President has made clear, he has told congress he will not sign a bill, if it fixes defense at expense of domestic spending, congress has it write bills that meet challenge. Lew making his comments after Washington Post reports that Top Obama Administration officials are pushing strategy that would lead to a government shut down if republicans continue to demand spending cuts and refusen to the sequester, and furthering administration stone call of irs targets of conservatives. Fox news sunday host Chris Wallace asking lew if irs chief council, William Wilkins had been questions by authorities yet. An office that reports to the Treasury Department. Lew refused to answer the question, take a listen. Somebody in Treasury Department ask William Wilkins what he knew about this. Chris, there is no evidence this went to any political official. There has not been an investigation. A lot of time has gone to asking a lot of questions of a lot of people, im not saying it is done, and well cooper
Is the notorious pink panther gang back in action . Week with everyone at the desk and we are starting off the week with everyone at the desk here. Here. Accounted for. I love that. Appropriate it happened in cannes. Home of the film festival, it could be out of a movie. All happens, as you said, in less than 60 seconds, robin. Police wondering now if its an inside job and they are looking for accomplices. Just like the movie. And the weather. Tropical storm flossie right now is bearing down on the big island of hawaii. It would be the first direct hit for a Tropical Storm there in more than 20 years but, sam, back here on the mainland all this flash flooding. We got believe that folks in philadelphia, new jersey, all the way to pennsylvania, never thought they would beat the rain totals in hurricane floyd 1999. Since then they havent either and in one line of storms that continually pounded that area 8 inches of rain, so they slammed that record. These are the pictures and were just s
Good evening. Brian is off tonight. Im lester holt. Former president george w. Bush is hospitalized tonight, recovering from a procedure to open up a blocked artery in his heart. Doctors discovered the blockage during a routine exam and placed a stent in the artery. Its a pretty common procedure, performed thousands of times each year in the country. Still, the news caught a lot of us offguard, as the 67yearold former president has always appeared quite fit, and is known for maintaining a vigorous exercise regiment. And so tonight, his diagnosis has put the spotlight on the limits of a Healthy Lifestyle when it comes to a healthy heart. Our chief medical editor dr. Nancy snyderman starts us off. Reporter when he was in office, president bushs medical team declared him to be in the superior fitness category. With low Blood Pressure and low cholesterol levels. I had my physical. And im feeling pretty good. Reporter even after leaving office, president bush has continued to maintain an ac
Night. Diane has the evening off. We do begin with the man at the center of so much heartbreak, holding three young women captive for a decade, speaking for the first time about what he did. Ariel castro in a cleveland courtroom, pleading guilty to be spared the Death Penalty. Hell spend the rest of his life behind bars. Today an entire city all having to hear him try to explain what led him to do it. He also talked about who it is he still wants to see. Abcs alex perez is in cleveland. Reporter wearing glasses and an orange prison jumpsuit, the man the city of cleveland called the devil accepted his fate in court. I plead guilty, your honor. Reporter Ariel Castros plea means he will be spared the Death Penalty, but is guaranteed to spend the rest of his life behind bars for kidnapping, raping, beating, and holding amanda berry, gina dejesus, and Michelle Knight hostage for a decade. Life in prison without parole, and no less than 1,000 years behind bars. I knew i was going to get, pre
Mason and this is our iAnthony Mason. North korea deified the United States today with another missile test, the first in 10 weeks, firing an intercontinental ballistic Ballistic Missile capable of reaching the u. S. Capitol. The launch comes one week after President Trump declared north korea a state sponsor of terrorism, and imposed new sanctions. The north called that a serious provocation. Mr. Trump was briefed on the launch while the missile was in the air. He said, we will take care of it. Go did not say how. Epvid martin is at the pentagon. Reporter it was north koreas third test of an tc. B. M. The other two took place this summer, and according to defense secretary mattis, it went further. Io it went higher, frankly, than tny previous shot theyve taken. Its a researchanddevelopment effort on their part to continuing about ballistic the iles that could threaten everywhere in the world, s,sically. Reporter the missile was fired from a mobile launcher just north of the capital, p