up next, "the story" with martha. >> martha: how an illegal immigrant rips through the cracks and bypasses our system, living and working under the radar for years before being charged this week with the brutal murder of this beautiful young woman on the right-hand side of your screen. we have all come to know her over the past month, her name was mollie tibbetts. cristhian rivera was given a $5 million bond after he admitted to police that he had followed mollie on her daily job down overall farm road before he claimed he blacked out and said he later came to with money how mike mollie's blood-soaked body in the back of his trunk. so how did he manage to get here and go undetected for years? earlier today his equally shocked employer spoke out. >> the individual did provide a state issued photo i.d., and a social security card. we screen every applicant through the social security administration social security number verification service. we ran that information through the verification service and the information came back verified. what we learned in the last 24 hours is that our emplo

"the story with martha maccallum." i was late yesterday and early today. >> martha: thanks. good to see you tonight. breaking tonight, paul manafort's future in the hands of the jury. their decision is a major hurdle for the mueller team. the outcome will dowse or accelerate the fire under their case. manafort faces 18 count of tax and banking fraud. he could get up to 305 years if he is convicted on all of the count. paul manafort just to take you back, came on the washington scene in 1975. there he is in the middle. he worked for gerald ford, reagan, bush and bob dole. he became a successful lobbyist working for eastern european countries including the ukraine. he was then brought on the trump team in march of 2016 to run the delegates for the convention. rallying the troops and securing commitments. he resigned august when questions about ukraine surfaced and kellyanne conway took over. tonight his lawyers who presented no witnesses said the government failed to prove their case. catherrine live outside of the courthouse joins us with what is at stake at this point. >> wi

i will be alongside martha maccallum. her show now. >> martha: see you tomorrow. hello everybody tonight from the story. we are overlooking the united states capitol this evening as we also keep a watch on the vietnam veterans memorial here in washington, d.c. one of our nation's most iconic, most solemn monuments you can see a veteran there putting his hand against the wall as he walks by. it will be the site this evening of a candlelight remembrance in honor of senator john mccain who spent five and a half years in prison in the hanoi hilton. so we will keep a close eye on that. bring you back there later tonight. several stories to get to this evening. shocking accusations leveled at the very top executives tonight at nbc news. did they bury the story on harvey weinstein and why? trace gallagher live in our west coast newsroom with these allegations this evening. hi, trace. >> hi, martha. the accusations come from former nbc producer rich mchugh until this month worked in nbc's investigative unit. in august of last year mccune and ronan pharaoh were working on

the story hosted by martha maccallum in new york, starts right now. >> martha: good to see you tonight, breaking tonight in new york, reports of newly uncovered emails to paint a picture tonight of a department of justice officials bazaar ties to the author of the anti-trump dossier raising new questions about why they were talking to each other at all. and what impact it had on triggering the russia probe. i'm martha maccallum, good to be back here in new york tonigh tonight. the emails reveal that christopher steele was keeping in touch with top doj officials as he was compiling the dossier. the two met several times during its creation and at one point as a sidebar, he was lobbying on behalf of of a russian oligarch trying to gain entry for him to the united states. if the name bruce or sounds familiar, it's because at the end of last year, he was demoted -- he didn't lose his job, he was demoted amid an ongoing investigation into his contact and fusion gps where his wife worked. also this evening, the softening relationship between rod rosenstein and president trump. in another int

"the story" hosted by martha maccallum, by all accounts there is plenty happening. >> martha: it good to see you as always. this evening we have a national exclusive interview with california congressman duncan hunter who was in a courtroom with his wife just a short time ago today. both pled not guilty to a slew of charges. hunter says he is looking forward to fighting this case in court. and in court today he was greeted by chants of "lock him up." democrats are in overdrive, seizing this as an opportunity to swing the deep red republican district their way. hunter was one of the first two members of congress to publicly support president trump in 2016. the other is chris collins who was indicted last month on charges of insider trading. congressman hunter will answer to those questions and just a moment. but first, ed henry joins me live tonight with the back stor story. >> congressman hunter has temporarily stepped down from his three committee assignments and congress under pressure from p chris speaker paul ryan who l forcibly strip him of those assignments and that's a sign of

