. >> martha: thank you. tonight, we take you live to annapolis, maryland where a vigil is about to get under way as a shaken community mourns the loss of these five people. and we learn chilling new details about the killer as police confirm that he barricaded the building's back door shooting at least one victim as they tried to get out. we have also learned tonight the newspaper former executive director says this was not wholly unexpected. >> i took a photo of mr. ramos who i never met, went up to the front desk and be on the lookout for this guy. if he comes in dial 911. >> the president addressing the killings a short time ago. >>. >> president trump: this attack shocked the conscience much our nation and filled our hearts with grief. journalists like all americans should be free from the fear of being violently attacked while doing their job. >> martha: leah gabriel is live in annapolis maryland, where the vigil is getting under way. good evening, rehah. >> good evening. a judge at annapolis ordered 38

"the story with martha" starts right now. >> martha: thank you. we look forward to that tonight at 9:00. breaking tonight here from new york, former f.b.i. agent peter strozk now subpoenaed to appear before congress next week. >> president trump: these are the american citizens permanently separated from their loved ones. the word "permanently" being the word you is to think about. permanently. they're not separated for a day or two days. they are permanently separated because they were killed by criminal illegal aliens. these are the families, the media ignores. >> martha: tough words today from the president as he addresses the other side of this immigration issue. some of those parents will join us tonight with their compelling stories that you don't want to miss. that as the president and congress are wrestling over what they should do about the growing immigration battle as the flood of people continues. hundreds of parents and their children crossing the border. the space is becoming more and more limited. the pentagon is ready to provide up

>> absolutely, martha.guard isvel relevant in what we call the high lat attitudes or polar regions up in the artic. we are operating the sole united states ice breaker, the polish star. built in the 70s more than 40 years old with the support of the administration and congress we are on our way to build a heavy ice breaker replacement to serve our national interest that's projecting our sovereignty there. also operate in the antarctic where we go into the station and allow critical supplies to get in there to attend to the nation's interest in that part of the world as well. >> martha: obviously the hurricanes were devastating and your response to them, the coast guard response really turned around in some ways a funding issue that could have been tough for the coast guard. the president when he initially came in wanted to cut 1.3 billion from the budget in order to fund the border wall. but then he was so taken with the work that you all did in the hurricane that he said this and put back the money. watch.

that's it for "special report," now time for "the story with martha maccallum." >> martha: live from new york, here is the story that you have not heard. >> i'm free to hug my family, i'm free to live life, i'm free to start over. this is the greatest day of my life. >> martha: since president trump took office he is received 2800 petitions from clemency for people who feel their punishment exceeded their crime. how did alice johnson become the lucky one who actually gets her life back? she is here exclusively, her real story of the unbelievable 24 hours since he walked out of those prison doors. if she spent 22 years behind bars for charges related to drug possession and money laundering after she fell on some hard times and faced financial desperation. eight months ago she happened to catch the eye on twitter of a reality star kim kardashian who took up her case, and she pleaded it with jared kushner and president trump. just one week later, she is a free woman. she walked out of that jail cell this morning where she was supposed to spend the rest of her life and into the arms of h

"the story with martha maccallum" is up next. >> martha: thank you. bill clinton is back on the hot seat. >> with everything going on with the #metoo movement, how would you approach the accusations differently? >> oh, boy. 20 years later what does the bill clinton and monica lewinsky scandal look like now? a prominent supporter says he should have left office. but the former president became agitated and said no, he would do nothing differently. >> i don't think it would be an issue because people would know the facts instead of the imagined f. if the facts are the same today i wouldn't. >> martha: he went on to say that the #metoo movement is "long overdue." but the critics are using it against him he believes in part because of president trump. >> i think partly because they're frustrated they got all the serious allegations against the current occupant of the oval office and his voters don't seem to care. i think i did the right thing. i defended the constitution. >> martha: then it got heated. >> through the lens of #metoo now, do you think diffe

