A big moment unfolding this hour. Donald trumps legal team in front of the judge presiding over the 2020 election case for the first time. Whats shes going to say about how much evidence will be talked about in public. And will she give any indication on when this trial is going to kick off. Maui being described as an apocalyptic devastation from the wildfire. Some residents say they had no warning that it was time to get out. I sat up on top of the roof, and i battled the fire for about three hours. I couldnt do it anymore. And then i said, i have to move. And then i ran to the ocean. I gave in. So you literally saved yourself by jumping into the ocean . Yes. When you turned around and looked back, whatd you see . Devastation, everything gone. Moments ago, former president Donald Trumps lawyers arrived to Federal Court in washington. Its a big day for them and for the Special Counsel as this is the first hearing in the 2020 Election Subversion Case against trump, and the first time that we will hear from the u. S. District judge tanya chutkan, she is the judge presiding over the whole thing. Overnight, prosecutors filed a Motion Asking for the trial here to begin january 2nd. They argue a speedy trial is in the publics best interest. Donald trump, not surprisingly, lashing out about that on social media with his attorneys also pushing for any trial to be held after the 2024 election. Cnns Katelyn Polantz is outside the court for us in washington. She joins us now. So this is all getting underway as we speak, katelyn. What could happen today . Reporter well, kate, there has been the latest discussion about trial dates, but that is not exactly what the judge is going to be determining today. Its going to be something looming over this case throughout, though. Because what is on the table today is how fast and how the Justice Department can hand over records to donald trump and his team, evidence in this case that theyll need to look at that theyve never seen before and review as they head toward trial and prepare for that trial date. So, that evidence discussion, how much donald trump can share of it publicly, that is really going to be the legal issue that the judge is going to be looking at today. Were going to be watching for a lot of things. Does she put a lockdown on donald trump so that he cant discuss publicly or discuss with anyone else at all, not even just on social media or in his campaign speeches, the information hes learning about where this investigation has gone so far. The Justice Department wants that full nondisclosure to be put over all of the evidence that he would be seeing for the first time and learning about in the course of this case. He wants a much smaller segment to be locked down, something that would be called sensitive materials. So were watching for how the judge responds to that. And were also watching for her tone. Judge tanya chutkan, she is a tough judge. She is also very metered judge in that she holds hearings that really do dig into the legal issues. She seems to move quite quickly and also be very prepared whenever she gets on the bench. So were watching to see how much shes taking into consideration some other things that trump and his lawyers and the Justice Department have said so far to her, specifically about social media posts that the former president has made talking about the Special Counsels investigation, wanting to come after people. Generally, if she responds to that today, that is something really to watch here. And then, of course, all of this will matter in the course of a trial date because the sooner that the Justice Department gets an order that theyre asking for today and that theyre fighting with trumps team over, the sooner that order gets in place, the quicker trumps team can start reviewing evidence, meaning the quicker that path begins for the real preparations to get to a trial. Kate . Its great youre there, katelyn. Were going to stick close to you, let us know as soon as you hear whats happening in court. Thank you so much. Former Trump White House lawyer James Schultz is with us. Jim, great to have you here. Todays hearing is procedural and a little bit in the weeds. But big picture, this is the first time were going to hear from judge chutkan. And big picture, what signs are you looking for from her . So, look, shes a former defender, public defender. So i think shes going to have a keen understanding and a sensitivity to the rights of a defendant in any case shes looking at. Shes also a tough sentencer. So shes historically been a very tough sentencer. And i think shes going to be a tough judge in this case. Shes not going to tolerate, you know, the Public Display of nonsense, if you will. And i think what youre going to see in this hearing today is her be very stern, listen to both sides, but be very thoughtful in her determinations. And i think shes likely to, you know, not allow everything to go, like the trump side wants. But i also dont think im sorry i think shes going to allow very shes going to limit it to that sensitive information. Shes