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summit next month. more than 100 world leaders invited are in favor of the accord. months after president trump announced he's pulling the u.s. out of deal. >> and a former trump adviser says he had more contacts with the russian government than previously disclosed. it does raise new questions about the influence on the election. >> reporter: the web of lies, half truths and memory failure involving russia and the trump campaign is growing larger. the latest threat, carter page and the disclosure of his congressional testimony about a trip to moscow to give a speech durk the campaign. page told me he never talked about the campaign with anyone in the kremlin on the trip. did you meet with anybody in the kremlin and discuss the presidential race? >> not one word. >> reporter: not one word. and he said much the same to george stephanoplo
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individual who is a board member of the new economic school where i gave my speech. >> reporter: but page under oath has now admitted that one individual was in fact the russian deputy prime minister. and that page later wrote e-mails to campaign officials about the meeting, promising incredible insights and outreach from senior members of the presidential administration in moscow. >> those accounts are directly contradictory. so you have to conclude that what he was saying publicly simply wasn't true. >> reporter: the president has denied again and again anybody in his campaign had any contact. >> how many times do i have to answer this question? >> reporter: but page says he was in direct contact with at least four senior officials on the trump campaign, either before or after the moscow trip. then senator jeff sessions and campaign aides corey lewandowski, j.d.
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hope hicks, now the white house communications director, seen here at the state dinner in japan. with carter page's admission we count at least nine figures in the trump campaign who met with the russians, including attorney general jeff sessions, donald trump jr., jared kushner, paul manafort and george papadopoulos, the campaign adviser who pleaded guilty to lying about it, the first criminal cop v criminal conviction in the russian investigation. >> and the driver of the baltimore police van in which freddie gray was fatally injured has been cleared of all charges. his death sparked riots two and a half years ago. cesar goodson had been accused of failing to make sure gray's seat belt was fastened. and a very special event took place at madison square garden right here in new york. >> kicking offer the comedy
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comedians, including conan o'brien and john oliver in the annual stand up for heroes event. and the red hot chili peppers were also there, adding to the event. the whole thing raises money for wounded veterans and their families throughout, through the woodruff foundation, founded by our own bob woodruff who was injured while covering the war in iraq back in 2006. >> i don't think i'd be alive right now if it wasn't for the doctors apartme doctors and the nurses and the medics and corps men who saved lives. so it inspired me and my family and my brothers to start a great foundation to try to return something for those who have helped us so much. so this has been the most fulfilling thing. >> it really has. a great thing there for bob and his wife as you can see there. and there are many other
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>> raising money for a great cause. the mounting allegation against harvey weinstein. why the nypd believes pros kurts may have enough to send to a grand jury. condition france survive without butter? you're watching "world news now." i was wondering if an electric toothbrush really cleans better than a manual. and my hygienist says it does but they're not all the same. who knew? i had no idea. so she said, look for one that's shaped like a dental tool with a round brush head. go pro with oral-b.
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♪ another hollywood heavyweight is now the target of a sexual harassment scandal. brett ratner, behind ""the revenant" is being accused by six women, including olivia munn. he is denying the allegations. warner bros. has reportedly already severed ties with him, and a liquor giant is considering the matter. police in new york city believe the manhattan district attorney has enough evidence to present to a grand jury.
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>> reporter: police sources say the manhattan district attorney plans to present its case against harvey weinstein to a grand jury. at the center of the case, boardwalk empire actress who says he assaulted her in 2010. >> she put forth a credible and detailed narrative to us. we have an actual case here. >> reporter: and now a scathing article published in "the new yorker" with allegations of just how far weinstein went to silence his accusers, reportedly paying spies to investigate their personal lives. >> what this story pulls back the curtain on is a set of tools that i truly did not know were available to the most powerful men in this country when they are bent on stopping allegations against them. >> reporter: contributor ronan farrell alleges that he used security agencies to
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black cube became friendly with rose mcgowan, pressing rose for information. but that woman is a former officer from the israeli defense forces who had been secretly recording her conversations and allegedly reporting back to weinstein's team. >> rose mcgowan said everybody lied to me, like the movie "gaslight." she said she was living for a year in a world of fun house mirrors. >> reporter: weinstein's spokesperson says it is a fiction to think that anybody pressured at any time. it, black cube says they operate in full compliance with the law. manhattan's district attorney hasn't decided definitively how
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>> officials in london plan to proceed with charges. coming up, we'll switch gears with the one thing french food needs now that's in short supply. >> across france, there are fears of a butter krois acrisis they are sending shock waves. du. clorox toilet bowl cleaner with bleach is no match against limescale. but lysol power toilet bowl cleaner has 10x more cleaning power against limescale. so switch to lysol. what it takes to protect.