"the story" hosted by martha maccallum starts right now. martha. >> martha: good to see you. thank you. we begin tonight with an exclusive interview right off the top. south carolina representative mark sanford has never lost an election in his long career until last night. the republican haseen shy when it comes to criticizing the president. >> if you would just shut up, quit attacking -- i don't work for him, work for 750,000 people here in the first congressional district. >> one of the things i've heard in interviews about drum, he's not sorry for anything. i think that's a profound mistake. >> martha: comments like th that may have leto a stinging last-minute tweet from president trump that went like this. mark sanford has been very unhelpful to me in my campaign emeca great again. he is m.i.a. and nothing but trouble. he is better off in argentina. i fully endorse katie arringt for congressman in south carolina, she's tough on crime, vote katie said the president. sanford's opponent katie arrington also went after him in ads like this. >> i'm running for congress to get

>> martha: that was weird. i martha maccallum and this is "the story." congresswoman maxine waters now facing growing calls to apologize or resign. republican congressman andy bigs has introduced a measure calling her out for "endangering their lives and sowing seeds of discord" buried saying harassment or violence is not a form of protest. he joins us live with what he wants to see happen in moments. also tonight there are protests outside an event for attorney general jeff sessions in los angeles this evening. >> you are not welcome in our community and there are people who will fight back and when we fight back we win. >> martha: stephen miller's washington, d.c., apartment it looks like this. complete with wanted posters accusing him of crimes against humanity. all of this ramped up by some in the media. >> for republicans to act like maxine waters has taken the discourse to a new low is just factually inaccurate. >> as a matter of fact the president calls for more violence than anybody else. >> sarah huckabee sanders for example is one of the most p

and martha. >> martha: thank you very much.now with more, california congressman in one of the leaders of the discharge petition, jeff denham. thank you very much for being here tonight. you don't have the 218, is that done? >> we have until 9:30 tonight. we are keeping the house open. we may keep it open until midnight but ultimately tonight is our deadline to meet the jun. there are still monday's left where we could bring this up, but our goal has been to empower the speaker not only with the role that i initially authored, but by the discharge to give him the leverage to actually get with the president is asking for. not only the two fillers which are support, border security and a permanent fix for dreamers, but a four-color solution. he's got to sell that to the rest of our conference and have to be willing to pick up a bill and as of now we don't have us to make an agreement yet. >> martha: i thought i hea you got a say yout you had the 218, that they were going to come around. are they being pressured by paul ryan or ke

i bet that martha maccallum will have some of this game. >> martha: a live look once again at nationals park in washington, d.c., where the ball game is bringing people together right now. that's definitely what we need. the congressional game about to get underway and as bret was just saying, congressman steve scalise who was one year ago shot and nearly bled to death on a baseball field will be standing at second base. and here he is. look at steve scalise, walking with 18 cane on one arm. walking down the line and hugging everybody. this is a man who went through so much. you have to take yourself back to that moment, and a gun fired on a beautiful morning on a baseball field in washington, d.c. it was freakish, bizarre and brittle, and so devastating for steve scalise and his family. i guarantee you they are in tears right now. our best to him, and it's wonderful to see this a tradition continuing and we will keep an eye on this special moment at nationals park tonight as we watch the game. but first, there's another game to discuss tonight and that is the future of the fbi. >> we n

"the story with martha" starts now. >> martha: so happy for you. the seconds counted down. you are rocking the red blazer. i might add. quite something. i'm happy for you and for your caps. well done. >> bret: thank you. >> martha: you bet. all right, everybody. breaking tonight. president trump faces the music as our allies bluster at the notion that maybe our trade deals could use a little bit of work. the president says it may be time to bring russia back into the family of the g8, he says. those are bull in china shop ideas at the g7 summit in canada. something may get broken, folks. or maybe not. after slamming trudeau and macron as unfair and indignant, now they're altogether at the table. as larry kudlow says. this is a family fight after all. but this feud over tariffs escalated when the president said this on his way to the plane today. >> president trump: weather you like it or not -- weather you like -- whether you like it or not, it may not be politically correct we have a world to run. the g7, that used to be the g8. they threw russia out. they should let russi