hey, martha. >> martha: thank you, bret. breaking tonight, rudy giuliani is going to be on set in just a moment after former cia director john brennan threatens to sue the president for taking away his security clearance. >> if that's the price we are going to pay to prevent donald trump from doing this against other people, to me, it's a small price to pay. i am going to do whatever can i, personally, to try to prevent these abuses in the future. and if it means going to court, i will do that. >> martha: and we know that mr. trump basically said bring it on and here is rudy giuliani tweeting just a short time ago to john brennan. today president trump granted our request, jay sekulow and me to handle your case. after threatening, if you don't, it would be just like obama's red lines. come on, john, you are not a blow hard. joining me now exclusively the man laughing in the background the president's attorney rudy giuliani. is this going to be a lawsuit? >> have you got to have some fun, martha. i also want to demonstrate pr

i am martha maccallum. my next guest is no strange tore this story and peter strzok. >> you got another text from your colleague. lisa page. rump won't ever become, president, right, right? you replied. no, he's not. we will stop it. i want to know what it meant? >> it will be his candidacy. >> march of 26 you wrote hillary should win 100 million to0. weren't you investigating her? >> yes we were. >> had you interviewed her yet. >> i don't appreciate what i said being changed. >> i don't give a damn what you. >> martha: here's congressman trey gowdy on the "story." were you surprised he was fired at this point? and why now? >> i think the process just reached the point where it was a deputy director. peter strzok received a much fairer process than what he was giving to donald trump. this was a referral by the inspector general who was an obama appointee. strzok has a chance to speak and a punishment is made. this person served with great distinction. running the los angeles field office. that's who made th

>> i martha maccallum in for chris wallace. an eerie anniversary of hundreds of white nationalists prepared to mount a repeat rally, this time in front of the white house, marking one year since the torch marched in the violence in charlottesville. ♪ >> [inaudible] >> martha: the event today is expected to draw thousands of counter protesters. >> we know that we have people coming to our city for the sole purpose of spewing hate. >> martha: while in virginia. we discuss the state of race relations in america and the president's policies with white house counselor kellyanne conway. then, pointing to growing threats from russia and china, the white house declares space the next battlefield. >> our adversaries have transformed space into a war fighting domain already. the united states will not shrink from this challenge. >> martha: will discuss the plans for a space course and new sanctions on iran, russia and turkey with two key members of the senate armed services' committee, lindsey graham of south carolina and the committee's

"the story with martha" hosted martha starts now. >> martha: there is more. good to see you. brand new information in the case of a murdered college student mollie tibbetts. as detectives are searching for the motive. how and why did their interaction escalate so quickly? and with such a brutal end? 24-year-old rivera charged with first-degree murder. he is said to be in good standing by the former employer. her aunt now says about rivera. >> he was a good person. he was a jokester. he loved sports. he was not aggressive or violent. normal just like us. >> martha: we have a forensic profiler to shed light on what might have happened here. dale, thank you for being here. how does someone with no prior escalate so quickly to this kind of behavior? >> first of all, we don't know what his behavior has been. it just means there has never been an investigation or arrest. just because someone hasn't been -- you know this. someone hasn't been arrested doesn't pine they haven't been involved in bad behavior. obviously from the evidence, it is clear he was stalking her at some point be

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story" with martha mccallum. >> martha: see you in a few minutes. thank you. >>> all right, good evening, everybody. at this moment, air force 2 is making its way across america from phoenix arizona carrying the casket of the late senator john mccain about to enter the air space that the loved second to arizona washington, d.c. where the worked for 36 years with friends and colleagues as a congressman and senator and two-time candidate for the white house. the plane will land at joint base andrews in maryland where he will be received by armed forces body bearers. we'll take you there live for all of that as it unfolds this evening on "the story" and have one eye on evansville, indiana where the president is expected at a campaign rally part of his midterm push and endorse the republican looking to unseat the vulnerable democrat senator joe donnelly in november. we'll get you there live as well later in the hour as that gets underway. me meanwhile, earlier the memorial at the north phoenix baptist churn an array of -- churn -- church and the bible v

i martha maccallum live in washington. first, high drama in the court room all part of this wild week in the trial of paul manafort that was capped off with an unexplained and uncharacteristic five hour delay in the court room that is fueling a lot of speculation about the biggest test yet for special counsel robert mueller. the trial of his former campaign chair comes to a screeching halt, over a possible issue with one of the jurors. judge ts ellis has scolded the molar team repeatedly and now they are suggesting they may be confusing the jury. peter doocy watching all of this dramatic action from the courthouse now. >> the last thing judge ts ellis told the mueller team while they were trying to figure out how much time they were going to have next week for closing arguments is that it's no accident most tv shows are only 30 minutes. they went back and forth, they settled on two hours for closing arguments next week. if the mueller team thinks they can hold a jurors attention, they live on a different planet than he doe

