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>> OKAY, WHAT DO YOU THINK THE ELECTRIC BILL IS? >> I DON’T EVEN WANT TO KNOW. >> THAT’S WHAT’S MAKING NEWS. OKAY >> RIGHT NOW ON AMERICA THIS MORNING, REPUBLICANS APPROVE A FORMAL IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY INTO PRESIDENT BIDEN. ON THE SAME DAY, THE PRESIDENT’S SON, HUNTER, DEFIED A SUBPOENA FROM

CONGRESS. WHAT’S NEXT FOR THE BIDENS AND WHY? TWO WORDS HUNTER BIDEN SAID YESTERDAY ARE NOW FACING CLOSE SCRUTINY. >> A NEW RECORD HIGH ON WALL STREET. STOCKS SOARING AFTER THE FED LEAVES INTEREST RATES UNCHANGED. BUT IT’S WHAT THE FED SAID ABOUT NEXT YEAR THAT’S GETTING ALL THE ATTENTION. >> ALLEGATIONS OF FERTILITY

FRAUD A WORLD FAMOUS DOCTOR WHO HELPED START CLINICS IN MULTIPLE STATES, NOW THE SUBJECT OF A LEGAL BATTLE, HEAR FROM A WOMAN CLAIMING SHE WAS DECEIVED DECADES AGO BEFORE THE BIRTH OF HER DAUGHTER. >> NEW EVIDENCE UNSEALED AT THE ASSAULT TRIAL OF MARVEL ACTOR JONATHAN MAJORS. WHAT HE’S HEARD

TELLING HIS THEN GIRLFRIEND, A RARE PUNISHMENT, HANDED DOWN NURKIC IS DOWN IN A HEAP. >> THE ON COURT BEHAVIOR THAT’S GOT ONE OF THE NBA’S BIG STARS SIDELINED INDEFINITELY. >> AND LATER THE GIFT FROM THE BOSS THAT WILL DEFINITELY IMPROVE MORALE AT THE OFFICE. >> FROM ABC NEWS IN NEW YORK

THIS IS AMERICA THIS MORNING. >> GOOD THURSDAY MORNING EVERYONE I’M ANDREW DYMBURT. >> HAPPY THURSDAY I’M RHIANNON ALLY. WE BEGIN WITH THE NEW MOVE BY REPUBLICANS TO INVESTIGATE PRESIDENT BIDEN. >> THE HOUSE VOTED LAST NIGHT ALONG PARTY LINES TO APPROVE A FORMAL IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY INTO PRESIDENT BIDEN. ON THE SAME

DAY, THE PRESIDENT’S SON, HUNTER , DEFIED A SUBPOENA FROM CONGRESS. >> SO WHAT’S NEXT IN THIS INVESTIGATION? SEVEN ABC’S JUSTIN FINCH BEGINS OUR COVERAGE NOW FROM WASHINGTON. JUSTIN. GOOD MORNING. >> RHIANNON. GOOD MORNING. REPUBLICANS ARE NOW INTENSE DEFYING THEIR INVESTIGATION INTO THE PRESIDENT AND HIS FAMILY. >> THE RESOLUTION IS ADOPTED.

>> HOUSE REPUBLICANS HAVE NOW UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED A FORMAL IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY INTO PRESIDENT BIDEN AS THEY LOOK INTO WHETHER THE PRESIDENT IMPROPERLY BENEFITED FROM FOREIGN BUSINESS DEALINGS INVOLVING HIS SON, HUNTER. >> I HAVE BEEN THE TARGET OF THE UNRELENTING TRUMP ATTACK MACHINE SHOUTING WHERE’S HUNTER? WELL, HERE’S MY ANSWER. I AM HERE

BEFORE YESTERDAY’S HOUSE VOTE, HUNTER DEFIED A CONGRESSIONAL SUBPOENA, SAYING HE’S WILLING TO TESTIFY, BUT ONLY IN PUBLIC, OUT OF CONCERN. >> A PRIVATE DEPOSITION COULD BE SELECTIVELY LEAKED OR MANIPULATED. >> THERE’S NO EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE ALLEGATIONS THAT MY FATHER WAS FINANCIALLY INVOLVED IN MY BUSINESS BECAUSE IT DID NOT HAPPEN.

>> NOW, REPUBLICANS ARE HANGING ON TO THOSE WORDS. FINALLY INVOLVED. >> THAT IS A HUGE DEPARTURE FROM EVERYTHING THEY HAVE SAID. NOW FOR THE LAST THREE AND A HALF YEARS, AS THE WHITE HOUSE HAS MAINTAINED, THE PRESIDENT WAS NEVER IN BUSINESS WITH HIS SON AND PRESIDENT BIDEN HAS SAID HE

NEVER SPOKE TO HIS SON ABOUT HIS FOREIGN BUSINESS DEALINGS. >> JUDICIARY COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN JIM JORDAN CLAIMS THE WORDS HUNTER USED YESTERDAY INDICATE A SHIFT. >> FIRST, IT WAS NO INVOLVEMENT, THEN NO, I NEVER, NEVER TALKED TO ANYONE. AND THEN WE FIND OUT ABOUT THE DINNERS, THE MEETINGS, THE PHONE CALLS AND EVERYTHING ELSE.

>> REPUBLICANS HAVE FAILED TO SHOW ANY EVIDENCE IMPLICATING PRESIDENT BIDEN IN ANY WRONGDOING. THEY SAY THEY NEED THE IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY TO FIND THE EVIDENCE, SAYING IT WILL ALLOW THEM TO BETTER ENFORCE SUBPOENAS IN COURT. CRITICS CLAIM IT’S ALL A POLITICAL STUNT . >> IT’S ALL ABOUT POWER AND

TRUTH, AND JUSTICE REALLY HAS NO ROLE IN WHAT THEY’RE DOING. IF YOU HAVE EVIDENCE THAT JOE BIDEN, NOT HUNTER BIDEN, BUT THAT JOE BIDEN BROKE THE LAW, BRING IT FORWARD. AND IF IT’S IMPEACHABLE, IMPEACH THEM. BUT YOU DON’T HAVE THAT EVIDENCE. >> AS FOR HUNTER BIDEN, THE HOUSE WILL LIKELY VOTE TO HOLD

HIM IN CONTEMPT FOR DEFYING THAT SUBPOENA, BUT IT WOULD BE UP TO THE BIDEN JUSTICE DEPARTMENT TO DECIDE ON WHETHER TO PROSECUTE ANDREW. ALL RIGHT. >> JUSTIN, THANK YOU. THE SUPREME COURT HAS AGREED TO HEAR A CHALLENGE THAT COULD AFFECT THE PROSECUTION OF FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP AND HUNDREDS OF

DEFENDANTS IN THE JANUARY 6TH ATTACK ON THE CAPITOL. THEY WERE ALL CHARGED UNDER A FEDERAL LAW THAT MAKES IT A CRIME TO OBSTRUCT AN OFFICIAL PROCEEDING. AS ABC TERRY MORAN REPORTS, DEFENSE ATTORNEYS SAY THE LAW WAS MEANT TO DEAL WITH WITNESS TAMPERING AND SHOULD NOT BE APPLIED TO THESE CASES.

>> REPUBLICANS HAVE BEEN MAKING THIS CASE FOR MONTHS, SOME OF THEM ARGUING THAT THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT SHOULD NOW PROSECUTE LIBERAL PROTESTERS WHO DISRUPTED OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS IN TENNESSEE AND NEW YORK CITY EARLIER THIS YEAR. AND TWO OF THE FOUR CHARGES THAT TRUMP FACES IN THIS CASE ARE BASED ON

THAT LOSS OF THE COURTS MOVE IS A BIG WIN FOR HIM. >> IN THE MEANTIME, TRUMP’S ELECTION INTERFERENCE TRIAL COULD BE DELAYED AS HE APPEALS, CLAIMING PRESIDENTIAL IMMUNITY NOW TO THE WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NEW QUESTIONS ABOUT WHETHER THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION IS PUSHING ISRAEL TO CHANGE COURSE.

>> THIS MORNING, THE WHITE HOUSE APPEARS TO BE PLAYING DOWN PRESIDENT BIDEN’S HARSHEST CRITICISM YET OF ISRAEL SINCE THE WAR BROKE OUT. >> HE WAS EXPRESSING CONCERNS THAT THAT THAT WE CONTINUE TO SEE CIVILIAN CASUALTIES IN GAZA AT A FUNDRAISER, THE PRESIDENT SAID ISRAEL IS LOSING INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT BECAUSE OF

ITS INDISCRIMINATE BOMBING IN GAZA. >> A WHITE HOUSE SPOKESMAN WOULD NOT CONFIRM WHETHER BIDEN’S REMARK IS AN OFFICIAL ASSESSMENT. IF SO, IT COULD HAVE SIGNIFICANT IMPLICATIONS. >> AS I SAID TO MY PREVIOUS ANSWER THERE, THAT THEY WILL ACT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW OF ARMED CONFLICT AND DO EVERYTHING

THAT THEY CAN TO MATCH THEIR INTENT, WHICH IS TO MINIMIZE CIVILIAN CASUALTIES. >> IF THEY AREN’T, THEN ISN’T THERE AN OBLIGATION FOR THE U.S. TO CHANGE THE WAY THAT IT’S DELIVERING MILITARY AID? >> THAT’S A HYPOTHETICAL THAT I’M NOT PREPARED TO ENGAGE IN RIGHT NOW. >> IF HE’S SAYING INDISCRIMINATE

BOMBING, THAT’S A HYPOTHETICAL. >> I’M NOT GOING TO ENGAGE IN. WE HAVE EXPRESSED OUR CONCERNS. THE PRESIDENT HAS PUBLICLY AND PRIVATELY WITH THE ISRAELIS ABOUT THE NEED TO REDUCE CIVILIAN CASUALTIES, AND WILL CAN CONTINUE TO DO THAT TODAY, U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER JAKE SULLIVAN IS MEETING WITH ISRAEL’S PRIME MINISTER TO PUSH

FOR RESTRAINT AND FOR MORE HUMANITARIAN AID AND MORE THAN 18,000 PEOPLE HAVE BEEN KILLED IN GAZA, ACCORDING TO THE HAMAS RUN HEALTH MINISTRY. >> AN ESTIMATED 85% OF THE POPULATION HAS BEEN DISPLACED. ENCAMPMENTS LIKE THIS ONE FLOODED BY A RECENT STORM DISEASE SETTING IN. 135 HOSTAGES, ARE STILL BEING HELD

BY HAMAS, INCLUDING AMERICAN. >> NOW TO YOUR MONEY AND SOME GOOD NEWS FROM WALL STREET. THE DOW OPENS AT A RECORD HIGH THIS MORNING. STOCKS ARE SOARING AFTER THE FED ANNOUNCED IT’S LEAVING INTEREST RATES UNCHANGED . FED CHAIRMAN JEROME POWELL SAID THERE’S NO NEED FOR ANOTHER RATE HIKE BECAUSE INFLATION IS

COOLING. HE EVEN SUGGESTED THREE RATE CUTS ARE LIKELY NEXT YEAR, WHICH WOULD BRING DOWN BORROWING COSTS ON MORTGAGES AND CAR LOANS . >> THE FBI HAS NOW JOINED THE INVESTIGATION INTO THREE ATTEMPTED ABDUCTIONS NEAR THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA. AUTHORITIES SAY SOMEONE APPROACHED AT LEAST THREE STUDENTS NEAR THE TUCSON CAMPUS.

THE THREE WOMEN REPORTED BEING FOLLOWED BY A MAN WHO WAS DRIVING A BLUE CAR. ONE WAS GROPED. THEY ALL ESCAPED UNINJURED. NOW TO A DISTURBING STORY INVOLVING A PIONEERING FERTILITY DOCTOR. >> HE’S THE SUBJECT OF A NEW LAWSUIT FROM A WOMAN WHO CLAIMS SHE WAS DECEIVED DECADES AGO,

BEFORE THE BIRTH OF HER DAUGHTER . HERE’S ABC’S ANDREA FUJII. >> THIS MORNING, A WORLD RENOWNED FERTILITY DOCTOR WHO FOUNDED ONE OF THE NATION’S FIRST FERTILITY CLINICS STANDS ACCUSED OF SECRETLY USING HIS OWN SPERME TO IMPREGNATE A PATIENT MORE THAN 40 YEARS AGO. >> THAT WAS ITS OWN, UH, ITS OWN SHOCK.

>> CAROLYN BESTER, NOW 42, SAID SHE MADE THE DISCOVERY WHEN SHE USED A HOME GENEALOGY KIT AND FOUND SOME OF HER RELATIVES WERE ALSO RELATIVES OF HER MOTHER’S FERTILITY DOCTOR, MERLE BERGER. BESTER’S MOTHER SAYS SHE IS SHOCKED AND NOW SHE’S SUING. >> WE NEVER DREAMT WE WOULD HAVE. HE WOULD ABUSE HIS

POSITION OF TRUST AND PERPETRATE THIS EXTREME VIOLENCE. >> ONE DAY, POYEN SAYS SHE AND HER HUSBAND SAW DOCTOR BERGER FOR FERTILITY SERVICES IN MASSACHUSETTS IN 1980, AND HE PROMISED TO USE THE SPERME OF AN ANONYMOUS MEDICAL RESIDENT WHO RESEMBLED HER HUSBAND. BUT THE SUIT CLAIMS BERGER INSTEAD USED

HIS OWN SPERME AND HER DAUGHTER WAS BORN IN 1981. >> IT’S HARD TO IMAGINE NOT TRUSTING YOUR OWN DOCTOR. >> DOCTOR BERGER LAUNCHED A BOSTON IVF IN 1986, WHICH HAS GROWN INTO THE COUNTRY’S LARGEST INFERTILITY TREATMENT CENTER, WITH CLINICS IN SIX STATES. HE RETIRED IN 2020. BERGER DENIES THE ACCUSATIONS, HIS LAWYER

SAYING THE ALLEGATIONS, WHICH HAVE CHANGED REPEATEDLY IN THE SIX MONTHS SINCE THE PLAINTIFF’S ATTORNEY FIRST CONTACTED DOCTOR BERGER, HAVE NO LEGAL OR FACTUAL MERIT AND WILL BE DISPROVEN IN COURT. MEANWHILE DUPUY’S DAUGHTER SAYS SHE’S DEVASTATED . >> AND I KNOW WHO MY REAL FAMILY IS. THAT WILL NEVER CHANGE, BUT

I WILL ALWAYS STRUGGLE WITH WHAT DOCTOR BERGER DID TO MY MOM AND TO US. >> BOSTON IVF SAYS THIS CASE PREDATES ITS FOUNDING, BUT IT SAYS MANY MORE SAFETY MEASURES ARE IN PLACE TODAY COMPARED TO 1980, A TIME BEFORE SPERME BANKS WERE ESTABLISHED. ANDREW RHIANNON, ANDREA. >> THANK YOU. THE SUPREME COURT

WILL HEAR A DISPUTE OVER THE ABORTION PILL MIFEPRISTONE. THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION IS ASKING THE JUSTICES TO OVERTURN AN APPEALS COURT RULING THAT WOULD CUT OFF ACCESS TO THE DRUG THROUGH THE MAIL, PREVENT DOCTORS FROM PRESCRIBING IT VIRTUALLY, AND IMPOSE OTHER RESTRICTIONS. THIS IS THE COURT’S FIRST ABORTION CASE

SINCE OVERTURNING ROE V WADE. A DECISION ON THIS IS EXPECTED BY JULY. >> TIME NOW FOR YOUR THURSDAY WEATHER. >> GOOD MORNING. A BIG STORM IS BRINGING HEAVY SNOW TO THE MOUNTAINS OF COLORADO AND NEW MEXICO TODAY. AND A WINTRY MIX INTO THE SOUTHWESTERN PLAINS. THERE WILL BE SOME SLIPPERY

ROADS, EVEN SOME FREEZING RAIN IN AMARILLO. NOW THE RAINFALL FORECAST ACROSS FLORIDA IS SCARY . OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS THROUGH THE WEEKEND. YELLOW IS TWO INCHES, ORANGE IS FOUR INCHES. THERE’S GOING TO BE COASTAL FLOODING AND INLAND FLOODING AS WELL. NOW THAT STORM WILL MOVE UP THE COAST THIS

WEEKEND INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK, BRINGING A LOT OF COASTAL WIND AND RAIN. I’M ACCUWEATHER METEOROLOGIST KEVIN COCHRAN. COMING UP. >> WHY? EGG PRICES ARE ABOUT TO GO WAY UP. >> BUT FIRST, CREWS SHIP TO THE RESCUE. HOW A CARNIVAL CRUISE HELPED SAVE 12 PEOPLE STRANDED AT SEA. >> AND THE VIDEO EVIDENCE

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DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. THE SIX MEN HAD BEEN ON A CARGO SHIP THAT SANK ON WEDNESDAY. THEY WERE LIFTED ONTO A JAYHAWK HELICOPTER . SIX OF THEIR COLLEAGUES WERE RECOVERED BY A CARNIVAL CRUISE SHIP IN THAT AREA. ALL 12 MEN ARE OKAY. >> PRICES ARE EXPECTED TO START RISING AGAIN, BUT NOT BECAUSE OF

INFLATION. THE REASON IS A BIRD FLU OUTBREAK IN KANSAS AT A FACILITY RUN BY THE TOP EGG PRODUCER IN THE U.S, COW MAIN FOODS, NEARLY 700,000 HENS ARE AFFECTED, AND AMERICANS ARE BEING BOMBARDED WITH REQUESTS FOR TIPS APPEAR TO BE REBELLING. THE AVERAGE TIP GIVEN TO NON RESTAURANT SERVICE WORKERS

DROPPED BY 7% LAST MONTH. MORE CONSUMERS SAY THEY’RE BEING PRESSURED TO TIP IN SOME UNUSUAL PLACES. >> AS WE TURN NOW TO THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE TRIAL OF MARVEL ACTOR JONATHAN MAJORS, NEW EVIDENCE HAS BEEN RELEASED, INCLUDING AN AUDIO RECORDING AND VIDEO FROM THE NIGHT IN QUESTION . THIS MORNING, NEWLY UNSEALED

EVIDENCE AGAINST ACTOR JONATHAN MAJORS INCLUDES A CONVERSATION SECRETLY RECORDED LAST YEAR, DURING WHICH MAJORS APPEARS TO INSTRUCT HIS GIRLFRIEND TO BEHAVE MORE LIKE THE WIVES OF HISTORICALLY IMPORTANT MEN. >> CORETTA SCOTT KING. YOU KNOW WHO THAT IS? THAT’S MARTIN LUTHER KING’S WIFE, MICHELLE OBAMA, BARACK OBAMA’S WIFE, ALSO

SHOWN IN COURT THIS VIDEO FROM THE NIGHT OF THE ALLEGED ASSAULT. >> MAJORS CAN BE SEEN PICKING HIS EX-GIRLFRIEND, GRACE JABARI, UP TRYING TO SHOVE HER BACK INTO THAT SUV. JABARI CLAIMS MINUTES EARLIER, MAJORS HAD ASSAULTED HER IN THE BACK SEAT. >> JABARI SAID MAJORS HAD BROKEN HER FINGER AND CUT HER BEHIND

HER EAR AFTER SHE GRABBED HIS PHONE BECAUSE A MESSAGE POPPED UP FROM ANOTHER WOMAN. >> THE PROSECUTION ALSO PRESENTED TEXT MESSAGES FROM LAST YEAR IN WHICH MAJORS REFERS TO HIMSELF AS A MONSTER AND APPEARS TO ADMIT TO HITTING HER. HE ALSO REFERENCES HIS TEMPER DURING THAT CONVERSATION. RECORDED BY JABARI. I’M JUST

GOING TO SAY THIS. >> MY TEMPER, MY BY MY BLOOD, ALL THAT, ALL THAT SAID RIGHT? AND I’M NOT SAYING I’M A GREAT MAN, A GREAT MAN. I AM DOING GREAT THINGS NOT JUST FOR ME, BUT FOR MY FOR MY CULTURE AND FOR THE WORLD. >> BUT MAJORS LAWYERS ARGUE IT

WAS JABARI WHO ATTACKED HIM AFTER SEEING THAT TEXT MESSAGE IN THE SUV AND THEY SAY THIS VIDEO SHOWS JABARI AT A NIGHTCLUB AFTER THE ALLEGED ASSAULT, USING THE FINGER THAT SHE CLAIMED MAJORS BROKE. MAJORS DECIDED NOT TO TESTIFY IN JURY DELIBERATIONS. ARE EXPECTED TO BEGIN TODAY. IF CONVICTED, HE

FACES UP TO ONE YEAR BEHIND BARS , COMING UP A KILLING SPREE WHERE THE VICTIMS WERE BALD EAGLES. >> WHAT’S HAPPENING TO THE MEN INVOLVED? >> ALSO AHEAD, THE RARE PUNISHMENT FOR AN NBA STAR WHO’S USED TO GETTING INTO TROUBLE We have really gone again.

I was terrified. It was just so traumatic nightmare people need to understand. These were wanted babies 18 women facing life and death medical conditions their lives now out of their control. I felt like I was going to die our lives and our health our debatable

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BECAUSE LOOK AT HIS GOOD LUCK. HE HAD JUST LEFT HIS CAR WHEN LIGHTNING STRUCK THAT TREE AND YOU SAW WHAT IT DID. IT SENT THE BRANCHES CRASHING DOWN ON HIS CAR WAS TOTALED. BUT HE’S DOING JUST FINE. BACK HERE IN THE US, TWO MEN ARE FACING CHARGES FOR A

KILLING SPREE. THE VICTIMS WERE BALD EAGLES. PROSECUTORS IN MONTANA SAY OVER A TWO YEAR PERIOD, THE MEN KILLED 3600 BIRDS, INCLUDING EAGLES, THAT WERE SOLD ON THE BLACK MARKET. THE MEN ARE DUE IN COURT NEXT MONTH. THEY FACE UP TO FIVE YEARS IN PRISON. >> WE TURN NOW TO A RARE

PUNISHMENT IN PRO SPORTS, HANDED DOWN TO ONE OF THE NBA’S BEST KNOWN STARS. IT’S A RARE PUNISHMENT IN PRO BASKETBALL THIS MORNING, WARRIORS STAR DRAYMOND GREEN HAS BEEN SUSPENDED INDEFINITELY AFTER BEING THROWN OUT OF HIS THIRD GAME THIS SEASON. >> AND NOW GREEN RUNS OVER NURKIC AND HE’LL BE CALLED FOR THE FOUL.

>> GREEN, A FOUR TIME ALL STAR, APPEARED TO PUNCH SUNS CENTER JUSUF NURKIC IN THE FACE DURING TUESDAY NIGHT’S GAME. >> NURKIC IS DOWN IN A HEAP. I WAS JUST SELLING THE CAR BECAUSE HE WAS GRABBING ME AND PULLING MY HIP BACK, SO I SPUN AWAY AND UNFORTUNATELY I HIT HIM AND SO

LIKE I SAID I APOLOGIZE TO YUSEF GREEN APOLOGIZED. >> BUT CRITICS SAY IT’S TOO LITTLE TOO LATE. >> I CAN’T IMAGINE A SOUL THAT’S IN A POSITION TO PROTECT DRAYMOND GREEN. LOOK AT TYSON MCCAIN. >> WHAT IS GOING ON WITH THAT? >> JUST LAST MONTH, GREEN WAS SUSPENDED FIVE GAMES FOR PUTTING

RUDY GOBERT IN A HEADLOCK. GREEN HAS A HISTORY OF BAD ON COURT BEHAVIOR, HAVING BEEN SUSPENDED 18 TIMES IN HIS CAREER. THE NBA LAST NIGHT CITED HIS HISTORY AS A REPEAT OFFENDER AND HANDING DOWN THE INDEFINITE SUSPENSION, SAYING GREEN WILL BE REQUIRED TO MEET CERTAIN LEAGUE AND TEAM CONDITIONS BEFORE HE RETURNS TO

PLAY. AS FOR TUESDAY NIGHT’S HIT ON THE COURT, NURKIC HAD THIS TO SAY WHAT’S GOING ON WITH HIM? >> I DON’T KNOW PERSONALLY, I FEEL LIKE THAT BROTHER NEEDED HELP AND I’M GLAD HE NOT TRY TO CHOKE ME. HOPE HE, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER HE GOT IN HIS LIFE GET BETTER.

>> MEANWHILE MORE DRAMA IN THE NBA LAST NIGHT IF YOU CAN BELIEVE IT, THIS TIME INVOLVING SUPERSTAR GIANNIS NKOMBO. HE FURIOUSLY RAN TO THE LOCKER ROOM AFTER THE GAME, ACCUSING THE PACERS OF STEALING THE GAME BALL. HE WANTED THE BALL BECAUSE HE SCORED A CAREER HIGH 64 POINTS IN THE GAME DRAMA, DRAMA,

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REAL PEOPLE. THEY ARE CREATED BY AI. THEY CLAIM TO SPEAK ANY LANGUAGE AND INSIST THEY ARE NOT MAKING STUFF UP. >> AND WHAT IS AI? NATIVE NEWS FIRST, HERE’S WHAT IT’S NOT. IT’S NOT FAKE NEWS. THERE ISN’T A COMPUTER SOMEWHERE WRITING ITS OWN NEWS STORIES ABOUT THINGS THAT HAVEN’T HAPPENED. OUR

SYSTEM RELIES ONLY ON TRUSTED NEWS SOURCES. >> SURE IT DOES. >> CHANNEL ONE IS EXPECTED TO DEBUT NEXT YEAR ON STREAMING SERVICES. NEXT, A BREAKTHROUGH FOR EXPECTING MOMS. >> RESEARCHERS THINK THEY FINALLY KNOW WHY SOME WOMEN SUFFER EXTREME MORNING SICKNESS. A NEW STUDY FINDS. FETUSES PRODUCE A HORMONE THAT CAN LEAD

TO NAUSEA. WOMEN WITH SEVERE MORNING SICKNESS WERE FOUND TO HAVE HIGH LEVELS OF THE HORMONE GDF15. SCIENTISTS HOPE TO USE THIS INFORMATION TO DEVELOP TREATMENTS NEXT. OPRAH WINFREY’S LEGACY AND WEIGHT LOSS. >> THE SMITHSONIAN UNVEILED OPRAH’S PORTRAIT YESTERDAY, DEPICTING HER IN A PURPLE GOWN HOLDING AN OLIVE BRANCH. THE PORTRAIT WILL HANG ALONGSIDE

OTHER AMERICAN ICONS AT THE SMITHSONIAN NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY AND OPRAH RECENTLY REVEALED SHE DOES TAKE A MEDICATION TO MANAGE HER WEIGHT. >> IT COMES AS DEMAND SOARS FOR DRUGS LIKE OZEMPIC AND WEGOVY. NEXT WHOLE MILK IS ONE STEP CLOSER TO MAKING A COMEBACK IN SCHOOL. THE HOUSE JUST PASSED A

BILL THAT WOULD LIFT THE BAN ON WHOLE MILK IN SCHOOL CAFETERIAS, GIVING KIDS AN ALTERNATIVE TO LOW FAT MILK. FINALLY, AN EARLY CHRISTMAS IN KENTUCKY. >> THE BOSS AT A MEDICAL CENTER PLAYED SANTA SHEILA COLTER BOUGHT HER STAFF $70 IN LOTTERY TICKETS. WHEN ONE OF THEM WON 50

BUCKS, SHE USED THAT CASH TO BUY MORE, AND ONE OF THOSE HIT FOR $50,000. >> SO NOW EACH WORKER GETS ABOUT 1700 BUCKS. JUST TO BUY TIME FOR THE HOLIDAYS. >> TOP It’s lunchtime in America. So what are we serving up? Well, how about everything you need to know? You know, that sounds

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America’s number one, most watched news cast across all of television, We have really gone again. I was terrified. It was just so traumatic nightmare people need to understand. These were wanted babies 18 women facing life and death medical conditions their lives

Now out of their control. I felt like I was going to die our lives and our health our debatable one. Wish this upon my worst. Enemy Diane Sawyer Rachel Scott on the brink now streaming on Hulu. CHECKING MORE TOP STORIES NOW PRESIDENT BIDEN IS SLAMMING REPUBLICANS FOR OPENING A FORMAL

IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY, CALLING IT A BASELESS POLITICAL STUNT. >> BIDEN’S SON, HUNTER, DEFIED A CONGRESSIONAL SUBPOENA AND SPOKE OUT DEFENDING HIS FATHER AGAINST CLAIMS OF INTERFERENCE IN HUNTER’S OVERSEAS BUSINESS DEALINGS. >> A FEDERAL JUDGE HAS PUT FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP’S ELECTION INTERFERENCE CASE ON HOLD, AS HIS CLAIM THAT HE’S IMMUNE FROM PROSECUTION MAKES

ITS WAY THROUGH THE APPEALS PROCESS. THAT MEANS HIS MARCH 4TH TRIAL DATE COULD BE DELAYED. >> THE ONLINE PLATFORM DISCORD TIPPED OFF THE FBI TO AN ALLEGED MASS SHOOTING PLOT IN OHIO, AN OFFICIAL TELLS ABC NEWS. THE 13 YEAR OLD POSTED IN SEPTEMBER THREATENING TO ATTACK A JEWISH

TEMPLE AND WAS LATER ARRESTED, A REALITY SHOW FEATURING THE FAMILY OF SEAN DIDDY COMBS HAS NOW BEEN DROPPED BY HULU AMID CLAIMS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT AGAINST COMBS. >> HE SETTLED ONE CASE AND DENIES ANY WRONGDOING IN THE OTHERS. >> TODAY’S WEATHER RAIN IN FLORIDA, RAIN IN TEXAS AND THE

PLAINS, HEAVY SNOW IN THE SOUTHERN ROCKIES AND SHOWERS ON THE WEST COAST. >> AND FINALLY, THE HOLIDAY LIGHT DISPLAY INSPIRED BY CLARK GRISWOLD HIMSELF. DANNY. >> NEWS SHOWS US. >> HEY, THAT HOUSE LOOKS FAMILIAR. HOW MANY LIGHTS GO INTO YOUR DISPLAY? >> 25,000. UH, JUST LIKE THE MOVIE, EVERYTHING HAS TO BE

EXACT. UM ALL THE AREA FOR THE LAST 11 YEARS. >> GREG AND RACHEL OSTERLUND OF WADSWORTH, OHIO, HAVE ERECTED AN INCREASINGLY EVEN MORE ACCURATE RECREATION OF THE DISPLAY FROM THE 1989 CLASSIC NATIONAL LAMPOON’S CHRISTMAS VACATION. >> THEY’VE LANDED THEIR, UH, PORTIONS OF THEIR YARD AS WELL. >> OVER THE LAST DECADE, AS THE

FAMILY HAS ROPED IN NEIGHBORS AND EXPANDED THE PRODUCTION. THE HOUSE IS ACTUALLY BECOME QUITE FAMOUS. >> THEY TYPE IN GRISWOLD HOUSE. OUR HOUSE IS USUALLY THE ONE THAT SHOWS UP. I THINK WE’RE ALL IN FOR A VERY BIG TREAT. >> AND IN FACT, GREG AND RACHEL HAVE EVEN CHATTED WITH THE MOVIE

STARS. CHEVY CHASE AND BEVERLY D’ANGELO. WE HAD A LOT OF FUN DISCUSSING THE HOW SHE PULLED IT UP ON FACEBOOK. >> THIS IS YOUR HOUSE. AND YEP, WE’RE THIS IS WHAT WE DO. SO THE CARDBOARD CUT OUT WOULD NOT BE COMPLETE WITHOUT. >> BUT PERHAPS MOST IMPRESSIVELY, OVER THE LAST 11

YEARS THEY’VE COLLECTED DONATIONS AND RAISED MORE THAN $50,000 FOR A NONPROFIT CALLED GREAT STRIDES. IT FUNDS RESEARCH FOR CURING CYSTIC FIBROSIS, WHICH GREG WAS DIAGNOSED WITH AT SIX YEARS OLD. >> HAVEN’T FELT THIS GOOD IN A LONG TIME JUST BECAUSE OF SOME OF THE RESEARCH THAT THEY’VE DONE, SOME MEDICINES THAT HAVE

COME OUT JOY TO THE WORLD WORLD. >> BUT GREG SAYS IF THEY DO FIND A CURE FOR THIS DISEASE, IT’S NOT LIKE HIS FAMILY IS EVER GOING TO STOP BRINGING THIS MUCH JOY TO THE WORLD. >> THEN WE’RE GOING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT TO RAISE MONEY FOR NEXT .

>> BY THE WAY, WHEN GREG MET RACHEL, SHE HAD ACTUALLY NOT SEEN THE MOVIE BEFORE, BUT I WANT TO UPDATE THAT GUYS. SHE HAS NOW SEEN IT. >> OKAY, WHAT DO YOU THINK THE ELECTRIC BILL IS? >> I DON’T EVEN WANT TO KNOW. >> THAT’S WHAT’S MAKING NEWS. OKAY

>> RIGHT NOW ON AMERICA THIS MORNING, REPUBLICANS APPROVE A FORMAL IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY INTO PRESIDENT BIDEN. ON THE SAME DAY, THE PRESIDENT’S SON, HUNTER, DEFIED A SUBPOENA FROM CONGRESS. WHAT’S NEXT FOR THE BIDENS AND WHY? TWO WORDS HUNTER BIDEN SAID YESTERDAY ARE NOW FACING CLOSE SCRUTINY. >> A NEW RECORD HIGH ON WALL

STREET. STOCKS SOARING AFTER THE FED LEAVES INTEREST RATES UNCHANGED. BUT IT’S WHAT THE FED SAID ABOUT NEXT YEAR THAT’S GETTING ALL THE ATTENTION. >> ALLEGATIONS OF FERTILITY FRAUD A WORLD FAMOUS DOCTOR WHO HELPED START CLINICS IN MULTIPLE STATES, NOW THE SUBJECT OF A LEGAL BATTLE, HEAR FROM A WOMAN CLAIMING SHE WAS DECEIVED

DECADES AGO BEFORE THE BIRTH OF HER DAUGHTER. >> NEW EVIDENCE UNSEALED AT THE ASSAULT TRIAL OF MARVEL ACTOR JONATHAN MAJORS. WHAT HE’S HEARD TELLING HIS THEN GIRLFRIEND, A RARE PUNISHMENT, HANDED DOWN NURKIC IS DOWN IN A HEAP. >> THE ON COURT BEHAVIOR THAT’S GOT ONE OF THE NBA’S BIG STARS SIDELINED INDEFINITELY.

>> AND LATER THE GIFT FROM THE BOSS THAT WILL DEFINITELY IMPROVE MORALE AT THE OFFICE. >> FROM ABC NEWS IN NEW YORK THIS IS AMERICA THIS MORNING. >> GOOD THURSDAY MORNING EVERYONE I’M ANDREW DYMBURT. >> HAPPY THURSDAY I’M RHIANNON ALLY. WE BEGIN WITH THE NEW MOVE BY REPUBLICANS TO INVESTIGATE PRESIDENT BIDEN.

>> THE HOUSE VOTED LAST NIGHT ALONG PARTY LINES TO APPROVE A FORMAL IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY INTO PRESIDENT BIDEN. ON THE SAME DAY, THE PRESIDENT’S SON, HUNTER , DEFIED A SUBPOENA FROM CONGRESS. >> SO WHAT’S NEXT IN THIS INVESTIGATION? SEVEN ABC’S JUSTIN FINCH BEGINS OUR COVERAGE NOW FROM WASHINGTON. JUSTIN. GOOD MORNING.

>> RHIANNON. GOOD MORNING. REPUBLICANS ARE NOW INTENSE DEFYING THEIR INVESTIGATION INTO THE PRESIDENT AND HIS FAMILY. >> THE RESOLUTION IS ADOPTED. >> HOUSE REPUBLICANS HAVE NOW UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED A FORMAL IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY INTO PRESIDENT BIDEN AS THEY LOOK INTO WHETHER THE PRESIDENT IMPROPERLY BENEFITED FROM FOREIGN BUSINESS DEALINGS INVOLVING HIS SON, HUNTER.

>> I HAVE BEEN THE TARGET OF THE UNRELENTING TRUMP ATTACK MACHINE SHOUTING WHERE’S HUNTER? WELL, HERE’S MY ANSWER. I AM HERE BEFORE YESTERDAY’S HOUSE VOTE, HUNTER DEFIED A CONGRESSIONAL SUBPOENA, SAYING HE’S WILLING TO TESTIFY, BUT ONLY IN PUBLIC, OUT OF CONCERN. >> A PRIVATE DEPOSITION COULD BE SELECTIVELY LEAKED OR MANIPULATED.

SUPPORT THE ALLEGATIONS THAT MY FATHER WAS FINANCIALLY INVOLVED IN MY BUSINESS BECAUSE IT DID NOT HAPPEN. >> NOW, REPUBLICANS ARE HANGING ON TO THOSE WORDS. FINALLY INVOLVED. >> THAT IS A HUGE DEPARTURE FROM EVERYTHING THEY HAVE SAID. NOW FOR THE LAST THREE AND A HALF YEARS, AS THE WHITE HOUSE HAS

MAINTAINED, THE PRESIDENT WAS NEVER IN BUSINESS WITH HIS SON AND PRESIDENT BIDEN HAS SAID HE NEVER SPOKE TO HIS SON ABOUT HIS FOREIGN BUSINESS DEALINGS. >> JUDICIARY COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN JIM JORDAN CLAIMS THE WORDS HUNTER USED YESTERDAY INDICATE A SHIFT. >> FIRST, IT WAS NO INVOLVEMENT, THEN NO, I NEVER, NEVER TALKED

TO ANYONE. AND THEN WE FIND OUT ABOUT THE DINNERS, THE MEETINGS, THE PHONE CALLS AND EVERYTHING ELSE. >> REPUBLICANS HAVE FAILED TO SHOW ANY EVIDENCE IMPLICATING PRESIDENT BIDEN IN ANY WRONGDOING. THEY SAY THEY NEED THE IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY TO FIND THE EVIDENCE, SAYING IT WILL ALLOW THEM TO BETTER ENFORCE SUBPOENAS IN COURT. CRITICS

CLAIM IT’S ALL A POLITICAL STUNT . >> IT’S ALL ABOUT POWER AND TRUTH, AND JUSTICE REALLY HAS NO ROLE IN WHAT THEY’RE DOING. IF YOU HAVE EVIDENCE THAT JOE BIDEN, NOT HUNTER BIDEN, BUT THAT JOE BIDEN BROKE THE LAW, BRING IT FORWARD. AND IF IT’S IMPEACHABLE, IMPEACH THEM. BUT

YOU DON’T HAVE THAT EVIDENCE. >> AS FOR HUNTER BIDEN, THE HOUSE WILL LIKELY VOTE TO HOLD HIM IN CONTEMPT FOR DEFYING THAT SUBPOENA, BUT IT WOULD BE UP TO THE BIDEN JUSTICE DEPARTMENT TO DECIDE ON WHETHER TO PROSECUTE ANDREW. ALL RIGHT. >> JUSTIN, THANK YOU. THE SUPREME COURT HAS AGREED TO HEAR

A CHALLENGE THAT COULD AFFECT THE PROSECUTION OF FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP AND HUNDREDS OF DEFENDANTS IN THE JANUARY 6TH ATTACK ON THE CAPITOL. THEY WERE ALL CHARGED UNDER A FEDERAL LAW THAT MAKES IT A CRIME TO OBSTRUCT AN OFFICIAL PROCEEDING. AS ABC TERRY MORAN REPORTS, DEFENSE ATTORNEYS SAY THE LAW

WAS MEANT TO DEAL WITH WITNESS TAMPERING AND SHOULD NOT BE APPLIED TO THESE CASES. >> REPUBLICANS HAVE BEEN MAKING THIS CASE FOR MONTHS, SOME OF THEM ARGUING THAT THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT SHOULD NOW PROSECUTE LIBERAL PROTESTERS WHO DISRUPTED OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS IN TENNESSEE AND NEW YORK CITY EARLIER THIS YEAR. AND TWO OF

THE FOUR CHARGES THAT TRUMP FACES IN THIS CASE ARE BASED ON THAT LOSS OF THE COURTS MOVE IS A BIG WIN FOR HIM. >> IN THE MEANTIME, TRUMP’S ELECTION INTERFERENCE TRIAL COULD BE DELAYED AS HE APPEALS, CLAIMING PRESIDENTIAL IMMUNITY NOW TO THE WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NEW QUESTIONS ABOUT

WHETHER THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION IS PUSHING ISRAEL TO CHANGE COURSE. >> THIS MORNING, THE WHITE HOUSE APPEARS TO BE PLAYING DOWN PRESIDENT BIDEN’S HARSHEST CRITICISM YET OF ISRAEL SINCE THE WAR BROKE OUT. >> HE WAS EXPRESSING CONCERNS THAT THAT THAT WE CONTINUE TO SEE CIVILIAN CASUALTIES IN GAZA AT A FUNDRAISER, THE PRESIDENT

SAID ISRAEL IS LOSING INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT BECAUSE OF ITS INDISCRIMINATE BOMBING IN GAZA. >> A WHITE HOUSE SPOKESMAN WOULD NOT CONFIRM WHETHER BIDEN’S REMARK IS AN OFFICIAL ASSESSMENT. IF SO, IT COULD HAVE SIGNIFICANT IMPLICATIONS. >> AS I SAID TO MY PREVIOUS ANSWER THERE, THAT THEY WILL ACT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW OF

ARMED CONFLICT AND DO EVERYTHING THAT THEY CAN TO MATCH THEIR INTENT, WHICH IS TO MINIMIZE CIVILIAN CASUALTIES. >> IF THEY AREN’T, THEN ISN’T THERE AN OBLIGATION FOR THE U.S. TO CHANGE THE WAY THAT IT’S DELIVERING MILITARY AID? >> THAT’S A HYPOTHETICAL THAT I’M NOT PREPARED TO ENGAGE IN RIGHT NOW.

>> IF HE’S SAYING INDISCRIMINATE BOMBING, THAT’S A HYPOTHETICAL. >> I’M NOT GOING TO ENGAGE IN. WE HAVE EXPRESSED OUR CONCERNS. THE PRESIDENT HAS PUBLICLY AND PRIVATELY WITH THE ISRAELIS ABOUT THE NEED TO REDUCE CIVILIAN CASUALTIES, AND WILL CAN CONTINUE TO DO THAT TODAY, U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER JAKE SULLIVAN IS MEETING WITH

ISRAEL’S PRIME MINISTER TO PUSH FOR RESTRAINT AND FOR MORE HUMANITARIAN AID AND MORE THAN 18,000 PEOPLE HAVE BEEN KILLED IN GAZA, ACCORDING TO THE HAMAS RUN HEALTH MINISTRY. >> AN ESTIMATED 85% OF THE POPULATION HAS BEEN DISPLACED. ENCAMPMENTS LIKE THIS ONE FLOODED BY A RECENT STORM DISEASE SETTING IN. 135

HOSTAGES, ARE STILL BEING HELD BY HAMAS, INCLUDING AMERICAN. >> NOW TO YOUR MONEY AND SOME GOOD NEWS FROM WALL STREET. THE DOW OPENS AT A RECORD HIGH THIS MORNING. STOCKS ARE SOARING AFTER THE FED ANNOUNCED IT’S LEAVING INTEREST RATES UNCHANGED . FED CHAIRMAN JEROME POWELL SAID THERE’S NO NEED FOR ANOTHER

RATE HIKE BECAUSE INFLATION IS COOLING. HE EVEN SUGGESTED THREE RATE CUTS ARE LIKELY NEXT YEAR, WHICH WOULD BRING DOWN BORROWING COSTS ON MORTGAGES AND CAR LOANS . >> THE FBI HAS NOW JOINED THE INVESTIGATION INTO THREE ATTEMPTED ABDUCTIONS NEAR THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA. AUTHORITIES SAY SOMEONE APPROACHED AT LEAST THREE

STUDENTS NEAR THE TUCSON CAMPUS. THE THREE WOMEN REPORTED BEING FOLLOWED BY A MAN WHO WAS DRIVING A BLUE CAR. ONE WAS GROPED. THEY ALL ESCAPED UNINJURED. NOW TO A DISTURBING STORY INVOLVING A PIONEERING FERTILITY DOCTOR. >> HE’S THE SUBJECT OF A NEW LAWSUIT FROM A WOMAN WHO CLAIMS SHE WAS DECEIVED DECADES AGO,

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GUARD RESCUE CREW NEAR THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. THE SIX MEN HAD BEEN ON A CARGO SHIP THAT SANK ON WEDNESDAY. THEY WERE LIFTED ONTO A JAYHAWK HELICOPTER . SIX OF THEIR COLLEAGUES WERE RECOVERED BY A CARNIVAL CRUISE SHIP IN THAT AREA. ALL 12 MEN ARE OKAY. >> PRICES ARE EXPECTED TO START

RISING AGAIN, BUT NOT BECAUSE OF INFLATION. THE REASON IS A BIRD FLU OUTBREAK IN KANSAS AT A FACILITY RUN BY THE TOP EGG PRODUCER IN THE U.S, COW MAIN FOODS, NEARLY 700,000 HENS ARE AFFECTED, AND AMERICANS ARE BEING BOMBARDED WITH REQUESTS FOR TIPS APPEAR TO BE REBELLING. THE AVERAGE TIP GIVEN TO NON

RESTAURANT SERVICE WORKERS DROPPED BY 7% LAST MONTH. MORE CONSUMERS SAY THEY’RE BEING PRESSURED TO TIP IN SOME UNUSUAL PLACES. >> AS WE TURN NOW TO THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE TRIAL OF MARVEL ACTOR JONATHAN MAJORS, NEW EVIDENCE HAS BEEN RELEASED, INCLUDING AN AUDIO RECORDING AND VIDEO FROM THE NIGHT IN QUESTION

. THIS MORNING, NEWLY UNSEALED EVIDENCE AGAINST ACTOR JONATHAN MAJORS INCLUDES A CONVERSATION SECRETLY RECORDED LAST YEAR, DURING WHICH MAJORS APPEARS TO INSTRUCT HIS GIRLFRIEND TO BEHAVE MORE LIKE THE WIVES OF HISTORICALLY IMPORTANT MEN. >> CORETTA SCOTT KING. YOU KNOW WHO THAT IS? THAT’S MARTIN LUTHER KING’S WIFE, MICHELLE OBAMA, BARACK OBAMA’S WIFE, ALSO

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CAPLYTA. FIND SAVINGS AND SUPPORT AT CAPLYTA DOT COM. JUST INCREDIBLE VIDEO HERE. >> A MAN IN AUSTRALIA SAYS HE MUST PLAY THE LOTTERY NEXT BECAUSE LOOK AT HIS GOOD LUCK. HE HAD JUST LEFT HIS CAR WHEN LIGHTNING STRUCK THAT TREE AND YOU SAW WHAT IT DID. IT SENT THE

BRANCHES CRASHING DOWN ON HIS CAR WAS TOTALED. BUT HE’S DOING JUST FINE. BACK HERE IN THE US, TWO MEN ARE FACING CHARGES FOR A KILLING SPREE. THE VICTIMS WERE BALD EAGLES. PROSECUTORS IN MONTANA SAY OVER A TWO YEAR PERIOD, THE MEN KILLED 3600 BIRDS, INCLUDING EAGLES, THAT WERE SOLD ON THE BLACK MARKET.

THE MEN ARE DUE IN COURT NEXT MONTH. THEY FACE UP TO FIVE YEARS IN PRISON. >> WE TURN NOW TO A RARE PUNISHMENT IN PRO SPORTS, HANDED DOWN TO ONE OF THE NBA’S BEST KNOWN STARS. IT’S A RARE PUNISHMENT IN PRO BASKETBALL THIS MORNING, WARRIORS STAR DRAYMOND GREEN HAS BEEN SUSPENDED INDEFINITELY AFTER

BEING THROWN OUT OF HIS THIRD GAME THIS SEASON. >> AND NOW GREEN RUNS OVER NURKIC AND HE’LL BE CALLED FOR THE FOUL. >> GREEN, A FOUR TIME ALL STAR, APPEARED TO PUNCH SUNS CENTER JUSUF NURKIC IN THE FACE DURING TUESDAY NIGHT’S GAME. >> NURKIC IS DOWN IN A HEAP. I

WAS JUST SELLING THE CAR BECAUSE HE WAS GRABBING ME AND PULLING MY HIP BACK, SO I SPUN AWAY AND UNFORTUNATELY I HIT HIM AND SO LIKE I SAID I APOLOGIZE TO YUSEF GREEN APOLOGIZED. >> BUT CRITICS SAY IT’S TOO LITTLE TOO LATE. >> I CAN’T IMAGINE A SOUL THAT’S

IN A POSITION TO PROTECT DRAYMOND GREEN. LOOK AT TYSON MCCAIN. >> WHAT IS GOING ON WITH THAT? >> JUST LAST MONTH, GREEN WAS SUSPENDED FIVE GAMES FOR PUTTING RUDY GOBERT IN A HEADLOCK. GREEN HAS A HISTORY OF BAD ON COURT BEHAVIOR, HAVING BEEN SUSPENDED 18 TIMES IN HIS CAREER. THE NBA

LAST NIGHT CITED HIS HISTORY AS A REPEAT OFFENDER AND HANDING DOWN THE INDEFINITE SUSPENSION, SAYING GREEN WILL BE REQUIRED TO MEET CERTAIN LEAGUE AND TEAM CONDITIONS BEFORE HE RETURNS TO PLAY. AS FOR TUESDAY NIGHT’S HIT ON THE COURT, NURKIC HAD THIS TO SAY WHAT’S GOING ON WITH HIM?

>> I DON’T KNOW PERSONALLY, I FEEL LIKE THAT BROTHER NEEDED HELP AND I’M GLAD HE NOT TRY TO CHOKE ME. HOPE HE, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER HE GOT IN HIS LIFE GET BETTER. >> MEANWHILE MORE DRAMA IN THE NBA LAST NIGHT IF YOU CAN BELIEVE IT, THIS TIME INVOLVING SUPERSTAR GIANNIS NKOMBO. HE

FURIOUSLY RAN TO THE LOCKER ROOM AFTER THE GAME, ACCUSING THE PACERS OF STEALING THE GAME BALL. HE WANTED THE BALL BECAUSE HE SCORED A CAREER HIGH 64 POINTS IN THE GAME DRAMA, DRAMA, DRAMA COMING UP, A VICTORY FOR FANS OF WHOLE MILK, PLUS A NEWS MAN’S NIGHTMARE. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IS COMING TO AN

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AMERICA. >> TIME TO CHECK THE PULSE. WE BEGIN WITH SOME POSSIBLE COMPETITION. >> IT’S BEING BILLED AS THE WORLD’S FIRST ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE POWERED NEWS NETWORK. YES. NEWS NETWORK, A VIDEO EXPLAINING CHANNEL ONE IS HOSTED BY ANCHORS THAT ARE NOT REAL PEOPLE. THEY ARE CREATED BY AI. THEY CLAIM TO SPEAK ANY

LANGUAGE AND INSIST THEY ARE NOT MAKING STUFF UP. >> AND WHAT IS AI? NATIVE NEWS FIRST, HERE’S WHAT IT’S NOT. IT’S NOT FAKE NEWS. THERE ISN’T A COMPUTER SOMEWHERE WRITING ITS OWN NEWS STORIES ABOUT THINGS THAT HAVEN’T HAPPENED. OUR SYSTEM RELIES ONLY ON TRUSTED NEWS SOURCES. >> SURE IT DOES.

>> CHANNEL ONE IS EXPECTED TO DEBUT NEXT YEAR ON STREAMING SERVICES. NEXT, A BREAKTHROUGH FOR EXPECTING MOMS. >> RESEARCHERS THINK THEY FINALLY KNOW WHY SOME WOMEN SUFFER EXTREME MORNING SICKNESS. A NEW STUDY FINDS. FETUSES PRODUCE A HORMONE THAT CAN LEAD TO NAUSEA. WOMEN WITH SEVERE MORNING SICKNESS WERE FOUND TO

HAVE HIGH LEVELS OF THE HORMONE GDF15. SCIENTISTS HOPE TO USE THIS INFORMATION TO DEVELOP TREATMENTS NEXT. OPRAH WINFREY’S LEGACY AND WEIGHT LOSS. >> THE SMITHSONIAN UNVEILED OPRAH’S PORTRAIT YESTERDAY, DEPICTING HER IN A PURPLE GOWN HOLDING AN OLIVE BRANCH. THE PORTRAIT WILL HANG ALONGSIDE OTHER AMERICAN ICONS AT THE SMITHSONIAN NATIONAL PORTRAIT

GALLERY AND OPRAH RECENTLY REVEALED SHE DOES TAKE A MEDICATION TO MANAGE HER WEIGHT. >> IT COMES AS DEMAND SOARS FOR DRUGS LIKE OZEMPIC AND WEGOVY. NEXT WHOLE MILK IS ONE STEP CLOSER TO MAKING A COMEBACK IN SCHOOL. THE HOUSE JUST PASSED A BILL THAT WOULD LIFT THE BAN ON

WHOLE MILK IN SCHOOL CAFETERIAS, GIVING KIDS AN ALTERNATIVE TO LOW FAT MILK. FINALLY, AN EARLY CHRISTMAS IN KENTUCKY. >> THE BOSS AT A MEDICAL CENTER PLAYED SANTA SHEILA COLTER BOUGHT HER STAFF $70 IN LOTTERY TICKETS. WHEN ONE OF THEM WON 50 BUCKS, SHE USED THAT CASH TO BUY

MORE, AND ONE OF THOSE HIT FOR $50,000. >> SO NOW EACH WORKER GETS ABOUT 1700 BUCKS. JUST TO BUY TIME FOR THE HOLIDAYS. >> TOP First thing in the morning. There’s a lot going on, everybody in that home is, okay, to catch you up with what

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The what would you do marathon 2:00 to 6:00 Eastern every Saturday on ABC News live? CHECKING MORE TOP STORIES NOW PRESIDENT BIDEN IS SLAMMING REPUBLICANS FOR OPENING A FORMAL IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY, CALLING IT A BASELESS POLITICAL STUNT. >> BIDEN’S SON, HUNTER, DEFIED A CONGRESSIONAL SUBPOENA AND SPOKE OUT DEFENDING HIS FATHER AGAINST

CLAIMS OF INTERFERENCE IN HUNTER’S OVERSEAS BUSINESS DEALINGS. >> A FEDERAL JUDGE HAS PUT FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP’S ELECTION INTERFERENCE CASE ON HOLD, AS HIS CLAIM THAT HE’S IMMUNE FROM PROSECUTION MAKES ITS WAY THROUGH THE APPEALS PROCESS. THAT MEANS HIS MARCH 4TH TRIAL DATE COULD BE DELAYED. >> THE ONLINE PLATFORM DISCORD

TIPPED OFF THE FBI TO AN ALLEGED MASS SHOOTING PLOT IN OHIO, AN OFFICIAL TELLS ABC NEWS. THE 13 YEAR OLD POSTED IN SEPTEMBER THREATENING TO ATTACK A JEWISH TEMPLE AND WAS LATER ARRESTED, A REALITY SHOW FEATURING THE FAMILY OF SEAN DIDDY COMBS HAS NOW BEEN DROPPED BY HULU AMID

CLAIMS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT AGAINST COMBS. >> HE SETTLED ONE CASE AND DENIES ANY WRONGDOING IN THE OTHERS. >> TODAY’S WEATHER RAIN IN FLORIDA, RAIN IN TEXAS AND THE PLAINS, HEAVY SNOW IN THE SOUTHERN ROCKIES AND SHOWERS ON THE WEST COAST. >> AND FINALLY, THE HOLIDAY LIGHT DISPLAY INSPIRED BY CLARK GRISWOLD HIMSELF. DANNY.

