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that s paying it forward. thanks for joining us. i m tonight, several developing stories as we come on the air. the president s move late today, revoking the security clearance of a former cia director who spoke out against the president. the white house citing john brennan s, quote, lying and erratic behavior. and then issued a warning, a list of names of who could be next. our reporter pressing the white house late today, is the president now targeting those who question him in public? also, at this hour, the jury now set to decide the fate of paul manafort. our team in the courtroom, robert mueller s prosecutors telling the jurors to use your common sense. does it make sense that paul manafort had 31 overseas accounts that he forgot he had to report them? manafort s lawyers taking aim at rick gates. will it work? also breaking as we come on, we are just learning of a shark attack in the northeast. paramedics called to the scene. swimmers rushed from the water toni ....
conversation she had about campaign aides about then-candidate donald trump and the possibility of a tape on which trump uses the n-word. this recording made public just hours after the president accused omarosa of lying after she called him a racist. and tonight, the white house is pressed. can you guarantee the american people there will be no such tape? abc s chief white house correspondent jonathan karl leading us off. reporter: tonight, president trump s campaign is taking legal action to silence omarosa, as the president himself launches a vicious counterattack, calling his former senior adviser a crazed, crying lowlife, adding, good work by general kelly for quickly firing that dog! is this any way for a president to talk about any american, let alone somebody that he hired and made the highest ranking african-american woman that served in his white house? i think the president is certainly voicing his frustration with the fact that this person has shown a complete ....
A roundup of the day s events. thomas in alexandria again tonight. the jury requesting extra time to deliberate, past the 5:00 p.m. time. right straight through 6:15, they asked for. but moments ago, we learned they went home for the night, no verdict? reporter: david, they just wrapped up. they wanted to work the extra 45 minutes. it s not exactly clear why. it could mean they re getting closer to a verdict, or just simply wanted to put in the extra time. but the defense told us they believe continued deliberations are good for manafort, but we don t really know, david. pierre, thank you. in the meantime, there s also new reporting tonight after that horrific story out of colorado. the pregnant mother and her two daughters killed. the husband at first pleading for them to come home, hours later reportedly confessing. tonight, we re hearing from the friend who was the last person to see that woman alive. here s abc s clayton sandell. reporter: tonight, formal charg ....
look, again, i think that s a ridiculous accusation. the president in this matter has done nothing wrong and there are no charges against him. reporter: today on twitter, the president falsely claimed that, quote, michael cohen pled guilty to two counts of campaign finance violations that are not a crime. they are, indeed, a crime, spelled out by federal prosecutors. and on fox news, the president floating another defense. did you know about the payments? later on i knew. later on. but you have to understand, what he did, and they weren t taken out of campaign finance, that s the big thing, that s a much bigger thing. did they come out of the campaign? they didn t come out of the campaign. they came from me. reporter: but lawyers say that still doesn t make it legal if the money was never disclosed. and cohen has released a secretly recorded conversation with the president seeming to discuss another hush money arrangement weeks before the election. when it comes time ....
A roundup of the day s events. justice will not be improperly influenced by political considerations. but president trump telling fox he thinks politics matters in prosecutions. if you look at president obama, he had a massive campaign violation, but he had a different attorney general, and they viewed it a lot differently. you know, we have somebody, they seem to like to go after a lot of republicans. reporter: one top republican, now a convicted felon, paul manafort, president trump s former campaign chairman, found guilty by a jury this week of tax crimes and bank fraud. i have great respect for what he s done in terms of what he s gone through. some of the charges they threw against him, every consultant, every lobbyist in washington probably does. reporter: the question now, will the president pardon manafort? his press secretary says he s never discussed it. that s not something that has been up for discussion. i don t have anything for you on that. reporter ....