Good evening. Americas favorite pasttime is about to be rocked. Abc news has learned that Major League Baseball officials have given the Players Union a blacklist, the players it intends to punish for using performanceenhancing drugs. It includes some of the games super stars. Right at the top, Alex Rodriguez of the yankees, the highest paid player in baseball history. Tonight the targeted players are being advised about their rights and their options as the league announced suspensions that will make history and shake the game. Abcs paula faris is here. These suspensions could come right away. Abc news has learned any moment now one of the biggest crack downs in baseball could hit. Today all eyes were on the highest paid player in the games history. Facing a possible lifetime ban, Alex Rodriguez dodged questions as he drove off in his near half Million Dollar car. Moments earlier, continuing his rehab stint at the yankees Training Facility in tampa, hoping to get back on the field thi
Our fox news Senior Correspondent is getting up close and personal with the storm. Hes live on long island. The National Weather service is calling this a crippling and potentially historic blizzard possible i the biggest snow to hit new york city. Also high winds up to 70 miles an hour and widespread coastal flooding warnings as well. Theyre concerned about the roads and possible whiteout conditions. Right now its not bad as you can see here on the long island expressway. Its not sticking yet but they are only expecting one to three inches by today. Tonight you could see one to three inches every hour. Weve seen a number of snow plows roll by here and 500 salt spreaders already activated in new york city. Already warnings about possible highway closings including the long island expressway. The new york state thruway and i84. Trains may stop rolling, including the long island expressway and new york city subways and in connecticut, the governor has issued a statewide travel ban that w
President elect and House Republicans. You wouldnt have guessed wed have that right off the bat. The plresidentelect is responding to House Republicans, the vote they had last night to gut the office of independent ethics. The president elect tweeting with all that congress has to work on, do they really have to make the weakening of the independent ethics watch dog, as unfair as it is, the number one priority . Kasie, explain this to me. What exactly happened last night . So, steph, what happened was republicans met yesterday behind closed doors to set the rules for how the next congress is going to operate. Theres a lot of frustration among rank and file members about how this Congressional Office of ethics has operated. A lot of them feel stung, a lot of them can become public and create a pr problem. And that may be true, even if it doesnt result in charges or wrong doing. But the leadership spoke out against this, Kevin Mccarthy, paul ryan said this isnt the right time to do this.
That meeting with donald trump jr. And some of the president s closest advisers. He did tweet out, quote, the stock market hit another alltime high yesterday despite the russian hoax story. Also, jobs numbers are starting to look very good. The president referring to the investigation about collusion between russian officials and the Trump Campaign as a hoax. He doesnt get into the details about the news as to who was in the room with donald trump jr. We havent gotten an official white house statement. Privately, sources inside the white house tell cnn that they are frustrated that the story keeps changing. They say, it is, quote, not a good thing. There have been so many different versions of the events over the course of the past year. You will remember, fred, initially, we were told there were no contacts between the Trump Campaign and russian officials then. As the story broke first last week, we heard there was a meeting between donald trump jr. And a russian lawyer. It was specif
The steele dossier for a warrant to spy on carter paige. The president held that memo up as proof the fbi was biassed against him in their russia probe. But democrats cried foul saying it was an incomplete picture of what really happened. They have been fighting for weeks to get their own memo released. That included negotiations with the fbi over what needed to be redacted out of National Security concerns. I want to get right now to cnn justice correspondent evan perez. We know the fbi was uncomfortable with the release of both of these memos. Walk us through them. The focus is really the controversy over that dossier put together by the former british spy paid by the Hillary Clinton campaign. According to the democratic memo released today, they say that the steele dossier played a small role in the surveillance done on carter paige, who if you remember was a former National Security adviser to the Trump Campaign. They say the court was told that the steele dossier funders, the peop