going to limit it to the sensitive information. That will be in trumps favor. But i also think shes not going to stop everything like the prosecution wanted. I misspoke there a second ago. But i do think that shes going to be very firm with trump in this in his record of kind of going off the rails, if you will, and just doing whatever he wants. Shes not going to tolerate that. The Special Counsel, jim, filed overnight to ask for the trial to begin on january 2nd. How realistic do you think that is as a trial date . I think thats really aggressi, t i also think this judge is going to look at the speedy trial provisions. Its the defendants interest, but its also the publics interesthaneeds to be balanced here. And i think that jack smith did a good job and his prosecutors did a good job of laying that out in the Public Interest to do this soon. The lawyers on the other side of the defense are going to argue five months to get ready for trial is just really tough. And the trial is going to land right in the middle of all these primaries. Im not sure the judge is going to care about the primaries. I do think she is going to want to make sure that there was fairness. But i think its realistic that a trial does happen this winter. I just dont think its early january. Maybe february or march might be more realistic. We just got word that the hearing before judge chutkan has begun. So, soonish we could get some information about whats going on inside the courtroom. So stand by for that. In the meantime, we saw something from erin blake at the Washington Post that caught our attention. He diagrammed a recent trump media appearance. And trump seems to be changing the way he is talking about january 6 or talking about the election that he clearly lost. Instead of saying completely it was rigged or i definitely hes starting to litter the sentences with i believe or in my opinion. Listen to this. Im telling them that, in my opinion, the election was rigged, and theyre saying i did something incorrect. I didnt do anything wrong. I believe i won that election by many, many votes, Hundreds Of Thousands of votes. Thats what i think. And i expressed that on the phone call. And i said i dont know what the number was like, 11,000 or something. I said what i need is 11,000 votes. I won this thing by Hundreds Of Thousands of votes. Thats my opinion. And i think its borne out by the facts and well see that. What i think my opinion. I believe all of a sudden all over his statements, jim, why . Because that is look, in a public setting, hes trying to set the tone that at the time all of this had happened and at the time that all of the allegations all the alleged conduct took place, that he believed he won that election. I think hes trying to reinforce that in his public discourse. I think its a little late for that. But, nonetheless hes trying to reinforce that because thats where theyre going to be going at trial on this is that he believed at the time that the that he had won that election, and Still Believes it today. If he is saying it this way now, does that negate all of the other times that he said without equivocation that the election was stolen and that they had proof and said all of this without the qualifiers that were now hearing . So i think the qualifiers have little to do about the affirmative way he did it. I think its just messaging, you know, for purposes of the trial that his intent at the time, meaning going to his State Of Mind at the time, his State Of Mind that he had lost that election. The fact that hes saying it now, i mean, thats going to be one of their arguments in court. And i think the other side, the prosecution, if you will, is going to put on witness after witness after witness who were in meetings with him and told them that he had lost the election. And, remember, theres still that meeting that took place on the National Security issue that we dont know much about, but the fact that he said this is going to be a problem for the next guy, and they alleged that in the indictment. And i think thats going to be key because that also goes to his State Of Mind as to whether he won or lost that election at that time, or theyre going to make that argument. Jim schultz, great to have you here. Good eye for the Washington Post to catch that in that transcript. We just got word from the hearing before judge chutkan, she says she is prepared to rule on some of the matters before her today. So there will be news in the next few minutes. Jim, thank you for being with us. Well bring you that news as soon as it comes in. This morning the death toll from the devastating fires on maui, it has reached at least 55 people. That number is expected to rise. Theyve only been able to count the bodies found outside the buildings. They havent been able to get in because it was just too hot. Today, extra crews are being brought in for the mainland. They do hope to get inside the structures. Families there desperate for answers about their missing loved ones. Hawaii news now reporter talked to one woman who says she has not heard