sources tell me sessions plans to keep his head down and do his job, david. >> pierre thomas with us again tonight. pierre, thank you. >>> in the meantime, senate republicans and their new effort to repeal and replace obamacare. they did not get the votes they needed overnight. today, they tried a repeal. they did not get the votes again. when the president tweeted about one republican senator, lisa murkowski, who is not on her side, what she had to say about this. abc's mary bruce caught up with her on the hill. >> reporter: tonight, a free-for-all fight in the senate, republicans now struggling to fulfill their biggest promise. >> everybody needs to saddle up and put it all on the table, and say, this is my position. >> this is called democracy. we'll see how far it goes. >> it's called regular order. >> reporter: overnight, a broad plan to repeal and replace, a bill republicans crafted for weeks, voted down. >> the motion is not agreed to. >> reporter: today, a plan to just repeal and work out the replacement later, that failed too. >> the amendment is not agreed to. >> reporter: u

we get more now from abc's pierre thomas. >> the attorney general, under intense scrutiny. capturing jeff sessions leaving the white house after what they're calling a routine meeting. president trump was not there. what sessions is facing is hardly routine. the president again, hammered sessions with a tweet. why didn't ag sessions replace acting fbi director andrew mccabe. this after calling sessions beleaguered and weak in recent days. >> i am disappointed with the attorney general. >> the white house pressed why fire his attorney general, if he is so unhappy with him. >> look, you can be disappointed in some one. still want them to continue to do their job. that's where nay are. >> we're learning the two men haven't spoken in days. >> make america great again. >> a stunning reversal for the first u.s. senator to endorse candidate trump. sources tell abc news, session has no intention of resigning. some republican senators have been lining up behind the attorney general, not the president. >> jeff has been very loyal to the president. i think he deserves loyalty back. >>

if that changes, i'll let you know. >> pierre thomas with us. he seems to be headed to confirmation. ra rare? >> reporter: he is not afraid to challenge the president. he once threatened to resign over a tloefrl surveillance plan during the last term. >>> we move on now tonight to newly released surveillance video showing the fatal beating of an american while abroad. just graduating from college in may celebrating with a sorry occasion in greece with friends. the video shows him running and then a mob chasing him. it's disturbing. here's kayna whitworth. >> reporter: tonight, the newly released surveillance video, 22-year-old bakari henderson, seen running from a mob of angry men on the greek island of zakynthos. he's shoved onto a car, violently kicked and punched in the face, his friends say he was pummeled with brass knuckles. the savage attack carried out in under 15 seconds, a man and woman rushing to stop the beating, someone performing cpr, but it was too late. later, authorities saying henderson wasn't able to defend himself, suffering

abc's senior justice correspondent, pierre thomas, in the room. >> reporter: after firing previous fbi director james comey, president trump's pick to replace him, chris wray, facing intense scrutiny today. grilled about everything from the loyalty to the president to the president's son, don junior. >> if you get a call from somebody suggesting that the foreign government wants to help you by disparaging your opponent, tell us to call the fbi. >> any threat or effort to interfere with our elections from any nation state or any non-state actor is the kind of thing the fbi would want to know. >> all right. so i'll take it we should call you and that's a great answer. >> reporter: after those one-on-one meetings between president trump and james comey, the new nominee was asked, what would he do? >> if the president asked you to do something unlawful or unethical, what do you say? >> first, i would try to talk him out of it, and if that failed, i would resign. >> reporter: just today, president trump defending his son, again saying the investigation into possible collusion with the russi

pierre thomas, abc news, washington. >>> and there is a drastic drought in italy affecting the vatican. the vatican has shut off all its fountains. it's in the keeping with pope francis's teachings of clean drinking water. >>> it may be the beginning of the end for a core part of the windows operating system. windows says it will no longer update the paint program. the software giant was q will still be available as a free download. it had been part of windows since the first version in 1985. >> yeah! >> do you remember paint? >> absolutely, i lover paint. >> like do you log onto your aol account. checking, update your my space page. >> it was the poor man's photo shop. instead of writing this oh, snapchat. you can put text on photographs. we've been doing that since the '80s with paint. >> under commodore 64. >>> and a teacher has come up with an enterprising way of helping her students, panhandling. >> she has taken to a tulsa street corner to ask for cash for school supplies. financial help has been coming in from all across the country. she is receiving so much support that she set