"the story" with martha starts right now. >> martha: and tonight we go live to the white house for white house for late-breaking developments in the search for a new supreme court justice at this hour. >> we have a list of 25 people that i actually had during my election. i had at 20 and i added five. so it will be somebody from that list. >> martha: that after today's stunning resignation from justice anthony kennedy that has democrats reeling about what this means for the future of the country. good evening everyone, this is a big story. it gives conservatives by president trump a solid grip on the highest court in the planned for potentially a generation. conservatives are elated, liberals not so much. >> if he gets replaced by a hard-line social conservative, the democratic leadership will have hell to pay. >> roe v. wade is doomed. it is gone, because donald trump won the election. >> what is important are the issues that will change if a president's nominee will go through to change the voice of our history today. >> martha: the president said today that senior advisor for strategi

and martha. >> martha: thank you so much.go police superintendent and mayoral candidate joins us again. good to see you, thank you for being here. obviously that video is going to be central when you are going up against rahm emanuel, as we make clear in the story there. you were let go from your position after that. you claimed that city hall also played a role in all of that. how so? >> they didn't play a role, they actually did it. this is a typical case of accountability without authority. i was accountable for the behavior of the chicago police officers, but i didn't have the author to discipline them. i can only make a recommendation to a civilian board. i was accountable for the investigation that was conducted by an outside civilian office and i have the actual testimony of rahm emanuel's attorney lying to the council and telling them them -- without telling the city council that there was an agreement not to release the video. the cover-up of that case happened exclusively in city hall. that's public record. there wa

the story and martha maccallum in new york. maryna his former coworkers describing him with a pencil in his good hand, letter by letter, he could get his spot down on paper. fox has started so many conversations around the country and around the world. many more stories about the life of charles krauthammer are head "tucker carlson tonight" ." that was not hard to assemble. people calling in, talking about charles and his life and the stories that they shared and how much they admired this remarkable human being. watch. >> it is my job to call a folly of folly. >> charles krauthammer, fox news commentator, lived his life telling others exactly what he thought. >> you are portraying your whole life if you don't say what you think. if you don't say honestly and politely. >> it was that quality that brought charles to fox news channel. >> this was not a man designed for television. this is not a potential tv star, in fact, he became a huge star, i would almost like a megastar on this channel. it was the sheer force of his intellec

david, nice to see you tonight. >> nice to see you, martha. >> martha: if there is so much symbolismt these three women flew back on a plane together after bobby kennedy's assassination, how do we know what they did and what they set on that flight? >> i thought it was just the most extraordinary thing that these three women were on that flight and no one had written about it before. i mentioned it in my book but i wanted to go even further than that. so i dug down very deep. i talked to the only surviving secret service man who was on the flight. i talked to any passengers i could find who were still around, and there was one moment when these three women were actually standing or sitting in the same place on the flight and talking to one another. we will never know what they said that we can only ima e kating th went on. they clearly shared something that they could share. you are talking about the tragic sense that that planecross the country with these three women on it. jackie boarded the plane in a separate area and she wanted to know that this is not the same plane that carrie

she ran a horrible campaign. >> martha: so he is saying, it's all hillary clinton's fault.l in the campaign and this is what happened. >> and thank god it happened because i would hate to think of hillary clinton appointing to people. the democrats have gone nuts over this, they are melting down more than the wicked witch at a water park. it's amazing to see them and they don't understand elections have consequences. i believe it was barack obama who said that to us and he was right, he still right. we elected donald trump as president, many of us, those of us in the basket of the portables are we did. and we are going to get another outstanding justice, just like neil gorsuch. >> martha: 20 seconds. the union decision is a big deal, we had so much news that i know we haven't had a chance to talk about it but it's a very big decision. >> the short point is, people should have the right to have candidates they believe in and they should be forced to give money to candidates they can't stand and this particular decision eliminates being forced to support candidates that are n

"the story" hosted by martha maccallum is coming up. >> martha: i love the way he clears that fence at the end. thank you so much. as bret was saying, we have a fox news alert. at any moment president trump takes the stage in south carolina. he's there tonight to draw support for governor henry mixmaster who replaced nikki haley and now finds himself in a runoff for the g.o.p. nomination against businessman john warren. trey gowdy is also retiring in south carolina so that c does opening up. no doubt the president will also address when he speaks tonight as a rising tension and hysteria surrounding family separated on the border. and despite the fact that these same exact policies have been carried out in previous administration. >> president obama had a big problem and in fact, a lot of the pictures used, i don't know what you folks stated. they were all taken during the obama administration. they are a disaster and the laws have to be changed. >> this weekend anger spiraled out of control to the point where homeland security said they were warning administration employees. they said,

