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facing close scrutiny. >> a new record high on wall street. stocks soaring after the fed leaves interest rates unchanged. but it's what the fed said about next year that's getting all the attention. >> allegations of fertility fraud a world famous doctor who helped start clinics in multiple states, now the subject of a legal battle, hear from a woman claiming she was deceived decades ago before the birth of her daughter. >> new evidence unsealed at the assault trial of marvel actor jonathan majors. what he's heard telling his then girlfriend, a rare punishment, handed down nurkic is down in a heap. >> the on court behavior that's got one of the nba's big stars sidelined indefinitely. >> and later the gift from the boss that will definitely improve morale at the office >> from abc news in new york this is america this morning. >> good thursday morning everyone i'm andrew dymburt. >> happy thursday i'm rhiannon

ally. we begin with the new move by republicans to investigate president biden. >> the house voted last night along party lines to approve a formal impeachment inquiry into president biden. on the same day, the president's son, hunter , defied a subpoena from congress. >> so what's next in this investigation? seven abc's justin finch begins our coverage now from washington. justin. good morning. >> rhiannon. good morning. republicans are now intense defying their investigation into the president and his family. >> the resolution is adopted. >> house republicans have now unanimously approved a formal impeachment inquiry into president biden as they look into whether the president improperly benefited from foreign business dealings involving his son, hunter. >> i have been the target of the unrelenting trump attack machine shouting where's hunter? well, here's my answer. i am here before yesterday's house vote, hunter defied a congressional subpoena, saying he's willing to

testify, but only in public, out of concern. >> a private deposition could be selectively leaked or manipulated. >> there's no evidence to support the allegations that my father was financially involved in my business because it did not happen. >> now, republicans are hanging on to those words. finally involved. >> that is a huge departure from everything they have said. now for the last three and a half years, as the white house has maintained, the president was never in business with his son and president biden has said he never spoke to his son about his foreign business dealings. >> judiciary committee chairman jim jordan claims the words hunter used yesterday indicate a shift. >> first, it was no involvement, then no, i never, never talked to anyone. and then we find out about the dinners, the meetings, the phone calls and everything else. >> republicans have failed to show any evidence implicating president biden in any wrongdoing. they say they need the impeachment inquiry to find the evidence, saying it will

allow them to better enforce subpoenas in court. critics claim it's all a political stunt . >> it's all about power and truth, and justice really has no role in what they're doing. if you have evidence that joe biden, not hunter biden, but that joe biden broke the law, bring it forward. and if it's impeachable, impeach them. but you don't have that evidence. >> as for hunter biden, the house will likely vote to hold him in contempt for defying that subpoena, but it would be up to the biden justice department to decide on whether to prosecute andrew. all right. >> justin, thank you. the supreme court has agreed to hear a challenge that could affect the prosecution of former president trump and hundreds of defendants in the january 6th attack on the capitol. they were all charged under a federal law that makes it a crime to obstruct an official proceeding. as abc terry moran reports, defense attorneys say the law was meant to deal with witness tampering and should not be applied to these cases. >> republicans have been making this case for months, some of

them arguing that the justice department should now prosecute liberal protesters who disrupted official proceedings in tennessee and new york city earlier this year. and two of the four charges that trump faces in this case are based on that loss of the courts move is a big win for him. >> in the meantime, trump's election interference trial could be delayed as he appeals, claiming presidential immunity now to the war in the middle east and new questions about whether the biden administration is pushing israel to change course. >> this morning, the white house appears to be playing down president biden's harshest criticism yet of israel since the war broke out. >> he was expressing concerns that that that we continue to see civilian casualties in gaza at a fundraiser, the president said israel is losing international support because of its indiscriminate bombing in gaza. >> a white house spokesman would not confirm whether biden's remark is an official assessment. if so, it could have

significant implications. >> as i said to my previous answer there, that they will act in accordance with the law of armed conflict and do everything that they can to match their intent, which is to minimize civilian casualties. >> if they aren't, then isn't there an obligation for the u.s. to change the way that it's delivering military aid? >> that's a hypothetical that i'm not prepared to engage in right now. >> if he's saying indiscriminate bombing, that's a hypothetical. >> i'm not going to engage in. we have expressed our concerns. the president has publicly and privately with the israelis about the need to reduce civilian casualties, and will can continue to do that today, u.s. national security adviser jake sullivan is meeting with israel's prime minister to push for restraint and for more humanitarian aid and more than 18,000 people have been killed in gaza, according to the hamas run health ministry. >> an estimated 85% of the population has been displaced. encampments like this one flooded by a recent storm

disease setting in. 135 hostages, are still being held by hamas, including american. >> now to your money and some good news from wall street. the dow opens at a record high this morning. stocks are soaring after the fed announced it's leaving interest rates unchanged . fed chairman jerome powell said there's no need for another rate hike because inflation is cooling. he even suggested three rate cuts are likely next year, which would bring down borrowing costs on mortgages and car loans . >> the fbi has now joined the investigation into three attempted abductions near the university of arizona. authorities say someone approached at least three students near the tucson campus. the three women reported being followed by a man who was driving a blue car. one was groped. they all escaped uninjured. now to a disturbing story involving a pioneering fertility doctor. >> he's the subject of a new lawsuit from a woman who claims she was deceived decades ago, before the birth of her daughter . here's abc's andrea fujii.

