martha despite dialing back the president s urgent timeline, this still looks eminent? it does, david. they may not be doing this as fast as last year, but president trump is not going to let assad go unpunished for such a horrific crime, not to mention for doing again exactly what he was warned not to do. david. martha raddatz with us all week. martha, thank you. as the u.s. prepares for a possible military assault after the suspected chemical weapons attack, there s word from russia. the russians say the chemical attack was an elaborate set up. tonight what the russians claim really happened. abc s james longman in beirut. reporter: russia has consistently claimed these horrific images of the suspected chemical attack were staged. now they re going even further. the defense ministry today showing footage of two men, it claims, are paramedics who saw a group run into that hospital with video cameras and start screaming about a chemical attack. they say the group whipped up a
and, second, it s very difficult to prove something didn t happen. reporter: did you believe his denial? honestly, never thought these words would come out of my mouth, but i don t know whether the current president united states was with prostitutes peeing on each other in moscow in 2013. it s possible, but i don t know. george is with us from new york. extraordinary to hear a former fbi director talk about a sitting president in this way. you were telling us comey said the president kept going back to the dossier and those salacious accusations. again and again and again, david. not only in the first meeting they had at trump tower, but in subsequent phone calls and subsequent meetings at the white house as well. it certainly seemed to be an obsession of the president. comey said at one point he wanted him to investigate this. although comey said it wasn t a good idea. just extraordinary to hear the detail of those conversations with the president that a sitting fbi director
campaign to protect donald trump. cohen s attorneys arguing, they should decide which items should go to investigators and which one should be protected by attorney/client privilege. the president s attorney, agreeing, speaking of the exceptional nature of cohen s client, the president himself. but prosecutors say they have their own separate team to decide what is privileged. they point out cohen has been under investigation for months. they also say they ve already used warrants to search cohen s e-mails covertly and found little to no legal work and zero e-mails exchanged with president trump. in other words, prosecutors say attorney/client privilege should not be in play. reporter: david, sources telling abc news tonight that president trump and michael cohen remain in contact, and spoke today, and that cohen still represents the president. david. kyra, thank you. when we come back here tonight, the major storms
most pills only block one. and 6 is greater than 1. start your day with flonase for more complete allergy relief. flonase. this changes everything. next tonight we re watching severe weather at this hour. tornado watches and white out conditions. rob is tracking it. rob. david, we have a huge area of tornado watches this evening that go from iowa to northeast texas including this pds watch which stands for particular dangerous situation. volatile conditions twl there with damaging hail. as the front pushes off to the east, storms will roll overnight into the east. the snow will continue tonight and tomorrow as well. some cases over a foot. severe storms in new orleans and rain into the northeast tomorrow. david. rob, thank you. to the highway collision involving will ferrell. the actor and three others were hurt when their suv was sideswiped by another car in orange county, california.
we have reported in the broadcast that comey had broad support among the fbi rank and file. there are some critics in the law enforcement community tonight about this book. david, there are some in the law enforcement community that feel this was an inappropriate tell all. i asked one senior white house official here today if president trump views this as a betrayal by james comey. the response, james comey is selling books and the president has a different recollection of what happened. david. thank you, cecelia. with the president tweeting about comey and the white house fighting back, the president at the same time is right now deciding whether to launch a military assault on syria. tonight u.s. military assets are on the move in the region. abc s chief global affair correspondent martha raddatz on what she s learned tonight. reporter: late meetings at the white house today, with national security council members huddled to finalize what kind of punishing action to take agains