Terrifying moments on board. And why this man took a photo with the suspect wearing what he claimed was a suicide belt before running to safety. And long lost son . The man slapping William Shatner, the star trek actor with a 170 million lawsuit saying captain kirk is my dad. The actor this morning firing back. We do say good morning, america. Good to have david back with us. The gop candidates making headlines overnight. Donald trump walking back on that pledge to support the republican nominee. Another incident, robin, back in the headlines. Donald Trumps Campaign manager with a reporter that manager now charged for what youre seeing in this newly released tape and donald trump responds live. We want to start with the latest on the race for the white house. Abcs jon karl is on the trail there in milwaukee. Good morning, jon. Reporter good morning, robin. Donald trump is not backing away from his wholehearted support of his Campaign Manager. There is Something Else he is backing away from, his pledge to support whoever wins the republican nomination. Overnight at a Town Hall Forum on cnn a big reversal from donald trump. Do you continue to pledge whoever the republican nominee is. No, i dont anymore. Look you dont. No, well see who it is. Reporter back in september he signed the pledge vowing to support whoever wins the republican nomination. The others pledged too but now ive been disturbed by some of the things that ive seen and i have to think about what my word and endorsement would mean in a president ial campaign. Im not in the habit of supporting someone who attacks my wife and attacks my family. Let me just tell you, he doesnt have to support me. Reporter and last night trump stood by his Campaign Manager, corey lewandowski, who was charged with simple battery after his recent altercation with a reporter Michelle Fields, the frontrunner denied his top adviser did anything wrong. She didnt almost fall to the ground. He got in her way. By the way she was grabbing me. Am i supposed to press charges . Reporter the jupiter, florida, Police Department released this video taken from a Security Camera at trumps golf club on march 8th following a press conference. As trump makes his way through the crowd, fields is at his side. Lewandowski right behind them. But as fields tries to ask a question, lewandowski grabs her arm and pulls her back away from trump. Fields later showed abc news bruises on her arm. Allegedly caused by lewandowski. I felt someone pull me from behind. I caught myself and didnt fall to the floor. Reporter lewandowski called fields totally delusional adding, i never touched you. And now trump is questioning those bruises on fields arm. Who said they were bruises from that . How do you know they werent there before . Reporter lewandowski has come under fire for going into crowds to shut down protesters. This video shot by cnn appears to show lewandowski grabbing a protester by the collar, something he denied. Meanwhile, outside trumps event in wisconsin last night more protests with one 15yearold called racially charged names, pepper sprayed and groped as she clashed with supporters. Trumps rival said they would fire lewandowski. Thats not going to happen and the campaign put out a statement saying he will plead not guilty and is completely confident he will be exonerated. David. Jon, thanks. President ial candidate and Businessman Donald Trump joins us by phone. Mr. Trump, good morning. Good morning. Lets get right to the headlines first. Youve had a chance to look at that video now put out by the police. Your Campaign Manager, corey lewandowski, tweeting earlier this month about that reporter, Michelle Fields. You are totally delusional. I never touched you but, mr. Trump, youve had a chance to watch the video. Battery or not, is it now clear to you that he did touch her . Well, whats clear is that she was touching me and she broke through the secret service and she was asking me questions when there were no questions because the press conference, that was a victory press conference. We won a couple of very big states. It was a great night of celebration. We were leaving the press conference was over. She broke through. She grabbed my arm. I think a couple of times. You see me trying to get her hand off my arm and he saw something and did very minor when you read her statement actually, id read it to you if you want it but she said she was jolted backwards. Someone had grabbed me tightly by the arm and yanked me down. She wasnt yanked down. She was hardly even touched. You look at her face. Her face isnt that of a woman screaming in pain. I almost fell to the ground but was able to maintain my balance. Then she goes, Campaign Managers arent supposed to try and forcefully throw reporters to the ground. He didnt try to throw her to the ground. Now, when she found out there was a tape supplied by me, by the way. Im the one that had the tape because its a highend facility that has tape, and when she found out i had the tape all of a sudden perhaps she changes her tune. But i think its a disgrace in a world where theyre chopping off heads, where theyre drowning people in cages everybody that has seen this tape and you look at twitter people think its a total disgrace that she actually filed charges. Mr. Trump, you said she actually touched you but you know thats not what the police are concerned about here. When you have one of your most trusted Campaign Aides or managers saying he never met Michelle Fields or touched her. Shes delusional. Of course Jupiter Police putting out that video with your help, you say. Why havent you asked for his resignation. John kasich saying it could have been one of my daughters. If it were him hed take action. It was with my help. I gave the tape openly and didnt have to. I gave the tape openly and, frankly, i think it shows an event that frankly nothing practically nothing occurred. It looks like hes trying to push