>> martha raddatz following this again tonight. martha, thank you. >>> next, to the fireworks on capitol hill, as the house judiciary committee probes possible obstruction of justice by the white house. today, former trump campaign manager corey lewandowski testifying in public. and lewandowski following specific instructions from the white house, and it infuriated members of congress. here's abc's chief justice correspondent pierre thomas tonight. >> reporter: before the cameras, president trump's former campaign manager corey lewandowski clashing with house democrats. >> this is a house judiciary, not a house party. >> you are here to participate in a continuing coverup. >> reporter: flat-out refusing to answer questions about his dealings with the president, referring to this letter from the white sc h testimony, citing executive privilege. >> how many times did he direct you to deliver a message to a member of his cabinet? >> the white house has directed that i not disclose -- >> you're not going to stonewall me and my questioni

>> martha raddatz. martha, terry and mary, thank you. >>> in the meantime, the other news this thursday, the first major snowstorm about to hit. winter storm watches and warnings up tonight, up to three feet of snow expected in some places. meteorologist rob marciano tracking it all for us. rob? >> reporter: hi, david. while the east deals with rain or record heat, the northern west can deal with an epic snowstorm for september. we've got winter storm warnings posted for much of montana, idaho and washington. and we have also three-plus feet of snow expected here with 80-mile-per-hour winds. this is going to happen all weekend long. it's going to be blinding and crippling for some of those areas. another front pushing into the heat ridge in the southeast. damaging winds from kansas city to peoria, illinois. in the tropics, hurricane lorenzo, way out there, a category 4 storm. karen, a little too close to ignore, it's weak, but she's not dead yet. david? >> rob marciano, thank you. >>> and this evening, t

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want to go back to our chief global affairs anchor martha raddatz in washington. s was a highly coordinated attack that has caused one of the greatest disruptions to world oil markets ever recorded. a senior administration official telling abc news the attack was launched from iran with nearly a dozen cruise missiles and at least 20 drones packed with explosives hitting multiple targets at those oil processing facilities in saudi arabia shooting fire and smoke into the sky for miles. secretary of state mike pompeo calling on all nations to publicly and unequivocally condemn what he calls iran's attacks, which iran flatly denies. if iran did directly attack saudi arabia, it would be a first in this ever escalating standoff with iran and an official says there is a principals meeting today at the white house to try to figure out a response to the attack but president trump has already issued that ominous threat saying we are locked and loaded. also just a short time ago tweeting that we don't need middle eastern oil and gas, george. >> martha raddatz, thanks very muc

martha raddatz, thank you. >>> next tonight, the nightmare on the way to school today. a deadly school bus accident on a mississippi highway. the bus landing on its side off highway 72 in benton county. all eight children onboard were injured and the bus driver did not survive. they believe the driver might have suffered a heart attack. here's steve osunsami. >> reporter: parents who had just put their kids on the school bus were frantic, hearing that it crashed. >> got an overturned bus with children on it. >> reporter: the children were on their way this morning to classes in benton county, mississippi, when authorities say the driver had a heart attack and students say he clutched his chest and slumped over, causing the bus to overturn in a ditch. the driver died. all eight children on the bus had to be hospitalized. >> none of them were ejected, but of course were bounced around in the bus and sustained injuries from that. >> reporter: the parents of an injured eighth grader say she has a broken ankle, leg and jaw, but will survive. >> just a little devastated, but

martha raddatz standing by. >>> the fireworks on the hill tonight. president trump's former campaign manager following instructions from the white house. the angry reaction. >>> in new york city, officers attacked. the shootout when they try to answer a domestic call. >>> we are one-on-one with alex trebek tonight. he reveals a new setback. and what he says keeps him going. >>> and we celebrate the remarkable life and career of our cokie roberts. the journalist, commentator and historian, and tonight, the interview we found, cokie in her own words on how she would like to be remembered. >>> good evening. it is great to have you with us here on a very busy tuesday night. and we begin with the tropical storm slamming texas and the gulf right now. and the hurricane strengthening off the east coast. and now a third system we're watching at this hour. look at the map tonight. tropical storm imelda slamming ashore in galveston and elsewhere at this hour. and there's hurricane humberto gaining strength tonight with concern over dangerous rip currents. and s

chief global affairs correspondent martha raddatz has the latest there in washington. orning, martha. >> reporter: good morning, robin. the secretary of state is squarely pointing the finger at iran for the attacks and this morning, a senior official telling abc that a nearly intact cruise missile and drone were found which could be important evidence, but the president seems in no hurry to definitively pin the blame on iran or take any retaliatory action. the attack was brazen and highly sophisticated with more than 20 explosive-laden drones and nearly a dozen cruise missiles slamming into the oil facilities in saudi arabia leaving the world's largest refinery smoldering. but after a weekend of strong words and warnings, president trump now saying he suspects iran was behind the attacks but telling our jon karl he wants to be certain. >> we're having some very strong studies done but it's certainly looking that way at this moment and we'll let you know. as soon as we find out definitively, we'll let you know, but it certainly looks that way. >> reporter: a senior admin

