. >> that man's name was bruce hill.n authorities ran his information through the data base, they had a match for the blood found at the crime scene. a jury convicted hill of the murders of big charlie and diane. his motive for the crime was never firmly established. >> who is bruce hill? do you know that name? >> no. >> ever see him at the farm property, on job sites? >> no, never. >> but rick's lawyer needed proof that there was no connection between the two men. so he paid hill a visit. >> bruce hill showed a picture of rick gagnon and his words were, i've never seen that cracker [ bleep ] before. bruce hill was unambiguous and was very blunt that he did not know rick. >> all hill had to do now was admit that in open court. and gagnon might go free. hill flatly refused. once again, rick was out of luck, but not hope. >> the first piece of good news i'd had in a long time. you know? i was excited to see what god was getting ready to do. >> and there were developments. >> yes, sir. >> namely, the arrival of a new inmate

mary bruce live on the hill tonight. and mary, just a short time ago, we took note that the senate intelligence committee released that report on russian meddling with a big warning for the next election. >> reporter: well, david, this bipartisan report outlines sweeping attempts by russia to interfere in the 2016 election. it says that russia targeted all 50 states, though no votes were changed. and the report warns that swift action needs to be taken to shore up these systems, because they say russia will be at it again. david? >> mary bruce, thank you. >>> next, to puerto rico, where governorry cargo rossello has resigned tonight. weeks of mass protests turned to celebration in san juan. the call to oust the governor after sexist and homophobic text messages were released. he said he will step down next friday. the secretary of justice is in line to take over, but she's already under fire tonight for her handling of aid after hurricane marimaria. >>> there was a grim warning from the father of those teens missing in c

mary bruce leads us off tonight from the hill. >> reporter: president trump today declared, "i don't have a racist bone in my body." but the firestorm over his racist tweets is only growing. the president telling four congresswomen of color to go back to the countries they came from. at the white house, our karen travers pressing him, since all four congresswomen are citizens and three were born in the u.s. >> when you say that the democrat congresswomen should leave if they're not happy, where should they go? >> it's up to them. go wherever they want or they can stay. but they should love our country. >> reporter: tonight, the house is voting on a resolution to condemn trump's comments. >> every single member of this institution, democratic and republican, should join us in condemning the president's racist tweets. to do anything less would be a shocking rejection of our values and a shameful abdication of our oath of office to protect the american people. >> reporter: that statement igniting chaos on the floor. >> request they be taken down. >> reporter: republicans objecting to th

mary bruce, abc news, capitol hill. >> such a big and important fight and very well deserved to take rst responders. our thanks to mary bruce there. >>> former special counsel robert mueller is just hours away from testifying in back-to-back hearings on capitol hill. >> it's going to be a big day. when mueller goes before the house judiciary committee, his long-time aide aaron zebley will sit alongside him. zebley will be sworn in as a witness. >> democrats are hoping to question mueller about allegations that president trump obstructed justice. his spokesman says he will not go beyond what's in his report on the russia investigation. abc news will have live coverage of the robert mueller hearings beginning this morning at 8:15 eastern. >>> president trump is suing his home state of new york in an effort to keep his tax returns under wraps. a new law allows key committee chairs to obtain the state returns. trump's attorney is calling it presidential harassment and political retribution. democrats say they need the returns to search for potential conflicts of interest and corruption. >

mary bruce, abc news, capitol hill. >> mary bruce tracking it down, trying to get the answers there onwhite house counselor kellyanne conway had a bizarre exchange with a reporter while defending president trump's racist tweets. >> conway said the four congresswomen represented a, quote, dark underbelly in this country. when reporter andrew feinberg asked conway what countries the president was suggesting the lawmakers should return to, she fired back with a question of her own. >> what's your ethnicity? >> why is that relevant? >> because i'm asking a question. my ancestors are from ireland and italy. >> my own ethnicity is not relevant to the question i'm asking -- >> no, it is. >> reporter: conway tweeted she meant no disrespect. she says she was trying to make the point that we are all from somewhere else originally. >>> other news, retired supreme court justice john paul stevens has died at the age of 99. >> stevens was on the high court for almost 35 years. only one other justice served longer. stevens retired in 2010 at the age of 90. he was nominated by republican president ger

abc's mary bruce on the hill tonight. >> reporter: on capitol hill today, applause. and a huge sigh of relief for the heroes of 9/11. the senate passing legislation to permanently fund care for first responders and survivors. >> there have been too many funerals, too many hospices. these families deserve better. >> reporter: comedian jon stewart has been fighting for them for years, shaming lawmakers for their inaction. >> they did their jobs. 18 years later, do yours. >> reporter: at his side last month, detective luis alvarez. >> you all said you would never forget. well, i'm here to make sure that you don't. >> reporter: he did not live to see today. today, for first responder john feel, an emotional farewell to this fight. >> yes, i cried with jon, but that was to exhale, that was to get 18 years of pain and suffering out and i believe it's out. >> it's been a long fight. mary bruce live at the capitol for us tonight. and mary, a clear sigh of relief for these first responders. and this funding will now last for decades? >> reporter: well, david, every five year