>> martha stewart. >> tucker: is it martha stewart? >> a pardon now for martha stewart. stuart, you'll remember, was convicted back in 2004 of obstructing justice and lying to the government about why she unlewded stock just before the price plummeted. the president says she, quote: used to be one of my biggest fans. >> tucker: martha stewart not only a genius. >> down hill from here. >> tucker: question two. katie is in the lead. multiple choice question. france, the country, just discovered its own version of spiderman. a man from mali, the country of mali scaled the front of an apartment building to save a toddler from falling off the balcony. that man has been offered that you job for reward for heroism is that job a high rise window washer a fireman

and we all drink it. >> martha: there is a prayer, i don't know if you are familiar with it.ave you ever heard of that? >> no. >> martha: it was a beautiful prayer, a radio address to all the people of america on june 6, and it psays, they will need their blessings. the road will be long and hard. for the enemy is strong. they will be sore trying come by night and by day, without rest, until the victory is won. the darkness will be rent by noise and flame. men's souls will be shaken with the violences of war. >> you know, all of us that were going to be in on d-day, eisenhower wrote a letter. and part is inscribed right here on the wall.>> martht says? >> we are about to embark on a greats crusade and, lord helping, we will be successful and we shall not surrender. for total victory. >> sandra: remarkable men. quote of the night is next jacking earth's geothermal phase 1. choosing the right drill bit. as long as evil villains reveal their plans, you can count on geico saving folks money. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. (honking) when y

but in the meantime i want to get to our chief global affairs anchor martha raddatz because martha, youeorge press the president on this. how do you verify complete denuclearization? and that is going to be the challenge here. >> and president trump made clear that they will have to have that happen. they will have to have denuclearization. but as john pointed out, irreversible, verifiable. they can try to verify. they can get data from the very beginning. but this is going to be a very long process. whatever happened today, whatever concessions were made, they're going to have to follow up with that and verify. >> all right, martha, thank you. and as you heard the president tell george there in that interview, that he did in fact trust kim jong un during his several hours with him today, that face to face, and then that meeting that grew, they both had their national security advisers in the room. he said i trust him at least for now. we'll have much more on the news breaking right here in singapore in a moment. >> announcer: this special edition of "nightline" is sponsored by swiffer.

. >> martha: news that just came in. president trump was supposed to welcome the super bowl lii champion philadelphia eagles to the south lawn of the white house. it's tradition. it happens every year but it appears it is not happening this week. the president released a statement moments ago saying this in part -- >> martha: no big moment for the's itals and i won't -- eagles and i won't cry too much over that, as you know. but there is that. if we get more we'll let you

dinesh d'souza and signals he may pardon martha stewart and issue ooh commutation for former illinois governor rod blagojevich, blago. is he telling folks like michael cohen and paul manafort that i've got your back, as chris just said? >> yes. like chris said, the president is saying tune in. same bat time, same bat channel, because this too can happen for you. he is definitely doing that. but, you know, it sends more of a resounding message to me with martha stewart and the former illinois governor. but here is the issue for me. what the crimes, the convictions were for, conspiracy and corruption. and the former governor of illinois, he was actually impeached. and i think it sends a resounding message on what they were convicted on and what's happening with him with this russia investigation. so it's sending multiple levels of messages to the community, to those that he doesn't want to flip to say, look, this could happen. take a look at the bat signal

paula mclain‘s novel love & ruin tells the extraordinary story of martha gellhorn and ernest hemingwayeach born with a gift for words, thrown together in the chaos of the spanish civil war, and hopelessly in love, but driven too by individual passions that couldn't survive the marriage. a novelist and a journalist who wanted each other, but needed even more to be themselves. welcome. we are talking here about a tempestuous marriage, i think, to put it mildly. let's talk about the two characters. let's leave hemingway to one side, for a moment. if we can! martha gellhorn, who became a journalist absolutely cut from original materialfor the rest of her life, just describe what she was like in the 305. in the 19305, so she met hemingway in 1936, and he was about to go off to the spanish civil war. see, it's impossible to leave him to the side, he won't be left to the side, and that was really her first war and she was 28—years—old. for the rest of her life, she found her true calling as a storyteller and her voice as a journalist and then she went on to be one of the most significant war

