july 4th holiday weekend, already this evening, those major airports slowing to a crawl. dangerous storms in the northeast causing a ripple effect tonight, stranding passengers across the u.s. a new round of storms now coming. flood watches also in the east at this hour. washington, d.c. up through philadelphia, new york to boston. and tonight, as we come on the air, the new warnings, the smoke from those canadian wildfires now set to return. already in chicago and the surrounding region. and tonight, new york s governor now warning it s coming back to parts of the northeast. also tonight, that audio recording of former president trump. abc news obtaining the recording, what trump can be heard saying about what he calls highly confidential secret information containing those potential plans to attack iran. trump saying, quote, this is secret information, look at this. a staff member later telling him, we have a problem. tonight, the new response from trump. pierre thomas in
some tries to cast doubt on the the explosive testimony of former white house aide cassidy hutchinson, he tweeted this, i know her, i don t think she s lying. and here is what he said when he announced his resignation. two things i think caught me as i was watching yesterday. number one, the president had always in the past had sort of thrown a hyperbolic ideas and say why don t we do x and everybody knew that was a bridge too far. you tell him no, mr. president, that is not how this works. and he thinks out loud. that is one ever his mannerisms. i think you saw a different group of advisers inside of the white house instead of saying mr. president, let s talk about that saying that is a great idea mr. president. you have folks like peter navarro and lin wood and rudy giuliani. and there was a large number of people, a large group of people yesterday who were willing to do this, if the president of the united states went on stage and said go march down the street and invade
President trump is set to meet with senior military leaders just a few minutes from now. He says all options are on the table after earlier today he condemned the suspected Chemical Attack this syria and said his administration would be making major decisions on how to respond in the next 24 to 48 hours. We will have much more on that, including the president s unprecedented criticism of putin. But first, the other news thats breaking right now thats tied to russia in a whole different way. The fbi raided the law office of Michael Cohen, president trumps long time personal lawyer today in manhattan. According to cohens lawyer, the fbi was acting on a referral by special Counsel Robert Mueller and Empowered By Search Warrants from u. S. Attorneys in the Southern District of new york. According to the new york times, the fbi seized emails, tax documents, and Business Records from cohens office. Thetimes says the seized reports include communication with president trump. The move today by
david: kayna, thank you. now to the supreme court, with a major ruling tonight effects federal elections in the u.s. at issue, how much power should state legislatures have over federal elections? this new decision today reaffirming the long-standing system of checks and balances, just as we head now into the 2024 presidential election. terry moran has covered the court for years for us, he s there tonight. take us through why this is so significant tonight. reporter: david, this is a major case. it s all about power. who should have the power to run our federal elections? from drawn congressional districts to voting by mail to counting the votes. comes out of a redistricting battle in north carolina, with democrats accusing the republican-controlled state legislature of drawing a partisan gerrymander, and the state supreme court there agreeing, throwing out the gop map. when the case came here, those republican lawmakers pointed to that line in the constitution that thetimes, pl
20 transcripts of witness testimony but no word on which interviews will be provided. federal prosecutors have been trying to access the committee transcripts since april. but lawmakers have until now resisted. and new reporting from the new york times that attorney general merrick garland wants to make sure that trump supporters do not have any basis to claim the investigation into january 6 was driven by animosity toward the former president. people close to garland telling thetimes, he never focused on trump from the start, unlike how investigators focused on him during the investigation into the trump campaign connections to russia and hillary clinton during her email probe. joining us now one of the reporters behind that story, just department reporter for the new york time, katie benner and with us the host of the beat, ari melber, he s hosting a special report tonight called inside trump s election plot.