Hard questions on maui. How did this wildfire start . How did it grow so fast . Destroy lives all with so little warning . Now a top official in charge of the response to that crisis has quit even as he stands up for how his agency handled the disaster. Plus a historic hurricane. Hilary is now a huge category four storm. It could be the first storm of its kind to hit california in some 84 years. Some areas could get a years worth of rain in just one day. And justice deferred. Donald trumps legal team trying to push one trial years into the future. While the former president backtracks his plans to hold an explosive News Conference monday. Were following these developing stories and more right here all coming in to cnn news central. The origin and the response to the deadly maui wildfires are both under growing scrutiny. Just a couple of hours, residents of the devastated town of lahaina are set to hold a News Conference to address how officials responded to the disaster. It comes after
for decades we ve had bilateral meetings, but our position has been weaker as a result. now we re going to have a series of trilateral cooperative efforts, and i think it does nothing, but enhance peace and stability in the indo pacific, specifically as we think about a few weeks ago, we celebrated the 70th anniversary, ending the korean war, a war that claimed thousands of american lives and many more korean lives. it s to remind us that we need to do everything possible to deter and prevent a war before it s too late. to get to your direct question, i think on that issue, what we re not doing with the sense of urgency is surging hard power, west of the international date line to put the path, so he doesn t look across the taiwan strait and think he could make a move and achieve that ambition. that s where it has run into a bureaucratic log jam at the pentagon. that s why we need to work in a bilateral movement to put in a place a deterrent posture that convinces xi he cannot achieve