john: great to be back. i m john roberts. this is america s newsroom. the possible arrest related to a hush money payment made to stormy daniels, it happened in the run-up to the 2016 election. the manhattan district attorney s office has been investigating the case for years. a grand jury is reportedly on the verge of bringing charges. dana: jury still has to hear from one more witness. that will be a one-time legal advisor to president trump s former attorney michael cohen expected to rebut cohen who has been a key witness against trump. john: calling into question the timing of the arrest. republicans arguing the whole thing is political. it s the weakest case out there. trying to make a miss demeanor a felony. timeline doesn t work. too long past and doing it after a person for political purposes. somebody putting their thumb on the scale simply because they don t agree with somebody else s political view. that s what s wrong and that s what infuriates people. t
he has a violent history dating back to his childhood charged with theft at 11, along with assault and rape when he was 14. bill: surveillance images show the suspect attacking eliza forcing her into his s.u.v. and leaving her phone and water bottle behind. police also saying they found a pair of sandals at the scene helping detectives identify and track down abston using dna. cell phone signal placed him near the scene. dana: newly revealed video shows him arriving at his brother s apartment later that same morning where he spends more than an hour cleaning out the inside of his car. shelby county d.a. telling us this earlier. there clearly are cases where person s individual records are so bad like in this case that parole should not have been granted. we would not be bringing these first degree murder charges unless we were confident that we could prove these charges beyond a reasonable doubt. bill: former assistant d.a. phillip holloway back with us today. good mo
Republican convention out of North Carolina if the democratic governor there wont allow a full house. Reaction from special report anchor bret baier in just a moment. But first, john roberts has more. John . Good afternoon. We expect kayla to come out in the next few minutes or get an announcement at 2 30. Were taking bets on which that will be. It has to be money on either, a lot to talk about today. The president watched the swearing in of John Ratcliffe as the new National Director of intelligence. When he first nominated him last year, he had to withdraw his name because there were concerns that he had embellished his resume and wasnt repaired. The president has full faith and confidence in him. Also news about china and hong kong. China is trying to crack down on the security situation in hong kong. White house officials making more strident statements toward china to say you better not change the relationship with hong kong. You signed on back in 1996 to a special relationship an
Orders to try to capture this man. But apparently a firefight broke out. Handtohand combat he resisted. He was killed in the firefight along with other isis fighters there. His wife captured and taken back to iraq. The big question why this guy, why was it worth risking so much u. S. Military lives to go after him . What we are being told is he was an isis leader if you will in their oil and gas operations. So thats very key. Because of the Financial Impact the financial benefit to isis. But perhaps more serious even there had been a sense by the u. S. That he was increasingly involved in isis command and control. And isis operations. And u. S. Officials are beginning to indicate there may have been a reason to believe he might have been in contact at some point with abu bakr albaghdadi, the very reclusive leader of isis. The guy the u. S. Of course wants to get. All right. Lets talk more about this Senior International correspondent Nick Paton Walsh is with us from beirut. Nick you ha
Just returned from north korea. In fact will any indication on why north korea is suddenly flexing this military might . This is a major achievement for them. If it is accurate theyve been working for quite sometime to try to develop a Ballistic Missile that they could launch from a submarine. It gives them much more flexibility as to where they could launch an attack from. So of course an attack like that would be much more difficult to defend against. In fact kim jongun in state media was comparing this to north koreas three successful satellite launches this is nothing new it doesnt necessarily signal more north korea ramping up its military effort this is a country thats constantly investing a considerable amount of money into its military. Even though it doesnt have a whole lot of money to go around. It doesnt have enough money to feed adequately all of the people in the country. They have the mindset that theyre under the constant threat of invasion so theyre developing Technolog