jean-pierre: okay. thank you. all right. she'll take a few questions. go ahead, nancy. >> thanks, karine. administrator criswell, it's nancy cordes from cbs news. as i'm sure you know, there was a serious housing shortage in hawaii even before this disaster happened. is fema looking at building any kind of temporary housing or temporary schools on maui while people work to rebuild, given the fact that it's going to take them potentially several years to rebuild their homes? and even if they're out there right now looking for someplace for their families to stay short term, it's possible they won't find it. administrator criswell: the governor and i spoke at length about the housing shortage and what the challenges were going to be. he had already conducted a housing assessment, and it had plans in place for things that he was going to do to increase the housing stock here. what that's going to do is it's going to give us a place to start from, because he already had plans in place on where he wanted to

jean-pierre: i'm sorry. reporter: has a conclusion been reached sumwalt just following their response like the alarms not going off? ms. jean-pierre: i know there is an investigation on that question. i'm not going to get ahead of that. do you have control of that? [laughter] all right. there's only a briefing happening now. there is going to be an investigation done. i'm not going to get ahead of that so i would refer you to state officials. what we are focused on and i have been very clear, the initiator has been clear on providing residents of hawaii with all the support and resources they need at this time, that is going to be our focus. we will let the local government deal with the investigation. reporter: there are inflation reports -- and privately we desperately controlled reports. they said there was negligence. his biden committed to ending for-profit detention facilities? can you explain why the administration has not done this? ms. jean-pierre: that is some thing i would want to talk to our team

jean-pierre: you are right. i agree, it gives you a legal pathway to come in and that is what i am talking about and trying to prevent the unlawful pathways. just to clear what i am saying. >> when -- with its two year parole or the folks from central america or afghanistan or ukraine, when the parole hits, does this president intend to renew the two year parole for those or will he sent them back? press sec. jean-pierre: that is a good question and that is why we keep asking congress to help fix this broken system. we are not there yet and that is why we keep asking for help from congress and republicans to help come together in a bipartisan way to fix this issue. >> if they don't -- press sec. jean-pierre: we will continue to do what we can, the president will do what he can to deal with the broken system. we are taking the steps to do that and that is where we are today. >> in the president's conversation with senator mcconnell, did he bring about all the white house submental funding request? press sec. jean

jean-pierre: i'm going to go to the back. so there's a lot of interest on the economic climate agenda of the president. reporter: we know in arizona right now tsmc is having trouble with the local labor union which is petitioning congress to block visa for taiwanese engineers in -- in michigan locals are , protesting on the chinese electronic vehicle battery factory concerning china's growing influence in the region. those outlines worries the white house that it might hinder president biden's economic and climate agenda and is the administration actively engaging to resolve this dispute? mr. podesta: well, if i understood the question correctly, we're actively trying to restore our supply chains. we think we're overly dependent. the solar issue was brought up earlier but certainly in the electric vehicle space, critical minerals, the processing of critical minerals where we want to see those supply chains re reassured or friendshoring. we've seen $70 billion of investment in battery manufacturing in the united states. that's

let's bring in pierre thomas. pierre, a key part of this, along with the rest of our team, a key part of this is this notion jack smith and the team will in prosecuting the former president make the case that he knew he had lost the election. >> he had every reason to understand that he lost. he was informed repeatedly, david, that there was no wide-scale fraud, that there was no way that he could win the election. and then the special counsel's making the case that he went to the public with that lie and tried to steal the election. >> david: and in this speaking indictment, if you will, in lay terms, it's just basically laid out so all of us can read it and understand it, everybody across this country, he makes the case that a number of people who were very close to the president, trusted advisers to the president, told him repeatedly, we've lost this election. >> the attorney general, homeland security officials, his own white house counsel, all these people were telling him, you lost, mr. president. >> david:

first to pierre, and it wasn't just the defendant, pierre, donald trump, in that courtroom today. the special counsel, jack smith, also there. >> well, trump spoke today, but smith intentionally did not. from now on, we will likely only hear him speak in court. he was there to speak volumes. number one, i did this, i am prosecuting you, donald trump. and he wanted to support his staff. hearing is coming up august 28th. the case will start to unfold. >> david: august 28th, just a couple of weeks from now. pierre, thank you. let's get to katherine faulders, she's live outside the courtroom. katherine, the first legal fight in that courtroom today was over timing. jack smith's team pushing for a speedy trial. donald trump's legal team pushing back. >> reporter: yeah, the first real debate over timing for this trial. prosecutors said they were already prepared to turn over to trump and his legal team a substantial amount of discovery. but trump's lawyers said the special counsel has had years to investigate, and they wanted the opportunity to fairly defend their client. they said they