martha stewart, prosecutor james comey. rod blagojevich sentenced to prison. is this settling scores? >> i think it's more. look, i'm not a huge believer in coincidence, certainly not in politics. my belief is the prime motivator here is -- president trump was asked about dinesh d'souza. he said i never met him. i heard him on the radio and saw him on television. that's part of this too. martha stewart was on the apprentice. rod blagojevich was on the a apprentice. scooter libby. joe arripaio is sticking it to e elite. donald trump does so many things in opposition to what he doesn't like. so much of his presidency to date has been what did barack obama do? we're doing the opposite. doesn't matter what that is. it's relationship driven and it's score settling. don't underestimate what a big deal this is. it's a huge deal to pardon people. remember mark rich in the bill clinton days. this is a big deal. kirsten is right. we should not overlook it. >> just do it and don't say you're not doing it for that reason. stick around. so much more coming. so much for ros

and in '05, martha stewart hosted an apprentice spinoff series. it was the same year the president and his wife, mef melania, made an appearance on martha stewart's show. >> i'm here with donald and melania trump, and we're going to make a scrumptious meatloaf sandwich, which is donald's favorite sandwich according to melania. is that true? >> well, it's very good. i've never had meatloaf this good, but it's very good. >> aside from pardons, it was another whirlwind day of fast-breaking news from the president with no particular focus. the president wrote on twitter today, and this is important, that he never fired james comey because of russia. >> when i decided to just do it, i said to myself, i said, you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made-up story. >> the president had a big day today, went back on the attack against abc over roseanne. and prior to departing for texas and his meeting with loved ones from the latest mass school shooting there, he said, we're going to have some fun today. on the diplomacy front, the president

martha gail horne who became you know a journalist absolutely cut from original material. the rest of her life. just describe what she was like in the 1930s. in the 1930s so, she met hemingway in 1936 and he was about to go off to the spanish civil war, see it's impossible to leave him to the side, he won't be left to the side. and that was really her first war, and she was 28 years old. and for the rest of her like she really in madrid, found her true calling as a storyteller and her voice as a journalist and then she just went on to be one of the most significant war correspondents of the 20th century. had a nearly 60 year career as a journalist. a large part of the book takes place in spain and at one point, the listening to gail horne‘s own voice, she said she's been madrid for three weeks and it feels as if she's been there for years because of the intensity. yeah, so she lived in the hotel florida along with most of the other foreigners in madrid at the time and it was miles walking distance from the nearest front. madrid at that time in the spring of 1937 had been b

but that hardly mattered to his girls, margaret and martha.ay over the family name for nearly a decade had lifted. >> "we're part of the peterson family. and we are not afraid to say it." we so were stigmatized before, you know, and, like, hiding it. >> reporter: still, the second trial loomed. but working in michael's favor was the fact that the prosecutor would have to try a very different much weaker case. duane deaver had been fired from his job and some of the state's critical blood evidence would be inadmissible. >> i think their case is very, very badly compromised because of deaver. he was all over the crime scene. >> reporter: and there was another important victory for peterson's side. >> what types of services did you perform? >> oh wow, that's -- that's pretty broad. >> reporter: brad, the male escort, a sensational centerpiece of the prosecution's case, wouldn't be part of a second trial either, a judge said. the escort had been revealed in a search that was deemed illegal. >> the search warrant that resulted in the seizure of the

he also knows martha stewart personally. dinesh is the odd one out there and that's much more a play for his base and his supporters. let's be honest, i think roger stone said it to the "washington post," these are pardons that send a message to people who either have pleaded guilty in the special counsel's investigation into possible russia collusion between the trump campaign or russian officials or who could plead guilty in other cases and plead to a lesser offenwccasion -- >> i actually have that. "it has to be a signal to mike flynn and paul manafort. the special counsel has awesome powers, as you know, but the president has even more awesome powers. >> that awesome powers that roger is referring to is something that my colleagues and i referred to when the main lawyer john dowd had conversations with lawyers for paul manafort and i believe it was flynn as well about leaning into a pardon. this is before the flynn guilty plea, i believe. i think when you put all of that together, it's pretty clear what's going on. this