>> NEWS SHOWS US. >> HEY, THAT HOUSE LOOKS FAMILIAR. HOW MANY LIGHTS GO INTO YOUR DISPLAY? >> 25,000. UH, JUST LIKE THE MOVIE, EVERYTHING HAS TO BE EXACT. UM ALL THE AREA FOR THE LAST 11 YEARS. >> GREG AND RACHEL OSTERLUND OF WADSWORTH, OHIO, HAVE ERECTED AN INCREASINGLY EVEN MORE ACCURATE

RECREATION OF THE DISPLAY FROM THE 1989 CLASSIC NATIONAL LAMPOON’S CHRISTMAS VACATION. >> THEY’VE LANDED THEIR, UH, PORTIONS OF THEIR YARD AS WELL. >> OVER THE LAST DECADE, AS THE FAMILY HAS ROPED IN NEIGHBORS AND EXPANDED THE PRODUCTION. THE HOUSE IS ACTUALLY BECOME QUITE FAMOUS. >> THEY TYPE IN GRISWOLD HOUSE.

OUR HOUSE IS USUALLY THE ONE THAT SHOWS UP. I THINK WE’RE ALL IN FOR A VERY BIG TREAT. >> AND IN FACT, GREG AND RACHEL HAVE EVEN CHATTED WITH THE MOVIE STARS. CHEVY CHASE AND BEVERLY D’ANGELO. WE HAD A LOT OF FUN DISCUSSING THE HOW SHE PULLED IT UP ON FACEBOOK.

>> THIS IS YOUR HOUSE. AND YEP, WE’RE THIS IS WHAT WE DO. SO THE CARDBOARD CUT OUT WOULD NOT BE COMPLETE WITHOUT. >> BUT PERHAPS MOST IMPRESSIVELY, OVER THE LAST 11 YEARS THEY’VE COLLECTED DONATIONS AND RAISED MORE THAN $50,000 FOR A NONPROFIT CALLED GREAT STRIDES. IT FUNDS RESEARCH FOR CURING CYSTIC FIBROSIS,

WHICH GREG WAS DIAGNOSED WITH AT SIX YEARS OLD. >> HAVEN’T FELT THIS GOOD IN A LONG TIME JUST BECAUSE OF SOME OF THE RESEARCH THAT THEY’VE DONE, SOME MEDICINES THAT HAVE COME OUT JOY TO THE WORLD WORLD. >> BUT GREG SAYS IF THEY DO FIND A CURE FOR THIS DISEASE, IT’S

NOT LIKE HIS FAMILY IS EVER GOING TO STOP BRINGING THIS MUCH JOY TO THE WORLD. >> THEN WE’RE GOING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT TO RAISE MONEY FOR NEXT . >> BY THE WAY, WHEN GREG MET RACHEL, SHE HAD ACTUALLY NOT SEEN THE MOVIE BEFORE, BUT I WANT TO UPDATE THAT GUYS. SHE

HAS NOW SEEN IT. >> OKAY, WHAT DO YOU THINK THE ELECTRIC BILL IS? >> I DON’T EVEN WANT TO KNOW. >> THAT’S WHAT’S MAKING NEWS. OKAY >> RIGHT NOW ON AMERICA THIS MORNING, REPUBLICANS APPROVE A FORMAL IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY INTO PRESIDENT BIDEN. ON THE SAME DAY, THE PRESIDENT’S SON, HUNTER, DEFIED A SUBPOENA FROM

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PUNISHMENT IN PRO BASKETBALL THIS MORNING, WARRIORS STAR DRAYMOND GREEN HAS BEEN SUSPENDED INDEFINITELY AFTER BEING THROWN OUT OF HIS THIRD GAME THIS SEASON. >> AND NOW GREEN RUNS OVER NURKIC AND HE’LL BE CALLED FOR THE FOUL. >> GREEN, A FOUR TIME ALL STAR, APPEARED TO PUNCH SUNS CENTER

JUSUF NURKIC IN THE FACE DURING TUESDAY NIGHT’S GAME. >> NURKIC IS DOWN IN A HEAP. I WAS JUST SELLING THE CAR BECAUSE HE WAS GRABBING ME AND PULLING MY HIP BACK, SO I SPUN AWAY AND UNFORTUNATELY I HIT HIM AND SO LIKE I SAID I APOLOGIZE TO YUSEF GREEN APOLOGIZED.

>> BUT CRITICS SAY IT’S TOO LITTLE TOO LATE. >> I CAN’T IMAGINE A SOUL THAT’S IN A POSITION TO PROTECT DRAYMOND GREEN. LOOK AT TYSON MCCAIN. >> WHAT IS GOING ON WITH THAT? >> JUST LAST MONTH, GREEN WAS SUSPENDED FIVE GAMES FOR PUTTING RUDY GOBERT IN A HEADLOCK. GREEN

HAS A HISTORY OF BAD ON COURT BEHAVIOR, HAVING BEEN SUSPENDED 18 TIMES IN HIS CAREER. THE NBA LAST NIGHT CITED HIS HISTORY AS A REPEAT OFFENDER AND HANDING DOWN THE INDEFINITE SUSPENSION, SAYING GREEN WILL BE REQUIRED TO MEET CERTAIN LEAGUE AND TEAM CONDITIONS BEFORE HE RETURNS TO PLAY. AS FOR TUESDAY NIGHT’S HIT

ON THE COURT, NURKIC HAD THIS TO SAY WHAT’S GOING ON WITH HIM? >> I DON’T KNOW PERSONALLY, I FEEL LIKE THAT BROTHER NEEDED HELP AND I’M GLAD HE NOT TRY TO CHOKE ME. HOPE HE, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER HE GOT IN HIS LIFE GET BETTER. >> MEANWHILE MORE DRAMA IN THE

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A BASELESS POLITICAL STUNT. >> BIDEN’S SON, HUNTER, DEFIED A CONGRESSIONAL SUBPOENA AND SPOKE OUT DEFENDING HIS FATHER AGAINST CLAIMS OF INTERFERENCE IN HUNTER’S OVERSEAS BUSINESS DEALINGS. >> A FEDERAL JUDGE HAS PUT FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP’S ELECTION INTERFERENCE CASE ON HOLD, AS HIS CLAIM THAT HE’S IMMUNE FROM PROSECUTION MAKES ITS WAY THROUGH THE APPEALS

PROCESS. THAT MEANS HIS MARCH 4TH TRIAL DATE COULD BE DELAYED. >> THE ONLINE PLATFORM DISCORD TIPPED OFF THE FBI TO AN ALLEGED MASS SHOOTING PLOT IN OHIO, AN OFFICIAL TELLS ABC NEWS. THE 13 YEAR OLD POSTED IN SEPTEMBER THREATENING TO ATTACK A JEWISH TEMPLE AND WAS LATER ARRESTED, A REALITY SHOW FEATURING THE

FAMILY OF SEAN DIDDY COMBS HAS NOW BEEN DROPPED BY HULU AMID CLAIMS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT AGAINST COMBS. >> HE SETTLED ONE CASE AND DENIES ANY WRONGDOING IN THE OTHERS. >> TODAY’S WEATHER RAIN IN FLORIDA, RAIN IN TEXAS AND THE PLAINS, HEAVY SNOW IN THE SOUTHERN ROCKIES AND SHOWERS ON THE WEST COAST.

>> AND FINALLY, THE HOLIDAY LIGHT DISPLAY INSPIRED BY CLARK GRISWOLD HIMSELF. DANNY. >> NEWS SHOWS US. >> HEY, THAT HOUSE LOOKS FAMILIAR. HOW MANY LIGHTS GO INTO YOUR DISPLAY? >> 25,000. UH, JUST LIKE THE MOVIE, EVERYTHING HAS TO BE EXACT. UM ALL THE AREA FOR THE LAST 11 YEARS.

>> GREG AND RACHEL OSTERLUND OF WADSWORTH, OHIO, HAVE ERECTED AN INCREASINGLY EVEN MORE ACCURATE RECREATION OF THE DISPLAY FROM THE 1989 CLASSIC NATIONAL LAMPOON’S CHRISTMAS VACATION. >> THEY’VE LANDED THEIR, UH, PORTIONS OF THEIR YARD AS WELL. >> OVER THE LAST DECADE, AS THE FAMILY HAS ROPED IN NEIGHBORS AND EXPANDED THE PRODUCTION. THE

HOUSE IS ACTUALLY BECOME QUITE FAMOUS. >> THEY TYPE IN GRISWOLD HOUSE. OUR HOUSE IS USUALLY THE ONE THAT SHOWS UP. I THINK WE’RE ALL IN FOR A VERY BIG TREAT. >> AND IN FACT, GREG AND RACHEL HAVE EVEN CHATTED WITH THE MOVIE STARS. CHEVY CHASE AND BEVERLY

D’ANGELO. WE HAD A LOT OF FUN DISCUSSING THE HOW SHE PULLED IT UP ON FACEBOOK. >> THIS IS YOUR HOUSE. AND YEP, WE’RE THIS IS WHAT WE DO. SO THE CARDBOARD CUT OUT WOULD NOT BE COMPLETE WITHOUT. >> BUT PERHAPS MOST IMPRESSIVELY, OVER THE LAST 11 YEARS THEY’VE COLLECTED

DONATIONS AND RAISED MORE THAN $50,000 FOR A NONPROFIT CALLED GREAT STRIDES. IT FUNDS RESEARCH FOR CURING CYSTIC FIBROSIS, WHICH GREG WAS DIAGNOSED WITH AT SIX YEARS OLD. >> HAVEN’T FELT THIS GOOD IN A LONG TIME JUST BECAUSE OF SOME OF THE RESEARCH THAT THEY’VE DONE, SOME MEDICINES THAT HAVE

REMEMBER THE OLD KIND OF PRESIDENTIAL TRIAL? WE START HERE. >> THE HOUSE IS NOW SPOKEN. CONGRESS CLEARS THE WAY TO POTENTIALLY IMPEACH JOE BIDEN. IT’S HARD TO SEE HOW THIS TRAIN GETS TURNED AROUND NOW THAT IT’S LEAVING THE STATION. IF IT SOUNDS LIKE A MELODRAMA, IT’S GOT REAL IMPLICATIONS.

WILL WALK YOU THROUGH A BIZARRE DAY IN WASHINGTON. MEANWHILE, COULD JANUARY 6 CASES BE THROWN OUT THERE SAYING, NO, THIS THIS LAW WAS NOT MEANT FOR THAT KIND OF THING? DEFENDANTS IN PRISON ARE PAYING ,BUT SO IS DONALD TRUMP. AND THEY WENT DOWN THE ROAD LESS, EVEN THE ROADS THEY HAD

NEVER SEEN BEFORE. TESLA NEEDS TO SORT OF BEEF UP ITS SAFETY SYSTEMS BY NEARLY EVERY TESLA IN THE COUNTRY, NEEDS A REBOOT. FROM ABC NEWS THIS IS “START HERE”. I’M BRAD MIELKE WASHINGTON LOVES A PRECEDENT, NOT PRESIDENT. I’M SAYING PRECEDENT. YOU FILIBUSTER THIS THING. THAT MEANS I CAN FILIBUSTER THIS THING.

YOU SHUT DOWN THE GOVERNMENT FOR SOMETHING. WELL, IT’S NO LONGER OFF LIMITS THAT I CAN SHUT DOWN THE GOVERNMENT FOR SOMETHING ELSE. WELL, EVERYTHING ABOUT DONALD TRUMP WAS SO UNPRECEDENTED THAT THE NORMAL PLAYBOOKS WENT OUT THE WINDOW. >> THERE HAVE BEEN TWO PRESIDENTIAL IMPEACHMENTS IN HISTORY. WELL, TRUMP FACED TWO MORE IN A

SINGLE TERM. HIS ALLIES IGNORED CONGRESSIONAL SUBPOENAS. >> NORMALLY, YOU JUST DON’T DO THAT. WE’RE NOW AT A PIVOTAL MOMENT IN OUR INVESTIGATION. >> WELL, LAST NIGHT, REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS VOTED TO PURSUE THE IMPEACHMENT OF PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN. >> JOE BIDEN HAS REPEATEDLY LIED TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ABOUT HIS FAMILY’S CORRUPT

INFLUENCE PEDDLING SCHEMES. >> YOU NOW LIVE IN A COUNTRY WHERE IT’S ENTIRELY PLAUSIBLE. PRESIDENTS GET IMPEACHED ALL THE TIME. THAT IS NOW PART OF THE PLAYBOOK. >> THERE IS NO EVIDENCE THAT PRESIDENT BIDEN HAS ENGAGED IN AN IMPEACHABLE OFFENSE EVEN LEADING UP TO THIS. >> THERE WAS A BIZARRE DEBATE

ABOUT WHO EVEN HAS TO RESPOND TO CONGRESSIONAL DEMANDS ANYMORE SINCE SOME OF THE LAWMAKERS ISSUING HAD ALREADY BROKEN THAT PRECEDENT THEMSELVES. IF YOU’RE CONFUSED, YOU’RE NOT ALONE. A TWILIGHT ZONE MOMENT FOR THE COUNTRY THIS MORNING. SO LET’S GET SOME PERSPECTIVE HERE. ABC’S POLITICAL DIRECTOR RICK KLEIN JOINS US. RICK, LET’S START WITH

THE IMPEACHMENT PROCEDURAL VOTE LAST NIGHT BECAUSE THAT KIND OF IS THE BIGGEST THING. PLUS IT JUST COLORS EVERYTHING ELSE WE’RE TALKING ABOUT. IS PRESIDENT BIDEN ABOUT TO BE IMPEACHED? YOU KNOW, THIS IS A VOTE FOR AN IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY, WHICH IS THE FORMAL INVESTIGATION WOULD POTENTIALLY ARM AN ACTUAL VOTE TO IMPEACH.

NOW, REPUBLICANS IN THE HOUSE SAY THEY NEED THIS TO GET ALL THE DOCUMENTS AND ALL THE COOPERATION AND THAT THEY REQUIRED TO DO A FULL INVESTIGATION. >> THE WHITE HOUSE IS SEEKING TO BLOCK KEY TESTIMONY FROM CURRENT AND FORMER WHITE HOUSE STAFF. IT’S ALSO WITHHOLDING THOUSANDS OF RECORDS FROM JOE BIDEN’S

TIME AS VICE PRESIDENT. >> BUT NOTABLE IN THE STATEMENTS THAT WE’VE SEEN FROM BOTH MODERATE REPUBLICANS WHO SAY THIS ISN’T THE SAME AS IMPEACHMENT AND SOME MEMBERS OF LEADERSHIP. MORE ON THE MAGA OR CONSERVATIVE SIDE WHO ARE SAYING WE’RE NOT THERE TO PREJUDGE THE OUTCOME. >> THIS HAS BEEN, I THINK,

THE MOST TRANSPARENT POLITICAL CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION SINCE SINCE I’VE BEEN IN CONGRESS FOR SEVEN YEARS. >> BUT THEY’RE SAYING IN THE VERY NEXT SENTENCE, THE EVIDENCE IS UNMISTAKABLE. >> THIS IS AN INVESTIGATION ABOUT PUBLIC CORRUPTION AT THE HIGHEST LEVELS OF OUR GOVERNMENT. >> THEY THINK THERE’S ENOUGH EVIDENCE TO IMPEACH PRESIDENT BIDEN, BUT MANY

IN THEIR OWN PARTY WILL ADMIT FREELY THAT ACTUALLY THAT EVIDENCE HAS NOT BEEN PRODUCED RIGHT NOW, THAT THIS INVESTIGATION HAS UNCOVERED A WHOLE LOT ABOUT HUNTER BIDEN. BUT NOTHING THAT GETS DIRECTLY TO PRESIDENT BIDEN ACCEPTING MONEY OR BEING PART OF THESE BUSINESS DEALS. >> BUT I WANT TO GIVE

JAMES COLMER SOME CREDIT, BECAUSE AFTER 50,000 PAGES OF DEPOSITIONS AND SECRET HEARINGS IN CLOSED HEARINGS, I THINK IF WE GIVE THEM ENOUGH TIME, HE’S GOING TO PROVE THAT HUNTER BIDEN IS JOE BIDEN’S SON. >> SO MAYBE THIS IS A FISHING EXPEDITION. BUT I’LL TELL YOU, ON A POLITICAL LEVEL, AS WELL AS A

PRACTICAL LEVEL, IT’S HARD TO SEE HOW THIS TRAIN GETS TURNED AROUND NOW THAT IT’S LEAVING THE STATION. >> REPUBLICANS ARE GOING TO FACE ENORMOUS PRESSURE TO ACTUALLY DELIVER ON THIS. NOW THAT THEY HAVE TAKEN THIS STEP TO FORMALLY AUTHORIZE THE IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY ITSELF, YOU KIND OF MENTIONED THE LACK

OF EVIDENCE THAT REPUBLICANS SEEM TO HAVE RIGHT NOW. WHAT WHAT IS THE RATIONALE, THOUGH, JUST IF YOU WERE GOING TO GET THE SHORT VERSION OF THEIR CASE? I MEAN, WHAT IS IT? WELL, THEY HAVE UNCOVERED SORTS OF IRREGULARITIES AND POTENTIAL IMPROPRIETIES IN THE WAY HUNTER BIDEN CONDUCTED HIS BUSINESS. THEY’VE ALSO UNCOVERED THROUGH

THAT EVIDENCE SOME INCONSISTENCIES AND SOME DOWNRIGHT CONTRADICTIONS IN WHAT PRESIDENT BIDEN HAS SAID ABOUT HIS KNOWLEDGE OF AND IN THE PARTICULARS OF HIS SON’S BUSINESS DEALINGS. NOW, MISLEADING OR LYING TO THE AMERICAN PUBLIC IS NOT BY ITSELF A CRIME, HIGH CRIME OR A MISDEMEANOR. OTHERWISE, I THINK WE WOULD

HAVE SEEN MORE TRUMP IMPEACHMENTS THAN WE ACTUALLY DID. BUT THERE IS THE WITH THERE AND THE SUGGESTION THERE THAT THE CURRENT PRESIDENT KNEW ABOUT THESE BUSINESS DEALS AND SOMEHOW PROFITED FROM THEM . BUT THAT’S JUST A SUGGESTION. THAT’S JUST THE STENCH OF IT. AND IT MAY BE THAT ALL OF THIS

PROCEEDS AND THEY NEVER FIND THE SMOKING GUN. BUT FOR MANY REPUBLICANS, THE SMOKE ITSELF FACE TO FACE, BECAUSE WE’RE NOW TALKING ABOUT MONTHS, MAYBE ALL OF 2024 THAT COULD BE CONSUMED BY THIS INQUIRY, COULD BE CONSUMED BY AN IMPEACHMENT VOTE. AND, YOU KNOW, A SPLIT SCREEN WITH ALL OF THE TRUMP LEGAL

DRAMA IS GOING TO BE THE BIDEN POLITICAL DRAMA AND THE BIDEN IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS. >> ALL OF IT IS GOING TO PLAY LIKE THAT’S A FEATURE, A BUG TO HAVE THEM BOTH GOING AT THE SAME TIME FOR REPUBLICANS. WELL, THAT’S A BIG THAT’S A BIG CLAIM THAT DEMOCRATS ARE MAKING RIGHT NOW.

THEY SAY, LOOK, THIS IS ALMOST BEING DIRECTED BY DONALD TRUMP, WHO IS SHARING THIS ON EVEN IF THE SITUATIONS ARE ENTIRELY DIFFERENT ON THE FACTS. THE REPUBLICANS HAVE THIS POWER AND YOU’RE SEEING THEM EXERT IT HERE. >> AND IT’S REMARKABLE THAT ALL OF THE HOUSE REPUBLICANS VOTED WITH THIS.

THAT INCLUDES THE MEMBERS WERE RETIRING AND WERE SOUNDING SKEPTICAL ABOUT IT. >> AND IT INCLUDES MANY OF THE MODERATE MEMBERS. >> THE HOUSE HAS NOW SPOKEN AND I THINK PRETTY LOUDLY, PRETTY CLEARLY, WITH EVERY SINGLE REPUBLICAN VOTING IN FAVOR OF MOVING INTO THIS OFFICIAL IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY PHASE OF OUR CONSTITU TIONAL

DUTY TO DO OVERSIGHT. >> THEY ARE NOT CONVINCED RIGHT NOW, MANY OF THEM, THAT THERE ACTUALLY SHOULD BE AN IMPEACHMENT OF JOE BIDEN. BUT THEY ARE. THEY WERE CONVINCED TO VOTE FOR AN IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY. SO THEY ARE HEADED NOW ON A ON A PATH THAT MIGHT BE VERY

HARD TO GET OFF OF FOR SIX YEARS. I’VE BEEN A TARGET OF THE UNRELENTING TRUMP MACHINE SHOUTING, WHERE’S HUNTER? WELL, HERE’S MY ANSWER. I AM HERE. AND SO ALL THIS KIND OF SETS UP THE IDEA THAT HUNTER BIDEN WOULD BE BROUGHT IN TO TESTIFY IN FRONT OF CONGRESS.

IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT THE PRESIDENT DID, YOU TALKED TO HIS SON ABOUT WHAT YOU KNOW, HIS SON WAS WORKING ON AND SEE IF THE PRESIDENT’S CONNECTED TO IT. >> BUT HUNTER BIDEN HAD BASICALLY SAID, LIKE, I’M NOT GOING TO TALK TO YOU IN THE FORMAT YOU EVEN WANT. YEAH.

SO HUNTER BIDEN WAS IN WASHINGTON. EVERYONE SORT OF KNEW HE WAS IN TOWN, BUT THEN HE JUST SHOWS UP AND HAS A NEWS CONFERENCE OUTSIDE RIGHT OUTSIDE THE CAPITOL AND SAYS, HEY, I’M HERE. I’M READY TO TESTIFY. I’M HERE TODAY TO ANSWER AT A PUBLIC HEARING ANY LEGITIMATE QUESTIONS TO CHAIRMAN COOMER

AND THE HOUSE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE MAY HAVE FOR ME. >> NOW, REPUBLICANS HAD SET THINGS UP FOR HIM TO TESTIFY YESTERDAY, BUT THE CATCH WAS THEY SAID IT HAD TO BE BEHIND CLOSED DOORS. >> THIS WAS GOING TO BE A DEPOSITION. IT WOULD BE A TRANSCRIBED INTERVIEW THAT THEN MEMBERS

OF CONGRESS CAN AND DO WITH WHAT THEY PLEASE. >> AFTERWARD, HUNTER BIDEN SAID, LOOK, I’M NOT GOING ALONG WITH THAT BY CHERRY PICKING LINES FROM A BANK STATEMENT, MANIPULATE THE TEXTS I SENT, EDITING THE TESTIMONY OF MY FRIENDS AND FORMER BUSINESS PARTNERS. >> I’M AFRAID THAT YOU GUYS ARE GOING TO LEAK

AND MISCONSTRUE SOME OF THE THINGS THAT I SAID. IF I AM GOING TO TALK TO YOU, I’M GOING TO TALK TO YOU OUT IN THE OPEN. REPUBLICANS SAY THAT’S NOT WHAT WE’RE ASKING FOR HERE. SO THEY’RE OUT THERE DENOUNCING HIM AND EVEN LOOKING TO TO PURSUE PROSECUTION AGAINST HIM

BY HIS FATHER’S OWN JUSTICE DEPARTMENT. IT’S A WILD SCENE, BUT SO MUCH OF IT TRULY WAS PLAYING FOR THE PUBLIC PERCEPTION OF THIS AS OPPOSED TO ANY OF THE LEGAL PROCEEDINGS SURROUNDING IT. >> I WAS GOING TO LET LIKE JUST SO WE’RE ALL CLEAR, THEN THIS

IS LIKE A HE STAGED A PHOTO OP, RIGHT? LIKE HE HAD NO INTENTION OF TESTIFYING THE WAY THEY WANTED HIM TO TESTIFY. HUNTER BIDEN KNEW THAT HE WAS NOT COMPLYING WITH WHAT THE REPUBLICANS WERE ASKING FOR. HE DECIDED TO GET AHEAD OF THEM ,GO OUT IN FRONT OF CAMERAS

TO SPEAK FOR HIMSELF AS A MAN, AS A SON, AS AS A AS A FIGURE THAT HE BELIEVES IS BEING UNFAIRLY TARGETED IN THE LEGAL SYSTEM AND NOW IN THE POLITICAL SYSTEM AND SPEAK UP FOR HIMSELF. >> DESPITE ALL OF THIS, REPUBLICANS DO NOT WANT AN OPEN PROCESS WHERE AMERICANS CAN SEE

THEIR TACTICS, EXPOSE THEIR BASELESS INQUIRY OR HEAR WHAT I HAVE TO SAY. HE KNEW HE WAS NOT COMPLYING WITH WHAT THE REPUBLICANS WANTED. HE KNEW HE WASN’T COOPERATING, AND THAT THAT WAS KIND OF THE POINT. >> WE THINK HE SHOULD COME IN AND SO AND IF HE DOESN’T,

WE’RE GOING TO WE’RE GOING TO MOVE FORWARD WITH CONTEMPT PROCEEDINGS. THERE’S A PROCESS WE HAVE TO FOLLOW, BUT WE PLAN TO DO THAT. AND ANOTHER THING THAT MAKES THIS ALL SO WEIRD, BRAD, IS THAT JIM JORDAN IS KIND OF THE FACE OF THIS IN CALLING PUBLICLY FOR A FOR THE SUBPOENA

AND FOR POTENTIALLY HUNTER BIDEN TO BE HELD IN CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS. HE FAMOUSLY DEFIED A SUBPOENA THAT WAS ISSUED TO HIM BY HIS COLLEAGUES IN CONGRESS ON THE JANUARY SIX COMMITTEE LAST LAST TIME THAT THAT CONGRESS SESSION UNDER THE LAST TERM. SO THERE’S A LOT OF STRANGE ALLIANCES AND KIND OF SHIFTING

EXPLANATIONS GOING ON. RIGHT. OKAY. SO JUST SO WE’RE ALL STRAIGHT REPUBLICANS ARE PURSUING AN IMPEACHMENT BASED ON NO CLEAR EVIDENCE TO DO IT. THEY DEMAND THE PRESIDENT’S SON SHOW UP USING SUBPOENAS THAT THEY THEMSELVES HAVE IGNORED BEFORE AND THEN AFTER. DEMOCRATS HAVE SAID YOU CAN NEVER JUST IGNORE CONGRESSIONAL SUBPOENA.

HUNTER BIDEN, SURE ENOUGH, JUST SHOWS UP TO IGNORE A CONGRESSIONAL SUBPOENA. RICK KLEIN. REALLY WILD DAY ON CAPITOL HILL . >> THANK YOU SO MUCH. HEY, THANK YOU, BRAD. EXCELLENT START HERE. IT’S NOT JUST THAT DONALD TRUMP’S CASE COULD GET TOSSED OUT OF FEDERAL COURT. THE ENTIRE PREMISE OF JANUARY

6TH CASES COULD BE UP IN THE AIR. >> BACK IN A BIT. YOU KNOW, WITH SO MUCH AT STAKE, SO MUCH ON MY MIND, MORE AMERICANS TURN HERE THAN ANY OTHER NEWSCAST. ABC NEWS WORLD NEWS TONIGHT WITH DAVID MUIR, AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST ACROSS ALL OF TELEVISION.

>> WE WELCOME SCRIPPS, THE WORLD’S GREATEST DOG SHOW. THE COMPETITION IN DOG DANCING IS VERY STIFF DANCING WITH MY DOG IS THE CLOSEST THING TO A MAGIC SHOW WINNER. >> OH 2023 ON DANCING DOGS. NOW STREAMING ON HULU, YOU SAID THE OTHER DAY TALKED ABOUT THIS GAMBIT BY SPECIAL COUNSEL

JACK SMITH, BECAUSE IN HIS FEDERAL CASE AGAINST DONALD TRUMP, THE FORMER PRESIDENT’S LAWYERS KEEP MAKING THE CASE HE CAN’T ACTUALLY BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR ANYTHING HE DID AS PRESIDENT, WHICH MAKES PROSECUTORS GO HARD. THAT SEEMS UNLIKELY, BUT IT’S TRUE. WHAT ARE WE DOING HERE? SO ZACH SMITH APPEALED TO THE

SUPREME COURT, ASKING THEM, IS THAT THE ACTUAL RULE HERE? YESTERDAY, A JUDGE PUT HIS CASE ON HOLD WHILE THEY FIGURE IT OUT. BUT JUST AROUND THE SAME TIME WE FOUND OUT THE SUPREME COURT IS TAKING UP ANOTHER ARGUMENT THAT COULD BE EVEN MORE FUNDAMENTAL TO THIS CASE. LET’S GO TO KIMBERLY WEHLE.

SHE’S A FORMER FEDERAL PROSECUTOR, A LAW PROFESSOR, AND AN ABC NEWS LEGAL ANALYST. >> WHAT IS THIS? WHAT IS THIS NEW CHANGE IN THIS CASE? >> WELL, THIS NEW CHANGE BRAND HAS ACTUALLY BEEN LURKING AROUND FOR A QUITE A WHILE NOW. AND SECTION 15, 12, 18 U.S.C.

SECTION 1512 IS A PART OF THAT LAW THAT HAS BEEN USED BY PROSECUTORS, BY DOJ, TO EFFECTIVELY PROSECUTE THE JANUARY SIX INSURRECTION. SO THIS IS SOMETHING THAT NOT JUST AFFECTS DONALD TRUMP, BUT IT ALSO AFFECTS MANY OF THOSE INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE EITHER WITHIN THE PIPELINE OR ALREADY BEEN CONVICTED. AND ESSENTIALLY THE ARGUMENT

IS THAT THEY’RE APPLYING IT OUTSIDE OF THE PROPER SCOPE OF THE STATUTE, THAT THE STATUTE IS NOT SUPPOSED TO APPLY MUCH MORE NARROWLY. >> BASICALLY SAYS WHOEVER CORRUPTLY OBSTRUCTS INFLUENCES OR IMPEDES AN OFFICIAL PROCEEDING OR ATTEMPTS TO DO SO, SHE’LL BE FINED OR IMPRISONED FOR 20 YEARS.

>> ALL OF US HERE TODAY DO NOT WANT TO SEE OUR ELECTION VICTORY STOLEN BY EMBOLDENED RADICAL LEFT DEMOCRATS, WHICH IS WHAT THEY’RE DOING. >> SO THEY’RE SAYING DONALD TRUMP IN TWO OF THE FOUR COUNTS OBSTRUCTED, INFLUENCED OR IMPEDE OFFICIAL IMPEDED THE OFFICIAL PROCEEDING, MAYBE MEANING THE COUNTING OF THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE VOTES.

THEY’RE SAYING, NO, THIS THIS LAW WAS NOT MEANT FOR THAT KIND OF THING. >> GUILTY VERDICTS IN THE BIGGEST CASE OF CORPORATE FRAUD IN HISTORY. THIS IS THIS IS PART OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT. IT WAS AFTER THE ENRON MELTDOWN. AND SO THE ARGUMENT IS IT REALLY MEANT SOME KIND OF FRAUD

IN RECORDS, DOCUMENTS, SOME SORT OF FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS, AND THEREFORE, IT’S — IT’S ULTRA WHAT WE CALL ULTRA VIRES. IT’S BEYOND THE SCOPE OF 1512. AND THAT THOSE TWO COUNTS OF THE FOUR COUNTS HAVE TO BE COMPLETELY THROWN OUT. >> WITH THAT WOULD BE GIGANTIC FOR DONALD TRUMP. AND ALSO JUST HAVING

PEOPLE BEEN PROSECUTED FOR THEIR ACTIONS ON JANUARY SIX UNDER THIS LAW THAT YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT SAYING LIKE YOU, IF YOU OBSTRUCTED AN OFFICIAL PROCEEDING, THAT HAS GOTTEN PEOPLE THROWN IN JAIL ALREADY 100%. >> RIGHT. SO THE QUESTION WOULD BE WHAT HAPPENS TO THEM? AND THIS IS A THIS IS A CASE AN

ISSUE THAT’S BEEN LITIGATED THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY IN FAVOR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE IN THE LOWER COURTS. AND THE SOLICITOR GENERAL SAID TO THE SUPREME COURT, DON’T TAKE THIS CASE. LET THINGS STAND AS THEY MAY, AND INSTEAD TOOK UP THE CASE RELATING TO ONE OF THESE, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE THAT HAVE BEEN

PROSECUTED FOR THE JANUARY SIX INSURRECTION. >> AND HE’S CLAIMING, LISTEN, IT’S TOO BROAD. THIS DOESN’T APPLY TO ME. THE ARGUMENT HAS BEEN, LISTEN, AN OFFICIAL PROCEEDING, SOME KIND OF JUDICIAL PROCESS OR SOMETHING ELSE. IT DOESN’T MEAN CONGRESS COUNTING ELECTORAL VOTES. AND EVEN IF IT’S A BROADLY WORDED IDEA OF JUDICIAL

OF OFFICIAL PROCEEDING, IT STILL HAS TO BE SOMETHING PAPER. IT STILL HAS TO BE THAT YOU THAT YOU YOU DID SOMETHING WITH RECORDS OR DOCUMENTS. IF YOU READ THOSE TWO PROVISIONS TOGETHER AND THE GOVERNMENT’S ARGUMENT IS BAD. NO, I MEAN, SUBSECTION TWO TALKS ABOUT OBSTRUCTING, INFLUENCING, COMPETING. IT SAYS NOTHING ABOUT RECORDS.

SO IT’S THAT LANGUAGE PARSING THAT THE SUPREME COURT’S GOING TO TAKE UP. AND IT WOULD IMPACT NOT JUST DONALD TRUMP, BUT ANYONE POTENTIALLY WHO’S BEEN PROSECUTED RELATING TO JANUARY SIX UNDER THIS PROVISION OF THE STATUTE. >> YOU SAID THAT PEOPLE WERE BEGGING THE SUPREME COURT LIKE, DON’T TAKE THIS CASE, JUST LET

THE LOWER COURTS KEEP THEIR RULING TO THE FACT THAT THE SUPREME COURT TOOK THE CASE MEAN THAT THEY MIGHT CONSIDER SORT OF OVERHAULING EVERYTHING WE KNOW ABOUT THIS PROVISION. >> RIGHT? YEAH, I MEAN, THAT’S ALWAYS THE CASE WITH THE SUPREME COURT. YOU KNOW, USUALLY THEY TAKE THEY GAVE A LOT OF REASONS WHY

THEY TAKE CASES. BUT IT CERTAINLY SUGGESTS THAT THERE SOME PEOPLE I THINK IT TAKES FOUR JUSTICES TO ACCEPT A CASE THAT THINK THERE’S A REAL PROBLEM HERE AND THAT, YOU KNOW, WE STILL NEED TO COUNT. JUST TO BE CLEAR, BRAD, IT’S NOT LIKE THE WHOLE CASE WOULD GO AWAY.

THERE ARE STILL TWO OTHER COUNTS, BUT, YOU KNOW, IT NARROWS THE POSSIBLE SPAGHETTI THAT COULD STICK TO THE WALL IN TERMS OF THE, YOU KNOW, GETTING A JURY VERDICT, NUMBER ONE. AND THE OTHER PART OF IT IS, YOU KNOW, THERE MIGHT BE DIFFERENT EVIDENCE THAT APPLIES THIS STATUTE 1512

AND THE OTHER THE OTHER PIECES. >> AND THEN THEN THE THIRD PIECE, I GUESS, IS IT DELAYS THE TRIAL. SO JUDGE CHUTKAN, YESTERDAY, LATE AFTERNOON, SHE ISSUED ORDER SAYING, YOU KNOW, NOW THAT DONALD TRUMP IS APPEALING IMMUNITY, WE HAVE TO STAY EVERYTHING ELSE UNTIL THE SUPREME COURT DECIDES.

AS I SAID, THIS CASE, THIS QUESTION ON WHETHER THE 1512 WILL STAND, THAT’S IN A RELATED DEFENDANT OR RELATED PROSECUTION. >> IT’S NOT IN DONALD TRUMP’S CASE, BUT, YOU KNOW, ARGUABLY IT AFFECTS IT. SO SHE COULD SAY, LISTEN, I REALLY WANT TO HEAR WHAT HAPPENS WITH THESE TWO COUNTS BEFORE WE GO BEFORE

THE JURY. SO THIS COULD REALLY DERAIL THINGS. AND DONALD TRUMP’S BEST DEFENSES IS TO HAVE THIS GO PAST THE ELECTION AND JUST CALL THE WHOLE THING OFF IF HE’S REELECTED PRESIDENT OR PARDON HIMSELF. >> THIS WASN’T EVEN THE ONLY BIG SORT OF CONTROVERSIAL CASE THAT THE SUPREME COURT AGREED TO TAKE

A REALLY HARD LOOK AT IN THE NEAR FUTURE. THEY’VE ALSO AGREED TO TAKE UP THE CASE OF MIFEPRISTONE, THE ABORTION DRUG IN LOWER COURT HAS RULED THAT DECADES OLD POLICIES BY THE FDA ACTUALLY SHOULDN’T HAVE BEEN ALLOWED IN THE FIRST PLACE. >> AND BECAUSE OF THAT, THE LOWER COURTS RULED

THAT ACCESS TO IT, IF A PERSON SHOULD BE ROLLED BACK ACROSS THE COUNTRY, THAT’S WHY ABORTION RIGHTS ARE VERY EXCITED TO HEAR THAT THE SUPREME COURT WILL AT LEAST CONSIDER REVERSING THAT. >> ALL RIGHT, KIM WHALEY, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE TIME. GREAT TO BE WITH YOU. YOU MIGHT HAVE HEARD

THAT YESTERDAY AT THE HUGE CLIMATE CONFERENCE, COP28 ENDED IN DUBAI, CULMINATING IN THIS BIG AGREEMENT FROM COUNTRIES TO SCALE BACK THEIR DEPENDANCE ON FOSSIL FUELS. >> LESS, MORE RENEWABLES. >> WE HAVE LANGUAGE ON FOSSIL FUEL IN OUR FINAL AGREEMENT FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER. >> IF ELECTRIC CARS SEEN AS KEY

TO THAT VISION YESTERDAY, THE BIGGEST ELECTRIC CAR COMPANY IN THE COUNTRY SUFFERED A MASSIVE SETBACK. >> TESLA RECALLED 2 MILLION VEHICLES NOT DUE TO A BATTERY ISSUE OR ANYTHING BROUGHT UP AT A CLIMATE CONFERENCE, BUT RATHER PROBLEMS WITH THEIR FAMED AUTOPILOT SYSTEM. ABC’S MIKE DOBUSKI COVERS TECH

AND AUTOS MAKE IT ALL SEEM TO COME TO A HEAD HERE. >> WHAT IS GOING ON WITH THESE CARS? YEAH, PRETTY MUCH. >> BRAD, IF YOU OWN A TESLA, THERE’S A REALLY GOOD CHANCE YOUR CAR IS UNDER RECALL RIGHT NOW. >> THIS IS 2 MILLION SEDANS AND CROSSOVERS STRETCHING

BACK AS FAR AS THE 2012 MODEL YEAR MODEL S AND MODEL THREE SEDANS, MODEL X AND MODEL Y CROSSOVERS. >> TESLA’S BREAD AND BUTTER PRODUCTS AND THE NATIONAL HIGHWAY TRAFFIC SAFETY ADMINISTRATION SAYS THAT THIS ALL COMES BACK TO TESLA’S AUTOMATED DRIVING SYSTEM KNOWN AS AUTOPILOT. >> AUTOPILOT IS ESSENTIALLY VERY FANCY CRUISE CONTROL.

>> IT CAN SPEED UP AND SLOW DOWN WITH TRAFFIC. >> AND IT ALSO HAS A FEATURE CALLED AUTOSTEER THAT CAN KEEP YOU CENTERED IN YOUR LANE. WELL, NICK, THE NATIONAL HIGHWAY TRAFFIC SAFETY ADMINISTRATION SAYS THAT TESLA ISN’T DOING ENOUGH TO ENSURE THAT DRIVERS ARE PAYING ATTENTION WHILE THIS SYSTEM IS ACTIVE.

>> I’VE NEVER HAD FAITH IN IT, EVEN THOUGH I HAVE IT ON THIS VEHICLE. >> I’VE NEVER KICKED IT INTO AUTOPILOT. AUTOPILOT IS WHAT’S KNOWN AS A HANDS ON SYSTEM, WHICH MEANS THAT YOU’VE GOT TO KEEP YOUR HANDS ON THE WHEEL AT ALL TIMES, DESPITE THE FACT THAT THE CAR IS ACTUALLY DOING

A LITTLE BIT OF STEERING FOR YOU. >> BACK WHEN THIS TECHNOLOGY DEBUT, BRAD, THERE WAS A WHOLE HOST OF VIRAL VIDEOS OF PEOPLE TRYING TO FOOL THIS SYSTEM. IN FACT, A REALLY MEMORABLE ONE. SOMEBODY TAPED A BANANA TO THE STEERING WHEEL TO SORT OF SIMULATE THAT THEIR HAND.

>> WAS THERE AND THE CAR BOUGHT IT AND THAT PERSON CRAWLED INTO THE BACKSEAT AND TOOK A NAP. AND PEOPLE DID A WHOLE HOST OF OTHER THINGS WHILE THIS CAR DROVE DOWN THE ROAD. >> TESLA CONFIRMING THIS CAR WAS IN AUTOPILOT MODE WHEN IT CRASHED IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA, KILLING THE DRIVER.

>> THAT’S WHY IT SAYS THEY’RE ISSUING THIS RECALL. THEY SAY THAT’S TOO DANGEROUS, THAT TESLA NEEDS TO SORT OF BEEF UP ITS SAFETY SYSTEMS TO ENSURE THAT PEOPLE ARE ACTUALLY REMAINING ATTENTIVE WHILE THIS SYSTEM IS ACTIVE. >> WELL, SO THEN WHAT DOES TESLA DO? LIKE WHAT DOES CEO ELON MUSK DO?

BECAUSE WHEN I SAY RECALL, I PICTURE EVERYONE HAVING TO TAKE THEIR CAR TO THE DEALERSHIP OR EVEN EXCHANGE THEIR CAR. >> THAT DOESN’T SOUND LIKE WHAT THIS WILL BE LIKE. >> NO, THAT’S RIGHT. SO THE IDEA HERE IS THAT TESLA IS GOING TO OFFER A SOFTWARE UPDATE.

>> SO IF YOU IMAGINE YOUR PHONE NEEDS A SOFTWARE UPDATE, YOU GET A LITTLE NOTIFICATION THE NIGHT BEFORE YOU CLICK. OKAY. YOU WAKE UP THE NEXT MORNING, YOUR PHONE’S BETTER OR DIFFERENT IN SOME WAY. >> THAT’S HOW TESLA IS APPROACHING THIS. THEY SAY THAT THEY’RE GOING TO ISSUE A SOFTWARE UPDATE FOR

FREE OVER THE AIR TO ALL THE AFFECTED CARS THAT ARE GOING TO ADD MORE ALERTS AND CONTROLS TO THIS SYSTEM TO ENSURE THAT PEOPLE ARE ACTUALLY PAYING ATTENTION WHEN AUTOPILOT IS ACTIVE. >> WE’VE SEEN ALL THESE CRASHES WITH AUTOPILOT TAKING PLACE. THOSE YOU JUST RECENTLY, THE THIRD TIME THAT SOMEONE WAS

KILLED BY HITTING A SEMI-TRUCK AND IT’S ALWAYS THE SAME CRASH, THEY’RE NOT PAYING ATTENTION. AND THE TESLA JUST DOESN’T SEE THE SUMMER TRUCK RUNS UNDER IT. AND YOU WOULD THINK IF THEY WERE PAYING ATTENTION, THEY WOULD HAVE AVOIDED IT. >> THAT IS NOT UNUSUAL FOR TESLA. TESLAS ARE SOFTWARE BASED

IN LARGE PART BECAUSE THEY ARE SEEN AS TECH DEVICES. TESLA TREATS THEM AS TAG DEVICES. THEY SEND SOFTWARE UPDATES INSTEAD OF YOU HAVING TO BRING YOUR CAR INTO A MECHANIC OR A DEALERSHIP. THEY YOUR CAR CAN JUST REMAIN IN THE DRIVEWAY OVERNIGHT AND YOU’LL WAKE UP TOMORROW AND IT’LL ALL BE FIXED.

>> BUT THERE ARE SOME LINGERING QUESTIONS ABOUT EXACTLY HOW EFFECTIVE THAT WILL BE BECAUSE THERE’S OTHER CARMAKERS OUT THAT OFFER SYSTEMS THAT ARE SIMILAR TO THIS THAT ARE MAYBE A LITTLE BIT MORE ATTENTIVE TO THE DRIVER. >> WELL, THIS IS THE THING, BECAUSE WHEN I HEAR AUTOPILOT,

I FEEL LIKE A LOT OF PEOPLE FEEL THIS WAY WITH WITH TESLAS IS YOU ASSUME THAT LIKE YOU JUST ARE HANGING OUT. I GET THAT. TESLA SAYS, NO, THAT’S NOT HOW WE’RE DESIGNING THIS. BUT WHAT DOES THIS ALL MEAN FOR THE FUTURE OF AUTOMATION SYSTEMS AND REGULATION

THAT WILL OR WON’T ACCOMPANY IT ? >> THERE ARE OTHER SYSTEMS OUT THERE, NAMELY ONE FROM GENERAL MOTORS, THAT LARGELY DO THE SAME THING, BUT ADD IN MORE DRIVER MONITORING SYSTEMS. GENERAL MOTORS OFFERS A TECHNOLOGY CALLED SUPER CRUISE, WHICH HAS A SMALL CAMERA MOUNTED TO THE STEERING COLUMN, ESSENTIALLY TO MONITOR

YOUR FACE, TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU’RE LOOKING AT THE ROAD. >> YOU’RE NOT DOZING OFF OR WATCHING NETFLIX. THAT IS LAUDED BY THE AUTOMOTIVE PRESS AS A REALLY SAFE WAY TO DO THIS. >> TESLA DOESN’T OFFER THAT, AND THEY SAY THEY’RE GOING TO FIX THIS AUTOPILOT FLAW WITH A SOFTWARE UPDATE.

>> BUT THE QUESTION REMAINS, BRAD, HOW MUCH CAN YOU DO WITH A SOFTWARE UPDATE FOR YOUR HARDWARE? >> AT WHAT POINT DO YOU NEED TO ADD NEW STUFF TO THE CAR ITSELF? RIGHT. AND A LOT OF TESLA’S PRODUCTS RIGHT NOW ARE KIND OF OLD. >> THE MODEL THAT DEBUTED

IN 2012, THE X DEBUTED IN 2016, THE THREE IN THE Y A COUPLE OF YEARS AFTER THAT, THE CYBERTRUCK, WHICH LAUNCHED LAST MONTH, WAS THEIR FIRST REALLY NEW CONSUMER FACING IN MANY YEARS. TESLA DOESN’T UPDATE THEIR HARDWARE WITH THE SAME CADENCE THAT OTHER AUTOMAKERS DO. >> IT WILL BE AN IMPROVEMENT IN SAFETY.

HOW MUCH IT IMPROVES SAFETY, WE DON’T KNOW. BUT IT’S NOT GOING TO BE THE IMPROVEMENT. YOU WOULD HOPE, BASED ON WHAT OTHER MANUFACTURERS ARE ALREADY DOING PER SE. THEY THINK THAT THEY CAN ACCOMPLISH A LOT OF THE SORT OF UPDATES THROUGH SOFTWARE. BUT AS WE’RE SEEING WITH THIS RECALL, THERE ARE SOME

QUESTIONS HAVING TO DO WITH THE SAFETY IMPLICATIONS OF THAT. AND THE OTHER SAFETY IMPLICATION, I GUESS, KIND OF JUST LIKE YOUR PHONE, YOU EITHER HAVE IT SET TO AUTOMATICALLY GET UPDATES. YOU CAN DO THE UPDATES AT YOUR CONVENIENCE. THAT MEANS THAT SOME PEOPLE NOT HAVE THESE EXTRA RESTRICTIONS ON THEIR AUTOPILOT.

SO GOING FORWARD, THE QUESTION MIGHT STILL BE IS THIS VOLUNTARY CHANGE ENOUGH FOR REGULATORS OR WILL THEY WANT TO MAKE SOME MORE MANDATORY CHANGES? MIKE DOBUSKI, THANKS SO MUCH. THANKS, BRAD. OKAY, ONE MORE QUICK BREAK. WHEN WE COME BACK, IT’S NOW PEOPLE NOT ALGORITHMS DECIDING THE COLLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYOFF

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WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WE’LL TAKE YOU THERE YOU’RE STREAMING. ABC NEWS LIVE. YOU. AND ONE LAST THING. YOU KNOW HOW INSTANT REPLAY MAKES EVERYTHING IN FOOTBALL A BIT MORE ARDUOUS. WELL, NOW IMAGINE IF GOVERNMENT WAS INVOLVED. >> AS IT STANDS, THE COMMITTEE’S DECISION REEKS OF PARTIALITY. >> PICKING WINNERS IN THE

BOARDROOM AND NOT ON THE FIELD. THIS WEEK, THE ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR THE STATE OF FLORIDA ANNOUNCED SHE’S LAUNCHING AN OFFICIAL INVESTIGATION AND INTO HOW FLORIDA STATE DID IT QUALIFIED FOR THE COLLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYOFF. >> WE ARE LAUNCHING AN INVESTIGATION TO EXAMINE IF THE COMMITTEE WAS INVOLVED IN ANY ANTI-COMPETITIVE CONDUCT

IN ITS UNPRECEDENTED DECISION. >> OKAY, SO HERE’S THE BACKSTORY. THIS SEASON, THERE WERE THREE UNDEFEATED COLLEGE FOOTBALL TEAMS IN THE TOP CONFERENCES MICHIGAN, WASHINGTON AND FLORIDA STATE AND UNDEFEATED SEASON AND A CHAMPIONSHIP. FOUR TEAMS GET TO COMPETE FOR THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP AND SOMEHOW FSU WAS LEFT OFF THE LIST.

INSTEAD, IT WAS ALABAMA AND TEXAS WHO PLAYED STRONGER OPPONENTS. >> BUT THEY WEREN’T UNDEFEATED, LEAVING LOTS OF FANS CONFUSED. >> WHAT ARE THEY HIDING? WHY CAN’T WE KNOW HOW EACH INDIVIDUAL VOTES ON THE FINAL VOTE OF THE YEAR? >> THIS ELECTION COMMITTEE IS MADE UP OF 13 PEOPLE WHO

ARE NOT HOUSEHOLD NAMES. SOME ARE COLLEGE ATHLETIC DIRECTORS, SOME ARE FORMER COACHES, SOME ARE FORMER PLAYERS WHO WORK IN THE CORPORATE WORLD. NOW, A NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP CAN MAKE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS FOR SCHOOL, WHICH ALWAYS LEADS TO ALLIGATOR OF FOUL PLAY. >> WHETHER THERE’S EVIDENCE OR NOT, THERE’S A SOLID ALABAMA

WAS IN THE TOP FOUR. I THOUGHT THAT THEY GOT IT RIGHT. >> THEY MADE THE HARD RIGHT DECISION IN THIS SCENARIO. WHAT MAKES THIS DIFFERENT, THOUGH, IS A STATE’S LEGAL SYSTEM GETTING INVOLVED. >> WE’VE SEEN THIS IN SPORTS OVERSEAS WHERE SOCCER FEDERATIONS ARE MORE CLOSELY ENTWINED WITH GOVERNMENT LIKE WHEN FINANCIAL INVESTIGATIONS

STARTED SWIRLING AROUND MANCHESTER CITY. THEIR OWNERS STARTED MAKING NOISE. WELL, THEIR OWNERS ARE GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS FROM THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES. THEY COMPLAINED TO THE BRITISH EMBASSY AND ARE NOW STILL AWAITING JUDGMENT. WHILE SMALLER, PRIVATELY OWNED CLUBS GET PUNISHED FOR LESSER ALLEGED OFFENSES. >> I NOTICED MY FRESHMAN YEAR OF COLLEGE.