and pierre joins us now. pierre, the special counsel has a deadline this week to propose a trial date. it's still early in this legal battle, but already, we're seeing some back and forth over how quickly this case will proceed? >> reporter: mary, the next few weeks will be critical, as the special counsel seeks a speedy trial, and team trump likely tries to slow down the process. the wild card is going to be the judge, who will essentially be the referee, mary. >> mary: pierre, thank you. >>> next tonight, ukrainian authorities say they have detained a woman aiding a plot to assassinate president zelenskyy, catching her red-handed, passing intelligence to the russians. meantime, back-to-back russian strikes targeted a residential area in eastern ukraine, killing seven people and injuring at least 57. abc's chief foreign correspondent ian pannell is in ukraine. >> reporter: tonight, a devastating double strike on the eastern town of pokrovsk. russia first hitting a residential area, apartments, a hotel, and p

pierre thomas in washington. mary bruce at the white >>> the judge warning donald trump about his public attacks, possibly intimidating witnesses and tainting the jury pool. the judge now limiting the former president's ability to share evidence in the january 6th case. jonathan karl standing by. >>> bail revoked for ftx founder san bankmain-fried. a $250 million bond. why the former billionaire, accused of scamming millions from his clients, is suddenly back behind bars. >>> the war in ukraine, a russian missile strike hitting a hotel used by the u.n. and u.s. aid workers. missiles targeting civilians. and president zelenskyy firing all of his military recruitment chiefs. ian pannell in ukraine. >>> tracking severe storms through the weekend. large hail and damaging winds. strong thunderstorms moving into the northeast tomorrow. rob marciano timing it out. >>> a judge in california tonight charged with murdering his wife. prosecutors now say he texted his court clerk and bailiff, telling them he did it and, quot

>> whit: pierre, thank you. >>> we're getting new information tonight about u.s. plans to deploy marines on board commercial ships sailing in the persian gulf after iran seized oil tankers in the recent months. let's get to mary bruce. mary, this is a remarkable escalation in the longstanding tensions with iran. >> reporter: it is, and whit, the hope here tonight is this will be an effective deterrent to iran's aggression. tonight we're told the u.s. military is prepared to offer protection to commercial ships to try to stop iran from seizing and harassing civilian vessels as in scenes like this one. we have some video of this. the plan is unprecedented, but we are told it is likely to be approved. u.s. marines have already been training for this for the past two weeks. now, the plan is to put armed personnel in teams of 20 on ships that request protection. the marines would have the right to self-defense, and while the intention is to put iran on notice, there is no question it increases the risk of miscalculation or confrontation with iran. >> whit: mary bruce a

so thank you, pierre. and i'm just processing your your remarks and and to some degree i think you're actually assigning opinions that i don't really express in the book and which i don't believe in, don't and it's not i don't think it's there. for example, i deny in this book that communism was an important aspect certainly for the north vietnamese government. i and certainly for many members of the provisional revolution, don't i? this i'm not that i you know, tried to make that separation. so i just want to make that clear to the other things that you read a number of quotes. and i think context is relevant because of the things that are in my that are negative about the saigon regime. i'm, i'm an orphan and that my, you know, independent opinion on no military experience is what nixon and kissinger were saying i mean their contempt for the south vietnamese is all over the. and you know they think i mean i didn't come equipped with all my quotes which are in the book but we you know they i think this mo

another high stakes, high drama day, david. >> david: pierre thomas here in new york. you'll be with us as we cover this tomorrow. thank you, pierre. >>> we turn to the other news tonight, and to pittsburgh, and the case of that horrific massacre at a pittsburgh synagogue nearly five years ago now. tonight, the jury voting unanimously that the killer, robert bowers, deserves the death penalty for what is the deadliest anti-semitic attack in u.s. history. those same jurors had already convicted him on 63 counts, including hate crimes. 11 worshippers aged 54 to 97 were killed that day. seven others injured, including five responding officers. tonight, we hear from families of the victims, and the survivors from that day. here's erielle reshef. >> reporter: tonight, the gunman who stormed that pittsburgh synagogue, killing 11 in the deadliest attack on the jewish community in u.s. history, sentenced to death by a federal jury. >> he murdered them because they were jewish. >> reporter: after ten hours of deliberations, the same 12 jurors who weeks earlier found robert bowe