>> this morning, a world renowned fertility doctor who founded one of the nation's first fertility clinics stands accused of secretly using his own sperme to impregnate a patient more than 40 years ago. >> that was its own, uh, its own shock. >> carolyn bester, now 42, said she made the discovery when she used a home genealogy kit and found some of her relatives were also relatives of her mother's fertility doctor, merle berger. bester's mother says she is shocked and now she's suing. >> we never dreamt we would have. he would abuse his position of trust and perpetrate this extreme violence. >> one day, poyen says she and her husband saw doctor berger for fertility services in massachusetts in 1980, and he promised to use the sperme of an anonymous medical resident who resembled her husband. but the suit claims berger instead used his own sperme and her daughter was born in 1981. >> it's hard to imagine not

trusting your own doctor. >> doctor berger launched a boston ivf in 1986, which has grown into the country's largest infertility treatment center, with clinics in six states. he retired in 2020. berger denies the accusations, his lawyer saying the allegations, which have changed repeatedly in the six months since the plaintiff's attorney first contacted doctor berger, have no legal or factual merit and will be disproven in court. meanwhile dupuy's daughter says she's devastated >> and i know who my real family is. that will never change, but i will always struggle with what doctor berger did to my mom and to us. >> boston ivf says this case predates its founding, but it says many more safety measures are in place today compared to 1980, a time before sperme banks were established. andrew rhiannon, andrea. >> thank you. the supreme court will hear a dispute over the abortion pill mifepristone. the biden administration is asking the justices to overturn an

appeals court ruling that would cut off access to the drug through the mail, prevent doctors from prescribing it virtually, and impose other restrictions. this is the court's first abortion case since overturning roe v wade. a decision on this is expected by july. >> time now for your thursday weather. >> good morning. a big storm is bringing heavy snow to the mountains of colorado and new mexico today. and a wintry mix into the southwestern plains. there will be some slippery roads, even some freezing rain in amarillo. now the rainfall forecast across florida is scary . over the next several days through the weekend. yellow is two inches, orange is four inches. there's going to be coastal flooding and inland flooding as well. now that storm will move up the coast this weekend into early next week, bringing a lot of coastal wind and rain. i'm accuweather meteorologist kevin cochran. coming up.

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>> george clooney, michael strahan only on good morning america. >> we're back now with a coast guard rescue crew near the dominican republic. the six men had been on a cargo ship that sank on wednesday. they were lifted onto a jayhawk helicopter . six of their colleagues were recovered by a carnival cruise ship in that area. all 12 men are okay. >> prices are expected to start rising again, but not because of inflation. the reason is a bird flu outbreak in kansas at a facility run by the top egg producer in the u.s, cow main foods, nearly 700,000 hens are affected, and americans are being bombarded with requests

for tips appear to be rebelling. the average tip given to non restaurant service workers dropped by 7% last month. more consumers say they're being pressured to tip in some unusual places. >> as we turn now to the domestic violence trial of marvel actor jonathan majors, new evidence has been released, including an audio recording and video from the night in question . this morning, newly unsealed evidence against actor jonathan majors includes a conversation secretly recorded last year, during which majors appears to instruct his girlfriend to behave more like the wives of historically important men. >> coretta scott king. you know who that is? that's martin luther king's wife, michelle obama, barack obama's wife, also shown in court this video from the night of the alleged assault. >> majors can be seen picking his ex-girlfriend, grace jabari, up trying to shove her back into that suv. jabari claims minutes earlier, majors had assaulted

her in the back seat. >> jabari said majors had broken her finger and cut her behind her ear after she grabbed his phone because a message popped up from another woman. >> the prosecution also presented text messages from last year in which majors refers to himself as a monster and appears to admit to hitting her. he also references his temper during that conversation. recorded by jabari. i'm just going to say this. >> my temper, my by my blood, all that, all that said right? and i'm not saying i'm a great man, a great man. i am doing great things not just for me, but for my for my culture and for the world. >> but majors lawyers argue it was jabari who attacked him after seeing that text message in the suv and they say this video shows jabari at a nightclub after the alleged assault, using the finger that she claimed majors broke. majors

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was just selling the car because he was grabbing me and pulling my hip back, so i spun away and unfortunately i hit him and so like i said i apologize to yusef green apologized. >> but critics say it's too little too late. >> i can't imagine a soul that's in a position to protect draymond green. mccain. >> what is going on with that? >> just last month, green was suspended five games for putting rudy gobert in a headlock. green has a history of bad on court behavior, having been suspended 18 times in his career. the nba last night cited his history as a repeat offender and handing down the indefinite suspension, saying green will be required to meet certain league and team conditions before he returns to play. as for tuesday night's hit on the court, nurkic had this to say what's going on with him? >> i don't know personally, i feel like that brother needed help and i'm glad he not try to choke me. hope he, you know, whatever he got in his life get better. >> meanwhile more drama in the nba last night if you can

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