. >> so i want to bring in martha raddatz. the iranian president avoiding the question. on this idea that the u.s. offered to lift sanctions, wt is the state department saying that it didn't happen. there were no offers to relieve sanctions in exchange for a meeting. in fact the u.s. has been playing hardball during the u.n. session in new york this week. even denying a request to visit the iranian ambassador i al i new york. his vis sid o manhattan. he could onl ambassador if iran released one of five u.s. citizens currently being detained in iran. >> martha, thank you. >>> still ahead tonight, news about the new "joker" movie. the fbi and lapd among those taking action. >>> and the deputy shot from behind and killed. what the sheriff is saying about this tonight. >>> news this evening about alcohol and dementia. the amount of alcohol that brings benefits and how much is too much. >>> and the elk on the attack outside of a visitors' center. knocking tourists to the ground. how it all happened. a lot more news ahead on a friday night. i'll be right back. should always be

but the end result is worth it. >>> martha raddatz is coming up on "this week." on abc. up on "this week." keep it here. >>> good morning, i'm kumasi aaron. in the south bay you can channel your inner monster. california's great america is looking for hundreds of people for its halloween haunt. the amusement park is holding a job fair for its 12th season of scares. great america is looking to hire 500 people. i 10:00 uil 4:00 parks administration on adnah road in santa clara. >>> also in san francisco you can learn about chinese history. several organizations will host activities and crafts related to chinese american and chinatown history. you can also enjoy live music, games, and dancing. the event is free and runs 11:00 to 4:00 on waverly place between sacramento and washington. that's going on. so much is going on, especially because it's a holiday. lisa is standing by with our forecast. >> hey, kumasi, good morning to you. the fog just about swallows up the entire golden gate bridge. in most neighborhoods sunny, 66 in san jose, oakland 59, half moon bay. fro

claiming responsibility, details of the attacks just coming in, and our chief global affairs anchor martha raddatz tracking it all from washington. good morning, martha. >> reporter: good morning, george. there are hundreds of pentagon personnel at this base in somalia and reports this morning of this attack are dramatic. at least one large vehicle was packed with explosives. the explosives then set off by a suicide bomber at the gate of the military facility. bursts of gunfire then echoed across the base. the group al shabab did take responsibility for the suici bombing claiming they breached the heavily fortified facility but a u.s. official tells us there were no american casualties although the official says a number of enemy fighters were killed. there are also reports this morning that a convoy of italian peacekeepers in somalia was targeted by a suicide car bomber but that explosion missed those peacekeepers although a number of somalia's citizens were reportedly injured. the u.s. base is a training site for somali forces. u.s. attacks on extremists have intensified this year as the u.s. ra

our chief global affairs anchor martha raddatz tracking all the latest from washington. good morning, martha. >> reporter: good morning, george. the state department this morning is urging u.s. citizens traveling in saudi to be more vigilant. this, as iran's president is calling the attack on the oil facilities a warning to the saudis from yemen to end the war there or face a wider conflict and a u.s. forensic team in saudi is examining a nearly intact cruise missile that missed its target and combing through debris at the oil facilities. this image from saudi social media appears to be missile wreckage. an image that analysts are examining from one of nearly a dozen cruise missiles that targeted saudi oil facilities. a u.s. official says the investigators have found compelling forensic evidence from those missiles and some 20 drones that hit the facilities. >> once they get the debris of these drones that crashed in the desert they will be able to very precisely match things like the wings and the tail to pictures that the iranians themselves have published of their dron

here's abc's martha raddatz tonight. >> reporter: tonight, media reports tell an extraordinary tale in 2016, at the height of russian interference our election, the cia reportedly had a russian telling us all about it. but that cia asset found himself in grave danger. the spy reportedly worked at this building in moscow, with access to the highest levels of the kremlin, the heart of vladimir putin's government. and when his identity may have looked like it was compromised, the cia made the decision to extract the spy, his wife and children. reports say he may have been brought here to the u.s. >> the united states government are aware of who he is and where he is and means we're a step ahead of the russians. >> reporter: cnn first breaking the story and russian media reports today revealing what they say is the name of a former russian official who worked in the kremlin. putin's spokesman confirming the official worked there, but calling reports that he was a mole "pulp fiction." secretary of state mike pompeo, the former director of the cia, safing those same reports were "materially

