our heart aches. our grief is profound. david, a second teen pleaded guilty in family court is now serving his sentence. a third teen who is accused of wielding the knife that killed tessa majors is awaiting trial. david? erielerielle, thank you. now to american workers and tonight, the major strike under way. 10,000 john deere workers on the picket line, arguing that while company profits and ceo pay have soared, their pay increases have not kept up. thousands of workers also striking at kellogg, kaiser hospitals and hollywood bracing for a potential walkout, too. abc s senior national correspondent terry moran in illinois tonight. reporter: tonight, more than 10,000 workers at john deere are on the picket lines in iowa, illinois and kansas. on strike for the first time in 35 years at deere. they re demanding better pay, secure pensions, what they call a fair share of a hugely profitable american company.
a house committee releasing handwritten notes that appear to show the former president pressuring the justice department to declare the 2020 election corrupt. the former president then saying, quote, leave the rest to me. this comes as the irs has been cleared to give congress his tax returns. here s abc s senior national correspondent terry moran. reporter: tonight, stunning real-time evidence of how doearsf th partment of justice to do it. these are the handwritten notes taken by a senior doj official on a december 27th phone call. they show acting attorney general jeffrey rosen telling trump, the doj can t and won t snap its fingers and change the outcome of the election. trump had an answer for that argument. don t expect you to do that. just say that the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the r republican congressmen. in public, trump was pushing the same falsehood. the truth is we won the election by a landslide. we won it big.
quote, symbol of hate. okay, the president today also unleashing a new line of attack, mary, on joe biden, going after his religion? reporter: tom, the president said that biden, a devout catholic, is, quote, against god. biden s team was quick to slam that as hypocritical, saying, quote, biden s faith is at the core of who he is, he s lived it with dignity his entire life. tom? mary bruce with the back and forth from the campaign trail tonight. mary, thank you. now, to a major legal showdown. new york state suing to break up the nra. the state attorney general filing a lawsuit against the powerful gun rights lobbying group. here s abc s senior national correspondent terry moran. reporter: a stunning announcement new york state attorney general letitia james declaring that the evidence of alleged wrongdoing at the nra that her office has uncovered shows that the powerhouse gun rights group must be put out of business for good. the nra diverted millions and millions of dol
with president trump s chief of staff, mark meadows, and i can tell you there won t be a deal made tonight, but meadows and treasury secretary mnuchin will be meeting privately tomorrow morning with pelosi and schumer. but, tom, if history is any guide and they did reach a deal, americans wouldn t see that check for weeks, possibly months. tom? weeks, possibly months. kyra, thank you. sticking in washington, president trump tonight attempting to sow seeds of doubt over election day. now a little more than three months away, faced with plunging poll numbers and one day after suggesting possibly delaying the election, the president without evidence now suggesting the results could be, quote, rigged. here s abc s senior national correspondent terry moran. reporter: at the white house today, president trump behind in the polls and seeming more and more frustrated about it making an apocalyptic prediction. this is going to be the greatest election disaster in history. reporter
tropical storm early saturday morning, somewhere along the florida panhandle, but impacts there will be felt by this time tomorrow. david? all right, rob marciano, thank you. now, to the other headline today drawing immediate scrutiny, the white house announcing today that the next g7 meeting with world leaders will be at the president s own golf resort. here s abc s senior national correspondent terry moran. reporter: it was a major announcement and a major promotion for the president s brand, straight from the white house podium. white house chief of staff mick mulvaney revealing that next year s g7 summit will be at the trump national doral, the president s resort near miami. meaning world leaders, their staff and security will all be paying the trump family when they check out. it s not the only place. it s the best place. reporter: mulvaney said staffers started with a list of a dozen or so potential summit sites, from hawaii to michigan to florida and that it was trump