york grand jury about hush money payments to stormy daniels and whether there s an indictable offense there. the new york times says criminal charges are likely, and the star witness testifying before the grand jury for over three hours today. yes, it s someone you probably recognize if you follow the news, michael cohen, who was a loyal trump lawyer until he wasn t, who served hard time for a related offense in the federal courts this is a grand jury presentation that the grand jury could be reaching its conclusion cohen expected to come back for more testimony wednesday if you re thinking a lot changed last week, that seems to be the case if you re thinking it is barrelling forward this week, that seems to be the case. and he also spoke outside of the grand jury proceeding. i feel fine i have been dealing with the same issues now for more than five years, so i feel fine this is all about accountability he needs to be held accountable for his dirty deeds. it s the end
we re about to hear more and the extraordinary and damaging documents leak that ended up on a gaming website. really can t make this stuff up with top secret u.s. intelligence on it. 53 documents have surfaced so far. chillingly, the white house says they re not sure if that s all of them. there could be more coming. one defense official telling politco the embarrassing and worse leaks made them feel sick to their stomach when they learned what was in here. former cia director and secretary of state mike pompeo is here in moments with his reaction. first to chief national security correspondent jennifer griffin with brand new information on this from her reporting at the pentagon. hi, jennifer. hi, martha. many of the documents came from february 23 and march 1. but there s other highly classified documents that don t come from the daily briefing slides suggesting the leak may have occurred outside the pentagon. the first images appeared on discord, a messaging platform pop
five hostages, including a child. more on the standoff, how this played out. also developing as we come on tonight, the massive fire, a recycling plant. the images coming in now. authorities now urging more than 2,000 people to evacuate tonight. we have late reporting. the defense secretary tonight answering tough questions about the damaging leak of highly classified pentagon documents. what those papers reveal about russia. what the papers reportedly indicate about arc. terry moran reporting tonight. the new turn one week after former president trump pleaded guilty to 34 felony counts in new york. why the manhattan da tonight is now suing one of trump s biggest allies in congress. and abc news now learning the da has received multiple death threats. also the debate over the abortion pill. tonight a federal appeals court. that decision expected within days on whether to block or uphold a texas judge s ruling that would take effect by the end of the week, suspending fda appro
policies. bragg s investigation of alleged financial crimes. we will talk live with chairman jordan shortly on this program. first, correspondent david spunt has our top story tonight from the justice department. good evening, david. bret, quite a rare moment to see such a public fight between a local district attorney and the chairman of the house judiciary committee. this all spilled out just hours ago in a federal lawsuit filed in the southern district of new york in federal court. now, alvin bragg, of course, the district attorney in manhattan, he made history last week by indicting the former president, donald trump, on 34 felony counts. he says republican house judiciary chairman jim jordan needs to stay in his own lane and stay out of the donald trump prosecution. bret, the lawsuit is aimed at strong former assistant district attorney mark pomerantz from complying with the house judiciary committee subpoena to spill the beans on the inner workings of the office and
drop, a diligent search was conducted and removed from the white house of florida i swear, or affirm that the above statements are true and correct to the best of my knowledge. well, we now know that that wasn t the case, at all and prosecutors want to know why. the fbi found more than 100 classified documents when they searched the premises two months later. prosecutors later asserted to finding the documents that called into serious question the representative made in the june 3rd certification. and cast doubt on the extent of cooperation in this matter. and other, words perhaps obstruction of justice. an appeals court ruled this week that evan corcoran must provide as well as documents and reporting mr. corcoran s expected to appear before the grand jury as early as tomorrow. though jack smith with a one-two punch today. not everyone s blessing about alvin bragg, the stormy dallan s hush money, probe donald trump s legal headaches when it comes to the special counse