pierre thomas reporting. >>> the dangerous heat. 60 million americans under heat alerts at this hour. ginger zee is here. >>> the devastating russian missile strikes on president zelenskyy's hometown tonight. multiple civilians killed, dozens injured. ian pannell in ukraine. >>> the american nurse and her young child kidnapped in haiti. we'll have the latest. >>> new revelations tonight from one of hunter biden's former business associates and friends. what he told a house committee about hunter biden putting his father on the phone. democrats tonight arguing those conversations were not about business. and vice president kamala harris is asked about all of this by our linsey davis. her answer right here. >>> remembering paul reubens, the actor best known for his role as pee-wee herman. and the quiet battle he faced for years. >>> and we have just learned tonight, a young star from "euphoria" has died. what we know so far. >> announcer: from abc news world headquarters in new york, this is "world news tonight" with david muir. >>> good evening. it's great to start another week with al

still hadn't found pierre when. pierre walks out of the bushes. he says, what's going on?well, you know what's going on. we cut the that shot, captain. it was stuck in his pants, went through. but on the outside these are tough old pants on the other side, the bullet stuck and we had the bullet we the caliber we knew the gun that it came from. but captain louis being man that he was he didn't chastise pierre. i guess he understood that maybe you shouldn't go hunting with somebody who can't see very well and for the next month, before we reached saint louis, captain louis had to lie face down in the canoe he got treated every day and he made it back to saint louis, but not the proud, victorious man he thought he might be. he limped saint louis and the rest is history. all right. another time, smallpox now, smallpox was the scourge of a nation. and if you got it was pretty much a death sentence. but what can you do to prevent it? well, there was a doctor in england named edward jenner and mr. or dr. jenner found that people who had cowpox usually milkmaids, who had worked ar

>> david: pierre thomas, live in washington. thank you, pierre. >>> we turn now to a beloved clothing store owner, wife, and mother, shot and killed over what police say was a dispute over the pride flag she had outside her california business. authorities are concerned over the rhetoric in this country. here's abc's kayna whitworth. >> reporter: tonight, authorities investigating the death of a beloved california store owner and mother of nine who was shot and killed over what police say was a dispute over a pride flag. >> gunshot victim. medic ambulance 91. >> reporter: 66-year-old laura ann carleton was fatally shot friday evening at her clothing store near lake arrowhead. the san bernardino county sheriff's department says the suspect "made several disparaging remarks about a rainbow flag that stood outside the store before shooting carleton." the male suspect, who has not been identified, then fleeing on foot. authorities saying they located the armed suspect about a mile away. "a lethal force encounter occurred and the sus

abc's pierre thomas back with us here in new york tonight. and this is really something, pierre. >> reporter: david, this involves the man who held the top job as the head of fbi counterintelligence in new york. an expert on russian spying turned bad. he today pleaded not guilty and admitted that he had been compromised by russian oligarchs after he retired from the fbi. that oligarch, who had been sanctioned by the u.s., paid him more than $20,000 to do his bidd bidding. the fbi said today that mcgonigal turned in favor of greed, david. >> david: pierre, thank you. >>> to other news, and to the prominent california judge pleading not guilty to murdering his wife, prosecutors say he shot her after a drunken argument. but then texted his staff, telling them, i just lost it, i just shot my wife, i won't be in tomorrow. case making national headlines now. and here's abc's kayna whitworth. >> reporter: tonight, a southern california judge accused of murdering his own wife pleading not guilty in court. >> mr. ferguson, do you understand all these

here is karine jean-pierre responding to questions about the president's age. >> i've said this many times and my colleagues have said this. the president says this. if you watch him, if you have seen what he's done the last two years, this is a recent has had a historic administration. >> sandra: she then came at everybody with the many accomplishments they say that he has achieved under this presidency. ben. >> that's just completely backward looking. it's also something i think is not representative of the concerns the american people have about potentially re-electing this president i don't think you can find confidence he's going to finish out a potential second term. people don't like to see the presidents they elect suffer through these things, even if they are republicans, or independents, you don't want to see a president who has these types of struggles and i think the, as much as the washington media can't avoid asking these questions anymore, given how obvious the gaffes are, karine jean-pierre is not going to be able to address that with a list of bullet points about var

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justice correspondent pierre thomas. >> reporter: the president's son under investigation by a specialnsel and likely headed to trial. hunter biden still in the investigative crosshairs of federal prosecutors. still clearly in legal jeopardy. >> i'm here today to announce the appointment of david weiss as a special counsel. >> reporter: it was a surprise announcement from attorney general merrick garland, elevating david weiss, the trump-appointed u.s. attorney who had already been investigating hunter biden for five years, to special counsel due to what garland called the extraordinary circumstances of the case. >> this appointment confirms my commitment to provide mr. weiss all the resources he requests. it also reaffirms that mr. weiss has the authority he needs to conduct a thorough investigation and to continue to take the steps he deems appropriate independently. >> reporter: and then another surprise. weiss telling the court that the chances for a plea deal on the table just two weeks ago have all but disappeared. weiss writing, the parties are at an impasse and the government b