concerns this morning that another country could be involved and abc's senior justice correspondent pierre thomas has the latest now from washington. good morning, pierre. >> reporter: amy, good morning. fbi and homeland security officials have sent a warning to the nation's nuclear power plants and other utility companies after a series of hacks since may. administration officials tell abc news the hacks targeted corporate computers of a number of companies that run nuclear power plants including the wolf creek nuclear power plant in kansas. wolf creek declined to comment on security issues to us but emphasized there has been no operational impact on their facility. the real concern is about the motive for these hacks, which in some cases targeted engineers who work at the facilities. the critical question this morning, were they probing looking for a way in to perhaps shut down operations and sabotage these plants or threaten them and blackmail them for cash, amy? >> pierre, we mentioned that u.s. officials believe another country may be behind this. do we know which country we're talking about

here's abc's pierre thomas. >> reporter: those faint puffs of smoke you see, the gunfire. two u.s. green beret military trainers take cover behind those concrete barriers and return fire at the air base in jordan. later, they try to signal they are not a threat, waving their hands, but it doesn't work. the soldiers run behind the barriers further away. then a chilling moment. the assailant, a jordanian soldier, enters the frame, armed with an m-16 rifle. he methodically checks the first vehicle, makes his way to the second, and then moments later, he rushes the barriers where the soldiers have taken cover. there is gunfire at close range. when the gunfire is over, the two american soldiers are dead. they are in that front truck. a third is fatally wounded in the final shootout at those barriers. this tragic incident happened last november, but the video is just being released today. the assailant, that jordanian soldier, has been sentenced to life in prison with hard labor, david. >> pierre, thank you. >>> back here at home tonight, the deadly car crash on a california highway. pol

here's abc's pierre thomas. >> reporter: the shooting starts as the faint puffs of smoke you see, theitary trainers exit their vehicles, take cover behind the concrete barriers and return fire in jordan. later they tray in vain to signal they're not a threat, waving their hands, but it doesn't work. the soldiers run behind the barriers further away. then the chilling moment the assailant, a jordanian soldier enters the frame, armed with an m-16 rifle. he methodically checks the first vehicle, makes his way to the second and moments later rushes the barriers where the two soldiers have taken cover. there's an exchange of gunfire at close range. when the shooting is over, two american soldiers are dead. they're in that front truck. a third, james moriarty, is fatally wounded in the final shootout at those barriers. this tragic incident happened last november, but this tape is just being leased. the assailant, the jordanian soldier has been sentenced to life in prison with hard labor. pierre thomas, abc news, washington. >>> and there is a drastic water shortage and drought in italy and

pierre thomas. >> reporter: tonight the attorney general under intense scrutiny, cameras capturing jeffsions after what they're calling a routine meeting. what sessions is facing is hardly routine. the president again hammered sessions with a tweet. high didn't he replace acting fbi director, andrew mccabe. after calling him belabored and weak in the coming days. the white house pressed today why doesn't he simply fire his attorney general? >> he can be disappointed in someone but still want them to continue to do their job and that's where they are. >> reporter: and now we're learning the two haven't spoken in days. >> make america great again. >> reporter: a stunning reversal for the then u.s. senator to endorse candidate trump. but sources say sessions has no plans on resigning. >> jeff has been very loyal to the president and i think he deserves loyalty back. >> jeff sessions is an honorable man. >> reporter: and for the first time we hear from a u.s. attorney. does he have support in the justice department? >> i can say the attorney general enjoys wide support in the u.s. attorney

