Twitter account targeted by the Special Counsel. The evidence jack smith was searching for and new details on twitters resistance to the probe. And President Biden touting his economic agenda, but are americans onboard . What new polling shows about the impact of his economic policies and chances in 2024. Good morning and welcome to Way Too Early on this thursday, august 10th. Im ali vitali in for Jonathan Lemire. We start with breaking news. Officials in hawaii say at least 36 people have been killed by the fast moving wildfire sweeping across the western part of the island of maui. Dozens more injured and treated for burn. Hundreds of homes and businesses are destroyed, and communications on the island are crippled. Thousands of residents have evacuated with some even diving into the ocean for safety. The devastating wildfires have been fanned by strong winds from Hurricane Dora passing well south of the hawaiian islands. In a statement yesterday President Biden said hed ordered all
Fascist dictatorship, and so bill barr, after, ive got to say, humiliating himself for several years, bill barr decides, this is where i get off. This is enough. This is my line. I believe in an imperial presidency, but i dont believe in a fascist presidency. Thats what donald trump was asking him to do. Asking him to steal an election. Asking him to arrest his political opponents. Asking him to do the sort of things, again, that fascist dictators do. He wouldnt do it. Now, trump has turned on him. As far as fani willis goes and jack smith and everything else, again, we can point you back to it and play it for you again, what we were saying in 2019. If donald trump lost in 2020, he would run again, and hed run again simply to avoid all the crimes he was committing. Im not good at math, but that was four years ago. Four years ago, we were saying he will run again so he can try to avoid jail. Going to jail. Here we are. I must say, a lot of people were saying that, so its hard to believe
Been fanned by strong winds from hurricane dora passing well south of the hawaiian islands. in a statement yesterday president biden said he d ordered all available federal assets to help with the response. crews battling the blazes are urging visitors to stay away. meanwhile, a court ruling has revealed that months before charging donald trump in two separate cases, special counsel jack smith s office executed a search warrant of the former president s twitter account. according to the redacted ruling made public yesterday, the justice department executed the warrant back in january despite being challenged by the elon musk owned company. musk first refused to turn over trump s account because of an objection to the part of the warrant that barred twitter from informing trump his accountwise being and twitter was ultimately forced to comply. that was after a judge ruled that was, quote, probable cause to search the account for evidence of criminal offenses.
Election in ohio, quote, rocket fuel for the democrats. we ll have much more on the fallout for the republican party. plus, the latest from hawaii, where raging wildfires have turned deadly overnight. oh, such a sad story. we ll have the latest. with us this morning, we have u.s. special correspondent for bbc news, katty kay. pulitzer prize winning columnist and associate editor for the washington post, eugene robinson. and senior columnist for the daily beast, matt lewis joins us this morning. we begin with a new court ruling that has revealed months before charging donald trump in two separate cases, special counsel jack smith s office executed a search warrant of the former president s twitter account. according to the redacted ruling made public yesterday, the justice department executed the warrant back in january, despite being challenged by the elon