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here's abc's terry moran. >> now i'm honored. come on in. >> reporter: today a warm greeting from donald trump for israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu at mar-a-lago. the two men meeting face to face after three years of frosty relations, ever since netanyahu congratulated joe biden for beating trump in 2020, infuriating trump, who to this day denies he lost that election. trump and netanyahu briefly took questions in a darkly lit room. the prime minister was asked about the ceasefire/hostage release deal in gaza that's been in the works for nearly two months. >> do you feel like after this trip, mr. prime minister, we're any closer to a ceasefire deal? >> i hope so. but i think time will tell. we're certainly eager to have one. and we're working on it. >> mr. president -- >> reporter: the mar-a-lago meeting comes one day after netanyahu was in the white house meeting with the president and vice president kamala harris over ceasefire efforts. harris telling netanyahu "it's time for this war to end." >> israel has a right to

terry moran from the supreme court, and pierre thomas standing by. >>> also tonight, president biden under pressure, days after his widely criticized debate performance. what we're learning about discussions behind the scenes. >>> hurricane beryl tears through the caribbean. the earliest ever atlantic category 4 storm on record. now heading for landfall in already hard-hit eastern mexico. the new images from inside the hurricane. ginger zee timing it out. >>> as millions take to the air during this fourth of july holiday, dozens are injured over the ocean in the latest incident of severe air turbulence. a passenger apparently getting stuck in the ceiling of the aircraft, others coming to his aid. >>> the jury returns in the karen read trial but without a verdict. what's next in the case of the woman accused of killing her police officer boyfriend? >>> and america strong tonight. the father/daughter duo making it a family affair inside the cockpit. >> announcer: from abc news world headquarters in new york, this is "world news tonight" with david muir. >> whit: good evening. thanks fo

abc's senior national correspondent terry moran leads us off from the supreme court. >> reporter: at the supreme court today, a landmark decision that dramatically enhances the power of the presidency and makes it much harder to prosecute donald trump. at stake, whether the federal criminal case against trump for his alleged conspiracy to overthrow the 2020 election, including january 6th, would go forward. trump claiming as a former president, he could not be prosecuted, absolute immunity for any official acts taken while in office. and he argues everything he did then was official. chief justice john roberts writing for the court's 6-3 conservative majority, gave trump much of what he sought. first, roberts declaring, "the president may not be prosecuted for exercising his core constitutional powers." those include, roberts wrote, the president's commander in chief powers, pardon power, hiring and firing federal officials, and more. then, the chief justice went further. "he is entitled, at a minimum, to a presumptive immunity from prosecution for all his official acts." that sets a

>> david: terry moran on the convention floor of this hall as well. terry, thank you.our coverage of the major developments here on day one of the republican national convention begins tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern on abc news live, our digital channel, and then, of course, 10:00 p.m. eastern, right here on the network. i hope you'll join me, the entire powerhouse political team. 10:00 p.m. eastern, right here on abc, and we'll have more of jon's conversation with former president trump. my thanks to the whole team here so far.

so let's get right out to abc's senior national correspondent terry moran at the supreme court. as we noted, this goes far beyond former president donald trump. but presidents in the future. >> absolutely. this is a ruling. the biggest ruling on presidential power in decades. all future presidents will have to reckon with it. and it is a 43 page opinion that basically says there's more work to be done in this prosecution at the lower level. but the court did, as you suggest, have to outline the big question donald trump's claim that former presidents are absolutely immune from prosecution can never be prosecuted for any of their official acts. and in this case, the court says that a former president may have some immunity from criminal prosecution for official acts during his tenure in office. and then comes the fine print. and what this what the court does here is steps through each of the actions of former president trump in his alleged conspiracy to overthrow the 20 2020 election. his conversations with mike pence pressuring mike pence, his conversations with justice departme

>> whit: terry moran for us. thank you. >>> and vice president kamala harris getting a major new endorsement tonight. former president barack obama and former first lady michelle obama supporting her run for the white house. and as harris tightens her hold on the democratic nomination, the trump campaign is now having second thoughts about a debate. here's abc's senior white house correspondent selina wang. >> reporter: tonight vice president kamala harris wrapping up her first week on the campaign trail and locking in a crucial endorsement. >> kamala. >> hello? hi! >> reporter: former president barack obama and first lady michelle obama throwing their weight behind harris' campaign. >> i can't have this phone call without saying to my girl, kamala, i am proud of you. this is going to be historic. >> we called to say michelle and i couldn't be prouder to endorse you and to do everything we can to get you through this election and into the oval office. >> reporter: it comes as donald trump's running mate, j.d. van