THERE ARE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS BEING GENERATED AROUND YOU. >> THE NCAA HAS BEEN ARGUING IN RECENT YEARS ABOUT PLAYERS AND MONEY. WHETHER IT’S GOOD FOR THE GAME THAT PLAYERS CAN TRANSFER SCHOOLS WHENEVER A COACH GETS FIRED. WHETHER THE PLAYERS THEMSELVES SHOULD GET. BUT WHAT IF THE PLAYERS AREN’T THE ONLY ONES DECIDING OUTCOMES

? >> WHAT IF YOUR LAWYERS COULD WIN YOU A NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP? WILL START CHANTING ABOUT THE LATEST INJUNCTION. WHY NOT SKIP THE GAMES ENTIRELY AND JUST. WE ARE JERSEYS TO THE COURTROOM. GOVERNOR RON DESANTIS SAYS, HE’S WILLING TO SET ASIDE UP TO $1,000,000 FOR A CASE IF

THE STATE DECIDES TO SUE. THIS IS TAXPAYER MONEY. SO WHETHER YOU’RE A FOOTBALL FAN OR NOT, WHETHER YOU’RE A FAN OF THE GATORS OR THE NOLES, THE STAKES OF GOING UNDEFEATED ARE GETTING MUCH HIGHER. YOU MIGHT HAVE ALREADY SEEN IT IN THE START HERE FT TODAY, BUT SOMETHING VERY COOL.

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>> THERE’S NO EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE ALLEGATIONS THAT MY FATHER WAS FINANCIALLY INVOLVED IN MY BUSINESS BECAUSE IT DID NOT HAPPEN. >> NOW, REPUBLICANS ARE HANGING ON TO THOSE WORDS. FINALLY INVOLVED. >> THAT IS A HUGE DEPARTURE FROM EVERYTHING THEY HAVE SAID. NOW FOR THE LAST THREE AND A HALF

YEARS, AS THE WHITE HOUSE HAS MAINTAINED, THE PRESIDENT WAS NEVER IN BUSINESS WITH HIS SON AND PRESIDENT BIDEN HAS SAID HE NEVER SPOKE TO HIS SON ABOUT HIS FOREIGN BUSINESS DEALINGS. >> JUDICIARY COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN JIM JORDAN CLAIMS THE WORDS HUNTER USED YESTERDAY INDICATE A SHIFT. >> FIRST, IT WAS NO INVOLVEMENT,

THEN NO, I NEVER, NEVER TALKED TO ANYONE. AND THEN WE FIND OUT ABOUT THE DINNERS, THE MEETINGS, THE PHONE CALLS AND EVERYTHING ELSE. >> REPUBLICANS HAVE FAILED TO SHOW ANY EVIDENCE IMPLICATING PRESIDENT BIDEN IN ANY WRONGDOING. THEY SAY THEY NEED THE IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY TO FIND THE EVIDENCE, SAYING IT WILL

ALLOW THEM TO BETTER ENFORCE SUBPOENAS IN COURT. CRITICS CLAIM IT’S ALL A POLITICAL STUNT . >> IT’S ALL ABOUT POWER AND TRUTH, AND JUSTICE REALLY HAS NO ROLE IN WHAT THEY’RE DOING. IF YOU HAVE EVIDENCE THAT JOE BIDEN,OT HUNTER BIDEN, BUT THAT JOE BIDEN BROKE THE LAW, BRING IT FORWARD. AND IF IT’S

IMPEACHABLE, IMPEACH THEM. BUT YOU DON’T HAVE THAT EVIDENCE. >> AS FOR HUNTER BIDEN, THE HOUSE WILL LIKELY VOTE TO HOLD HIM IN CONTEMPT FOR DEFYING THAT SUBPOENA, BUT IT WOULD BE UP TO THE BIDEN JUSTICE DEPARTMENT TO DECIDE ON WHETHER TO PROSECUTE ANDREW. ALL RIGHT. >> JUSTIN, THANK YOU. THE

SUPREME COURT HAS AGREED TO HEAR A CHALLENGE THAT COULD AFFECT THE PROSECUTION OF FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP AND HUNDREDS OF DEFENDANTS IN THE JANUARY 6TH ATTACK ON THE CAPITOL. THEY WERE ALL CHARGED UNDER A FEDERAL LAW THAT MAKES IT A CRIME TO OBSTRUCT AN OFFICIAL PROCEEDING. AS ABC TERRY MORAN REPORTS,

DEFENSE ATTORNEYS SAY THE LAW WAS MEANT TO DEAL WITH WITNESS TAMPERING AND SHOULD NOT BE APPLIED TO THESE CASES. >> REPUBLICANS HAVE BEEN MAKING THIS CASE FOR MONTHS, SOME OF THEM ARGUING THAT THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT SHOULD NOW PROSECUTE LIBERAL PROTESTERS WHO DISRUPTED OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS IN TENNESSEE AND NEW YORK CITY

EARLIER THIS YEAR. AND TWO OF THE FOUR CHARGES THAT TRUMP FACES IN THIS CASE ARE BASED ON THAT LOSS OF THE COURTS MOVE IS A BIG WIN FOR HIM. >> IN THE MEANTIME, TRUMP’S ELECTION INTERFERENCE TRIAL COULD BE DELAYED AS HE APPEALS, CLAIMING PRESIDENTIAL IMMUNITY NOW TO THE WAR IN THE MIDDLE

EAST AND NEW QUESTIONS ABOUT WHETHER THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION IS PUSHING ISRAEL TO CHANGE COURSE. >> THIS MORNING, THE WHITE HOUSE APPEARS TO BE PLAYING DOWN PRESIDENT BIDEN’S HARSHEST CRITICISM YET OF ISRAEL SINCE THE WAR BROKE OUT. >> HE WAS EXPRESSING CONCERNS THAT THAT THAT WE CONTINUE TO SEE CIVILIAN CASUALTIES IN GAZA

AT A FUNDRAISER, THE PRESIDENT SAID ISRAEL IS LOSING INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT BECAUSE OF ITS INDISCRIMINATE BOMBING IN GAZA. >> A WHITE HOUSE SPOKESMAN WOULD NOT CONFIRM WHETHER BIDEN’S REMARK IS AN OFFICIAL ASSESSMENT. IF SO, IT COULD HAVE SIGNIFICANT IMPLICATIONS. >> AS I SAID TO MY PREVIOUS ANSWER THERE, THAT THEY WILL ACT

IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW OF ARMED CONFLICT AND DO EVERYTHING THAT THEY CAN TO MATCH THEIR INTENT, WHICH IS TO MINIMIZE CIVILIAN CASUALTIES. >> IF THEY AREN’T, THEN ISN’T THERE AN OBLIGATION FOR THE U.S. TO CHANGE THE WAY THAT IT’S DELIVERING MILITARY AID? >> THAT’S A HYPOTHETICAL THAT

I’M NOT PREPARED TO ENGAGE IN RIGHT NOW. >> IF HE’S SAYING INDISCRIMINATE BOMBING, THAT’S A HYPOTHETICAL. >> I’M NOT GOING TO ENGAGE IN. WE HAVE EXPRESSED OUR CONCERNS. THE PRESIDENT HAS PUBLICLY AND PRIVATELY WITH THE ISRAELIS ABOUT THE NEED TO REDUCE CIVILIAN CASUALTIES, AND WILL CAN CONTINUE TO DO THAT TODAY,

U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER JAKE SULLIVAN IS MEETING WITH ISRAEL’S PRIME MINISTER TO PUSH FOR RESTRAINT AND FOR MORE HUMANITARIAN AID AND MORE THAN 18,000 PEOPLE HAVE BEEN KILLED IN GAZA, ACCORDING TO THE HAMAS RUN HEALTH MINISTRY. >> AN ESTIMATED 85% OF THE POPULATION HAS BEEN DISPLACED. ENCAMPMENTS LIKE THIS ONE

FLOODED BY A RECENT STORM DISEASE SETTING IN. 135 HOSTAGES, ARE STILL BEING HELD BY HAMAS, INCLUDING AMERICAN. >> NOW TO YOUR MONEY AND SOME GOOD NEWS FROM WALL STREET. THE DOW OPENS AT A RECORD HIGH THIS MORNING. STOCKS ARE SOARING AFTER THE FED ANNOUNCED IT’S LEAVING INTEREST RATES UNCHANGED

. FED CHAIRMAN JEROME POWELL SAID THERE’S NO NEED FOR ANOTHER RATE HIKE BECAUSE INFLATION IS COOLING. HE EVEN SUGGESTED THREE RATE CUTS ARE LIKELY NEXT YEAR, WHICH WOULD BRING DOWN BORROWING COSTS ON MORTGAGES AND CAR LOANS . >> THE FBI HAS NOW JOINED THE INVESTIGATION INTO THREE ATTEMPTED ABDUCTIONS NEAR THE

UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA. AUTHORITIES SAY SOMEONE APPROACHED AT LEAST THREE STUDENTS NEAR THE TUCSON CAMPUS. THE THREE WOMEN REPORTED BEING FOLLOWED BY A MAN WHO WAS DRIVING A BLUE CAR. ONE WAS GROPED. THEY ALL ESCAPED UNINJURED. NOW TO A DISTURBING STORY INVOLVING A PIONEERING FERTILITY DOCTOR. >> HE’S THE SUBJECT OF A NEW

LAWSUIT FROM A WOMAN WHO CLAIMS SHE WAS DECEIVED DECADES AGO, BEFORE THE BIRTH OF HER DAUGHTER . HERE’S ABC’S ANDREA FUJII. >> THIS MORNING, A WORLD RENOWNED FERTILITY DOCTOR WHO FOUNDED ONE OF THE NATION’S FIRST FERTILITY CLINICS STANDS ACCUSED OF SECRETLY USING HIS OWN SPERME TO IMPREGNATE A

PATIENT MORE THAN 40 YEARS AGO. >> THAT WAS ITS OWN, UH, ITS OWN SHOCK. >> CAROLYN BESTER, NOW 42, SAID SHE MADE THE DISCOVERY WHEN SHE USED A HOME GENEALOGY KIT AND FOUND SOME OF HER RELATIVES WERE ALSO RELATIVES OF HER MOTHER’S FERTILITY DOCTOR, MERLE BERGER. BESTER’S MOTHER SAYS SHE IS

SHOCKED AND NOW SHE’S SUING. >> WE NEVER DREAMT WE WOULD HAVE. HE WOULD ABUSE HIS POSITION OF TRUST AND PERPETRATE THIS EXTREME VIOLENCE. >> ONE DAY, POYEN SAYS SHE AND HER HUSBAND SAW DOCTOR BERGER FOR FERTILITY SERVICES IN MASSACHUSETTS IN 1980, AND HE PROMISED TO USE THE SPERME OF AN

ANONYMOUS MEDICAL RESIDENT WHO RESEMBLED HER HUSBAND. BUT THE SUIT CLAIMS BERGER INSTEAD USED HIS OWN SPERME AND HER DAUGHTER WAS BORN IN 1981. >> IT’S HARD TO IMAGINE NOT TRUSTING YOUR OWN DOCTOR. >> DOCTOR BERGER LAUNCHED A BOSTON IVF IN 1986, WHICH HAS GROWN INTO THE COUNTRY’S LARGEST INFERTILITY TREATMENT CENTER,

WITH CLINICS IN SIX STATES. HE RETIRED IN 2020. BERGER DENIES THE ACCUSATIONS, HIS LAWYER SAYING THE ALLEGATIONS, WHICH HAVE CHANGED REPEATEDLY IN THE SIX MONTHS SINCE THE PLAINTIFF’S ATTORNEY FIRST CONTACTED DOCTOR BERGER, HAVE NO LEGAL OR FACTUAL MERIT AND WILL BE DISPROVEN IN COURT. MEANWHILE DUPUY’S DAUGHTER SAYS SHE’S DEVASTATED .

>> AND I KNOW WHO MY REAL FAMILY IS. THAT WILL NEVER CHANGE, BUT I WILL ALWAYS STRUGGLE WITH WHAT DOCTOR BERGER DID TO MY MOM AND TO US. >> BOSTON IVF SAYS THIS CASE PREDATES ITS FOUNDING, BUT IT SAYS MANY MORE SAFETY MEASURES ARE IN PLACE TODAY COMPARED TO

1980, A TIME BEFORE SPERME BANKS WERE ESTABLISHED. ANDREW RHIANNON, ANDREA. >> THANK YOU. THE SUPREME COURT WILL HEAR A DISPUTE OVER THE ABORTION PILL MIFEPRISTONE. THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION IS ASKING THE JUSTICES TO OVERTURN AN APPEALS COURT RULING THAT WOULD CUT OFF ACCESS TO THE DRUG THROUGH THE MAIL, PREVENT DOCTORS FROM PRESCRIBING IT

VIRTUALLY, AND IMPOSE OTHER RESTRICTIONS. THIS IS THE COURT’S FIRST ABORTION CASE SINCE OVERTURNING ROE V WADE. A DECISION ON THIS IS EXPECTED BY JULY. >> TIME NOW FOR YOUR THURSDAY WEATHER. >> GOOD MORNING. A BIG STORM IS BRINGING HEAVY SNOW TO THE MOUNTAINS OF COLORADO AND NEW MEXICO TODAY. AND A WINTRY MIX

INTO THE SOUTHWESTERN PLAINS. THERE WILL BE SOME SLIPPERY ROADS, EVEN SOME FREEZING RAIN IN AMARILLO. NOW THE RAINFALL FORECAST ACROSS FLORIDA IS SCARY . OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS THROUGH THE WEEKEND. YELLOW IS TWO INCHES, ORANGE IS FOUR INCHES. THERE’S GOING TO BE COASTAL FLOODING AND INLAND FLOODING AS WELL. NOW THAT STORM

WILL MOVE UP THE COAST THIS WEEKEND INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK, BRINGING A LOT OF COASTAL WIND AND RAIN. I’M ACCUWEATHER METEOROLOGIST KEVIN COCHRAN. COMING UP. >> WHY? EGG PRICES ARE ABOUT TO GO WAY UP. >> BUT FIRST, CREWS SHIP TO THE RESCUE. HOW A CARNIVAL CRUISE HELPED SAVE 12 PEOPLE STRANDED AT SEA.

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>> WE’RE BACK NOW WITH A COAST GUARD RESCUE CREW NEAR THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. THE SIX MEN HAD BEEN ON A CARGO SHIP THAT SANK ON WEDNESDAY. THEY WERE LIFTED ONTO A JAYHAWK HELICOPTER . SIX OF THEIR COLLEAGUES WERE RECOVERED BY A CARNIVAL CRUISE SHIP IN THAT AREA. ALL 12 MEN ARE OKAY.

>> PRICES ARE EXPECTED TO START RISING AGAIN, BUT NOT BECAUSE OF INFLATION. THE REASON IS A BIRD FLU OUTBREAK IN KANSAS AT A FACILITY RUN BY THE TOP EGG PRODUCER IN THE U.S, COW MAIN FOODS, NEARLY 700,000 HENS ARE AFFECTED, AND AMERICANS ARE BEING BOMBARDED WITH REQUESTS FOR TIPS APPEAR TO BE REBELLING.

THE AVERAGE TIP GIVEN TO NON RESTAURANT SERVICE WORKERS DROPPED BY 7% LAST MONTH. MORE CONSUMERS SAY THEY’RE BEING PRESSURED TO TIP IN SOME UNUSUAL PLACES. >> AS WE TURN NOW TO THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE TRIAL OF MARVEL ACTOR JONATHAN MAJORS, NEW EVIDENCE HAS BEEN RELEASED, INCLUDING AN AUDIO RECORDING AND

VIDEO FROM THE NIGHT IN QUESTION . THIS MORNING, NEWLY UNSEALED EVIDENCE AGAINST ACTOR JONATHAN MAJORS INCLUDES A CONVERSATION SECRETLY RECORDED LAST YEAR, DURING WHICH MAJORS APPEARS TO INSTRUCT HIS GIRLFRIEND TO BEHAVE MORE LIKE THE WIVES OF HISTORICALLY IMPORTANT MEN. >> CORETTA SCOTT KING. YOU KNOW WHO THAT IS? THAT’S MARTIN

LUTHER KING’S WIFE, MICHELLE OBAMA, BARACK OBAMA’S WIFE, ALSO SHOWN IN COURT THIS VIDEO FROM THE NIGHT OF THE ALLEGED ASSAULT. >> MAJORS CAN BE SEEN PICKING HIS EX-GIRLFRIEND, GRACE JABARI, UP TRYING TO SHOVE HER BACK INTO THAT SUV. JABARI CLAIMS MINUTES EARLIER, MAJORS HAD ASSAULTED HER IN THE BACK SEAT.

>> JABARI SAID MAJORS HAD BROKEN HER FINGER AND CUT HER BEHIND HER EAR AFTER SHE GRABBED HIS PHONE BECAUSE A MESSAGE POPPED UP FROM ANOTHER WOMAN. >> THE PROSECUTION ALSO PRESENTED TEXT MESSAGES FROM LAST YEAR IN WHICH MAJORS REFERS TO HIMSELF AS A MONSTER AND APPEARS TO ADMIT TO HITTING HER.

HE ALSO REFERENCES HIS TEMPER DURING THAT CONVERSATION. RECORDED BY JABARI. I’M JUST GOING TO SAY THIS. >> MY TEMPER, MY BY MY BLOOD, ALL THAT, ALL THAT SAID RIGHT? AND I’M NOT SAYING I’M A GREAT MAN, A GREAT MAN. I AM DOING GREAT THINGS NOT JUST FOR ME,

BUT FOR MY FOR MY CULTURE AND FOR THE WORLD. >> BUT MAJORS LAWYERS ARGUE IT WAS JABARI WHO ATTACKED HIM AFTER SEEING THAT TEXT MESSAGE IN THE SUV AND THEY SAY THIS VIDEO SHOWS JABARI AT A NIGHTCLUB AFTER THE ALLEGED ASSAULT, USING THE FINGER THAT SHE CLAIMED MAJORS BROKE. MAJORS

DECIDED NOT TO TESTIFY IN JURY DELIBERATIONS. ARE EXPECTED TO BEGIN TODAY. IF CONVICTED, HE FACES UP TO ONE YEAR BEHIND BARS , COMING UP A KILLING SPREE WHERE THE VICTIMS WERE BALD EAGLES. >> WHAT’S HAPPENING TO THE MEN INVOLVED? >> ALSO AHEAD, THE RARE PUNISHMENT FOR AN NBA STAR WHO’S

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STRAHAN ONLY ON GOOD MORNING AMERICA. >> TIME TO CHECK THE PULSE. WE BEGIN WITH SOME POSSIBLE COMPETITION. >> IT’S BEING BILLED AS THE WORLD’S FIRST ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE POWERED NEWS NETWORK. YES. NEWS NETWORK, A VIDEO EXPLAINING CHANNEL ONE IS HOSTED BY ANCHORS THAT ARE NOT REAL PEOPLE. THEY ARE CREATED BY

AI. THEY CLAIM TO SPEAK ANY LANGUAGE AND INSIST THEY ARE NOT MAKING STUFF UP. >> AND WHAT IS AI? NATIVE NEWS FIRST, HERE’S WHAT IT’S NOT. IT’S NOT FAKE NEWS. THERE ISN’T A COMPUTER SOMEWHERE WRITING ITS OWN NEWS STORIES ABOUT THINGS THAT HAVEN’T HAPPENED. OUR SYSTEM RELIES ONLY ON TRUSTED NEWS SOURCES.

>> SURE IT DOES. >> CHANNEL ONE IS EXPECTED TO DEBUT NEXT YEAR ON STREAMING SERVICES. NEXT, A BREAKTHROUGH FOR EXPECTING MOMS. >> RESEARCHERS THINK THEY FINALLY KNOW WHY SOME WOMEN SUFFER EXTREME MORNING SICKNESS. A NEW STUDY FINDS. FETUSES PRODUCE A HORMONE THAT CAN LEAD TO NAUSEA. WOMEN WITH SEVERE

MORNING SICKNESS WERE FOUND TO HAVE HIGH LEVELS OF THE HORMONE GDF15. SCIENTISTS HOPE TO USE THIS INFORMATION TO DEVELOP TREATMENTS NEXT. OPRAH WINFREY’S LEGACY AND WEIGHT LOSS. >> THE SMITHSONIAN UNVEILED OPRAH’S PORTRAIT YESTERDAY, DEPICTING HER IN A PURPLE GOWN HOLDING AN OLIVE BRANCH. THE PORTRAIT WILL HANG ALONGSIDE OTHER AMERICAN ICONS AT THE

SMITHSONIAN NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY AND OPRAH RECENTLY REVEALED SHE DOES TAKE A MEDICATION TO MANAGE HER WEIGHT. >> IT COMES AS DEMAND SOARS FOR DRUGS LIKE OZEMPIC AND WEGOVY. NEXT WHOLE MILK IS ONE STEP CLOSER TO MAKING A COMEBACK IN SCHOOL. THE HOUSE JUST PASSED A BILL THAT WOULD LIFT THE BAN ON

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You’re watching America’s number one streaming is live reporting breaking new exclusives keep streaming with ABC News live. NOW STREAMING ON HULU, YOU SAID THE OTHER DAY TALKED ABOUT THIS GAMBIT BY SPECIAL COUNSEL JACK SMITH, BECAUSE IN HIS FEDERAL CASE AGAINST DONALD TRUMP, THE FORMER PRESIDENT’S LAWYERS KEEP MAKING THE CASE

HE CAN’T ACTUALLY BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR ANYTHING HE DID AS PRESIDENT, WHICH MAKES PROSECUTORS GO HARD. THAT SEEMS UNLIKELY, BUT IT’S TRUE. WHAT ARE WE DOING HERE? SO ZACH SMITH APPEALED TO THE SUPREME COURT, ASKING THEM, IS THAT THE ACTUAL RULE HERE? YESTERDAY, A JUDGE PUT HIS CASE

ON HOLD WHILE THEY FIGURE IT OUT. BUT JUST AROUND THE SAME TIME WE FOUND OUT THE SUPREME COURT IS TAKING UP ANOTHER ARGUMENT THAT COULD BE EVEN MORE FUNDAMENTAL TO THIS CASE. LET’S GO TO KIMBERLY WEHLE. SHE’S A FORMER FEDERAL PROSECUTOR, A LAW PROFESSOR, AND AN ABC NEWS LEGAL ANALYST.

>> WHAT IS THIS? WHAT IS THIS NEW CHANGE IN THIS CASE? >> WELL, THIS NEW CHANGE BRAND HAS ACTUALLY BEEN LURKING AROUND FOR A QUITE A WHILE NOW. AND SECTION 15, 12, 18 U.S.C. SECTION 1512 IS A PART OF THAT LAW THAT HAS BEEN USED BY PROSECUTORS, BY DOJ, TO EFFECTIVELY PROSECUTE

THE JANUARY SIX INSURRECTION. SO THIS IS SOMETHING THAT NOT JUST AFFECTS DONALD TRUMP, BUT IT ALSO AFFECTS MANY OF THOSE INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE EITHER WITHIN THE PIPELINE OR ALREADY BEEN CONVICTED. AND ESSENTIALLY THE ARGUMENT IS THAT THEY’RE APPLYING IT OUTSIDE OF THE PROPER SCOPE OF THE STATUTE, THAT THE STATUTE IS NOT SUPPOSED

TO APPLY MUCH MORE NARROWLY. >> BASICALLY SAYS WHOEVER CORRUPTLY OBSTRUCTS INFLUENCES OR IMPEDES AN OFFICIAL PROCEEDING OR ATTEMPTS TO DO SO, SHE’LL BE FINED OR IMPRISONED FOR 20 YEARS. >> ALL OF US HERE TODAY DO NOT WANT TO SEE OUR ELECTION VICTORY STOLEN BY EMBOLDENED RADICAL LEFT DEMOCRATS, WHICH IS WHAT THEY’RE DOING.

>> SO THEY’RE SAYING DONALD TRUMP IN TWO OF THE FOUR COUNTS OBSTRUCTED, INFLUENCED OR IMPEDE OFFICIAL IMPEDED THE OFFICIAL PROCEEDING, MAYBE MEANING THE COUNTING OF THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE VOTES. THEY’RE SAYING, NO, THIS THIS LAW WAS NOT MEANT FOR THAT KIND OF THING. >> GUILTY VERDICTS IN THE BIGGEST CASE OF CORPORATE FRAUD

IN HISTORY. THIS IS THIS IS PART OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT. IT WAS AFTER THE ENRON MELTDOWN. AND SO THE ARGUMENT IS IT REALLY MEANT SOME KIND OF FRAUD IN RECORDS, DOCUMENTS, SOME SORT OF FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS, AND THEREFORE, IT’S — IT’S ULTRA WHAT WE CALL ULTRA VIRES. IT’S BEYOND THE SCOPE OF 1512.

AND THAT THOSE TWO COUNTS OF THE FOUR COUNTS HAVE TO BE COMPLETELY THROWN OUT. >> WITH THAT WOULD BE GIGANTIC FOR DONALD TRUMP. AND ALSO JUST HAVING PEOPLE BEEN PROSECUTED FOR THEIR ACTIONS ON JANUARY SIX UNDER THIS LAW THAT YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT SAYING LIKE YOU, IF YOU OBSTRUCTED AN OFFICIAL

PROCEEDING, THAT HAS GOTTEN PEOPLE THROWN IN JAIL ALREADY 100%. >> RIGHT. SO THE QUESTION WOULD BE WHAT HAPPENS TO THEM? AND THIS IS A THIS IS A CASE AN ISSUE THAT’S BEEN LITIGATED THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY IN FAVOR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE IN THE LOWER COURTS. AND THE SOLICITOR GENERAL

SAID TO THE SUPREME COURT, DON’T TAKE THIS CASE. LET THINGS STAND AS THEY MAY, AND INSTEAD TOOK UP THE CASE RELATING TO ONE OF THESE, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE THAT HAVE BEEN PROSECUTED FOR THE JANUARY SIX INSURRECTION. >> AND HE’S CLAIMING, LISTEN, IT’S TOO BROAD. THIS DOESN’T APPLY TO ME.

THE ARGUMENT HAS BEEN, LISTEN, AN OFFICIAL PROCEEDING, SOME KIND OF JUDICIAL PROCESS OR SOMETHING ELSE. IT DOESN’T MEAN CONGRESS COUNTING ELECTORAL VOTES. AND EVEN IF IT’S A BROADLY WORDED IDEA OF JUDICIAL OF OFFICIAL PROCEEDING, IT STILL HAS TO BE SOMETHING PAPER. IT STILL HAS TO BE THAT YOU

THAT YOU YOU DID SOMETHING WITH RECORDS OR DOCUMENTS. IF YOU READ THOSE TWO PROVISIONS TOGETHER AND THE GOVERNMENT’S ARGUMENT IS BAD. NO, I MEAN, SUBSECTION TWO TALKS ABOUT OBSTRUCTING, INFLUENCING, COMPETING. IT SAYS NOTHING ABOUT RECORDS. SO IT’S THAT LANGUAGE PARSING THAT THE SUPREME COURT’S GOING TO TAKE UP.

AND IT WOULD IMPACT NOT JUST DONALD TRUMP, BUT ANYONE POTENTIALLY WHO’S BEEN PROSECUTED RELATING TO JANUARY SIX UNDER THIS PROVISION OF THE STATUTE. >> YOU SAID THAT PEOPLE WERE BEGGING THE SUPREME COURT LIKE, DON’T TAKE THIS CASE, JUST LET THE LOWER COURTS KEEP THEIR RULING TO THE FACT THAT THE SUPREME COURT TOOK

THE CASE MEAN THAT THEY MIGHT CONSIDER SORT OF OVERHAULING EVERYTHING WE KNOW ABOUT THIS PROVISION. >> RIGHT? YEAH, I MEAN, THAT’S ALWAYS THE CASE WITH THE SUPREME COURT. YOU KNOW, USUALLY THEY TAKE THEY GAVE A LOT OF REASONS WHY THEY TAKE CASES. BUT IT CERTAINLY SUGGESTS THAT THERE SOME PEOPLE I THINK

IT TAKES FOUR JUSTICES TO ACCEPT A CASE THAT THINK THERE’S A REAL PROBLEM HERE AND THAT, YOU KNOW, WE STILL NEED TO COUNT. JUST TO BE CLEAR, BRAD, IT’S NOT LIKE THE WHOLE CASE WOULD GO AWAY. THERE ARE STILL TWO OTHER COUNTS, BUT, YOU KNOW, IT NARROWS THE POSSIBLE SPAGHETTI

THAT COULD STICK TO THE WALL IN TERMS OF THE, YOU KNOW, GETTING A JURY VERDICT, NUMBER ONE. AND THE OTHER PART OF IT IS, YOU KNOW, THERE MIGHT BE DIFFERENT EVIDENCE THAT APPLIES THIS STATUTE 1512 AND THE OTHER THE OTHER PIECES. >> AND THEN THEN THE THIRD PIECE, I GUESS, IS IT DELAYS

THE TRIAL. SO JUDGE CHUTKAN, YESTERDAY, LATE AFTERNOON, SHE ISSUED ORDER SAYING, YOU KNOW, NOW THAT DONALD TRUMP IS APPEALING IMMUNITY, WE HAVE TO STAY EVERYTHING ELSE UNTIL THE SUPREME COURT DECIDES. AS I SAID, THIS CASE, THIS QUESTION ON WHETHER THE 1512 WILL STAND, THAT’S IN A RELATED DEFENDANT OR RELATED PROSECUTION.

>> IT’S NOT IN DONALD TRUMP’S CASE, BUT, YOU KNOW, ARGUABLY IT AFFECTS IT. SO SHE COULD SAY, LISTEN, I REALLY WANT TO HEAR WHAT HAPPENS WITH THESE TWO COUNTS BEFORE WE GO BEFORE THE JURY. SO THIS COULD REALLY DERAIL THINGS. AND DONALD TRUMP’S BEST DEFENSES IS TO HAVE THIS

GO PAST THE ELECTION AND JUST CALL THE WHOLE THING OFF IF HE’S REELECTED PRESIDENT OR PARDON HIMSELF. >> THIS WASN’T EVEN THE ONLY BIG SORT OF CONTROVERSIAL CASE THAT THE SUPREME COURT AGREED TO TAKE A REALLY HARD LOOK AT IN THE NEAR FUTURE. THEY’VE ALSO AGREED TO TAKE UP THE CASE OF MIFEPRISTONE,

THE ABORTION DRUG IN LOWER COURT HAS RULED THAT DECADES OLD POLICIES BY THE FDA ACTUALLY SHOULDN’T HAVE BEEN ALLOWED IN THE FIRST PLACE. >> AND BECAUSE OF THAT, THE LOWER COURTS RULED THAT ACCESS TO IT, IF A PERSON SHOULD BE ROLLED BACK ACROSS THE COUNTRY, THAT’S WHY ABORTION RIGHTS ARE VERY

EXCITED TO HEAR THAT THE SUPREME COURT WILL AT LEAST CONSIDER REVERSING THAT. >> ALL RIGHT, KIM WHALEY, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE TIME. GREAT TO BE WITH YOU. YOU MIGHT HAVE HEARD THAT YESTERDAY AT THE HUGE CLIMATE CONFERENCE, COP28 ENDED IN DUBAI, CULMINATING IN THIS BIG AGREEMENT FROM

COUNTRIES TO SCALE BACK THEIR DEPENDANCE ON FOSSIL FUELS. >> LESS, MORE RENEWABLES. >> WE HAVE LANGUAGE ON FOSSIL FUEL IN OUR FINAL AGREEMENT FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER. >> IF ELECTRIC CARS SEEN AS KEY TO THAT VISION YESTERDAY, THE BIGGEST ELECTRIC CAR COMPANY IN THE COUNTRY SUFFERED A MASSIVE SETBACK.

>> TESLA RECALLED 2 MILLION VEHICLES NOT DUE TO A BATTERY ISSUE OR ANYTHING BROUGHT UP AT A CLIMATE CONFERENCE, BUT RATHER PROBLEMS WITH THEIR FAMED AUTOPILOT SYSTEM. ABC’S MIKE DOBUSKI COVERS TECH AND AUTOS MAKE IT ALL SEEM TO COME TO A HEAD HERE. >> WHAT IS GOING ON WITH THESE CARS?

YEAH, PRETTY MUCH. >> BRAD, IF YOU OWN A TESLA, THERE’S A REALLY GOOD CHANCE YOUR CAR IS UNDER RECALL RIGHT NOW. >> THIS IS 2 MILLION SEDANS AND CROSSOVERS STRETCHING BACK AS FAR AS THE 2012 MODEL YEAR MODEL S AND MODEL THREE SEDANS, MODEL X AND MODEL Y CROSSOVERS.

>> TESLA’S BREAD AND BUTTER PRODUCTS AND THE NATIONAL HIGHWAY TRAFFIC SAFETY ADMINISTRATION SAYS THAT THIS ALL COMES BACK TO TESLA’S AUTOMATED DRIVING SYSTEM KNOWN AS AUTOPILOT. >> AUTOPILOT IS ESSENTIALLY VERY FANCY CRUISE CONTROL. >> IT CAN SPEED UP AND SLOW DOWN WITH TRAFFIC. >> AND IT ALSO HAS A FEATURE

CALLED AUTOSTEER THAT CAN KEEP YOU CENTERED IN YOUR LANE. WELL, NICK, THE NATIONAL HIGHWAY TRAFFIC SAFETY ADMINISTRATION SAYS THAT TESLA ISN’T DOING ENOUGH TO ENSURE THAT DRIVERS ARE PAYING ATTENTION WHILE THIS SYSTEM IS ACTIVE. >> I’VE NEVER HAD FAITH IN IT, EVEN THOUGH I HAVE IT ON THIS VEHICLE.

>> I’VE NEVER KICKED IT INTO AUTOPILOT. AUTOPILOT IS WHAT’S KNOWN AS A HANDS ON SYSTEM, WHICH MEANS THAT YOU’VE GOT TO KEEP YOUR HANDS ON THE WHEEL AT ALL TIMES, DESPITE THE FACT THAT THE CAR IS ACTUALLY DOING A LITTLE BIT OF STEERING FOR YOU. >> BACK WHEN THIS TECHNOLOGY

DEBUT, BRAD, THERE WAS A WHOLE HOST OF VIRAL VIDEOS OF PEOPLE TRYING TO FOOL THIS SYSTEM. IN FACT, A REALLY MEMORABLE ONE. SOMEBODY TAPED A BANANA TO THE STEERING WHEEL TO SORT OF SIMULATE THAT THEIR HAND. >> WAS THERE AND THE CAR BOUGHT IT AND THAT PERSON CRAWLED INTO

THE BACKSEAT AND TOOK A NAP. AND PEOPLE DID A WHOLE HOST OF OTHER THINGS WHILE THIS CAR DROVE DOWN THE ROAD. >> TESLA CONFIRMING THIS CAR WAS IN AUTOPILOT MODE WHEN IT CRASHED IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA, KILLING THE DRIVER. >> THAT’S WHY IT SAYS THEY’RE ISSUING THIS RECALL. THEY SAY THAT’S TOO DANGEROUS,

THAT TESLA NEEDS TO SORT OF BEEF UP ITS SAFETY SYSTEMS TO ENSURE THAT PEOPLE ARE ACTUALLY REMAINING ATTENTIVE WHILE THIS SYSTEM IS ACTIVE. >> WELL, SO THEN WHAT DOES TESLA DO? LIKE WHAT DOES CEO ELON MUSK DO? BECAUSE WHEN I SAY RECALL, I PICTURE EVERYONE HAVING TO TAKE THEIR CAR TO THE

DEALERSHIP OR EVEN EXCHANGE THEIR CAR. >> THAT DOESN’T SOUND LIKE WHAT THIS WILL BE LIKE. >> NO, THAT’S RIGHT. SO THE IDEA HERE IS THAT TESLA IS GOING TO OFFER A SOFTWARE UPDATE. >> SO IF YOU IMAGINE YOUR PHONE NEEDS A SOFTWARE UPDATE, YOU GET A LITTLE NOTIFICATION

THE NIGHT BEFORE YOU CLICK. OKAY. YOU WAKE UP THE NEXT MORNING, YOUR PHONE’S BETTER OR DIFFERENT IN SOME WAY. >> THAT’S HOW TESLA IS APPROACHING THIS. THEY SAY THAT THEY’RE GOING TO ISSUE A SOFTWARE UPDATE FOR FREE OVER THE AIR TO ALL THE AFFECTED CARS THAT ARE GOING TO ADD MORE ALERTS

AND CONTROLS TO THIS SYSTEM TO ENSURE THAT PEOPLE ARE ACTUALLY PAYING ATTENTION WHEN AUTOPILOT IS ACTIVE. >> WE’VE SEEN ALL THESE CRASHES WITH AUTOPILOT TAKING PLACE. THOSE YOU JUST RECENTLY, THE THIRD TIME THAT SOMEONE WAS KILLED BY HITTING A SEMI-TRUCK AND IT’S ALWAYS THE SAME CRASH, THEY’RE NOT PAYING ATTENTION.

AND THE TESLA JUST DOESN’T SEE THE SUMMER TRUCK RUNS UNDER IT. AND YOU WOULD THINK IF THEY WERE PAYING ATTENTION, THEY WOULD HAVE AVOIDED IT. >> THAT IS NOT UNUSUAL FOR TESLA. TESLAS ARE SOFTWARE BASED IN LARGE PART BECAUSE THEY ARE SEEN AS TECH DEVICES. TESLA TREATS THEM AS TAG DEVICES.

THEY SEND SOFTWARE UPDATES INSTEAD OF YOU HAVING TO BRING YOUR CAR INTO A MECHANIC OR A DEALERSHIP. THEY YOUR CAR CAN JUST REMAIN IN THE DRIVEWAY OVERNIGHT AND YOU’LL WAKE UP TOMORROW AND IT’LL ALL BE FIXED. >> BUT THERE ARE SOME LINGERING QUESTIONS ABOUT EXACTLY HOW EFFECTIVE THAT WILL BE BECAUSE THERE’S OTHER

CARMAKERS OUT THAT OFFER SYSTEMS THAT ARE SIMILAR TO THIS THAT ARE MAYBE A LITTLE BIT MORE ATTENTIVE TO THE DRIVER. >> WELL, THIS IS THE THING, BECAUSE WHEN I HEAR AUTOPILOT, I FEEL LIKE A LOT OF PEOPLE FEEL THIS WAY WITH WITH TESLAS IS YOU ASSUME THAT LIKE

YOU JUST ARE HANGING OUT. I GET THAT. TESLA SAYS, NO, THAT’S NOT HOW WE’RE DESIGNING THIS. BUT WHAT DOES THIS ALL MEAN FOR THE FUTURE OF AUTOMATION SYSTEMS AND REGULATION THAT WILL OR WON’T ACCOMPANY IT ? >> THERE ARE OTHER SYSTEMS OUT THERE, NAMELY ONE FROM GENERAL MOTORS, THAT LARGELY DO

THE SAME THING, BUT ADD IN MORE DRIVER MONITORING SYSTEMS. GENERAL MOTORS OFFERS A TECHNOLOGY CALLED SUPER CRUISE, WHICH HAS A SMALL CAMERA MOUNTED TO THE STEERING COLUMN, ESSENTIALLY TO MONITOR YOUR FACE, TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU’RE LOOKING AT THE ROAD. >> YOU’RE NOT DOZING OFF OR WATCHING NETFLIX.

THAT IS LAUDED BY THE AUTOMOTIVE PRESS AS A REALLY SAFE WAY TO DO THIS. >> TESLA DOESN’T OFFER THAT, AND THEY SAY THEY’RE GOING TO FIX THIS AUTOPILOT FLAW WITH A SOFTWARE UPDATE. >> BUT THE QUESTION REMAINS, BRAD, HOW MUCH CAN YOU DO WITH A SOFTWARE UPDATE FOR YOUR HARDWARE?

>> AT WHAT POINT DO YOU NEED TO ADD NEW STUFF TO THE CAR ITSELF? RIGHT. AND A LOT OF TESLA’S PRODUCTS RIGHT NOW ARE KIND OF OLD. >> THE MODEL THAT DEBUTED IN 2012, THE X DEBUTED IN 2016, THE THREE IN THE Y A COUPLE OF YEARS AFTER THAT, THE CYBERTRUCK, WHICH LAUNCHED

LAST MONTH, WAS THEIR FIRST REALLY NEW CONSUMER FACING IN MANY YEARS. TESLA DOESN’T UPDATE THEIR HARDWARE WITH THE SAME CADENCE THAT OTHER AUTOMAKERS DO. >> IT WILL BE AN IMPROVEMENT IN SAFETY. HOW MUCH IT IMPROVES SAFETY, WE DON’T KNOW. BUT IT’S NOT GOING TO BE THE IMPROVEMENT.

YOU WOULD HOPE, BASED ON WHAT OTHER MANUFACTURERS ARE ALREADY DOING PER SE. THEY THINK THAT THEY CAN ACCOMPLISH A LOT OF THE SORT OF UPDATES THROUGH SOFTWARE. BUT AS WE’RE SEEING WITH THIS RECALL, THERE ARE SOME QUESTIONS HAVING TO DO WITH THE SAFETY IMPLICATIONS OF THAT. AND THE OTHER SAFETY

IMPLICATION, I GUESS, KIND OF JUST LIKE YOUR PHONE, YOU EITHER HAVE IT SET TO AUTOMATICALLY GET UPDATES. YOU CAN DO THE UPDATES AT YOUR CONVENIENCE. THAT MEANS THAT SOME PEOPLE NOT HAVE THESE EXTRA RESTRICTIONS ON THEIR AUTOPILOT. SO GOING FORWARD, THE QUESTION MIGHT STILL BE IS THIS VOLUNTARY CHANGE ENOUGH FOR

REGULATORS OR WILL THEY WANT TO MAKE SOME MORE MANDATORY CHANGES? MIKE DOBUSKI, THANKS SO MUCH. THANKS, BRAD. OKAY, ONE MORE QUICK BREAK. WHEN WE COME BACK, IT’S NOW PEOPLE NOT ALGORITHMS DECIDING THE COLLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYOFF AND PEOPLE CAN Tonight A Woman’s right to make her own health choices with

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MAKES EVERYTHING IN FOOTBALL A BIT MORE ARDUOUS. WELL, NOW IMAGINE IF GOVERNMENT WAS INVOLVED. >> AS IT STANDS, THE COMMITTEE’S DECISION REEKS OF PARTIALITY. >> PICKING WINNERS IN THE BOARDROOM AND NOT ON THE FIELD. THIS WEEK, THE ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR THE STATE OF FLORIDA ANNOUNCED SHE’S LAUNCHING AN OFFICIAL INVESTIGATION AND INTO

HOW FLORIDA STATE DID IT QUALIFIED FOR THE COLLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYOFF. >> WE ARE LAUNCHING AN INVESTIGATION TO EXAMINE IF THE COMMITTEE WAS INVOLVED IN ANY ANTI-COMPETITIVE CONDUCT IN ITS UNPRECEDENTED DECISION. >> OKAY, SO HERE’S THE BACKSTORY. THIS SEASON, THERE WERE THREE UNDEFEATED COLLEGE FOOTBALL TEAMS IN THE TOP CONFERENCES MICHIGAN,

WASHINGTON AND FLORIDA STATE AND UNDEFEATED SEASON AND A CHAMPIONSHIP. FOUR TEAMS GET TO COMPETE FOR THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP AND SOMEHOW FSU WAS LEFT OFF THE LIST. INSTEAD, IT WAS ALABAMA AND TEXAS WHO PLAYED STRONGER OPPONENTS. >> BUT THEY WEREN’T UNDEFEATED, LEAVING LOTS OF FANS CONFUSED. >> WHAT ARE THEY HIDING?

WHY CAN’T WE KNOW HOW EACH INDIVIDUAL VOTES ON THE FINAL VOTE OF THE YEAR? >> THIS ELECTION COMMITTEE IS MADE UP OF 13 PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT HOUSEHOLD NAMES. SOME ARE COLLEGE ATHLETIC DIRECTORS, SOME ARE FORMER COACHES, SOME ARE FORMER PLAYERS WHO WORK IN THE CORPORATE WORLD. NOW, A NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP

CAN MAKE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS FOR SCHOOL, WHICH ALWAYS LEADS TO ALLIGATOR OF FOUL PLAY. >> WHETHER THERE’S EVIDENCE OR NOT, THERE’S A SOLID ALABAMA WAS IN THE TOP FOUR. I THOUGHT THAT THEY GOT IT RIGHT. >> THEY MADE THE HARD RIGHT DECISION IN THIS SCENARIO. WHAT MAKES THIS DIFFERENT,

THOUGH, IS A STATE’S LEGAL SYSTEM GETTING INVOLVED. >> WE’VE SEEN THIS IN SPORTS OVERSEAS WHERE SOCCER FEDERATIONS ARE MORE CLOSELY ENTWINED WITH GOVERNMENT LIKE WHEN FINANCIAL INVESTIGATIONS STARTED SWIRLING AROUND MANCHESTER CITY. THEIR OWNERS STARTED MAKING NOISE. WELL, THEIR OWNERS ARE GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS FROM THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES. THEY COMPLAINED TO THE BRITISH

EMBASSY AND ARE NOW STILL AWAITING JUDGMENT. WHILE SMALLER, PRIVATELY OWNED CLUBS GET PUNISHED FOR LESSER ALLEGED OFFENSES. >> I NOTICED MY FRESHMAN YEAR OF COLLEGE. THERE ARE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS BEING GENERATED AROUND YOU. >> THE NCAA HAS BEEN ARGUING IN RECENT YEARS ABOUT PLAYERS AND MONEY. WHETHER IT’S GOOD FOR THE GAME

THAT PLAYERS CAN TRANSFER SCHOOLS WHENEVER A COACH GETS FIRED. WHETHER THE PLAYERS THEMSELVES SHOULD GET. BUT WHAT IF THE PLAYERS AREN’T THE ONLY ONES DECIDING OUTCOMES ? >> WHAT IF YOUR LAWYERS COULD WIN YOU A NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP? WILL START CHANTING ABOUT THE LATEST INJUNCTION. WHY NOT SKIP THE GAMES ENTIRELY AND JUST.

WE ARE JERSEYS TO THE COURTROOM. GOVERNOR RON DESANTIS SAYS, HE’S WILLING TO SET ASIDE UP TO $1,000,000 FOR A CASE IF THE STATE DECIDES TO SUE. THIS IS TAXPAYER MONEY. SO WHETHER YOU’RE A FOOTBALL FAN OR NOT, WHETHER YOU’RE A FAN OF THE GATORS OR THE NOLES, THE STAKES OF GOING UNDEFEATED

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The story is, will take you there. You’re streaming, ABC News live. I AM DIANE MACEDO TODAY ON ABC NEWS LIVE. FIRST, A POWERFUL CROSS-COUNTRY STORM IS BRINGING HEAVY RAIN AND SNOW. THE TRACK AND THE TIMING PLUS HOW IT COULD YOUR HOLIDAY TRAVEL. NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR. JAKE SULLIVAN IS IN TEL AVIV

MEETING WITH THE ISRAELI WAR CABINET. THE MESSAGE HE’S SENDING FROM THE WHITE HOUSE AND CLOSING ARGUMENTS BEGIN IN JONATHAN MAJORS ASSAULT TRIAL. WE HAVE THE SURVEILLANCE VIDEO, AUDIO AND TEXTS THE JURY SAW. AND WHAT’S AT STAKE? >> THE ACTOR WITH DELIBERATIONS UP NEXT. OPRAH WINFREY SAYS SHE’S DONE

WITH THE SHAMING, BUT SHE’S REVEALING ABOUT USING A MEDICATION FOR WEIGHT LOSS AND WHY SHE CALLS IT A GIFT. >> WE BEGIN WITH THAT POWERFUL STORM MAKING ITS WAY ACROSS THE COUNTRY. UP TO SIX INCHES OF SNOW FELL IN PARTS OF COLORADO AND NEW MEXICO. HAVOC ON THE ROADS.

NOW, THAT SYSTEM IS EXPECTED TO MOVE SOUTH RAIN TO TEXAS AND THE GULF COAST. ABC’S SAM CHAMPION TRACKING IT ALL FOR US. >> SAM, WE HAVE NOT BEEN SO LUCKY WITH BIG STORMS AND THE TIMING OF BIG TRAVEL. AND HERE WE GO AGAIN WITH THE STORM THAT IT CAN IMPACT AND

WILL LIKELY SOME AREA AIRPORTS. SO LET’S TALK ABOUT THIS AS IT’S A BIG SNOWMAKER IN THE SOUTHERN ROCKIES. THIS IS ABOUT FOUR INCHES OF SNOW IN COLORADO SPRINGS. COME ON, COLORADO, WE CAN DO BETTER THAN THAT. WE KNOW HOW TO DRIVE. WE’RE NEAR DENVER. WE KNOW HOW TO DRIVE IN SNOW.

SO ANYWAY, AS THAT PULLS OUT, IT’S JUST A GARDEN VARIETY LOW . SOME RAIN ALONG IT IN TEXAS. BUT LOOK AT WHERE THIS REALLY CHANGES. GAME ON. IS THIS LOW FROM THE GULF? SPREADS THIS RAIN INTO FLORIDA . I’M GOING TO SHOW YOU IN A MINUTE HOW FLORIDA’S ALREADY BEEN IMPACTED.

BUT THIS IS SOME BIG TIME, HEAVY RAIN THAT KIND OF TIMES ITSELF TO BE SUNDAY, EARLY MORNING FOR NORTH FLORIDA, THE ATLANTA AIRPORT. THEN BY SUNDAY AFTERNOON, IT’S THE RALEIGH-DURHAM AREA. THEN BY THE TIME WE GET INTO MONDAY MORNING, WE’RE TALKING ABOUT ALL FIVE AREA AIRPORTS IN NEW YORK ON INTO BOSTON

WITH SOME HEAVY WIND AND RAIN. NOW, THIS IS WHAT FLORIDA HAS BEEN DEALING WITH, WITH KIND OF A STALL AND STATIONARY FRONT RIGHT THERE. SO EVEN BEFORE THE STORM, BIG STORM WINDS UP AND GETS THERE, THEY’VE HAD SOME WIND AND SOME RAIN. AND THIS IS JUST TO MAKE IT

EVEN TOUGHER FOR THEM BECAUSE WE’LL SEE UP TO TEN INCHES OF RAIN AS A TOTAL IN SOME PARTS OF FLORIDA. AND WE’VE GOT THOSE WIND ADVISORIES OUT. YOU’RE GOING TO HAVE WINDS UP TO 45 MILES PER HOUR AND SOME WAVES WILL APPROACH LIKE A 13 FOOT MARK. SO THAT’S PRETTY TOUGH FOR

THE COAST OF FLORIDA. THEN LOOK AT HOW THESE RAINFALL TOTALS GO. ANYWHERE FROM 5 TO 10 INCHES OF RAIN ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS. LOOK AT THE NEW YORK AREA, AIRPORTS JUST A LITTLE BIT NORTH. AND AGAIN, DON’T HOLD US EXACTLY THIS BECAUSE WE’RE STILL IN THE MODELS HERE

WITH ABOUT 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN. SO A LOT OF THESE AREAS AND ARE IMPACTED IN THIS TRAVEL. >> WE’LL BE WATCHING IT, DIANE. ALL RIGHT, ABC, SAM CHAMPION, THANK YOU. AND THAT STORM COULD IMPACT THE EARLY START TO HOLIDAY TRAVEL. AIRLINES ARE GETTING READY FOR A RECORD BREAKING NUMBER

OF PEOPLE WERE EXPECTED TO FLY FROM NOW UNTIL THE END OF THE YEAR. ABC NEWS TRANSPORTATION CORRESPONDENT GIO BENITEZ IS AT LAGUARDIA AIRPORT WITH MORE. >> HEY THERE. WE’RE NOT JUST TALKING ABOUT A SLIGHT INCREASE IN TRAVELERS HERE. WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE BUSIEST TRAVEL PERIOD EVER DURING THE HOLIDAYS.

TAKE A LOOK AT THESE NUMBERS BECAUSE TRIPLE J, EXPECT SOME 7.5 MILLION DOMESTIC TRAVELERS BETWEEN SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23RD THROUGH MONDAY, JANUARY 1ST. THAT’S MORE THAN 2019. THE U.S. AIRLINES EXPECT TO SELL 39 MILLION SEATS DOMESTICALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY FROM NEXT WEDNESDAY INTO THE NEW YEAR. BUT YOU’LL REMEMBER, YOU’LL REMEMBER THAT SOUTHWEST

MELTDOWN LAST DECEMBER WHEN ALMOST 17,000 FLIGHTS WERE CANCELED. PEOPLE WERE STRANDED ALL OVER THE PLACE. SOUTHWEST SAID THE WEATHER CAUSED IT, BUT IT WAS THE ONLY AIRLINE HIT BECAUSE PLANES AND CREWS, THEY WERE JUST IN THE WRONG PLACE. NOW, WE’VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THAT ROUGH WEATHER IN MAJOR CITIES WITH MAJOR AIRPORTS.

THAT’S WHAT AIRLINES ARE WORRIED ABOUT NOW, IN NO SMALL PART BECAUSE OF THE SHORTAGE IN AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS. UNITED SAYS, THOUGH, IT WELL-PREPARED WITH MORE THAN 150 DEICING TRUCKS AND 15,000 NEW HIRES BY THE END OF THE YEAR. AND YOU JUST CAN’T ABOUT THE ROADS. TRIPLE-A EXPECTS NEARLY 104

MILLION PEOPLE TO DRIVE OVER THE HOLIDAYS. AND THAT WEATHER, OF COURSE, COULD IMPACT THE TRIP. NOW, IF YOU ARE DRIVING, TRY TO AVOID AS BEST YOU CAN, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23RD, BECAUSE THAT WILL BE THE BUSIEST DIANE. >> ALL RIGHT. NATIONALS GIOVANNI, THANK YOU. MEANWHILE, NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER JAKE SULLIVAN IS IN

ISRAEL TODAY PUSHING FOR RESTRAINT AS CALLS GROW FOR A HUMANITARIAN CEASE. THOSE MEETINGS ARE EXPECTED TO BE TENSE AS THE WHITE HOUSE STRUGGLES TO CLARIFY THE PRESIDENT’S ACCUSATION OF INDISCRIMINATE BOMBING ISRAEL. CHIEF WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT MARY BRUCE HAS THE LATEST. >> PRESIDENT BIDEN’S NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER TOUCHING DOWN IN ISRAEL.