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why are you buttering your face? >> i'm shaving with it. >> oh, moses smell the roses. >> jerry, it's vastly superior to any commercial shaving cream. it shaves close and clean and the natural e-mull yomollients face silky smooth. feel my face. >> no, i don't want to. >> come on. >> that is close. >> so besides shaving, butter is essential. smooth. >> very nice. >> essential to cooking, essential to any french movie star
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and right now, there is a shortage of it. >> and since butter is essential to french cuisine, this could be a crisis. >> reporter: there's a culinary crisis of sorts. a war simmering in the grocery aisles of france, endangering the flakiest and creamiest of french delicacies. this is butter gate. analysts say it's a direct result of last year's milk crisis. new zealand suffered droughts. european milk production dropped and the u.s. exported less dairy. at the same time, demand for butter increased everywhere. french dairy producers say french supermarkets are now unwilling to pay the higher prices. and all of that leaves france without key ingredients for buttery pastries hike this. this croissant will run you
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last year they consumed 18 tons per capita. they are whipping up panic, showing readers how to churn their own butter, asking are there substitutes, and a tweet, you are not alone, marg rin is not the solution. this bakery owner says he'll soon have to raise his prices, especially for a holiday cake in france, declaring, you guessed it, a lot of butter. abc news, london. >> before the meltdown, dairy farmers, butter producers, pastry makers, they've been tracking the rising butter prices for a long time. >> you were supposed to say and don't have a meltdown. >> i see, before you melt down. butter jokes. that's great. >> what are you doing? >> i don't know, playing with ut abouter. this is
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>> butter is a good source of vitamin a, which is good for your hair, eyes and skin. did you just eat butter? >> there's nothing to see here. yeah. no. nothing. >> you can use it like a moisturizer, i think. you want to try it? >> let's see. looking for balance in your digestive system? try align probiotic. for a non-stop, sweet treat goodness, hold on to your tiara kind of day. get 24/7 digestive support, with align. the #1 doctor recommended probiotic brand. also in kids chewables.
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it out at the same time. even the crew dressed up in vintage museum uniforms. when's the last time you wore polyester? >> i don't know if i've ever worn polyester. >> good morning. >> reporter: and happy time travel for this back to the past experience. once loaded, the plane taxied. and then oh, no, a technical problem. the crew knew how to vamp. >> 18, 32. anybody else? >> reporter: the departure a bit delayed. a bit circuitous as they had an exit through the golden gate, followed by a toast. so what is the attraction? ask an ad geek as most of these people describe themselves. >> for most of us who love airplanes, it's saying good-bye to an old friend. >> reporter: it will always be iconic, the first wide-bodied
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jet, boeing built more than 1500 of them. this particular plane has been flying since 1989, roughly 80,000 cycles as they call it. but after this trip, it goes to the desert, probably will never fly again. so many stories. so many endings, and as we conclude, a beginning. in the upper deck, a propose a the answer? that's a five mile high yes on the flight of a lifetime as one chapter ends and another begins. high above the pacific, wade freedman, abc news. >> so hard to say good-bye. it was beautiful. >> take a window seat. >> the pacific. careful. >> very nice. >> a throwback to the '70s. >> let's do it. let's do the hustle, shall we? if only we had a disco ball around here. >> we do need one of those. that's a good point. >>
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♪ >> hey, disco ball. did they have a disco ball on the flight? >> pretty much. >> i can help you.
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this morning on "world news now," democrats win big. >> the party scoring a pair of victories in governors races in what's being seen as a setback for president trump. we're tracking results from key races across the country. also breaking overnight, the president's stern message to north korea. he just finished a speech in south korea warning the north, do not try us. but he also gave kim jong un a path toward peace. and now you have more space to ex-trepress yourself. twitter is giving almost everyone double the room for your next tweet, but that's not sitting well for some people. some say

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