this morning on "world news now," where does the attorney general go from here? >> after a growing chorus of both democrats and republicans jeff sessions has recused himself from any investigations involving the trump campaign including their communications with russia. but many are still questioning whether sessions knowingly lied during his confirmation hearing. the president defending him, calling it a witch hunt. >> a developing story overnight. what we're now finding out about mike pence and his use of a private e-mail account. for official business while governor of indiana. a new revelation that he was reportedly hacked and why his office is now saying this is nothing like hillary clinton's e-mail scandal. >> the newly released dashcam video showing police officers pulling an 18-year-old man out of his car, tasing him. but it's wt

ultimately ended his life. now, his parents are seeking justice. >> it may be cold outside for many of you. you're thinking polar, but it's friday. let's think about laying poolside and perhaps going for a dip. who is in for a dip? but wait, did you know how much pee is in that pool? >> oh, no. >> the new study that puts the argument to rest. so everyone can just let it go like literally, let it go. >>. ♪ let it go >> qulil you're in the pool. it's friday, march 3rd. >> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now." you know -- >> nothing gets you in the mood for summer like that. >> you know, i have four brothers. we can talking about urine. >> we can talk about pee in the pool. >> it's not something i wanted to come out of my face this time of day. >> good morning. enjoy your breakfast this early morning. we're going to get to that big study coming up a little bit later on. >> huge. >> but we're going to start wit

attorney general jeff sessions stepping aside from any investigation into russian election meddling while insisting he did nothing wrong. >> removing himself under the pressure after it came to light he had two conversations with the russian ambassador to the u.s. president trump called this controversy a witch hunt. releasing the statement in sessions' defense. jeff sessions is an honest plan. he did not say anything wrong. he could have stated his response for accurately but it was clearly not intentional. this whole narrative is a way of saving face for democrats losing an election that everyone thought they were supposed to win." >> in sworn statements though, sessions denied having any communications with russian officials. he now says he doesn't recall discussing the campaign. for details now from abc's pierre an thomas. >> reporter: the dramatic announcement in washington. attorney general jeff sessions stepping back from any investigation into russian interference in the election amid accusations he misled the senate about his own ficials.ations with russian >> i have now decided to recuse

myself from any existing or future investigations of any matter relating in any way to the campaigns for president of the united states. >> reporter: it comes down to this moment from the attorney general's senate confirmation hearing. sessions saying he had no contact with the russians during the campaign. >> if there is any evidence that anyone affiliated with the trump campaign communicated with the russian government in the course of this campaign, what will you do? >> senator franken, i'm not aware of any of those activities. i have been called a surrogate at a time or two in that campaign and i didn't have -- did not have communications with the russians. >> reporter: but it turns out he did. "the washington post" first reporting sessions met with russian ambassador sergey kislyak twice in the following -- final months of the campaign first at a gathering of

/* in cleveland for the republican national convention and again, if on september 8th in sessions' senate office. >> we need to make america great again. >> reporter: sessions was one of trump's top advisers in the campaign, the first sitting senator to endorse him. his september meeting with the e election hacking, and just e one day after candidate trump said this about russian president vladimir putin. >> if he says great things about me, i'm going to say great things about him. he's been a leader. far more than our president has been a leader. >> reporter: so did that moment come up in sessions' meeting with the russian ambassador? sessions says he does not remember what, if anything, they discussed about the campaign. >> i don't recall, but most of these ambassadors are pretty gossipy, and they like to -- this was in the campaign season. but i don't recall any specific political discussions. >> reporter: sessions said he met with kislyak purely in his capacity as a member of the senate armed services committee and that the meeting during the gop convention was a brief encounter with other ambassadors present. >> let me be clear, i never had

or russian intermediaries about the trump campaign. and the idea that i was part of a, quote, continuing exchange of information during the campaign between trump surrogates and intermediaries for the russian government is totally false. >> reporter: but the attorney general acknowledged that he could have been more forthcoming at his confirmation hearing, saying he was, quote, taken aback by senator franken's question. >> in retrospect i should've slowed down, and said, but i did meet one russian official a couple of times and that would be the ambassador. >> the fbi still investigating russian interference in the election. still certainlying to see if anyone tied to trump had contact with russian intelligence. in the investigation of the russians will now be overseen by acting deputy attorney general dayne nan boente appointed by president obama. pierre thomas, abc news,