>> JAKE SULLIVAN MEETING WITH ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU AND HIS WAR CABINET, URGING THEM TO SHOW RESTRAINT IN THEIR WAR, HAMAS. THE MEETINGS COME AS PRESIDENT BIDEN IS STEPPING UP HIS OF ISRAEL’S MILITARY CAMPAIGN. >> THE PRESIDENT THIS WEEK ACCUSING ISRAEL OF, QUOTE, INDISCRIMINATE BOMBING IN GAZA AND SAYING THEY’RE LOSING

GLOBAL SUPPORT BECAUSE IT. THE WHITE HOUSE NOW TRYING TO DOWNPLAY THOSE REMARKS, REFUSING TO SAY IF THE PRESIDENT’S STATEMENT WAS A FORMAL ASSESSMENT OR OFFHAND AND STRUGGLING TO EXPLAIN WHY THE U.S. WOULD CONTINUE TO RUSH MILITARY AID TO A COUNTRY IT THINKS IS ENGAGED IN INDISCRIMINATE ATTACKS. ABC’S MARYALICE PARKS PRESSING

SPOKESMAN JOHN KIRBY. >> IF THE PRESIDENT BELIEVES ISRAEL IS ENGAGING IN INDISCRIMINATE BOMBING, WILL THERE BE AN OBLIGATION FROM THE U.S. TO CONTINUE CONDITIONS ON MILITARY AID? EVERY BIT OF ASSISTANCE WE GIVE ANY OTHER COUNTRY ALWAYS COMES WITH THE EXPECTATION THAT THE LAW OF ARMED CONFLICT IS GOING TO BE RESPECTED AND OBEYED.

IF THEY AREN’T, THAT ISN’T AN OBLIGATION FOR THE U.N. TO CHANGE THE WAY THAT IT’S DELIVERING MILITARY AID. THAT’S A HYPOTHETICAL THAT I’M NOT PREPARED TO ENGAGE IN RIGHT NOW. IN FACT, INDISCRIMINATE. THAT’S A HYPOTHETICAL. I’M NOT GOING TO ENGAGE IN. WE HAVE EXPRESSED OUR CONCERN. THE PRESIDENT HAS PUBLICLY

AND PRIVATELY WITH THE ISRAELIS, THE U.S. AND ISRAEL ARE STILL COOPERATING ON ANOTHER RECOVERING THE 135 HOSTAGES STILL HELD IN GAZA. >> AT THE WHITE HOUSE, PRESIDENT BIDEN MEETING IN FOR THE FIRST TIME WITH THE FAMILIES OF THE AMERICANS STILL . >> JONATHAN JOSH COHAN, WHOSE 35-YEAR-OLD SON ZIGI, WAS TAKEN

BY HAMAS, PRAISING BIDEN’S RESPONSE. >> THE U.S. ADMINISTRATION IS COMPLETELY COMMITTED TO GETTING THE HOSTAGES OUT. >> WE HAVE NO DOUBT ABOUT THAT . >> NOW, EIGHT AMERICANS ARE STILL MISSING, BELIEVED TO BE HELD BY HAMAS OR ANOTHER TERRORIST ORGANIZATION. BUT WITH FIGHTING NOW ESCALATING AGAIN, HOPING FOR ANOTHER TRUCE TO SECURE

THEIR RELEASE. >> IS DIMMING. DIANE? ALL RIGHT. CHIEF WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT ,MARY BRUCE, THANK YOU. MEANWHILE, THE FAMILIES OF HOSTAGES HELD IN GAZA DEMANDING AN URGENT UPDATE FROM PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU. SAY THEY’RE SHOCKED AFTER ISRAELI TV REPORTED AND YAHOO! PULLED OUT OF A NEW ROUND OF HOSTAGE NEGOTIATIONS SET

TO BEGIN IN QATAR. THIS COMES AS HAMAS SAYS A MASSIVE AIRSTRIKE LEFT 19 PEOPLE DEAD IN GAZA TODAY. FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT JAMES LONGMAN HAS THE LATEST FROM TEL AVIV. >> HI, JAMES. HI, DIANE. WHERE ARE AT? HOSTAGE SQUARE IN TEL AVIV. YOU’LL BE A VERY FAMILIAR WITH THIS NOW, A FOCAL POINT

FOR SO MANY ISRAELIS. EACH OF THESE TENDS FOR THE DIFFERENT KIBBUTZ WHICH WERE ATTACKED. THIS ONE BEARING PICTURES ON, THESE CHAIRS. PEOPLE ARE SO DESPERATE FOR THEIR LOVED ONES, PARTY MEMBERS TO COME HOME. AND JAKE SULLIVAN IS ARRIVING HERE IN ISRAEL AT A VERY TENSE TIME BETWEEN THE HOSTAGE

FAMILIES AND THE GOVERNMENT IS INCREDIBLY BITTER RIGHT NOW. THEY DON’T FEEL ENOUGH IS BEING DONE TO PRIORITIZE THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS. THEY WERE ANGRY AT THE DECISION TO PUMP SEAWATER INTO THE TUNNELS ON THE GAZA. BUT NOW IT’S EMERGED THAT PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU, TO LOCAL REPORTS, STOPPED THE HEAD OF MOSSAD.

THAT’S THE INTELLIGENCE THAT IS HERE FROM GOING TO QATAR TO RESUME NEGOTIATIONS TO BRING THEIR FAMILIES HOME. THEY FEEL THAT, QUOTE, THE GOVERNMENT IS PLAYING RUSSIAN ROULETTE WITH THEIR FAMILIES LIVES. SO THAT’S ONE ISSUE THAT JAKE SULLIVAN IS GOING TO HAVE TO DEAL WITH WHEN HE GETS HERE.

BUT, OF COURSE, IS THE ONGOING SITUATION IN GAZA, WHICH IS TOP OF A LOT OF PEOPLE’S MINDS THIS MORNING, 19 PEOPLE WERE KILLED IN AN AIR STRIKE IN THE STRIP. THAT’S ACCORDING TO HAMAS. THEY SAY NOW OVER 18,600 PEOPLE HAVE DIED IN THIS WAR SO FAR. THE IDF CONTINUES ITS OPERATION

THERE FIGHTING, HAMAS IN THE NORTH, IN THE JABALYA REFUGEE CAMP IN THE NORTH, THE GAZA AROUND CAESAREA AS WELL, WHICH IS A SUBURB OF GAZA CITY. AND KHAN YUNIS. BUT THE HUMANITARIAN SITUATION IS JUST HORRIFIC. MORE THAN HALF OF ALL PALESTINIANS IN GAZA HAVE NOW LOST THEIR HOMES. THE UNITED NATIONS SAYS HALF

OF THEM NOW RISK STARVATION. AND THAT IS PART OF THE REASON WHY JAKE SULLIVAN PUSH THE ISRAELIS TO PROVIDE A TIMETABLE ON HOW TO END THIS WAR WHILE HE’S HERE IN ISRAEL DON. >> ALL RIGHT. FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT JAMES LONGMAN IN TEL AVIV, THANK YOU. >> AND HOUSE REPUBLICANS ARE MOVING FORWARD WITH A

FORMAL IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY INTO PRESIDENT BIDEN. SO FAR, THREE INVESTIGATE LEADING HOUSE COMMITTEES HAVE PRESENTED NO EVIDENCE OF HIGH CRIMES OR MISDEMEANORS BY THE PRESIDENT. NOW, CONGRESSIONAL REPUBLICANS HAVE VOTED UNANIMOUSLY TO FORMALIZE THE INQUIRY, SAYING THAT WILL ALLOW THEM TO ACCESS MORE INFORMATION AS THEY TRY TO TIE THE PRESIDENT TO HIS SON’S

FOREIGN BUSINESS DEALINGS. ABC NEWS SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT SELINA WANG HAS. >> THE LATEST. HOUSE REPUBLICANS ARE PUSHING AHEAD WITH AN IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY INTO PRESIDENT BIDEN DESPITE FINDING NO OF WRONGDOING IN NEARLY A YEAR OF INVESTIGATIONS. >> THE LATE YESTERDAY FALLING ALONG PARTY LINES. >> THE HOUSE HAS NOW SPOKEN

AND I THINK PRETTY LOUDLY, PRETTY CLEARLY WITH EVERY SINGLE REPUBLICAN VOTING IN FAVOR OF MOVING INTO THIS OFFICIAL IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY PHASE. >> THE INQUIRY IS FOCUSED ON ALLEGATIONS THAT THE PRESIDENT, HIS POWER TO ENRICH HIS FAMILY AND WHETHER HE MADE DECISIONS WHILE VICE PRESIDENT TO BOOST HIS SON HUNTER’S BUSINESSES.

>> IS THERE HARD EVIDENCE OF WRONGDOING. >> THAT’S THE POINT OF AN INQUIRY, IS ASK THE QUESTIONS. HUNTER BIDEN NOW FACES FEDERAL TAX AND GUN CHARGES AFTER A PLEA DEAL REACHED WITH PROSECUTORS FELL APART OVER THE SUMMER. >> HE’S PLEADED NOT GUILTY ON THE WEAPONS CHARGE AND HIS

ATTORNEYS SAY HE’S PAID BACK. >> THE MONEY HE OWED IN TAXES. STILL, HE HAS BEEN UNDER SCRUTINY, REPUBLICANS FOR HIS WORK WITH COMPANIES IN UKRAINE AND CHINA. SO THERE’S NO EVIDENCE OF THE PRESIDENT’S INVOLVEMENT. >> WOULD YOU ACCEPT A PARDON, YOUR FATHER? >> THE YOUNGER BIDEN MAKING A RARE PUBLIC APPEARANCE

ON CAPITOL HILL YESTERDAY. THERE IS NO EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE ALLEGATIONS THAT MY FATHER WAS FINANCIALLY INVOLVED IN MY BUSINESS BECAUSE IT DID NOT HAPPEN. >> BUT HE ALSO DEFIED A CONGRESSIONAL SUBPOENA, REFUSING TO TESTIFY IN PRIVATE OVER CONCERNS WORDS BEHIND CLOSED DOORS WOULD BE MANIPULATED. >> INSTEAD OFFERING TO TESTIFY IN PUBLIC.

>> WILL HE BE HELD IN CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS? WE CERTAINLY PLAN TO DO THAT. CHAIRMAN, HOLD IT UP RIGHT NOW. IS THERE ANY EVIDENCE OF WRONGDOING ON THE PART OF PRESIDENT BIDEN? WE HAVE SOME VERY SERIOUS CONCERNS ABOUT SOME CHECKS THAT JOE BIDEN RECEIVED. >> DEMOCRATS SLAMMING THE INVESTIGATION.

THEY’VE BEEN AT IT FOR 11 MONTHS. THEY HAVE FOUND NOTHING. >> THIS IS A RIDICULOUS FISHING EXPEDITION. >> AFTER THE VOTE, PRESIDENT BIDEN ISSUED A SCATHING STATEMENT. HOUSE REPUBLICANS ARE FOCUSED ON ATTACKING HIM WITH LIES INSTEAD OF MAKING AMERICAN LIVES BETTER. SOME DEMOCRATIC LAWMAKERS TELL ME THAT CONTRAST COULD EVEN

HELP THE PRESIDENT’S REELECTION CHANCES IN 2024. DIANE WRIGHT, SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS LEAD A THANK YOU. AND THE FEDERAL RESERVE IS NOW SIGNALING, SIGNALING IT EXPECTS TO CUT INTEREST RATES NEXT YEAR. MARKETS SOARED TO AN ALL TIME HIGH AFTER THE DECISION YESTERDAY TO HOLD INTEREST RATES. ABC BUSINESS REPORTER

ALEXIS CHRISTOFOROUS ME NOW FOR MORE ON THIS. >> ALEXIS, HOW BIG IS THIS ANNOUNCEMENT BY FED? >> IT’S PRETTY BIG, DIANE, BECAUSE THIS IS WHAT INVESTORS HAVE BEEN TO HEAR FROM THE FED. SO TO BE CLEAR, THE FED IS NOT DECLARING VICTORY OVER INFLATION JUST YET, BUT IT

IS THE CLEAREST SIGNAL TO DATE THAT THE FED HAS RAISING INTEREST RATES TO BRING PRICES LOWER. AND IF INFLATION CONTINUES TO BEHAVE AND TRENDS LOWER, THE FED IS SIGNALING THREE INTEREST RATE CUTS IN 2024 OR A FEW MONTHS AGO, IT WAS LOOKING AT MAYBE ONE, POSSIBLY TWO INTEREST RATE CUTS IN 2024.

>> THIS GAVE AN EARLY CHRISTMAS PRESENT. SO WE SAW THAT BIG RALLY ON WALL STREET. THE DOW INDUSTRIALS CROSSING OVER 37,000 FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER. AND IT’S BEEN A PRETTY GOOD MONTH OVERALL FOR THE STOCK MARKET. THE DOW IS UP 8% AND THAT HAS BOOSTED AMERICANS FOR ONE KEY

AVERAGES BY NEARLY $9,000. IT’S A PRETTY NICE PAYDAY. ALL RIGHT. SO GOOD FOR OUR FOR ONE CASE. HOW ELSE DOES THIS IMPACT AVERAGE AMERICAN? NOW, IN SHORT, IT’S JUST GOING TO HAVE BORROWING COSTS GET CHEAPER. SO MORTGAGE RATES SHOULD COME DOWN NEXT. IF THE FED CONTINUES TO DO

WHAT IT SAYS IT’S GOING TO DO, AUTO LOAN RATES CREDIT CARD RATES, WHICH WE KNOW ARE AT A NEAR RECORD HIGH OF 21%, WE SHOULD SEE ALL OF THOSE THINGS START TO COME DOWN A LITTLE BIT NEXT YEAR. LOOK, IT’S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN OVERNIGHT AND THEY WON’T BE HUGE.

BUT WE COULD BE LOOKING AT A QUARTER POINT DROP. BUT IT’S A LITTLE BIT OF THAT PEOPLE HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR, ESPECIALLY IN THE HOUSING MARKET, WHERE, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF HOME OWNERS ARE NOT PUTTING THEIR HOMES ON THE MARKET BECAUSE THEY’RE SAYING, LOOK, WHY WOULD I TRADE MY TWO, 3%

INTEREST RATE FOR A HIGHER INTEREST RATE? I’M NOT SAYING RATES ARE GOING DOWN THAT LOW, ULTRA LOW, ANY TIME SOON, BUT RELIEF SHOULD BE ON THE WAY IF INFLATION CONTINUES ON THIS PATH. >> AND THE OTHER THING THAT MIGHT HAPPEN THAT NORMALLY DOESN’T HAPPEN IN A SITUATION LIKE THIS IS THAT SOFT LANDING

THAT THE FED SEEMS TO BE BRINGING CONSUMER PRICES LOWER AND BRINGING THE ECONOMY A LITTLE BIT SLOWER, BUT IT’S NOT TRIGGERING A RECESSION, SO IT’S GIVING THE FED SOME BREATHING ROOM. >> ALL RIGHT. GREAT TO HEAR A BUSINESS REPORT, ALEXIS CHRISTOFOROUS WITH SOME GOOD NEWS TODAY. I’D LOVE TO YOU A GOOD.

>> COMING UP, THE CHANCELLOR HERE, LITERALLY TWO PLAYERS FROM THE MLS TEAM, COLUMBUS CREW JOIN ME LIVE AFTER THEIR THIRD CHAMPIONSHIP WIN. WE’LL TALK ABOUT THAT WIN. PLUS, HOW SOCCER CONTINUES TO GROW IN THE U.S. ALSO AHEAD ,THE RECORD SETTING HOME DISPLAY IS GIVING THE GRISWOLDS

A RUN FOR THEIR MONEY AND LONG. IT TAKES THEM TO SET IT UP. AND WHY NOT? ALL THE NEIGHBORS ARE LOVING IT . WHENEVER A NEWS BREAKS. WE ARE HERE IN ISRAEL, A NATION AT WAR AFTER THAT BRUTAL SURPRISE ATTACK BY HAMAS ON THE GROUND IN UKRAINE. >> REPORTING FROM LEWISTON,

MAINE, THE SCENE OF A HORRIFIC MASS SHOOTING, ABC NEWS LIVE IS RIGHT THERE. EVERYTHING FROM THE SCENE OF THAT DEADLY, MASSIVE STRIKE. THE NEED FOR UKRAINE REPORTING FROM THE EARTHQUAKE IN TURKEY, ENROLLING FOR THIS TORNADO TORE THROUGH THIS LITTLE TOWN. THE MOST DEVASTATING DISASTER IN HAWAII FROM CHARLESTON,

SOUTH CAROLINA, ON THE 2024 CAMPAIGN TRAIL IN ICELAND. >> LET’S GO TRAVELING WITH THE PRESIDENT IN MEXICO CITY, WHEREVER THE STORY IS ON, THE FRONT LINE FROM SOUTHERN ISRAEL, OUTSIDE THE GAZA STRIP IN BEIRUT, FROM FBI REPORTING FROM THE NURSES ON THE PICKET LINE HERE AT TEN DOWNING STREET

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THAT TAKE YOU BACK TO SOME OF YOUR HAPPIEST TIMES START TONIGHT? CELEBRATE 100 YEARS OF LOVE DISNEY. >> ONE WORD THAT COMES TO MIND THE AMAZING DREAM. >> OH WOW. STUPID CAN LIVE FOREVER. >> MAGICAL. THE SECRETS OF FUN. OH, WOW. STORIES. THE STORIES TRAVEL NEVER SEEN BEFORE.

DISNEY 100 A CENTURY OF DREAMS. TONIGHT AT NINE EIGHT CENTRAL ON ABC AND STREAM ON HULU AND PLUS. >> ALL RIGHT, YOU READY? READY. LET’S DO IT. YES. IT’S THE SHOW AMERICA WANTS AND AMERICA NEEDS RIGHT NOW. THIS IS. WHAT WILL YOU DO? LET’S GO. ARE YOU? YES.

SO WHAT WILL YOU BE WATCHING SATURDAY ON ABC NEWS LIVE? WHAT WILL YOU DO? I GUESS I JUST FOUND OUT. WHAT WOULD YOU DO? MARATHON 2 TO 6 EASTERN EVERY SATURDAY ON ABC NEWS LIVE. MY FAVORITE SHOW. >> NATIONAL FOREST ARE GOOD PLACES TO GET AWAY, BUT SOMETIMES BAD THINGS HAPPEN

IN GOOD PLACES. >> IT’S THE STUFF OF NIGHTMARES. OH, LIKE AS SOON AS THE FEET STICK. IN A FUNNY WAY. THIS IS A HUMAN SKULL. WE WERE DEFINITELY AGAINST THE CLOCK. HOW MANY MORE VICTIMS ARE OUT THERE? ONE CRIME. ONE MOUNTAIN. STREAMING ONLY HULU. WHAT DO YOU SAY?

MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE FROM NEWS. >> THIS IS. START HERE TO BE IN THE MIDDLE AND GET A DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE DAY’S TOP STORIES. A LOT OF NEWS TODAY. SO LET’S GET INTO IT. LISTEN NOW TO THE DAILY NEWS PODCAST. HONORED WITH FOUR EDWARD ARMOR

AWARDS AND SEE WHY THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS IT A NEWS PODCAST WORTH LISTENING TO. START HERE. ABC MAKE IT YOUR DAILY FIRST LISTEN. NOW, THAT’S THE PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING. >> WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS, START. WELCOME BACK. THE COLUMBUS CREW ARE CELEBRATING AFTER WINNING

THEIR THIRD MLS CHAMPIONSHIP. THE CREW BEAT L.A. FC 2 TO 1 IN FRONT OF THEIR HOME CROWD IN COLUMBUS. FANS CELEBRATED WITH A PARADE ENDING AT THE TEAM’S STADIUM WHERE HOMEGROWN HERO AIDAN MORRIS TOLD THE CROWD THEY’RE NOT DONE YET. WOW. NEXT YEAR, RIGHT. BRING IT BACK NEXT YEAR.

AIDEN MORS JOINS ME NOW, ALONG WITH CAPTAIN DARLINGTON NAGBE, FOR MORE. HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE OR ARE YOU ALREADY FOCUSED ON NEXT YEAR? >> HAS IT ALREADY PASSED YOU BY? WHAT DO YOU THINK? WELL, IT’S SO FRESH, SO I STILL THINK I’M SOAKING IN ENJOYING MY TIME HERE.

IT’S BEEN NICE TO GET AWAY, BUT YEAH, WE SACRIFICE A LOT THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, SO YOU GOT TO APPRECIATE WHAT HAPPENS. YOU DON’T GET TO WIN A LOT. >> YEAH. DARLINGTON, YOUR MANAGER HAD SAID THE MOST IMPORTANT THING WAS FOR THE TEAM TO MAINTAIN ITS IDENTITY.

WHAT DOES THAT MEAN TO YOU AND HOW DO YOU THINK YOU GUYS WERE ABLE TO DO THAT THROUGH THIS RUN? >> I THINK, YOU KNOW, CREDIT TO HIM, YOU KNOW, AND THE GUYS AS WELL. AND I THINK THAT’S HIS PERSONALITY TO STAY CALM AND STAY PRESENT IN THE MOMENT

AND NOT TAKE THINGS FOR GRANTED. I THINK, YOU KNOW, AND IDENTITY AND STAYING CALM HELPED US IN THE FINAL BECAUSE THE MOMENT WASN’T TOO BIG FOR US. >> THEY’RE GOING TO STAY CONSISTENT THROUGHOUT ALL YEAR. AIDEN, YOU’VE SPENT YOUR ENTIRE CAREER WITH THE CREW. I KNOW A FEW YEARS AGO,

THE FANS RALLIED. KEEP THE TEAM IN COLUMBUS. SO WHAT DO YOU THINK THIS VICTORY TO THE TEAM, BUT ALSO THE COMMUNITY THERE? OH, MASSIVE. THE FANS SHOW UP EVERY DAY, EVERY GAME SUPPORTING US, HAVE OUR BACK AND GIVES US THE EXTRA TEN, 15%. AND FOR ALL THE CREW’S BANTER,

YOU KNOW, IT’S NICE TO BRING TWO TITLES WITH IN THE LAST FOUR YEARS AND GRANTED, THIS IS A BIG YEAR FOR THE LEAGUE IN GENERAL, WITH LEO MASSEY JOINING MIAMI. HOW DO YOU THINK THAT’S CHANGING THINGS ON THE FIELD, THE LEAGUE IN GENERAL AND THE MOOD IN THE LOCKER ROOM?

>> NO, IT’S HUGE JOB TO WHEN PLAYER LIKE THAT COMES ENJOYING JOINING THE LEAGUE BY BEING THE GREATEST EVER. THIS IMPROVES THE PROFILE THE LEAGUE, THE PLAYERS THAT WANT TO COME TO THE LEAGUE SO OBVIOUSLY THAT IMPROVES THE COMPETITION ON THE FIELD. SO IT’S GETTING BETTER AND BETTER AND BIG TIME PLAYERS

ARE COMING HERE AND THE PLAYERS ARE PLAYING AGAINST THEM. YOU KNOW, I THINK THEY GET OPPORTUNITY WITH THE THAT LITTLE IS AND WE’RE JUST AS PART OF THE LEAGUE AND IT AND YOU GUYS ARE COMPETING NOW FOR THE CONCACAF IN MARCH I BELIEVE. HOW DO YOU KEEP THAT MOMENTUM GOING?

IT’S KEEPING US. WE’VE GOT SUCH A GOOD FOUNDATION SUCH A GOOD COACH, SUCH GOOD STAFF JUST KEEPING US TO OUR PRINCIPLES, STAY ON THE TASK AND YEAH, WELL, CONGRATULATE. >> I’M SO EXCITED FOR YOU BOTH. I KNOW IT’S BEEN A LONG WEEK OF CELEBRATIONS, TOO SO YOU GET SOME REST.

>> AND CAN WE JUST. CAN WE JUST GET A SHOT OF THIS THING? >> IT IS HUGE. >> CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU BOTH. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR COMING IN. THANK YOU. ROLL AROUND THE STUDIO, I GOT BIG CONGRATULATIONS TO THE COLUMBUS CREW. >> COMING UP, OPRAH WINFREY

SAYS SHE IS DONE WITH THE SHAMING, WHICH SHE’S REVEALING ABOUT USING MEDICATION FOR WEIGHT LOSS AND WHY SHE CALLS IT A GIFT. FIRST, LIGHTING UP, THE NEIGHBORHOOD WITH A RECORD SETTING DISPLAY, HOW LONG IT TAKES FOR A NEW YORK FAMILY. SET THIS ALL UP AND WHY SOME NEIGHBORS AREN’T LOVING IT

IT. HOUSTON POLICE SAY THE 16 YEAR OLD SHOT BOTH OF PARENTS NOW FRIDAY NIGHT INSIDE THE COURTROOM AND THE SHOCKING NEW EVIDENCE THAT CAME IN JUST DAYS BEFORE THEIR TRIAL BEGAN. YOU GOT TO BE KIDDING ME. WHOSE BLOOD IS THIS? I COULDN’T EVEN FATHOM THE IDEA OF KILLING MY.

EVERYTHING SEEMED CLOSE TO HIM. AND THE 2020. FRIDAY NIGHT AT 9 A.M. CENTRAL ON ABC. >> TONIGHT, A WOMAN’S RIGHT TO MAKE HER OWN HEALTH CHOICES. ABORTION PILL ACCESS SET TO GO BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT. IS A CRISIS BREWING? MORE AMERICANS TURN TO THE MOST WATCHED ON TELEVISION.

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THE STORIES NEVER SEEN BEFORE. DISNEY. 100 A CENTURY OF DREAMS. TONIGHT AT NINE EIGHT CENTRAL ON ABC AND STREAM ON HULU AND DISNEY PLUS. WHEREVER NEWS BREAKS, IT’S SO IMPORTANT TO ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT LIVES ARE CHANGED. GETTING YOU BEHIND THE STORIES AS THEY HAPPEN. >> ABC NEWS LIVE PRIME.

WE’LL YOU THERE LIVE STREAMING FREE ON ABC NEWS LIVE. >> WELCOME TO THE WORLD’S GREATEST DOG SHOW THE COMPETITION DOG DANCING IS VERY DIFFERENT. DANCING WITH MY DOG IS THE CLOSEST THING TO MAGIC SHOW WINNER. >> OH 2023 THE DANCING GODS NOW STREAMING HULU FIRST THING IN THE MORNING.

>> THERE’S A LOT GOING ON. EVERYBODY IN THAT HOME IS OKAY TO CATCH YOU UP WITH WHAT, OVERNIGHT? WE ARE HERE IN FASHION. THE BIGGEST NIGHT OUT. WHAT’S HAPPENING TODAY. YOUTUBE HAS UNVEILED A NEW SET OF POLICIES. WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE NEW AD CAMPAIGN FAST, STRAIGHT FORWARD WITH SOME FUN

IN BETWEEN A REAL LIFE BARBIE DREAM HOUSE. A CHANGE FOR THE WIENERMOBILE. FIRST THING IN THE MORNING, AMERICA IS THIS MORNING AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE EARLY MORNING NEWS ON ABC. >> WHAT? ARE YOU READY? LET’S DO IT. YES, IT’S THE SHOW AMERICA WANTS AND AMERICA NEEDS RIGHT NOW.

THIS IS WHAT WOULD YOU DO? HEY, GIRL, HOW ARE YOU? YES. SO WHAT WILL YOU BE WATCHING? SATURDAY IS ON ABC NEWS LIVE. WHAT WOULD YOU DO? YES, I JUST FOUND OUT. WHAT WOULD YOU DO? MARATHON 2 TO 6 EASTERN EVERY SATURDAY ON ABC NEWS LIVE. >> MY FAVORITE SHOW REPORTING

FROM MONTEREY PARK, CALIFORNIA. I’M ROBIN ROBERTS. WHEREVER WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WE’RE GOING TO TAKE YOU THERE. HERE’S STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE . >> WELCOME BACK TO ABC NEWS LIVE. >> FIRST, A FAMILY IN NEW YORK IS MAKING SURE SANTA WILL HAVE NO TROUBLE SEEING THEIR HOUSE THIS CHRISTMAS.

>> THE HOUSE HOLDS THE WORLD FOR THE MOST LIGHTS ON A RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY, BUT NOT ALL OF THEIR NEIGHBORS ARE LOVING THE ATTENTION IT’S BRINGING TO THEIR SMALL TOWN. ABC’S TREVOR AULT IS IN LA GRANGE IN NEW YORK WITH MORE. >> IF YOU’RE DREAMING OF A LIGHT CHRISTMAS, THIS IS THE

DAZZLING HOME DISPLAY IN ONE SMALL NEW YORK TOWN THAT PUTS CLARK GRISWALD TO SHAME. >> I GOT A GUY WITH MORE THAN SEVEN HUNDRED 20,000 LIGHTS ALL PROGRAMED A. TIMOTHY AND GRACE KAYE OF UNIONDALE, NEW YORK SAY SINCE 2014, THEY’VE HELD THE GUINNESS WORLD RECORD FOR MOST LIGHTS ON A RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY.

>> IT STARTED VERY SIMPLE WITH JUST 600 LIGHTS ON THE TWO TREES BY THE FRONT STEPS, MY BROTHER SUGGESTED PUT LIGHTS AROUND THE PAN AND THAT WAS ACTUALLY THE SPARK THAT IGNITED, ADDING MORE LIGHTS EACH YEAR. >> THE FAMILY SAYS. IT TAKES THEM THREE MONTHS TO SET UP THE DISPLAY WITH 40

MILES OF LIGHTS AND EIGHT MILES OF EXTENSION CORDS, ALL CAREFULLY CHOREOGRAPHED TO THE MUSIC THROUGH A COMPUTER PROGRAM. >> NOW IT’S AN ANNUAL EVENT. THEY’RE SMALL OF ONLY 4500. DRAWING ANYWHERE FROM 50 TO 100,000 VISITORS. >> I WAS SO MESMERIZED. >> IT’S THIS ONE. MANY LOCALS SAY THE EVENT

IS LITERAL AND METAPHORICAL, BRIGHT LIGHT AND MASSIVE FUND RAISER. THE GAY’S COLLECT DONATIONS FROM, VISITORS. THEY SAY OVER THE PAST THREE DECADES, THEY’VE BROUGHT IN MORE $665,000 FOR CHARITY. MUCH OF THAT GOING TO CHILDREN’S ORGANIZATIONS. >> AND THE FAMILY SAYS THEIR GOAL IS TO REACH $1 MILLION IN DONATIONS FOR CHARITY.

AND THEY THINK THEY CAN DO THAT IN THE NEXT FEW YEARS. NOW, IF YOU’RE WONDERING SEEING ALL THIS, WHAT IS THE ELECTRIC BILL LIKE THAT ACTUALLY MIGHT BE THE MOST IMPRESSIVE THING ABOUT IT, THE FAMILY SAYS, BECAUSE THEY USE BLINKING LED LIGHTS. LAST YEAR THE ELECTRIC BILL WAS JUST HUNDRED AND $50.

>> DIANA 350 WOW. TREVOR AULT THANK YOU. COMING UP, CLOSING ARGUMENTS BEGIN AND JONATHAN ASSAULT TRIAL. WE HAVE THE SURVEILLANCE VIDEO, AUDIO AND TEXT THE JURY SAW. ALSO AHEAD, HOW DO YOU INCREASE YOUR TAKE PAY? YOU ASKED AND ALEXIS CHRISTOFOROUS EXPLAINS HOW TO REDUCE YOUR BURDEN. PLUS, TIME FOR A ROYAL BINGE.

THE EPISODES OF THE CROWN ARE OUT. WILL GANSS HAS A LOOK AT WHAT’S AHEAD. THE SEASON. HOUSTON POLICE SAY THE 16 YEAR OLD SHOT BOTH OF HIS PARENTS NOW FRIDAY. INSIDE THE COURTROOM IN THE SHOCKING NEW EVIDENCE THAT CAME IN JUST DAYS BEFORE THE TRIAL BEGAN.

YOU GOT TO BE KIDDING ME. WHOSE BLOOD IS THIS? I COULDN’T EVEN FATHOM IDEA OF KILLING MY PARENTS. EVERYTHING. EVERYTHING POINTS TO HIM. I IN 2020. FRIDAY NIGHT AT NINE IN CENTRAL ON ABC. >> WE HAVE REALLY DIFFERENT. I WAS TERRIFIED. IT WAS JUST SO TRAUMATIC. NIGHTMARE.

PEOPLE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THESE WERE WANTED BABIES. 18 FACING LIFE AND DEATH, MEDICAL CONDITIONS. THEIR NOW OUT OF THEIR CONTROL. >> I FELT LIKE I WAS TO DIE. OUR LIVES AND OUR HEALTH ARE DEBATABLE. I WOULDN’T WISH THIS UPON MY WORST ENEMY. >> DIANE SAWYER RACHEL SCOTT

ON BRAIN NOW STREAMING ON HULU. >> ALL RIGHT, HERE WE GO. ALL RIGHTY. LET’S DO IT. >> YES, IT’S THE SHOW AMERICA WANTS. AND AMERICA RIGHT NOW. THIS IS WHAT WOULD YOU DO? LET’S GO. HOW ARE YOU? YES. SO WHAT WILL YOU BE WATCHING? SATURDAYS ON ABC NEWS LIVE. WHAT WILL YOU DO?

YES, I JUST FOUND OUT. WHAT WOULD YOU DO? MARATHON TO SIX EASTERN EVERY SATURDAY ON ABC NEWS LIVE. >> I HAVE FAVORITES NOW. WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE THEIR DAY HERE FROM ABC NEWS. >> THIS IS “START HERE”. TO BE IN THE NEWS AND GET A DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE DAY’S

TOP STORIES. A LOT OF NEWS TODAY SO LET’S GET RIGHT TO IT. LISTEN NOW TO THE DAILY NEWS. HONORED WITH FOUR EDWARD ARMOR AWARDS AND SEE WHY “NEW YORK TIMES” CALLS IT A NEWS PODCAST WORTH LISTENING TO YOU START HERE. ABC NEWS MAKE IT YOUR DAILY FIRST LISTEN.

>> NOW, THAT’S A PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING. >> WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS, START HERE. WHENEVER WHEREVER NEWS BREAKS, IT’S SO IMPORTANT TO ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT LIVES ARE CHANGED HERE IN LONDON IN BARCELONA. INVOLVED IN TAXES. EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND REPORTING FROM ROLLING FORK, MISSISSIPPI. THE UKRAINIAN REFUGEES HERE

IN WARSAW. WE’RE HEADING TO A SMALL COMMUNITY OUTSIDE OF MEXICO CITY. YOU’RE BEHIND THE STORIES AS THEY HAPPEN. ABC NEWS PRIME. >> WE’LL TAKE YOU THERE. STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE WEEKNIGHTS WHEREVER YOU STREAMING NEWS ME ON ABC NEWS LIVE. WE HERE IN ISRAEL, A NATION AT WAR. >> TANK AFTER TANK INTO THIS

AREA. THIS IS WHERE IT ALL BEGAN. BULLET HOLES ALL UP A WALL WITHIN MINUTES OF THE AIR RAID SIRENS GOING OFF. >> YOU CAN HEAR A SOUND EXPLOSION DOWN HERE. TODAY, ISRAEL WAGING A FIERCE BOMBARDMENT OF GAZA, THE ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR, FOR A NONSTOP COVERAGE STREAM. >> NBC NEWS LIVE REPORTING FROM

SOUTHERN FROM THE FRONT LINE IN DOWNTOWN IN BEIRUT. THE STORY WE’LL TAKE YOU THAT ABC NEWS FIVE. WELCOME BACK TO ABC NEWS LIVE. FIRST, THANKS FOR STAYING WITH US. YOU’RE LOOKING AT SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO, WHERE YOU CAN SEE SOME SNOW ON THE GROUND ON THIS THURSDAY.

AND WE HAVE A LOT OF NEWS TO GET TO. HERE’S A RUNDOWN RIGHT NOW. FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE RUSSIA LAUNCHED ITS WAR AGAINST UKRAINE, VLADIMIR PUTIN HAS HIS ANNUAL PRESS CONFERENCE. RUSSIAN STATE MEDIA SAYS AT LEAST 2 MILLION QUESTIONS WERE SUBMITTED TO THE EVENT DURING THE FOR OUR CONFERENCE,

PUTIN SAID THERE WOULD BE NO PEACE IN UKRAINE UNTIL. THE KREMLIN REALIZES ITS GOALS. LAST YEAR’S EVENT WAS CANCELED DUE TO THE WAR. AUTHORITIES ARE WARNING STUDENTS TO BE ALERT AFTER THREE ATTEMPTED ABDUCTIONS NEAR THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA. THEY SAY THREE WOMEN REPORT BEING FOLLOWED BY A MAN DRIVING

A BLUE TOYOTA. ONE SAYS SHE WAS ATTACKED FROM BEHIND AND SCREAMED BEFORE THE SUSPECT FLED. ANOTHER SAYS SHE WAS GROPED BUT GOT AWAY. NOW THE FBI INVESTIGATING. THE NBA SAYS GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS STAR DRAYMOND GREEN IS SUSPENDED INDEFINITELY. IT COMES AFTER GREEN GOT HIS SIXTH SUSPENSION IN HIS

CAREER AND, HIS SECOND IN LESS THAN A MONTH. THAT WAS FOR SWINGING AT PHOENIX SUNS CENTER, KNOCKING HIM TO THE GROUND LAST NIGHT. GREEN SAYS IT WAS UNINTENTIONAL . THE NBA SAYS FOR HIM TO RETURN TO THE COURT, HE WILL BE REQUIRED, MEET CERTAIN LEAGUE AND TEAM CONDITIONS.

AND THE CURIOUS CASE OF A MISSING TOMATO HAS FINALLY BEEN SOLVED IN SPACE. EARLIER THIS YEAR, FRANCO RUBIO HARVESTED ONE OF THE FIRST TOMATOES EVER GROWN IN SPACE AT THE INTERNATIONAL STATION. BUT THEN, WHILE TALKING TO SOME KIDS, HE LOST CHERRY TOMATO. NOW, MORE THAN TWO MONTHS AFTER RUBIO RETURNED TO EARTH,

ANOTHER REPORTS THE TOMATO HAS BEEN FOUND. RUBIO NOW ABSOLVED OF SOME PLAYFUL ACCUSATIONS THAT HE ATE THAT TOMATO. >> MEANWHILE, WOMEN WITH HIGH RISK PREGNANCIES FACING A GROWING NUMBER OF EMERGENCIES AS THE LEGAL BATTLE FOR ABORTION GROWS. SEVERAL DOZEN WOMEN ARE CURRENTLY WAITING ON DECISIONS IN A STRING

OF CASES ABOUT HEALTH EXCEPTIONS IN STATES WITH SEVERE ABORTION RESTRICTIONS. NOW, OUR DIANE SAWYER AND RACHEL SCOTT HAVE TEAMED UP FOR AN ABC NEWS SPECIAL REPORT TO TELL THE STORIES OF WOMEN ENDURING CONSEQUENCES OF THE ABORTION LEGAL BATTLE. >> HERE’S A PREVIEW. WE ARE THERE AS THEY INTO

A ROOM IN TEXAS FROM IDAHO, FLORIDA, ALABAMA. SOUTH CAROLINA. WISCONSIN. ARIZONA. ARKANSAS, LOUISIANA. TENNESSEE TENNESSEE. THEY ARE STRANGERS WHO HAVE GATHERED TOGETHER BECAUSE THEY SHARE A COMMON BOND SUFFERING. >> IN THE CROSSFIRE AND CONFUSION OF NEW HEALTH CARE LAWS. LAWS IN 21 STATES IN THIS COUNTRY WITH VARYING BANS

AND RESTRICTIONS. THESE WOMEN SAY THEY KNOW THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF OTHERS OUT THERE LIKE THEM. >> IT TAKES COURAGE TO GO ON CAMERA. I’M WONDERING HOW MANY OF YOU ALMOST DIDN’T COME? HOW MANY OF YOU FELT YOU HAD TO COME? YEAH, FOR SURE. WITHOUT A DOUBT. WITHOUT A DOUBT.

I DON’T THINK PEOPLE REALIZE HOW COMMON THIS IS. >> IS THIS A DEBATE OVER ABORTION OR IS IT A DEBATE OVER HEALTH CARE, OVER HUMAN RIGHTS? >> THAT’S WHAT PEOPLE NEED TO UNDERSTAND, THAT THESE WERE WANTED BABIES. >> LET’S START WITH THE STORY OF THIS WOMAN IN THE FRONT ROW.

KRISTIN AND I ARE LIKE, SO MANY IN THIS ROOM. FOR MONTHS AND MONTHS, SHE’D BEEN TRYING TO GET PREGNANT. HERE’S THE MOMENT. SHE GOT THE PHONE CALL OF HER DREAMS. I MEAN THAT TO ME, YOU KNOW THAT, YOU KNOW, TOGETHER WE ARE WE HAVE REALLY GOOD AND

GOOD FOUR MONTHS OF COMPLETE HAPPINESS BEFORE, THE DAY OF COMPLETE HEARTBREAK. ALL OF A SUDDEN, KRISTIN, SOMETHING WRONG? THE MEMBRANES PROTECTING HER FETUS BROKE AND HER WATER. THE AMNIOTIC FLUID LOST. DOCTORS SAY THIS HAPPENED SO EARLY, THE FETUS CANNOT BE SAVED. WITH HER FETUS DYING INSIDE HER.

KRISTIN IS NOW AT RISK. THE CLOCK BEGINS TICKING ON INFECTION AND THE TERROR SEPSIS INFECTION THAT CAN RAGE THROUGH YOUR BLOODSTREAM CAUSE ORGAN FAILURE. IN STATES WHERE THERE ARE NO BANS DOCTORS WOULD RACE TO INDUCE LABOR TO PROTECT HER HEALTH, HER FERTILITY, HER LIFE. >> WITHIN HOURS, I WAS SHOWING

ALL SIGNS OF SEPSIS. THE DOCTORS NEEDED TO START INDUCING IMMEDIATELY. HOWEVER, THEY WERE UNABLE TO BECAUSE OF TEXAS ABORTION LAWS. >> AND SO THE EXACT WORDS WERE WE HAVE TO PROVE TO ETHICS BOARD AND THE MEDICAL BOARD OF THIS HOSPITAL THAT YOUR LIFE IS IN DANGER BEFORE WE CAN INTERVENE.

>> SHE IS SHAKING VIOLENTLY FROM FEVER, VOMITING NONSTOP. OUR DOCTOR NURSES WERE CRYING AT OUR BEDSIDE, AT MY BEDSIDE AND WISHING THEY COULD DO SOMETHING WITH BLANK STARES, THEIR FACES, BECAUSE THEY LITERALLY COULDN’T DO ANYTHING UNTIL THE BLOODWORK SHOWED I WAS DYING. HOUR BY HOUR, THE DOCTORS MONITOR THE INCREASE

THE INFECTION IN HER BLOOD. SHE KNOWS THERE’S NO CHANCE FOR BABY. SHE’S LITERALLY DYING INSIDE OF ME AS I LAY ON THE BED GOING SEPTIC. AND WHAT DOES THAT MAKE ANY SENSE? TO PREVENT HEALTH CARE FOR ME? YEAH. WHAT ABOUT MY LIFE? WE DIDN’T ASK THAT. >> WE DIDN’T WANT THAT.

SO YOU WERE WAITING. LIKE, HOW MANY HOURS? >> 24 HOURS. FINALLY, THE BOARDS APPROVED HER TREATMENT. HER DOCTORS INDUCED LABOR. THE BABY PASSES, BUT IS SO SICK FROM INFECTION, SHE HAS TO REMAIN IN THE HOSPITAL FOR THE NEXT FIVE DAYS. GETTING I.V. ANTIBIOTICS. >> BLOOD TRANSFUSIONS.

A ROOM FULL WOMAN WITH SEARIN STORIES OF TRYING TO GET MEDICAL CARE. BUT STATE LAWS HAVE TIED THEIR DOCTORS HANDS. THE STORIES WILL BREAK YOUR HEART. REST FOR BLOOD CLOTS, INFECTION. EVERY SINGLE OF MY SON’S ORGANS WERE GROWING OUTSIDE OF HIS BODY. THAT IS TORTURE. >> THAT’S MONSTROUS. MISSING THE SKULL.

WOMAN AND DOCTORS SOUNDING THE ALARM THAT SOMETHING HAS TO CHANGE IS 25% CHANCE OF DEATH. IS THAT. IS THAT ENOUGH? DOES SHE HAVE TO HAVE A 75% CHANCE OF DEATH? WHO GETS TO DECIDE? >> YOU’RE NOT FATAL ENOUGH OR YOU’RE OR YOU’RE NOT SICK ENOUGH. IT’S LIKE IN WHAT?

WHAT ARE WE LIVING IN RIGHT NOW? MANY OF THEIR HUSBANDS ALSO THE URGENT NEED TO BE HERE, CALLING ON MEN ACROSS THE COUNTRY TO JOIN IN PROTECTING PREGNANT WOMEN. >> FIGHTING TO LIVE. CAN THINGS CHANGE WITHOUT THE SUPPORT OF MEN? >> NO. NO. IMAGINE IF THIS CONTINUE TO KEEP GOING, WE DON’T STILL

LIVE AS MEN. >> IT’S GOING TO BE A LOT OF CASUALTIES. A LOT OF WOMEN ARE GOING TO DIE . >> AND RACHEL SCOTT IS JOINING ME NOW FOR MORE THIS. RACHEL, YOU’VE BEEN REPORTING ON THIS FOR ALMOST A YEAR NOW. SO WHAT STICKS OUT TO YOU FROM THESE STORIES THAT YOU’VE

HEARD? YOU KNOW, WHEN I ORIGINALLY STARTED REPORTING ON THE IMPACT OF THE ABORTION LAWS ACROSS THE COUNTRY, DOCTORS, THAT WOMEN WOULD GET HURT. THAT WOMEN’S LIVES, THAT THEIR HEALTH COULD BE PUT IN DANGER. AND SO WHEN THESE DOCTORS, WE SAT DOWN WITH THEM, THEY PULLED BACK THE CURTAIN ABOUT HOW

THEY FELT LIKE THEIR HANDS WERE TIED OR THEY KNEW THAT THEIR OWN PATIENTS WERE SUFFERING. THEY KNEW THAT THEIR OWN PATIENTS HEALTH, FUTURE FERTILITY, POSSIBLY THEIR LIVES AT RISK. BUT THEY FELT LIKE THEY COULDN’T JUST HAVE HONEST AND DIRECT CONVERSATIONS THEM. THEY FELT LIKE THEY COULDN’T EVEN SAY THE WORD ABORTION.

ONE DOCTOR SAID THAT THEY FELT LIKE THEY HAD TO TALK IN CODE BECAUSE OF THE FINES THE PENALTIES UP TO LIFE IN PRISON THAT THEY COULD FACE IN AT LEAST TWO STATES IN THIS COUNTRY. AND SO THIS REALLY IS SUCH AN INSIGHTFUL AND DEEP DIVE INTO THE CONVERSATIONS THAT ARE

PLAYING OUT IN THESE STATES AND IN CLINICS ACROSS THE COUNTRY. AND I KNOW YOUR REPORTING AND DIANE’S REPORTING COVERS. YOU SPOKE TO NEARLY A HUNDRED DOCTORS. SO HOW ARE THEY TALKING THEIR PATIENTS ABOUT THIS? THEY FIND IT EXTREMELY, EXTREMELY DIFFICULT. AND THE REALITY IS A LOT OF TIMES THEIR PATIENTS,

SOME THEM TRAVEL OUT OF STATE. THEY COME BACK WITH THESE COMPLICATIONS. WE TALKED ONE WOMAN WHO WAS HEMORRHAGING IN THE BACKSEAT OF A RENTAL CAR BECAUSE IT TOOK HER ONE MONTH TO BE ABLE TO FIND A STATE TO ACTUALLY TERMINATE A NON-VIABLE PREGNANCY, AND THAT NOW HAS POSED A RISK

TO HER FUTURE FERTILITY. I MEAN, THESE STORIES ARE THEY ARE HEARTBREAKING. AND AT THE OF THE DAY, THEY’RE JUST ASKING FOR SOMETHING TO CHANGE. THESE WERE ALL WANTED PREGNANCIES. THERE ARE EXCEPTIONS IN THESE STATES THAT ALLOW FOR TO SAVE LIFE OF THE MOTHER. BUT SOMEHOW THESE PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS ARE NOT INCLUDED

IN THOSE EXCEPTIONS. AND THESE WOMEN WILL TELL YOU THEY FEEL LIKE THEY PAID PRICE. ALL RIGHT. I KNOW THAT YOU’RE GOING TO STAY ON TOP OF THIS STORY, RACHEL SCOTT. WE APPRECIATE IT. THANK YOU. AND YOU CAN WATCH “IMPACT X NIGHTLINE” ON THE BRINK STREAMING ON HULU BEGINNING TODAY.

>> AND CLOSING ARGUMENTS ARE EXPECTED TODAY. THE JONATHAN MAJORS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE TRIAL. THE DEFENSE RESTED ITS CASE YESTERDAY AND THE JUDGE RELEASED NEW EVIDENCE, INCLUDING VIDEO, AUDIO, TEXTS AND. SENIOR INVESTIGATIVE CORRESPONDENT AARON KATERSKY HAS THE LATEST THAT CASE. >> JONATHAN MAJORS RETURNS TO COURT AS THE JURY PREPARES

TO DECIDE A DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CASE THAT COULD DETERMINE THE TRAJECTORY OF THE ACTOR’S CAREER. >> WHAT HAPPENED EXACTLY? THEY’RE NOT, YOU KNOW, I DON’T KNOW. >> UM, SHE’S UNCONSCIOUS. MAJORS CALLED 911 BACK IN MARCH. >> I THINK I SAW THAT BEHIND HER AFTER HE FOUND HIS EX-GIRLFRIEND, GRACE JABARI, ON A CLOSET FLOOR

IN THEIR APARTMENT. THE JURY SAW VIDEO FROM POLICE, BODY WORN CAMERAS. JABARI DID HAVE A CUT BEHIND HER EAR. THE JURY SAW THIS PICTURE OF IT. THE JURY ALSO SAW A PHOTO OF JABARI FINGER THAT SHE TESTIFIED MAJORS FRACTURED DURING AN ASSAULT IN THE BACK SEAT OF AN SUV.

>> MY HEAD RESTING ON HIS SHOULDER, JABARI TOLD THE JURY. WE WERE CHATTING AND HE WAS SCROLLING ON HIS PHONE WHEN A MESSAGE POPPED UP SAYING, I WISH I WAS KISSING. >> UPSET BY THE MESSAGE. JABARI TESTIFIED SHE GRABBED THE PHONE. THEN I FELT A HEAVY THUD ON TOP OF ME.

WHAT I KNEW TO BE THE WEIGHT OF HIM ON TOP OF ME AND HIM TRYING TO PRY THE PHONE OF MY FINGERS. >> SURVEILLANCE VIDEO SHOWS MAJORS HOISTING JABARI OFF THE GROUND AND SHOVING HER BACK IN THE CAR BEFORE HE’S SEEN RUNNING OFF. SHE CHASES AFTER HIM.

HE PUSHES HER AWAY AND RUNS OFF . >> JABARI CROSSING TRAFFIC IN PURSUIT. JOHN MAJOR, THIS CASE IS GOING TO HINGE ON TWO MAJOR COMPONENTS. >> ONE, WE BELIEVE THAT GRACE GOD WAS INJURED BY JONATHAN MAJORS BALL THE VIDEO THE TESTIMONY THAT WE SAW AND HEARD AND TWO WAS JONATHAN MAJORS JUSTIFIED

IN ACTIONS AFTER GRACE JABARI ADMITTED THE HIS PROPERTY THAT BEING HIS CELL PHONE THAT HE TRIED TO RECOVER FROM HER. QUANTUMANIA AND BEGAN DATING JILL SCOTT LONG BEFORE THE ALLEGED SHE TESTIFIED HE HAD MOOD SWINGS AND A TEMPER. >> THE JURY SEEING TEXT MESSAGES PURPORTING TO SHOW MAJORS DISSUADING JABARI FROM

GOING TO THE HOSPITAL FOLLOWING AN ALLEGED ALTERCATION BETWEEN THEM IN 2022. >> THE JURY ALSO HEARING THIS RECORDING OF THE ACTOR SCOLDING JABARI. >> HOW DID HE COME HOME DRUNK, DISTURBING PEACE OF OUR HOUSE AND TELLING HER HE NEEDS A GREAT WOMAN BECAUSE A GREAT MAN. >> CORETTA SCOTT KING DESERVES

AS ONE KING’S WIFE, MICHELLE OBAMA. >> BARACK OBAMA’S LIFE, MY TENDER. MY, MY, MICHELLE OBAMA. >> ALL THAT SAID, I’M A GREAT MAN. A GREAT MAN. I AM DOING GREAT THINGS. NOT JUST FOR ME, FOR MY FOR MY CULTURE. >> IT WILL WORK. THAT’S ACTUALLY THE POSITION I’M.

