In north korea, the regime confirming for the first time it has custody of an american soldier who bolted into its territory last month. What the north is claiming he said. And back at home, Soccer Superstar lionel messi propels his miami team to new heights. We begin this morning with a Wildfire Devastation in hawaii. This morning, the white house announced President Biden and the first lady will travel to maui on monday to meet with First Responders and survivors. And as the death toll climbs to 106, were starting to learn the identities of some of the victims. They include 74yearold robert vickman, 79yearold buddy jantoc, franklin teros, who was trying to save a friends dog, Carol Hartley who lived on lahaina for 36 years and a family of four that was trying to escape. And as news crews with Cadaver Dogs Scour the area, a growing number of families are facing a grim reality, one man spoke with our affiliate khnl outside a morgue, saying he was waiting to identify his stepfathers rem
Hurt trump down the line? we have seen no evidence, at least in the primary process, it has been hurting him at all. well, i mean, certainly right now what we have seen is exactly the opposite, that each one of these indictments and the coverage of that has actually increased his hold on the gop electorate. and so i m skeptical about that. i will say that when we get to a phase, if we get to a phase with early trials, where there is more evidence put on the record that voters have to, you know, listen to and digest all the time, that could have some effect. but i also think that absent a real critique by his opponents, there is nothing that really undoes the hold that donald trump has on the electorate and thus far, even with the latest indictment, you see very little criticism coming from national republicans, obviously governor brian kemp and mr. raffensperger
Democracy. representative democracy is an anomaly in world history. most countries, for thousands of years, have been run by dictators, pharaohs, czars, kings, you name it, and what we have is unusual and it s fragile and i don t think we americans really realize how fragile it is and what happened last winter was a close call. if it hadn t been for a few public officials, almost all republicans, by the way, like raffensperger in georgia, mike pence, a republican certifier of elections in michigan, if it hadn t been for those people, lord knows what would have happened. people talk lightly about our constitutional crisis. it would have been a serious crisis. we had a close call last winter, and that s why this voting rights act in clarifying some of these things that are going on in the states and limiting them is so important. i couldn t agree with you
Decertifying the election, or whatever the correct legal remedy is and announce the true winner. he was on cnn earlier this morning to react to that letter. here s what he had to say. i look at his letters as a plea for attention. he knows he s lost. he s been told that multiple times by a lot of people. but at the end of the day, that information he talked about, we open up an investigation, we have lots of investigations that go on, and then once we have our findings we report those to the state election board for final disposition. but the fact is that president trump did not carry the state of georgia. reporter: i think what this shows us is the former president is going to continue carrying on the big lie, doesn t matter how many people he tells, it doesn t matter he s under criminal investigation for his efforts to try to overturn that election, he s still out there peddling lies. there was not widespread fraud, not widespread voter
Dealing with a lawsuit from a former dominion employee who is suing the trump campaign and other entities for defamation and in this said there is this campaign memo that is debunking a number of these wild claims about dominion, things like the notion that dominion was somehow connected to antifa. a lot of this came before we saw rudy giuliani and sydney powell out there spreading these things. the new york timetimes says i deposition related to this, rudy giuliani says he never saw the memo. there is clear open source stuff and very obvious it was easy to debunk this. this has not stopped former president trump from still trying to spread all of this information, just days ago wrote a new letter to georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger asking him to overturn the election in georgia. it says i would respectfully request that your department check this and if true along with many other claims of voter fraud and voter irregularities start the process of