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most cases, it would be a grand jury, but here in minneapolis, the county prosecutor has decided he alone will review evidence and determine whether to pursue charges. david? alex perez leading us off tonight. alex, thank you. there is also a state of emergency playing out tonight. 43 major fires burning. one in particular forcing nearly 5,000 from their homes as the fire now gets closer. and tonight, it is moving in on yosemite national park. smoke so thick in the park, you cannot see what makes it most famous. abc s kenneth moton on the fire lines from california. reporter: tonight, the detwiler fire, exploding in size to more than 70 square miles. firefighters calling it the most powerful of their careers. talking to firefighters, it s been over ten years since we ve seen fire and fire growth like this. reporter: 2,200 firefighters trying to keep up in grueling conditions on the ground. these firefighters are the first line and pretty much the only defense watch over ....
claims, it s always possible that a high-level russian defector will appear sometime in the future with documents proving that jeff sessions is in fact a foreign agent, perhaps of a sleeper cell sent to alabama during the cold war and activated at vladimir putin s request during the last election, that would be a game changer. otherwise the russian conspiracy seemed to hit a cul-de-sac this afternoon in the senate, but that doesn t mean there are no scandals for congress to investigate. maybe the biggest one about, our intel services are corrupt and politicized and they re making very hard to run u.s. governmen government. they are running it themselves to some extent. consider how much of american politics now revolves around information that has been strategically, often misleadingly and illegally released for political effects. if the hearing he watched today are just one example. they took place in part because former fbi director jim comey told senators last week that session ....
with the russian story and found zero proof, so now they go for obstruction of justice on the phony story. nice. that s trump in tweet. joining me now are three national security reporters, charlie savage, adam entous and shane harris. shane, you ve got the story which follows up on what we had last night, that the special counsel is looking at the president for obstruction of justice. my question is how do you have to add to that? what you have now is you have the president both trying to convince director rogers of the nsa to come out and shoot down these issues of collusion, but also privately still continuing to doubt the very intelligence that the nsa collected that led to the conclusion that russia interfered in the election. we ve seen trump publicly talk about the fact he thinks they re nothing to russia, but to know that he s now saying this privately and continuing to argue with one of his intelligence chiefs about that, i think really reveals the degree to which this ....
what s going on in this world? abby: you hate daylight savings. train to the rest of us love summer because you want to go to bed at 7:00 in the morning show. clayton: i watch golden girls and i go to bed. abby: you love golden girls. if you guys aren t awake yet, hopefully now you are. pete: yesterday i got a treat to sit pete, clayton, can you just move out of the way. abby: love you guys. happy independence day weekend. we hope you ll celebrate with us and sadness in your home photos of how you are celebrating, how you are proud american country. #proud american. yesterday i did get a patriotic cat photo. i sent it to her producers. they refuse to run it. they refuse. were you guys refusing to unpatriotic cat shows on our trade for one of the headlines from the other networks as trump attacks media at freedom event. you wonder why. abby: media loves to talk about it. clayton: he attacked them or challenge them at the event on his plane on the way there. they must have wi-fi ....
the high-rise apartment building up in flames. the death toll rising tonight. the mother who dropped her baby nearly ten stories to safety. announcer: this is a special edition of world news tonight with david muir, reporting tonight from washington. and good evening on this wednesday night. we re back at the capitol in washington tonight, because of that awful scene that played out this morning. as lawmakers were practicing for an annual tradition, the congressional baseball game, when a gunman opened fire. it was not long before the gunman allegedly asked, are they democrats or republicans? he was told they were republicans. five people were hit, including congressman steve scalise, a member of the house leadership. tonight, he s in critical condition. after trying to crawl across the field to safety. authorities now say james hodgkinson was the attacker, the husband and home inspector from illinois. who had strong political views. tonight, that gunman is now dead, tak ....