Tonight, the historic showdown on capitol hill. The Impeachment Inquiry takes a dramatic new turn today. The witnesses, constitutional law scholars. Theyre asked, was the president s conduct impeachable . They do not hold back. And the scholar who said the democrats are rushing this. And the moment one witness brings up the president s youngest son. Did she cross the line . Terry moran with the explosive testimony from the hill tonight. President trump on his way back this evening from his trip overseas, cutting the trip short, lashing out at the inquiry, and the other headline tonight, taking aim at canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. What trudeau was caught on mic saying about President Trump. The Breaking Headline Tonight Involving Thousands of u. S. Troops. Are they being sent to the middle east . And the new headline. A u. S. Warship seizing Iranian Missile parts at sea. Martha raddatz standing by live tonight. The outrage mounting this evening. The new lawsuit filed by George
west coast. portland, seattle, getting into northern california. that s where the heaviest rain and wind will be friday into saturday. could see one to three feet of snow in the mountains above 5,000 feet. we ve got some lake effect snows here on the east coast, but this is nothing compared to what would come with that pacific storm next week. david? watching that in the days to come. rob, our thanks to you. and now, to the major news involving the catholic church tonight and the vatican review right here in the u.s. and now, the bishop in buffalo resigning today, two years before retirement. abc s david wright tonight on the accusations of a major coverup. reporter: tonight, a painful chapter for buffalo catholics has finally come to an end. bishop richard malone resigned amid a firestorm over his handling of sexual abuse claims. for more than a year, malone has been accused of not being fully transparent about alleged abuses by buffalo priests in the past. was this a coverup?
should be recused. we saw that at the judiciary committee hearing but that s not because they want to make sure this investigation is done right it s because they want to delay, obstruct and do everything they can to stop bob mueller from making the progress he needs to make in this investigation and now we must insist that rosenstein and mueller stay and if rosenstein is fired it will be treated the same as if mueller were fired. it always seemed to me and i think most people following this russia investigation that the heart of obstruction, if you want to believe there was obstruction was the firing of comey because comey was coming at this president and the president got rid of comey because of that reason. he came up to other reasons thanks to the help of rosenstein who agreed as deputy attorney general to craft a memo that suggest, in fact, claimed it wasn t a coverup, it just had something to do with other issues, the way comey treated hillary clinton in the campaign, et cetera
linked to this ignition defect? reporter: carol, it s so interesting. mary barra said they didn t find a coverup. they found a lack of urgencurge. mary barra saying there wasn t a coverup here. in terms of compensation, there have been a lot of calls to set up a big trust fund for the victims and their families. kenneth feinberg, someone who has done this before for the 9/11 victims, also for the bp oil spill, he has been tasked to try to figure out how to determine how to compensate these victims. gm saying there are 13 victims here. as poppy knows, there are other families who feel they feel their loved ones were victims of this defect as well. they re going to have to figure out who exactly was harmed by this, how to compensate them, how much and what that s going to look like. laura, i m curious, have you been contacted at all by ken feinberg or gm?
happened here and say oh, it was just it was some cop fusion or it was incompetent at the bus stop but it wasn t a coverup, well then you repeat it endlessly and the american public will believe it you know, we saw that even on jon stewart last night. jon stewart i do voted more time last night 8 and a half minutes than we saw on all three morning shows on the networks running cover for this. that is the message of 2016. megyn: dan, thanks for being here. thank you very much. megyn: up next, it took a jury over 15 hours to find the jodi arias guilty of first degree murder. as the jury phase is about to begin now question whether this woman who claims rather die than the rest of her life in prison should get what she wants i said years ago that he would rather get death than life and that still is true today. i believe death is the ultimate freedom.