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Mcgonigal turned in favor of greed, david. david: pierre, thank you. to other news, and to the prominent california judge pleading not guilty to murdering his wife, prosecutors say he shot her after a drunken argument. but then texted his staff, telling them, i just lost it, i just shot my wife, i won t be in tomorrow. case making national headlines now. and here s abc s kayna whitworth. reporter: tonight, a southern california judge accused of murdering his own wife pleading not guilty in court. mr. ferguson, do you understand all these additional nonmonetary conditions as to your bail? yes, i do, your honor. reporter: 72-year-old jeffery ferguson was arrested earlier this month after police say he shot his wife sheryl in their home. according to the orange county district attorney s office, the judge then texted his own court clerk and bailiff, saying, i just lost it. i just shot my wife. i won t be in tomorrow. i will be in custody. i m so sorry. sheryl, seen here in photos posted to facebook, wishing her
August 10th on record. and denver, they did have a tie of a record low yesterday, but they ll be back into the 90s by the weekend. david? j david: ginger, thank you. we turn next to one of the highest ranking fbi agents ever to face criminal charges. the head of counterintelligence once here in new york. a top investigator of russian oligarchs pleading guilty tonight to helping russians. abc s pierre thomas back with us here in new york tonight. and this is really something, pierre. reporter: david, this involves the man who held the top job as the head of fbi counterintelligence in new york. an expert on russian spying turned bad. he today pleaded not guilty and admitted that he had been compromised by russian oligarchs after he retired from the fbi. that oligarch, who had been sanctioned by the u.s., paid him more than $20,000 to do his bidd bidding. the fbi said today that
Thomas at the justice department. pierre, this signals the investigation into hunter biden is far from over. is there a possibility of more charges? what s next? reporter: there absolutely could be more charges. weiss and his team indicated in court separate and apart from the plea deal hunter biden s financial dealings are still being investigated. pierre, thank you. president biden and the first lady have said very little about hunter biden s legal woes except they love and support. mary bruce joins us now. any indication this turn of events might change? reporter: no. the president and the white house aren t commenting. the president doesn t want to say anything that could fuel claims this has somehow been politicized. this is not what the white house was hoping for. they thought this was largely behind them. now, tonight instead hunter biden s plea deal has fallen apart and he could be facing a
Trump s campaign says that post is political speech. and his attorneys claim the government is trying to restrict trump s first amendment rights, while allowing president joe biden to potentially capitalize on the indictment during a heated election season. trump, the republican front-runner, attempting to do just that. i consider it a great badge of honor, because i m being indicted for you. i am being indicted for you. reporter: meanwhile, his rival, florida governor ron desantis, is urging voters to focus not on trump s legal woes, but on beating joe biden, who has thus far not commented on any of the charges against trump. and desantis also definitively acknowledges the reality that trump lost to biden in 2020. no, of course he lost. trump lost the 2020 election. of course joe biden s the president. desantis sharpening his language there. and pierre joins us now. pierre, the special counsel has a deadline this week to propose a trial date. it s still early in this legal
Battle, but already, we re seeing some back and forth over how quickly this case will proceed? reporter: mary, the next few weeks will be critical, as the special counsel seeks a speedy trial, and team trump likely tries to slow down the process. the wild card is going to be the judge, who will essentially be the referee, mary. pierre, thank you. next tonight, ukrainian authorities say they have detained a woman aiding a plot to assassinate president zelenskyy, catching her red-handed, passing intelligence to the russians. meantime, back-to-back russian strikes targeted a residential area in the donetsk region, killing seven people and injuring at least 57. abc s chief foreign correspondent ian pannell is in ukraine. reporter: tonight, a devastating double strike on the eastern town of pokrovsk. russia first hitting a residential area, apartments, a hotel, and popular restaurant, at 7:24 p.m. local time. the emergency services immediately on the scene rescuing people. then just over half an hour
we are going to walk down to the capital and we fight. we fight like hell. and if you don t fight like hell you are not going to have a country anymore. jesse: they didn t play of the clip where the president said be peaceful. everyone here will be soon marching over to the capital building to peacefully and patriotically to make your voices heard. jesse: abc news received a request for comment, they have no comment. a man in front of that package, chief correspondent pierre thomas has been in the news business for a long time. he knew exactly what he was doing with that edit. pierre should be man enough to defend his work. but the camera doesn t lie. the coverage of today s arraignment was the kind of campaign ad that money can t buy. the press covered the former president s every move like a boxer who lost his belt and is back to reclaim the title entering the ring. fleets of
whit: pierre thomas joins us now from the federal courthouse in washington, d.c., where trump was arraigned in the special counsel s election interference case. that was just yesterday. pierre, the former president s schedule about to get even more complicated. reporter: whit, the judge overseeing the case already pushing to get a trial date. she s given the special counsel s office until next thursday, august 10th, to come up with a date and is calling on president trump s defense team to respond with their own date a week later. whit? whit: pierre, thank you. we re getting new information tonight about u.s. plans to deploy marines on board commercial ships sailing in the persian gulf after iran seized oil tankers in the recent months. let s get to mary bruce. mary, this is a remarkable escalation in the longstanding tensions with iran. reporter: it is, and whit, the hope here tonight is this will be an effective deterrent to iran s aggression. tonight we re told the u.s.
Time. they need time, too, to defend trump. the judge responded, you will get a fair trial. on the issue of timing, the magistrate said, take it up with the judge who has been assigned the case. the hearing taking just under 30 minutes. also in the courthouse today, officers who defended the capitol on january 6th, capitol police officers harry dunn and aquilino gonell, and d.c. metro police officer daniel hodges, who was pinned between two doors by rioters. his aide, walt nauta, who is charged with trump in the classified documents case, holding the umbrella for the former president. trump speaking to the cameras in the rain, before taking off to new jersey. this is a persecution of a political opponent. this was never supposed to happen in america. david: the former president at reagan airport. the whole team with me here tonight. first to pierre, and it wasn t