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a lesser charge. >> stopping short of an apology. >> this is a mistake that i made. but i'm hoping that whoever's watching and listening right now can learn from this mistake. >> the latest blemish on the reputation of a star once seen as squeaky clean. how will this impact the prince of pop? plus, the political power of taylor swift. sweet like honey. >> karma is a cat purring in my lap. cause it loves me. >> kamala harris supporters hoping the superstar's karma can sway the election. more than 400,000 clicking taylor's vote information link in 24 hours. >> swifties don't play stars like kid rock and roseanne barr, backing donald trump. >> but can the superstar who changed the audience for pro football move the needle in the presidential race? and new york fashion week as celebs like rihanna, lindsay lohan and first lady jill biden flocked to the catwalks. nightline is in the front row. front row. >> nightline will be right back

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aaron katersky. >> you going this way, guys? >> walking through a crush of cameras. justin timberlake strolled into court to plead guilty to a traffic violation and resolve his dwi case. >> he emerged contrite and with a message. >> even if you've had one drink, don't get behind the wheel of a car. >> justin timberlake pleaded guilty to driving while ability impaired three months after his june arrest in sag harbor, new york. >> this is a mistake that i made, but i'm hoping that whoever's watching and listening right now can learn from this mistake. >> as part of his plea deal, timberlake must pay a $500 fine, record a public safety announcement, and perform 25 hours of community service. >> i try to hold myself to a very high standard for myself, and this was not. not that. >> it's understandable that justin timberlake will take a plea deal to ensure that what he was charged with a crime ends up

being a traffic infraction, because there are collateral consequences to having a criminal record in traveling around the country. but making it a traffic infraction will make all those worries go bye bye bye. >> with that shock of seeing timberlake in a mug shot, people wanted answers. now people wanted to know what happened. what did he do? where was he going? all those questions are there. so for timberlake to come out and admit that he had a drink. one drink. and now he's taking ownership of that, it's pretty strategic move on. his part of controlling the narrative. >> today's hearing a 180 from his previous hearings. >> he was not intoxicated. i'll say it again. justin timberlake was not intoxicated. >> appearing virtually from the european leg of his world tour in august, he pleaded not guilty to two misdemeanors. surveillance video capturing timberlake's gray bmw a little after midnight after he left hamptons hotspot the american hotel. police say he sped

through a stop sign and swerved out of his lane. in police documents, timberlake quoted telling authorities he had just finished dinner and had one martini, and i followed my friends home. but officers noted that his eyes were bloodshot and glassy, and a strong odor of an alcoholic beverage was emanating from his breath. during a field sobriety test, police say he performed poorly and was unsteady on his feet. he refused to take a breathalyzer. the hamptons has long been a go to destination for the rich and famous, and celebrities have been making headlines in the wealthy enclave for decades. in 2012, nba hall of famer jason kidd pled guilty to a misdemeanor dwi after running his escalade into a light pole. in 2003, billy joel drove into a tree after swerving off the road. he was hospitalized but not charged. in 1997, martha stewart was accused of intentionally backing her car into a landscaper. the incident was investigated, but charges were never filed. it's the latest blemish on the reputation of the 43 year old singer and actor, known for hits like

sexyback. >> i'm bringing sexy back. >> and oscar nominated can't stop the feeling. everybody say. the ten time grammy winner got his start with the mickey mouse club. >> today is music day, and it's going to be great. >> then, soaring into international fame as part of the chart topping boy band n sync, he became beloved quickly and had a mass appeal to so many people, including, you know, young females who loved him as a musician. recently, though, timberlake has come under intense scrutiny in the wake of documentaries on ex-girlfriend britney spears and singer janet jackson. in 2004, timberlake performed with jackson at the super bowl halftime show, where he ripped off a piece of jackson's outfit, briefly exposing one of her breasts. jackson faced immediate backlash and justin, the person who actually removed that piece of garment, kind of walked away free and clear. >> you know? janet was unable to perform in certain spaces and

still unable, you know, to perform in certain spaces because of that moment. whereas justin, you know, not that long ago was able to do a solo halftime show at the super bowl following the films in 2021, timberlake posted an apology on instagram, writing, i am deeply sorry for the times in my life where my actions contributed to the problem, where i spoke out of turn or did not speak up for what was right. >> i specifically want to apologize to britney spears and janet jackson, both individually, because i care for and respect these women, and i know i failed. the post has since been taken down. then, late last year, spears published a memoir alleging timberlake cheated on her multiple times and that she cheated too. but the difference, she says, is that timberlake used her infidelity to further his career. playing it out in his cry me a river video, where if britney lookalike steps out on him, ever hit me so hard and just tell me you river. in a