senior justice correspondent pierre thomas following that story. homeland security officials have sent a warning to the nation's nuclear power plants and other utility companies after a series of hacks since may. no operations were affected but there is concern about the motive for these hacks because engineers who work at these facilities were among those targeted. authorities are working and worried that hackers were looking at vulnerabilities, to george, always the threat of blackmail, extorting these companies for money. >> huge danger. okay, pierre, thanks very much. >>> amy, you have the rest of today's top stories. >> i do. new very many, george, in the fight to replace obamacare. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell acknowledging his health care bill may not pass and told a crowd in kentucky if that bill fail, he will have no other choice than to draft a more limited bill to shore up the existing insurance markets. meanwhile, dozens of protesters have been arrested protesting the republican health care bill outside senators' offices this

let's get more from pierre thomas over at the justice departme department. the attorney general hanging in there up till now. >> reporter: he had been hoping that the president's anger would dissipate. that's not happening and the tweets make it clear the president is still angry about this and, look, at the end of the day everyone at the justice department is watching. can the attorney general continue to do his job under these circumstances when it's clear that the president increasingly does not have confidence in him. >> but, pierre, we have all -- there's no law but we've had all kinds of norms against the president interfering in investigations like this, all kinds of rules and norms and traditions built up that the president doesn't order an investigation into his defeated opponent. >> reporter: look, geor house and the president do not apply political pressure on the justice department with regards to criminal investigations. they're supposed to be a bright red line but it looks like the president is stepping all over that line and creates another di

to isis believed to be the first active duty service member to face these kind of charges and pierre thomass tracking the case. good morning, pierre. >> reporter: good morning. the fbi says they arrested ikaika kang, a decorated soldier after becoming increasingly concerned that he would turn to violence in the name of isis. kang is a veteran of afghanistan and an active u.s. army sergeant and an expert marksman. he was arrested saturday shortly after telling an undercover agent posing as an isis radical he wanted to take his rifl people, george. >> pierre, any sense of how he became radicalized? >> reporter: prosecutors suggested he was radicalized online. they say the fbi found 146 videos and 671 graphic files that reference isis and violence on his laptop, george. >> good thing they caught it. thanks very much. >>> all right, george, we'll move on and talk now about the morning's other top stories and we'll start with an explosion in oklahoma overnight with amy. >> good morning. the fbi is investigating. an explosion outside an air force base near tulsa overnight. the blast blew off the

let's talk with more with dan abrams and pierre thomas. dan, i want to put up a tweet. a lot of reaction to it. extraordinary interview. preet bharara said in his tweet the president today effectively asked sessions for his resignation, will he resign or insist on being fired. any other attorney general, the resignation would come in. >> i think it likely will in the days and weeks to come. regardless of what you think about jeff sessions or james comey or robert mueller, this is stunning. if you care about law enforcement and the official positions that they hold, this feels like a troubling effort to undermine their independence. you have the president of the united states in one interview attacking directly or indirectly the attorney general, the assistant attorney general, the acting fbi director, the former fbi director and the special counsel. all in a matter of a few paragraphs. that's a astonishing. >> he did it in such a casual way but, pierre, your reporting, all signs are the attorney general hunkering down. >> george, last night the justice department declin

for more now we'll bring in our senior justice correspondent pierre thomas and speaking about the special counsel, robert mueller, you're finding out he is putting together quite a team and a large one at that. >> reporter: robin, good morning. that's right. mueller already has a staff of 16 attorneys with more in the pipeline. these are skilled prosecutor, experts at unraveling conspiracy, financial crimes and taking down the mafia. robin, there are already dozens of fbi agents digging into the russia probe. i think it's fair to say no one in president trump's orbit has ever seen the kind of scrutiny they're now facing. >> how do you think this latest revelation concerning don junior is going to impact mueller's investigation? >> reporter: now, sources familiar with how counterintelligence investigates are conducted t after, possibly as early as this week, are any records or e-mails related to that meeting. down the line these sources expect there will be requests for interviews but investigators will first want the written and digital records. also sources tell me to expect mueller will