>> where's our distracting flag person behind us? >> i'm amazed. he is a professional. >> i have no idea what pierre said. all i was looking at was the flag the entire time. >> the trump flag. >> so there was a bipartisan call for sessions to recuse himself before his big announcement but a growing number of democrats are going a little bit farther demanding his resignation. they insist sessions had perjured himself and is not fit it be as attorney general. senate minority leader chuck schumer said sessions had weeks to tell lawmakers will about the meetings with the russian envoy but failed to come clean. >> there cannot be even the scintilla of doubt about the impartiality and fairness of the attorney general. >> the new democratic national committee chair tom perez also wants sessions to resign. he says nobody is bob the law. there's word of yet another meeting between the trump campaign and that same russian envoy. the white house confirmed the president's son-in-law and

with kislyak in december along with dmou ousted national security adviser michael flynn. the meeting taking place at trump tower around the same time the obama administration was deciding how to punish russia for interfering in the election. we're told they discussed the relationship between the two the countries. meanwhile, newly released video shows russian fighter jets buzzing a u.s. navy destroyer in the black sea last month. knave officials say the jets flew at unusually high speeds and very low altitudes coming dangerously close to the "uss porter. the pentagon blasting the flybys calling them unsafe and unprofessional. russia's defense ministries denies any incidents involving the porter. >> the vice president responding to news he used a personal e-mail account for sensitive matters as indiana's governor. information about the account which was also hacked first came out in june in the indianapolis star. pence was critical of

clinton's private e-mail server during the campaign. in a statement, the vice president's spokesperson called any comparisons absurd since pence wasn't dealing with federally classified information. and kentucky's republican senator rand paul stormed the house of representatives demanding to see a draft of the obamacare replacement bill. rand marched through the hauls looking for what he calls the secret room for the secret bill. he even brought along his own copy machine. he knocked on a lot of doors and asked to see the bill. here's part of that conversation. >> i'm part of the legislature. shouldn't i be part of the process? i was elected to represent my state and i'm not allowed to read the working product so i can comment on it? >> you figure it's just a bill sitting there on capitol hill. >> i was thinking of that same song. the old school sesame street or some type of kids song. a bill, a bill. >> schoolhouse rock. >> on capitol hill. >> rand's request was denied by th

republicans and what he called their lack of transparency. they insist they did nothing wrong. >> i think everything else goes back to sesame street now. six of the seven echb baltimore police officers indicted for racketeering will be locked up till trial due to what a federal judge called their egregious breach of public trust. during a hearing, prosecutors said witnesses are terrified the officers or their colleagues will retaliate against them. all seven entered pleas of not guilty. one of them will have his detention hearing later today. >> now to a recall that parents should pay attention to. the kids two is recalling 680,000e bal rattles because of a possible choking hazard. the company receiving dozens of reports of plastic disks breaking. some children gagging on the small beads inside. the rattles come in several colors with the model number you see there, 81031. more on our website. >>

quarterback colin kaepernick will be literally back on his feet. he made headlines last season for refusing to stand during the national anthem as a protest against police brutality and racial inequality. he is reportedly ending his protest and plans to stand for the anthem next season. grizzlies believes he and other fleets helped create positive social changes with their protest. is he expected to opt out of his contract with the niners and become a free agent. so we don't know where he'll stand but you will now stand with the rest of the folks standing. > he says he's standing with the community and still donating a lot of his money, what money he was getting, to his charities. so he said he wants to focus on that. from football to baseball, opening day still weeks away but spring training has already given us the catch of the season. it comes courtesy of a young prospect in the new york mets organization. >> check out luis geeaire me in the mets dugout as he catches a

of. he's like yeah, i got you. >> we've got see that again. >> 22 years old. >> take a look. >> replay. and yeah, guillermo for the win. >> so the cool shades and lack of expression just adds to the whole cool thing. one person commenting said it was like something out of the highland games in scotland. all righty. >> very, very sharp. nice. coming up, they could be two of the most unlikely bffs. how former president george w. bush and michelle obae have spa new friendship first the disturbing new dashcam video showing the violent take-down of a young man by police and what ultimately ended his life. do remember to find us on facebook at wnnfans.com and twitter @abcwnn. on there today, you can see what i wear in our meetings. it's actually not a good thing. you're watching "world news now." 60's.

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we're back now with a call for justice from the parents of an 18-year-old man who is dead. >> yes, newly released dashcam video shows police pulling the teenager out of his car, tasing him and then kneeling on his neck. abc's steve osunsami has the latest. [ sirens ] >> reporter: the parents of the georgia teenager behind the wheel of this pickup truck don't deny tonight that their son was on drugs and probably shouldn't have been racing away from poli

