submitting its proposal for the start of the federal trial over january 6th. their suggestion, april 2026. this as the fbi is investigating death threats. plus, 1,000 people still unaccounted for in hawaii. state officials fear many of them could be children who are off from school that day. the mayor of maui is my guest and a russian general turning up dead. the second one this week. were they targeted by putin? let s go outfront. and good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, the breaking news. trump s legal team just proposing a new date for his federal january 6th case. the date, april 2026. to state the obvious, this is years away and jack smith, the special counsel obviously is pushing for the first court day of 2024, about four months from now. january 2nd. it comes as the fbi is now working with the fulton county sheriff s office in georgia and they are investigating threats being made against the grand jurors who voted to indict trump along with 18 others.
addresses posted on a far right website. growing concerns about what might happen next. also he promised a big press conference two days ago claiming he d finally blow the lid off 2020 election fraud. more signs tonight he was, no surprise, just blowing smoke. and hawaii with a thousand people still unaccounted for a cnn investigation into why maui s emergency sirens stayed deadly silent. good evening and thanks so much for joining us. we begin with breaking news. the former president s attorneys have weighed in with what they want the trial date to be in the federal election sub version case. it is a long way off. the justice department had proposed january of 2024. the former president s attorneys now say the trial should not start until april, 2026. that is more than 2 1/2 years from now. if mr. trump is elected president again, it is effectively never. the lawyers in their filings saying the justice department s proposed date denies them the ability to prepare for tri
Tonight hurricane hillary just becoming a major category 3 hurricane with the storm whipping up sustained winds of 120 miles an hour moving toward the united states. 26 million people in the u.s. under flash flood watches tonight. southern california is expected to be hit by heavy rainfall. some areas potentially seeing a year s worth of rain over the course of the weekend. the storm s path along the coast making it difficult to predict exact landfall. forecasts believe it will happen in mexico. if it does make landfall in california it would be the first hurricane to do so in 165 years. thanks for joining us. ac 360 starts now. an arrest after one judge in a trump trial gets a racist death threat and from another trial grand jurors names and