The highrise Apartment Building up in flames. The death toll rising tonight. The mother who dropped her baby nearly ten stories to safety. Announcer this is a Special Edition of World News Tonight with david muir, reporting tonight from washington. And good evening on this wednesday night. Were back at the capitol in washington tonight, because of that awful scene that played out this morning. As lawmakers were practicing for an annual tradition, the congressional Baseball Game, when a gunman opened fire. It was not long before the gunman allegedly asked, are they democrats or republicans . He was told they were republicans. Five people were hit, including congressman Steve Scalise, a member of the house leadership. Tonight, hes in Critical Condition. After trying to crawl across the field to safety. Authorities now say James Hodgkinson was the attacker, the husband and Home Inspector from illinois. Who had Strong Political views. Tonight, that gunman is now dead, taken down by two Cap
lobbyist of pruitt s condo scandal has emerged. lawsuit filed by the environmental group, the sierra club, jay stephen hart and his wife vicki who rented it to him for $50 a night lobbied ryan jock son to hire a recent college graduate they knew. interest that had not been revealed before according to the e-mails in august of last year, hart messaged jackson on behalf of coca-cola to oppose regulating a class of chemicals which are used in fridge ration air conditioning and aerosols. the e-mails appear to undermine official arguments that hart had not lobbied the epa while he was in charge. take a listen. let me ask you this. why does it matter when the ethics officials look at the terms of the lease to determine if it s ethical or not. why does it matter?
about to leave for canada. before he goes, a visit from the prime minister of japan to talk about north korea. that s set to happen roughly an hour from now. we ll get to all that in just a moment. we start with new ethics questions dogging the environmental protection agency and its administrator scott pruitt as the list of questionable moves by pruitt grows. the most recent cases of a possible misuse of authority having include having an aide reach out to chick-fil-a to inquire about getting a franchise for his wife and the resignation of two of his top aides. at least one of those aides was carrying out personal chores for the secretary. pruitt currently facing more than a dozen federal investigations. you ll probably remember it started with his $50 a night sweetheart condo deal from a lob lobbyist, that $3 million security detail, raises for his aides, $33,000 sound proof phone
a a shingle and you want people to know you are working with these companies. it looks like it appears that he didn t want this known. again, in november, december of 2016, michael cohen does not appear to have any of these clients, novartis, at&t, it was only after the president was elected president that all of a sudden michael cohen, i guess on election night, michael cohen became an expert in business, real estate investing. and all of a sudden the guy is paid millions of dollars. it is the kind of thing that lob lobbyist are paid a lot of money
health care industry before republican senators before democratic senators and before more than a dozen health groups, american cancer association, the heart association diabetes, all of them aarp, they wanted meetings with mitch mcconnell, couldn t get them but the lob lobbyist got them. the lobbyist and health care industry spend 3.5 to 4 times more than the second largest lobbying effort. there s a lot of money in power. the first three months of this year, over $75 million in lobbying spent by the health care industry. 78 million, just three months. let s bring in nbc s capitol hill kasie hunt and we have michael sparr professor and msnbc chief legal correspondent ari melber. kasie, what are you hearing on the hill? reporter: we talked briefly