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Happening now, breaking news. A new protective order just issued in the 2020

election interference case against Donald Trump, the judge barring the

former president and his lawyers from publicly disclosing sensitive

information.

Also tonight, as the flames ease and the death toll is expected to keep rising.

We're getting up to the minute accounts of the damage from the wildfire disaster in Hawaii.

CNN is of course on the scene and the Hawaii governor will join us live with all the latest developments.

And the top prosecutor in the Hunter Biden probe is elevated to special counsel

as the president's son now appears headed to trial.

We're breaking down the legal implications and the political fallout.

Welcome to our viewers here in the United States

and around the world.

I'm Wolf Plitzer, you're in the situation room.

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