>> david: terry moran on the convention floor of this hall as well. terry, thank you.ur coverage of the major developments here on day one of the republican national convention begins tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern on abc news live, our digital channel, and then, of course, 10:00 p.m. eastern, right here on the network. i hope you'll join me, the entire powerhouse political team. 10:00 p.m. eastern, right here on abc, and we'll have more of jon's conversation with former president trump. my thanks to the whole team here so far. >>> when we come back here on "world news tonight," we're tracking severe storms and life-threatening heat. the heat index, the feel like reading, from washington, d.c. to new york city tomorrow set to reach 110 degrees in some places. >>> and we remember a popular actor from "hilly street blues" to "dug by houser md." this is better. this is better. that's better. and that. even this. dupixent is an add-on treatment for specific types of moderate-to-severe asthma. it works with your asthma medicine to help improve lung function. that's pretty goo

joining us also from milwaukee, senior national correspondent terry moran, who was on the floor of the terry? >> reporter: byron, this convention has been such an emotional journey beginning on monday. it was subdued. the trauma of the assassination attempt hung over this place. and the emotions now are building. tonight, the gold star families, the families of the fallen, from the debacle in afghanistan three years ago, captured this room in a way i've never experienced before. a call and response. the names of each of them repeated by the crowd. that really brought the crowd to an emotional pitch. the real star of the night, the vice presidential nominee, j.d. vance. it was really his introduction to america. and to many of these delegates as well. and he talked about that upbringing that he wrote about in "hill belly elegy" and what he sees as the future of the republican party, different from the corporate-nominated, country club republicans that people have thought of so far. he wants, and so does donald trump, he says, a blue-collar, working-class, nationalist, populist republica

abc senior national correspondent terry moran was there and joins us from the floor. e, you could hear a pin drop in this place as he described with what almost seemed to be vulnerability. the attempted assassination that he survived. and there was something almost diminished about him. his voice was softer. he wasn't hitting those great crescendos, the lion's roar that the crowd expected. and he kind of lost him for a while. i think the longer it went on, the more he lost them. so at the end, the balloon drop didn't quite have that explosive energy, which may be a sign that he survived. the question is really, is this donald trump going to be able to win? byron. >> our thanks to terry. today's special guest, building on the excitement that's been ramping up all week. but for the thousands who packed the house tonight, there is just one star of the show. crossed the plains of texas from sea to shining rapturous applause. his former president, donald trump walked center stage at the republican national convention, new york, to l.a. there's brian with the background of h

here's abc's terry moran. >> reporter: those unforgettable images, boxes and papers, many of them marked top secret, strewn around donald trump's mar-a-lago home, and tonight, the stunningng. case against tr for mishandling classified documents has been thrown out by trump-appointed federal judge aileen cannon. this was the prosecution widely seen as the one that posed the most serious legal peril for trump. he was indicted on 40 felony counts for taking classified documents from the white house, including some of the nation's most sensitive secrets. and for obstructing justice, by refusing to comply with a subpoena to return them. trump's legal team head the long-shot effort to dismiss the case by c counsel jack smith's appointment was unconstitutional, because, they argued, his position was not created by congress, as the constitution commands. that filing had been widely seen as a delaying tactic, but judge cannon, who was confirmed three days after trump lost the 2020 election, issued her order just hours before the start of the republican convention. former president trump's motion

