into a giant real estate rental company, starwood/waypoint. cofounded by a billionaire friend of president trump. tens of thousands of families live in those properties, paying rent. but the company is now dogged by complaints of shoddy maintenance and an aggressive eviction policy. abc s chief investigative correspondent brian ross tonight. reporter: in dallas, texas, disaster in the living room, after carlos and ebony january say the landlord did a shoddy job of repairing an upstairs leak. we re just lucky to be alive. reporter: in broward county, florida, the parents of brielle nicholson say, in a lawsuit, their daughter s asthma was caused by the very same landlord who failed to remove toxic mold from their rental home. every morning and every night, she has to take a breathing treatment. reporter: the landlord was, in effect, one of president trump s best billionaire friends, tom barrack, who until he sold his interest, helped run what has now grown into a giant corporat
this meeting with the campaign advisor who has pleaded guilty. and is cooperating with special counsel robert mueller. abc s chief investigative correspondent brian ross tonight. reporter: the attorney general of the united states jeff sessions is being accused tonight of hiding the truth. he either has a terrible memory or he is deliberately not telling me the truth. reporter: all based on new information about what happened at this trump campaign meeting chaired by then-senator sessions. according to court filings this week, foreign policy adviser george papadopoulos, seated between sessions and donald trump, told the group he had connections with russia that could help arrange a meeting between trump and vladimir putin. yet sessions twice testified no one in the campaign was involved with russia, first in january. senator franken, i m not aware of any of those activities. reporter: and then again last month. i don t believe they occurred. reporter: an aide to session
working as a uber driver and a professional truck driver. saipov grew up in tashkent, uzbekistan, living in this apartment building, and in 2010, came to america as part of what s called the u.s. diversity immigrant visa program, for citizens of countries who have not sent many immigrants to the u.s. today, president trump revealed saipov had helped bring many other uzbeks to the u.s. he was the point of contact, the primary point of contact for, and this is preliminarily, 23 people that came in or potentially came in with him. and that s not acceptable. reporter: u.s. officials tell abc news tonight that at least two of those 23 connected to saipov were suspected of possible terror ties. federal agents say saipov was asked about those two men in 2015, but that no case against him was ever opened. brian ross joins us live tonight. and brian, you re also learning that the alleged attacker told police he became radicalized in
just the last year? reporter: yes, david. authorities say it was all done online, and they found thousands of isis images and more than 90 propaganda videos on his cell phones. david? brian ross back with us tonight. brian, thank you. you can, of course, see the police presence right here over my shoulder. that s the intersection where the school bus collided with the pickup truck barrelling down that path. and new york s police commissioner, james o neill, took me to the crime scene just a short time ago here. and we begin with one of the biggest concerns right here in new york. is the suspect a lone wolf, or did he have help? are you concerned that the suspect wasn t acting alone? that s always a concern, whenever there s a terrorist event, that s part of the that s a major part of the investigation, to make sure that, even though he s here alone, who supported him? reporter: is there a chance he had help here in the u.s.? don t know. that s part of the investigation.
sight of the sun. tonight, in an abc news exclusive, bergdahl before the camera for the first time. why he says he should not be called a traitor. here s abc s chief investigative correspondent brian ross tonight. reporter: appearing before a military judge today, sergeant bowe bergdahl pleaded guilty to deserting his platoon, walking off his base in afghanistan and into the hands of the taliban. my name is bowe bergdahl. reporter: bergdahl was held by the taliban for five years. released in this dramatic moment, squinting into the sun after years as a prisoner. u.s. special forces hustled him to a waiting helicopter to begin the journey home. in his first television interview with british filmmaker sean langan, bergdahl says he was held in a cage for most of his captivity, as punishment for trying to escape. it s a cage that was welded together, probably seven-foot long by about six-foot wide. and how long were you in that cage for? second, third, fourth and into the fifth