in 1802, martha dies and leaves all of the slaves -- martha had no inclination to free anybody. even if she had, she could legally not because her slaves had belonged to her husband and were willed to her children, and the production of their offspring belonged to either george or her together. so she is the survivor, they are going to her survivors in the estate. martha dies in 1802 and leaves her slaves to her offspring, so her four grandchildren, they get four properties. mount vernon, woodlawn, tutor place, and arlington house. the slaves get divided among them, and the free slaves create free slave camps at each of those locations. the arlington free slave camp you can see on the tour of the cemetery. it was very complicated. so even though we damn the founders for not having found a solution, they needed to stop it in 1619 when the people first came as slaves, and not create an economy that depended on it, because it became so interwoven and nobody could figure out a solution that did not cost an enormous amount of money or impact the economy, and they were not willing to

he said he was also thinking about pardons martha stewart. cnn's gjim acosta joins us now. what can you tell us about these pardons? >> i feel like i'm on an episode of the "apprentice". >> you would have been fired. >> moving on. it was interesting, the white house tried to turn reality inside out and insist the president is not just considering people because of his celebrity status. i'll tell you in the last several minutes i spoke with a white house official that said come on. you can't ignore the celebrity connections here between president trump and martha stewart and even dinesh d'souza and shares the same lack of friendliness with barack obama. the white house is pushing back officially on camera saying that's not the case, that the president is considering each of these cases on their merits. it makes you wonder who is next. pick any of the celebrities who have appeared on the "apprent e "apprentice" it raises the question how the president will be using this power. >> it's not the first controversial pardon the president has made or whether he's trying to send a m

both martha stewart and blagojevich made an here answpp "the apprentice." made offensive and racially loaded comments over the years about former president obama. the president is considering each case on merits. here is what deputy raj shah told reporters. >> is he sending a message to his allys? -- allies? >> each of the president's actions on pardons or other things should be judged on the merits and circumstances surrounding that case. >> reporter: the president has shown a willingness of pardons for controversial figures. including sheriff arpaio. he was convicted in court of ignoring a judge's order of stopping racially profiling latinos. dave and christine. >> thank you. the white house admitted to jim that you can't ignore trump's considerations. consider this, former u.s. attorney preet bharara prosecuted dinesh d'souza and james comey and martha stewart. as well as patrick fitzgerald. >>> and the u.s. is hitting tariffs and they are hitting back. the u.s. slapped tariffs on the eu, mexico and canada. 25% on steel. 10% on aluminum. the three had te

martha raddatz with us in singapore as well. to think the president is going to be sitting down in the coming hours with kim jong-un and yet this war of words with some of our closest u.s. allies, larry kudlow seemed to indicate this harsh attack is because the summit is happening right after the g7. >> reporter: which is inexplicable. what trudeau was doing was basically defending his country, which you've heard donald trump do over and over and over again during the years. he's the one that started this with the tariffs. it was also donald trump who turned to name calling. what the connection with the summit is is unclear. >> seems the white house knows the world is watching everything right now. martha raddatz in singapore. we hope you'll stay with abc news for full coverage of this summit. i'll have more in the broadcast and of course the latest on "good morning america" first thing in the morning and we'll be live tomorrow night. i'll be joining george, martha, john and the entire team when president trump and kim jong-un m

martha mick sally -- martha mcsally. i hear martha is doing very well in the great state of arizona. don bacon. jason lewis. cathy mcmorris rodgers. representative neal dunn. representative elise alton. julia brownley. i assume we have a couple others -- anybody i did not announce? you want to stand? you deserve it. thank you all very much, really, it has been incredible. [applause] finally, i want to thank the veterans service organizations that helped us push the legislation across the finish line. whenever i spoke, this was one of the most important things. it was something i got the biggest hand for. people want to take care of our great vets. four years ago our entire nation was shocked and outraged by stories of the v.a. system plagued by abuse, fraud, and mistry smith -- mistreatment of our veterans. there was nothing they could do about it. the people that worked there couldn't take care of the bad people. with us are many brave veterans who endured that injustice. including steve cooper and laura vellar, they se

george and martha, thank you very much. we really appreciate it, and we want to remind everybody that george and martha will have much more on this historic summit coming up on "this week" on abc. >>> thanks to both of them. now we turn to new details in the stunning death of celebrity chef, anthony bourdain. >> the tv host took his own life. those who saw him in his final days are coming forward to share their stories, and adrienne is covering the story for us. what are you learning? >> reporter: you know what? bower tan whose life and career revolved around life and food, caused concern with staff when close friends when he skipped not one, but two meals. the grieving and disbelief over his death continues here and overseas. anthony bourdain's final moments raising the alarm for those around him. "the new york times" reports bourdain skipped dinner and did not show up for breakfast the next morning. ultimately leading to the discovery of his body in a french hotel room. >> fellow travelers this is what you want. this is t

