Out front next, trumps legal team just hours away from facing the judge in the January 6th Case in court for the first time. This is the special counsel jack smith wants to start trumps trial january 2nd. And the death toll rising in maui as Search And Rescue operations are frantically underway. Im going to speak to a woman who narrowly escaped a wall of flames. Her incredible story. Plus, all the republican president ial candidates heading to iowa, our john king just returned from there. Were talking to voters, and he will be at the magic wall tonight. For us, lets go out front. And good evening, im erin burnett. Outfacetoface, trumps team set to meet judge Tanya Chutkan. Chutkan is the judge overseeing the January 6th Case, and their meeting comes as the clock is ticking. Trump now on notice to reply to jack smiths formal request for the trial January 6th Case to begin,anuary 2nd, 2024. That would put the doj case to hold trump to account for trying to overturn the elec ahead of all
counties, and not just rural counties, places like, here you go to blackhawk county, it has cedar falls, waterloo, small cities, small communities like this. one of the people we met here, chris mud, he s a businessman. his family has an advertising business. he runs a solar installation company. he is all for trump. even he concedes all this talk of legal cases does create some doubt. i think he s the best guy for the job. i think he can come in and get the job done. now whether or not he s going to make it to the election or not, i don t know. i mean, you hear people talk about putting him in jail before he even has an opportunity to run. and i wonder why are they attacking him so hard? why are they going after this guy so hard? does everything really believe that everything that happened is exactly the way that the government s laying it out today? i don t. that trust part, distrust part at the end, erin, is important. now let s move from that area of the state. if trump is to b