her hand off my arm. She shouldnt have been grabbing me. When you say its okay for her to touch me but somebody else cant touch her. You think thats okay . I dont think so. She had a pen in her hand and that could have been a knife, even a pen, its dangerous. Secret service doesnt want people running up to me and grabbing me with a pen in her hand so, look, i think this thing has gotten out of control by the press. I think, frankly, this is not a claim that should have been made. Im sure there will be a counterclaim coming down the line because this is not a claim. The reason i stick up for him. He is a fine person. He is a very good person. And i dont want to destroy a man, you know, if you let him go, you would destroy a man, destroy a family. Hes got four fantastic children, a wife and four fantastic children and living in New Hampshire and, what, im going to fire him because he may have brushed her . Well, she brushed me. She grabbed my arm. You see that. Let me ask you you see me trying to get her hand off my arm. Im trying to flick her hand off my arm. She shouldnt have been grabbing me if you want to be technical about it. Maybe should i file charges against her because she touched my arm also . Its absolutely ridiculous. Its out of control and tell you the other candidates, they said, oh, i should fire him. Thats because theyre weak, ineffective people. They fire. They want to be politically correct. I dont want to be politically correct. I want to be correct. Mr. Trump i want to do it properly. Do you think the Jupiter Police made the wrong call. Absolutely. I think they made a wrong call. I think its an embarrassment. Practically everybody thats seen it and watching lawyers on television saying, you must be kidding. This is the weakest charge weve ever seen. This case, let it go to court. He will win this case 100 in front of a jury. Great. I want to move on to the other headline of the morning. Yeah, let she had no right in my opinion to file a case on Something Like this. Well watch it. I did watch you last night in that town hall. You said youll no longer pledge to support whoever the republican nominee is. You know back in september you said you saw no circumstances under which i would tear up that pledge to support the gop nominee. What changed . I want to see who the nominee is. I saw ted cruz. Ive seen the lies, ive seen what he did to ben carson, what he tried to take his votes in iowa and other things, i saw his voter forum which was fraudulent. I saw too many things. Ill make a decision. If i dont get it which i think i will, and as far as his support of me, i dont care if he supports me. I only want the people to support me. Im winning in all the polls. A new poll came out yesterday. Cbs an nbc poll. It was a tremendous poll for me. I will i will take my chances with the people. I dont need ted cruzs support. He said horrible things about the people of new york. He said horrible things about many people. I think, frankly, i want him to be happy with himself and if he has to hesitate because he hesitated, i said, dont hesitate. Just dont support me. I have the support of the people. Well make America Great again and make great trade deals and strengthen our military, strengthen the border. Were going to build a wall which is going to be built, mexico is going to pay for the wall. You watch. Well make our country strong again and great again. In the meantime, i do want to get your reaction, mr. Trump, to something Hillary Clinton said just this week and said, quote, ask yourself what kind of justice would President Trump appoint or for that matter attorney general citing your belief that muslims should be denied entry to this country because of their faith. She said you would have to ask yourself who would he appoint . How do you react . Id probably appoint people that look seriously at her email disaster because its a criminal activity and i would appoint people that would look at that. What shes getting away with is absolutely murder. You talk about a case, now, thats a real case. Now, nothing seems to be happening but you can also poll people on that and see what happens to that because that is a real case. And she if shes able to get away with that you can get away with anything. All right, donald trump with us here this morning. Mr. Trump, as always, thank you. Thank you very much. Robin, over to you. Okay, david. We turn to abcs political analyst matthew dowd and abcs chief legal analyst dan abrams in the studio with me. Matt, let me start with you. These charges against Trumps Campaign manager. Will that make any difference with voters . Well, im no einstein but i dont think its ever a good situation for a candidate to be in a situation and defending somebody for manhandling a reporter. Thats never a good situation. I dont think its going to hurt him among his supporters. Theyre pretty solid but whats happening with donald trump is a president ial race is like a mountain hike and donald trump keeps adding rocks to his backpack and makes it very difficult for him to get to the top. He wont lose the altitude hes gained but it makes it very hard to for him to get to the point where he has broad enough support to win the presidency. We heard from donald trump, his thoughts about these charges. It is a misdemeanor. How serious are these charges. Look, its still in the criminal law, right. I mean, yes, its a misdemeanor. Comparatively within the criminal law its not a particularly serious charge. With that said its still the criminal law. Youre still talking about the requirements that there be the intentional touching or striking of another against her will and intentional causing of bodily harm. But there are real defenses here in the context of this case. And i think its important to remember, you know, youre listening to donald trump suggest it was the media who filed this charge or even the reporter who filed the charge. It was the jupiter