Wildfire updates. What can you tell us now in. Reporter hey there, griff, good morning to you. Were alongside one of the main entry points into the town of a lahaina. People here have been lined up for hours, some of these folks sleeping in their cars waiting for the curfew in the town of lahaina to expire. Some of these people have nothing left, they just want to get in, see whats left of the town. Take a listen to some folks about what theyve seen there. I want people to know that there are people out here suffering, and we need donations. We need, we need people shipping things out here. We need families fed, we need yeah, we need so much men help. Reporter home after home in lahaina, gone. One estimate from core logic puts the estimate of destroyed homes at more than 3,000. The rising death toll now at 80 people as rescue crews search for more victims. Thousands of people have now left the island, and around 1400 are currently staying in Emergency Shelters here. Its still unclear h
Cart in georgia. it s going to weigh on his campaign, and now we see the special counsel being announced for hunter biden. and and so this is going to be a big issue. and most importantly, it s going to be a distraction for the candidates themselves. but notably, joe biden is not under investigation, and there s been no ed that s come forward to can evidence to suggest that he s committed any griff: we don t know that s true, it s going to be hard for him to see his son going through this. i think what s important is jack smith, both when he announced the indictment on the classified documents case and the january 6th crimes, he said he s innocent until proven gl. the same holds true for joe biden excuse me, for hunter biden. he s innocent until proven guilty. it s good that we have special counsels in both cases, and let s let them do their job. let s let the process of rule of law play out, and let s try not to let it be a distraction. it s going to really weigh on the cand
Not? if republicans are essentially saying, we ll never do that, i think there are a lot of democrats who are going to find it hospitable to go out and say, look, we want to leave it open, let the rule of law play out, open to whatever mueller s conclusions are and leave it open for us to take over the house of representatives. eli, have you been surprised the number of republicans, some big-name republicans, who have gotten on this let s kneecap mueller campaign and the fbi while we re at it? acquiescence to trump s behavior, going further in this case than trump has in trashing mueller, really is more interesting than behavior that we ve seen from donald trump and see from him day in and day out. just months ago you go back and when this first possibility of firing mueller was approached, republicans on the hill said, oh, no, republicans on the hill would never go for that. bob mueller is a republican, he s a veteran, he s respected. he was the head of the fbi. this is a guy who
Of greater contention, they re softening the ground for what s going to be a full-scale attack including the president on mueller. whether that leads to a firing or not, we don t know. over the course of the next year, going to be at least a year more of the investigation, on the basis of what sources are saying and signals coming out of the special prosecutor s office. you have the potential to soften the ground for pardons if there are criminal convictions. soften the ground for direct attacks of the president on mueller and for a 2018 congressional election that could end up being largely a referendum on the question of, is donald trump impeachable or not? if republicans are essentially saying, we ll never do that, i think there are a lot of democrats who are going to find it hospitable to go out and say, look, we want to leave it open, let the rule of law play out, open to whatever mueller s conclusions are and leave it open. r us to take over the house of representatives. eli, h
Look, we want to leave it open, let the rule of law play out, open to whatever mueller s conclusions are and leave it open. r us to take over the house of representatives. eli, have you been surprised the number of republicans, some big-name republicarepublicans, w gotten on this let s kneecap mueller campaign and the fbi while we re at it? acquiescence to trump s behavior, going further in this case than trump has in trashing mueller, really is more interesting than behavior that we ve seen from donald trump and see from him day in and day out. just months ago you go back and when this first possibility of firing mueller was approached, republicans on the hill said, oh, no, republicans on the hill would never go for that. bob mueller is a republican, he s a veteran, he s respected. he was the head of the fbi. this is a guy who s beyond reproach. they were all saying this at the time. yep. it s amazing how fast that has changed, and with republicans, elected officials who find