2003 rolling stone interview, justin timberlake implies it's britney spears's fault they broke up. i mean, she has a beautiful heart, but if i've lost my trust in someone, i don't think it's right for me to be with them. >> the way he brought everyone into their lives, the way he characterized her in that song that makes this a topic that she gets to address at length because it did, more than anything else, kind of shatter the image that she had at that point. >> spears, writing in her book cry me a river, did very well. everyone felt very sorry for him, and it shamed me. i felt there was no way at the time to tell my side of the story. i couldn't explain because i knew no one would take my side. once justin had convinced the world of his version, i don't think justin realized the power he had in shaming me. i don't think he understands to this day. >> i think people were shocked at some of the allegations that came out in britney spears

memoir, britney and justin, when they were together, really were the epitome of america's sweethearts. >> despite the scrutiny, timberlake's career doesn't seem to have taken much of a hit. he'll be back on tour in just two weeks, and according to billboard, that tour has amassed more than $250 million and is set to be one of the top ten tours of the year. well, the last report i heard is that his ticket sales were actually doing pretty well, but all of that could come crashing down if he does something else. >> so at this point, he needs to stay on a level that the public will accept him. he needs to be a good guy. >> our thanks to aaron when we come back, can an army of swifties help carry kamala swifties help carry kamala harris to victory in november think again. with watsonx, you can deploy ai across any environment. above the clouds and on lots of clouds.

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>> welcome back. abc's presidential debate this week nearly broke the internet as the candidates spar, traded insults and made their cases. but one post-debate endorsement rocked the headlines like no other. coming from a pop star who's got a fan base wider than any army, who's afraid of little old b taylor straight ahead. who's afraid of a little old taylor swift? well, you shouldn't be. well, if some of her fans have anything to say about it, donald trump might be swift announcing right after the presidential debate tuesday night that she's voting for vice president kamala harris and governor tim walz this fall, writing in part that harris is a steady hand and

gifted leader, and i believe we can accomplish so much more in this country if we are led by calm and not chaos. in signing the post with love and hope, taylor swift, childless cat lady a nod to trump's running mate j.d. vance is now viral comment about single women without children, who he said are miserable while we have been talking, somebody just handed me something whilst learning of swift's endorsement live on msnbc, i am incredibly grateful. >> first of all, to taylor swift, i say that also as a cat owner. >> the campaign immediately selling friendship bracelets, the signature accessory swift fans wear and trade at her concerts, and putting out new ads using swift's song miss americana. it's been a long time coming, but. and i did something bad. >> i never trust a narcissist, but they love me. >> for the harris campaign, there is no bigger celebrity on planet earth. arguably, that can have the kind of influence over an electorate and the makeup of an electorate. she's endorsing

the concept of voting and the challenge of reaching younger voters in particular. so just spreading that awareness to a following as large and as loyal and as intense as taylor swift's is itself an achievement. >> there were a whopping 405,999 visitors to the vote. dot gov custom url shared by swift in the 24 hours that her instagram story with the link was live, seeming to be the latest example of the so-called swift effect. >> oh, the taylor swift effect is very real. i mean, let's go back to her most recent concert tour, for example, and just look at all of the gains that it did to whatever local economy she pulled up in town for. like, everyone made money. she is someone who moves the needle. >> after the u.s. open shared this clip of swift singing i believe in a thing called love last sunday at the tennis tournament. just before the 2003 song from the darkness, shot to number one on the us itunes rock chart and last year, after she

