the former president had about a payment to porn star Stormy Daniels during the 2016 election. At the crux of the case is whether prosecutors prosecutors can prove trump intentionally falsified documentation of the payment. Cohen pleaded guilty to lying to congress the former president saying again today he did nothing wrong. Watch. Im innocent. This is a political witchhunt. This trial is rigged. Its a disgrace to new york and its a disgrace to the country. I should be out campaigning now instead of sitting in a very cold courthouse. All day long. Trace former federal prosecutor Andy Mccarthy study my butt first to nate foy live for us outside the courthouse and or manhattan. Good afternoon nate frontmack good afternoon trays. Michael cohen right now if you seconds ago starting to go over the actual wiring
As former President Trumps lawyer for tried to discredit her story and her motivation for telling it, often using her career in the adult Film Industry for reference one exchange reading quote, necklace, the lawyer saying you have a lot of experience of making phony stories about sex appear to be real. Daniels responds, wow, thats not how i would put it. The second in the films is very much real, just like what happened to me in that room. The sex is real. Thats why its Pornography Necklace than asking, now, you have a story youve been telling about having sex with President Trump daniels answers, if that story was untrue, i would have written it to be a lot better. And thats not the only moment where trumps team highlighted daniels work in the adult Film Industry. Caitlin know, its certainly not. They repeatedly pointed to that and there was another moment where trumps attorney, Susan Nicholas daniels and choose questioning her, and nicholas asked her and im quoting trumps attorney no