nezet-seguin has led these musicians for more than 20 years, that's his husband pierre toureville on ♪ ♪ some weeks yannick leads performances in all three cities. just last saturday, he conducted a matinee in new york and the evening program in philly. then again, what is a conductor if not someone able to synchronize? >> i can't deny that it's a very demanding schedule. and even the word "schedule" if should i ever retire, i want to ban that word from my life. >> do you have a favorite child among the three orchestras you conduct? >> you cannot ask me this. >> yet one child in particular -- and isn't this always the case? -- demands extra attention and tlc. >> can we have more importance in the third... >> at the met, the country's largest performing arts institution, we watched him wrangle 250 musicians and singers for a production of wagner's lohengrin, a stalwart opera that gave us the bridal chorus. ♪ and nezet-seguin's interpretations do right by the masters. >> what i want is to respect what wagner wrote in the score. ♪ >> so it's very poetic and magical. what's really indivi

so, what do you make of what karine jean-pierre was saying there in the briefing, jonathan? >> well, it was an extraordinary moment. the level of denial has reached a pathological level. i mean, she's talking about an investigation that just produced evidence of $20 million passing through 20 different companies and accounts and getting money transferred to biden family members, including grandchildren. you just had devon archer say that the president is saying something categorically false saying he had no knowledge of business dealings, all of that is the recent developments and you have the pre saying they found nothing at all. dangerous for president biden, you can sort of boot strap earlier misdealings and misconduct into your presidency. it can become an impeachable manner when you have white house staff spreading false accounts and some people are saying it's clearly false, the white house is trying to now pursue a new narrative, but that narrative is also falling apart. every time we have new evidence come forward, we have a new narrative, that narrative collapses an

karine jean-pierre, she is gaslighting us. he is go, go, go. we can't keep up with him.hen she says that, you can't believe another word out of her mouth. when i was a judge, used to say someone has lied to you once you don't need to believe another thing they say to you during the course of this trial. they took advantage of him and they protected him during the election. covid and the pandemic allowed him to come in and say i am energized and i'm vital and vibrant. we just accepted it. on faith. but right now, we understand that it isn't, as you say, both jesse and piers. it's not about age. it's about mental acuity. the ability to get things done. the fact that when people are asked, is he too old to be president, as a release or donald trump, 77% say joe biden is. 51% say donald trump's. now, that's a 25% difference. i believe that 25% difference is due to the fact that people are looking not at the age but rather at the mental acuity. finally, this whole idea that he works day and night and all that. apparently this year when there was a problem with the banks jen p

it >> karine jean-pierre had more age questions to deal with. how biden has admitted to aids that he felt tired at times and how striking it is that the president has so few public events before 10:00 a.m. karine jean-pierre brushing off questions on biden's light morning routine. >> is this why we are seeing in recent weeks. has the president admitted to you? >> the last part? because of this excerpt? >> of the book is suggesting that the president tells aids he's tired. and that that's why there've spent so few public events. >> that's a ridiculous assumption to make. >> dana: rfk jr. no stranger to his personal fitness. walking around with our own fitness guru, jesse watters. >> this job requires people to be in good shape and have mental acuity. i think that if he feels these up to that, he should debate me. a >> jesse: [laughs] do you feel he's up to debating? >> i'm not going to -- i don't think it's good for the american people in the don't because of the democratic party if the only people that he has to talk to to end this election are

karine jean-pierre was worse with jake tapper, she said we travel abroad, it is hard for us to keep up with this president, that should tell you about the level of her dishonesty behind the podium everyday. she said, watch him, watch him, she giggled. we do watch him temperature is not about his age, biden's, not about that number. it is about his faculties, his cognition and quite obvious decline and deterioration because every american can watch him who is every american who has taken care of an elderly relative or parent who was adult and in decline regardless what you want to call it. i've taken care of relatives who had dementia and alzheimer's disease and you can see this man at 86 would not be a self-caring adult. >> what happened with mitch mcconnell yesterday was stunning and startling bad to watch. it was sad and stunning and it happened in his home state of kentucky, he is senate minority leader. what if the leader of the free world had a similar freeze and there was joe biden standing up there and froze? what kind of look for the united states of america if the president co

