A look at breaking news, politics and reports from around the world. A source familiar tells us that weisselbergs interview happened weeks ago and that it focused on Michael Cohen and the Hush Money Payments to two women who said they had affairs with trump, which trump denies. Weisselberg is a major player, in the secret reporting from a few weeks ago, cohen says he consulted with weisselberg, and in the plea deal, hes referred to as executive one, who arranged 420,000 in payments to cohen to pay him back for the payment he made to stormy daniels. He wrote please pay from the truth, post to Legal Expenses when he forwarded the invoices to another executive. Its very clear that hes played a key role. Athena how big a there et to President Trump is it that prosecutors are talking to weisselberg . This is certainly a big deal. Were talking about a person who has been working for trump for decades. He is the chief finance officer
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Conversation. And sources familiar with those memos say rosenstein also discussed whether to rally the cabinet to invoke the 25th amendment. The times reports that he said he believed Attorney General Jeff Sessions and then Homeland Security secretary john kelly would back the plan. But sources say none of this was ever carried out. And that the president was never secretly recorded. In a statement, rosenstein calls the times story inaccurate, factually incorrect, and based on Anonymous Sources who are obviously biased against the department and are advancing their own personal agenda. He adds, based on my personal dealings with the president , there is no basis to invoke the 25th amendment. Rosenstein has been under attack since the moment he named Robert Mueller special counsel. The president once tweeting mueller is most conflicted of all, except rosenstein. The white house facing this question for months. Is the president going to fire Rod Rosenstein . I dont have any announcements
Tonight, several developing stories on this friday night. The powerful earthquake in anchorage, alaska. A magnitude 7. 0. Several aftershocks. Tonight, a disaster declared. Roads buckling. Cars swallowed. People diving for cover. You will hear the air Traffic Controllers telling pilots not to land. And tonight, the new fear. Also, the midair scare. The engine disaster. Passengers could see it through the windows on a flight across the country. And the Police Officer indicted in her neighbors murder. She says she thought his apartment was hers. The major storm on the move. Several accidents on highways. Tonight, bracing for hail and possible tornadoes, and then
blinding rain and wind in the northeast. Rob has the new track tonight. President trump on the world stage. After learning his personal fixer has flipped. And then this moment today. Putin and the saudi crown prince, and their high five. The two leaders the president has defended. And the nfl star seen on surveillance, taking aim
Tonight as we come on the air in the west, did breaking news, the Mueller Report is in and so are the first major headlines. The special Counsel Robert Mueller sends his report to the Attorney General after nearly two years. 37 indictments, six trump associates. The Mueller Report now turned in. The white house getting the call first. Then congress alerted the report was done. Carried by a Security Officer to the Department Of Justice. Tonight what we know already. The letter now from the Attorney General william barr to congress, and early word coming in from the a. G. That his first summary could come as early as this weekend. Jon karl and Pierre Thomas with new reporting. Also tonight, President Trump now responding. Sources telling abc news the initial reaction, quote, glad
its over. Also tonight, no new indictments from Robert Mueller. Dan abrams standing by on what that means. And whats in the report itself . Are there any clues yet . Tonight reaction pouring in from capitol hill
Im kristen sze. And im dan ashley. For sandhya, michael, all of us, we appreciat tonight, several developing stories as we come on the air. President trump in the uk, his state visit. The royal reception with the queen. Tea with Prince Charles. Would they see eye to eye on Climate Change . Prince harry was there today, but not duchess meghan. And the president and those headlines about what he said involving meghan, the audio tonight from that interview. And this evening, bracing for protests. The president not shying away from the political turmoil rocking the uk. Back here at home tonight, the Workplace Massacre in Virginia Beach. What weve now learned about the alleged gunman who killed so many of his coworkers. What he did just hours beforehand. The Major Development in the search for that missing mother last seen dropping off her children at school. Tonight, her estranged husband and his girlfriend arrested and in court. The cruise ship collision. New pictures tonight as it slams