florida Police Department who filed the charge. What will his defense be . Defense of another. Hell say i saw this reporter approaching donald trump, donald trump is saying in the interview again she was touching me. I just grabbed her to get her away from donald trump. Thats going to be a real defense here and i think that prosecutors could have a tough time if this goes to trial. Lets see how it plays out. The other story line here, donald trump walking back saying that he would support the gop nominee and pretty much the other two following suit. What do you make of all that . Well, i never thought the pledge was the magna carta so i never thought they would stick to it anyway in the course of this so im not surprised by this and think this heads us into a very contested controversial convention likely to happen and blow up in cleveland. Magna carta. Havent heard that since high school. Matt, thanks very much. David. Leave it to matt dowd to bring up the old history lesson. We turn to extreme weather moving across the country. Check out this time lapsed video showing a storm closing in on florida. And a big Lightning Strike caught on camera. Much more Severe Weather on the way. Tracking it all day long and, of course, lets get right over to ginger zee. Were watching that trough. Of low pressure. A lot of energy that already came onshore. Waterspout in torrey pines, california, so right near san diego. The Severe Weather moving east in aurora, colorado. The hail is falling there bouncing off the roadways. This is the area that im concerned about today. Anywhere from southeastern oklahoma through just north of dallas. An elevated risk for Severe Weather that reaches into western mississippi. All through parts of southern arkansas, heavy rains going to come along with it. Possibility of tornadoes stretches into tomorrow with big hail and, of course, damaging winds too. Ill have a whole lot more coming up on this but for now back to david and robin. Now to the latest on that hijacked plane in egypt. Passengers escaping on live tv. A man now in custody accused of Holding People hostage claiming he was wearing a suicide belt. Abcs terry moran has new developments in the investigation. Good morning, terry. Reporter good morning, robin. Well, were learning a lot more about the alleged hijacker and its fair to say hes not your typical hijacker. Seif eldin mustafa, hes a 58yearold lovelorn egyptian with a history of petty crime and now in a heap of trouble. This morning seif eldin mustafa appeared in court in cyprus and flashed a v for victory or peace sign as he left. Investigators say he will eventually be sent back to egypt to face serious charges. The flight was bound for cairo with 72 people on board. In this new Surveillance Footage of mustafa right before the hijacking you can see him casually walking through a metal detector then patted down. A thorough check just before picking up his bag and walking away from the security. The motive is something that we will investigate what happened. Reporter egypts Prime Minister announced that the suspect made no specific demands but he did ask to speak to his former wife who lives in cyprus. This after he released most of the passengers but kept several others and crew members hostages for hours. Mustafa claimed he was wearing a suicide belt, which turned out to be a crude fake, just a bunch of cell phone cases and a few wires. Farah eldibany was there. I thought he would just take the plane, crash it in the sea and just die or hes going to explode. Some passengers were seen sprinting away from the plane across the tarmac. This video capturing one mans escape out of the window. He surrendered nearly 7 hours after the ordeal began. Heavily armed Police Seized him and took him into custody right on the tarmac. He has a history of petty crime. Including forgery. Impersonation, burglary and drug dealing and were learning about this photo. 26yearold ben innis posing with the hijacker before running across the tarmac to safety. He said im not sure why i did it. I just threw caution to the wind while trying to stay cheerful. He faces hijacking, kidnapping and likely to head back to egypt for a prison sentence. David and robin. Terry, thanks very much. David now to a dramatic rescue caught on camera. A car and a bus crashing bursting into flames. Good samaritans rushing and helping the people trapped inside. Kayna whitworth has more. Reporter take a look at the unnerving video showing the moments after a car and bus collide just after rush hour in los angeles. Look, theres someone in there. Reporter this Morning Police investigating if street racing is to blame for this fiery crash. Get back reporter several cars caught in the mangled mess trapping people inside as the flames grew. Theres somebody in the car. Reporter Police Officers and witnesses rushing to help. Lord have mercy. Reporter risking their lives to pull people out. Just moments later, the car and the bus fully engulfed in flames. The driver of this mercedes rushed to the hospital with thirddegree burns. Miguel baltazar helped to rescue him. If he waited for paramedics it might have been too late. Reporter street racing is a growing problem. In Southern California. Last week one person killed in this street racing accident that ripped that car in half. A month earlier three killed when suspected racers crashed into this u. P. S. Truck. Luckily, everyone involved in this crash made it out alive but authorities telling abc news it could have been much worse. Oh. Reporter for Good Morning America, kayna whitworth, abc news, los angeles. Ooh. Jumping into action like that. Thank you, lara. A couple people will see up to a half a foot of rain. Local weather and the stormy cities brought to you by amazon prime. Good morning, i am meteorologist mike nicco. With the the bay area forecast. More clouds and milder tomorrow morning. April showers are possible on monday and tuesday. T