andrew brunson a court convicting him to aiding terror groups and senn sensing him to time served. a medical evaluation will happen in germany and a plane will fly him back to the u.s. you're getting reaction tonight from the white house? >> that's right. the white house is elated. president prump brought a lot of pressure to bring him. and it was important to evangelical christians here too. he is coming here after a stop in germany. there will be an oval office welcome for you. >> terry, thank you. >>> we turn tonight to the abc news exclusive. a rare interview with first lady melania trump. the first lady speaking about her marriage to trump and allegations of infidelity. tom llamas on the exclue >> reporter: through it all, she has held her tongue. silent when porn star stormy daniels stepped forward. silent when the white house denied the affair. silent when the president later admitted to paying hush money. but now, in our exclusive interview, first lady melania trump is finally ready to talk. you did agree to this interview, to your credit, with no preconditions. >> correct.

the question is how do you maintain that simplicity as a senn. little trick, you ask yougs, is there something live already they would trade for this new future. is there something i would add. >> i've got it. then you end up with a product that isn't so simple and you get more stuff. >> exactly. it's tough to kill anything in your product or sfgs. anything you made you have an affection toward but if you challenge your team and say for everybodying we do we're going to do a fueverything as a funct >> let's talk about leadership. >> i liken the journey, the middle miles of a journey with the windows blocked out. you don't know how far you are from your destination, what milestone you're passing. however, if the driver is narrating you through the journey and saying, hey, we just passed this milestone or landmark, in your head, you're making progress. you are the narrator of this journey for your team. >> i was thinking it makes perfect sense because people need to know why what they're doing is important and wren their heading. >> exactly. when i

an interesting case, because he is a corservative to the elso, trying to bring humanity back to the senninal months of his time. and yet hep ended u being a yes. >> i felt we were covering the hamlet of arizona, yet he always, as you say, ends up at yes. questions about the process. >> he looked so pain through the ocess. >> he did. >> then we have joe manchin. t of west virgini >> so he comes on late. >> he walked out late. he was waiting t wo st happened obviously. he seemed very tied to susan collins. fact, he announced his yes vote for confirmation as she ended her speec i think for joe manchin, that was a good vote for west virginia. >> why? >> because thiss -- trump is super popular there. he's running right now. this is very close to the election. i think he was in pretty good shape honesy, but iook at this, if you gain the south politically, it was a srt move. he's a former governor too. he's one of those people who believes in the executives' right to make a point. >> let's go back to something ashley talked about, which is president trump at the rlies. last week, president trum

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so there has been so much controversy around voter suppression in georgia, around senn nan begans happening in the secretary of state's office, around voter registration. the democrats have countered that voter suppressive pressure by saying get out and vote early. we need to register more people than ever. well need to vote early. we need to get people to mail in their ballots. we're now seeing early voting and mail-in ballot voting in georgia just going through the roof, at least in the early days. on this show, we have been closely covering what is going on this year in the georgia election. as you recall, the republican candidate for governor is also the secretary of state. in his capacity as the state's top election official, among other things, he has been holding 53,000 applications for voter registration in limbo. over 70% of them are from african american voters. we've also been getting reports of absentee ballots being rejected at a disturbingly high rate in one georgia county that is overwhelmingly black, latino, and asian. well, that part of the fight, that fight over whether an