mary bruce, abc news, capitol hill. >> a big thanks to our senior congressional correspondent, mary bruceapitol hill. president trump was tweeting about robert mueller before, during, and after his testimony. >> the president claimed victory as he left the white house for a fundraiser, telling reporters it was a devastating day for democrats, and he slammed mueller's performance. >> this was a very big day for our country. this was a very big day for the republican party. and you can say it was a great day for me, but i don't even like to say that. robert mueller did a horrible job, both today and with respect to the investigation. but in all fairness to robert mueller, he had nothing to work with. you know, you can be a builder, but if they don't give you the right materials, you're not going to build a very good building. robert mueller had no material. >> the president also praised republican lawmakers for their role in the hearings, describing them as incredible warriors who defended the country. >>> in other news, overseas the death toll is climbing from that tainted alcohol scare in

bruce. >> reporter: on capitol hill today, a victory for the heroes of 9/11. >> this is necessary, it is urgent, and it is morally right. >> reporter: the house voting to extend funding to care for first responders, after an emotional shaming from comedian jon stewart. >> your indifference cost these men and women their most valuable commodity -- time! it's the one thing they're running out of. >> reporter: at his side, detective luis alvarez, who spent three months searching through the toxic rubble at ground zero. >> you all said that you'd never forget. well, i'm here to make sure that you don't. >> reporter: a final plea, in his final days. detective alvarez died just three weeks later. >> mary bruce is live in washington. mitch mcconnell is promising a vote soon? >> reporter: david, mcconnell told us he wants this done by the end of this month. in a statement today, he said the senathaner forgotten the victim compensation fund, and we aren't about to start now. >> thank you. >>> still ahead on "world news tonight" this friday, the dramatic police takedown on live television. the suspect in

our senior congressional correspondent mary bruce on capitol hill with the latest. >> good morning, georgewell, after mueller's testimony what comes next is now up to nancy pelosi. the house speaker has called yesterday's hearing an indictment of this administration but that doesn't seem to be enough to move the needle on impeachment. this morning, democrats are staying the course. >> reporter: after robert mueller's six hours of testimony, president trump insisting he won the day. >> this was a very big day for the republican party and you could say it was a great day for me but i don't even like to say that. >> reporter: mueller made clear his report did not clear the president of wrong doing. >> director mueller, the president has repeatedly claimed your report found there was no obstruction an it completely and totally exonerated him. that is not what your report said, did it? >> correct. that is not what the report said. >> reporter: over and over again democrats tried to knock down the president's claims. >> would you agree that it was not a hoax that the russians were engaged in try

>> mary bruce, who covers the hill for us every night. mary, thank you. >>> and from afghanistan tonight, two u.s. paratroopers out of ft. bragg have been killed in an apparent insider attack. an afghan security source reports that an afghan soldier opened fire inside a military camp in kandahar province. the americans, from the 82nd airborne, have not yet been identified tonight. it does come, though, as secretary of state mike pompeo said just today that president trump directed a reduction of troops in afghanistan before the 2020 election. >>> there is still much more ahead on "world news tonight" this monday. the bank robber wanted from pennsylvania to delaware to north carolina. news tonight she's been caught, and where. >>> also ahead tonight, the building collapse today. the top floor giving way. several workers rescued, on stretchers. in fact, several of them rushed to the hospital. >>> the tragic discovery today. the body of a toddler left in a van outside a daycare center. police are on the scene tonight. >>> and this was alarmi

let's go back to mary bruce there on capitol hill. mary, you know this. fire for these racial attacks against members of congress. >> reporter: and the president is back at it again this morning. he is just relentlessly attacking congressman elijah cummings. over the weekend the president said that cummings' majority black district around baltimore, maryland, is, quote, a disgusting rat and rodent infested mess where he says no human being would want to live. cummings, of course, is the chairman of the house oversight committee investigating the president and it was just days ago that cummings ripped into the president's acting homeland security secretary for conditions along the border. look, it is clear that the president thinks these kinds of racial attacks are good politics for republicans and now the president, we are seeing him trying to take things even a step further. he is trying to turn the table insisting he is not being racist, he says the democrats are. cecelia snflt? >> trying to flip the script there. mary, thank you. michael? >>> this morn