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martha: all right.t to ask you before i let you go, a nonforeign policy question, with regard to bruce orr, department of justice official who worked under sally yates and a few offices down from the head of the justice department. he's becoming a much more central figure in what looks to be the initiation of this russia investigation. what do you know about that >> well, he was the number four guy at the department of justice. his wife worked for gps, the firm hired by the democratic national committee in the clinton campaign to find dirt on trump. they hired christopher steele, a former british agent who went to russia to gather dossier that i think is a bunch of political garbage. here's what i would tell the american people, both campaigns were investigated by the fbi and the department of justice in 2016. when it came to the clinton campaign, she got a pass. the criminal investigation of the clinton campaign was a joke. when it came to the trump campaign, it was corrupt, it was biassed, and i think

cheers and applause] martha: you know that. unlike hollywood sinema, let me say that again, unlike hollywood sinema, you never will have to wonder where i believe or where i stand. i believe in free markets because i believe we have the most innovative entrepreneurs and scientific minds on the planet. i believe in a strong defense and a strong america. i believe in law and order. america has a right to enforce its sovereign border. cheers and applause] martha: we are not just a nation of immigrants, we are a nation of laws, and we don't have to choose between the two. i have been leading the effort to modernize our legal immigration system, close legal loopholes the cartels exploit and build president trump's all. i believe we are all created with unique gifts from a loving god and that we are called to live lives of purpose. my life scripture that i've carried with me on many missions is esther 4:14. can it be you were put in this position for such a time as this? it gave me strength to put my military career on the line in th

"the story" hosted by martha maccallum starts now. i love those great stories. >> thank you very much. tonight on "the story," there's a big battle in florida in the governor's race which got really interesting last night it has been nearly 20 years since the sunshine state had a democrat serving in tallahassee. now the mayor there, andrew gillum shocked the political world. he faces ron desantis. the come from behind congressman got a big boost from the president. it didn't take long to get heated. >> let build off governor scott. last thing we need to do is to monkey this up by trying to embrace a socialist agenda. >> that led to this -- >> i say that it was a conscious choice of words and it's not just a dog whistle it's a bull horn. >> that was a bull horn. >> when you say monkey in reference to an african-american, he might as well said the n-word. >> juan william will join us in a moment for his reaction to that. we begin with jonathan huth with the top story tonight. >> reporter: good evening. let's set this out for everyone ex

martha? >> martha: peter doocy, and front of a red barn in walkie chef.l reports, bret baier will be watching these throughout the evening but it's always good to see you. when you look at the races, it could be a reshaping in terms of the face of some of these places and paul ryan has had that seat for a long time. he leads as speaker of the house. what are you watching tonight and that wisconsin race? >> bret: i think wisconsin is the heart of where the battles will be and it will be a test of, wonder, how president trump plays in wisconsin and, number two, how fierce the resistance is on the democratic side and how organized they are. there are some primary races here that will determine some big positions. for example, tammy baldwin, the democrat senator currently is potentially vulnerable. and depending on who the republican is, you could be setting up for a really tough race for the u.s. senate in wisconsin that really, the democrats weren't planning on being a tough race. republicans are looking at the map and thinking potentially there could be go

. >> martha: and thank you, so the president. the white house then lowers the flag again to have staff in the face of criticism for many including the american legion. and back on wall street with all the clothes for the dow past 26,000, as the nasdaq and the s&p hit record highs today on this news. joining me now, chief white house correspondent john roberts joins us on the story on the north one tonight. lots going on. >> there's always a lot going on. what the president did with mexico today and as opposed to these big what he believes our unyielding multilateral trade deals. the u.s. representative at robert lighthizer today said when they were trying to reunite mexico with canada, sometimes there were a thousand people involved in the discussions. president trump felt it wasn't going anywhere. he feels that the trade relationship with mexico and canada is getting dramatically out of whack. he said coming up with today's trade deal was not an easy process. listen. >> president trump: it wasn't from any standpoint something th