. >> so i want to bring in our chief global affairs correspondent martha raddatz. the iranian president avoiding the question on whether the iranian people are suffering, whether he's putting his people first. on this idea that the u.s. offered to lift sanctions, what is the state department saying tonight? >> reporter: the short answer from the state department is that it didn't happen. there were no offers to relieve sanctions in exchange for a meeting. in fact the u.s. has been playing hardball with rouhani during the u.n. session in new york this week, even denying a request by iran's foreign minister to visit iran's u.n. ambassador in a hospital in new york. the visa issued limited him to only a few blocks on the east side of manhattan. the state department said zarif could only visit the ambassador if iran released one of the five u.s. citizens currently being detain in the iran. >> martha, thank you. >>> still ahead tonight, news about the new "joker" movie. the fbi tonight, the lapd among those taking action this evening. >>> also ahead, the deputy shot fro

our martha raddatz standing by with the latest. >>> breaking news. workers walking off the job right now. the largest walkout in a decade. >>> supreme court chaos. the new report about justice brett kavanaugh alleging another case of sexual misconduct while in college. the 20 candidates now calling for impeachment as president trump comes to his defense. >>> furious flames. the new warning out west.

a lot to talk about here, so let's bring in martha raddatz who is in washington where she'll be hosting "this week." martha, good morning. i'm curious to get your views on this as someone who has covered international affairs for awhile. how should we think about this ukraine story? the president is calling it a witch hunt. i suspect a lot of people might look at this and say, we have heard democrats in the media hyperventilate about the president's behavior before. is this time different? >> well, i think everyone has heard the president hyp hyperventilate about this. they have heard the democrats hyperventilate about this. i'm sure you'll just hear president trump continue to say it's a witch hunt. it's a witch hunt, so you'll get that echo. when you look at this and what happened and that the inspector general's office said it was urgent and credible, it could go a bit further and take up attention in the coming weeks. we have also heard president trump tell our own george stephanopoulos that if somebody had dirt on say, norway i think he said, then he would take it. so i think we're

here now co-anchor martha raddatz. >>> good morning. welcome to "this week." a place that was a professional home for our cokie roberts for more than 30 years. throughout the morning we'll be celebrating our colleaguan here washington at st. matthew's cathedral on saturday. hundreds gathering to remember her life, her legacy and her love of family. since her very first show as an anchor on this program in 1996 cokie promised to bring you the news each sunday morning. we'll start with that. >>> we begin with the rising tensions between iran and the u.s. the administration is pointing the finger at iran holding it responsible for the attack on saudi oil facilities last week, the secretary of state calling it an act of war. president trump's response has run the gamut saying the u.s. was locked and loaded sunday. then swinging to talk to a peaceful resolution on thursday. here's what he said friday in the oval office. >> i think it shows far more strength to do it the way we're doing it, whether it's now or three weeks. doesn't make any difference. the strong per

here now, co-anchor martha raddatz. >>> good morning, and welcome to "this week." millions of americans are on alert this labor day weekend, trading their plans for outdoor barbecues with intense preparations for an incredibly powerful category 5 hurricane that forecasters are calling a monster. as with any forecast, hurricane dorian's track has been in state of a flux, though this storm has been particularly erratic. one emergency management official saying that the only thing about consistent about this storm is its inconsistency. this morning, president trump who cancelled a trip to poland to remain in the u.s. will visit the national response coordination center to receive briefings from emergency managers who are preparing for dorian's impacts. i spoke with the acting homeland security secretary, but we begin this morning with a different emergency. another deadly shooting in west texas, leaving at least five dead. while it doesn't appear preplanned it's equally if not more terrifying. a routine traffic stop turning into a suspect with a fully loaded weapon wr

. >> let me pick up on that, martha raddatz. let me bring you in on this because the president has since then publicly said that one of the reasons he suspended the aid and was so concerned was about corruption inside ukraine, yet the defense department had already certified that the ukraine had done what they needed to do on corruption. >> that's exactly right. in a memo they certified that they had done whatever they could in regards to corruption and that the money could be released. i think one of the things we have to remember here, george, also is how russia would feel about this. russia would love military aid to be denied to ukraine. they would hate having a democracy thrive on their western border, and that's another reason to look at this, because of russia. >> martha, while i have you, we are about to hear from the acting director of national intelligence, joe maguire, who has had a long career in the government, 26 years as a navy s.e.a.l., recently head of the national counter-terrorism center, but only in place as

