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A look at the day s top news and headlines. because under the guidelines, the department of justice believes you cannot charge a sitting president with a crime. but the talk around here these days is of impeachment. if democrats were to flip 24 seats in november, which is a possibility, they would then control the house and it is the house that would begin impeachment proceedings. even if the president were impeached, a conviction in the senate is unlikely, that would take a two-thirds vote. nobody could see that many republicans defecting to try to take down the president. dana: also it s never happened in america s history. john, thank you. for more, let s bring in james trusty, former d.o.a. prosecutor. let s start with what the president told ainslie earhart, if he was paying the money himself that could not have been a campaign violation. what do you make of that? well i m not an expert on campaign finance law. there may be? truth to it. there s an added layer, just t ....
neighbor. thanks for joining us. world news tonight with david muir is tonight, the severe storm watch as we come on the air. new york city, philadelphia, down to washington, d.c., bracing for dangerous storms, high winds after the blistering heat. and the lightning strikes. eight people on one beach injured. hundreds of thousands without power tonight. and ginger zee with the new track as this hits in the coming hours. also developing tonight, rising tensions between the u.s. and iran. iran tonight now claiming to have captured 17 alleged cia spies. how president trump is now responding amid new images tonight of iranian gunships circling that captured tanker. the american woman and her boyfriend discovered dead on a road trip in canada, and just in tonight, authorities have just revealed the cause of death and they ve now released a sketch of a person they want to talk to. and this evening, the second mystery just now emerging in canada. here at home tonight, the y ....
speaker nancy pelosi of breaking the rules. no apologies. new efforts by mr. trump and his aides to defend attacks on four congresswomen sparked new controversy as kellyanne conway presses a reporter on his ethnicity and says the four congresswomen represent, i m quoting her now, a dark underbelly in this country as the white house digs itself deeper into a racially charged quagmire. no justice. the police officer accused of choking eric garner that was caught on camera. why did the attorney general william barr go against the recommendation hoff his own civil rights dejiegs and women speak. they say they were sexually abused by jeffrey epstein, some when they were minors. and there s a new mexico rant. visit the scene of more misconduct. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re the situation room. the breaking news tonight, high tension in the house of representatives, which is about to vote on a resolution c ....
i want to tone things down a little bit here and first express my gratitude for the thousands of men and women who work every day on the front line with the fbi. i come from a background as a prosecutor and our local law enforcement work with the fbi every day in our local office in minnesota, and then in the senate, i ve had the privilege to work with many, many people in the fbi. and i think the inspector general he s job is incredibly important. he keeps everyone honest. but i do think this it is important for those t agents an those in law enforcement that are watching today that people understand there are people up here that understand that you are simply doing your jobs. which i think is basically some recommendations foric change wh the inspector general found in this report. so before iis start my question i think that it is important to put this discussion in context in the 2016 election which is why we are here today. it is nowe undisputed by our intelligence agen ....
warrants? the concern grows out of the fact that all of the failures and the and the information that should ved been given and wasn t given. and the question being what was the intent? what what washa their intention? their motivation there. and what we determined was we couldn t definitively say what the motivation was. are these pretty smart people? fairly well-educated? at least well-educated. i don t know if they re smart. i don t know if we re very smart to beow honest with you. i was b going to say they have law degrees, right? at least somehe of them do. so you think the woods review for people at this level of the organization. to be clear, the stuff that didn t happen on the woods review was basic stuff. yeah. you didn t need to be a deeply-experienced fbi agent to be able to do it the right way. well, that s my point. so wouldn t you think that would almost be muscle p memory for people who are going through this process to know they had an obl ....