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we go to martha in cypress, texas, independent line. from the "washington post" -- "paul manafort convicted on eight counts, and 10 other charges thrown out. the jurors unable to reach a conviction on those charges." the headline from the "washington post." martha, go ahead. caller: i think it is an absolute joke. robert mueller is a joke. if he cared about the russian collusion, why doesn't he look about obama the great and killary. host: from charleston, west virginia, the president of writing about an hour and a half ago and addressing supporters at a make america great again rally. live coverage here on c-span and c-span radio app. also posted on our website at c-span.org.

history in the military, martha? >> reporter: just an incredible history, tom. at 81, we're all thinking it's far too soon for john mccain to leave us. but he never imagined he would live this long. i have to go back to 1967 and we talk about service and we talk about sacrifice and we talk about heroes and i have met a lot of heroes, but when you remember what john mccain went through it's truly extraordinary. in 1967 he was part of 20-plane mission. he was going to hit a power plant in hanoi. he weaves through about 15 surface to air missiles. and one of them hit his right wing but he kept going. he dropped the bombs he had, releasing those bombs. he then with the right wing sheared off, he's going to the ground at 400 knots. he ejected from the plane. he broke both arms. he ended up in lake. he was knocked out. sank to the bottom. but managed to wake up and push himself back up to the surface even though his arms at that point were useless. angry crowds gathered around him. they were hitting with rifle butts. after

martha mcsorley -- mcsally would be the most likable. in a primary, it's hard to know beforehand even with a bit of polling who would end up making it through. did end at making it through, which is important for the senate map because it arpaio or ward had won, it would make republican's job very difficult. [video clip] >> i am as impressed as anyone that my opponent brags that she owns over 100 pairs of shoes. i have over 100 combat missions serving our country. applause] my opponent is someone who is left of the pelosi democrats, a green party activist. she protested our troops in a pink tutu. she called to shut down luke air force base. she calls yourself a proud prada socialist. now that she is running for the ema -- ihollywood sin cinema. say that is hollywood she has undergone an extreme makeover makeover, she is a fake production running on a phony script to full the voters -- fool the voters. guest: kristen cinema has had most of the airways to herself during this republican primary. while republicans have been battling one anot

he wanted to have martha and maria, his youngest daughter. but he also wanted someone, an enslaved woman or girl to accompany maria on the long passage across the atlantic and it was the young sally hemmings who ended up accompanying maria to paris. so sally hemmings came and lived with jefferson and his two daughters in paris, and that may have been the beginning of their relationship or however you want to describe it, was in paris. and according to sally hemmings' son, madison, she became pregnant by jefferson in paris. and it was there that she extracted a very important promise from him. and that was if she returned to virginia with him and bore the child, that in the future all of her children would be freed. this was a huge decision for her because when she was on french soil, she was considered free. if she'd remained in paris, she could have been a free woman. but because of what we think transpired, in other words, this promise she extracted from jefferson, she came back here. and when jefferson died, all of those children were free

. >> martha: that was a nice break, we are about to dive right back in. three breaking stories to now the market right now is a president is about to take the stage at a rally in west virginia where we expect he will responded to all of these in one way, shape or form. former campaign manager paul manafort convicted today on eight felony counts, and former lawyer michael: pleading guilty in a separate case to paying off women at the direction of a candidate in a federal election. and certainly the president will have something to say tonight about this story. mollie tibbetts. we now know that she suffered a brutal end. police say that she was taunted and then murdered by this person who never should have been in this country. this illegal immigrant, christian rivera, while she innocently went for a jog in iowa. >> a body was discovered early this morning in a farm field and southeast of brooklyn, iowa. we believe it to be the body of mollie tibbetts. she was found in a cornfield and the required stocks placed over the top of her. the complaint and affidav

