Reporter the whistleblower alleges starting in midmay, u. S. Officials were deeply concerned by giulianis circumvention of National Security Decision Making and efforts to relay messages between the white house and ukraine. President trump defended his personal attorney wednesday. Rudy giuliani is a great lawyer. He was a great mayor. He is highly respected. Reporter responding to the whistleblowers allegations, giuliani said it is impossible that the whistleblower is a hero and im not, and i will be the hero. Scott frederickson is a former independent counsel. Weve never in the history of our country that im aware of ever seen a personal attorney engage in this kind of foreign diplomacy, especially with respect to these very specific requests. Reporter the complaint also singles out attorney general william barr. President trump told the ukrainian president barr would reach out to discuss investigating the bidens, but the Justice Department said the president never asked barr to conta
Mother, reaching out for help in the nick of time. Do your kids know what to do in an emergency . And good evening. Thanks for joining us on this saturday. Im tom llamas. And we begin tonight with the giant battle over health care. The president putting pressure on his own party. This, as a growing number of republican senators say they have strong reservations, is the bill now on life support . The president appears to have changed course on russian meddling in the u. S. Election. Abcs david wright starts us off from the white house. Reporter tonight, the white house is gearing up for another round in the fight to repeal obamacare. A protrump pac threatening a milliondollar ad buy against a moderate republican senator who dared to announce overnight he wont back the bill as it stands. Nevadas dean heller says hes concerned about the impact the bill would have on lowincome residents of his state. It is going to be very difficult to get me to a yes. Reporter the republicans need almost
And pass, but he was not been able to step up and do the job and get his offense into the end zone. But as we see last year, keenam exploited the bucs a bit. Im sure coming into the game he is very confident that he can come out here and get his thing going and get his flowing again and getting some touch downs. And five turnovers last week in arizona, how correctable is that and does it transfer over to this week . Very correctable. You watch the films and see what the problems is, and you focus one step at a time and one play at a time and go out there and examinexecute, and get your blo, targets. Much more coming this day. Sunday. And i think chris anda we are going to see much better play out of the bucs, and expecting a win but it may be close. And especially in front of a home crowd. Going to be fun. Before we go hundreds of cheese makers are around the world, for what . The swiss cheese awards. The red there is only one winner. The champion will be chosen from a watch of 7771 ch
Set back in 1998. Meanwhile it is a driving rain out here. Looks like the heaviest rain half hour. Thanks for the confirmation. He said, its raining. Sade, rob, back to you. Thank you lee. Get back inside and dry o. Were going to check with lee in a few minutes. Now we want to go to michelle from laguardia. Reporter a lot of delays. Nice to be dry inside but a two to two and a half hour delay here at la guard i cant. People are lined up all the way down, probably 10 lines. The lines are moving. A lot of people working those lines, but folks are in very good spirits. I have to say they expected with the weather and the fact this is a Holiday Travel day, one of the most busy of the year that they would see these delays. This is definitely the day as we look at the de par taurus departures get out of dodge. We wish you a Merry Christmas reporter these are the busiest days of the year for travel. Laguardia did not disappoint. Long lines were moving. Are you delayed . Going to raleigh . Yes
Delays really close to the tri state area and down toward philly. Rainfall amounts havent been that great yet. They are going to go up in a hurry as we close in on an inch of rain by later tonight. You see the yellows moving in to places like newark and teterboro parts of holmdel and also long island as well. Theres another batch down to the south. Heres what you need to know. This heavy rain will go at times until about 10 00 tonight. Then tough travel with street flooding and low visibility all evening long. Were still on track for the big 70s and potentially the all time high of 75 degrees in 1998. It is going to be a very warm Christmas Eve and record breaking no doubt about that. Much more on the updated seven day accuweather forecast. Thats coming up in a few minutes. David, liz back to you for now. The fog is not only delaying flights its also led to a number of cancellations. Late this afternoon flight aware says there were 47 cancellations and 193 delays at Newark Airport had