secretary of defense here tonight. we know last week he made a surprise announcement at his first thank you rally saying yes he s indeed choosing general james mattis for defense secretary. but the fact that two will be up on stage together, certainly notable, especially given that is the military friendly town. so donald trump hoping to cash in on the energy here almost to validate his pick for secretary of defense. and we know trump has many thank you tours and rallies ahead. just two this week alone and thursday he ll be in iowa and friday in michigan. you heard him taking credit for what he said is a $50 billion investment by softbank. what are you learning about this? reporter: i have to say not a lot of detail coming from the trump transition team or the company tonight. but certainly a little
showmanship on the part of the president elect today really trotting out on the ceo of the company and trump towers there before cameras gathered. contours of the deal are $50 billio
have ultimately been a decision that two men came to at the same time. whether or not there was some thought, and if there was not consider about making the administration s life and the president s life more difficult, he might have been left it. kelly was said to have delivered the news. it is unclear and unknown, it s a wild card. he goes outside independently. steve bannon is now a household name. there is people that will be
upset that he left this white house. i talked to a bannon ally earlier this week. they said we had a sense this is coming and we look at this white house now and we see new york democrats and generals. that is not what we worked for in 2016. steve bannon is the leader of a coalition and it remains to be seen. let me bring in jennifer reuben. the author of the post, so your paper is quoting friends of steve bannon s assayi saying lo he can help the president s agenda from the outside, that things were not working on the inside. gabe sherman reports somet
virginia tech. authorities said he had an assault rifle and was trying to get thousands of rounds of ammunition. what else he was looking for. the drowning danger. tonight, americans on vacation, nine drownings in less than two weeks in the same area. and the deadly crash. the former nba player and a former american idol contestant who did not survive. good evening. and it s great to have you with us here on a very busy wednesday night. and we begin with that deadly train collision. onboard, more than 100 republican members of congress. that amtrak train was taking those lawmakers to a retreat, colliding with a garbage truck in virginia. it happened this morning, not long after the state of the union last night. the driver of the truck was killed. several lawmakers jumping in to help many of the injured on the scene. and several people tonight, including congressman jason lewis, were taken to the hospital. house speaker paul ryan among those onboard. and abc s linzie janis le
and who sent her in. and, those are men in wingsuits, trying to fly right into that plane. good evening, it s great to have you with us on a very busy tuesday night. we begin with north korea late today launching a new missile, this time flying higher and longer than any it has launched before. tonight, what it reveals about their ability to reach this country. it s the third icbm launch, the other two in july. each reaching farther than the one before it. the launch, a direct provocation to the u.s. tonight. president trump responding moments ago. here s bob woodruff. reporter: tonight, north korea acts again. and this time, we know that president trump was being briefed as the missile was in the air. the new missile test is another intercontinental ballistic
missile. what makes this missile different, it flew higher and longer than ever before. 90 minutes after it splashed down in the sea of japan, the president addressing the provocative move. a missile was launched a lit
on your w-2 that could protect your refund. and the one mistake made by so many people. and on the eve of the super bowl, why tom brady suddenly cut an interview short. what was said beforehand? good evening, and it s great to have you with us to start another week here. and we begin tonight with the sudden departure of fbi deputy director andrew mccabe, the number two man at the fbi, and a frequent target of the president s criticism. mccabe stepped in temporarily when fbi director james comey was fired, defending the scope of the fbi s russia investigation. and defending james comey, saying the rank and file had not lost confidence in him. tonight, the white house answering questions, did the president pressure the justice department in any way to push mccabe out? abc s senior justice correspondent pierre thomas leading us off. reporter: tonight, the number two at the fbi stepping down, following months of blistering attacks from president trump.
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relationship with trump. did this break campaign finance laws? let s go outfront. good evening. outfront tonight, shutdown victory. president trump taking a victory lap as more than 30 democratic senators join all republicans in a vote to end the three-day shutdown. the house voting moments ago to end the impasse. the deal was done in congress and it was done by senators. that s who made the deal. the president was silent. today president trump only issued a brief statement which said in part, quote, i am pleased the democrats in congress have come to their senses and now willing to fund our great military, border patrol, first responders and insurance for vulnerable children. the short term spending deal came after mitch mcconnell, declared his quote, intention. intention to hold a debate on the dreamers in the come weeks. that s it. intention to hold a debate in a few weeks. there s no formal mechanism to
repeatedly brought up this three-day bill to keep the government open but
west palm beach airport, following the president s first physical exam as president. according to his doctor at walter reed, the exam went, quote, exceptionally well and further details on tuesday. before leaving washington for this martin luther king holiday weekend, trump signed a proclamation expanding site, with questions from the president about remarks about haiti, el salvador the day before. and throughout the day, republican lawmakers in florida, including senator marco rubio and congressman carlos ro bechlt. llo strongly distanced themselves from the remarks, all in a state, florida, a home to many immigrants and their families, including 300,000 haitian-americans, most in south florida, some of whom protested the president s comments. and republican governor rick scott also reacted to trump s
for so long. do you get the sense that he s sort of distracting from his own policy agenda with the comments he made this week about other countries, whether true or not, with tweets
bring section 8 usc 1324 charges or any criminal charges against state or local officials. i believe the request for made. the department of justifiable is reviewing what avenues might be available. martha: the answer to that is yes they are looking into it. good evening, everybody. i m martha maccallum and this is the story. also tonight some reporters at the white house incredulous as the white house doctor declared that the president is in excellent mental and physical health. watch this. can you tell me how a guy holler all those diet cokes and never exercises is in as good a shape as you say he is in. it s called genetics. i don t know. martha: everyone wants to get on that plan. he rarely sees the president when he terms as stressed out conditions. he has the ability to wake up every day and sort of re-set when he is faced with the pressures of the office. more to come on that fascinating afternoon news conference today.
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the wounded boy who called 911. he d been shot, and what he tells the dispatcher. facebook under fire tonight. and now, apple ceo tim cook, and what he says about facebook. and tonight, our experiment. one of our producers prints out everything facebook knows about her. and you ll see what she found. and the hit and run tonight in broad daylight. five people hit. at least one dead. good evening. and it s great to have you with us here on a very busy wednesday night. possible severe weather hitting this evening, and the newest turbulence in washington at this hour. president trump has fired another member of his cabinet, v.a. secretary david shulkin is now out. this comes after the firing of secretary of state rex tillerson, then the president s national security adviser h.r. mcmaster was out, and then today, shulkin. all of this in just two weeks. replacing shulkin, the president is now nominating admiral ronny jackson, the white house doctor, who, after the president s recent
a tribute to twentieth century artists. old needs new exploring the northern germany city loopback. paris meets her living room to sample french cuisine in the german capital. we get off the show with an unusual trend that seems to be developing in some circles playing with slime now this past time was popular when i was a kid but now with the internet slime videos are making it even more popular across the globe and while it might feel gooey in your hand slime actually has a calming even meditative quality about it but don t just take my word for it here s more from the world of flying. concentrate on the hands in this video and the sounds they make. and what do
relaxing i mean i thought when i ve had a hard day and i come home from school i ll sit down at my desk and need something or watch a live stream somehow it relaxes you i honestly can t say why but somehow it makes everything right again. the success of these slime videos may be explained by the phenomenon of and yes m.r. o