martha mcsally/(r) u.s.na:"as we say in a fighter engagement in the air, fight's on."natsshe should know... mcsally is a retired air force combat pilot. natsa congresswoman who won in a moderate district.she's now shifting to the rightsitting at the table with trump in washington echoing him on the trail.rep. martha mcsally/(r) u.s. senate candidate from arizona:"i think the mueller investigation mueller "i think the from arizona:"i think the mueller investigation needs to wrap up // ...there's been no collusion // so let's get over it. let's move on // i had a 97 percent voting record with the president's agenda more than anyone else in the arizona delegation. so those are just the facts."but before president mcsally felt differently calling his access hollywood tape "disgusting" and "unacceptable" tweeting she was "appalled." to this day, not revealing if she voted natsopening herself wardbut also republican rom senate candidate joe arpaio long time maricopa sheriff convicted of criminal contempt for racia

they feel that the very first numbers show that martha mcsally will be taking the night tonight.hey believe she's the front runner of a tough primary. i looked over to her staffer, they give me a big thumbs up. they're waiting a bit more time and a bit more of a comfortable lead. they think this night is going to be doing their way. you can hear it yourself, don. this is a happy room. we certainly can when you put the numbers up on your screen, we heard it. kyung, i want you to standby, i want to bring in rebecca. rebecca, you are at kelly wa ward - what's going on there. >> reporter: make no mistake, don, kelly ward is the under dog tonight. it could have been a different race but a crucial turning point in this senate race was the decision by joe arpaio to toss his hat in the ring leading the vote between kelly ward and sheriff joe arpaio that's what we are seeing in the votes ti t tonight. the other is president trump, kelly ward has been a supporter of the president, has framed herself as such during the primary and there was some question whether the president as he has in o

martha mcsally is up there while kelli ward and joe arpaio is here. them and she has support of them. there is no anti-trump candidate here. the most vocal is kelli ward. mcsally going down the middle here. joe arpaio pardoned by the president only winning down around here. the question is what comes next for them? >> on the democratic side, 58% reporting that she's almost 82%. she is the democratic hope for tipping one of the arizona seats in to the democratic category in the senate. this is jeff flake's seat. that's what we are talking about here. jeff flake has been one of the biggest opponents of donald trump's. there is a certain irony that all three people running to take his seat are people who are different than him and the other seat is john mccain which is appointed by governor doocey. right now he's cruising ahead here and 58% reporting. he'll then have a challenge of his own. on the democratic side, if you look at david garcia, he's strong of 58% reporting. david garcia is a little bit of what we have seen with gillum down in florida. he's

martha mcsally is kind of a moderate.'s why i was asking about arizona, which is always very republican, a stronghold of the republican party. what we have seen in arizona, martha mcsally ran away with the vote. joe arpaio was in the distance on this one, as well as kelli ward, who is pretty right wing, let's be clear. martha mcsally, a republican moderate in arizona. what does that tell you? >> i think really what voters want is what we are seeing from the white house, to really go down to the lower levels in terms of job security, americans being safe and secure, especially those that live on the borders, and they are looking at someone who is going to be front and center in terms of what americans are really looking for and striving for, especially when president trump says he puts americans first, especially the forgotten men and women. so walking the walk, talking the talk, i think that's what americans really want to see. cheryl: jehmu, you can't ignore the power of the president. we were all wondering if his voice

live in phoenix, martha gonzales, abc7 news. back to you. >> march that thank you very much. we are streaming, by the way, that service that's going on right now if you go to abc7news.com our our abc news app. we'll also have live coverage of the mccain service at the national cathedral set to begin at 6:00 a.m. saturday. we plan to stream that live again at abc7.com and our news app. >>> developing news now the san mateo sheriff's office is asking for your help to find a canadian mother and daughter who haven't been seen or heard from. they came for a camping trip. the 30-year-old and 10-year-old daughter were seen on sunday. they had reservations for a campsite near the oregon border for tuesday. the sheriff's office issued these photos of them. her boyfriend issued a missing persons report after she stopped communicating with them. >> we're really worried about her. >> park rangers told investigators they may have seen the mother and daughter at the camp. the two had rented a dark gray ford focus. if you know anything about where they have been contact the san mateo sherif

