welcome to our viewer in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. and we begin with donald trump s arrest and arraignment in the classified documents case. the washington post reports that trump rejected efforts by one of his lawyers to cut a deal with the justice department to return the documents and avoid indictment. post says chris kise wanted to negotiate with the doj back in the fall after the fbi found more than 100 class filed documents at mar-a-lago. but cnn spoke to sources close to trump s legal team and they cast doubt on whether that was a real opportunity to settle. and merrick garland is depending the special counsel behind the trump indictment, jack smith. paula reid has more. reporter: speaking for the first time since former president trump was indicted mr. smith is a veteran career prosecutor. reporter: attorney general merrick garland standing by special counsel jack smith who was prosecuting former president trump and ad
classified documents case issuing her first order, signaling her plan to remain on the case. and sources telling abc news donald trump rejected a proposal from one of his own attorneys to try to make a deal with the justice department and avoid federal charges. rachel scott standing by. late today, the air national guard member accused of leaking classified pentagon documents online indicted by a federal grand jury. authorities investigating the deaths of two american tourists found dead in their room at a luxury resort in mexico. what authorities are saying about a possible cause. the war in ukraine. we re now learning new details about this video showing the dramatic surrender of a russian soldier in the trenches, turning himself into a ukrainian drone. what the russian fighter later said about how that drone saved his life. here at home, chaos around the denver nuggets mvp parade. a police officer struck by a fire truck carrying two of the team s biggest stars. at
donald trump investigation. mr. smith is a veteran career prosecutor. the orange county mega-church saddleback will not return to the southern baptist fold because it has ordained women. this is a sad day for southern baptists because they are losing gifted and talented and called women of god. norah: consumer alert. what you should know about a frozen strawberry recall linked to hepatitis. we are charged up and plugging in to the world of ev charging. it is a little bit of the wild west. i m getting down to that 25 miles of range, is there even going to be charger around me? stone. third time. stone! the golden knights! you dream about it every day, a dream come true. norah: good evening to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us on this wednesday night. we begin with a dangerous threat to tens of millions of americans. tonight, the south is bracing for a second round of storms and into the overnight hours, as well. this ma
providing that the united states reserves and retains complete ownership, possession and control of presidential records. for more than a year, and despite multiple opportunities to remedied situation and return materials that rightly belong to the federal government, donald trump refused to cooperate time and time again. as we know now from the indictment unsealed by the department of justice yesterday, the former president and his personal valet, and now codefendants, walt nauta have both been indicted. trump along faces 31 counts of willful retention of national defense information, and one count of false statements. both men are also charged with one count each of his conspiracy to obstruct justice, withholding a document, corruptly concealing a document, concealing and documents in a federal investigation, and a scheme to conceal. not to has also in charge for making false statements. the government alleges in his indictment that it s not only a passive bystander that go
i-95, the highway remains closed in both directions to traffic, firefighters are trying to extinguish an ongoing fire that you can see there, we will bring you more on the updates as soon as we get them on the story. straight ahead, we are going to miami for a report on what to expect ahead of trump s arraignment on tuesday. plus, the twice impeached now twice indicted president, is telling his followers that the justice department is not just coming after him, it s coming after them to. i m going to talk to the person who literally wrote the book on authoritarian strongman about his dangerous line of attack, another hour of velshi begins right now. right now. good morning, i m ali velshi, in today s trump suspected to surrender himself to authorities in a miami courthouse where he will be arraigned on a 37 count indictment regarding his mishandling of government records and obstruction of justice. it will be the second time in about two months that the twice impeached former