>> THE WOMAN THAT SUPPORTS ME. HE NEEDS TO BE A GREAT WOMAN. AND SENIOR INVESTIGATIVE CORRESPONDENT AARON KATERSKY, AN ABC NEWS LEGAL CONTRIBUTOR. BRIAN BUCKMIRE. JOIN ME NOW FOR MORE ON THIS. AND WHAT CAN WE EXPECT TO HAPPEN COURT TODAY? >> CLOSING ARGUMENTS ARE GOING TO COME THIS MORNING.

DIANE EACH SIDE GOING TO LAY OUT THEIR CASE. THE GOVERNMENT IS EXPECTED TO CAST JONATHAN MAJORS AS SOMEONE WHO COMMITTED MISDEMEANOR ASSAULT AND HARASSMENT, WHO INJURED GRACE JABARI AND WHO LONG BEFORE THE ALLEGED ASSAULT BACK IN MARCH SUBJECTED HER TO BOTH PHYSICAL AND VERBAL ABUSE. >> AND THE DEFENSE IS GOING

TO CAST JABARI AS THE AGGRESSOR AND JONATHAN MAJORS AS THE VICTIM OF HER AGGRESSION. THEY CALLED A WITNESS, A MEDICAL EXPERT WHO REALLY CAST DOUBT ON THE SEVERITY OF JAHVARIS INJURIES AND WHETHER HE WAS SEEN CALM, NOT BEHAVING LIKE THE KIND OF PERSON PROSECUTORS PORTRAYED . >> BRIAN, HOW IS THIS

NEW EVIDENCE TO MAJORS IN THIS CASE, LIKE THE AUDIO WE JUST HEARD? AND HOW STRONG DID YOU THINK HIS THREE DEFENSE WITNESSES WERE? >> THE EVIDENCE IS VERY. IT A PICTURE OF THIS CRESCENDO, OF THIS EMOTIONAL AND VERBAL ABUSE THAT LEADS TO THE ULTIMATE ISSUE THAT WE’RE HERE

FOR, THAT BEING THIS ALLEGED ON GRACE JABARI AND THE UNDERSTANDING OF WHO EXACTLY JONATHAN MAJORS IS IN TERMS OF THE THREE DEFENSE ATTORNEYS, I THINK THEY COULD HAVE BEEN BETTER, NOT NECESSARILY FROM THEIR WITNESSES, SORRY, WITNESSES. YES, TWO OR THREE WITNESSES. AND THEY COULD HAVE BEEN BETTER. NOT WHAT THEY GAVE TO US,

BUT WHAT THE DEFENSE WAS ABLE TO PULL OUT OF THEM. >> THERE WAS A LOT OF OBJECTIONS THAT WERE SUSTAINED, SPECIFICALLY FROM THE DOCTOR WHO WAS ABLE ARTICULATE KIND OF THAT THESE INJURIES DON’T SEEM TO BE FROM THE SAME MANNER THAT GRACE JABARI SAID THAT THEY CAME ABOUT, THAT THE WAY

THE FRACTURE HAPPENED DOESN’T SEEM TO HAPPEN FROM THE WAY THAT DESCRIBED JONATHAN MAJORS PULLING HER FINGER APART. I THINK ULTIMATELY THIS CASE GOING TO DECIDE IT FROM THE SITUATIONS. >> SO, AARON, HE’S FACING A MISDEMEANOR OF ASSAULT AND AGGRAVATED HARASSMENT. WHAT HAPPENS IF HE’S FOUND? >> HE COULD FACE UP TO A

YEAR IN PRISON, WHETHER HE WOULD ACTUALLY FACE THAT MUCH ON A MISDEMEANOR, NO CRIMINAL RECORD REMAINS TO BE SEEN. BUT EVEN IF HE BEATS THE CHARGES AND IS ACQUITTED THE REPUTATIONAL HARM MAY BE FAIRLY CONSEQUENTIAL. AND AS BRIAN SUGGESTS, HE HAS ALREADY BEEN, EVEN IF HE BEATS THE ALLEGED ASSAULT,

HE’S ALREADY BEEN AS A SERIAL ABUSER OF GRACE. JABARI BOTH PHYSICALLY AND EMOTIONALLY. THE JURY ALSO SAW IMAGES OF CANDLES AND OTHER ITEMS THAT HE THREW AT HER HEAD AND THEY SAW THOSE TEXT MESSAGES AFTER SOME ALTERCATION IN 2022 WHERE HE SAYS, NO, NO, DON’T GO TO THE HOSPITAL BECAUSE THEY’LL SUSPECT ME.

>> ALL RIGHT, AARON KATERSKY BRIAN BUCKMIRE, THANK YOU BOTH. >> COMING UP. >> OPRAH WINFREY SAYS SHE IS DONE WITH THE SHAMING, WHICH SHE’S REVEALING ABOUT USING MEDICATION FOR WEIGHT LOSS. >> TONIGHT, A WOMAN’S RIGHT TO MAKE HER OWN CHOICES WITH ABORTION PILL ACCESS SET TO GO BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT.

IS A CRISIS BREWING? MORE AMERICANS TURN TO THE MOST WATCHED PROGRAM ON TELEVISION. “WORLD NEWS TONIGHT”, DAVID MUIR. GET READY, AMERICA. EVERY FRIDAY, THE HOTTEST TRENDS DIALED AND HAVE AT ONCE THE RIGHT STUFF TO BUY RIGHT NOW. I REALLY LOVE THAT IT’S TIME TO BUY THE RIGHT STUFF AND SAVE

TIME TO THE RIGHT STUFF. FRIDAYS AND “GMA”. YOU’RE GOING TO IT. HOUSTON POLICE SAY THE YEAR OLD SHOT BOTH OF HIS PARENTS ON FRIDAY NIGHT. INSIDE THE COURTROOM AND THE SHOCKING NEW EVIDENCE CAME IN JUST DAYS BEFORE THE TRIAL BEGAN. YOU GOT TO BE KIDDING. WHOSE BLOOD IS THIS?

I COULDN’T EVEN FATHOM IDEA OF KILLING MY PARENTS. EVERYTHING SEEMED CLOSE TO HIM ON ONLY 2020, FRIDAY NIGHT AT NINE AND CENTRAL ON ABC, ALL ACROSS THE BLOCK, THE WORLD WILL BE CELEBRATING THE NEW YEAR. AND YOU CAN SEE IT AS IT HAPPENS. WHY THE GLOBAL CELEBRATIONS?

TO SEE THE NEW YEAR AS IT COMES IN THE DAY AND NIGHT ON ABC NEWS LIVE. ABC NEWS LIVE PRIME WINNER OF THE GRACIE AWARD FOR BEST NEWS IN ALL OF TELEVISION STREAM ABC NEWS LIVE PRIME WITH LINSEY DAVIS WEEKNIGHTS ON ABC NEWS LIVE. >> WE HAVE. I WAS TERRIFIED.

IT WAS JUST TOO TRAUMATIC A NIGHTMARE. PEOPLE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THESE WERE WANTED BABIES. 18 FACING LIFE AND DEATH, MEDICAL CONDITIONS LIVES NOW OUT OF THEIR CONTROL. >> I FELT LIKE I WAS TO DIE. OUR LIVES AND OUR HEALTH ARE DEBATABLE. I WOULDN’T WISH THIS UPON MY WORST ENEMY.

>> DIANE SAWYER RACHEL SCOTT ON BRAIN NOW STREAMING ON HULU . WELCOME BACK. >> OPRAH WINFREY IS OPENING UP ABOUT HER USE OF MEDICATION FOR WEIGHT LOSS. SHE SAYS THERE’S NO SHAME IN TAKING A DRUG TO LOSE WEIGHT . >> SHE DOESN’T WANT TO HIDE IT. EVA PILGRIM HAS MORE TELEVISION

ICON OPRAH WINFREY REVEALING SHE’S USING MEDICATION FOR WEIGHT LOSS, TELLING “PEOPLE” MAGAZINE THE FACT THAT THERE IS A MEDICALLY APPROVED PRESCRIPTION MANAGING WEIGHT AND STAYING HEALTHIER IN MY LIFETIME FEELS LIKE RELIEF, LIKE REDEMPTION, LIKE A GIFT, AND NOT TO HIDE BEHIND AND ONCE AGAIN BE RIDICULED FOR AN DONE WITH THE SHAMING FROM

OTHER PEOPLE, AND PARTICULARLY MYSELF. >> THREE MONTHS AGO, SHE POSTED A DISCUSSION ABOUT THE WEIGHT DRUGS ON OPRAH DAILY. THE NEW WEIGHT LOSS DRUGS EVERYBODY’S TALKING ABOUT OZEMPIC WOULD GO THE MUNJAL. ARE THESE NEW DRUGS A MIRACLE CURE? ARE THEY? >> THAT’S WHAT WE ALL WANT TO KNOW.

WHILE THESE DRUGS HAVE BECOME INCREDIBLY FOR WEIGHT LOSS, SHE SAYS, THE MEDICATION IS NOT A SINGULAR SOLUTION. I KNOW THAT IF I’M NOT ALSO WORKING OUT AND VIGILANT ABOUT ALL THE OTHER THINGS, IT DOESN’T WORK FOR ME. WINFREY, WHO WAS TURNING 70 NEXT MONTH, RECENTLY, STUNNING FANS AT THE COLOR

PURPLE PREMIERE IN LOS ANGELES AND THE ACADEMY MUSEUM GALA. >> I CAN’T LIFT IT. IT IS AMAZING TO ME THAT I CAN’T LIFT IT, BUT I USED TO CARRY IT AROUND EVERY DAY. TH MEDIA MOGUL NEVER SHIED TO TALK ABOUT HER WEIGHT LOSS JOURNEY. MY HIGHEST WEIGHT WAS £237.

I DON’T KNOW IF THERE IS ANOTHER PUBLIC PERSON. WEIGHT STRUGGLE HAS BEEN EXPLOITED AS MUCH AS MINE OVER THE YEARS. >> AND OPRAH IS NOT ALONE IN HER WEIGHT LOSS STRUGGLES. OVER 73% OF ADULTS IN THE U.S. ARE CONSIDERED OVERWEIGHT OR OBESE. >> THESE MEDICATIONS ARE APPROVED IN COMBINATION

WITH DIETARY CHANGE, PHYSICAL ACTIVITY. AND WHEN A PATIENT HAS KIND OF OPTIMIZED ALL THOSE INTERVENTIONS AND THEY’RE STILL HAVING WITH THEIR WEIGHT, THEN THIS IS A GREAT TOOL FOR THEM TO GET TO AN OVERALL HEALTHIER WEIGHT AND IMPROVE THEIR RISK OF HAVING OTHER WEIGHT RELATED CONDITIONS. >> EXPERTS SAY THAT ACCESS

TO THESE DRUGS CAN BE A BARRIER AS THEY ARE NOT COVERED BY MEDICARE, AND DEMAND OUTWEIGHS THE CURRENT SUPPLY. THE NEW ISSUE OF PEOPLE IS AVAILABLE ON NEWSSTANDS NATIONWIDE FRIDAY. DIANE? ALL RIGHT, EVA PILGRIM, THANKS FOR THAT. AND ABC NEWS MEDICAL CONTRIBUTOR AND PHYSICIAN AT STANFORD CHILDREN’S HEALTH

DR. ALOK PATEL JOINS ME NOW FOR MORE ON THIS. DR. PATEL, OPRAH SAYS THAT SHE IS DONE SHAMED FOR TAKING MEDICATION FOR WEIGHT LOSS. WHY DO YOU THINK SO MUCH STIGMA COMES FROM TAKING THESE DRUGS? >> THAT IS A MISUNDERSTANDING. AND I SHOULD SAY I WE KNOW THERE’S A MISUNDERSTANDING FROM

SOCIETY ABOUT THE COMPLEXITY OF OBESITY, THAT IT’S ENVIRONMENTAL, IT’S CULTURAL, IT’S GENETIC. >> AND PEOPLE HEAR OF OTHERS GETTING MEDICATIONS SUCH AS GLP ONE AGONISTS, AND YOU HEAR COMMENTS LIKE THAT’S EASY WAY OUT FOR OBESITY IS A CHOICE. >> JUST DON’T EXERCISE TELLING SOMEONE WITH DEPRESSION TO JUST FEEL BETTER BECAUSE CURRENTLY

WHAT WE’RE TO ADDRESS, OBESITY IS NOT WORKING. >> GIVEN THE FACT THAT OBESITY RATES HAVE NEARLY TRIPLED SINCE 1975. >> SO WHATEVER WORKS FOR SOMEONE SHOULD, BE RESPECTED AND WISH TO REMEMBER THAT PEOPLE ARE DOING THIS UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF A HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONAL. >> SO WE HEARD IN THE PIECE

THERE, OPRAH, THAT THIS MEDICATION IS NOT A SINGULAR SOLUTION AND THAT IF SHE IS NOT WORKING OUT AND BEING VIGILANT ABOUT THINGS, DIET, SLEEP AND STRESS, THAT IT DOESN’T WORK FOR HER. >> IS THAT FOR PEOPLE TAKING THESE MEDICATIONS? IT ABSOLUTELY IS. >> AND WHAT OPRAH IS DESCRIBING IS EXACTLY HOW THESE

MEDICATIONS ARE INDICATED TO BE TAKING, YOU KNOW, ALL THE EARLY TRIALS THAT ARE REPORTED ON THIS YEAR IN THE LAST SHOW, PEOPLE TAKING THESE MEDICATIONS ALONGSIDE DIETARY AND LIFESTYLE CHANGES. >> AND THAT ACTUALLY FARED BETTER FOR THAT. THE PEOPLE WHO JUST HAD THE CHANGES WITHOUT TAKING MEDICATIONS AND CHANGING

YOUR DIET OUT, DOING ALL THAT IS GREAT FOR YOUR HEART, HEALTH, YOUR BONES, YOUR MUSCLES, AND INCREASES YOUR PROBABILITY THAT ONE DAY YOU MAY BE ABLE TO GET OFF THESE MEDICATIONS YOUR LONG TERM SUCCESS. >> AND BEFORE LET YOU GO, I DO WANT TO ASK YOU ABOUT THIS

NEW STUDY THAT SAYS IT HAS FOUND POSSIBLE CAUSE OF MORNING SICKNESS IN PREGNANT WOMEN. >> WHAT ARE YOU HEARING ABOUT THAT? WHAT DO WE KNOW? WELL, THIS IS A FINDING A VERY PROMISING FINDING FOR MILLIONS OF WOMEN OUT THERE OUT OF THE JOURNAL NATURE, BASICALLY SHOWING THAT A HORMONE AT 15

MAY BE THE CULPRIT BEHIND THAT EARLY TRIAL, EARLY FIRST CHINESE-CANADIAN BODY AND A SEVERE FORM HYPEREMESIS GRAVIDARUM CAN BE SEVERE IN ABOUT 2% OF WOMEN. >> ALSO SHOWING THAT THESE LEVELS INCREASE DURING PREGNANCY CAN BE FROM THE FETUS. SOME WHO DO NOT HAVE HIGH LEVELS BEFORE PREGNANCY, SUCH AS FROM GENETIC VARIANTS, MAY

BE MORE SENSITIVE, AND THAT IS PAVES THE WAY FOR A LOT OF POTENTIAL. >> AND I KNOW SOME WOMEN OUT THERE, LIKE MY WIFE, ARE APPLAUDING BECAUSE OF HOW MANY PREGNANCIES ARE CREATED BY THAT. >> NO IDEA VOMITING AND THE SEVERE FORM HYPEREMESIS GRAVIDARUM. >> SO VERY PROMISING RESULTS TODAY.

>> WELCOME NEWS TO SO MANY ABC NEWS MEDICAL CONTRIBUTOR DR. ALOK PATEL THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU. COMING UP TIME FOR A ROYAL BINGE. THE FINAL EPISODES OF THE CROWN ARE OUT AND WILL GANSS HAS A LOOK AT WHAT’S AHEAD FOR THE LAST SEASON. HOUSTON POLICE SAYHE 16

YEAR OLD SHOT BOTH OF HIS PARENTS NOWRIDAY NIGHT INSIDE THE COURTROOM. AND THE SHOCKING NEW EVIDENCE THAT CAME IN JUST DAYS BEFE THE TRIAL BEGAN. YOU GOT TO BE KIDDING ME. WHOSE BLOOD IS THIS? I COULDN’T EVEN FATHOM THE IDEA OF KILLING MY PARENTS. EVERYTHING. EVERYTHING POINTS HIM ON 2020,

FRIDAY NIGHT AT NINE IN CENTRAL ON ABC. OKAY. WHAT ARE THE STORIES THAT? >> TAKE YOU BACK TO SOME TO TONIGHT. IEST TIMES >>ELEBRATE 100 YEARS OF HAVING A DISNEY >> ONE WORD THAT COMES TO MIND. THE AMAZING DREAM. OH, WOW. SUPER CAN REMEMBER FOREVER MAGICAL. THE SECRETS OF FUN THE WOW

AND THE STORIES BEHIND THE STORIES. YOU PROBABLY SEEN BEFORE. DISNEY 100 A CENTURY OF DREAMS TONIGHT AT NINE EIGHTENTRAL ON ABC AND STREAM ON HULU, DISNEY PLUS. >> ALL RIGHT, YOU READY? LET’S DOT. >> YES. AND AMERICA NEEDS RIGHT NOW. THIS IS WHAT WOULD YOU DO? LES GO. HOW YOU, YOU GU.

SO WHAT WILL YOU BE WATCHING SATURDAY ON ABC NEWS LIVE? WHAT WOULD YOU DO? I GUESS I JUST FOUND OUT. WHAT WOULD YOU DO? MARATHON 2 TO 6 EASTERN EVERY SUNDAY ON ABC NEWS LIVE. MY FAVORITE SHOW TONIGHT, A WOMAN’S RIGHT TO MAKE HER OWN HETH CHOICES WITH ABORTION.

NO ACCESS TO GO BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT. IS A CRISIS BREWING. MORE AMERICANS TURN TO THE MOST WATCHED PROGRAM ON TELEVISION “WORLD NEWS TONIGHT”. DAVID MUIR WELCOMES WELCOME CRUFTS THE WORLD’S GRACIE. THEY’LL SHOTHE COMPETITION INOG DANCING IS SAVVY. >> STEP DANCING WITH MY DOG IS THE CLOSEST THING TO MAGIC

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STORIES PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT. OUR FRIEND WILGANSS IS HERE TO SPILL IT. WELL, THAT TOO MEA IT’S TIME FOR THE TEE THAT TUNE MEANS IT’S TIME. YEAH. YEAH. TONGUE TWISTER. YEAH, AH, YEAH. ALL RIGHT. WE BEGIN AT THEND THIS NETFLIX RELEASING THE FINAL SIX EPISODES OF THEROWN. ONE OF THE MOST EXPENSIVE TV

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MARY BRUCE HAS T LEST. >>RESIDENT BIDEN’S NATIONAL SECURI ADVISER TOUCHGOWN IN ISRAEL. JAKE SULLIN MEETING WI ISRAELI MINISTER NETANYA AND HISAR CINET, URGING THEM TO SHOW IN THEIRAR AGAIT HAMAS. THE MEETINGS COMES ESIDENT BIDEN IS STEPPIN UP HIS CRITICISM OF ISRA’S MILITARYAMIGN. >> THE PRESIDE THIS WEEK ACSING ISRAEL OF, QUOTE, INDISCRA

AND SAYING THEY’REOSG SUPPORT BECAU OF IT. THE WHITE HOUSE NOW TRYING TO DOG TO SAY IF THE PRESIDE’S STATEMENT W A FORMAL ASSESSMENT ORFFHAND REMARK AND STRUGGLING TO EXPLAIN THE U. WOULD CONTINU TO RUSH MILITARY AID TO AOUNT THKS IS ENGAGED IN INDISCRIMINAT ATTACKS. >> ABC’SARKS PRESSING SPOKESMAN .

>> IF THE PRESIDENT ISRAEL IS ENGING IN INDISCRIMINATE BOMBING,ILL THERE BE AN OBLIGATIONROM THE U.S. TO PUT NEW CONDITIONS OMILITARY AID? EVERY BITF SECURITY ASSISTANCE WE GIVE ANY IN THE COTRY ALWAYS COMES WITH THE EXPECTATIONHAT THE LAW OF ARMED CONFLICTS GOING TO BEESPECTED AND OBEYED. THEY AREN’T. THAT ISN’T ANBLIGATR

THE N. TO CHANGE THE WAY THAT IT’S DELIVERING MITARY AID. THAT’S A HOTHETICAL THAT I’M NOT PREPAR TO ENGAGE IN RIGHT NOW. THAT’S A HYPOTHETIL.MINATE? I’M NOT GOING TO ENGAGE IN. THE PRESIDENT HASUBLICLYERN. ANPRIVATELY WITH E ISRAELIS, THE U.S. AND IAEL ARE STILLOOPERATING ON ANOTHER. WE’RE COVERING THE 135 HOSTAGES

STILL HELD IN GAZA. >> AT THE WHITE HOUSE, IN-PERSON FOR THEIRST TIMEIDENTG WITH THE FAMILIESF THE AMERICS STILL MISSING. JONATHAN JOHN COHEN, WHOSE 35-YEN . >> THE U.S. ADMINISTRATION IS CPLETELY COMMITTED TO GETTING THE HOSTAS OUT. WE HAVE N DOUBT AUT THAT. >> OUR THANKS TO MARY BRUCE F THAT REPORT.

MEANWHILE, THE FAMILIES OF HOSTAGES HELD IN GAZA ARDEMANDING AN URGENT UPDATE FROM. >> PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU. THEY SAY THEY’RE SHOCKED AFTER ISRAELI TV REPORTED, NETANYAHU PULLED OUT OF A NEW ROUND HOSTAGE NEGOTIATION SET TO BEGIN QATAR. THIS COMES AS MAS SAYS A MASSIVE AIRSTRIKEEFT 19 PEOPLE DEAD IN GAZA TODAY. FOIGN

CORRESPONDENT JAMES LONGMAN HAS THE LATEST FROM TEL AVIV, ISRAEL. >> HI, JAMES. NOW, DIANE ARE AT STAGE SQUARE IN TEL AVIV. YOU WILL BE VERY FAMILIAR WITH THIS. NOW FOCAL POINT FOR SO MANY ISRAELIS. EACH OF THESE TENDS FOR THE DIFFERENT KIBBUTZ WHICH WERE ATTACKED AS ONE VERY PICTURES ON THESE CHAIRS.

PEOPLE ARE SO DESPERATE FOR THEIR LOVED ONES, PARTY MEMBERS TO COME HOME. AND JAKE SULLIVAN IS ARRIVING HERE IN ISRAEL AT A VERY TENSE ATMOSPHERE BETWEEN THE HOSTAGE FAMILIES AND THE GOVERNMENT IS INCREDIBLY RIGHT NOW. THEY DON’T FEEL ENOUGH IS BEING DONE TO PRIORITIZE THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS THAT WERE ANGRY AT THE

DECISION TO PUMP SEAWATER INTO THE ON THE GAZA. BUT NOW IT’S EMERGED THAT PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU, ACCORDING TO LOCAL REPORTS, STOPPED THE HEAD OF MOSSAD. THAT’S THE INTELLIGENCE SERVICE HERE FROM GOING TO QATAR TO RESUME NEGOTIATIONS TO BRING THEIR FAMILIES. THEY FEEL THAT, QUOTE, THE GOVERNMENT IS PLAYING RUSSIAN ROULETTE WITH THEIR

FAMILIES LIVES. SO THAT IS ONE ISSUE THAT JAKE SULLIVAN’S GOING TO HAVE DEAL WITH WHEN HE GETS HERE. BUT OF COURSE, IT’S THE ONGOING SITUATION IN GAZA, WHICH IS TOP OF A LOT OF PEOPLE’S MINDS THIS MORNING. 19 PEOPLE WERE KILLED IN AN AIR STRIKE IN THE STRIP. THAT’S ACCORDING TO HAMAS.

THEY SAY NOW OVER 18,600 PEOPLE HAVE DIED IN THIS WAR. SO FAR. THE IDF CONTINUES ITS OPERATION THERE FIGHTING HAMAS IN THE NORTH AND THE JABALYA REFUGEE CAMP IN THE NORTH. THE GAZA STRIP AROUND CAESAREA AS WELL, WHICH IS A SUBURB OF GAZA CITY. AND IN KHAN YUNIS. BUT THE HUMANITARIAN SITUATION

IS JUST HORRIFIC. MORE THAN HALF ALL PALESTINIANS IN GAZA HAVE NOW LOST THEIR HOMES. THE UNITED NATIONS SAYS OF THEM NOW RISK STARVATION. AND THAT IS PART OF THE REASON WHY JAKE SULLIVAN WILL PUSH THE ISRAELIS TO PROVIDE A TIMETABLE ON HOW TO END THIS WHILE HE’S HERE IN ISRAEL DON.

>> ALL RIGHT. FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT JAMES LONGMAN IN TEL AVIV, THANK YOU. >> AND CHIEF WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT MARY BRUCE JOINS ME NOW, THE WHITE HOUSE WITH MORE ON ALL THIS. I MEAN, PRESIDENT BIDEN SAYS HIS MEETINGS WITH THE FAMILIES OF AMERICAN HOSTAGES MOVED HIM AND HE TO KEEP THEM INFORMED

EVERY SINGLE STEP OF THE WAY. SO WHAT’S LATEST ON THESE HOSTAGE NEGOTIATIONS, PARTICULARLY WITH THESE THAT NETANYAHU STEPPED AWAY FROM THE TABLE? >> YEAH, WELL, LOOK, THE PRESIDENT TRY YESTERDAY TO REASSURE THE FAMILIES IN HIS FIRST IN-PERSON MEETING HERE WITH THEM THAT HE IS DOING EVERYTHING HE CAN TO TRY

AND BRING THEIR LOVED ONES HOME. AND WHEN HE HAD A CHANCE TO SPEAK WITH, SOME OF THOSE FAMILY MEMBERS AFTER THE MEETING, THEY AGREED. THEY SAID THEY BELIEVE THAT THE ADMINISTRATION IS REALLY TRYING TO DO JUST THAT AND USING EVERY TOOL THAT THEY HAVE AVAILABLE. I THINK A REMINDER HERE, LOOK,

THERE ARE EIGHT AMERICANS STILL MISSING, SEVEN AMERICAN MEN, ONE AMERICAN WOMAN. >> AND THE WHITE HOUSE HAS BEEN BLUNT. THEY DON’T KNOW THE CONDITION OF THESE HOSTAGES. >> THEY DON’T KNOW WHERE THEY’RE BEING HELD OR EVEN WHO IS HOLDING THEM THAT THEY ARE WITH HAMAS OR THE OTHER TERRORIST GROUPS.

AND I THINK WHAT THERE’S BEEN CONTINUES, OF COURSE, TO BE A TOP PRIORITY FOR THIS PRESIDENT. THE REALITY IS THAT THIS IS GOING TO BE VERY DIFFICULT, ESPECIALLY AS WE ARE SEEING FIGHTING INCREASE THE CHANCES, IT SEEMS, THAT THEY’RE ABLE TO NEGOTIATE ANOTHER TRUCE TO TRY AND SECURE THEIR RELEASE.

THAT HOPE IS DIMMING, ESPECIALLY AS WE SEE HOW NETANYAHU IS RESPONDING HERE. >> AND NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER JAKE SULLIVAN IS IN ISRAEL MEETING WITH NETANYAHU AND HIS WAR CABINET, PUSHING FOR RESTRAINT PUSHING FOR MORE HUMANITARIAN AID FOR GAZA. HOW DO YOU EXPECT THESE MEETINGS TO PLAY OUT AFTER PRESIDENT BIDEN ACCUSED ISRAEL

INDISCRIMINATE BOMBING? >> I THINK TENSE IN A WORD IS HOW THESE MEETINGS ARE LIKELY TO PLAY OUT. >> LOOK, SULLIVAN HAS A VERY TALL ORDER HERE. WE ARE TOLD HE IS TRYING TO AGAIN CONVEY THE ADMINISTRATION’S MESSAGE THAT WHILE, OF COURSE, ISRAEL HAS A RIGHT TO DEFEND ITSELF, THAT THEY NEED DO THIS

IN A STRATEGIC AND TARGETED WAY, THAT THEY NEED TO DO MORE TO TRY AND CIVILIAN CASUALTIES, AND THAT THEY NEED TO ALLOW MORE HUMANITY IN AID AND ASSISTANCE TO GET IN. WE ALSO EXPECT SULLIVAN TO WANT TO SPEAK MORE ABOUT THE END GAME HERE. >> WHERE DO THINGS GO LONG TERM?

BUT AGAIN, THIS IS GOING TO BE VERY DIFFICULT FOR TO GET A LOT OF HEADWAY HERE, ESPECIALLY, YOU KNOW, AS WE ARE SEEING AN INCREASING AMOUNT OF DAYLIGHT BETWEEN THIS ADMINISTRATION AND ISRAEL AND THE PRESIDENT RAMPING UP HIS PUBLIC CRITICISM OF HOW NETANYAHU IS CONDUCTING THIS WAR WARNING,

OF COURSE, THAT THEY ARE AT RISK OF LOSING GLOBAL SUPPORT IF THEY DON’T CHANGE THE WAY THEY’RE OPERATING. >> MARY, THE WHITE HOUSE IS NOW ALSO TRYING TO DOWNPLAY PRESIDENT’S CRITICISM OF ISRAEL. >> HOW COULD THIS CHANGE IN TONE AFFECT HIM POLITICALLY? >> THERE’S A LOT OF CLEANUP

GOING ON HERE AT THE WHITE HOUSE. AND WHAT REALLY THEY ARE TRYING TO DOWNPLAY, IT SEEMS, IS THE WAY THE PRESIDENT ISRAEL’S BOMBING OF GAZA AS INDISCREET IMMINENT. THAT IS A WORD THAT CARRIES WITH IT A LOT OF WEIGHT. IN FACT, INDISCRIMINATE IS SOMETHING THAT BREAKS WITH INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAWS OF WAR.

AND SO THERE’S A LOT OF QUESTIONS ABOUT WHAT EXACTLY THE PRESIDENT MEANT. WE HAVE SEEN A LOT OF VERBAL GYMNASTICS HERE AT THE PODIUM AS THEY TRY AND EXPLAIN WHAT EXACTLY THE PRESIDENT MEANT. LOT OF QUESTIONS ABOUT WHETHER THE PRESIDENT WAS ACTUALLY EXPRESSING SORT OF FORMAL, YOU KNOW, AMERICAN POLICY OR AN

AMERICAN SORT OF MILITARY VIEW OF WHAT IS HAPPENING THE GROUND OR WHETHER THAT WAS, YOU KNOW, JUST THE PRESIDENT MISSPEAKING OR WAS IT JUST SOMETHING HE SORT OF SAID OFFHAND, THAT CHARACTERIZATION, WHAT THEY ARE NOT QUESTIONING IS REALLY THE INTENT OF WHAT THE PRESIDENT WAS SAYING, WHICH IS THAT THEY FEEL THAT ISRAEL

NEEDS TO DO MORE TO TRY AND LIMIT THE DEATHS, LIMIT THE CIVILIAN LOSS OF, ALTHOUGH THEY DO SAY THAT THEY BELIEVE THAT ISRAEL INTENDS TO DO THAT. >> IT’S JUST THAT THEIR INTENT DOESN’T ALWAYS LINE UP WITH THE REALITY THAT ARE SEEING PLAY OUT HERE DIANE. >> ALL RIGHT. CHIEF WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT

MARY BRUCE. >> THANKS, MARY. THANK YOU. AND HOUSE REPUBLICANS ARE MOVING FORWARD WITH A FORMAL IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY INTO PRESIDENT BIDEN. SO FAR, THREE INVESTIGATING HOUSE COMMITTEES HAVE PRESENTED NO EVIDENCE OF HIGH CRIMES OR MISDEMEANORS BY THE PRESIDENT. >> NOW, THE HOUSE REPUBLICANS HAVE VOTED TO FORMALIZE THE INQUIRY, SAYING THAT WILL

ALLOW THEM ACCESS TO MORE INFORMATION AS THEY TRY TO TIE THE PRESIDENT TO HIS FOREIGN BUSINESS DEALINGS. >> ABC’S JAY O’BRIEN JOINS ME NOW FROM HILL WITH MORE ON THAT. JAY, WHAT’S HAPPENING THERE TODAY. HOW A REPUBLICAN LAWMAKERS MOVING FORWARD WITH THESE INVESTIGATIONS? WELL, THE ARGUMENT HAS ALWAYS BEEN FROM HOUSE REPUBLICANS

THAT FORMALIZING IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY WITH A VOTE ON THE HOUSE FLOOR LIKE THEY DID YESTERDAY STRENGTHENS THEIR CASE IN COURT IF THEY WANT TO COMPEL HOW THE WHITE HOUSE AND OTHER INDIVIDUALS TO COMPLY WITH FROM CONGRESS FOR DOCUMENTS OR FOR TESTIMONY, REPUBLICANS ACCUSED THE WHITE HOUSE OF, QUOTE UNQUOTE, DIRECTLY FROM

A STATEMENT FROM SPEAKER JOHNSON LAST NIGHT OF STONEWALLING LAWFUL CONGRESSIONAL SUBPOENAS. AND THAT VOTE YESTERDAY TO FORMALIZE THE IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY STRENGTHENS THEIR CASE IN COURT IF THEY WANT TO GO ENFORCE THOSE SUBPOENAS. AS YOU CAN IMAGINE, DEMOCRATS, THE WHITE HOUSE PAINT THE EXACT OPPOSITE PICTURE, SAYING REPUBLICANS HAVE HAD ACCESS TO

A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT KINDS OF INTERVIEWS AND THOUSANDS OF PAGES OF DOCUMENTS. AND TO YOUR POINT, AS YOU SAID EARLIER, I’VE SHOWN NO DIRECT LINKAGE BETWEEN PRESIDENT BIDEN AND HIS SONS OVERSEAS BUSINESS DEALINGS AND SAY THAT THIS IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY IS JUST A POLITICAL PROCESS AND THEY CALL IT A POLITICAL WITCH HUNT AGAINST

THE PRESIDENT AND HIS SON. SO YOU CAN EXPECT CONGRESS TO TRY TO NOW COMPEL OR AT LEAST FILE ADDITIONAL SUBPOENAS AND THEN COMPEL THE WHITE HOUSE TO FOLLOW UP AND COMPLY WITH THOSE SUBPOENAS NOW THAT THEY FEEL THAT THEY HAVE A STRONGER CASE IN COURT TO BE MADE. >> NOW, HUNTER BIDEN SLAMMED

THIS PROBE. HE STOOD OUTSIDE OF THE CAPITOL SAYING MAGA REPUBLICANS HAVE ATTACKED HIS CHARACTER TO EMBARRASS HIM FOR HIS FATHER AND THAT HE’S READY TO TESTIFY. BUT PUBLICLY. HOUSE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN JAMES COLMER SAYS HE PLANS TO HOLD HUNTER BIDEN IN CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS. SO THE LATEST ON THAT BACK AND FORTH.

>> YEAH, IF YOU THINK BACK TO THE SAGA AS RELATES TO HUNTER BIDEN, HE WAS SUBPOENAED TO APPEAR BEFORE CONGRESS YESTERDAY AND TESTIFY BEHIND CLOSED DOORS. AND INSTEAD, INSTEAD, HE GAVE THAT PRESS CONFERENCE AND HE SAID, I WILL TESTIFY IN A PUBLIC SETTING. >> SO IN A SENSE, OR IN ACTUALITY, HE DEFIED

THAT SUBPOENA. >> SO YOU CAN EXPECT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS IN THIS NEWLY IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY THAT’S BEEN GOING ON FOR MONTHS, BUT WAS SOLIDIFIED THIS VOTE YESTERDAY, THAT HOLDING HUNTER BIDEN IN CONTEMPT AS CHAIRMAN COLMER AND CHAIRMAN JORDAN HAVE PROMISED TO DO WILL BE TOP OF

THE LIST IN THOSE FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS. HUNTER BIDEN AGAIN SAYING THAT HE DOESN’T WANT TO TESTIFY BEHIND CLOSED DOORS AS THE COMMITTEE WANTS HIM DO. INSTEAD, HE WANTS TO DO IT IN A PUBLIC SETTING. BUT THE REPUBLICANS RUNNING THIS INVESTIGATION SAY THEY ARE GOING TO CONDUCT IT ON THEIR TERMS DANA.

>> MEANWHILE, THE UKRAINE AID IS STILL STALLED. CONGRESS WITH JUST ONE DAY UNTIL LAWMAKERS LEAVE FOR THE HOLIDAYS. SENATE REPUBLICANS SAY THEY WON’T MOVE FORWARD WITHOUT A BORDER DEAL. SO ARE THEY ANY CLOSER TO A COMPROMISE ON THAT? >> WELL, THAT ONE DAY IN THE HOUSE TODAY, MEMBERS OF THE

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HAVE A VOTE THAT’S HAPPENING. LET ME LOOK DOWN HERE AT MY SCREEN NOW AS WE SPEAK. AND WHEN THAT VOTE IS OVER, MOST EXPECTED TO LEAVE FOR THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY. AND THERE WAS NO MOMENT ON ANY KIND OF UKRAINE AID PACKAGE THAT WOULD ALSO INCLUDE, AS THE PRESIDENT REQUESTED, FUNDING

FOR ISRAEL, AS WELL AS BORROWING SOME MONEY FOR BORDER. AND THAT’S BECAUSE REPUBLICANS HAVE SAID THAT THEY DON’T JUST WANT MONEY FOR BORDER SECURITY THEY WANT WHOLESALE CHANGES TO POLICY. AND WHILE THERE ARE STILL NEGOTIATIONS THAT APPEAR BE VERY SLOWLY PROGRESSING IN THE SENATE, THEY HAVE PROGRESSED TO THE POINT WHERE

THERE IS ANY KIND OF ON EXACTLY WHAT THOSE CHANGES TO IMMIGRATION POLICY WOULD LOOK LIKE. SO THE HOUSE SAYS THEY HAVE NOTHING TO VOTE ON. SO THEY’RE GOING TO GO HOME. THE SENATE EXPECTED TO GO HOME AS WELL. AND IT’S UNCLEAR WHAT THAT WILL MEAN FOR THOSE NEGOTIATIONS THERE. THE NEGOTIATORS PROMISED

THAT THEY’RE GOING TO KEEP TALKING, BUT IF THEY’RE NOT PHYSICALLY IN THE CAPITOL IT’S UNCLEAR EXACTLY WHAT KIND OF MOMENTUM THEY WOULD HAVE. THE REPUBLICANS THAT I’VE TALKED TO, EVEN SOME DEMOCRATS I’VE TALKED TO HAVE ACKNOWLEDGED THAT YOU’RE LOOKING AT POTENTIALLY MORE MOMENTUM ON ANY KIND OF UKRAINIAN AID PACKAGE, IMMIGRATION PACKAGE, WHATEVER,

INTO THE NEW YEAR AS OPPOSED TO BEFORE THE NEW YEAR. >> DIANA. ALL RIGHT, JAY O’BRIEN. >> CAPITOL HILL, THANK YOU. AND RUDY GIULIANI ATTORNEY SAYS HE WILL NOT TESTIFY IN THE DEFAMATION TRIAL AGAINST HIM. THE FORMER TRUMP ATTORNEY WAS EXPECTED TO TESTIFY TODAY AFTER THE TWO GEORGIA ELECTION

WORKERS SUING HIM RESTED THEIR CASE. SHAMUS TESTIFIED ABOUT THE ORDEAL, SAYING GIULIANI’S FALSE ACCUSATIONS LIMITED HER JOB PROSPECTS, EXPOSED HER FAMILY TO RACIST THREATS AND MADE HER FEAR FOR HER LIFE. AND ALL THAT LEFT HER WITH A MAJOR DEPRESSIVE DISORDER. THE JUDGE HAS ALREADY AWARDED A DEFAULT JUDGMENT TO THE TWO WOMEN.

SO THIS TRIAL WILL DETERMINE WHAT DAMAGES AND PENALTIES. GIULIANI WILL HAVE TO PAY. AND THE SUPREME COURT IS SET TO CONSIDER A CASE THAT COULD UNDO MORE THAN 100 CONVICTIONS STEMMING FROM THE JANUARY SIXTH ATTACK ON THE CAPITOL. PROSECUTORS HAVE CHARGED FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP AND, OTHER DEFENDANTS WITH OBSTRUCTING AN OFFICIAL PROCEEDING.

THAT PROCEEDING BEING CERTIFICATION OF ELECTORAL VOTES. NOW, THE SUPREME COURT HAS TO WEIGH IN ON PROSECUTORS STRETCH THAT LAW TOO FAR, WHICH COULD IMPACT ROUGHLY 300 DEFENDANTS, INCLUDING FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP. SENIOR NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT TERRY MORAN HAS THE LATEST. THIS COULD HAVE A BIG IMPACT ON THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. HUNDREDS THE PEOPLE WHO STORMED

THE CAPITOL AND DONALD TRUMP HIMSELF HAVE ALL BEEN CHARGED UNDER THE SAME FEDERAL LAW, WHICH MAKES IT A CRIME TO, QUOTE CORRUPTLY, OBSTRUCT AN OFFICIAL PROCEEDING. BUT NOW THE SUPREME COURT HAS ANNOUNCED IT. HEAR AN APPEAL FROM ONE OF THE JANUARY SIX DEFENDANTS WHO IS ARGUING THAT THAT LAW,

WHICH WAS ORIGINALLY PASSED BY CONGRESS TO DEAL WITH WITNESS TAMPERING IN CORPORATE CRIME, CANNOT BE APPLIED TO THE ATTACK ON THE CAPITOL. REPUBLICANS BEEN TRYING TO MAKE THIS CASE FOR MONTHS. THEY SAY THAT SOME OF THE JANUARY DEFENDANTS HAVE BEEN OVERCHARGED BY THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT. AND IF THE SUPREME COURT AGREES

WITH THIS ARGUMENT, TWO OF THE FOUR CHARGES THAT DONALD TRUMP FACES IN HIS ELECTION INTERFERENCE CASE WOULD GO AWAY. AND HE GOT ANOTHER BOOST IN THIS CASE WHEN THE JUDGE PUT ALL THE PROCEEDINGS ON HOLD WHILE. DONALD TRUMP APPEALS ANOTHER ISSUE. THAT’S HIS CLAIM OF PRESIDENTIAL IMMUNITY FOR

ANYTHING HE DID TO OVERTURN THE 2012 ACTION. AND THAT APPEAL COULD DELAY THE START OF THIS TRIAL, WHICH IS SCHEDULED TO BEGIN IN MARCH. FOR MONTHS, DIANE, SENIOR NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT TERRY MORAN, THANK YOU. >> COMING UP, HOW DO YOU INCREASE YOUR TAKE PAY? YOU ASKED AND ALEXIS CHRISTOFOROUS EXPLAINS HOW TO REDUCE TAX

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TERESA ASKS, I RECENTLY STARTED MY FIRST FULL TIME JOB SINCE COLLEGE, AND I CAN’T BELIEVE HOW MUCH OF MY PAYCHECK GOES PAYING TAXES. WHAT CAN I DO TO INCREASE MY TAKE HOME PAY? >> ALL RIGHT. WELL, FIRST OFF, CONGRATS, TERESA, ON LANDING YOUR POST-COLLEGE JOB AND WELCOME TO THE TAXPAYERS CLUB.

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AND PUT MORE MONEY IN YOUR POCKET WHERE IT BELONGS. TERESA ALL RIGHT. LOVE THAT ADVICE IN YOUR POCKET. THAT’S WHERE WE ALL WANT IT, RIGHT? YES. ALEXIS LET’S GO OVER TO UTAH NOW, WHERE A BUREAU WANTS TO KNOW. A FRIEND SUGGESTED I USE A HOME EQUITY LOAN TO CONSOLIDATE

MY CREDIT CARD DEBT. IS THAT A GOOD IDEA? SO THIS CAN BE TRICKY. I MEAN, IT IS A VIABLE OPTION, BUT IT’S NOT WITHOUT RISK. HOME EQUITY LOANS, HOME EQUITY LINES OF CREDIT, THEY TEND TO HAVE LOWER INTEREST RATES ON CREDIT CARDS OR PERSONAL. AND THAT, OF COURSE, CAN SAVE

YOU MONEY OVER THE LIFE OF THE LOAN. PAYING YOUR DEBT WOULD ALSO BE MORE MANAGEABLE BECAUSE IT WOULD BE COMBINED INTO ONE MONTHLY PAYMENT. >> BUT AND HERE’S A BIG BUT. IF YOU A LATE PAYMENT OR YOU MISS A PAYMENT ALTOGETHER, YOUR BANK OR LENDER CAN REPOSSESS YOUR HOME.

SO INSTEAD OF TAKING OUT SECOND MORTGAGE AND PUTTING YOUR HOUSE ON THE LINE, YOU MIGHT WANT TO CONSIDER OTHER TYPES OF FINANCING LIKE 0% INTEREST CREDIT CARDS. >> THEY USUALLY A 6 TO 21 MONTH GRACE PERIOD. IF YOU CAN PAY OFF THE DEBT DURING THAT TIME PERIOD, YOU WIPE OUT YOUR DEBT WITHOUT

THE RISK OF LOSING YOUR HOME. DIANE ALL RIGHT, ALEXIS CHRISTOFOROUS THANKS FOR THAT. >> AND IF YOU WANT ALEXIS TO ANSWER YOUR PERSONAL FINANCE THIS, LEAVE US A MESSAGE ON OUR INSTAGRAM FEED AT ABC NEWS LIVE. AND MIGHT ANSWER YOUR QUESTION RIGHT HERE ON THURSDAY. MEANWHILE A MASSACHUSETTS SOCIAL WORKER IS FACING

NEW CHARGES AFTER ALLEGEDLY POSING AS A HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT. INVESTIGATORS SAY THE 32 YEAR OLD PRETENDED TO BE A TRAUMATIZED TEENAGER IN THREE DIFFERENT SCHOOLS BEFORE OFFICIALS GOT SUSPICIOUS. ABC’S TREVOR AULT HAS THE LATEST. >> THE MASSACHUSETTS WOMAN OF POSING AS A BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT NOW FACING MULTIPLE FELONY CHARGES.

INVESTIGATORS SAY LAST 32-YEAR-OLD SHELBY HEWITT ENROLLED IN THREE SEPARATE SCHOOLS, PRESENTING HERSELF AS A TEENAGE FOSTER CHILD, YOUNG AS 13. GOING BY THE NAMES DANIELA AND ALI, IN REALITY, THE DEFENDANT WAS A WOMAN IN HER EARLY THIRTIES WHO HAD ATTENDED BOTH COLLEGE GRADUATE SCHOOL AND WAS EMPLOYED AS A SOCIAL WORKER.

>> PROSECUTORS ALLEGE HEWITT WAS WORKING AS A SOCIAL WORKER AT THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN FAMILIES. SHE CREATED MULTIPLE NAMES AND DATES OF BIRTH FOR HER AND SEVERAL FAKE SOCIAL WORKERS TO SPREAD A FALSE NARRATIVE. SHE WAS AN EXTREMELY TRAUMATIZED CHILD WITH SIGNIFICANT SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS. 16-YEAR-OLD JANELLE LABAN SAYS

SHE BEFRIENDED IN SCHOOL WHEN THE PAIR HAD THREE CLASSES TOGETHER. SHE SAYS SHE SUSPECTED HEWITT HAD SOME MENTAL HEALTH TROUBLES BECAUSE SHE’D HAVE IN CLASS BUT NEVER SUSPECTED SHE WAS A DIFFERENT AGE. >> I WAS DEFINITELY SHOCKED AND MY FRIENDS WERE DEFINITELY UPSET BECAUSE WE ACCEPTED

HER AS JUST LIKE ONE OF US. PUBLIC SCHOOL OFFICIALS ALERTED AUTHORITIES THIS SUMMER AFTER DISCOVERED A DCF FORM HAD BEEN FILLED OUT INCORRECTLY AND THE SOCIAL WORKER LISTED ON THE FORM WAS NOT ACTUALLY AN EMPLOYEE THERE. PROSECUTORS SAY HEWITT DIDN’T ACT ALONE. SHE HAD TO PURPORTED FOSTER PARENTS, ONE OF WHOM IS ANOTHER

SOCIAL WORKER, PLEADED NOT GUILTY THIS WEEK TO NINE COUNTS, INCLUDING FELONY FORGERY, IDENTITY FRAUD AND LARCENY. HER ATTORNEY INSISTS, SHE WAS NEVER A DANGER TO ANYONE. >> SHE’S A PERSON WHO’S HAD A LIFE HISTORY OF MENTAL HEALTH CHALLENGES. SHE’S IN TREATMENT AND SHE’S WORKING TOWARDS MAKING YOURSELF A BETTER PERSON.

>> HEWITT HAS BEEN RELEASED ON $5,000 BAIL UNDER CONDITIONS THAT REQUIRE HER NOW TO STAY AWAY FROM SCHOOLS AND ANYONE UNDER 18. >> DIANE? ALL RIGHT, TREVOR AULT. >> THANK YOU. COMING UP, THE CHAMPS ARE HERE LITERALLY TWO PLAYERS FROM THE MLS TEAM, COLUMBUS CREW JOIN ME LIVE AFTER THEIR THIRD

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COLUMBUS FANS CELEBRATED WITH A PARADE ENDING AT THE TEAM’S STADIUM WHERE HOMEGROWN HERO AIDAN MOORE HAS TOLD THE CROWD THEY’RE NOT DONE. >> YET, NOT THEY RIGHT? BRING IT BACK NEXT YEAR. AIDEN MORSE JOINS ME NOW ALONG WITH CAPTAIN DARLINGTON NAGBE FOR MORE. AIDEN, HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE

CHAMPIONS OR ARE YOU ALREADY FOCUSED ON NEXT YEAR? >> HAS IT ALREADY PASSED YOUR BODY? WHAT DO YOU THINK? WELL, IT’S SO FRESH SO I STILL THINK I’M SOAKING IN ENJOYING MY TIME HERE. IT’S BEEN NICE TO GET AWAY, BUT YEAH, WE SACRIFICED A LOT THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. SO YOU GOT TO APPRECIATE

WHAT HAPPENS. YOU DON’T GET TO WIN A LOT. >> YEAH. DARLINGTON, YOUR MANAGER HAD SAID THE MOST IMPORTANT THING WAS FOR THE TEAM TO MAINTAIN ITS IDENTITY. WHAT DOES THAT MEAN TO YOU AND HOW DO YOU THINK YOU GUYS WERE ABLE TO DO THAT THROUGH THIS RUN?

I THINK, YOU KNOW, CREDIT TO HIM, YOU KNOW, AND THE GUYS AS WELL AND HIS PERSONALITY TO STAY CALM AND STAY PRESENT IN THE MOMENT AND NOT TAKE THINGS FOR GRANTED. I THINK, YOU KNOW, KNOWING OUR IDENTITY AND STAYING CALM HELPED US IN THE FINAL. IT WASN’T YOU KNOW, IT WASN’T

TOO BIG FOR US. AND GOING TO STAY CONSISTENT THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE YEAR. >> AIDEN, YOU’VE SPENT YOUR ENTIRE CAREER WITH THE CREW. I KNOW A FEW YEARS AGO, THE FANS RALLIED, KEEP THE TEAM IN COLUMBUS. SO WHAT DO YOU THINK THIS VICTORY TO THE TEAM, BUT ALSO THE COMMUNITY THERE?

>> OH, IT’S MASSIVE. THE FANS SHOW UP EVERY DAY, EVERY GAME SUPPORTING US, HAVE OUR BACK AND GIVES THE EXTRA 10 TO 10%. AND FOR ALL THE CREW’S BEEN THERE, YOU KNOW, IT’S NICE TO BRING TWO TITLES WITH IN THE LAST FOUR YEARS AND DARLINGTON THIS IS A

BIG YEAR FOR THE LEAGUE IN GENERAL WITH LEO MASSEY JOINING MIAMI HOW DO YOU THINK THAT’S CHANGING THINGS ON THE FIELD WITH THE LEAGUE GENERAL AND THE MOOD IN THE LOCKER ROOM? >> NO, IT’S YOU DON’T SEE IT WHEN I’M THERE. LIKE CONTINUITY JOINS THE LEAGUE. MY BEING THE GREATEST EVER.

IT IMPROVES YOUR PROFILE IN LEADING THE PLAYERS. I WANT TO COME TO THE LEAGUE. OBVIOUSLY, THAT IMPROVES THE COMPETITION IN THE FIELD SO IT’S GETTING BETTER AND BETTER AND BIG TIME PLAYERS ARE COMING HERE AND THE PLAYERS ARE PLAYING AGAINST. I MEAN, I THINK THEY GET OPPORTUNITY WITH WHAT

THAT LEVEL IS AND THAT WHICH I THINK IS PART OF THE LEAGUE. AND IT AND YOU GUYS ARE COMPETING NOW FOR THE CONCACAF CUP IN MARCH, I BELIEVE. HOW DO YOU KEEP THAT MOMENTUM GOING? JUST KEEPING US. WE’VE GOT SUCH A GOOD FOUNDATION, SUCH A GOOD COACH, THAT’S GOOD STAFF.

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>> I WAS TERRIFIED. IT WAS JUST SO TRAUMATIC. NIGHTMARE. PEOPLE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THESE WERE WANTED BABIES 18 WERE FACING LIFE AND DEATH MEDICAL CONDITIONS. THEIR NOW OUT OF THEIR CONTROL. I FELT LIKE I WAS GOING TO DIE. OUR LIVES AND OUR HEALTH ARE DEBATABLE. I WOULDN’T WISH THIS UPON

MY WORST ENEMY. >> DIANE SAWYER RACHEL SCOTT ON THE BRINK NOW STREAMING ON HULU, HOUSTON POLICE SAID. THE 16 YEAR OLD SHOT BOTH OF HIS PARENTS NOW FRIDAY NIGHT INSIDE THE COURTROOM IN THE SHOCKING NEW EVIDENCE THAT CAME IN JUST DAYS BEFORE THE TRIAL BEGAN. YOU GOT TO BE KIDDING ME.