started dating kansas city chiefs tight end travis kelce. viewership for sunday night football games increased by 24% for women aged 18 to 24, and 34% for women over 35. >> swifties don't play. they are absolutely a united force. you know, for her last tour alone, they were on the ground, you know, planning things in celebration of taylor swift arriving in their cities to perform that. i mean, that level of grassroots organization can only be rivaled to a political campaign. >> of course, celebrity endorsements are nothing new. in 1920, republican warren g. harding became the first presidential candidate to get an a-list backing from actors mary pickford and al jolson. this year, actors roseanne barr and scott baio, along with elon musk and kid rock, have all rallied behind donald trump. what analysis showed that oprah

winfrey's endorsement of barack obama in 2008 may have given him a boost of about a million votes in caucuses and primaries, but many stars have backed democratic candidates in the past. that went on to lose. travis scott and lin-manuel miranda supported beto o'rourke in his texas senate race against ted cruz in 2018. we found love in a hopeless place, and that same year, rihanna could not help andrew gillum find love in his bid to become florida's governor. but the taylor swift effect may be different. on national voter registration day last year, both governors saw 1,226% jump in participation on their side after taylor swift posted an instagram story driving her followers to their website, resulting in over 35,000 new registrations. >> there are states that will be decided by less than 10,000 votes, so if you can move just a couple of portions of a percentage point, and often not just in changing a vote, but just changing the makeup of the electorate, the influence can be

vast. >> one group says they've seen the swift effect in action. swifties. for kamala, we have political organizers. >> we have people who work in social media professionally, and we have just people who are really passionate about this and so when you put a group of people this passionate together, i think you see results. >> irene kim helped co-found the grassroots coalition of taylor swift fans that formed the evening president biden stepped down. since then, she says, they've gained over a quarter of a million followers across social media. they also take the work offline, organizing texts and phone banking and door knocking. kim says swifties like her find common ground between taylor's values and harris and walz's plans. >> a lot of taylor's music obviously talks about feminism and standing up for yourself, and also the experience of being a woman, and i think that's also why swifties were primed to support kamala, because we knew the barrage of misogyny would come. we've seen that with taylor. we want to combat a lot

of the misinformation and misogyny that we knew was probably going to head the vp's way. >> swift has nine more u.s. states left in her heiress tour, and kim says swifties for kamala will be to all of them doing outreach. and while they haven't heard from taylor's team directly, we like to say she's welcome at our party anytime. >> take a look what you've done. >> cause, baby, now we got bad blood. >> there does seem to be some bad blood between swift and trump. swift pointing to the ai generated images posted last month on trump's truth social, falsely claiming she endorsed him. it brought me to the conclusion, she wrote, that i need to be very transparent about my actual plans for this election. as a voter. for his part, trump called in wednesday morning on fox and friends to share his thoughts. >> taylor swift endorsed kamala harris. what do you think? >> well, i actually like, mrs. actually like mrs. mahomes much

better, if you want to know the truth. >> brittany mahomes is the wife of chiefs quarterback patrick mahomes and has grown close to swift trump, going on to tell the fox audience he thinks swift will face backlash for getting behind harris. >> but she's a very liberal person. she seems to always endorse a democrat and she'll probably pay a price for it at the in the marketplace. i bet you think about me. >> but for now, pro harris swifties are betting you think about them at the ballot box in november. >> swifties always go above and beyond. we always go the extra mile. we can never just be low key about something. >> when we come back, what do rihanna, lindsay lohan and first lady jill biden have in common with nightline? we're all front and center at new york's fashion and center at new york's fashion week ♪ how you can reinvent yourself. you can move to new cities. try on new styles.

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runways around the big apple. anna wintour and olivia wilde, lindsay lohan, mindy kaling and mary j. blige all front row for michael kors. rihanna also stepping out for alaia, spiraling showcase at the guggenheim museum. the glitterati even heading east. first lady jill biden and usher hanging in the hamptons for ralph lauren's latest looks at hudson yards designer jason wu making his mark with an outdoor occasion. we were there as he paid homage to a famed taiwanese artist. >> the ink on the dresses walking by today was extraordinary. >> it started with work. >> it's iconic. i needed to celebrate it and needs people to know about it. calligraphy is more than words. moving in ink means permanence, and meaning means identity. and i tried to not be asian for a very long time in my childhood because i didn't see anybody in the media who looked like me, and that has changed. but it's not enough ink

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