hey, martha. >> martha: thank you, bret.ht, rudy giuliani is going to be on set in just a moment after former cia director john brennan threatens to sue the president for taking away his security clearance. >> if that's the price we are going to pay to prevent donald trump from doing this against other people, to me, it's a small price to pay. i am going to do whatever can i, personally, to try to prevent these abuses in the future. and if it means going to court, i will do that. >> martha: and we know that mr. trump basically said bring it on and here is rudy giuliani tweeting just a short time ago to john brennan. today president trump granted our request, jay sekulow and me to handle your case. after threatening, if you don't, it would be just like obama's red lines. come on, john, you are not a blow hard. joining me now exclusively the man laughing in the background

the candidates include congresswoman martha mcsally, former sheriff joe arpaio, and dr. kelli ward. and they are all a far cry from mccain-style republicans. in fact, they've aechd been trying to outtrump one another for months. >> it's remarkable that none of the candidates on the republican side are looking to be the mccain candidate. all of them are looking to be donald trump's candidate. >> sheriff joe arpaio. >> reporter: 86-year-old sheriff joe, as many call him, could not be further from the so-called establishment. as the top law man for 24 years in maricopa county, arizona's largest and home to the largest city, phoenix, arpaio opened an outdoor jail made of concrete slabs and canvas coverings. at arpaio's tent cities inmates were dressed in cartoonish black and white striped uniforms as well as another unconventional item that today is framed on the wall of his office. >> you were having the male inmates wear pink underwear. >> everybody wears pink. >> reporter: arpaio's methods for punishing criminals drew criticism for being inhumane and discriminatory. in a 2001 departm

- >> martha stewart? >> gave me a party. and the president was coming to it. and martha was martha, and the president came in, in a helicopter, and they weren't ready. martha wasn't ready. she was changing all the seats, and she doesn't like me so i hope she doesn't see this. anyway, i went out to meet bill and the secret service took me out to meet bill and i walked across to that helicopter and oh, what am i doing here? where is my husband? and we got in the car and martha still wasn't ready, and so we drove around the town, and on every corner, you know, the people were all out, and he said to me, barbara, you know you're not going to win. and i said, i know. and he said, just keep your dignity and keep going, and i'll take care of you. and of course having been on ways and means, you know, that nice thought. and i thought, oh, you know, maybe trinidad or one of those places, i could play golf. so, after i lost, i made an appointment to go down to personnel and they were talking to me and they were tal

the one that martha is abandoning in the southern part of the state.when you describe it it sounds like it might frustrate republican voters in the state. is there a danger that the three of you will tear one another down, so whoever comes out will weakened?-- -- with the democratic candidate out there with a positive message. kelli: she has been unchallenged by the party for several months, so it will be a lot of work come august 29 to take her down. i am the only one prepared to do it. the only one prepared to debate with her, and show the people of path to true-- the prosperity through the free market and republican principles. it is unfortunate my opponent has chosen to be so negative. and that people in the never trump movement have backed her, because they want to maintain the status quo. evenwant john mccain 2.0, worse. the people of arizona have really smartened up. they see the negative ds full of byads full of lies dispelled liberal outlets and conservatives. those are coming back to haunt them. they are tired of the liberal playbook, campaig

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martha mcsally fended off a challenge from two hard-line conservatives. she will face off against the democratic representative. this race can help decide which party takes control of the senate but let's talk about florida. elizabeth, zinn you weyou were describe the emotion of that moment. >> thanks for having me. it was pretty clear that people were cautiously optimistic that andrew gillum would outperform the polls but it wasn't until polls closed at 8:00 p.m. in the western part of the state that you saw people seriously consider the possibility that andrew gillum was going to win that night and as numbers started rolling in, as broward county, the liberal stronghold in south florida started reporting their numbers, the mood got more and more and more excited and by the time a.p. called the race for mayor gillum it was a deafenning roar. >> gillum is not the type of democrat that democrats believe is electable. of course they've lost five straight election there is with white candidates running for governor but it's unusual and the reason it's so int

she is experienced, martha make sally -- martha mcsally.rst woman air force pilot in the history of the united states. the air force is really important to arizona because of our military bases. and she loves her country. i think that is the kind of person we need in the senate, federal that ran on the level from southern arizona, who represented what we consider a blue congressional district. she won as a republican. that is an indication that she can work across the aisle and work with people. we need solutions in d.c. we don't need a standoff. typically, that is the way the people of arizona feel and across the country, by the way. david: i was going to ask a question. that going forward to the general, what are the issues that the arizona voters will vote on as they decide between a democrat and republican candidate, whoever the republicans? >> the issues on both sides is they want good government. how do we get good government? person has a good record. she served in the arizona legislature. she recently ran on the greenpeace party, wa