. >> terry moran on the floor. that mother, madeline brame lost her son, a married veteran. she had the hall. >> after sanders. i think it's going to be after sanders. oh, yes, sorry about that. so, she just lit up the hall, madeline brame, grabbed this convention and lifted it up on one of the key scenes, themes of this convention, the disorder at the border and the crime that they think is out of control. statistics show crime is down, but there is something in the air in the country, peel f peop here that is out of control and as she described her ordeal and her anger and her sense of betrayal, this convention was just lit up. >> just over terry's shoulder, terry, thank you, is governor sarah huckabee sanders who, of course, was the public face of the trump campaign in the early years. let's listen. >> not even an assassin's bullet could stop him. [ cheers and applause ] god almighty intervened because america is one nation under god and he is certainly not finished with president trump. [ cheers and applause ] and our country is better for it. i am here tonight as americ

terry moran is back with the story. good morning again, terry. >> reporter: hey, robin.ative website examined more than 1,000 federal and state court judges, and they found many examples where legal experts say those judges should have considered stepping aside because of personal conflicts they had in the case. but they didn't. when federal judge wendy bitter preside over a case where jurors ruled against a group of paramedics suing the local government for unpaid overtime in 2019, it was unlikely that many in this louisiana courthouse knew her husband, former u.s. senator david bitter, was getting paid to lobby on behalf of an agency closely tied to the local government at the center of the case according to a new pro publica investigation. >> that was never disclosed to any of the party theres the case and as a result they never had the information they may have wanted to challenge her participation in that case. >> reporter: the case was ultimately overturned on appeal and settled in favor of the paramedics. the former senator tells abc news he had absolutely nothing

let's turn to abc's senior national correspondent, terry moran. good morning, terry. >> reporter: good morning, martha. it's hard to believe that it's been just a week since president biden ended his bid for election and transformed this campaign, and now with vice president kamala harris having basically locked up the democratic nomination for president, this race for the white house has been radically transformed. a brand-new ball game with just 100 days to go until election day. it was the rematch so many americans did not want until suddenly -- [ chanting ] -- after weeks of mounting pressure to end his re-election campaign, joe biden passed the torch to vice president kamala harris, and harris got right to it arguing her case against former president donald trump before a fired up crowd in the battleground state of wisconsin. >> i took on perpetrators of all kinds. predators who abused women, fraudsters who ripped off consumers, cheaters who broke the rules for their own game. so hear me when i say, i know donald trump's type. >> reporter: and

terry moran said he's been talking the veterans of the vietnam war, iraq and afghanistan a, and without being prompted, they're talking about the sense of shame and anger they felt for the country and in this biden campaign. you know, biden's approval ratings never recovered from this. >> liz, it is not about winning elections, ultimately, it is about a doing right for your fellow citizens. and i think this just highlighted a real failure of the biden administration to the to not just do the basic blocking and tackling of being the president. and consoling families that lose their children in service to our great country. i just think that is the number one mission and goal in addition to protecting the american people from harm. elizabeth: you know, he's accused of botching the exit. they say when their family members' bodies came home to dover, he kept talking about his son. they were outraged he later falsely said at the debate no troops died on his watch. 16 did. let's watch what happened and listen to david urban who served in the military on cnn last night. watch this. >> when hun

i want to bring in terry moran. inflation, we saw numbers just last week easing.om the fed chair there could be a rate cut coming, a strong indication there could be one coming. this is the central challenge, one of many for president biden, in trying to make the case that the economy is getting better. as you know, you can say all that, you can present the numbers, but it's really about how the american family feels. amber rose said that tonight. >> absolutely. you could feel this crowd responding to her as she told the story of her conversion. one of the themes emerging in this convention is people who didn't used to like donald trump now do. she talked about it and made inflation a central part of her argument. having lived through inflation in the 1970s, which got to 13%, i remember my mother coming home from the grocery store every week anxious. inflation is demoralizing. it makes people worry. it grinds them down. one of the things you hear here is people want to go back to a time when they had more money in their pocket. americans are making more per month,

senior national correspondent terry moran is at the supreme court.s is an earth shaking opinion. huge implications for the presidency and former president trump. >> reporter: it sure is, george. good morning. this is one for the history books. never before has a supreme court decisions whether presidents could be prosecuted. now in this case they've answered that question by making it much, much harder to hold presidents, including donald trump, accountable for their crimes. this morning a land mark supreme court decision that reshapes the presidency and hands donald trump an enormous legal win. for first time in history, the court has declared that presidents can never be prosecuted for acts within their core constitutional duties and are presumed to be immune from prosecution for much of their other actions. overnight president biden warned the conservative majority on the court has set a dangerous precedent. >> any president, including donald trump, will now be free to ignore the law. >> reporter: trump declared victory within minutes of this ruli