from her father in days. Reporter Liza Fled Her Lahaina home tuesday night as flames closed in. She pleaded with her dad to leave, too. But he refused. I wanted to force him to come with me, but he was very hardheaded and he didnt want to come. And he said hes going to stay and wait for my mom. And my mom worked all the way in so i would assume she would be stuck in traffic and she wouldnt make it back to the house. And no matter how hard i tried to ask him to come, he didnt want to go. Reporter her mom did get stuck in traffic and sought shelter. But her dad is still among the missing, desperate to get to lahaina, she walked and found her home, like most others in ruins. No sign of her dad. Some survivors say they did not get a warning until it was too late. At 8 38 a. M. , they ordered evacuations around lahaina intermediate school, which ended up not being in the area most affected by the fires. Just after 10 00 a. M. , the county said the fire was 100 contained. Now, the next Evacuation Message came nearly 5 1 2 hours when some say it was too little too late. There wasnt really an Evacuation Notice for us. It was more we realized that the town and our street looked like it was going to burn. My phone got one ping as i was getting into my truck, and that was the only Evacuation Notice we had. That warning was completely useless. We have tsunami warnings that i think shouldve been utilized. I think this could have been handled so much better in so many ways. But so many of us residents felt like we had absolutely no warning. Now, this morning cnn is on the ground in lahaina, of course, getting a closer look at the scope of the damage and what theyre dealing with in this moment. Cnns bill weir walks us down historic front street. Watch this. Reporter this is the historic banyan tree, 150yearold majestic tree at the center of lahaina town. It looks like it may have survived. It needs water desperately to survive right now. But for the locals who are coming down and looking at the damage, this is such a sign of hope that maybe their iconic tree will have lived when so much else is gone here. But the history can never be replaced. This is the first hotel in hawaii, the pioneer hotel, pioneer theater. Its completely gone. Right over here was the library. Its just now a stone shell of scorched blocks. Mcfleetwood of the band fleetwood mac, his place is gutted out with flames. Its just unrecognizable. One of the most charming beloved port cities anywhere in the world is just scorched like a bomb went off. Our thanks to bill weir for that. Now, as of now, the wildfires in hawaii, they are the second deadliest in the u. S. In the last hundred years. But officials fear the current death toll of 55, that it will almost definitely rise. Lets get right to cnn meteorologist to get a sense of what the situation will be like over the next 24 hours, derek, as they try to recover. Are they going to face more fires . The search and Recovery Efforts there are going to be impacted by the weather going forward. But not like what they were when they were at the peak of this fire event. So the winds have certainly relaxed. Theres no question about that. But there are still embers and there are still flareups and hot spots, at least according to the official statement from the maui county earlier roughly about 12 hours ago. Now you can see the Wind Forecast that we have here picking up through the course of the weekend. It was at a northeasterly direction, and then it changes to more of an easterly wind. This is a typical tradewind setup that the Hawaiian Islands receive. But, remember, it was Hurricane Dora in combination with this highpressure system that put the strong winds funneling across the islands. One thing interesting to note, we have the ability to detect the hot spots. During the height of the wildfire event, heres the up country, heres lahaina. Look at as we fast forward to present moment, those hot spots have basically diminished across the entire island. We have an 80 containment on the lahaina fire. Again, with the exception of those hot spots and flareups that are still ongoing for that area. In terms of rainfall, we could use it, but its unlikely that well get it because of the leeward side where lahaina is located. The majority of the rainfall will be across the Higher Elevations and on the eastfacing slopes. Thank you for that update. Kate . Coming up for us, a Military Shakeup in ukraine. President zelenskyy is dismissed all officials in charge of Regional Military recruitment centers. Why . We have the details coming in, next. Plus, a key Inflation Gauge is offering a new look at where prices may be headed. A critical signal for the Federal Reserve as they consider the next possible move. And minutes from now, former Vice President mike pence is going to take the stage at the Iowa State Fair. Yesterday he was accused of treason by a trump supporter. Whats going to happen today . Well be back. Enamel relieves s, helps restore gum healalth, and rehardens enamel. 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