i'd like to see us recover our sense that we are more alike than different. >> martha, i love how he says he's the luckiest guy on earth, even with his battle. there has been an outpouring of prayers and support for the senator across the political spectrum. >> reporter: exactly. joe lieberman saying that being mccain's friend has been one of the greatest blessings of his life. and this powerful statement from mitt romney, saying no man bett better exemplifies great qualities more than john mccann. >> martha, thank you. >>> we move on the tonight to the state of emergency at this hour. hurricane lane lashing the hawaiian islands. more than 30 inches of rain already falling. the storm is not expected to turn away from hawaii for another 24 hours. and there is real fear the flash flooding could be dangerous. here's gio benitez, from maui. >> reporter: tonight, hurricane lane bringing catastrophic flooding to hawaii's big island. more than 30 inches of rain already and up to 20 inches more on the way. flash flooding overtaking roads. the storm's movement slowing to a crawl. ire boruse n

good morning, martha. >> reporter: good morning, george. it was a wide-ranging interview. we talked a lot about foreign policy, the hot spots around the world, north korea and russia, but i started the interview by asking him about president trump revoking the security clearance of john brennan. >> ambassador bolton, thanks for doing this interview with us today. i know you're heading on to geneva and ukraine this week with lots of important issues to talk about -- russia, north korea -- but i want to start with another issue that is in the realm of national security and that is president trump revoking the security clearance of john brennan. should that have been done? >> well, this is a decision for the president. it's something that i think was originally suggested by senator rand paul, perhaps others. i was aware of it along with, i think, most of the president's other senior national security advisers a few weeks ago. he obviously made his decision and we go on from there. >> he cited his authority to protect the nation's classified information as a reason and also re

here's martha raddatz. >> reporter: they came by the thousands to pay their respects.ohn mccain lying in state today in the capitol rotunda. his two sons serving in the military, standing with his beloved wife, it began outside, an honor guard carrying him step by step. placing him on a platform built for abraham lincoln's casket. mccain said serving in congress was the great honor of his life. today, his colleagues putting partisanship beside. >> he had america's fighting spirit. our noble idealism, our solemn patriotism. and our slightly irreverent streak, all rolled into one. >> reporter: remembering mccain, the straight-talking statesman. >> this is one of the bravest souls our nation has ever produced. >> reporter: noticeably absent today, president trump. >> we gather to honor an american patriot. >> reporter: vice president mike pence speaking in his place. honoring the mccain family for their sacrifice, too. his mother, roberta, 106 years old. providing strength for meghan mccain. one by one, they said good-bye. remembering a man who said he wanted to be rememb

"the story with martha" hosted martha starts now. >> martha: there is more. good to see you.e case of a murdered college student mollie tibbetts. as detectives are searching for the motive. how and why did their interaction escalate so quickly? and with such a brutal end? 24-year-old rivera charged with first-degree murder. he is said to be in good standing by the former employer. her aunt now says about rivera. >> he was a good person. he was a jokester. he

representative martha mick sally spoke to supporters after winning a primary election. [cheering] >> i am honored to introduce martha mcsally as she prepares to deploy to washington, d.c. as the next senator for the great state of arizona. [applause] >> all right. wow. [applause] thanks, everybody up. thank you. thank you. from the bottom of my heart. i am humbled and honored to now stand before you for the very first time as your republican nominee for the united states senate. [applause] it is tempting to celebrate, but let's keep something in mind. this is not our objective. our mission is in 70 days. we have 70 days to win this seat. candidly, it is difficult to celebrate anything this week as we might a loss of senator -- as we the loss of senator mccain. senator mccain was an american hero. he paid an unfathomable price for our freedom and continued to serve with conviction, honor and sacrifice his whole life. from my early days as a cadet, we studied him as an example of courage, leadership, and honor. senator mccain came to an event for me when i first ran for c