WHOSE BLOOD IS THIS? I COULDN’T EVEN SAND THE IDEA OF KILLING MY PARENTS. EVERYTHING THEY TO HIM ON THE 2020 FRIDAY NIGHT AT NINE AND CENTRAL ON ABC. WHAT YOU SAY WHEN PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE FROM ABC NEWS THIS IS “START HERE” TO BE IN THE KNOW AND GET

A DIFFERENT TAKE ON DAY’S TOP STORIES. A LOT OF NEWS TODAY SO LET’S GET INTO IT LISTEN TO THE DAILY NEWS PODCAST HONORED WITH FOR EDWARD OUR MURROW AWARDS AND SEE WHY THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS IT A NEWS PODCAST WORTH LISTENING TO YOU STAR HERE, ABC NEWS. MAKE IT YOUR DAILY FIRST.

>> LISTEN. NOW, THAT’S A PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING. >> WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS, START HERE. WELCOME BACK TO ABC NEWS LIVE. FIRST, THANKS FOR SHARING WITH US. YOU’RE LOOKING SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO, WHERE YOU CAN SEE SOME SNOW ON THE GROUND ON THIS .

AND WE HAVE A LOT OF NEWS TO GET TO. HERE’S A RUNDOWN RIGHT NOW. FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE RUSSIA LAUNCHED ITS WAR AGAINST UKRAINE, VLADIMIR PUTIN HOSTED HIS ANNUAL PRESS CONFERENCE. RUSSIAN STATE MEDIA SAYS AT 2 MILLION QUESTIONS WERE SUBMITTED TO THE EVENT. DURING THE FOUR HOUR CONFERENCE, PUTIN

SAID THERE WOULD BE NO PEACE IN UKRAINE UNTIL THE KREMLIN REALIZES ITS GOALS. LAST YEAR’S EVENT WAS CANCELED DUE TO THE WAR. AUTHORITIES ARE WARNING STUDENTS TO BE ON ALERT AFTER THREE ATTEMPTED ABDUCTIONS NEAR THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA. THEY SAY THREE WOMEN REPORTED BEING FOLLOWED BY A MAN DRIVING

A BLUE TOYOTA. ONE SAYS SHE WAS ATTACKED FROM BEHIND AND SCREAMED BEFORE THE SUSPECT. ANOTHER SAYS SHE WAS GROPED BUT GOT AWAY. NOW THE FBI IS INVESTIGATING. THE NBA SAYS GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS STAR DRAYMOND GREEN IS SUSPENDED INDEFINITELY. IT COMES AFTER GREEN GOT HIS SIXTH SUSPENSION IN HIS

CAREER AND HIS SECOND IN LESS THAN A MONTH. THAT WAS FOR SWINGING AT PHOENIX SUNS CENTER, KNOCKING HIM TO THE GROUND LAST NIGHT. GREEN SAYS IT WAS UNINTENTIONAL . THE NBA SAYS FOR HIM TO RETURN TO THE COURT, HE WILL BE REQUIRED TO MEET CERTAIN LEAGUE AND TEAM CONDITIONS.

AND THE CURIOUS CASE OF A MISSING TOMATO HAS FINALLY BEEN SOLVED IN SPACE. EARLIER THIS YEAR, FRANK RUBIO HARVESTED, ONE OF THE FIRST TOMATOES EVER GROWN IN SPACE AT THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION. BUT THEN WHILE TALKING TO SOME KIDS, HE LOST THE CHERRY TOMATO . NOW, MORE THAN TWO MONTHS AFTER

RUBIO RETURNED TO EARTH, ANOTHER ASTRONAUT REPORTS THE TOMATO HAS BEEN FOUND. RUBIO IS NOW ABSOLVED, SOME PLAYFUL ACCUSATIONS THAT HE ATE THAT TOMATO. >> MEANWHILE, WOMEN WITH HIGH RISK PREGNANCIES ARE FACING A GROWING NUMBER OF EMERGENCIES AS THE LEGAL BATTLE FOR ABORTION ACCESS. SEVERAL DOZEN WOMEN ARE CURRENTLY WAITING

ON DECISIONS IN A STRING OF CASES ABOUT HEALTH EXCEPTIONS IN STATES WITH SEVERE ABORTION RESTRICTIONS. OUR DIANE SAWYER AND RACHEL SCOTT HAVE TEAMED UP FOR AN ABC NEWS SPECIAL REPORT TO TELL THE STORIES OF WOMEN ENDURING THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE ABORTION LEGAL BATTLE. >> HERE’S A PREVIEW.

WE ARE THERE AS THEY WALK INTO A ROOM IN TEXAS, IDAHO, FLORIDA, ALABAMA. SOUTH CAROLINA, WISCONSIN. ARIZONA. ARKANSAS, LOUISIANA. TENNESSEE. >> THEY ARE STRANGERS WHO HAVE GATHERED TOGETHER BECAUSE SHARE A COMMON BOND SUFFERING. IN THE CROSSFIRE, CONFUSION OF NEW HEALTH CARE LAWS. LAWS IN ONE STATES IN THIS

COUNTRY WITH VARYING BANS AND RESTRICTIONS. THESE WOMEN SAY THEY KNOW THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF OTHERS OUT THERE LIKE THEM. >> IT TAKES COURAGE TO GO ON CAMERA. I’M WONDERING. HOW MANY OF YOU ALMOST DIDN’T COME? HOW MANY OF YOU THOUGHT YOU HAD TO COME? YEAH, FOR SURE. WITHOUT A DOUBT.

I DON’T THINK PEOPLE REALIZE HOW COMMON THIS IS. >> IS THIS A DEBATE OVER ABORTION OR IS IT A DEBATE OVER HEALTH CARE, HUMAN RIGHTS? >> THAT’S WHAT PEOPLE NEED TO UNDERSTAND IS IT’S THESE WERE WANTED BABIES. >> LET’S START WITH THE STORY OF THIS WOMAN IN THE FRONT ROW.

KRISTEN AND I ARE LIKE, SO MANY IN THIS ROOM. FOR MONTHS AND MONTHS, SHE HAD BEEN TRYING TO GET PREGNANT. HERE’S THE MOMENT. SHE GOT THE PHONE CALL OF HER DREAMS. I COULDN’T MADE AFTER BEING TOGETHER. WE ARE WE ARE REALLY GETTING FOUR MONTHS OF COMPLETE HAPPINESS BEFORE.

THE DAY OF COMPLETE HEARTBREAK. ALL OF A SUDDEN, KRISTEN FELT SOMETHING WRONG. THE MEMBRANES PROTECTING HER FETUS BROKE AND HER WATER. THE AMNIOTIC FLUID LOST. DOCTORS SAY THIS HAPPENED SO EARLY, THE FETUS CANNOT BE SAVED. WITH HER FEET IS DYING INSIDE HER. KRISTEN IS NOW AT RISK. THE CLOCK BEGINS TICKING

ON INFECTION AND THE TERROR OF SEPSIS INFECTION THAT CAN RAGE THROUGH YOUR BLOODSTREAM AND CAUSE FAILURE. IN STATES WHERE THERE ARE NO BANDS, DOCTORS WOULD ARRANGE TO INDUCE LABOR TO PROTECT HER HEALTH, HER FERTILITY. >> RIGHT. WITHIN HOURS, I WAS SHOWING ALL SIGNS OF SEPSIS. THE DOCTORS NEEDED TO START

INDUCING THE IMMEDIATELY. HOWEVER, THEY WERE UNABLE TO BECAUSE OF TEXAS LAWS. >> AND SO THE EXACT WORDS WERE WE HAVE TO PROVE TO THE ETHICS BOARD AND THE MEDICAL BOARD OF THIS HOSPITAL THAT YOUR LIFE IS IN DANGER BEFORE WE CAN INTERVENE. >> SHE IS SHAKING VIOLENTLY FROM FEVER, VOMITING NONSTOP.

OUR DOCTOR, OUR NURSES WERE CRYING AT OUR BEDSIDE, AT MY BEDSIDE, WISHING THEY COULD DO SOMETHING WITH BLANK STARES ON THEIR FACES BECAUSE THEY LITERALLY COULDN’T DO ANYTHING UNTIL THE BLOODWORK SHOWED THAT I WAS DYING. HOUR BY HOUR, THE DOCTORS MONITOR THE INCREASE OF THE INFECTION IN HER BLOOD.

SHE KNOWS THERE’S NO CHANCE FOR THE BABY. SHE’S LITERALLY DYING INSIDE OF ME AS I LAY ON THE BED GOING SEPTIC. AND WHAT WORLD DOES THAT MAKE ANY SENSE? TO PREVENT HEALTH CARE FOR ME? >> YEAH. WHAT ABOUT MY LIFE? WE DIDN’T ASK FOR THAT. >> WE DIDN’T WANT THAT.

SO YOU WERE WAITING. HOW MANY HOURS? >> HOW MUCH? 24 HOURS. FINALLY, THE BOARDS APPROVED HER TREATMENT. HER DOCTORS INDUCED LABOR. THE BABY PASSES. BUT KRISTEN IS SO SICK FROM INFECTION, SHE HAS TO REMAIN IN THE HOSPITAL FOR THE NEXT DAYS. GETTING I.V. ANTIBIOTICS. THE BLOOD TRANSFUSION.

A ROOM FULL OF WOMEN WITH SEARING STORIES TRYING TO GET MEDICAL CARE. BUT STATE LAWS HAVE TIED THEIR DOCTORS HANDS. THE STORIES WILL BREAK YOUR HEART. FOR BLOOD CLOTS, INFECTIONS, EVERY SINGLE ONE OF MY SON’S ORGANS WERE GROWING OUTSIDE OF HIS BODY. THAT IS TORTURE. THAT’S MONSTROUS. >> MISSING THE SKULL.

WOMAN AND DOCTORS SOUNDING THE ALARM. >> THAT SOMETHING HAS TO CHANGE. IS 25% CHANCE OF THAT? IS THAT. IS THAT ENOUGH? DOES SHE HAVE TO HAVE A 75% CHANCE OF DEATH? WHO GETS TO DECIDE? >> YOU’RE NOT FATAL ENOUGH. YOUR OR YOUR OR YOU’RE NOT THICK ENOUGH.

>> IT’S LIKE IN WHAT? WHAT ARE WE LIVING IN RIGHT NOW ? >> MANY OF THEIR HUSBANDS ALSO FELT THE URGENT NEED TO BE HERE, CALLING ON MEN ACROSS THE COUNTRY TO JOIN IN PROTECTING WOMEN, FIGHTING TO LIVE. >> CAN THINGS CHANGE WITHOUT THE SUPPORT OF MEN? NO. NO. IMAGINE IF THIS CONTINUES

TO KEEP GOING AND WE DON’T STEP UP AS MEN. THERE’S GOING TO BE A LOT OF CASUALTIES, A LOT OF WOMEN GOING TO DIE. >> AND RACHEL SCOTT IS JOINING ME NOW FOR MORE ON THIS. RACHEL, YOU’VE BEEN REPORTING ON THIS FOR ALMOST A YEAR NOW.

SO WHAT STICKS OUT TO YOU FROM ,THESE STORIES THAT YOU’VE HEARD? YOU KNOW, WHEN I ORIGINALLY STARTED REPORTING ON THE IMPACT OF THE ABORTION LAWS ACROSS THE COUNTRY, DOCTORS WARN WOMEN WOULD GET HURT. THAT WOMEN’S LIVES, THAT THEIR HEALTH COULD BE PUT IN DANGER. AND SO WHEN THESE DOCTORS WHEN

WE SAT DOWN WITH THEM, THEY PULLED BACK THE CURTAIN ABOUT HOW THEY FELT LIKE THEIR HANDS WERE TIED, OR THEY KNEW THAT THEIR OWN PATIENTS WERE SUFFERING. THEY KNEW THAT THEIR OWN PATIENTS HEALTH, FUTURE FERTILITY, POSSIBLY THEIR LIVES WERE AT RISK, BUT THEY FELT LIKE THEY COULDN’T JUST HAVE

HONEST AND DIRECT CONVERSATIONS WITH THEM. THEY FELT LIKE THEY COULDN’T EVEN SAY THE WORD ABORTION. ONE DOCTOR SAID THAT THEY FELT LIKE THEY HAD TO TALK IN CODE BECAUSE OF THE FIND PENALTY IS UP TO LIFE IN PRISON THAT THEY COULD FACE IN AT LEAST TWO STATES IN THIS COUNTRY.

AND SO THIS REALLY IS SUCH AN INSIGHTFUL AND DIVE INTO THE CONVERSATIONS THAT ARE PLAYING OUT IN THESE STATES AND IN CLINICS ACROSS THE COUNTRY. AND I KNOW YOUR REPORTING AND DIANE’S REPORTING COVERS. >> YOU SPOKE TO NEARLY 100 DOCTORS. SO HOW ARE THEY TALKING TO THEIR PATIENTS ABOUT THIS?

THEY FIND IT EXTREMELY, EXTREMELY. AND THE REALITY IS A LOT OF TIMES THEIR PATIENTS, SOME OF THEM TRAVEL OUT OF STATE. THEY COME BACK WITH THESE COMPLICATIONS. WE TALKED TO ONE WOMAN WHO WAS HEMORRHAGING IN THE BACKSEAT OF A RENTAL CAR BECAUSE IT TOOK HER ONE MONTH TO BE ABLE TO FIND

A STATE TO, ACTUALLY TERMINATE A NON-VIABLE PREGNANCY, AND THAT NOW POSED A RISK TO HER FUTURE FERTILITY. I MEAN, THESE STORIES ARE SEARING, THEY ARE HEARTBREAKING. AND AT THE END OF THE DAY, THEY’RE JUST ASKING FOR SOMETHING TO CHANGE. THESE WERE ALL WANTED. THERE ARE EXCEPTIONS IN THESE

STATES THAT ALLOW FOR TO SAVE THE LIFE OF THE MOTHER. BUT SOMEHOW THESE PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS ARE NOT INCLUDED IN THOSE EXCEPTIONS. AND THESE WOMEN WILL TELL YOU THEY FEEL LIKE THEY PAID THE PRICE. ALL RIGHT. I KNOW THAT YOU’RE GOING TO STAY ON TOP OF THIS STORY, RACHEL SCOTT WE APPRECIATE IT.

>> THANK YOU. AND YOU CAN WATCH IMPACT BY ON THE BRINK, STREAMING ON HULU BEGINNING TODAY. AND CLOSING ARGUMENTS ARE EXPECTED TODAY IN THE JONATHAN MAJORS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE TRIAL. THE DEFENSE RESTED ITS CASE YESTERDAY AND THE JUDGE RELEASED NEW EVIDENCE, INCLUDING VIDEO, AUDIO, TEXTS AND, PHOTOS. SENIOR INVESTIGATIVE CORRESPONDENT AARON KATERSKY

HAS THE LATEST ON THAT CASE. >> JONATHAN MAJORS RETURNS TO COURT AS THE JURY PREPARES TO DECIDE A DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CASE THAT COULD DETERMINE THE TRAJECTORY OF THE ACTOR’S CAREER. >> WHAT HAPPENED EXACTLY? THEY’RE NOT YOU KNOW, I DON’T KNOW THE SUPREME CONSCIOUS MAJORS CALLED 911 BACK IN MARCH.

>> I THINK I SAW A HANDFUL AFTER HE FOUND HIS EX-GIRLFRIEND, GRACE JABARI, ON A CLOSET FLOOR IN THEIR APARTMENT. THE JURY SAW VIDEO FROM POLICE, BODY WORN CAMERAS. JABARI DID HAVE A CUT BEHIND HER EAR. THE JURY SAW THIS PICTURE OF IT. THE JURY ALSO SAW A PHOTO

OF JABBAR, HIS FINGER THAT SHE TESTIFIED FRACTURED DURING AN ASSAULT IN THE BACK SEAT OF AN SUV. MY HEAD WAS RESTING ON HIS SHOULDER. JABARI TOLD THE JURY. WE WERE CHATTING AND HE WAS ON HIS PHONE WHEN A MESSAGE POPPED UP SAYING, I WISH I WAS KISSING YOU UPSET BY THE MESSAGE.

>> JABARI TESTIFIED SHE GRABBED THE PHONE AND THEN I FELT A HEAVY THUD ON TOP OF ME. >> WHAT I KNEW TO BE THE WEIGHT OF HIM ON TOP OF ME AND HIM TRYING TO PRY THE PHONE OUT OF MY FINGERS. >> SURVEILLANCE VIDEO SHOWS MAJORS HOISTING JABARI OFF

THE GROUND AND SHOVING HER BACK IN THE CAR BEFORE HE’S SEEN RUNNING OFF. SHE CHASES AFTER HIM. HE PUSHES HER AWAY, RUNS OFF. >> JABARI CROSSING TRAFFIC IN PURSUIT. JORDAN MAJORS CASE IS GOING TO HINGE ON TWO MAJOR COMPONENTS. ONE WILL YOU BELIEVE THAT GRACE LEE BOGGS INJURED BY JONATHAN

MAJORS BOTH ALL THE VIDEO AND THE TESTIMONY THAT WE SAW AND HEARD. >> AND TWO, WAS JONATHAN MAJORS JUSTIFIED IN HIS ACTIONS AFTER GRACE JABARI ADMITTEDLY TOOK HIS PROPERTY, THAT BEING HIS CELL PHONE. AND HE TRIED TO RECOVER IT FROM HER. >> MAJORS CAREER HAD BEEN TAKING OFF WHEN THE MARVEL STAR

AND JABARI MET THE SET OF ANT-MAN AND THE WASP QUANTUMANIA AND BEGAN DATING SCOTT LONG BEFORE THE ALLEGED ASSAULT. >> SHE TESTIFIED HE HAD MOOD SWINGS AND A TEMPER. THE JURY SEEING TEXT MESSAGES PURPORTING TO SHOW MAJORS DISSUADING JABARI GOING TO THE HOSPITAL FOLLOWING AN ALLEGED ALTERCATION BETWEEN THEM IN 2022.

>> THE JURY ALSO HEARING THIS OF THE ACTOR SCOLDING JABARI HOW THEY COME FROM TRYING START A PIECE OF OUR HOUSE AND TELLING HER HE NEEDS A GREAT WOMAN BECAUSE HE’S A GREAT MAN AND GOT PRETTY GOOD AS ONE KING’S WIFE MICHELLE OBAMA . >> BARACK OBAMA’S LIFE, MY TEMPER, MY MICROBLOG.

ALL ALL THAT SAID, I’M A GREAT MAN. A GREAT MAN. I AM DOING GREAT THINGS. NOT JUST FOR ME, FOR MY FOR MY CULTURE AND YOUR WORLD. >> THAT’S ACTUALLY THE POSITION I’M IN. >> THE WOMAN THAT SUPPORTS ME USED TO BE GREAT WOMAN. AND SENIOR INVESTIGATIVE CORRESPONDENT AARON KATERSKY,

AN ABC NEWS LEGAL CONTRIBUTOR BRIAN BUCKMIRE. JOIN ME NOW FOR MORE ON THIS. AND WHAT CAN WE EXPECT TO HAPPEN IN TODAY? >> CLOSING ARGUMENTS ARE GOING TO COME THIS MORNING. DIANE EACH SIDE GOING TO LAY OUT THEIR CASE. THE GOVERNMENT EXPECTED TO CAST JONATHAN MAJORS AS SOMEONE WHO COMMITTED MISDEMEANOR

ASSAULT AND HARASSMENT, WHO INJURED GRACE JABARI AND WHO LONG BEFORE THE ALLEGED ASSAULT BACK IN MARCH, SUBJECTED HER TO BOTH PHYSICAL AND VERBAL. >> AND THE DEFENSE IS GOING TO CAST JABARI AS THE AGGRESSOR AND JONATHAN MAJORS AS THE VICTIM OF HER AGGRESSION. THEY CALLED A WITNESS,

A MEDICAL EXPERT WHO REALLY CAST DOUBT ON THE SEVERITY OF GIBBERISH INJURIES AND, WHETHER HE WAS SEEN CALM, NOT LIKE THE KIND OF PERSON PROSECUTORS PORTRAYED. BRIAN, HOW IS THIS NEW EVIDENCE? TWO MAJORS IN THIS CASE, LIKE THE AUDIO WE JUST HEARD AND HOW STRONG DID YOU THINK HIS THREE

DEFENSE WITNESSES WERE? >> THE EVIDENCE IS VERY. PAINT THE PICTURE OF THIS CRESCENDO OF THIS EMOTIONAL AND VERBAL ABUSE THAT LEADS TO THE ULTIMATE ISSUE THAT WE’RE HERE FOR. THAT BEING THIS ALLEGED ASSAULT ON GRACE JABARI AND THE UNDERSTANDING OF WHO EXACTLY JONATHAN MAJORS IS IN, TERMS OF THE THREE DEFENSE ATTORNEYS,

I THINK THEY COULD HAVE BEEN BETTER, NOT NECESSARILY FROM WITNESSES, SORRY, WITNESSES. YES, TWO OR THREE WITNESSES. AND THEY COULD HAVE BEEN BETTER. NOT NECESSARILY WHAT THEY GAVE TO US, BUT WHAT THE DEFENSE WAS ABLE TO PULL OUT OF THEM. THERE WAS A LOT OF OBJECTIONS THAT WERE SUSTAINED, SPECIFICALLY FROM THE DOCTOR

WHO ABLE TO ARTICULATE KIND OF THAT THE INJURIES DON’T SEEM TO BE FROM THE SAME MANNER THAT GRACE JABARI SAID THAT THEY CAME ABOUT, THAT THE WAY THE FRACTURE HAPPENED DOESN’T SEEM TO HAPPEN FROM THE WAY THAT SHE DESCRIBED JONATHAN MAJORS PULLING HER FINGER APART. I THINK ULTIMATELY THIS CASE

IS TO DECIDE IT FROM THE SUMMATIONS. >> SO, AARON, HE’S FACING MISDEMEANOR CHARGES OF ASSAULT AND AGGRAVATED HARASSMENT. WHAT HAPPENS IF HE’S FOUND GUILTY? >> HE COULD FACE UP TO A YEAR IN PRISON, WHETHER HE WOULD ACTUALLY FACE MUCH ON A MISDEMEANOR, NO CRIMINAL RECORD REMAINS TO BE SEEN.

EVEN IF HE BEATS THE CHARGES AND IS ACQUITTED, THE REPUTATIONAL HARM MAY BE FAIRLY. AND AS BRIAN SUGGESTS, HE HAS ALREADY PORTRAYED, EVEN IF HE BEATS THE ALLEGED ASSAULT, HE’S ALREADY BEEN PORTRAYED AS A SERIAL ABUSER OF GRACE. JABARI, BOTH PHYSICALLY AND EMOTIONALLY. THE JURY ALSO SAW IMAGES,

CANDLES AND OTHER ITEMS THAT HE THREW AT HER HEAD AND THEY SAW THOSE TEXT MESSAGES AFTER SOME ALTERCATION IN 2022 WHERE HE SAYS, NO, NO, DON’T GO TO THE HOSPITAL BECAUSE THEY’LL SUSPECT ME. >> ALL RIGHT. AARON KATERSKY BRIAN BUCKMIRE, THANK YOU BOTH. >> COMING UP, OPRAH WINFREY,

SHE IS DONE WITH THE SHAMING, WHICH SHE’S REVEALING ABOUT USING MEDICATION, WEIGHT LOSS. >> TONIGHT, A WOMAN’S RIGHT TO MAKE HER OWN HEALTH WITH ABORTION PILL ACCESS SET TO GO BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT. IS A CRISIS BREWING? MORE AMERICANS TURN TO THE MOST WATCHED PROGRAM ON TELEVISION. “WORLD NEWS TONIGHT” WITH DAVID

MUIR MUIR. >> GIVE IT TO ME. >> I WANT TO GO BACK TO THE BONE LOSS. IT’S SO SAD. JUST A LITTLE BIT. EVEN A LITTLE BIT SMILEY ON THE NEWS IN AMERICA. ALL THE WORLD. THE WORLD WILL BE CELEBRATING THE NEW YEAR AND YOU CAN SEE IT

AS IT HAPPENS. WHY IS THE CELEBRATIONS SEE THE NEW YEAR AS IT COMES STREAMING ALL DAY AND NIGHT ON? ABC NEWS LIVES. ABC NEWS LIVE PRIME WINNER OF THE GRACIE AWARD FOR BEST NEWS PROGRAM IN ALL OF TELEVISION STREAM ABC NEWS LIVE PRIME WITH LINSEY DAVIS WEEKNIGHTS ON ABC NEWS LIVE.

>> YOU GOT REALLY GOING TO BE LIKE I WAS TERRIFIED. >> IT JUST A TRAUMATIC NIGHTMARE. >> PEOPLE NEED TO UNDERSTAND WANTED BABIES 18 FACING LIFE, DEATH, MEDICAL CONDITIONS, THEIR LIVES NOW OUT OF THEIR CONTROL. I FELT LIKE I WAS GOING TO DIE. OUR LIVES AND OUR HEALTH. DEBATABLE.

I WOULDN’T WISH THIS UPON MY WORST ENEMY. DIANE RACHEL SAT ON THE BRINK. >> NOW STREAMING ON HULU, YOU’RE WATCHING AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE STREAMING MOVIES. KEEP STREAMING WITH ABC NEWS LIVE. >> WELCOME BACK. OPRAH WINFREY IS OPENING UP ABOUT HER USE OF MEDICATION FOR WEIGHT LOSS. SHE SAYS THERE’S NO SHAME

IN TAKING A DRUG TO LOSE WEIGHT AND SHE DOESN’T WANT TO HIDE IT. >> EVA PILGRIM HAS MORE. >> TELEVISION ICON OPRAH WINFREY REVEALING SHE’S USING MEDICATION FOR WEIGHT LOSS, TELLING “PEOPLE” MAGAZINE THE FACT THAT THERE’S A MEDICALLY APPROVED PRESCRIPTION FOR MANAGING WEIGHT AND STAYING HEALTHIER IN MY LIFETIME FEELS LIKE

RELIEF, LIKE REDEMPTION, LIKE A GIFT, AND NOT SOMETHING TO HIDE BEHIND AND ONCE AGAIN BE RIDICULED FOR AND ABSOLUTELY DONE WITH THE SHAMING OTHER PEOPLE AND PARTICULARLY MYSELF. >> THREE MONTHS AGO, SHE POSTED A DISCUSSION ABOUT THE WEIGHT LOSS DRUGS ON OPRAH DAILY. THE NEW WEIGHT LOSS DRUGS EVERYBODY’S TALKING ABOUT ISN’T

BIG WOULD GO THE MUNJAL. ARE THESE NEW DRUGS MIRACLE CURE? >> ARE THEY SAFE? THAT’S WHAT WE ALL WANT TO KNOW . >> WHILE THESE DRUGS HAVE BECOME INCREDIBLY POPULAR FOR WEIGHT LOSS, SHEAYS THE MEDICATION IS NOT A SINGULAR SOLUTION. I KNOW THAT IF I’M NOT ALSO WORKING OUT AND VIGILANT

ABOUT ALL THE OTHER THINGS, IT DOESN’T WORK FOR ME. WINFREY, WHO IS TURNING 17 NEXT MONTH, RECENTLY STUNNING FANS AT THE COLOR PURPLE IN LOS ANGELES AND THE ACADEMY MUSEUM GALA. >> I CAN’T LIFT IT. IT IS AMAZING TO ME THAT I CAN’T LIFT IT, BUT I USED

TO CARRY IT AROUND EVERY DAY. THROUGHOUT HER ENTIRE CAREER, THE MOGUL NEVER SHIED TO TALK ABOUT HER WEIGHT LOSS JOURNEY. >> MY HIGHEST WEIGHT WAS £237. I DON’T KNOW IF THERE IS ANOTHER PUBLIC PERSON WHOSE WEIGHT STRUGGLE HAS EXPLOITED AS MUCH AS MINE OVER THE YEARS. >> AND OPRAH IS NOT ALONE

IN HER WEIGHT LOSS STRUGGLES. OVER 73% OF ADULTS IN THE U.S. ARE CONSIDERED OVERWEIGHT OR OBESE. >> THESE MEDICATIONS ARE APPROVED IN COMBINATION WITH DIETARY CHANGE, PHYSICAL ACTIVITY. AND WHEN A PATIENT HAS KIND OF OPTIMIZED ALL THOSE INTERVENTIONS AND THEY’RE STILL HAVING STRUGGLES WITH THEIR WEIGHT, THEN THIS IS A GREAT

TOOL FOR THEM TO GET TO AN OVERALL HEALTHIER WEIGHT AND IMPROVE THEIR RISK OF HAVING OTHER WEIGHT RELATED . EXPERTS SAY THAT ACCESS TO THESE DRUGS BE A BARRIER AS THEY ARE NOT COVERED BY MEDICARE AND DEMAND OUTWEIGHS THE CURRENT SUPPLY. THE NEW ISSUE OF PEOPLE IS AVAILABLE ON NEWSSTANDS NATIONWIDE FRIDAY. DIANE?

ALL RIGHT, EVA PILGRIM, THANKS FOR THAT. AND ABC NEWS MEDICAL CONTRIBUTOR AND PHYSICIAN AT STANFORD CHILDREN’S HEALTH DR. ALOK PATEL JOINS ME NOW FOR MORE ON THIS. DR. PATEL, OPRAH SAYS THAT SHE IS DONE GETTING SHAMED FOR TAKING MEDICATION FOR WEIGHT LOSS. WHY DO YOU THINK SO MUCH STIGMA

COMES FROM TAKING THESE? >> THERE IS A MISUNDERSTANDING, AND I SHOULD SAY I THINK WE KNOW THERE’S A MISUNDERSTANDING FROM SOCIETY ABOUT THE COMPLEXITY OF OBESITY THAT. >> IT’S ENVIRONMENTAL, IT’S CULTURAL, IT’S GENETIC. AND PEOPLE HEAR OF OTHERS GETTING MEDICATIONS SUCH AS GLP ONE AGONISTS, AND YOU’RE COMMENTS LIKE, THAT’S THE EASY

WAY OUT OR OBESITY IS A CHOICE. >> JUST DON’T EXERCISE. >> IT’S LIKE TELLING SOMEONE WITH DEPRESSION TO JUST FEEL BETTER BECAUSE CURRENTLY WHAT DOING TO ADDRESS OBESITY IS NOT WORKING, GIVEN THE FACT OBESITY RATES HAVE NEARLY TRIPLED SINCE 1975. >> SO WHATEVER WORKS FOR SOMEONE SHOULD BE RESPECTED.

>> AND WE SHOULD REMEMBER THAT PEOPLE ARE DOING THIS UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF, A HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONAL. >> SO WE HEARD IN THE PIECE OPRAH SAYING THAT THIS MEDICATION IS NOT A SINGULAR SOLUTION, THAT IF SHE’S NOT WORKING OUT AND BEING VIGILANT ABOUT LIKE DIET, SLEEP AND STRESS, THAT IT DOESN’T

WORK FOR HER. IS THAT COMMON FOR PEOPLE TAKING THESE MEDICATIONS. IT IS. AND WHAT OPRAH’S DESCRIBING IS EXACTLY HOW THESE MEDICATIONS ARE INDICATED TO BE TAKEN. YOU KNOW, ALL THESE EARLY TRIALS THAT WERE REPORTED ON THIS YEAR AND LAST SHOW PEOPLE TAKING THESE MEDICATIONS ALONGSIDE DIETARY AND LIFESTYLE CHANGES

AND ACTUALLY SAW THAT THE PEOPLE WHO JUST HAD THE CHANGES WITHOUT TAKING MEDICATIONS AND CHANGE YOUR DIET OUT, DOING ALL THAT IS GREAT FOR YOUR HEART, HEALTH, YOUR BONES, YOUR MUSCLES, AND INCREASES YOUR PROBABILITY THAT ONE DAY YOU MAY BE ABLE TO GET OFF THESE MEDICATIONS, INCREASES YOUR LONG TERM SUCCESS.

>> AND BEFORE WE LET YOU GO, I DO WANT TO ASK ABOUT THIS NEW STUDY THAT SAYS IT HAS FOUND A POSSIBLE CAUSE OF MORNING SICKNESS IN PREGNANT WOMEN. >> WHAT ARE YOU HEARING ABOUT THAT? WHAT DO WE KNOW? WELL, THIS IS A FINDING, A VERY PROMISING FINDING FOR MILLIONS

OF WOMEN OUT THERE. >> AND THE JOURNAL NATURE BASICALLY SHOWING THAT A HORMONE 15 MAY BE THE CULPRIT BEHIND THAT EARLY TRIAL, EARLY FIRST TRIMESTER, NAUSEA AND VOMITING AND A SEVERE FORM OF HYPEREMESIS GRAVIDARUM, WHICH CAN BE SEVERE IN ABOUT 2% OF WOMEN. >> ALSO SHOWING THESE LEVELS INCREASE DURING PREGNANCY

IS MADE FROM THE FETUS. >> SOME WOMEN WHO NOT HAVE HIGH LEVELS BEFORE PREGNANCY, SUCH AS IN GENETIC VARIANTS, MAY BE MORE SENSITIVE. AND DIET PAVES THE WAY FOR A LOT OF POTENTIAL TREATMENT. AND I KNOW SOME WOMEN OUT THERE, LIKE MY WIFE, ARE APPLYING THIS BECAUSE OF HOW MANY PREGNANCIES

ARE PLAGUED BY THAT NAUSEA, VOMITING AND THE SEVERE FORM HYPEREMESIS GRAVIDARUM. SO VERY PROMISING RESULTS TODAY. >> WELCOME NEWS TO SO MANY NEWS MEDICAL CONTRIBUTOR DR. ALOK PATEL. >> THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU. COMING UP, TIME FOR ROYAL BINGE. THE FINAL EPISODES OF THE CROWN ARE OUT AND WILL GANSS HAS LOOK

AT WHAT’S AHEAD FOR THE LAST SEASON. WHENEVER WHEREVER NEWS BREAKS, IT’S SO IMPORTANT TO ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT LIVES ARE CHANGED HERE IN LONDON, IN BARCELONA, ALL DAY, TEXAS. EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND REPORTING FROM ROLLING FORK, MISSISSIPPI UKRAINIAN REFUGEES HERE IN WARSAW, WE’RE HEADING TO A SMALL COMMUNITY OUTSIDE OF MEXICO CITY, GETTING

YOU BEHIND THE STORIES AS THEY HAPPEN. >> ABC NEWS, LIVE CRIME. WE’LL TAKE YOU THERE. EXTREME ABC NEWS LIVE WEEKNIGHTS WHEREVER YOU STREAMING NEWS ME ON WHEN THE ANNOUNCER CALLS MY NAME, THE WORLD ALWAYS FADES AWAY. IT’S THE BIGGEST AND MOST FAMOUS TARGET THAT THERE IS. WELCOME TO THE WORLD’S GREATEST

DOPE SHOW. THE COMPETITION IN DOPE DANCING IS VERY STIFF HERE. EVERY DOG HAS ITS DAY ON THE DANCE FLOOR. DANCING WITH MY DOG IS THE CLOSEST THING TO MAGIC. WINNER OF 2023 THE SECRET LIFE OF DANCING DOGS. >> NOW LIVE IN OUR WORLD. TONIGHT, A WOMAN’S RIGHT TO

MAKE HER OWN HEALTH CHOICES WITH ABORTION PILL ACCESS SET TO GO BEFORE THE SUPREME IS A CRISIS BREWING, MORE AMERICANS TURN TO THE MOST PROGRAM ON TELEVISION. “WORLD NEWS TONIGHT”, DAVID MUIR. >> WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE? ABC NEWS THIS IS STARTING TO BE

IN THE KNOW AND GET A DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE DAY’S TOP STORIES. START HERE. THAT’S THE PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING MAKING YOUR DEBUT FIRST. >> LISTEN WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS FROM AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE. >> AND THIS COMES THE ALL-NEW ABC APP.

IF YOU LOVE BEING IN THE KNOW, YOU’RE GOING TO LOVE THIS EXPERIENCE AS THE ALL NEW ABC NEWS APP. DOWNLOAD IT NOW REPORTING MEMPHIS, STEVE OSUNSAMI WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WE’LL TAKE YOU THERE FOR STREAMING ABC’S LONG YOU KNOW THAT MEANS IT’S TIME FOR THE TEAM WHERE WE BREAK DOWN

SOME OF THE BUZZY STORIES PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT OUR FRIEND WILL GANSS IS HERE TO SPILL IT WELL THAT TOO MEANS IT’S TIME FOR THE TEE. THAT TUNE MEANS IT’S TIME. YEAH. A TONGUE TWISTER. YEAH. SAVE IT FOR A DAY. YEAH. ALL RIGHT. WE BEGIN AT THE END THIS MORNING WITH NETFLIX RELEASING

THE FINAL SIX EPISODES OF THE CROWN. ONE OF THE MOST EXPENSIVE TV SERIES EVER MADE. THE CROWN IS ALSO AN AWARD FAVORITE WITH MORE THAN 20 ANY WINS UNDER ITS BELT. THE SHOW WRAPPING AND REUNITING ALL THREE ACTRESSES WHO HAVE PLAYED HER MAJESTY CLAIRE FOY, OLIVIA COLMAN, AND IMELDA STAUNTON, WHO’S

CURRENT QUEEN AS AN HOMAGE TO QUEEN ELIZABETH THE SECOND. WE ALSO HAVE OUR FIRST LOOK AT NEWCOMERS ED MCVEY AND MEG BELLAMY AS THE ADULT VERSIONS OF PRINCE WILLIAM AND KATE MIDDLETON. I HAVE NOT HAD TIME SINCE 12 A.M. TO BINGE WATCH ALL SIX EPISODES AS THEY SHOW.

I KNOW I FEEL LIKE SUCH INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM, BUT THERE’S PLENTY OF DIRECTIONS. I THINK IF THE CROWN EVER DID WANT TO COME BACK. OBVIOUSLY THE DRAMA CONTINUES TO DRAMA. WELL, THERE IS LOTS OF MATERIAL TO WORK WITH. YES BUT IT’S BITTERSWEET TO SAY GOODBYE TO SUCH A GROUNDBREAKING SHOW LIKE THAT.

TURNING NOW TO THIS YEAR’S MOST NOMINATED ARTISTS AT THE GRAMMY AWARDS IS US SITTING DOWN WITH APPLE’S ZANE LOWE TO DISCUSS HER RECORD BREAKING YEAR AND HER SINGLE KILL BILL CAMPBELL SCRATCH VOCALS. AND I HATE THAT IF I’M FUNNY, BUT THE SONG THAT I BELIEVE THEY MIGHT HAVE EVER NEEDED

TO AND LIKE HAD TO LEAVE OUT ABOUT THE SONG THAT PEOPLE WOULD LIKE LAUGH. OKAY, SO KILL BILL IS NOMINATED FOR SONG OF THE YEAR AT THE GRAMMYS, BUT HER SAYING THAT IT WAS A SCRATCH VOCAL, MEANING LIKE SHE JUST DID IT LIKE DID IT. IT WAS OUT LEASEHOLDER YEAH.

AND I GUESS WHEN SHE WENT BACK TO THE STUDIO, TRIED IT AGAIN, SHE’S LIKE, NO, THE SCRATCH VOCAL IS THE ONE. LIKE IT HAS THE VIBE THAT SHE WANTED. I LOVE THAT. AND THAT REALLY JAZZ. SO YOU NEVER KNOW IF YOU EVER SEE ME JUST SINGING MY PHONE.

IT MIGHT BE A GREAT ATTEMPT. YEAH YOU KNOW, I FINALLY THIS ONE. THE TEA IS HOT HERE, YOU GUYS THE 80 YEAR OLD MEDS AIR WHO’S POISED TO LEAD OF DOLLARS OF HIS FORTUNE TO HIS GARDENER NICHOLAS BUICK, WHO IS THE FIFTH GENERATION IRMA’S HEIR IS WORTH BETWEEN TEN AND $11 BILLION.

AND HE’S REPORTEDLY BEGUN LEGAL PROCEEDINGS TO MAKE HIS GARDENER AND HANDYMAN THE NEXT IN LINE TO HIS FORTUNE, ACCORDING TO SWISS PUBLICATION TRIBUNE DESIGN AND THE UNIDENTIFIED MAN IS 51 YEARS OLD, MARRIED TO A WOMAN FROM SPAIN AND HAS A WHOLE FAMILY OF HIS OWN. SO PEOPLE ARE SAYING, LIKE, IF

YOU’RE A GARDENER, BE A GREAT GARDENER. I MEAN, I DON’T HAVE A GARDEN. SO I CAN’T SAY THE GARDENER PART. BUT FINDING A GOOD HANDYMAN THAT IS REALLY VALUABLE. I MEAN, YOU NEVER KNOW. NEXT TIME SOMEONE ASKS TO FIX A LIGHT BULB OR SOMETHING, I’M GOING TO STEP UP TO WORK

FOR A WHILE GARDENING. HEY, LISTEN, WE’LL SEE HOW IT TURNS OUT, YOU KNOW? ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU, FRIEND. THANK YOU. AND THANK YOU FOR SHARING IT WITH US. I AM DIANE MACEDO ABC NEWS LIVE IS HERE FOR YOU ANYTIME WITH THE LATEST NEWS, CONTEXT AND ANALYSIS.

WE’LL BE RIGHT BACK RIGHT HERE . POLICE SAY THE 16 YEAR OLD SHOT BOTH OF HIS PARENTS NOW FRIDAY NIGHT INSIDE THE COURTROOM AND THE SHOCKING EVIDENCE THAT CAME IN JUST DAYS BEFORE THEIR TRIAL BEGAN. YOU GOT TO BE KIDDING ME. WHOSE BLOOD IS THIS? COULDN’T EVEN FATHOM THE IDEA

OF KILLING MY PARENTS EVERY WE THINK POINTS TO HIM. ONLY 20, 20. FRIDAY NIGHT AT 9 P.M. CENTRAL ON ABC. TONIGHT, A WOMAN’S RIGHT TO MAKE HER OWN HEALTH CHOICES WITH ABORTION ACCESS SET TO GO BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT IS A CRISIS BREWING, MORE AMERICANS TURN TO THE MOST WATCHED

PROGRAM ON TELEVISION. “WORLD NEWS TONIGHT” WITH DAVID MUIR. YOU’RE BACK AT IT AGAIN. I NOTHING ELSE TO DO. I GOT TWINS I DON’T LIKE. I GET OUT A HOUSE TOMORROW. GEORGE CLOONEY AND MICHAEL STRAHAN, THE ALL-NEW INTERVIEW PERSON YOU TRADE PLACES WITH FOR A DAY TOMORROW. IT’S A CRAZY 7 MILLION.

>> GOOD MORNING, AMERICA. WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE? >> FROM ABC NEWS. THIS IS “START HERE” TO BE IN THE MALL AND GET A DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE DAY’S TOP STORIES. A LOT OF NEWS TODAY. SO LET’S GET RIGHT TO IT. LISTEN NOW TO THE DAILY NEWS

PODCAST HONORED WITH FOUR EDWARD ARMOR AWARDS AND WHY THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS IT A NEWS PODCAST WORTH LISTENING TO START HERE. ABC NEWS MAKE IT YOUR DAILY FIRST LISTEN. >> NOW, THAT’S A PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING. >> WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS, START HERE.

>> ALL ACROSS THE WORLD, THE WORLD WILL BE CELEBRATING THE NEW YEAR AND YOU CAN SEE IT AS IT HAPPENS RIGHT HERE. GLOBAL CELEBRATIONS SEE THE NEW YEAR AS COMES IN SKI ALL DAY AND NIGHT ON. ABC NEWS LIVE REPORTING ON CAPITOL HILL. I’M DEVIN DWYER WHEREVER THE STORY IS WILL TAKE

YOU THERE YOU’RE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE. I’M DIANE MACEDO TODAY ON ABC NEWS LIVE FOR US NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER JAKE SULLIVAN IS IN TEL AVIV MEETING WITH THE ISRAELI WAR CABINET. THE MESSAGE HE’S SENDING FROM THE WHITE HOUSE, A POWERFUL CROSS-COUNTRY STORM IS BRINGING HEAVY RAIN AND SNOW.

THE TRACK AND TIMING. PLUS, HOW IT COULD IMPACT YOUR HOLIDAY TRAVEL. CELEBRATING 100 YEARS OF DISNEY LEGENDS AND STARS ARE COMING TOGETHER TO TELL THE STORIES BEHIND THE STORY. >> AND WE HAVE A PREVIEW. BUT WE BEGIN WITH NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER JAKE SULLIVAN IN ISRAEL TODAY. HE SAYS HE’S PUSHING FOR

RESTRAINT IN ISRAEL’S WAR WITH HAMAS AS CALLS GROW FOR A HUMANITARIAN CEASE FIRE. THIS COMES AS THE FAMILIES OF HOSTAGES HELD IN GAZA ARE DEMANDING AN URGENT UPDATE FROM PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU. THEY SAY THEY’RE SHOCKED AFTER TV REPORTED NETANYAHU PULLED OUT OF A NEW ROUND OF HOSTAGE NEGOTIATION IS SET TO BEGIN

IN QATAR. FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT JAMES LONGMAN ME NOW FROM TEL AVIV, ISRAEL, ALONG WITH WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT MARYALICE. JAMES, I KNOW YOU SPOKE TO SOME OF THESE FAMILIES WHO ARE ANGRY ABOUT. THESE REPORTS CLAIMING NETANYAHU STOPPED PLANS TO RESTART NEGOTIATIONS. >> WHAT ARE THEY TELLING YOU? YEAH, DIANE, LOOK, THEY SAID

TO SAY THAT THE HOSTAGES FAMILIES HAVE DONE EXTRAORDINARY THINGS OVER THESE LAST FEW WEEKS. AND WE ARRIVED HERE THE DAY AFTER THE ATTACKS ON OCTOBER 7TH. IT REALLY DIDN’T FEEL LIKE IT WAS THE PRIORITY TO GET THESE HOSTAGES BACK. ISRAEL WANTED TO RETALIATE AS QUICKLY AS AND ALSO HIS FAMILY’S BASICALLY

REORIENTATE THAT ISRAELI POLICY . THEY MADE THEM FOCUS ON GETTING THE HOSTAGES OUT AND THEY SUCCEEDED IN LARGE PART. SO MANY DID COME OUT DURING THAT CEASEFIRE. NOW, THE FIGHTING RAGING ONCE AGAIN. AND I THINK THERE HAS BEEN A MOOD THAT WHATEVER SUCCESSES THE HOSTAGE FAMILIES HAD BEFORE, WELL, THAT WAS BEHIND

US AND NOW THE ISRAELI MILITARY IS FREE TO CONTINUE THIS OPERATION. SO THERE IS MOUNTING CONCERN, REALLY MOUNTING SORT OF FRUSTRATION AMONG THE HOSTAGE FAMILIES THAT THEIR PRIORITIES ARE NOT BEING MET AND THAT THESE SORT OF PARALLEL PRIORITIES, THE GOVERNMENT TO BEAT HAMAS, THEY SAY A VICTORY OVER HAMAS AND THE

HOSTAGE HOSTAGES OUT. THE FAMILIES SAY, WELL, YOU CAN’T DO BOTH ONCE YOU HAVE TO CHOOSE. AND FOR THEM, IT’S BRINGING THEIR FAMILIES OUT. I SPOKE TO GAL DICKMAN. HE’S THE COUSIN OF KAMEL, OR SHE HAS BEEN HELD CAPTIVE THESE WEEKS. AND HE TOLD ME THAT, YOU KNOW,

HE WHEN HE READ THIS REPORT, THE HEAD OF MOSSAD THEN STOPPED ,TOO, FROM CONTINUING THESE NEGOTIATIONS. IT MADE HIM INCREDIBLY ANGRY BECAUSE HE HAD BEEN GIVEN A PROMISE BY THE GOVERNMENT THAT THINGS WOULD CHANGE AND THAT THAT WOULD BECOME A PRIORITY. HAVE A LISTEN TO WHAT HE TOLD ME.

>> I WAS I WAS IN SHOCK BECAUSE THE PRIME MINISTER TOLD ME PERSONALLY THAT HE’S GOING TO DO ANYTHING HE CAN TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY COME BACK. I REALLY WANT BELIEVE THEY KEEP ON DOING ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING THEY CAN. BUT IT’S IT’S GETTING VERY HARD THESE DAYS.

BUT I DON’T ANY OTHER PRIME MINISTER OR ANY OTHER CABINET, SO I HAVE TO BELIEVE THEM. >> IT’S THE ONLY THING I CAN BELIEVE. AND IT’S REALLY DIFFICULT FOR ANYONE TO KNOW WHAT’S ACTUALLY HAPPENING WITH THE NEGOTIATIONS. BUT OF COURSE, THE FAMILIES THAT REALLY FEEL THAT SHOULD BE THE PRIORITY.

DIANA ALL RIGHT, MARYALICE. PRESIDENT BIDEN SAYS HIS MEETING WITH THE FAMILIES OF AMERICAN HOSTAGES MOVED HIM. SO HOW IS THE WHITE HOUSE REACTING TO THESE CLAIMS THAT NETANYAHU IS STOPPING NEGOTIATIONS? THAT WE HAVEN’T HEARD MUCH YET, DAN, BUT WE KNOW THAT JAKE SULLIVAN, THE NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER, IS IN THE REGION

AND THIS HAS BEEN SUCH A FOCUS OF THE SINCE THE VERY BEGINNING. THEY’VE SAID IT IS THE TOP PRIORITY, MAKING SURE THAT AMERICAN HOSTAGES ARE BROUGHT HOME. THEY ASSUME THEY ARE THEY ARE TRACKING STILL ABOUT EIGHT AMERICAN INS THAT THEY THINK ARE HELD HOSTAGE. BUT THEY ARE CAREFUL TO TALK

ABOUT HOW THEY DON’T EVEN REALLY KNOW THE CONDITION OF THOSE HOSTAGES. THEY’RE BEING HELD BY HAMAS OR POTENTIALLY OTHER GROUPS. YOU KNOW, I PRESSED THE WHITE HOUSE JUST YESTERDAY ON SOME OTHER REALITIES ON THE GROUND. AND WE’VE HEARD REPORTS OF THE IDF POTENTIALLY FLOODING SOME OF THOSE TUNNELS

THAT HOSTAGES HAVE SAID THAT THEY WERE AND THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN FREED. THE WHITE HOUSE YESTERDAY THAT THEY WERE, OF COURSE, WORRIED ABOUT WHETHER THIS COULD HURT HOSTAGES, PUT HOSTAGES LIVES AT RISK. THIS IS A REALLY TOUGH TIME FOR THE WHITE HOUSE BECAUSE THEY WANT TO BE PRESSURING ISRAEL, LIKE JIM SAID,

TO CONTINUE, BE DOING EVERYTHING THEY CAN TO BE FOCUSED ON THIS. THE WHITE HOUSE IS ABSOLUTELY ON THIS. >> ALL RIGHT, JAMES LONGMAN MARYALICE PARKS, THANK YOU BOTH. >> AND RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN SAYS THERE WILL BE NO PEACE IN UKRAINE UNTIL RUSSIA REACHES ITS GOALS. PUTIN’S COMMENTS CAME DURING

HIS ANNUAL PRESS CONFERENCE, WHICH HAPPENED FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE RUSSIA LAUNCHED ITS INVASION OF UKRAINE. RUSSIAN STATE MEDIA SAYS AT LEAST 2 MILLION QUESTIONS WERE SUBMITTED TO THE EVENT, WHICH LASTED OVER 4 HOURS. ABC’S PATRICK REEVELL JOINS NOW FOR MORE ON THAT. PATRICK PUTIN SAYS RUSSIA’S GOALS HAVEN’T CHANGED

IN UKRAINE, BUT RUSSIA HAS FACED SOME SERIOUS LOSSES THERE. >> WHAT’S THE LATEST? >> HAYDON YEAH, THIS WAS ACTUALLY THE FIRST TIME THAT PUTIN HAS HELD THIS PRESS CONFERENCE IN A YEAR BECAUSE HE SKIPPED IT LAST YEAR WHEN THE WAR IN UKRAINE WAS GOING BADLY. THE FACT THAT HE’S HELD IT

AGAIN NOW SHOWS THAT HE’S FEELING MORE IN CONTROL AND FEELING THAT HE CAN TAKE MORE DIFFICULT QUESTIONS. HE SPOKE A LOT ABOUT THE WAR. HE WAS TRYING TO PROJECT CONFIDENCE AND BASICALLY HE SAID THAT HIS GOALS IN THE WAR HAVE NOT CHANGED SINCE THE BEGINNING OF HIS INVASION.

HE SAID THAT HE STILL WANTS THE DEMILITARIZATION UKRAINE AND THE DE-NAZIFICATION OF UKRAINE, WHICH IS HIS REFERENCE, HIS FALSE CLAIM THAT UKRAINE IS RUN BY . AND WHAT THAT MEANS ULTIMATELY IS THAT HE WANTS THE CAPITULATION OF UKRAINE AND HE WANTS UKRAINE TO FULLY DEMILITARIZE. HE WANTS IT TO GIVE UP ITS

AMBITIONS TO JOIN NATO AND THE EUROPEAN UNION. AND HE REGIME CHANGE. AND I THINK THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT AS WE SEE THIS BATTLE IN THE US AT THE MOMENT, WITH CONGRESS STRUGGLING TO APPROVE MORE AID. WE SEE THAT PUTIN ULTIMATELY RIGHT NOW IS SIGNALING HE DOESN’T WANT REAL NEGOTIATIONS.

