Expected mother and her friend. Good evening. Im pat lawson muse. And im wendy rieger. Were going to start with allegations against a chief of staff. He is now on unpaid leave connected to a child important investigation. News 4s chris gordon is live. Reporter good evening. Police urammed down his door an then he spent the rest of the day watching police go through the rest of his belongings. The police removing the senate aide from his home this afternoon. He was in handcuffs as he was taken into custody by police. Loaded into an Unmarked Police car and taken away. They rammed open his front door and started collecting evidence. This morning just a little bit before 7 00 i heard pounding on the door and somebody saying police open up . I was like what is going on . I opened up the window and looked out and it was surrounded with unmarked cop car ls. Reporter the u. S. Postal Inspection Service says all documents are currently under seal. The team of investigation tors removed more tha
Unrest has nearly paralyzed the government. The army chief cited a 1914 law that gives the authority to intervene during times of crisis. Well, charges of cyberspy rg3 putting a strain on relations between china and the u. S. The Justice Department charged five Chinese Military officers with hacking into the computers of several u. S. Companies to steal trade secrets. It is the first ever criminal charges against officials of a Foreign Government for stealing u. S. Economic secrets by computer. Cybertheft impacts real people in real and painful ways. The lifeblood of any organization is the people who work, strive and sweat for it. China says the charges are based on fabricated facts. Well, with the resurgence of polio in pakistan, the white house is promising that the cia will never again use
immunization programs for cover for spying operations. It comes three years after they staged a fake program in the hunt for osama bin laden. The pakistani doctor who helped to run the campaign h
Thats it for abc 7 news at 5 00. Request see you tomorrow at 6 00. For tonight, several developing stories as we come on the air. President trump back on the trail, and on the attack. Rolling out his slogan for 2020. Railing against democrats, the media, and why he wants to run against Oprah Winfrey. Plus, this just in. Where he may come facetoface with kim jongun. Also, breaking news. The new fertility clinic failure. Abc news has learned a second clinic reporting a critical malfunction. This, after another breakdown at a clinic near cleveland. More than 1,000 worried patients devastated over the possible loss. And police revealing new clues in the mystery disappearance of a husband not seen for more than two years. His wife never reporting him missing. New winter threat. The third noreaster in less
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There are people to protest, exercise their firstamendment rights. But you do have a group of individuals, albeit a small group, that use these incidents to further their own agenda. Thats where you get fires set, all those things. Theseerant people that are out to legitimately protest. This is a whole Different Group of folks that show up, usually after dark. Thats got to end. Now police do everything they can to take nthem into custody, break up the crowds. Hopefully we dont have too much property damage. I mean, you had a Police Officer die today, was shot in oakland last night ppt youre going to start having civilians die as a result of this. And the Fire Department cant get the scene to put the fire out when things are chaotic like theyve been. So, its not a good situation at all for anybody. What Law Enforcement or protesters. We know in minnesota the governor has activated the full Minnesota National guard. The largest deployment in that states history. What do you make of that
For jenna today. More fallout. Other va facilities are a cowed of similar practices and the white house said the president learned about this from the media despite reports that his transition time was warned about problems in the va years ago. The administration said the president is mad as hell. Will he do anything about it . We hmore. What has he done so far . Reporter he set his deputy of chief of staff to find out how pervasive the problem is. Whether it is a few facility or system wide and get it fixed. Same reaction as the botched obama care website. Mr. Obama sent Dennis Mcdonagh up to capitol hill to reassure nervous democrats. The white house would address the problem dra mateccally and republicans want to know why he didnt know before the news reports emerged. I am disturbed by statements out of the white house that the president heard about this in the news. It is time for our president to come forward and take responsibility for this and do the right thing by the veterans