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Federal government to reverse a decision that it had made. now, according to testimony that george kent, a congressional leader, were told by four sources that he had objected to getting a visa who the prosec e prosecutor tried to get rid of him from that post. giuliani went around the state department and urged the white house to grant him the visa. now, the visa was never granted, and giuliani carried out some secret interviews with show kin via skype. they base a number of records that had di...

Evidence he might try to influence the victims. we might have that reporting and we dont know what it is, but after the "miami herald" story came out in late 2018, prosec e prosecutors are saying he wired $350,000 to two people who may have been witnesses in a new investigation. >> prosecutors have two options when it comes to detain a defendant pretrial is to argue hes a flight risk and we expected that with acosta the less expected piece is this alternative prosecutors have of arguing that a d...

Abiding by the nuclear deal. they say what the u.s. is doing is economic warfare. >> fred pleitgen, thank you for the update from there. a macabre murder case in alaska. a teenage girl is accused of murdering her close friend after a friend offered to send her millions of dollars to send photos of this gruesome crime. dan joins us with more. what have you learned? >> reporter: hi. weve seen these catfish schemes play out again and again. its because of the manipulation and deception running de...

Kremlin in 2016 to seek help for this project. but i also think, you know, those in tings may be -- he may be restrained in certain ways in talking about those things because they are given -- they are matters that are currently under investigation. i think were sbrurunderestimat what could come out of this hearing as far as things we hay not know anything about because theyre not under investigation and because he might have some more latitude to talk about them. what about the trump organizati...

Standards for my colleagues, but i dont think its anything worse than what the president has said. >> democratic congressman raja krishnamoorthi of illinois. what was your reaction? >> i disagree with that language and we dont need to use that language with regard to anybody, including the president. >> i wonder when you hear someone using that kind of language, do you worry that it paints your entire caucus with a brush you dont want to be painted with? >> i think that for sure it kind of distr...

Many lawyers, experienced, highly regarded former prosec e prosecutors want nothing to do with president trump. number one, he doesnt take advice. he changes his mind every minute. number three, he has a big representation for not paying his lawyers. why would you want to be involved in this kind of situation? the problem with president trump is the people who are associated with him come away tainted in that process. i dont think many lawyers and many law firms want to be involved with this. it...

Face. >> reporter: the medical examiner first ruled the circumstances of the death could not be determined. now on second look she said the victims wounds or lack of them told her something different. something vital. if jody had tumbled innocently down, she would have had broken bones everywhere. she did not. >> there were no visible injuries on the back of her body. >> reporter: why would steven had killed his wife? the biggest reason the prosec e prosecutor argued was that steven did not want...

This just came out two days ago on tape. we didnt know this. we were amazed at the level of violence. these were paid operatives, paid by the dnc and probably the clinton campaign. this is a criminal act. policemen were badly hurt and so were many others. these people should be prosec e prosecuted. but -- but because of the rigged system, they probably wont be. just like we found out about these paid violent protesters, it was probably the dnc and the clinton campaign that put forward these liar...

Its time for the justice files. the big criminal justice stories making headlines today. joining me now, former prosec e prosecutor seema ayer and ken padowitz. thank you both for being here. start in new jersey and a story getting all kinds of attention. 18-year-old rachel canyon, a high school student and honor student is suing her parents shawn and elizabeth for money to go to college. rachel claims physical and verbal abuse. the parents say it was just discipline. the court says it was the f...

Hearing testimony in the federal criminal probe into the george washington bridge scandal." drunias lawyer confirmed to abc news his client was, in fact, a witness today, and only a witness. the attorney emphasizing that, "im not going to get into the specifics as to what would be discussed in the grand jury. i would say, though, that mike is a witness and we have been assured that he continues to be a witness throughout these proceedings." abc news reports that 23 jurors were impanel at that fe...