the president said martha stewart could be next. why? is this about settling old scores or signaling something about future scores? especially in the russia investigation. on that front, sources tell cnn the president pressured jeff sessions on multiple occasions to reverse his decision to recuse himself multiple times. former white house strategist steve bannon says he is wrong where sessions is concerned. >>> and the top spy from north korea heads to washington. he will hand deliver a letter from kim jong-un to the president at the white house. oh, to be a fly on the wall that could read for that letter. this comes after secretary of state mike pompeo reports good progress in the talks with both sides. ahead and a potential summit days away. and president trump campaigned on china going after trade, but slapping more tariffs on u.s. allies than china. why is he doing that and what is the impact on american jobs? let's start with kaitlan collins live at the white house. kaitlan. >> reporter: alisyn and john? the president is in a forgiv

>> martha raddatz tonight. martha, thank you. >>> we turn next to the crisis at the border, and first lady melania trump making another trip today, this time in tucson, touring a border patrol facility, where parents and children are being held. meeting privately with families and hearing from border agents about the difficult cases they encounter. in fact, one agent showing her photos of a 6-year-old boy from costa rica, left alone in the desert, possibly by smugglers in the 100-degree heat. tonight, though, neither border patrol or health and human services can say where that boy is. >>> there is still much more ahead on "world news tonight" this thursday. the race against time, and new details coming in tonight. the young soccer team trapped in a cave for six days now. u.s. military search and rescue teams are on the scene. >>> the tornado watch at this hour and the risk of severe storms moving across the country. rob marciano is standing by with the new track tonight. >>> and we will go back to the scene in

house oversight committee chair tray gowdy causing a stir when he told martha that he believes fbi actedperly when used informant to investigate trump amp cane aides. >> it was president trump himself who said number one, i didn't collude with russia but if anyone connected with my campaign did, i want the fbi to find that out, it looks to me that the fbi was doing what president trump wanted him to do, the fbi acted exactly what my fellow citizens wanted to do and has nothing to do with donald trump. paul: gowdy's remarking after meeting with ros stieb. the white house said wednesday that there are still cause for concern about the fbi's actions leading up to the 2016 election. let's bring many wall street journal columnist and deputy editor dan henninger and kim strassel and bill mcgurn. all right, kim, what do you make of gowdy's remarks there and where are we on the probe right now? >> well, the first thing i'd note that there's a lot of different points when you're talking about the fbi's mishandling of 2016 and while mr. gowdy seems to be saying that he thinks this informant or spy

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in the case of martha stewart, the prosecutor was james comey. let's see. mr. blagojevich was convicted of 18 charges, sentenced to 14 years in prison. but when you look at this, when you look at that, it's preet bharara or whether it's anyone else who is connected to the president, is this settling scores? >> so i actually think it's more. i mean, look. it's -- i'm not a huge believer in coincidence, don. certainly not in politics. so i'm not willing to dismiss that. my belief is the prime mover, the prime motivator here, and donald trump said this on air force one on the way to texas today. he was asked about dinesh d'souza. and he said i never really met him. i called him last night. boy, was he surprised. i heard him on the radio and saw him on television. that to me is part of this too. martha stewart was on "the apprentice." rod blagojevich was on "the apprentice." dinesh d'souza, scooter libby was to a certain extent sticking it in the eye of the bush administration who weren't willing to -- remember, george w. bush was strongly lobbied by dick cheney am

d'souza, martha stewart and maybe blago.ake of the president using the pardoning power? >> there are two things. one, i think it sort of is -- he's basically sending a message. politically i think when you look at the people that he has pardoned, joe arpaio as well you have to add to the list. >> i should correct myself, blago is in consideration. what a lineup. >> d'souza who pled guilty to illegal campaign violations. i think what he's doing is sending a message to those who are currently under the scope of mueller to say hey, listen if you have my back, i'll have your back. because i mean this is foreshadowing, right, and if you look at blagovich for example, he also was convicted of pay for play. if you also look at the d'souza pardon as well as joe arpaio, both are on record for saying dangerous things. what's the most dangerous about these pardons is it sends the message what these men have done is okay. arpaio was told not to discriminate against immigrants in arizona. he did it anyway. d'souza called president obama

