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It left the white house scrambling today to explain this moment, when exactly the president knew about all of this, given what he told the american people onboard air force one. abc's chief white house correspondent jonathan karl leading us off tonight. >> reporter: today, for the first time, president trump acknowledged he reimbursed his lawyer, michael cohen, for the $130,000 payoff to porn star stormy daniels. last month, the president flatly denied knowing anything about the hush money. >> did you know about the $130,000 payment to stormy daniels? >> no, no. what else? >> then why did mich...

Karl with us live tonight from west palm beach. and jon, president trump has been searching for a new lawyer, you've been reporting that for some time. the big question, of course, tonight, is rudy giuliani really someone the president will listen to now, will he take his edadvic advice? >> reporter: that is the big question. the president certainly hasn't always taken the advice of his legal team, especially when it comes to talking or tweeting about robert mueller. but giuliani is somebody who is more high profile than his other lawyers and somebody who has known donald trump for a long, lon...

What stormy daniels then vowed afterward when she approached the mike. abc's kyra phillips leading us off tonight. >> stormy! >> reporter: a crush of cameras as stormy daniels arrived in federal court today. >> stormy -- >> reporter: the porn star, and those clamoring to get a glimpse of her, tripping over barricades. security rushing her inside. >> stormy, do you have a message for the president? >> reporter: less fanfare for michael cohen -- >> any comment on the allegations against you? >> reporter: -- the president's long-time personal lawyer, who paid for daniels' silence. cohen fighting ...

Do you have confidence in him? >> you figure that one out. >> let's go live to jon karl at the white house tonight. jon, we just heard president trump, but tonight, the white house insists there are no discussions or considerations of firing rod rosenstein? >> reporter: david, that is the official word here at the white house tonight, but the tension is real. rosenstein joined with christopher wray, the fbi director, in pleading that the white house not release this republican memo, and the president lashed out early this morning at the leadership of the justice department and the fbi, tweetin...

Suffered a concussion, were sent to the hospital for evaluation. one in critical condition tonight. you can see investigators sifting through the wreckage of that garbage truck, and if you look in the distance, about a quarter mile in front of where the collision happened, you can see where the train finally came to a stop. those investigators now looking into why that garbage truck was on the tracks. the ntsb sending a go team to the site. >> and linzie janis with us live tonight from the scene of that crash. and linzie, those lawmakers did eventually make it to the retreat, and we learned a ...