trial. and we get more evidence of defense foot-dragging in the mar-a-lago documents case. also tonight, we re on the scene of the enormous destruction in maui where some of the wildfires are thankfully being contained, but the proportions of this tragedy, including now dozens of lives lost, it just keeps growing. later, florida governor ron desantis adds a new adversary to disney, school liberians and the woke. this time school prosecutors. he is firing them, only he never hired them. the voters did. we ll speak to the latest official to get the ax. good evening. john berman here for anderson. trying to for swift justice in what could become the most significant criminal trial ever in this country. if not unprecedented in its speed, then pretty nearly so. the defense in one way or another in this federal case and the other today say not so fast. today the special counsel s team asked for a january 2nd trial date in the election subversion case which it said could take
out front next, trump s legal team just hours away from facing the judge in the january 6th case in court for the first time. this is the special counsel jack smith wants to start trump s trial january 2nd. and the death toll rising in maui as search and rescue operations are frantically underway. i m going to speak to a woman who narrowly escaped a wall of flames. her incredible story. plus, all the republican presidential candidates heading to iowa, our john king just returned from there. we re talking to voters, and he will be at the magic wall tonight. for us, let s go out front. and good evening, i m erin burnett. outface-to-face, trump s team set to meet judge tanya chutkan. chutkan is the judge overseeing the january 6th case, and their meeting comes as the clock is ticking. trump now on notice to reply to jack smith s formal request for the trial january 6th case to begin,anuary 2nd, 2024. that would put the doj case to hold trump to account for trying to overtu
Tonight, the white house confirming that five americans who have been imprisoned in iran are out of prison and now under house arrest. four of them, only three of whom we actually know the names of, were moved out of tehran s notorious evin prison today. the fifth not publicly identified yet was already under house arrest. but the americans have been imprisoned for years and declared wrongfully detained by the state department. a source familiar with the negotiations tells cnn the move is an encouraging step but is obviously not a done deal. it is notable that the negotiation here is are being conducted primarily through intermediaries, qatar, and switzerland among them because the united states does not have diplomatic relations with iran. thank you so much for joining us. anderson starts now. tonight on 360, trying times. fast and slow today with jack smith pitching aggressively quick election interference