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pierre's half french, half taiwanese. he's an outsider like me.rough. and so that made it difficult to speak. suddenly, the 7-eleven music rang again as someone walked out, and i started crying. now, i'm not generally very good at being emotional, but there i was, just sobbing in front of him. and i turn to him and i go, "you know, as hard as i try, i can't be happy here, and i don't think i can ever be happy anywhere." surprised, he turned to me, and in a way only teenagers could, he goes, "bro, what's wrong?" (laughter) and i continue. i tell him, "i'll be graduating soon, and i'll have to say good-bye "to all the friends that i've made here. and this will just be another place that i can't call home." he thought about that for a quick moment, and then with a sudden anger that i'd never seen before, he asked me, "are you kidding me? "you've been everywhere, "but i've been stuck here my entire life. "you don't have a home because you have many homes, and that's something most people will never have." i wanted to say something back to him, but i w

here's abc's chief justice correspondent pierre thomas. >> reporter: tonight, abc news has obtained a key piece of evidence referenced in special counsel jack smith's indictment of donald trump for alleged election interference. the evidence? a memo from attorney kenneth chesebro, whom abc has identified as likely being co-conspirator number five. the special counsel describes the document, first obtained by "the new york times," as a "fraudulent elector memo," saying it was designed to create a "fake controversy that would derail the proper certification of biden as president-elect" on january 6th. the memo, according to the special counsel, involved a scheme to send slates of so-called fake electors to washington to falsely claim that trump had won in their states. in the memo, dated december 6th, 2020, attorney chesebro appears to acknowledge his idea, sending "alternate slates of electors" might not be legal. at one point, writing, "i recognize what i suggest is a bold, controversial strategy." and the memo makes clear that the plan was for then vice president pence to stop the ce

pierre thomas, thank you. >>> in philadelphia tonight, police say they are preparing now to fire the officer who shot and killed a man during a traffic stop. surveillance video of the incidents contradicting what police claimed happened. police said he got out of the car and lunged at them with a knife. but door bell camera video now released by the family showing he slowly parked his car, but not getting out. police then pulling up, no sirens. officer mark dial seen getting out of his patrol car, firing multiple shots in less than six seconds. the victim's car door was closed and his window was up. >>> we turn now to the race for the white house tonight. the first republican debate this evening, eight candidates. donald trump will be a no-show. rachel scot in milwaukee. >> reporter: tonight in milwaukee, a pivotal moment in the republican primary. eight candidates taking the debate stage for the first time. but the man dominating the field, the undisputed front-runner, donald trump, will not be there. >> he didn't have the guts or the respect to show up on that stage and defend his

>> karine jean-pierre answered question after question. she didn't say much but added a little more here. watch. >> i will say this. you've heard this from the president. he loves his son. and he is proud of him overcoming his addiction and how he's continuing to build his life. i don't have anything else to add to that. >> so today david weiss begins his first full week as special counsel, the same david weiss that saturday in a courtroom with hunter biden and prepared to enter a plea teal with him. the case will move toward trial in washington d.c. or california where hunter biden lives or possibly both. >> if the now special counsel decides not to go by the deal, it will money that he or they decided that something other than the facts and the law are coming in to play. >> hours ago, republicans released a transcript of an interview from july 17 with former fbi agent unnamed who claims that that planned interview with hunter biden in december of 2020 was sidelined after the fbi reached out to the secret service and transition team. the

how many times have we heard karine jean-pierre stand at the white house press briefing room and say the department of justice operates independent from the white house. we have no involvement in the trump matter. no involvement whatsoever. really? what happened at this meeting? was jack smith there. was he the proxy or the go-between? we don't know. we want to know what took place. it's not supposed to have any type of appearance of this kind of thing going on. what happened at this meeting? who were they talking about? what took place. that's what we want to know. that's what the american people want to know. >> eventually the media will have to start covering this. it just looks very convenient. thank you for your time. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >>> meantime gold star families continue to demand answers about the disastrous afghanistan withdrawal in 2021 that took the lives of 13 servicemembers. marianne rafferty is live with the latest on this. good evening. >> very emotional testimony from the families. the house foreign affairs committee hearing from the families today. t

we want a fox news alert to the white house, as promised, karine jean-pierre is taking to the podiumtaking a question on getting kids back up to speed in the classroom following the covid pandemic. let's dip in and listen. >> to making sure that education for all of our children regardless if you are in rural america, urban america, all across the communities is a priority, and the students and the kids get what they need. and it's not just education, right. we talked about mental health, right. we talked about kids making sure that they're getting healthy lunches. that's something this administration has provided. and so we've seen the data, the numbers, what it means to us is more work needs to be done and we are committed and this president and administration is committed to doing that work. look, we are going to hear as i mentioned secretary cardona is going to go on a bus tour, across the country as school is opening up. he's going to lay out what the department of education is doing to continue to improve our schools so make sure that students get the education and get the righ