Georgia DA wants Trump’s trial to start the day before Super Tuesday

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🗓️ 17 August 2023

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Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis wants former President Trump’s trial to start on March 4, 2024, just one day before the Super Tuesday primary contests. According to the court filing, Willis also asked the judge to schedule arraignments for the defendants for the week of September 5th and says these proposed dates “do not conflict” with Trump’s other criminal cases. Former Democratic Georgia state senator Jen Jordan was a witness before the grand jury in Willis’ probe. She tells Anderson Cooper what it was like testifying in front of the jurors. Plus, the Hawaii governor said in a news conference tonight that the death toll from the wildfires has risen to at least 110. Earlier, he told CNN there are “probably still over 1,000 missing.” President Biden and First Lady Jill Biden will travel to Maui on Monday to meet with first responders and survivors along with federal, state, and local officials. CNN Chief Climate Correspondent Bill Weir joins AC360 from Lahaina, Hawaii to give the latest on the search and rescue efforts. He also shows how the fire threat remains.

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0:00.0	Tonight at 360 breaking news, a woman charged with threatening the judge in the 2020 federal
0:06.2	election subversion case.
0:08.0	Also, Georgia DA Fawni Willis has a trial date for Donald Trump and his alleged co-conspirators,
0:13.0	but how will it fit with the other three criminal trials he's facing in the middle of a presidential
0:17.7	campaign?
0:18.7	Plus, a live report from Maui, where the governor says the death toll has risen in and
0:22.7	probably over 1,000 people could still be missing.
0:27.0	Good evening.
0:28.0	Thanks for joining us.
0:29.0	We begin with two pieces of breaking news.
0:30.0	Tonight, the first, we've just learned of charges in Texas connected with alleged threats
0:34.0	against Judge Tonya Chutkin, who is obviously presiding over the 2020 election subversion
0:39.1	trial of the former president.
0:41.2	According to the court filing, the woman who lives in Alvin, Texas left a threatening,
0:45.5	racist, and bigoted voicemail for Judge Chutkin on August 5th, allegedly saying that if
0:50.8	Trump doesn't get elected, quote, we're coming to kill you, so tread lightly and then
0:55.6	a curse.
0:56.7	We allegedly continued, quote, you will be targeted personally, publicly, your family,
1:00.6	all of it.
1:01.6	Authorities visited the woman on the 8th, and according to the filing, she admitted to
1:05.2	making the call from her home telephone.
1:07.7	The breaking news, as well, in the Georgia racketeering trial, a federal district judge
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