hearing with special counsel jack smith s team. they re trying to determine what evidence trump may discuss publicly in the election interference case. plus, we have two nbc news exclusives today. new reporting about the special counsel s investigation into classified documents found at president biden s office and home. and democratic senator joe manchin skipping a major white house event as he considers running against president biden. and celebrations are being held around the world today. the 50th anniversary of hip-hop. we begin this morning with breaking news for the third straight day. catastrophic wildfires are tearing through hawaii with six active blazes. six still burning. it is now the second deadliest wildfire in u.s. history. 55 people died. the death toll is expected to rise as the fire is just 80% contained as of right now. with over 1,000 structures burned, thousands of acres of land scorched, the governor says it looks like a bomb went off and tha
dead. we ll have the latest in just a minute. the biggest one-day strike to hit los angeles in a generation is under way right now. everyone from mechanics to traffic officers are walking off the job. the latest in the series of union labor actions that disrupted the city in recent months. we ll explain what it is all about and what s next coming up. we start, though, with former president donald trump and federal prosecutors locking horns over what will be one of the central themes of his upcoming federal trial. the right to free speech. right now the legal teams from both sides are under orders to agree on a hearing date to hash out the scope of a protective order which would set ground rules for what evidence trump can and can t disclose. last night, his team rejected the government s original proposal to restrict everything it hands over, arguing that would violate trump s first amendment rights. instead, trump s attorneys proposed more narrow limits for only genuinel
it evening once again, i am stephanie ruhle. live from 30 rock, we begin this evening with the drama in d.c. as donald trump s legal team starts with the department of justice yet again. the judge overseeing the trump 2020 election case, tanya chutkan, has responded to the latest filings around the government s request for a protective order by scheduling a hearing for friday morning at 10 am sharp that is not what the former president s attorneys were hoping for after judge chutkan s initial order to set a hearing by the end of the week trump lawyers responded by complaining about their obligations in their other federal case, and then offering availability next monday or tuesday. while the former president is not planning to appear in friday s hearing, he doubled down on the very behavior at the center of it all in new hampshire earlier today. how can my corrupt political opponent, crooked joe biden, put me on trial during an election campaign that i am winning by a lot?
exclusively to ron desantis about his campaign reset and trump s dominating lead in the polls. if, on the other hand, the election is not about january 20th, 2025, but january 6th, 2021, or what document was left by the toilet at mar-a-lago, if it s a ref run dem on that, we are going to lose. they re fighting against trump that s not a pathway for success for the republican party. end of the trail for the u.s. women s soccer team. falling to sweden on penalty kicks. a crushing early exit from the world cup. and good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington where this afternoon, donald trump s defense and the prosecutors have to submit legal arguments by 5:00 p.m. on the government s request for a restraining order to prevent the former president from attacking the judge, the prosecution and witnesses, influencing jurors or revealing grand jury evidence. the judge protected an argument they needed three more days to submit their objections to the protectiv
codefendants appearing in court as the former president makes a new and unusual request in the classified documents case. plus, inflation ticks up after a year-long streak of declines. what it could mean for your wallet as the fed plots its next move. and playing tourist at the edge of space. a mother/daughter duo and a former olympian blasting off with virgin galactic, is this the future of commercial space travel? our nbc news reporters are covering it all. we begin with those raging fires in maui. president biden issuing a major disaster declaration for the area. nbc s dana griffin reports from an evacuation center. reporter: we are at the largest evacuation center in maui where 300 to 400 people here slept overnight. many escaping the flames in lahaina. several people have told me that their homes are destroyed. many, however, are kind of coming here with a very positive attitude, expressing gratitude for still being alive. we know several people have been killed. at