. >> and i also want to bring in martha raddatz as well. the contentions here, the whistle-blower makes is that the u.s. ambassador to ukraine who had criticized the ukrainians' record was basically removed from her post early apparently at the behest of the people that mr. giuliani was talking to. >> reporter: exactly. that's the reporting there and that's what is in the report and president trump himself has had some negative comments about that ambassador saying she wasn't a good person and she was removed. the thing that strikes me, george is at the heart of this as you know, nancy pelosi has talked about this as a national security concern and why would this be a national security concern? we see in the document it says further in the icig's judgment alleged conduct by a senior u.s. public official to seek foreign assistance to interfere in or influence a federal election would consty statute a serious or flagrant problem or abuse which would also potentially expose such a u.s. public official or others acting in concert with the u.s.

chief global affairs correspondent martha raddatz is tracking the latest from washington and, martha,lues this morning. >> reporter: exactly, tom. saudi arabia this morning giving journalists the first close-up look of that destruction from the cruise missile and drone attack less than a week ago flying a group of reporters and photographers including from abc to the badly damaged aramco oil watabilition tower with twisted metal evident and on the ground huge pipes mangled and pierced by the exploding drones and missiles. this comes as the full national security council meets today to discuss the response to the attacks. officials say everything is on the table from nonmilitary options to a robust retaliatory strike which would require additional u.s. forces in the region and some officials fear could risk major escalation. a senior administration official telling abc that the pentagon will push for a more measured response. cecilia. >> so much on the line, okay, martha, thank you. >>> we'll turn now to that growing trouble for canadian prime minister justin trudeau. more images surfa

martha raddatz is tracking the latest in washington this morning. morning, martha. >> reporter: good morning, michael. those north korean missiles keep on coming despite diplomatic overtures and these overnight launches mark at least eight rounds of short-range missile tests since the end of june when president trump met with kim jong-un on the border of north and south korea. it was just a month ago that president trump said kim had sent him a letter apologizing for the tests, saying they were in reaction to military exercises and would stop when the exercises stopped but those exercises ended in august and it was just hours before these latest launches that north korea said it was willing to resume talks on denuclearization but these launches complicate that effort, although north korea clearly sees this as a negotiating strategy, george. >> we'll see if the meeting happens. martha, thanks very much. >>> we're going to move now to the latest on president trump. our brand-new poll with "the washington post" released just moments ago showing a drama

kremlin was pulled from russia over fears his cover had be b well, now, moscow is responding and martha raddatz is in washington with all the latest on that. good morning, martha. >> reporter: good morning, amy. overnight an independent russian newspaper reporting that the man believed to be a highly placed spy for the u.s. worked for five years as an assistant to one of vladimir putin's top foreign policy aides. he was reportedly one of the cia's most valuable russian spies working at this building in moscow with access to the highest levels of the kremlin, the heart of vladimir putin's government. cnn was the first to report that after decades of spying for the u.s. in late 2016, he found himself in grave danger. the spy was instrumental i concluding that russia had interfered in the 2016 election, and that putin himself had orchestrated the interference, but his identity was starting to leak. the russians now revealing the name of a former russian official who worked in the kremlin, but putin's spokesman calling reports that he was a mole "pulp fiction." they say he was fired. secretary of s

broke and just reporter after reporter, anchor after anchor from george stephanopoulos to martha radd z raddatz of when tim russert died, the way people talk about about him as they did cokie roberts and from a young reporter who would get a nice e-mail from cokie roberts. she thought i did a good job or she criticized my reporting, let met get better she left such an imprint not just at abc. >> she was sharp and witty, but really subtle. >> subtle she was, and you know, you know that sort of smile. you saw this even on the program when she was here, and our thoughts, all of us are with her husband steve. >> absolutely. >> michael beschloss thank you very much. we appreciate it, cokie roberts way too soon 75 years old, mplicati interfer0 election our next guest is taking a look at the world of disinformation and the influence operations em employed by vladimir putin we're back in just a moment. ( ♪ ) only tylenol® rapid release gels have laser drilled holes. they release medicine fast, for fast pain relief. tylenol®. - [woman] with my shark, i deep clean messes like this, this, and even this. b