the other analogy to martha stewart or the other reason i think the martha stewart connection is important is because martha stewart was convicted for false statements. if you look at the collins indictment, everybody who cooperated with the government, even if they had culpability but was not charged with lying -- >> they're not getting charged. >> the only people who were charged were the people who lied in the investigation. that's consistently the basis for a downfall in criminal cases. >> i feel like i keep saying this on the air. don't lie to the fbi, it doesn't seem that hard. joyce vance, can you weigh in here on one thing that stuck out to us here at the show. when president trump was throwing out the possibility of who to pardon, he mentioned martha stewart and it would be for a similar crime. this is of course his first congressional ally in the congress. >> it is his first congressional ally in the congress, but i think it's so important for us to understand that the pardon power is not a power that presidents are meant to wield on behalf of their friends and families. the pard

martha, thank you. >>> we move on the tonight to the state of emergency at this hour. hurricane lane lashing the hawaiian islands. the slow-moving category two storm. winds up to 105 miles an hour. the river raging on the big island. more than 30 inches of rain already falling. they expect 40 inches of rain or more before the storm is over. the storm is not expected to turn away from hawaii for another 24 hours. and there is real fear the flash flooding could be life-threatening. their word tonight, catastrop c catastrophic. here's gio benitez, from maui. >> reporter: tonight, hurricane lane bringing catastrophic flooding to hawaii's big island. more than 30 inches of rain already and up to 20 inches more on the way. flash flooding overtaking roads. the storm's movement slowing to a crawl. because the longer this storm lingers near the islands, that means the longer we will see impacts. >> crews working into the night to clear debris amidst fear of more landslides. conditions deteriorating across the islands in the hours ahead. we're just getting the first of those pow

so if martha -- if the democrats can do a good job there of tying martha mcsally, despite her efforts to walk that tightrope to trump, and really gin up their turnout it is possible that they could pull off an upset, even though the prognosticators at this point still say that given the traditional patterns there, mcsally may have the early advantage. >> early advantage. so, elise, what's your takeaway from the election results? are you looking at the florida race and surprise in florida as one of the most interesting races in the fall? >> well, clearly the florida race is fascinating just because you have two young politicians, the same age, from just the far reaches of both of their parties. so that, of course, is going to definitely be something that i'm excited to sit back and watch and see how it plays ought, b s also in arizona what representative mcsally has sdun incredibly interesting and the fact she managed to preserve her authenticity and not alienate trump voters without going too far in the other direction has been somewhat of a model to watch and so we'll see how that pl

>> martha raddatz for us. martha, thank you. >>> we want to head overseas now to yemen. a deadly toll in that country's bitter civil war. an air strike by the u.s.-backed saudi-led coalition in rebel territory destroyed this bus carrying children on a school trip. more than two dozen children among the dead. abc's senior foreign correspondent ian pannell reporting once again on one of the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. >> reporter: tonight, carnage in yemen, as the saudi coalition bombs a packed market, killing 29 children, wounding another 30. they were in a school bus heading to a picnic. this young boy is carried in with a head wound. they gently remove his school bag as he cries, "they hit my he, they hit m yemen is a country suffering the world's worst humanitarian crisis. thousands are dead, millions near starvation, and two warring sides accused of war crimes. as we saw when we visited earlier this year. you can see the intensity of the battles that were fought here. this isn't the first attack on civilians, and despite talk of peace, it won't be the last

let's start in arizona at the gop primary where martha mc sally is. >> latest polls have martha mc sallyof john mccain, her two opponent, kelly ward and joe arpaio have been attacking john mccain in some of his policies on things like immigration and was not and on the obamacare vote but martha maccallum has the donald trump endorsement. jillian: that means a lot. we saw in florida. >> early on adam putnam was the establishment favorite, raised a lot of money, tens of millions of dollars outspent by desantis by 2-1 but a month ago donald trump came in, campaigned for ron desantis and polls show him ahead. jillian: donald trump's endorsement can do a lot. the florida senate race. >> not a lot going on, rick scott and incumbent democrat senator bill nelson, the truth of the matter is this could decide what happens in the senate. republicans are excited about the campaign of rick scott. he has been energetic, run a great campaign, interesting article about how a lot of democrats aren't happy with the campaign bill nelson has run. jillian: bill nelson spent $6 billion, rick scott $27 million