martha, thank you. >> stay right here for abc when president trump and kim jong-un meet for the first time. we'll break in live around 9:00 p.m. eastern. i'll be joining george, martha and the entire time a short time from now when history is made. >>> we continue to severe weather at home. in the plains and mississippi vall valley. a tornado watch in several states. this after flash flooding in the philly area. a difficult commute. extreme high fueling western wild fires. 2,000 homes evacuated in durango, colorado. in the pacific hurricane bud a category three with 120 mile an hour winds. rob marciano back tracking it all for us. rob? >> good evening. we have a severe weather threat tonight. tornados possible in des moines, lincoln, kansas city. back through oklahoma city as well. we're watching hurricane bud. now a category three storm. forecast to weaken as it gets to cabo san lucas. nonetheless it's our second major hurricane of the season. david. >> rob, thank you. still much more ahead on "world news tonight" this monday. >> the hostage stand off. the gunman barricaded inside th

james comey convicted martha stewart because she had lied. dinesh d 'souza was convicted, he apologized and said he deeply regretted what he had done. so for him to go out there and wipe it all away, i think it's a perversion of justice. >> your thoughts? >> i agree it's a perversion of justice and i think that president trump is blatantly skirting justice and the criminal justice system to pardon people who were convicted of crimes, pled guilty of crimes that he potentially could be charged with in the future or people in his orbit could be charged with in the future. we're talking about campaign finance violations, we talking about false statements to the fbi and we're also talking about the crime of insider trading which now is something people are talking about because of his tweet yesterday, before the jobs numbers came out. so what information is donald trump telling his cronies on the phone when he's having his executive time in the white house? and i think that this is a really precarious moment for country. our justice system needs t

martha stewart went to jail for 5 1/2 months.ople have gotten off scot-free. you know, they suffered a hefty penalty for this. of all these people that he is considering pardoning, martha stewart probably makes the most sense from the standpoint of what eric holder was talking about, contrition and recognition of wrongdoing, having served her time, et cetera. the other ones i'm not as sure. and eric and i, i think, are making the same point. you go through the pardon attorney and get their recommendation and let it go. that said, of course, eric, i think, was in the department of justice when bill clinton pardoned mark rich. >> we all remember that. >> i think eric was there at that time. and so these things happen. presidents exercise their constitutional prerogatives and pardon who they want to pardon. >> they do not have to go through doj. >> they do not. >> thank you so much, michael zeldin. ahead, enjoy reid apologizing again, a photoshopped image depicting senator john mccain as the virginia tech shooter. we'll be back. it'

martha joins us from singapore. martha, with both leaders arriving tomorrow, you're already seeing tough security measures in place? >> reporter: really some incredible security measures here, cecilia, as you can imagine for both leaders. but what's more incredible is, when you think about the fact that just six months ago both these leaders were threatening to annihilate each other. >> they have come a long way. martha leads us off tonight , thank you. >>> and we'll have much more on this historic meeting. george stephanopoulos hosts "this week" from singapore in the morning and in the evening, dade muir brings us this broadcast, "world news tonight" from the summit. >>> as we reported president trump did depart the g7 early, leaving behind festering tensions with our closest allies. that rift on full display in this photo. the president, his arms crossed, seated, surrounded by the world leaders that's he now feuding with. he said their relationship is a solid 10, but is it really? abc's david wright is following t

and martha stewart and rod blagojevich could be next. is this signaling something to those caught up in the investigation? roger stone, the president's political adviser said, yes, this is a clear signal. let's begin with kaitlan collins live at the white house. >> reporter: well, john, you're asking the question why is the president pardoning people like dinesh d'souza. the president told him he was a great voice for freedom. shy note d'souza has an inflammatory remarks about barack obama, adolf hitler and rosa parks. back to why he is pardoning these people. there is an underlying theme for everyone the president is considering pardoning. that is they were treated unfairly by the united states justice system. martha stewart, treated unfairly. joe arpaio, treated unfairly. scooter libby, also the president believed treated unfairly. john and alisyn, there are two other people the president said has been treated unfairly. that is michael cohen and ni michael flynn. president trump on a pardoning spree hinting he may pardon martha stewart