. >> let's get right to mary bruce, live tonight with me all day up here on the hill. the bottom line, mary, was there anything said today that will change anyone's minds here on the hill whether to move forward with impeachment? here's what house speaker nancy pelosi said just moments ago. >> my position has always been, whatever decision we made in that regard would have to be done with our strongest possible hand. and we still have some outstanding matters in the courts. it's about the congress, the constitution and the courts. and we are fighting the president in the courts. >> so, mary, where do democrats go from here? >> reporter: well, david, don't expect any imminent action here. democrat leaders are saying they are going to stay the course. for now, impeachment is still on the table, but david, democrats are going to have to make a decision soon. do they keep up this drum beat to impeach or do they change course and focus instead of beating donald trump at the ballot box in 2020? david? >> mary bruce leading us off tonight. mary, thank you. >>> president trump

i can imagine hearing more about that on the hill. bruce is calling from indiana, republican.oreign policy is very important. kristi has is on the right track presidenthas us on -- trump has us on the right track. iran has been sponsoring terrorists. we give them all that money. they are going out and harming everybody. they need to stop them somehow. host: thank you for calling. from texas, independent caller. caller: good morning. on a couplespond things. one of them is when they talk .bout how bad things were president trump, before he became president, he came out and said russia needs to come in. you have him on video on his speeches. he said russia needs to come in dealelp us with our voting to protect our voting deal. twice, on two occasions. i do not understand american people supporting him and he said that. he has not taken it back. he protects put in on that. -- putin on that. the other thing is when they said we need to protect our own people first. ,t is the republican party people in the republican , goings and senate against our own american people because every

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this as we hear emotional testimony on capitol hill about conditions at detention facilities. mary bruce more from washington. good morning, mary. >> reporter: good morning, amy. after promising them for weeks immigration and customs enforcement is now reportedly gearing up for those mass raids of migrant families, possibly as soon as this weekend. this morning, the trump administration is reportedly preparing to move forward with the president's promise of sweeping deportations. lell >> reporter: now according to "the new york times," the raids targeting at least 2,000 undocumented immigrants in ten cities could begin as soon as this sunday. the news adding fuel to the immigration fight. >> translator: my beautiful girl is gone. >> reporter: on capitol hill wednesday a mother's anguish laid bare. yazmin juarez detailing the, quote, neglect and mistreatment she alleges caused her 19-month-old daughter mariee to die, shortly after being released fri i.c.e. custody. >> translator: my daughter is gone. the people who are in charge of running these facilities and caring for these little ange

bruce with details. >> reporter: the president may have thought he could exploit tension here on the hill between democratic now we are seeing democrats coming together and calling out the president for these racist tweets. from congress -- >> that's a racist tweet. >> reporter: to the campaign trail. >> it is absolutely racist and un-american. >> reporter: this morning, president trump's latest twitter tirade is being slammed as racist and xenophobic. without naming names, the president sunday called out progressive democrat congresswomen tweeting, why don't they go back and fix the totally broken and crime-infested places from which they came? then come back and show us how it is done. the congresswomen came from cincinnati, detroit and new york city. only one of the group representative ilhan omar a somali refugee was born outside the u.s. on twitter the minnesota representative wrote, trump is stoking white nationalist because you are angry that people like us are serving in congress. and fighting against your hate-filled agenda, and while nancy pelosi has been sparring with the freshman progressives sh

lighthizer on capitol hill working with speaker pelosi's working group, trying to pass the trade deal tweens u.s. and mexico and canada. we have former ambassador under president obama, brucey're trying to get it passed by the fall, is that realistic for the usmca, do you think? >> putting a a timeline on is premature. reality if we find agreement to improve flaws in usmca, this can get passed very quickly. saying fall, summer, spring is the wrong approach. i think right approach, let's gets flaws fixed. we'll get that passed quickly. connell: talk about the flaws, this is up essentially to the speaker, when she wants to bring this to a vote. what would need to change? correct me if i'm not wrong, sticky situation with countries involved if there is change? tell me i can quickly what are the flaws. >> let's do this in most simplest of terms. the agreement we have are a set of rules, the rules are established in trade, existing nafta or new nafta. the question is what happens if somebody breaks the rules if what happens if mexico, u.s., canada breaks the rules? the issue is enforcement. that is the conversation that the democrat have been having with ustr, how do we make su

our senior congressional correspondent mary bruce was on capitol hill for the dramatic confrontation.morning, mary. >> reporter: good morning, george. well, this was an extremely rare rebuke and quite a scene here on the house floor. a raucous fight exposed those deep partisan divides here on the hill as democrats voted to send a clear message to the president about those racist tweets and republicans overwhelmingly voted to defend him. a bitter battle on the house floor. exposing the sharp partisan divide. >> i know racism when i see it. i know racism when i feel it, and at the highest level of government, there is no room for racism. >> in those tweets i see nothing that references anybody's race, not a thing. i don't see anyone's name being referenced in the tweets. >> reporter: democrats passing a resolution to condemn president trump's recent attacks against four congresswomen telling them to go back to the countries they came from. >> these comments from the white house are disgraceful and disgusting and these comments are racist. >> reporter: that statement igniting chaos on th