night. but they believe what happens next after he is pulled out of the truck is nothing but murder. >> i think they should be punished. >> i have never seen a cop car that says on the side, to hunt down and kill. it says to protect and serve. >> reporter: the police dashcam video is from 2015. 1-year-old nicolas dyksma is still feeling the shock from their stun guns. and now the deputies are on top of him. the part that's most difficult to watch is when one of the deputies keeps leaning his knee onto their son's neck and turns him around and does it again. a state autopsy says it's one of the reasons he later died. from compression of the neck and torso. >> he still up? >> turn him on his side. >> hey. nicholas, wake up. >> he hadn't committed a crime, and they killed him. i got a problem with that. >> reporter: the family is now suing saying the police violated their son's civil rights and

waited too long to give cpr. authorities aren't commenting while the investigation is on going. steve osunsami, abc news, atlanta. yeah, a lot of questions surrounding this, the compression of the neck and torso was contributing to his death but also the other cause of death was listed as meth amphetamine intoxication. >> hope to get answers in that. coming up in our next half hour, real estate agents and prospective buyers caught in the act. the new video that shows how vulnerable you can be when you put your home on the market. what you need to know coming up at your next open house. >> but first bridging the divide over the political aisle. how a former president and former first lady are teaching us all to be bffs. you're watching "world news now."

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♪ >> friend zone. >> yes, we're entering a whole new friend zone. two former political adversaries. >> yeah, former president george w. bush, you see him there with the former first lady smiling together? they could be starting a whole newbie partisan thing. here's abc's nick watt. >> reporter: these days we are divided maybe like never before. but here's hope. w

woody of real life. >> she kind of likes my sense of humor i guess. anybody that likes my sense of humor, i immediately like. i needle her a little bit. >> reporter: is laura totally cool with this ellen asked what was on my mind. >> you're closer to her than barack? ing. >> uh -- well, let's put it this way. he's never given me a hug that way. when i saw her, it was a genuine expression of affection. fairly light hearted. we're around serious people all the time. we just took to each other. i sat next toler at nancy reagan's memorial. can't remember where else. but i probably have a few wise cracks and she seemed to like it okay. >> reporter: even a staunch socialist couldn't help but chuckle at bush versus poncho inauguration day. standing between them a 17-year age gap and political chasm. no mat per.laura suggesting double dates. >> t

doing things with our troops, of course, now in their after life as i call it. >> reporter: this interview with "people" magazine and entertainment weekly network, by the way, bush 43 promoting his book of paintings of post 9/11 war veterans. >> it's going to take them awhile to find their footing and figure out how they want to do what they want to do. there's a way to be sbi biotic we'll do so. >> reporter: that letter from bush 41 to bill, i am rooting for you. can we all learn a lesson from that and this? i'm nick watt, in los angeles. >> gosh, we love that sfrendship. >> can't we all just get along. >> that's great. i'm glad to see that. coming up, what you may not know that's lurk can in the swimming pool that could be making you ill. >> it's not a snake. it's not a rat. >> it's a natural function. >> we're talking pee. we've got the entire brian ross unit on it right now trying to find out how much pee is in the

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it's got to be tide okay. you know, it's interesting. our producer brian keeps on saying adamantly that we've all wondered how much pee is in the pool. i really don't think like that until i see small children. but if there's grown-ups in the pool i'm not thinking about that. i'm thinking i want to lounge and chill. >> how much pee is in the pool. >> there's a study out of canada. they studied several pools over the course of a few weeks. and they found after 250 samples, they discovered there was 570 times more pee in these pools as well as hot tubs than there was in a typical specimen of tap water. you and i have the same exact response which was how much pee is in tap water. >> what is that about? >> not my new york city tap

in tap water to pee in the pool. i don't want to talk about pee in the pool either. we're all according to our producer thinking about it. >> the bottom line is, it is true. there's a lot of pee in your pool. >> swim in your own pool. >> and try not to accidentally swallow the pool water. take a look at this. this is not normal. >> oh, my goodness. >> look at that kid. this is from some parents in utah. we're going to polar vortex now, polka. ♪ politics and foreign wars, all the weather all the scores ♪ ♪ that's the world news polka ♪ around the world and up your street the "skinny" is our gossip sheet that's the world news polka. ♪ it's late at night and you're wide awake and you're wearing thermal pants. ♪ so grab your "world news now" mug and everybody dance hey sfwoets have some fun

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this morning on "world news now," where's the bill? as millions of americans await the fate of health care plans lawmakers on capitol hill are on the hunt trying to find out where the committee's working up to a plan to repeal and replace obamacare. luckily, there are cameras there to follow them. their bizarre and familiar game of cat and mouse. >> we have new reporting on the other big story out of washington overnight. attorney general jeff sessions removing himself from investigating the trump campaign. but many are wondering if he was trying to hide his contacts with the russian ambassador or if it was just an honest mistake. we're going to go live to moscow to see how russians are reacting to all of this news. >> and new this half hour, rael agents and buyers caught in the act. >> what happens all toof