HE DOES NOT WANT TO HAVE NEGOTIATIONS ON UKRAINE’S. AND WHAT HE’S SAYING IS THAT HE WANTS TO NEGOTIATE WITH UKRAINE, ONLY TO DISCUSS EFFECTIVELY THE CAPITULATION. I MEAN, AS WE WERE AS WE WERE WATCHING HIM SPEAK, A RUSSIAN HYPERSONIC MISSILE WAS FIRED INTO UKRAINE. APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN TARGETING

AN AIR BASE THERE. THERE’S NO REPORT YET ON WHETHER IT CAUSED ANY DAMAGE OR NOT, BUT IT CLEARLY IS JUST A SIGNAL THAT RIGHT NOW PUTIN FEELS THAT HE’S STARTING TO WIN IN THIS WAR. >> ABC’S PATRICK REEVELL THANKS, PATRICK. MEANWHILE, AID FOR UKRAINE IS STALLED IN CONGRESS

WITH JUST ONE DAY LEFT UNTIL LAWMAKERS LEAVE FOR THE HOLIDAYS. SENATE REPUBLICANS, THEY AREN’T WILLING TO MOVE FORWARD WITHOUT A BORDER DEAL. >> ABC NEWS WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT KAREN TRAVERS JOINS ME NOW. KAREN, YOU TALK WITH RADIO HOSTS ACROSS AMERICA EVERY DAY. WHAT ARE YOU HEARING FROM THEM ABOUT THIS ISSUE, DIANE?

>> THIS IS A BIG TOPIC FOR MANY RADIO HOSTS ACROSS THE COUNTRY BECAUSE WE’RE TALKING ABOUT $100 BILLION OF TAXPAYER MONEY THAT THE PRESIDENT HAS ASKED CONGRESS TO APPROVE. AND THIS IS NOW AT A STALEMATE BECAUSE OF THAT BORDER SECURITY POLICY ISSUE THAT REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS ARE WORKING TO NEGOTIATE.

THE BIG QUESTIONS I KEEP GETTING ASKED ARE WHAT WILL IT TAKE TO BREAK THAT STALEMATE? HOW MUCH FUNDING IS LEFT FOR UKRAINE AND WHAT CAN ADMINISTRATION CONTINUE TO DO OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF WEEKS UNLESS ACTS? I ASKED THE WHITE HOUSE YESTERDAY HOW MUCH IS LEFT AT THIS POINT AND ARE

THEY RATIONING THE AID THAT THEY’RE GIVING TO UKRAINE RIGHT. TO TRY AND MAKE IT STRETCH A LITTLE BIT LONGER? AND THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY, KARINE JEAN-PIERRE, ME, THEY HAVE BILLION DOLLARS LEFT THAT THEY CAN USE TO REPLENISH THE STOCKPILES THAT THEY’VE BEEN TURNING TO TO GIVE UKRAINE SECURITY ASSISTANCE.

>> AND SHE SAID, YES, THEY HAVE BEEN MAKING SMALLER PACKAGES AND TRYING TO MAKE THEM STRETCH OUT AS LONG AS THEY CAN TO MAKE THE AID LAST FOR UKRAINE, KNOWING THAT RIGHT NOW IT IS NOT LOOKING FOR THAT ASSISTANCE GETTING PASSED ON CAPITOL HILL BECAUSE OF THE BORDER SECURITY ISSUE.

>> DAN, HAS THE WHITE HOUSE SAID THEY MIGHT BE ABLE TO FIND A COMPROMISE HERE? >> THEY HAVE NOT GIVEN DETAILS ABOUT WHERE THE PRESIDENT WOULD COMPROMISE ON THE BORDER POLICY ISSUE, SAYING THAT THEY WILL NOT NEGOTIATE THIS ISSUE IN PUBLIC. THE PRESIDENT HIMSELF HAS SAID MULTIPLE TIMES THAT HE HAS

OFFERED COMPROMISE, THAT HE HAS REACHED OUT TO LAWMAKERS AND SAID THAT HE WOULD BE WILLING TO MEET ON THIS ISSUE. BUT WE DON’T HAVE DETAILS. NOW, THE WHITE HOUSE HAS BECOME MORE ENGAGED IN THE LAST TWO DAYS ON THIS, SENDING SENIOR, INCLUDING THE HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY, ALEJANDRO MAYORKAS, UP TO CAPITOL HILL

TO SIT DOWN WITH THE LEAD NEGOTIATORS. AND WE HEARD NIGHT FROM THE LEAD SENATE REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS ON THIS THAT THERE WAS ACTUALLY PROGRESS MADE. THEY WOULDN’T SAY SPECIFICALLY WHAT IS ON THE TABLE RIGHT NOW AND WHETHER THEY’RE GETTING CLOSE TO ACTUALLY HAVING SOME LEGISLATIVE TEXT, BUT DID SAY THERE WAS PROGRESS

AND CONVERSATIONS ARE MOVING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION. BUT, DIANE, AS YOU NOTED, THEY’RE SUPPOSED TO BE LEAVING TOWN TODAY, TOMORROW FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF WEEKS. IT DOES NOT LOOK LIKELY THAT THEY COULD GET THIS DONE IN TIME TO GET THE AID PASSED BY THE END OF THE YEAR, WHICH

IS THE DEADLINE THAT WHITE HOUSE WANTED THEM TO DO. >> ALL RIGHT. WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT KAREN TRAVERS, THANK YOU. >> AND RUDY GIULIANI’S ATTORNEY, HE WILL NOT TESTIFY IN THE DEFAMATION TRIAL AGAINST HIM. THE FORMER TRUMP ATTORNEY WAS EXPECTED TO TESTIFY TODAY AFTER THE TWO GEORGIA ELECTION WORKERS SUING HIM RESTED THEIR CASE.

SEAMUS TESTIFIED ABOUT THE ORDEAL THAT SHE SAYS LEFT HER WITH A MAJOR DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, SAYING GIULIANI’S ACCUSATIONS LIMITED HER JOB PROSPECTS, EXPOSED HER FAMILY TO RACIST, AND MADE HER FEAR FOR HER LIFE. SENIOR REPORTER KATHERINE FAULDERS JOINS ME NOW FOR MORE. CATHERINE, HOW SIGNIFICANT IS THIS DECISION NOT TESTIFY

AND HOW IS THE DEFENSE MAKING THEIR CASE WITHOUT, HIS TESTIMONY? >> WELL, THE SHORT, DIANE, TO THAT IS THEY’RE NOT MAKING A CASE WITHOUT HIS TESTIMONY. IN FACT, THEY DIDN’T CALL ANY WITNESSES. GIULIANI ISN’T TESTIFYING. THE DEFENSE HAS RESTED. THEY’RE NOW AND CLOSING ARGUMENTS CURRENTLY INSIDE THIS COURTHOUSE.

I WILL SAY THAT THE DECISION FOR GIULIANI TO NOT TESTIFY IS SIGNIFICANT IN THE SENSE THAT HE HAS BEEN SPEAKING OUTSIDE THIS COURTHOUSE, THAT THE JUDGE WHO IS OVERSEEING THIS TRIAL HAS ADMONISHED HIM FOR SPEAKING OUTSIDE THIS COURTHOUSE, HAS SAID THAT HE IS MAKING MORE DEFAMATORY COMMENTS. AND IT’S SIGNIFICANT THAT HE’S

TALKING OUTSIDE AND NOT INSIDE INSIDE. HE’S UNDER OATH BEFORE A JUDGE OUTSIDE. HE’S CONTINUING TO SAY THAT HE BELIEVES WHAT HE SAID ABOUT THESE TWO WOMEN, RUDY FRUMIN AND SEAMUS, IN THE WAKE OF THAT 2020 ELECTION. HE’S, OF COURSE, ACCUSED THEM WITHOUT ANY EVIDENCE OF OVERTURNING SOME BALLOTS IN FULTON COUNTY, GEORGIA

OF TAMPERING WITH BALLOTS ON ELECTION DAY. HE SAID OUTSIDE COURT, HE STILL BELIEVES THAT. WE KNOW THAT HIS LAWYERS HAVE SAID THAT THEY INTEND TO APPEAL THE DECISION HERE IS TODAY, BUT WE DO KNOW THAT HE WON’T BE SPEAKING AND TAKING THE STAND UNDER OATH IN COURT. >> CATHERINE, THE JUDGE ALREADY

AWARDED A DEFAULT JUDGMENT HERE. SO IT’S JUST A QUESTION OF WHAT DAMAGES AND PENALTIES GIULIANI WILL HAVE TO PAY. WHAT STOOD OUT TO YOU FROM SEAMUS, HIS TESTIMONY AND HOW THE PLAINTIFFS HAVE MADE THEIR CASE HERE? RIGHT. IT WAS EMOTIONAL TESTIMONY FROM BOTH WOMEN. SEAMUS IN PARTICULAR, HAVING

TO LEAVE HER JOB, CHANGED THE WAY SHE LOOKED. SHE TALKED ABOUT THE REPUTATIONAL HARM, HOW SHE DIDN’T KNOW HOW TO REPAIR HER REPUTATION, GIVEN THAT GIULIANI WAS SAYING THESE THINGS THAT WEREN’T TRUE PUBLICLY ABOUT HER, IT WAS EMOTIONAL SHE HELD BACK TEARS, DID WAS DID CRY AT TIMES HERE. SO BOTH WOMEN TESTIFIED

AND JUST HAVE TO SEE ULTIMATELY WHAT HAPPENS WITH THIS NUMBER. LAWYERS DID SAY THE LAWYERS REPRESENTING A MASSIVE WOMEN DID SAY THAT BOTH WOMEN ARE EACH ENTITLED TO $24 MILLION EACH. THAT’S WHAT THIS IS ABOUT, AS YOU MENTIONED. HOW MUCH EXACTLY GIULIANI BE PAYING IN DAMAGES? ALL RIGHT. SENIOR REPORTER CATHERINE IN

WASHINGTON, THANK YOU. >> COMING UP, POWERFUL STORM MAKING ITS WAY ACROSS THE COUNTRY. WE HAVE THE TIMING AND, POSSIBLE IMPACT ON HOLIDAY TRAVEL. ALSO AHEAD, THE GROUP WORKING TO MAKE TRAVEL SMOOTHER FOR PEOPLE WITH AUTISM. THE CHANGES THEY WANT AIRLINES AND HOTELS TO IMPLEMENT WHENEVER NEWS BREAKS.

>> WE ARE HERE IN ISRAEL NATION AT WAR. AFTER THAT BRUTAL SURPRISE ATTACK BY HAMAS ON THE GROUND IN UKRAINE. >> REPORTING FROM LEWISTON, MAINE, THE SCENE OF A HORRIFIC MASS SHOOTING. ABC NEWS LIVE IS RIGHT THERE EVERYWHERE FROM THE SCENE OF THAT DEADLY MISSILE STRIKE IN UKRAINE. UKRAINE REPORTING FROM

THE EARTHQUAKE IN TURKEY IN ROLLING FORTH. THIS TORNADO TORE THROUGH THIS LITTLE TOWN. THE MOST DEVASTATING DISASTER IN HAWAII. FROM CHARLESTON, CAROLINA, ON THE 2024 CAMPAIGN TRAIL IN ICELAND. LET’S GO TRAVELING WITH THE PRESIDENT IN MEXICO CITY WHERE THE STORY IS ON THE FRONT LINES FROM SOUTHERN ISRAEL OUTSIDE

THE GAZA STRIP IN FROM THE FBI. REPORTING FROM A NURSE IS ON THE PICKET LINE HERE AT TEN DOWNING STREET IN LONDON STREAMING LIVE TO YOU WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WE’RE GOING TO TAKE YOU THERE. WE’RE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE, ABC NEWS LIVE,

YOU’RE STREAMING, ABC NEWS LIVE, ABC NEWS LIVE STREAMING EVERYWHERE. AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. >> THERE’S A LOT GOING. EVERYBODY IN THAT HOME IS OKAY TO CATCH YOU UP WITH WHAT HAPPENED. WE ARE HERE AT FASHION’S BIGGEST NIGHT OUT. WHAT’S HAPPENING TODAY?

YOUTUBE HAS UNVEILED A NEW SET OF POLICIES. WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE NEW AD CAMPAIGN FAST STRAIGHT FORWARD WITH SOME FUN IN BETWEEN A REAL LIFE BARBIE DREAM HOUSE, A NAME CHANGE THE WIENERMOBILE FIRST THING IN THE MORNING AMERICA THIS MORNING, AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE EARLY MORNING NEWS ON ABC NEWS LIVE.

>> WHAT DO YOU SO MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE FROM ABC NEWS THIS IS “START HERE” TO BE IN THE KNOW AND GET A DIFFERENT TAKE ON DAY’S TOP STORIES A LOT OF NEWS TODAY SO LET’S GET INTO IT. LISTEN NOW TO THE DAILY NEWS PODCAST HONORED WITH FOUR

EDWARD R MURROW AND SEE WHY THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS IT A NEWS PODCAST. LISTENING TO YOU STAR HERE, ABC NEWS, MAKE IT YOUR DAILY FIRST LISTEN. >> NOW, THAT’S THE PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING. >> WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS, START HERE.

>> WELCOME BACK TO ABC NEWS LIVE. FIRST, A POWERFUL STORM MAKING ITS WAY ACROSS THE COUNTRY. UP TO SIX INCHES OF SNOW FELL IN PARTS OF COLORADO AND NEW MEXICO, WREAKING HAVOC ON THE ROADS. NOW THAT SYSTEM IS EXPECTED TO MOVE SOUTH, BRINGING RAIN TO TEXAS AND THE GULF COAST.

ABC SAM CHAMPION IS TRACKING IT ALL FOR US. >> SAM, WE HAVE NOT BEEN SO LUCKY WITH BIG STORMS AND THE TIMING OF BIG TRAVEL. AND HERE WE GO AGAIN WITH THE STORM THAT IT CAN IMPACT AND WILL LIKELY SOME AREA AIRPORTS . SO LET’S TALK ABOUT THIS

AS IT’S A BIG SNOWMAKER IN THE SOUTHERN ROCKIES. THIS IS ABOUT INCHES OF SNOW IN COLORADO SPRINGS. COME ON, COLORADO, WE COULD DO BETTER THAT WE KNOW HOW TO DRIVE. WE’RE NEAR DENVER. WE KNOW HOW TO DRIVE IN SNOW. SO ANYWAY, AS THAT PULLS OUT, IT’S JUST A GARDEN VARIETY LOW

WITH SOME RAIN ALONG IT IN TEXAS. BUT LOOK AT WHERE THIS REALLY CHANGES AND GAME ON THIS LOW FROM THE GULF SPREADS THIS RAIN INTO FLORIDA. I’M GOING TO SHOW YOU IN A MINUTE HOW FLORIDA’S ALREADY BEEN IMPACTED, BUT THIS IS SOME BIG TIME HEAVY RAIN.

THAT KIND OF TIMES ITSELF TO BE SUNDAY, EARLY MORNING FOR NORTH FLORIDA TOWARD, THE ATLANTA AIRPORT. THEN BY SUNDAY AFTERNOON, IT’S THE RALEIGH AREA. THEN BY THE TIME WE GET INTO MONDAY MORNING, WE’RE TALKING ALL FIVE AREA AIRPORTS IN NEW YORK ON INTO BOSTON WITH SOME HEAVY WIND, RAIN.

NOW, THIS IS WHAT FLORIDA HAS BEEN DEALING WITH, WITH KIND OF A STALLED STATIONARY FRONT RIGHT THERE. >> SO EVEN BEFORE THE STORM, BIG STORM WINDS UP AND GETS THERE. THEY’VE SOME WIND AND SOME RAIN. >> AND THIS IS JUST GOING TO MAKE IT EVEN FOR THEM BECAUSE WE’LL SEE UP TO TEN

INCHES OF RAIN AS A TOTAL IN SOME OF FLORIDA. AND WE’VE GOT THOSE WIND ADVISORIES OUT. YOU’RE GOING TO HAVE WINDS UP TO 45 MILES PER HOUR AND SOME WAVES WILL APPROACH LIKE THAT, 13 FOOT MARK. SO THAT’S PRETTY TOUGH FOR THE COAST OF FLORIDA. THEN LOOK HOW THESE RAINFALL TOTALS GO.

ANYWHERE FROM 5 TO 10 INCHES OF RAIN ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS. LOOK AT THE NEW YORK AREA. AIRPORTS JUST A LITTLE BIT NORTH. AND AGAIN, DON’T HOLD US EXACTLY TO THIS BECAUSE WE’RE STILL IN THE MODELS HERE WITH ABOUT 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN. SO A LOT OF THESE AREAS

AND AIRPORTS ARE IMPACTED IN THIS TRAVEL. WE’LL BE WATCHING IT, DIANE. >> ALL RIGHT. ABC’S SAM CHAMPION. THANK YOU. AND THAT STORM COULD IMPACT THE EARLY START TO HOLIDAY TRAVEL. AIRLINES ARE GETTING READY. A RECORD BREAKING NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO ARE EXPECTED TO FLY FROM NOW UNTIL THE END OF THE YEAR.

ABC NEWS TRANSPORTATION CORRESPONDENT GIO BENITEZ IS AT LAGUARDIA WITH MORE. >> HI, JOE. HEY THERE. WE’RE NOT JUST ABOUT A SLIGHT INCREASE IN TRAVELERS HERE. WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE BUSIEST TRAVEL PERIOD EVER DURING THE HOLIDAYS. TAKE A LOOK AT THESE NUMBERS BECAUSE TRIPLE. THEY EXPECT SOME 7.5 MILLION DOMESTIC TRAVELERS BETWEEN

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23RD THROUGH MONDAY, JANUARY 1ST. THAT’S MORE THAN 2019. THE U.S. AIRLINES EXPECT TO SELL 39 MILLION SEATS DOMESTICALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY FROM NEXT WEDNESDAY INTO THE NEW YEAR. >> BUT YOU’LL REMEMBER, YOU’LL REMEMBER THAT SOUTHWEST MELTDOWN LAST DECEMBER WHEN ALMOST 17,000 FLIGHTS WERE CANCELED. PEOPLE WERE STRANDED ALL OVER THE PLACE.

SOUTHWEST SAID THE WEATHER CAUSED IT, BUT IT WAS THE ONLY AIRLINE HIT HARD BECAUSE PLANES AND CREWS, THEY WERE JUST IN THE WRONG PLACE. NOW, WE’VE TALKING ABOUT THAT ROUGH WEATHER IN MAJOR CITIES WITH MAJOR AIRPORTS. THAT’S AIRLINES ARE WORRIED ABOUT NOW, IN NO SMALL PART BECAUSE OF THE SHORTAGE IN AIR

TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS. UNITED SAYS, THOUGH, IT IS WELL-PREPARED WITH MORE THAN 150 DEICING TRUCKS AND 15,000 NEW HIRES BY THE END OF THE YEAR. AND YOU JUST CAN’T FORGET THE ROADS. TRIPLE-A EXPECTS NEARLY 104 MILLION PEOPLE TO DRIVE OVER THE HOLIDAYS. AND THAT WEATHER, OF COURSE, IMPACT THE TRIP.

NOW, IF YOU ARE DRIVING, TRY TO AVOID BEST YOU CAN SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23RD, BECAUSE THAT WILL BE THE BUSIEST, DIANE. >> ALL RIGHT. ABC NEWS TRANSPORTATION CORRESPONDENT GIO BENITEZ, THANKS FOR THAT DEAL. AND AN ORGANIZATION IS TRYING TO MAKE THIS HOLIDAY TRAVEL SEASON LESS STRESSFUL FOR THOSE WITH AUTISM. AUTISM DOUBLE CHECKED

IS PROVIDING THE TRAVEL INDUSTRY WITH TOOLS FOR TAKING CARE OF PEOPLE WITH SPECIAL NEEDS. >> TAKE A LOOK. THERE ARE NOT VERY MANY ORGANIZATIONS TODAY THAT THE AUTISTIC COMMUNITY TO BE ABLE TO TO TRAVEL, TRAVEL CAN BE A STRESSFUL EXPERIENCE AND THE AUTISTIC COMMUNITY TO BE ABLE

TO HAVE THEM LEARN WHAT IT IS TO GO THROUGH THIS PROCESS. JUST AMAZING THING TO BE ABLE TO WATCH THESE YOUNG PEOPLE. OLSON DOUBLE CHECKS IS AN ORGANIZATION THAT TACKLES TRAVEL WITH AUTISM TO ASPECTS. GET THE TRAVEL INDUSTRY READY FOR THE AUTISM COMMUNITY. GET THE AUTISM COMMUNITY READY FOR THE TRAVEL INDUSTRY.

WHAT WE’RE DOING TODAY IS AN AUTISM FLIES EVENT. AND THIS EVENT IS REALLY BOTH SIDES OF THAT EQUATION. BEING ABLE TO IT INTO PRACTICE. ALL RIGHT. MY CO-FOUNDER AND I, LIFELONG TRAVEL PROFESSIONALS. BOTH ARE SPECIAL NEEDS. WE WERE LOOKING AT THE STATE OF THE INDUSTRIES AND THE

INDUSTRY WASN’T READY TO CATER TO PEOPLE WITH SPECIAL NEEDS. AND IT WAS ONE OF THOSE THINGS THAT SOMEBODY HAS TO DO IT. IT PROBABLY HAS TO BE US HERE AT THE EVENTS WE. GIVE THEM EVERY COMPONENT OF IT EXCEPT THE ACTUAL FLIGHT. THEY’RE GOING TO COME. THEY’RE GOING TO CHECK IN.

THEY WILL GET A GAME PASS JUST A BOARDING PASS FOR A REAL FLIGHT THAT WILL GO THROUGH AN ACTUAL TSA LINE. THEY’LL HAVE TO BE SCREENED, GO THROUGH THE METAL DETECTOR. THEN THEY’LL COME TO THE GATE AND THEY WILL BE CALLED. >> WE WILL BE STARTING THE BOARDING PROCESS IN JUST

A FEW MINUTES. AND I SAID, I’VE EVER BEEN ON A PLANE, A TERRIFIED HAND. SO WHEN THE FLIES CAME UP, IT WAS SUCH A WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY. IT WAS VERY, VERY NERVOUS. I IT TOOK US ABOUT 30 MINUTES TO GET THROUGH SECURITY. COMING BACK FOR A SECOND TIME WITH JAKE, WE WALKED THROUGH.

HE HANDLED IT LIKE A CHAMP, DID NOT CRY, AND IT CAME THROUGH PRETTY QUICKLY. OUR HOPE WITH THIS IS THAT THE MORE WE DO THIS AND THE MORE OTHER AIRLINES SEE US DOING THIS. AND IT’S NOT JUST AIRLINES, IT’S HOTELS AND IT’S AIRPORTS AND IT’S THE ENTIRE SORT OF TRAVEL ECOSYSTEM THAT REALLY

CATCHES ON. WE WOULD LOVE FOR EVERY AIRLINE TO BE ABLE TO DO THIS, AND I THINK WE’D ALL BETTER FOR IT. THE INSPIRATION EVERY DAY IS WHAT WE FROM FAMILIES. THANK YOU FOR DOING THIS. THIS IS SO AWESOME. JUST PEOPLE REALLY, REALLY APPRECIATE IT. AND TO SEE THIS MADE

A DIFFERENCE FOR THEM IS ALL THE MOTIVATION TO WALK. >> THANKS TO OUR FRIENDS AT “GMA3” FOR THAT STORY. >> COMING UP, CELEBRATING 100 YEARS OF DISNEY LEGENDS AND STARS ARE TOGETHER TO TELL THE STORIES BEHIND THE STORY. WE HAVE A PREVIEW NEXT. >> TONIGHT, A WOMAN’S RIGHT TO

MAKE HER OWN HEALTH CHOICES WITH PILL ACCESS SET TO GO BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT IS CRISIS BREWING, MORE AMERICANS TURN TO THE MOST WATCHED PROGRAM ON TELEVISION. “WORLD NEWS TONIGHT”, DAVID MUIR, YOU’RE BACK IT AGAIN. I’VE GOT NOTHING ELSE TO DO. I GOT TWINS. I DON’T LIKE A HOUSE. TOMORROW, GEORGE CLOONEY,

MICHAEL STRAHAN, THE ALL-NEW INTERVIEW PERSON YOU’D TRADE PLACES WITH FOR A DAY TOMORROW . >> IT’S A CRAZY. SAY ME ON GOOD MORNING AMERICA MAN WITH THE GOOD VIBES BUT JUST SOME LAUGHS YEAH THAT’S SO FAR A LITTLE BIT OF SUNSHINE ON SOME OF THESE LITTLE BITS. MY LITTLE ONE.

>> I’M GOING TO END. >> GOOD MORNING AMERICA. ALL ACROSS THE GLOBE THE WORLD WILL BE CELEBRATING THE NEW YEAR. AND YOU CAN SEE AS IT HAPPENS LIVE, THE GLOBAL CELEBRATIONS, SEE THE NEW YEAR AS IT COMES IN STREAMING ALL AND NIGHT ON BBC NEWS LIVE, ABC NEWS LIVE

PRIME WINNER OF THE GRACIE AWARD FOR BEST NEWS PROGRAM IN ALL OF TELEVISION STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE PRIME WITH LINSEY DAVIS WEEKNIGHTS ON ABC NEWS LIVE. >> YOU HAVE. >> I WAS TERRIFIED. IT WAS JUST SO TRAUMATIC. NIGHTMARE. PEOPLE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THESE WERE WANTED BABIES FACING LIFE

AND DEATH, MEDICAL CONDITIONS, THEIR LIVES NOW OUT OF THEIR CONTROL. >> I FELT LIKE I WAS GOING TO DIE. OUR LIVES AND OUR HEALTH ARE DEBATABLE. I WOULDN’T WISH THIS UPON MY WORST ENEMY. >> DIANE SAWYER RACHEL SCOTT ON THE BRINK NOW STREAMING ON HULU. >> I’M REBECCA JARVIS REPORTING

FROM THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE. AND WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WE’LL TAKE YOU THERE YOU’RE STREAMING ABC NEWS BY. WELCOME BACK TO ABC LIVE FOR US. WE ARE CELEBRATING THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF OUR PARENT COMPANY, DISNEY. DISNEY LEGENDS AND STARS ARE COMING TOGETHER TO TELL THE STORIES BEHIND STORY

ONE CENTURY IN THE MAKING. CHRIS CONNELLY HAS IT ALL IN OUR TWO HOUR SPECIAL EDITION OF 2020, AND WE’VE GOT A PREVIEW OF ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF THE WALT DISNEY COMPANY. >> STORIED HISTORY. IN 2 HOURS, NO PRESSURE, CHALLENGE ACCEPTED. LET’S GO. AND IT’S ALL HERE. THE MEMORIES PIRATES CARIBBEAN.

>> IT’S THE BEST RIDE I’VE EVER BEEN ON THE MAGIC. >> I LOVED SNOW I WAS SO. >> AND THE MAN WHO MADE IT ALL POSSIBLE AS YOU’VE NEVER HIM BEFORE. MY GREATEST REWARD, I THINK, IS THAT I’VE BEEN TO BUILD THIS WONDERFUL ORGANIZATION AND ALSO TO HAVE THE PUBLIC APPRECIATE

AND ACCEPT WHAT I’VE DONE ALL THESE YEARS, THAT THAT IS A GREAT MONUMENTAL GENTLEMAN. >> HIS DREAMS WERE LARGER THAN MOST PEOPLE’S NIGHT’S DOCUMENTARY EVENT, CHOCK FULL OF DISNEY LEGENDS SHARING, THEIR SECRETS. >> I DIDN’T KNOW HOW TO DANCE, SO I JUST FAINTED THAT THEY HAD A TREASURE TROVE OF DISNEY.

DID YOU KNOW WHAT EVEN DID MICKEY’S VOICE EARLY? WHAT DO YOU WANT TO GET TO KNOW ME NOW AND THE WAYS IN WHICH THAT IS. >> THE UNIVERSE HAS EXPANDED THROUGH THE YEARS. YOU TO BE A PART OF SOMETHING LIKE BLACK PANTHER REALLY CHANGES WHAT IS POSSIBLE

WITH BLACK IN HOLLYWOOD HAS BEEN MONUMENTAL. WE’LL TAKE INSIDE THE VAULT. >> THE FUNNY FACE IS SNAZZY HE HAS HAY FEVER ACROSS THE GLOBE, AND ALONG THE WAY RELIVE THE STORIES AND EXPERIENCES THAT GENERATION. AFTER GENERATION HAVE ENJOYED TOGETHER. THANKS TO WALT AND THE MANY IN HIS HEART, THAT WAS

HIS SECRET THAT HE WAS STILL A CHILD INSIDE. AND CHRIS CONNELLY JOINS ME NOW FOR MORE ON THIS. CHRIS,HAT DO YOU THINK THIS 100 YEAR MARK MEANS FOR WALT DISNEY, HIS LEGACY AND FOR THE COMPANY? DIANE, I THINK IF YOU IMAGINE EVERYTHING THAT WALT DISNEY HIMSELF, THAT EVERYTHING

THAT WAS CREATED BY CREATIVE PEOPLE AND EXECUTIVES THE YEARS AFTERWARDS, YOU THINK OF ALL THE AMAZING FRANCHISES THAT THE WALT DISNEY COMPANY ACQUIRED, ALL OF IT CAN SIT UNDER ONE ROOF. >> THAT’S CREATIVE AND STORYTELLING, INNOVATION AND A SENSE OF OPTIMISM. >> ALSO, THE IDEA THAT DISNEY STORIES AND EXPERIENCES ARE FOR

EVERYONE IN THE WORLD TO ENJOY. I THINK THOSE ARE THE VALUES THAT ENDURE AND PREVAIL. SO WHAT ELSE WILL WE SEE IN THE SPECIAL TONIGHT, CHRIS? WELL, THERE’S OF STUFF THAT I DIDN’T KNOW THAT I WAS FASCINATED TO LEARN. YOU TAKE SOMETHING LIKE SNOW WHITE, IMAGINE ANY CREATIVE ENDEAVOR IN THE HOLLYWOOD

BUSINESS THAT WAS LIKE AVATAR OR STAR WARS SNOW. >> IT WAS BIT ITS EQUAL IN TERMS OF CHALLENGE. PEOPLE LIKE STEVE ADMIRED SNOW WHITE IN PARTICULAR BECAUSE IT WAS SUCH A MONUMENTAL UNDERTAKING WITH ITS TECHNOLOGY AND ITS CREATIVITY. YOU IMAGINE SOMETHING LIKE THE WAY THAT WALT HELPED TO FUND THE CREATION

OF DISNEYLAND BY CREATING TELEVISION PRODUCT FOR ABC. THAT’S HOW THE MICKEY MOUSE CLUB GOT STARTED ORIGINALLY. AND YOU TAKE SOMETHING LIKE THAT FANTASTIC SONG, LET IT GO HEAR ABOUT HOW IT’S CREATION AND IT’S WONDERFUL PERFORMANCE FROM IDINA CHANGED THE COURSE OF WHAT FROZEN WAS ALL ABOUT. SO EVERY MOMENT IN THIS SPECIAL

HAS SOME SORT OF INSIGHT ABOUT DISNEY THAT YOU MAY HAVE NEVER HEARD BEFORE. >> SO CHRIS, IN ALL OF THIS AND YOUR OWN EXPERIENCE, LIKE SO MANY OF, WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE DISNEY MOMENT? >> WELL, I YOU KNOW, FAVORITE DISNEY SHOW OF ALL TIME ON DISNEY CHANNEL. IS KIM POSSIBLE AND AM PLEASED

TO SAY THAT WE’VE GOT CHRISTY CARLSON ROMANO TALKING ABOUT THAT SHOW BUT YOU KNOW JUST A FEW BLOCKS AWAY FROM WHERE YOU ARE I SAW MARY POPPINS AS A KID AND I WOUND UP IN MY THIRD GRADE GLEE CLUB SINGING, THE ENTIRE SCORE TO OUR PARENTS.

SO I GO BACK A LONG WAY DISNEY CONTENT DIET. >> I LOVE IT. CHRIS CONNOLLY, THANKS FOR AND FOR MORE OF YOUR FAVORITE STARS AND AN EXCLUSIVE LOOK AT A BRAND NEW DISNEY ATTRACTION. WATCH DISNEY 100 A CENTURY OF DREAMS AIRING TONIGHT AT 9 P.M. EASTERN ON ABC AND THEN

STREAMING ON HULU AND DISNEY PLUS. THANKS FOR STREAMING WITH US. I’M DIANE MACEDO, ABC LIVE IS HERE FOR YOU ANYTIME WITH THE LATEST NEWS, CONTEXT AND ANALYSIS, YOU CAN ALWAYS FIND US ON VARIOUS STREAMING SERVICES, THE ABC NEWS APP AND OF COURSE ON ABCNEWS.COM. THE NEWS NEVER STOPS. WE’LL BE RIGHT BACK.

WHENEVER WHEREVER NEWS BREAKS. >> IT’S SO IMPORTANT TO ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT LIVES ARE CHANGED HERE IN LONDON, IN BUFFALO, UVALDE, TEXAS. EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND. REPORTING FROM ROLLING FORK, MISSISSIPPI, THE UKRAINIAN REFUGEE IS HERE IN WARSAW. WE’RE HEADING TO A SMALL COMMUNITY OUTSIDE OF MEXICO CITY. THANK YOU. BEHIND THE STORIES AS THEY

HAPPEN, ABC NEWS LIVE FROM WILL TAKE YOU THERE STREAM ABC NEWS LIVE WHEREVER YOU STREAMING NEWS ME ON ABC NEWS LIVE TONIGHT A WOMAN’S RIGHT TO MAKE HER OWN HEALTH CHOICES. ABORTION PILL ACCESS SET TO GO BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT IS A CRISIS BREWING. MORE AMERICANS TURN TO THE MOST

WATCHED ON TELEVISION. “WORLD NEWS TONIGHT”, DAVID MUIR WHEN THE ANNOUNCER CALLS MY NAME THE WORLD ALMOST FADES AWAY. IT’S THE BIGGEST IT’S THE MOST FAMOUS. IT NEVER IS. WELCOME TO THE WORLD’S GREATEST DOPE SHOW. THE COMPETITION IN DOG DANCING IS VERY DIFFERENT HERE. DOG HAS ITS DAY ON THE DANCE FLOOR.

DANCING. MY DOG IS THE CLOSEST THING TO MAGIC. OH, WINNER. OH 2023 THE SECRET LIFE OF DANCING DOGS NOW STREAMING ON HULU. ARE YOU READY? LET’S DO IT. YES IT’S THE SHOW AMERICA WANTS AND AMERICA NEEDS RIGHT NOW? THIS IS WHAT WOULD YOU DO NOW? RIGHT. LET’S GO.

HOW ARE YOU? YOU? YEAH. WHAT WILL YOU BE WATCHING SATURDAY IS ON ABC NEWS LIVE WHAT WOULD DO? I GUESS I’VE JUST FOUND OUT. WOULD YOU DO MARATHON 2 TO 6 EASTERN EVERY SATURDAY? >> ABC NEWS LIVE MY FAVORITE SHOW. >> WHAT DO YOU SEE? MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY

HERE AT ABC NEWS. THIS IS STARTING TO BE IN THE NEWS AND GET A DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE DAYS. STORIES START HERE. THAT’S THE PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING IT YOUR DAILY FIRST LISTEN WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS ,YOU’RE WATCHING AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS LIVE

REPORTING, BREAKING NEW EXCLUSIVES. >> KEEP STREAMING WITH ABC NEWS LIVE, ABC NEWS, AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE SOURCE. I’M DYING TO SEE YOU TODAY ON ABC NEWS LIVE. FIRST, NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER JAKE SULLIVAN IS IN TEL AVIV MEETING THE ISRAELI WAR CABINET. THE MESSAGE HE’S SENDING FROM THE WHITE HOUSE.

HOUSE REPUBLICANS APPROVE AN IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY INTO PRESIDENT BIDEN. HOW THE WHITE HOUSE IS RESPONDING AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR THE PRESIDENT THE 32 YEAR OLD SOCIAL WORKER ACCUSED OF POSING AS A HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT. THE CHARGES SHE’S NOW FACING AFTER INVESTIGATORS SAY SHE WAS ENROLLED IN THREE SEPARATE SCHOOLS.

>> WE BEGIN WITH NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER JAKE SULLIVAN IN ISRAEL. HE SAYS HE’S PUSHING FOR RESTRAINT IN ISRAEL’S WAR WITH HAMAS. AS CALLS GROW FOR A HUMANITARIAN CEASE FIRE. THOSE MEETINGS EXPECTED TO BE TENSE AS THE WHITE HOUSE STRUGGLES TO CLARIFY THE PRESIDENT’S ACCUSATION OF INDISCRIMINATE BOMBING BY ISRAEL.

CHIEF WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT MARY HAS THE LATEST. >> PRESIDENT BIDEN’S NATIONAL SECURITY TOUCHING DOWN IN ISRAEL. JAKE SULLIVAN MEETING WITH ISRAELI PRIME NETANYAHU AND HIS WAR CABINET, URGING THEM TO SHOW IN THEIR WAR AGAINST HAMAS. THE MEETINGS COME AS PRESIDENT IS STEPPING UP HIS CRITICISM OF ISRAEL’S MILITARY CAMPAIGN.

>> THE PRESIDENT THIS WEEK ACCUSING ISRAEL OF INDISCRIMINANT BOMBING IN GAZA AND SAYING THEY’RE LOSING SUPPORT BECAUSE OF IT. THE WHITE HOUSE NOW TRYING TO DOWNPLAY REMARKS, REFUSING TO SAY IF THE PRESIDENT’S STATEMENT WAS A FORMAL ASSESSMENT OR OFFHAND REMARK AND STRUGGLING TO EXPLAIN THE U.S. WOULD CONTINUE TO RUSH

MILITARY AID TO A COUNTRY THINKS IS ENGAGED IN INDISCRIMINATE ATTACKS. ABC’S MARYALICE PARKS PRESSING SPOKESMAN JOHN KIRBY. >> IF THE PRESIDENT BELIEVES ISRAEL IS ENGAGING IN INDISCRIMINATE BOMBING WHEN ALL FROM THE U.S. TO PUT NEW CONDITIONS ON MILITARY AID ,EVERY BIT OF SECURITY ASSISTANCE WE GIVE ANY OTHER COUNTRY ALWAYS COMES WITH THE

EXPECTATION THAT THE LAW OF ARMED CONFLICT IS GOING TO BE RESPECTED AND OBEYED. THEY AREN’T THAT. ISN’T THERE AN OBLIGATION FOR THE U.S. TO CHANGE THE WAY THAT IT’S DELIVERING MILITARY AID? THAT’S A HYPOTHETICAL THAT I’M NOT PREPARED ENGAGE IN RIGHT NOW. IF YOU SAY INDISCRIMINATE AND AS A HYPOTHETICAL I’M NOT

GOING TO ENGAGE IN, WE HAVE EXPRESSED OUR CONCERNS. THE PRESIDENT HAS PUBLICLY AND PRIVATELY WITH THE ISRAELIS, THE U.S. AND ISRAEL ARE STILL COOPERATING. ON ANOTHER FRONT, WE’RE COVERING THE 135 HOSTAGES STILL HELD IN GAZA. >> AT WHITE HOUSE, PRESIDENT BIDEN MEETING IN-PERSON FOR THE FIRST TIME WITH THE FAMILIES OF THE

AMERICANS STILL MISSING. JONATHAN JOSH COHAN, WHOSE 35-YEAR-OLD SON SIGI WAS TAKEN BY HAMAS, PRAISING BIDEN’S RESPONSE. >> U.S. IS COMPLETELY COMMITTED TO GETTING THE HOSTAGES OUT. >> WE HAVE NO DOUBT ABOUT THAT . >> AND CHIEF WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT MARY BRUCE JOINS ME NOW FROM THE WHITE WITH MORE ON ALL THIS.

I MEAN, PRESIDENT BIDEN SAYS HIS MEETINGS WITH THE FAMILIES OF AMERICAN HOSTAGES MOVED HIM AND HE PROMISED TO KEEP THEM INFORMED EVERY SINGLE STEP OF THE WAY. SO WHAT’S THE LATEST ON THESE HOSTAGE NEGOTIATIONS, PARTICULARLY WITH THESE REPORTS THAT NETANYAHU STEPPED AWAY FROM THE TABLE? >> WELL, LOOK, THE PRESIDENT

DID TRY YESTERDAY TO REASSURE THE FAMILIES IN HIS FIRST IN-PERSON MEETING HERE WITH THEM THAT HE IS DOING EVERYTHING HE CAN TO TRY AND BRING THEIR LOVED ONES HOME AND WHEN WE HAD A CHANCE TO SPEAK WITH SOME OF THOSE FAMILY MEMBERS AFTER THE MEETING, THEY AGREED.

THEY SAID THEY BELIEVE THAT THE ADMINISTRATION IS REALLY TRYING TO DO JUST THAT, USING EVERY TOOL THAT THEY HAVE AVAILABLE. I THINK A REMINDER HERE, LOOK, THERE ARE, EIGHT AMERICANS STILL MISSING, SEVEN AMERICAN MEN, ONE AMERICAN WOMAN. >> AND THE WHITE HOUSE HAS BEEN BLUNT. THEY DON’T KNOW THE CONDITION OF THESE HOSTAGES.

>> THEY DON’T KNOW WHERE THEY ARE BEING HELD OR EVEN WHO IS HOLDING THAT THEY ARE WITH HAMAS, ONE OF THE OTHER TERRORIST GROUPS. AND I THINK WHILE THERE’S BEEN CONTINUES, OF COURSE, TO BE A TOP PRIORITY FOR THIS PRESIDENT, THE REALITY IS THAT THIS IS GOING TO BE VERY

DIFFICULT, ESPECIALLY AS WE ARE SEEING THE INCREASE, THE CHANCES, IT SEEMS, THAT THEY’RE ABLE TO NEGOTIATE ANOTHER TRUCE TO TRY AND SECURE THEIR RELEASE. THAT HOPE IS DIMMING, ESPECIALLY AS WE SEE HOW NETANYAHU IS RESPONDING HERE. >> AND NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER JAKE SULLIVAN IS IN ISRAEL MEETING WITH NETANYAHU

AND HIS WAR CABINET, PUSHING FOR RESTRAINT PUSHING FOR MORE HUMANITARIAN AID FOR GAZA. >> HOW DO YOU EXPECT THESE MEETINGS TO PLAY OUT AFTER PRESIDENT BIDEN ACCUSED ISRAEL OF BOMBING? >> I THINK 10TH, IN A WORD IS HOW THESE MEETINGS ARE LIKELY TO PLAY OUT. >> LOOK, SULLIVAN HAS A VERY

TALL ORDER HERE. WE ARE TOLD HE IS TRYING TO, AGAIN, YOU KNOW, CONVEY THE ADMINISTRATION’S MESSAGE THAT WHILE, OF COURSE, ISRAEL HAS A RIGHT TO DEFEND ITSELF, THAT THEY NEED TO DO THIS IN A STRATEGIC AND TARGETED WAY, THAT THEY NEED TO DO MORE TO TRY AND CIVILIAN CASUALTIES

AND THAT THEY NEED TO ALLOW MORE HUMANITARIAN AID AND ASSISTANCE TO GET IN. WE ALSO EXPECT SULLIVAN TO WANT TO SPEAK MORE ABOUT THE END GAME HERE. >> WHERE DO THINGS GO LONG TERM? >> BUT AGAIN, THIS IS GOING TO BE VERY DIFFICULT FOR SULLIVAN TO GET A LOT OF HEADWAY HERE, ESPECIALLY

AS WE ARE SEEING AN INCREASING AMOUNT OF DAYLIGHT BETWEEN THIS ADMINISTRATION AND, ISRAEL AND THE PRESIDENT RAMPING UP HIS PUBLIC CRITICISM OF HOW NETANYAHU IS CONDUCTING THIS WAR, WARNING, OF COURSE, THAT THEY ARE AT RISK OF LOSING GLOBAL SUPPORT IF THEY DON’T CHANGE THE WAY THEY’RE OPERATING.

>> MARY, THE WHITE HOUSE IS NOW TRYING TO DOWNPLAY THE PRESIDENT’S CRITICISM OF ISRAEL. HOW COULD THIS CHANGE TONE AFFECT HIM POLITICALLY? >> YOU KNOW, THERE’S A LOT OF CLEANUP GOING ON HERE AT THE WHITE HOUSE. AND WHAT REALLY THEY’RE TRYING TO DOWNPLAY SEEMS IS THE WAY THE PRESIDENT CHARACTERIZED

ISRAEL’S BOMBING OF AS INDISCRIMINATE. THAT IS A WORD THAT CARRIES WITH IT A LOT OF WEIGHT. IN FACT, INDISCRIMINATE BOMBING IS SOMETHING THAT BREAKS WITH INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAWS OF WAR. AND SO THERE’S A LOT OF QUESTIONS ABOUT WHAT EXACTLY THE PRESIDENT MEANT. WE HAVE SEEN A LOT OF VERBIAGE

,MONASTICS HERE AT THE PODIUM AS THEY TRY AND EXPLAIN WHAT EXACTLY THE PRESIDENT MEANT. A LOT OF QUESTIONS ABOUT WHETHER THE PRESIDENT WAS ACTUALLY EXPRESSING SORT OF FORMAL, YOU KNOW, AMERICAN POLICY HERE, AN AMERICAN SORT OF MILITARY VIEW OF WHAT IS HAPPENING THE GROUND OR WHETHER THAT WAS, YOU KNOW,

JUST THE PRESIDENT MISSPEAKING OR WAS IT JUST SOMETHING THAT HE SORT OF SAID OFFHAND THAT CHARACTERIZATION, WHAT THEY ARE NOT QUESTIONING IS REALLY THE INTENT OF WHAT THE PRESIDENT WAS SAYING, WHICH IS THAT THEY FEEL THAT ISRAEL NEEDS TO MORE TO TRY AND LIMIT THE DEATHS, LIMIT THE CIVILIAN

LOSS OF LIFE, ALTHOUGH THEY DO SAY THAT THEY BELIEVE THAT ISRAEL INTENDS DO THAT. >> IT’S JUST THAT THEIR INTENT DOESN’T ALWAYS LINE UP WITH THE REALITY WE ARE SEEING PLAY OUT HERE, DIANE. >> ALL RIGHT. CHIEF WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT MARY BRUCE. >> THANKS, MARY. THANK YOU. AND HOUSE REPUBLICANS

ARE MOVING FORWARD WITH A FORMAL IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY INTO PRESIDENT BIDEN. SO FAR THREE INVESTIGATING HOUSE COMMITTEES HAVE PRESENTED NO EVIDENCE OF HIGH OR MISDEMEANORS BY THE PRESIDENT. >> NOW, THE HOUSE REPUBLICANS VOTED UNANIMOUSLY TO FORMALIZE THE INQUIRY, SAYING THAT WILL ALLOW ACCESS TO MORE INFORMATION AS THEY TRY

TO TIE THE PRESIDENT HIS SON’S FOREIGN BUSINESS DEALINGS. ABC’S JAY O’BRIEN JOINS ME NOW FROM CAPITOL HILL WITH MORE ON THAT. JAKE, WHAT’S HAPPENING THERE TODAY? HOWEVER, LAWMAKERS MOVING FORWARD WITH THESE INVESTIGATIONS. >> WELL, THE ARGUMENT HAS ALWAYS BEEN FROM HOUSE REPUBLICANS THAT FORMALIZING IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY WITH A VOTE ON

THE HOUSE FLOOR LIKE THEY DID YESTERDAY STRENGTHENS THEIR CASE IN COURT. IF THEY WANT TO COMPEL THE WHITE HOUSE AND OTHER INDIVIDUALS TO COMPLY WITH SUBPOENA FROM CONGRESS FOR DOCUMENTS OR FOR TESTIMONY, REPUBLICANS ACCUSE THE WHITE HOUSE OF, QUOTE, DIRECTLY FROM A STATEMENT FROM SPEAKER LAST NIGHT OF STONEWALLING LAWFUL CONGRESSIONAL SUBPOENAS,

AND THAT THAT VOTE YESTERDAY TO FORMALIZE THE IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY STRENGTHENS THEIR CASE COURT, THAT THEY WANT TO GO ENFORCE THOSE SUBPOENAS. AS YOU’D IMAGINE, DEMOCRATS, THE WHITE HOUSE PAINT THE EXACT OPPOSITE PICTURE, SAYING REPUBLICANS HAVE HAD ACCESS TO A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT KINDS OF INTERVIEWS AND THOUSANDS OF PAGES OF DOCUMENTS.

AND TO YOUR POINT, AS YOU SAID EARLIER, HAVE SHOWN NO DIRECT BETWEEN PRESIDENT BIDEN AND HIS SON’S OVERSEAS BUSINESS DEALINGS AND SAY THAT THIS IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY IS JUST A POLITICAL PROCESS AND THEY CALL IT A POLITICAL WITCH HUNT AGAINST THE PRESIDENT AND HIS SON. SO YOU CAN EXPECT CONGRESS

TO TRY TO NOW COMPEL OR AT LEAST FILE ADDITIONAL SUBPOENAS AND THEN COMPEL THE WHITE HOUSE TO FOLLOW UP, COMPLY WITH THOSE SUBPOENAS NOW THAT THEY FEEL THAT THEY HAVE A STRONGER CASE COURT TO BE MADE. >> NOW, HUNTER BIDEN SLAMMED THIS PROBE, STOOD OUTSIDE OF THE CAPITOL SAYING MAGA REPUBLICANS HAVE ATTACKED

HIS CHARACTER, EMBARRASS HIM FOR HIS FATHER, AND THAT HE’S READY TO TESTIFY. BUT PUBLICLY. HOUSE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN JAMES COLMER SAYS HE PLANS TO HOLD HUNTER BIDEN IN CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS. SO WHAT’S THE LATEST ON THAT BACK AND FORTH. >> YEAH, IF YOU THINK BACK TO THE SAGA AS IT RELATES

TO HUNTER BIDEN, HE WAS SUBPOENAED TO APPEAR BEFORE CONGRESS YESTERDAY AND TESTIFY BEHIND CLOSED DOORS. AND HE INSTEAD HE GAVE THAT PRESS CONFERENCE AND HE SAID, I WILL TESTIFY IN A PUBLIC SETTING. SO A SENSE OR IN ACTUALITY, HE DEFIED THAT SUBPOENA. SO YOU COULD EXPECT THAT WE TALK ABOUT THE FIRST ORDER

OF BUSINESS IN THIS NEWLY FORMALIZED INQUIRY THAT’S BEEN GOING ON FOR MONTHS, BUT WAS SOLIDIFIED WITH THIS VOTE YESTERDAY, THAT HOLDING HUNTER BIDEN IN CONTEMPT AS CHAIRMAN COLMER AND CHAIRMAN JORDAN HAVE PROMISED TO DO WILL BE TOP OF THE LIST IN THOSE FIRST ORDERS OF BUSINESS. HUNTER BIDEN AGAIN SAYING,

THAT HE DOESN’T WANT TO TESTIFY BEHIND CLOSED DOORS AS THE COMMITTEE WANTS HIM TO DO. INSTEAD WANTS TO DO IT IN A PUBLIC SETTING. BUT THE REPUBLICANS RUNNING THIS INVESTIGATION SAYING THEY ARE GOING TO CONDUCT IT ON THEIR TERMS. DIANE MEANWHILE, JOE, UKRAINE AID IS STILL STALLED IN CONGRESS WITH JUST ONE DAY

UNTIL LAWMAKERS LEAVE FOR THE HOLIDAYS. SENATE REPUBLICANS SAY THEY WON’T MOVE FORWARD WITHOUT A BORDER DEAL. SO ARE THEY ANY CLOSER TO A COMPROMISE ON THAT? >> WELL, THAT ONE DAY IN THE HOUSE TODAY, MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE REPRESENTATIVES HAVE A VOTE THAT’S HAPPENING. LET ME LOOK DOWN HERE AT MY

SCREEN RIGHT NOW AS WE SPEAK. AND WHEN THAT VOTE IS OVER, MOST EXPECTED TO LEAVE FOR THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY. AND THERE IS NO MOMENTUM ON ANY KIND OF UKRAINE AID PACKAGE THAT WOULD ALSO INCLUDE, AS THE PRESIDENT REQUESTED, FUNDING FOR ISRAEL, AS WELL AS SOME MONEY FOR BORDER. AND THAT’S BECAUSE REPUBLICANS

HAVE SAID THAT THEY DON’T JUST WANT MONEY FOR BORDER SECURITY IN THIS PACKAGE. THEY WANT WHOLESALE CHANGES TO IMMIGRATION. AND WHILE THERE ARE STILL NEGOTIATIONS THAT APPEAR TO BE SLOWLY PROGRESSING IN THE SENATE, THEY HAVE NOT PROGRESSED TO THE POINT WHERE THERE IS ANY KIND OF DEAL ON WHAT THOSE CHANGES

TO IMMIGRATION POLICY WOULD LOOK. SO THE HOUSE SAYS THEY HAVE NOTHING TO VOTE ON. SO THEY’RE GOING TO HOME. THE SENATE EXPECTED TO GO HOME AS WELL. AND IT’S UNCLEAR THAT WILL MEAN FOR THOSE NEGOTIATIONS THERE. THE NEGOTIATORS HAVE THAT THEY’RE GOING TO KEEP TALKING, BUT IF THEY’RE NOT

PHYSICALLY IN THE CAPITOL, IT’S UNCLEAR EXACTLY WHAT KIND OF MOMENTUM THEY WOULD HAVE. THE REPUBLICANS THAT I’VE TALKED TO, EVEN SOME DEMOCRATS I’VE TALKED TO, HAVE ACKNOWLEDGED THAT YOU’RE LOOKING AT POTENTIALLY MORE MOMENTUM ON ANY KIND OF UKRAINE AID PACKAGE, IMMIGRATION PACKAGE, WHATEVER, INTO THE NEW YEAR AS OPPOSED

TO BEFORE THE NEW YEAR DEAL. >> ALL RIGHT JAY O’BRIEN ON CAPITOL HILL. >> THANK YOU. AND RUDY GIULIANI’S ATTORNEY SAYS HE WILL NOT TESTIFY IN THE DEFAMATION TRIAL AGAINST HIM. THE FORMER TRUMP ATTORNEY WAS EXPECTED TO TESTIFY TODAY. THE TWO GEORGIA ELECTION WORKERS SUING HIM RESTED THEIR CASE.

