Evening. Well see you in half an hour at 6 00. Tonight, breaking news. The showdown between the u. S. And iran. After iran shoots down a u. S. Navy drone. Tonight, right here, the new u. S. Surveillance showing the massive 100 Million Drone as big as the wingspan of a 737, plummeting from the sky. Hit by the iranians, they say it was in iranian airspace. The u. S. Says thats not true. And tonight, President Trump now saying maybe iran made a mistake. That it could have been someone, quote, loose and stupid. And breaking now as we come on the air, what were now learning after an Emergency Meeting in the Situation Room. Martha raddatz and mary bruce standing by live. The stunning turn tonight in the War Crime Trial of a former navy s. E. A. L. , accused of murdering a prisoner. A fellow navy s. E. A. L. Taking the stand today and telling the court, i was the one who
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past, the crime bill in 1994 and biden hitting back at cory booker saying, well what about what happened when you were mayor of new york with the police there newark. newark there and stopping and frisking of african-american folks in newark. so i think it is also tough, you got biden who is running away with the black vote so far, last poll showed him 51% of block voters in south carolina support him, 12% support kamala harris. i don t even know if booker is on their radar down there. but if they re there, your biden and fighting over issues that are pertinent to african-american voters with two african-american candidates, it is a tricky situation. everyone stick around. the candidates are taking the stage for the cnn democratic presidential debates in just four days. i ll moderate along with dana bash and don lemon next tuesday and wednesday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern. both nights only on cnn. coming up, north korea launching a new missile and the signal president trump s
are you going to apologize like cory booker has called for? apologize for what? cory booker s called for it. cory should apologize. he knows better. the vice president said i should know better. and this is what i know. as a black man in america, i know the deeply harmful and hurtful usage of the world boy and how it was used to dehumanize and degrade. reporter: other rivals pouncing, too. i don t think you have to be touting a personal relationship with people who are very brutal segregationists. it s never okay to celebrate segregationists. never. and cecilia vega with us here tonight. cecilia, joe biden taking serious heat here, but there are some top democrats who have said publicly, stop piling on, this could hurt the whole party. reporter: exactly. some say attacking one of their own is not a winning strategy. and among those coming to joe biden s defense today, south carolina s james clyburn, the highest ranking african-american in the house. he told politi
don t have to agree with people to work with them. david, we ve also just learned that joe biden called cory booker after those tough words that we just heard right there in our piece, the tone of that conversation, reportedly, conciliatory. all right, cecilia, thank you very much. and it s you and me tomorrow morning on gma. reporter: see there. see you right and early. to other news tonight, the supreme court has ruled that a 40-foot memorial cross on public land in maryland does not violate separation of church and state. the monument was raised in 1925 to the memory of 49 fallen world war i soldiers. by a 7 to 2 majority, the justices agreed it could remain because of its historical significance. and alabama republican roy moore is taking another shot at the senate. the controversial former judge says he will run in 2020, after narrowly losing to democrat doug jones in 2017 amid allegations of sexual misconduct that he has denied. president trump had urged him not to ru
didn t agree with them, but they still worked together. his democratic opponents pouncing tonight, and biden standing firm. here s abc s cecilia vega. reporter: tonight, one by one, the democratic presidential candidates are attacking joe biden, even as the former vice president defends himself. there s not a racist bone in my body. i ve been involved in civil rights my whole career. period. period. period. reporter: it comes after biden talked about working with segregationist senators as an example of how he s able to do business with colleagues, even if they disagree. he mentioned georgia s herman talmage. one of the meanest guys i ever knew. you go down the list of all these guys. well, guess what? at least there was some civility. we got things done. and of mississippi s james eastland, biden said, he never called me boy. he always called me son. to coddle the reputations of segregationists, it s just it s misinformed and it s wrong. reporter: senator cory booker s