SHAMUS TESTIFIED ABOUT THE ORDEAL, SAYING GIULIANI’S FALSE ACCUSATIONS LIMITED HER JOB PROSPECTS, EXPOSED HER FAMILY TO RACIST THREATS AND MADE HER FEAR FOR HER LIFE. AND ALL THAT LEFT HER WITH A MAJOR DEPRESSIVE DISORDER. THE JUDGE HAS ALREADY AWARDED A DEFAULT JUDGMENT TO THE TWO WOMEN. SO THIS TRIAL WILL DETERMINE

WHAT DAMAGES AND PENALTIES. GIULIANI WILL HAVE TO PAY. AND THE SUPREME COURT IS SET TO CONSIDER CASE THAT COULD UNDO MORE THAN 100 CONVICTIONS STEMMING FROM THE JANUARY 6TH ATTACK ON THE CAPITOL. PROSECUTORS HAVE CHARGED FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP AND OTHER DEFENDANTS WITH OBSTRUCTING AN OFFICIAL PROCEEDING THAT BEING THE CERTIFICATION OF ELECTORAL VOTES.

NOW, THE SUPREME COURT TO WEIGH IN ON WHETHER PROSECUTORS STRETCH THAT LAW TOO FAR, WHICH IMPACT ROUGHLY 300 DEFENDANTS, INCLUDING FORMER PRESIDENT. SENIOR NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT TERRY MORAN HAS THE LATEST. THIS CASE COULD HAVE A BIG IMPACT ON A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. HUNDREDS OF THE PEOPLE WHO STORMED THE CAPITOL AND DONALD

TRUMP HIMSELF ALL BEEN CHARGED UNDER THE SAME FEDERAL LAW, WHICH MAKES IT A CRIME TO, QUOTE, CORRUPTLY OBSTRUCT AN OFFICIAL PROCEEDING. BUT NOW THE SUPREME COURT HAS ANNOUNCED IT WILL HEAR AN APPEAL FROM ONE OF THE JANUARY SIX DEFENDANTS WHO IS ARGUING THAT THAT LAW WHICH WAS ORIGINALLY PASSED BY CONGRESS

TO DEAL WITH WITNESS TAMPERING IN CORPORATE CRIME CASES CANNOT BE APPLIED. THE ATTACK ON THE CAPITOL. REPUBLICANS HAVE BEEN TRYING TO MAKE THIS CASE FOR MONTHS. THEY SAY THAT SOME OF THE JANUARY 6 DEFENDANTS HAVE BEEN OVERCHARGED THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT. AND IF THE SUPREME COURT AGREES WITH THIS ARGUMENT, TWO OF

THE FOUR CHARGES THAT DONALD TRUMP FACES IN HIS ELECTION INTERFERENCE CASE WOULD GO AWAY. AND HE GOT ANOTHER BOOST IN. THIS CASE, WHEN THE JUDGE PUT ALL THE PROCEEDINGS ON HOLD WHILE DONALD TRUMP APPEALS ANOTHER ISSUE. THAT’S HIS CLAIM OF PRESIDENTIAL IMMUNITY FOR ANYTHING HE DID TO OVERTURN THE 2020 ELECTION.

AND THAT APPEAL COULD DELAY START OF THIS TRIAL, WHICH IS SCHEDULED TO BEGIN IN MARCH. FOR MONTHS, DIANE, SENIOR NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT MORAN, THANK YOU. >> COMING UP, HOW DO YOU INCREA YOUR TAKE PAY? YOU ASKED AND ALEXIS CHRISTOFOROUS EXPLAINS HOW TO REDUCE TAX BURDEN. ALSO AHEAD, THE 32 YEAR OLD

SOCIAL WORKER ACCUSED OF POSING AS A HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT. THE SHE’S NOW FACING AFTER INVESTIGATORS SAY SHE WAS ENROLLED IN THREE SEPARATE SCHOOLS IN HOUSTON. POLICE SAID THE 16-YEAR-OLD SHOT BOTH OF HIS PARENTS. NOW, FRIDAY NIGHT INSIDE THE COURTROOM AND THE SHOCKING NEW EVIDENCE THAT CAME IN JUST

DAYS BEFORE THE TRIAL BEGAN. YOU GOT TO BE KIDDING ME. WHOSE BLOOD IS THIS? I COULDN’T EVEN FATHOM IDEA OF KILLING MY PARENTS. EVERYTHING. EVERYTHING POINTS TO HIM. I MEAN, 20, 20. FRIDAY NIGHT AT NINE IN CENTRAL ON ABC. TONIGHT, A WOMAN’S RIGHT TO MAKE HER OWN HEALTH CHOICES

WITH ABORTION, PILL ACCESS TO GO BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT. IS A CRISIS BREWING. MORE AMERICANS TURN TO THE MOST WATCHED PROGRAM ON TELEVISION. “WORLD NEWS TONIGHT” WITH DAVID MUIR. YOU’RE BACK AT IT AGAIN. I GOT NOTHING ELSE TO DO. I GOT TWINS THAT DON’T LIKE A HOUSE. TOMORROW, GEORGE CLOONEY

AND MICHAEL STREET IN THE ALL NEW PERSON YOU TRADE PLACES WITH FOR A DAY TOMORROW. IT’S A CRAZY ONLY ON GOOD MORNING AMERICA. WE ARE HEARING ISRAEL, A NATION AT WAR, WATCHING TANK AFTER TANK POURING INTO THIS. >> THIS IS WHERE IT ALL BEGAN. BULLET HOLES ALL UP THE WALL

WITH MINUTES OF THE AIR RAID SIRENS GOING OFF. YOU CAN HEAR THE SAME EXPLOSION DOWN HERE. TONIGHT, ISRAEL WAGING A FIERCE BOMBARDMENT OF GAZA, THE ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR, FOR NONSTOP LIVE COVERAGE. >> NBC NEWS LIVE REPORTING FROM SOUTHERN ISRAEL FROM THE FRONT LINES IN DOWNTOWN IN BEIRUT. >> WHEREVER THE STORY IS,

WE’LL TAKE YOU THERE. >> ABC NEWS LIVE. WHENEVER, WHEREVER NEWS BREAKS, IT’S SO IMPORTANT TO ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT LIVES CHANGED HERE IN LONDON. >> IN BUFFALO NEWS ALL DAY, TEXAS EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND REPORTING FROM ROLLING FORK, MISSISSIPPI, UKRAINIAN REFUGEES . HERE IN WARSAW, WE’RE HEADING TO A SMALL COMMUNITY OUTSIDE

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IF YOU LOVE BEING IN THE KNOW YOU’RE GOING LOVE THIS EXPERIENCE THE ALL-NEW ABC NEWS APP DOWNLOAD NOW YOU ARE REALLY GETTING IT. >> I WAS TERRIFIED IT WAS JUST A TRAUMATIC NIGHTMARE. >> PEOPLE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THESE WERE LEARNED BABIES 18 FACING LIFE AND DEATH, MEDICAL CONDITIONS, THEIR LIVES

OUT OF THEIR CONTROL. >> I FELT LIKE I WAS GOING TO DIE. OUR LIVES AND OUR HEALTH ARE DEBATABLE. I WOULDN’T WISH THIS UPON. >> WORST ENEMY DIANE SAWYER. RACHEL SAT ON THE GRAND MASTER ON HULU. >> WELCOME BACK TO ABC NEWS LIVE IT. IT’S TIME NOW FOR OUR WEEKLY

SEGMENT ASK WHERE BUSINESS REPORTER ALEXIS CHRISTOFOROUS SHARES FINANCIAL ADVICE ON THE TOPICS THAT MATTER MOST TO YOU TODAY. >> ALEXIS IS HERE TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS ON INCREASING YOUR TAKE HOME PAY AND PAYING OFF DEBT WITH HOME EQUITY LOANS . ALL RIGHT, ALEXIS, LET’S START WITH TERESA FROM MASSACHUSETTS.

TERESA ASKS, I RECENTLY STARTED MY FIRST FULL TIME JOB SINCE GRADUATING COLLEGE, AND I CAN’T BELIEVE HOW MUCH OF MY PAYCHECK GOES TO PAYING TAXES. >> WHAT CAN I DO TO INCREASE MY TAKE HOME PAY? ALL RIGHT. WELL, FIRST OFF, CONGRATS, TERESA, ON LANDING YOUR FIRST POST COLLEGE JOB.

AND WELCOME TO THE TAXPAYERS. OH, IT’S A BUNCH OF FUN. THE EASIEST WAY TO INCREASE YOUR TAX, YOUR TAKE HOME PAY, IS TO REDUCE YOUR TAX BURDEN. YOU CAN THAT BY MAKING SURE YOU ARE TAKING FULL ADVANTAGE OF SOME EMPLOYEE BENEFITS. SO IF YOU COMMUTE TO WORK, PAY HEALTH CARE EXPENSES, SPEND

MONEY ON DEPENDENT DAYCARE, YOU CAN SIGN UP FOR A FLEXIBLE SPENDING ACCOUNT IF YOUR JOB OFFERS IT. THIS IS AN EMPLOYER SPONSORED SAVINGS ACCOUNT THAT LETS YOU SET ASIDE PRETAX DOLLARS QUALIFIED EXPENSES. YOUR EMPLOYER MAY EVEN MATCH YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS, WHICH IS LIKE FOUND MONEY. NOW, IF YOU HAVEN’T DONE IT

YET, BE SURE TO CONTRIBUTE YOUR COMPANY’S 401K RETIREMENT PLAN, ESPECIALLY IF THEY MATCH YOUR PERCENTAGE OF YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS. AND OF COURSE YOU CAN ALWAYS CONTRIBUTE TO A TRADITIONAL INDIVIDUAL RETIREMENT ACCOUNT. NEXT YEAR, THE WILL LET YOU CONTRIBUTE UP TO $7,000 PRETAX INTO YOUR IRA, WHICH OF COURSE WILL HELP REDUCE

YOUR OVERALL TAXABLE INCOME AND PUT MORE MONEY IN YOUR POCKET WHERE IT BELONGS. THERESA ALL RIGHT, LOVE THAT ADVICE IN YOUR POCKET. THAT’S WHERE WE ALL WANT IT, RIGHT? YES. ALEXIS LET’S GO OVER TO UTAH NOW WHERE VERA WANTS TO KNOW A FRIEND SUGGESTED I USE A HOME EQUITY LOAN TO CONSOLIDATE

MY CREDIT CARD DEBT. IS THAT A GOOD IDEA? SO THIS CAN BE TRICKY. I MEAN, IT IS A VIABLE OPTION, BUT IT’S WITHOUT RISK. HOME EQUITY LOANS, HOME EQUITY LINES OF CREDIT TEND TO HAVE LOWER INTEREST RATES THAN CREDIT CARDS OR PERSONAL LOANS . AND THAT, OF COURSE, CAN SAVE

YOU MONEY OVER THE LIFE OF THE LOAN, PAYING OFF YOUR DEBT WOULD ALSO BE MORE MANAGEABLE BECAUSE IT WOULD BE COMBINED INTO THIS MONTHLY PAYMENT. >> BUT AND HERE’S A BIG BUT. IF YOU MAKE A LATE PAYMENT OR YOU MISS A PAYMENT ALTOGETHER, YOUR BANK OR LENDER CAN REPOSSESS YOUR HOME.

SO INSTEAD OF TAKING OUT A SECOND MORTGAGE AND PUTTING YOUR HOUSE ON THE LINE, YOU MIGHT WANT TO CONSIDER OTHER TYPES OF FINANCING LIKE 0% INTEREST CREDIT CARDS. THEY USUALLY HAVE A 6 TO 21 MONTH GRACE PERIOD. IF YOU CAN PAY OFF THE DURING THAT TIME PERIOD, YOU WIPE OUT

YOUR DEBT WITHOUT THE RISK OF LOSING YOUR HOME. DIANE ALL RIGHT, ALEXIS CHRISTOFOROUS THANKS FOR THAT. >> AND IF YOU WANT ALEXIS TO ANSWER YOUR PERSONAL FINANCE THIS, LEAVE US A MESSAGE ON OUR INSTAGRAM FEED AT ABC NEWS LIVE . AND SHE MIGHT ANSWER YOUR QUESTION RIGHT HERE ON THURSDAY.

>> MEANWHILE, A MASSACHUSETTS SOCIAL WORKER IS FACING NEW CHARGES AFTER ALLEGEDLY POSING AS A HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT. INVESTIGATORS SAY THE 32 YEAR OLD PRETENDED TO BE A TRAUMATIZED TEENAGER IN THREE DIFFERENT SCHOOLS BEFORE OFFICIALS GOT SUSPICIOUS. ABC’S TREVOR AULT HAS THE LATEST. >> THE MASSACHUSETTS WOMAN ACCUSED OF POSING AS A BOSTON

PUBLIC SCHOOLS HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT NOW FACING MULTIPLE FELONY CHARGES. INVESTIGATORS SAY LAST YEAR 32 YEAR OLD SHELBY HEWITT ENROLLED IN THREE SEPARATE SCHOOLS, PRESENTING HERSELF AS A TEENAGE FOSTER CHILD AS YOUNG AS 13, GOING BY THE NAMES DANIELA AND, ELLIE. IN REALITY, THE DEFENDANT WAS A WOMAN IN HER EARLY THIRTIES

WHO ATTENDED BOTH COLLEGE AND GRADUATE SCHOOL AND WAS EMPLOYED AS A SOCIAL WORKER. PROSECUTORS ALLEGE WHILE HEWITT WAS WORKING AS A SOCIAL WORKER AT THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF, CHILDREN AND FAMILIES, SHE CREATED MULTIPLE NAMES AND DATES OF BIRTH FOR HERSELF AND SEVERAL FAKE SOCIAL WORKERS TO SPREAD A FALSE.

SHE WAS AN EXTREMELY TRAUMATIZED CHILD WITH SIGNIFICANT SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS. 16-YEAR-OLD JANELLE LEBON SAYS SHE BEFRIENDED HEWITT IN SCHOOL, AND THE PAIR HAD THREE CLASSES TOGETHER. >> SHE SAYS SHE SUSPECTED HEWITT HAD SOME MENTAL HEALTH TROUBLES BECAUSE SHE’D HAVE OUTBURSTS IN CLASS BUT NEVER SUSPECTED SHE WAS A DIFFERENT AGE.

>> I WAS DEFINITELY SHOCKED AND MY FRIENDS WERE DEFINITELY UPSET BECAUSE WE ACCEPTED HER AS JUST LIKE ONE OF US. >> BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOL OFFICIALS ALERTED. THE AUTHORITIES. THIS SUMMER, AFTER ADMINISTRATORS DISCOVERED A DCF FORM HAD BEEN FILLED OUT INCORRECTLY AND THE SOCIAL WORKER LISTED ON THE FORM WAS

NOT ACTUALLY AN EMPLOYEE THERE. PROSECUTORS SAY HEWITT DIDN’T ALONE. SHE HAD TWO PURPORTED FOSTER PARENTS, ONE OF WHOM IS ANOTHER SOCIAL WORKER. HEWITT PLEADED NOT GUILTY WEEK TO NINE COUNTS, INCLUDING FELONY FORGERY, IDENTITY FRAUD AND LARCENY. HER ATTORNEY INSISTS SHE WAS NEVER A DANGER TO ANYONE. >> SHE’S A PERSON WHO’S HAD

A LIFELONG HISTORY, MENTAL HEALTH CHALLENGES. SHE’S IN TREATMENT AND SHE’S WORKING TOWARDS MAKING HERSELF A BETTER PERSON. >> HEWITT HAS BEEN RELEASED ON $5,000 BAIL UNDER CONDITIONS THAT REQUIRE HER NOW TO STAY AWAY FROM SCHOOLS AND ANYONE UNDER 18. DIANE ALL RIGHT, TREVOR AULT, THANK YOU. COMING UP, THE CHAMPS ARE HERE,

LITERALLY TWO PLAYERS FROM THE MLS TEAM, COLUMBUS CREW JOIN ME LIVE AFTER THEIR THIRD CHAMPIONSHIP WIN. WE’LL TALK ABOUT BIG WIN. PLUS, HOW SOCCER CONTINUES TO GROW IN THE U.S.. >> YEAH, GOING TO BE SUPER. >> I WAS TERRIFIED. IT WAS JUST SO TRAUMATIC. >> NIGHTMARE. PEOPLE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THESE

WERE WANTED BABIES. 18 WERE FACING LIFE AND MEDICAL CONDITIONS. >> THEIR LIVES NOW OUT OF THEIR CONTROL. FELT LIKE I WAS GOING TO DIE. OUR LIVES AND OUR HEALTH. OUR DEBATABLE. I WANT TO WISH THIS UPON MY WORST ENEMY. DIANE SAWYER RACHEL SCOTT ON THE BRINK NOW STREAMING ON HULU.

HOUSTON POLICE SAY THE 16 YEAR OLD SHOT BOTH OF HIS PARENTS NOW FRIDAY NIGHT INSIDE THE COURTROOM AND THE SHOCKING EVIDENCE THAT CAME IN JUST DAYS BEFORE THE TRIAL BEGAN. YOU GOT TO BE KIDDING ME. WHOSE BLOOD IS THIS? I COULDN’T EVEN FATHOM THE IDEA OF KILLING MY PARENTS. EVERYTHING EVERYTHING POINTS

TO HIM ON BEING 2020 FRIDAY NIGHT AT NINE EIGHT CENTRAL ON ABC. FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. THERE’S A LOT GOING ON. EVERYBODY IN THAT IS OKAY. TO CATCH YOU UP WITH WHAT HAPPENED OVERNIGHT. WE ARE HERE AT FASHION’S BIGGEST NIGHT OUT. WHAT’S HAPPENING TODAY? YOUTUBE HAS UNVEILED A NEW SET

OF POLICIES. WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE NEW AD CAMPAIGN. FAST. STRAIGHT FORWARD WITH SOME FUN IN BETWEEN A REAL LIFE BARBIE DREAM HOUSE. A NAME CHANGE FOR THE WIENERMOBILE, THE FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. AMERICA THIS MORNING, AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE EARLY MORNING NEWS ON ABC NEWS. >> WHAT NATIONAL FORESTS

ARE GOOD PLACES TO GET AWAY, BUT SOMETIMES BAD THINGS HAPPEN . GOOD PLACES. IT’S THE STUFF OF NIGHTMARES. A LOT OF THINGS ARE FEET STICKING UP ON THESE WHEELS. THIS IS A HUMANS GOING. WE WERE DEFINITELY AGAINST THE CLOCK. HOW MANY MORE VICTIMS ARE OUT THERE? WHAT CRIME? WHAT?

MOUNTAIN M.D.? ONLY ON HULU. >> WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE? FROM ABC NEWS? THIS IS “START HERE” TO BE IN THE KNOW AND GET A DIFFERENT TAKE ON DAY’S TOP STORIES. A LOT OF NEWS TODAY. SO LET’S GET INTO IT. LISTEN TO THE DAILY NEWS

PODCAST HONORED WITH FOUR EDWARD AH MURROW AWARDS AND SEE WHY THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS IT A NEWS PODCAST. LISTENING TO. START HERE. ABC IS LEAKING MORE DAILY FIRST LISTEN NOW THAT’S A PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING. >> WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS, START HERE.

REPORTING FROM EAST PALESTINE, OHIO, I’M ALEX PRESHA. WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WE’LL TAKE YOU THERE. YOU’RE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE . >> WELCOME BACK. THE COLUMBUS CREW ARE CELEBRATING AFTER WINNING THEIR THIRD MLS CHAMPIONSHIP. THE CREW BEAT L.A. FC 2 TO 1 IN FRONT OF THEIR HOME CROWD IN COLUMBUS.

FANS WITH A PARADE ENDING AT THE TEAM’S STADIUM WHERE HOMEGROWN AIDAN MORRIS TOLD THE CROWD THEY’RE NOT DONE YET . >> WHY DON’T YOU RIDE? BRING IT BACK NEXT. AIDEN MORRIS JOINS ME NOW, ALONG WITH CAPTAIN DARLINGTON NAGBE FOR MORE. AND HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE

CHAMPIONS OR ARE YOU ALL READY TO FOCUS ON NEXT YEAR? HAS IT ALREADY PASSED YOUR BODY? WHAT DO YOU THINK. >> WELL, SO FRESH. SO I STILL THINK I’M SOAKING IN, ENJOYING MY TIME HERE. IT’S BEEN NICE TO GET AWAY. BUT YEAH, WE SACRIFICED A LOT

THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, SO YOU GOT TO APPRECIATE WHAT HAPPENS. >> DON’T GET TO WIN A LOT. YEAH. DARLINGTON, YOUR MANAGER HAD SAID THAT THE MOST IMPORTANT THING WAS FOR THE TEAM TO MAINTAIN ITS. WHAT DOES THAT MEAN TO YOU AND HOW DO YOU THINK YOU GUYS

WERE ABLE TO DO THAT THROUGH THIS RUN? >> I THINK YOU KNOW CREDIT TO HIM YOU KNOW AND THE GUYS AS. AND I THINK THAT’S HIS PERSONALITY TO STAY CALM AND STAY PRESENT IN THE MOMENT AND NOT TAKE THINGS FOR GRANTED. I THINK, YOU KNOW, KNOWING OUR IDENTITY AND STAYING CALM

HELPED US IN THE FINAL IT WAS IN THE MOMENT. WASN’T SO FOR US. >> AND WE WANT TO STAY CONSISTENT THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE YEAR. AIDEN, YOU’VE SPENT YOUR PROFESSIONAL CAREER WITH THE CREW. I KNOW A FEW YEARS AGO, THE FANS, TO KEEP THE TEAM IN COLUMBUS. SO WHAT DO YOU THINK THIS

VICTORY MEANS TO THE TEAM, BUT ALSO THE COMMUNITY THERE? >> OH, IT’S MASSIVE. THE FANS SHOW UP EVERY DAY, EVERY GAME SUPPORTING US, HAVE OUR BACK AND GIVES US THAT EXTRA TEN, 15%. AND FOR ALL THE CREW’S BEEN THROUGH. YOU KNOW, IT’S NICE TO BRING TWO TITLES WITHIN THE LAST FOUR YEARS.

>> AND DARLINGTON, THIS A BIG YEAR FOR THE LEAGUE IN GENERAL WITH LEO MASSEY JOINING MIAMI. HOW DO YOU THINK THAT’S CHANGING THINGS ON THE FIELD WITH THE LEAGUE IN GENERAL AND THE MOOD IN THE LOCKER ROOM? >> NO, IT’S HUGE. DON’T SEE IT WHEN A PLAYER LIKE

THAT COMES IN JOINS ME. MY BEING THE GREATEST EVER JUST IMPROVES THE AND LEAGUE THE PLAYERS THAT WANT TO COME TO THE LEAGUE OBVIOUSLY THAT IMPROVES THE COMPETITION ON THE FIELD SO IT’S GETTING BETTER AND BETTER BIG TIME PLAYERS COME HERE AND THE PLAYERS ARE PLAYING AGAINST THEM.

YOU KNOW THINK THEY GET AN OPPORTUNITY WITH WHAT THAT LEVEL IS AND WE’RE JUST AT THESE MINOR LEAGUE AND IT AND YOU GUYS ARE COMPETING NOW FOR THE CONCACAF CUP IN MARCH, I BELIEVE. HOW DO YOU KEEP THAT MOMENTUM GOING? JUST KEEPING US. WE’VE GOT SUCH A GOOD

FOUNDATION, SUCH A GOOD COACH. THAT’S GOOD STUFF. JUST KEEPING STICK TO OUR PRINCIPLES. >> STAY AT THE TASK. YEAH, WELL, I’M SO EXCITED FOR YOU BOTH. I KNOW IT’S BEEN A LONG WEEK OF CELEBRATION TO HELP YOU GET SOME REST. AND CAN WE JUST. CAN WE JUST GET A SHOT OF THIS

THING IS HUGE. >> CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU BOTH. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR COMING IN. ROLL AROUND THE STUDIO AND THANKS TO YOU FOR STREAMING WITH US. >> I’M DIANE MACEDO, ABC NEWS IS HERE FOR YOU ANYTIME WITH THE LATEST NEWS, CONTEXT AND ANALYSIS, WE’LL BE RIGHT BACK. TONIGHT, A WOMAN’S RIGHT.

MAKE HER OWN HEALTH CHOICES WITH ABORTION PILL ACCESS, SET ,GO BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT. IS A CRISIS BREWING FOR AMERICANS? TURN TO THE MOST WATCHED PROGRAM ON TELEVISION. “WORLD NEWS TONIGHT”, DAVID MUIR, YOU’RE BACK AT IT AGAIN. I GOT NOTHING ELSE TO DO. I GET TO WITNESS IT AT OUR HOUSE TOMORROW.

GEORGE CLOONEY, MICHAEL STRINGHAM, THE ALL-NEW INTERVIEW PERSON YOU TRADE PLACES WITH FOR A DAY TOMORROW. IT’S A CRAZY THING. WE ARE GOOD MORNING AMERICA WITH THE MOBILE PHONE THAT’S THAT’S BEEN A SO HAS BEEN A LITTLE BIT MY LITTLE MOMENT I’M GOING TO END BY PHONE IN AMERICA. OKAY.

WHAT ARE THE STORIES THAT TAKE YOU BACK TO SOME OF YOUR HAPPIEST TIMES TONIGHT, CELEBRATE ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF WHAT I THINK OF DISNEY. >> ONE WORD THAT COMES TO MIND, THE AMAZING DREAM. OH, WOW. SUPER FOREVER MAGICAL. THE SECRETS, FUN, THE WOW. AND THE STORIES BEHIND. THE STORIES ABOUT NEVER SEEN BEFORE.

DISNEY 100 A CENTURY OF DREAMS. TONIGHT AT NINE EIGHT CENTRAL ON ABC AND STREAM ON HULU AND DISNEY PLUS PLUS. HOUSTON POLICE SAY THE 16 YEAR OLD SHOT BOTH OF HIS FRIDAY NIGHT INSIDE THE COURTROOM IN THE SHOCKING NEW EVIDENCE THAT CAME IN JUST DAYS BEFORE TRIAL BEGAN.

YOU GOT TO BE KIDDING ME. WHOSE BLOOD IS THIS? I COULDN’T EVEN FATHOM THE IDEA OF KILLING MY PARENTS. EVERYTHING. THEY POINTS TO HIM. ONLY IN 2020. FRIDAY NIGHT AT NINE AND CENTRAL ON ABC, REPORTING FROM THE BORDER OF TEXAS AND MEXICO ON THE DAY OF GEORGIA. WHEREVER THE STORY IS,

WE’LL TAKE YOU THERE. YOU’RE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE . I’M DIAMOND SAITO TODAY ON ABC NEWS LIVE. FIRST, NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER JAKE SULLIVAN IS IN TEL AVIV MEETING WITH THE ISRAELI WAR CABINET. THE MESSAGE HE’S SENDING FROM THE WHITE HOUSE, A POWERFUL CROSS-COUNTRY STORM IS BRINGING HEAVY AND SNOW. THE TRACK AND TIMING.

PLUS, HOW IT COULD IMPACT YOUR HOLIDAY. CELEBRATING 100 YEARS OF DISNEY LEGENDS AND STARS ARE COMING TOGETHER. >> TELL THE STORIES BEHIND THE STORY AND WE HAVE A PREVIEW . >> BUT WE BEGIN WITH NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER JAKE SULLIVAN IN TODAY. HE SAYS HE’S PUSHING FOR RESTRAINT IN ISRAEL’S WAR

WITH HAMAS AS CALLS GROW FOR A HUMANITARIAN CEASE FIRE. THIS COMES THE FAMILIES OF HOSTAGES HELD IN GAZA ARE DEMANDING AN URGENT UPDATE FROM MINISTER NETANYAHU. THEY SAY THEY’RE SHOCKED AFTER ISRAELI TV REPORTED, NETANYAHU PULLED OUT OF A NEW ROUND OF HOSTAGE NEGOTIATIONS SET TO BEGIN IN QATAR. FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT JAMES LONGMAN

JOINS ME NOW FROM AVIV, ISRAEL, ALONG WITH WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT MARYALICE PARKS. JAMES, I KNOW YOU SPOKE TO SOME OF THESE FAMILIES WHO ARE ANGRY ABOUT THESE REPORTS CLAIMING STOPPED PLANS TO RESTART NEGOTIATIONS. WHAT ARE THEY TELLING YOU? >> YEAH, LOOK THEY SAID TO SAY THAT THE HOSTAGES FAMILIES HAVE

DONE EXTRAORDINARY THINGS OVER THESE LAST FEW WEEKS. AND WE ARRIVED HERE THE DAY AFTER THE ATTACKS ON OCTOBER. IT REALLY DIDN’T FEEL LIKE IT WAS THE PRIORITY TO GET THESE HOSTAGES BACK. ISRAEL WANTED TO RETALIATE AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE AND ALSO THESE FAMILIES BASICALLY REORIENTATE THAT ISRAELI POLICY.

THEY MADE THEM FOCUS GETTING THE HOSTAGES OUT AND THEY SUCCEEDED IN LARGE PART. SO MANY DID COME OUT DURING THAT CEASE FIRE. NOW THE FIGHTING IS RAGING ONCE AGAIN. AND I THINK THERE HAS BEEN A MOOD THAT WHATEVER SUCCESSES THE HOSTAGE FAMILIES HAD BEFORE, WELL, THAT WAS BEHIND US.

AND NOW THE ISRAELI MILITARY IS FREE TO CONTINUE THIS OPERATION. SO THERE IS MOUNTING CONCERN REALLY MOUNTING SORT OF FRUSTRATION AMONG THE HOSTAGE FAMILIES THAT THEIR PRIORITIES ARE NOT BEING MET AND THAT THESE SORT OF PARALLEL PRIORITIES FOR THE GOVERNMENT TO BEAT HAMAS, AS THEY SAY, A VICTORY OVER HAMAS AND GET

THE HOSTAGE HOSTAGES OUT. THE FAMILIES SAY, WELL, YOU CAN’T DO BOTH AT ONCE. YOU HAVE TO CHOOSE. AND THEM, IT’S BRINGING THEIR FAMILIES OUT. I SPOKE TO GAL DICKERMAN, WHO IS THE COUSIN OF KAMEL OR. SHE HAS BEEN HELD CAPTIVE ALL THESE WEEKS. AND HE TOLD ME THAT, YOU KNOW,

HE WHEN HE READ ABOUT THIS REPORT, THE HEAD MOSSAD THEN STOPPED, TOO, FROM CONTINUING THESE NEGOTIATIONS AND MADE HIM INCREDIBLY ANGRY BECAUSE HE HAD BEEN GIVEN A BY THE GOVERNMENT THAT THAT THINGS WOULD CHANGE AND THAT THAT BECOME A PRIORITY. >> HAVE A LISTEN TO WHAT HE TOLD ME. HOW I WAS.

>> I WAS IN SHOCK BECAUSE THE PRIME MINISTER TOLD ME PERSONALLY THAT HE’S GOING TO DO ANYTHING HE CAN TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY COME. I REALLY WANT TO BELIEVE THEY KEEP ON DOING ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING THEY CAN. BUT IT’S IT’S GETTING VERY HARD THESE DAYS. BUT I DON’T HAVE ANY OTHER

PRIME MINISTER OR ANY OTHER CABINET, SO I HAVE TO BELIEVE THEM. >> IT’S THE ONLY THING I CAN REALLY, AND IT’S REALLY DIFFICULT FOR ANYONE KNOW WHAT’S ACTUALLY HAPPENING WITH THE NEGOTIATIONS. BUT OF COURSE, THE FAMILIES THAT REALLY FEEL THAT BE THE PRIORITY. DIANE? ALL RIGHT, MARYALICE. PRESIDENT BIDEN SAYS

HIS MEETING WITH THE FAMILIES OF AMERICAN HOSTAGES MOVED HIM SO. HAS THE WHITE HOUSE REACTING TO THESE CLAIMS THAT NETANYAHU IS STOPPING NEGOTIATION? NOW, WE HAVEN’T HEARD MUCH YET, AND WE KNOW THAT JAKE SULLIVAN ,NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER, IS IN THE REGION. AND THIS HAS BEEN SUCH A OF THE ADMINISTRATION SINCE

THE VERY BEGINNING. THEY’VE SAID IT IS THE TOP PRIORITY, MAKING SURE THAT AMERICAN HOSTAGES ARE BROUGHT HOME. THEY ASSUME THEY ARE THEY ARE TRACKING STILL ABOUT EIGHT AMERICANS THAT THEY THINK ARE HELD HOSTAGE. BUT THEY ARE CAREFUL TO TALK ABOUT HOW THEY DON’T EVEN REALLY KNOW THE CONDITION

OF THOSE HOSTAGES, IF THEY’RE BEING HELD BY HAMAS OR POTENTIALLY OTHER GROUPS. YOU KNOW, I PRESSED THE WHITE HOUSE JUST YESTERDAY ON, SOME OF THE REALITIES ON THE GROUND. AND WE’VE HEARD REPORTS OF IDF POTENTIALLY FLOODING SOME OF THOSE TUNNELS THAT HOSTAGES HAVE SAID THAT THEY WERE HELD

AND THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN FREED. AND THE WHITE HOUSE YESTERDAY SAID THAT THEY WERE, OF COURSE, WORRIED ABOUT WHETHER THIS, COULD HURT HOSTAGES, PUT HOSTAGES LIVES AT RISK. THIS IS A REALLY TOUGH TIME FOR THE WHITE HOUSE BECAUSE THEY WANT TO BE PRESSURING, LIKE JIM SAID, TO CONTINUE

TO BE DOING EVERYTHING THEY CAN TO BE FOCUSED ON THIS. >> THE WHITE HOUSE IS ABSOLUTELY FOCUSED ON THIS. ALL RIGHT, JAMES LONGMAN MARYALICE PARKS, THANK YOU BOTH . >> AND RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN SAYS THERE WILL BE NO PEACE IN UKRAINE UNTIL RUSSIA REACHES ITS GOALS. PUTIN’S COMMENTS CAME DURING

HIS ANNUAL PRESS CONFERENCE, WHICH HAPPENED FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE RUSSIA LAUNCHED ITS OF UKRAINE. RUSSIAN STATE MEDIA SAYS AT LEAST 2 MILLION QUESTIONS WERE SUBMITTED TO THE EVENT, WHICH LASTED 4 HOURS. ABC’S PATRICK REEVELL JOINS ME NOW FOR MORE ON. PATRICK PUTIN SAYS RUSSIA’S GOALS HAVEN’T CHANGED IN UKRAINE BUT.

>> RUSSIA HAS FACED SOME SERIOUS LOSSES THERE. WHAT’S THE LATEST? HI DAN. YEAH, THIS WAS ACTUALLY THE FIRST TIME THAT PUTIN HAS HELD THIS PRESS CONFERENCE IN A YEAR BECAUSE HE SKIPPED IT LAST YEAR WHEN THE WAR IN UKRAINE WAS GOING. THE FACT THAT HE’S HELD IT AGAIN NOW SHOWS THAT HE

IS OBVIOUSLY FEELING MORE CONTROL AND FEELING THAT HE CAN TAKE MORE DIFFICULT QUESTIONS. AND HE SPOKE A LOT ABOUT THE WAR. HE WAS TRYING TO PROJECT CONFIDENCE. AND BASICALLY, HE SAID THAT GOALS IN THE WAR HAVE NOT CHANGED SINCE THE BEGINNING OF HIS INVASION. HE SAID THAT HE STILL WANTS

THE DEMILITARIZATION OF UKRAINE AND THE OF UKRAINE, WHICH IS HIS REFERENCE, HIS FALSE CLAIM THAT UKRAINE IS RUN BY . AND WHAT THAT MEANS ULTIMATELY IS THAT HE WANTS THE CAPITULATION OF UKRAINE. HE WANTS UKRAINE TO FULLY DEMILITARIZE. HE WANTS IT TO GIVE UP ITS TO JOIN NATO AND THE EUROPEAN UNION.

AND HE WANTS REGIME CHANGE. >> AND I THINK THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT AS WE SEE THIS BATTLE IN THE US AT, THE MOMENT WITH CONGRESS STRUGGLING TO APPROVE MORE AID. WE SEE, THE PUTIN ULTIMATELY RIGHT NOW IS SIGNALING HE DOESN’T WANT REAL NEGOTIATIONS, DOES NOT WANT TO HAVE NEGOTIATIONS ON UKRAINE’S TERMS.

AND WHAT HE’S SAYING THAT HE WANTS TO NEGOTIATE WITH UKRAINE ONLY TO DISCUSS EFFECTIVELY THEIR. I MEAN, AS WE WOULD AS WE WERE WATCHING HIM SPEAK, A RUSSIAN HYPERSONIC MISSILE WAS FIRED INTO UKRAINE. IT APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN TARGETING AN AIR BASE THERE. THERE’S NO REPORT YET ON WHETHER IT CAUSED ANY DAMAGE

OR NOT. IT CLEARS JUST THE SIGNAL THAT RIGHT NOW PROVIDED BY PUTIN FEELS THAT HE’S STARTING TO WIN IN THIS WAR. >> ABC’S PATRICK REEVELL. THANKS, PATRICK. MEANWHILE, AID FOR UKRAINE IS STALLED IN CONGRESS WITH JUST ONE DAY LEFT UNTIL LAWMAKERS LEAVE FOR THE HOLIDAYS. SENATE REPUBLICANS SAY

THEY AREN’T WILLING TO MOVE FORWARD WITHOUT A BORDER DEAL. >> ABC NEWS WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT KAREN TRAVERS JOINS ME NOW. KAREN, YOU TALK WITH RADIO HOSTS ACROSS AMERICA EVERY DAY. >> WHAT ARE YOU HEARING FROM THEM ABOUT THIS ISSUE? >> DIANE? THIS IS A BIG TOPIC FOR MANY RADIO ACROSS THE COUNTRY

BECAUSE WE’RE TALKING ABOUT $100 BILLION OF TAXPAYER MONEY THAT THE PRESIDENT HAS ASKED CONGRESS TO APPROVE. AND THIS IS NOW AT A STALEMATE BECAUSE OF THAT BORDER SECURITY POLICY ISSUE THAT REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS ARE WORKING TO NEGOTIATE. THE BIG QUESTIONS I KEEP GETTING ASKED ARE WHAT WILL IT TAKE TO BREAK THAT STALEMATE

AND HOW MUCH FUNDING IS LEFT FOR UKRAINE? >> AND WHAT CAN THE ADMINISTRATION CONTINUE TO DO OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF WEEKS UNLESS CONGRESS ACTS? I ASKED WHITE HOUSE YESTERDAY HOW MUCH IS LEFT AT THIS POINT AND ARE THEY RATIONING THE AID THAT THEY’RE GIVING TO UKRAINE

RIGHT NOW TO TRY AND MAKE IT STRETCH A LITTLE BIT LONGER? AND THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY, KARINE JEAN-PIERRE, TOLD ME THEY HAVE BILLION DOLLARS LEFT THAT THEY CAN USE TO REPLENISH THE STOCKPILE THAT THEY’VE BEEN TURNING TO TO GIVE UKRAINE SECURITY ASSISTANCE. AND SHE SAID, YES, THEY HAVE BEEN MAKING SMALLER PACKAGES

RECENTLY, TRYING TO MAKE THEM STRETCH OUT AS LONG AS THEY CAN TO MAKE THE AID LAST FOR UKRAINE, KNOWING THAT RIGHT NOW IT IS NOT LOOKING GOOD FOR THAT ASSISTANCE GETTING PASSED ON CAPITOL HILL BECAUSE OF THE BORDER SECURITY ISSUE. >> DAN, HAS THE WHITE HOUSE SAID WHERE THEY MIGHT

BE ABLE TO FIND A COMPROMISE HERE? >> THEY HAVE NOT GIVEN DETAILS ABOUT WHERE THE PRESIDENT WOULD COMPROMISE ON THE BORDER POLICY ISSUE, SAYING THAT THEY WILL NOT NEGOTIATE THIS ISSUE IN PUBLIC. >> THE PRESIDENT HIMSELF HAS SAID MULTIPLE TIMES THAT HE HAS OFFERED COMPROMISE, THAT HE HAS REACHED TO LAWMAKERS AND SAID

THAT HE WOULD BE WILLING TO MEET ON THIS ISSUE. >> BUT WE DON’T HAVE DETAILS. NOW, THE WHITE HOUSE HAS BECOME MORE ENGAGED IN THE TWO DAYS ON THIS, SENDING SENIOR OFFICIALS, INCLUDING THE HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY, ALEJANDRO MAYORKAS, UP TO CAPITOL HILL TO SIT DOWN WITH THE LEAD NEGOTIATORS.

AND WE HEARD LAST NIGHT FROM THE LEAD SENATE AND DEMOCRATS ON THIS THAT THERE WAS ACTUALLY PROGRESS MADE. THEY WOULDN’T SAY SPECIFICALLY WHAT IS ON THE TABLE RIGHT NOW AND WHETHER THEY’RE CLOSE TO ACTUALLY HAVING SOME LEGISLATIVE TEXT, BUT DID SAY THERE WAS PROGRESS AND CONVERSATIONS ARE MOVING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.

BUT, DIANE, AS YOU NOTED, THEY’RE SUPPOSED TO BE LEAVING TOWN TODAY AND FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF WEEKS. IT DOES NOT LOOK LIKELY THAT THEY COULD GET THIS DONE IN TIME TO GET THE AID PASSED BY THE END OF THE YEAR IS THE DEADLINE THAT THE WHITE HOUSE WANTED THEM TO DO.

ALL RIGHT. >> WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT KAREN TRAVERS, THANK YOU. AND RUDY GIULIANI’S ATTORNEY SAYS HE WILL NOT TESTIFY IN THE DEFAMATION TRIAL AGAINST HIM. THE FORMER TRUMP ATTORNEY WAS EXPECTED TO TESTIFY TODAY AFTER THE TWO GEORGIA ELECTION WORKERS SUING HIM RESTED THEIR CASE. SEAMUS ABOUT THE ORDEAL

THAT SHE SAYS LEFT HER WITH A MAJOR DEPRESSIVE DISORDER. SAYING GIULIANI’S FALSE ACCUSATIONS LIMITED HER JOB PROSPECTS EXPOSED FAMILY TO RACIST THREATS AND MADE HER FEAR FOR HER LIFE. SENIOR KATHERINE FAULDERS JOINS ME NOW FOR MORE. CATHERINE, HOW SIGNIFICANT IS THIS NOT TO TESTIFY AND HOW IS THE DEFENSE MAKING CASE

WITHOUT HIS TESTIMONY? WELL, THE SHORT ANSWER, DIANE, TO THAT IS THEY’RE NOT MAKING A CASE WITHOUT HIS TESTIMONY. IN FACT, THEY DIDN’T CALL ANY WITNESSES. GIULIANI ISN’T TESTIFYING THE DEFENSE HAS RESTED. THEY’RE NOW. AND CLOSING ARGUMENTS INSIDE THIS COURTHOUSE. I WILL SAY THAT THE DECISION FOR TO NOT TESTIFY

IS SIGNIFICANT IN THE SENSE THAT HE HAS BEEN SPEAKING OUTSIDE THIS COURTHOUSE, THAT THE JUDGE WHO’S OVERSEEING THIS TRIAL HAS ADMONISHED HIM FOR SPEAKING OUTSIDE THIS COURTHOUSE HAS SAID THAT HE IS MAKING MORE DEFAMATORY COMMENTS AND IT’S SIGNIFICANT THAT HE’S TALKING OUTSIDE AND NOT INSIDE INSIDE. HE’S UNDER OATH, A JUDGE. OUTSIDE.

HE’S CONTINUING TO SAY THAT HE BELIEVES WHAT HE SAID ABOUT THESE TWO WOMEN, RUDY FREEMAN AND SHAYE MOSS IN, THE WAKE OF THAT 2020 ELECTION. HE’S, OF COURSE, ACCUSED THEM WITHOUT ANY EVIDENCE OF OVERTURNING SOME BALLOTS IN FULTON COUNTY, GEORGIA, OF TAMPERING WITH BALLOTS ON ELECTION DAY. HE SAID OUTSIDE COURT.

HE STILL BELIEVES THAT. WE KNOW THAT HIS LAWYERS HAVE SAID THAT THEY INTEND TO APPEAL THE DECISION HERE IS TODAY, BUT WE DO KNOW THAT HE WON’T BE SPEAKING AND TAKING THE STAND UNDER OATH IN COURT. >> CATHERINE, THE JUDGE ALREADY AWARDED A DEFAULT JUDGMENT HERE .

SO NOW IT’S JUST A QUESTION OF WHAT DAMAGES AND PENALTIES GIULIANI WILL HAVE TO PAY. WHAT STOOD OUT TO YOU FROM SEAMUS, HIS TESTIMONY AND HOW PLAINTIFFS HAVE MADE THEIR CASE HERE? >> RIGHT. IT WAS EMOTIONAL TESTIMONY FROM BOTH WOMEN. SEAMUS IN PARTICULAR, HAVING TO LEAVE HER JOB CHANGED

THE WAY SHE LOOKED. SHE TALKED ABOUT THE REPUTATIONAL HARM, HOW SHE DIDN’T KNOW HOW TO REPAIR HER REPUTATION, GIVEN THAT GIULIANI WAS SAYING THESE THINGS THAT WEREN’T TRUE PUBLICLY ABOUT HER, IT WAS EMOTIONAL SHE HELD BACK TEARS, DID WAS DID CRY AT TIMES HERE. SO BOTH WOMEN TESTIFIED AND.

WE’LL JUST HAVE TO SEE ULTIMATELY WHAT HAPPENS WITH THIS NUMBER. LAWYERS DID SAY THE LAWYERS REPRESENTING A MASSIVE WOMEN DID SAY THAT BOTH WOMEN ARE EACH ENTITLED TO $24 MILLION EACH. THAT’S WHAT THIS TRIAL IS ABOUT, AS YOU MENTIONED. HOW MUCH EXACTLY GIULIANI BE PAYING IN DAMAGES? ALL RIGHT. CNN REPORTER KATHERINE FAULDERS

IN WASHINGTON, THANK YOU. >> COMING UP, THE POWERFUL STORM MAKING ITS WAY ACROSS THE COUNTRY. WE HAVE THE TIMING AND POSSIBLE IMPACT ON HOLIDAY TRAVEL. ALSO AHEAD, THE GROUP WORKING TO MAKE TRAVEL SMOOTHER FOR PEOPLE WITH AUTISM. THE CHANGES, THEY WANT AIRLINES AND HOTELS TO IMPLEMENT. >> WHENEVER NEWS BREAKS, WE

ARE HERE IN ISRAEL, A NATION AT WAR AFTER THAT BRUTAL ATTACK BY HAMAS ON THE GROUND IN UKRAINE. >> REPORTING FROM LEWISTON MAINE, THE SCENE OF A HORRIFIC MASS SHOOTING. >> ABC NEWS LIVE IS RIGHT THERE ON THE SCENE OF THAT DEADLY MISSILE STRIKE CONTINUE FOR UKRAINE. REPORTING FROM THE EARTHQUAKE

IN TURKEY IN ROLLING FORTH. THIS TORNADO TORE THROUGH THIS LITTLE TOWN FROM THE MOST DISASTER IN HAWAII, FROM CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, ON THE 2024 CAMPAIGN TRAIL IN ICELAND. LET’S GO TRAVELING WITH THE PRESIDENT IN MEXICO CITY WHERE THE STORY FROM THE FRONT LINES FROM SOUTHERN ISRAEL OUTSIDE

THE GAZA STRIP IN BEIRUT. THE FBI REPORTING FROM THE NURSES ON THE PICKET LINE HERE AT TEN DOWNING STREET IN LONDON, STREAMING LIVE TO YOU FOREVER. THE STORY IS, WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WE’RE GOING TO TAKE THERE. WE’RE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE, ABC NEWS LIVE HERE, STREAMING

ABC NEWS LIVE, ABC NEWS LIVE, STREAMING FREE EVERYWHERE AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS WHEN THE ANNOUNCER CALLS MY NAME, THE WORLD ALMOST FADES AWAY. IT’S THE BIGGEST IT’S THE MOST FAMOUS DOG EVENT THERE IS. WELCOME TO CROOKS THE WORLD’S GREATEST DOPE SHOW, THE COMPETITION IN DOG DANCING . VERY STIFF HERE.

EVERY DOG HAS ITS DAY ON THE DANCE FLOOR. DANCING WITH MY DOG IS THE CLOSEST THING TO MAGIC SHOW WINNER OF THE 2023 THE SECRET LIFE OF DANCING DOGS NOW STREAMING ON HULU. >> ALL RIGHT, YOU READY? LET’S DO IT. YES, IT’S THE SHOW AMERICA WANTS AND AMERICA NEEDS RIGHT NOW.

THIS IS WHAT WOULD YOU DO NOW? LET’S GO. HOW ARE YOU, YOU GUYS? WHAT WILL YOU BE WATCHING SATURDAY IS ON ABC NEWS LIVE. WHAT WOULD YOU DO? >> I GUESS I JUST FOUND OUT. WHAT WOULD YOU DO? MARATHON IN 2 TO 6 EASTERN EVERY SATURDAY ON ABC NEWS LIVE?

>> MY FAVORITE SHOW. >> WELCOME BACK TO ABC NEWS LIVE. FIRST, A POWERFUL STORM MAKING ITS WAY ACROSS THE COUNTRY. UP TO SIX INCHES OF SNOW IN PARTS OF COLORADO AND NEW MEXICO WREAKING HAVOC ON THE ROADS. NOW, THAT SYSTEM IS EXPECTED TO MOVE SOUTH, BRINGING RAIN

TO TEXAS AND THE GULF COAST. ABC’S SAM CHAMPION IS TRACKING IT ALL FOR US. SAM WE HAVE NOT BEEN SO LUCKY WITH BIG STORMS AND THE TIMING OF BIG TRAVEL. AND HERE WE GO AGAIN WITH THE STORM THAT CAN IMPACT AND WILL LIKELY SOME AREA AIRPORTS. SO LET’S TALK ABOUT THIS

AS IT’S A BIG SNOWMAKER IN THE SOUTHERN ROCKIES. THIS IS ABOUT FOUR INCHES OF SNOW IN COLORADO SPRINGS. COME ON, COLORADO, WE COULD DO BETTER THAT WE KNOW HOW TO DRIVE. WE’RE NEAR DENVER. WE KNOW HOW TO DRIVE IN SNOW. SO ANYWAY, AS THAT PULLS OUT, IT’S JUST A GARDEN VARIETY LOW

WITH SOME RAIN ALONG IN TEXAS. BUT LOOK AT WHERE THIS REALLY CHANGES AND GAME ON. IS THIS LOW FROM THE GULF, SPREADS THIS RAIN INTO FLORIDA. I’M GOING TO SHOW YOU IN A MINUTE HOW FLORIDA’S ALREADY BEEN IMPACTED, BUT THIS IS SOME BIG TIME HEAVY RAIN, THAT KIND

OF TIMES ITS UP TO BE SUNDAY, EARLY MORNING FOR NORTH FLORIDA TOWARD, THE ATLANTA AIRPORT. THEN BY SUNDAY AFTERNOON, IT’S THE RALEIGH AREA. THEN BY THE TIME WE GET INTO MONDAY MORNING, WE’RE TALKING ALL FIVE AREA AIRPORTS IN NEW YORK ON INTO BOSTON WITH SOME HEAVY WIND, RAIN.

NOW, THIS IS WHAT FLORIDA HAS BEEN DEALING WITH, WITH KIND OF A STALLED STATIONARY FRONT RIGHT THERE. SO EVEN BEFORE THE STORM, BIG STORM WINDS UP AND GETS THERE. THEY’VE HAD SOME WIND AND SOME RAIN. AND THIS IS JUST GOING TO MAKE IT EVEN FOR THEM BECAUSE WE’LL SEE UP TO TEN INCHES

OF RAIN AS A TOTAL IN SOME OF FLORIDA. AND WE’VE GOT THOSE WIND ADVISORIES OUT. YOU’RE GOING TO HAVE WINDS UP TO 45 MILES PER HOUR AND SOME WAVES WILL APPROACH LIKE THAT 13 FOOT MARK. SO THAT’S PRETTY TOUGH FOR THE COAST OF FLORIDA. THEN AT HOW THESE RAINFALL

TOTALS GO, ANYWHERE FROM 5 TO 10 INCHES OF RAIN ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS. LOOK AT THE NEW YORK AREA. AIRPORTS JUST A LITTLE BIT NORTH. AND AGAIN, DON’T HOLD US EXACTLY TO THIS BECAUSE WE’RE STILL IN THE MODELS HERE WITH ABOUT 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN. SO A LOT OF THESE AREAS

AND AIRPORTS ARE IMPACTED IN THIS TRAVEL. WE’LL BE WATCHING IT, DIANE. >> ALL RIGHT, ABC, SAM CHAMPION, THANK YOU. AND THAT STORM COULD IMPACT THE EARLY START TO HOLIDAY TRAVEL. AIRLINES ARE GETTING READY FOR A RECORD BREAKING NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO ARE EXPECTED TO FLY FROM NOW UNTIL END OF THE YEAR.

ABC NEWS TRANSPORTATION CORRESPONDENT GIO BENITEZ IS AT LAGUARDIA WITH MORE. >> HI, GIO. HEY THERE. WE’RE NOT JUST TALKING ABOUT A SLIGHT INCREASE IN TRAVELERS HERE. WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE BUSIEST TRAVEL PERIOD EVER DURING THE HOLIDAYS. TAKE A LOOK AT THESE NUMBERS BECAUSE TRIPLE J EXPECTS, SOME 7.5 MILLION DOMESTIC

TRAVELERS BETWEEN SATURDAY, DECEMBER THIRD THROUGH MONDAY, JANUARY FIRST. >> THAT’S MORE THAN 2019. THE U.S. AIRLINES EXPECT TO SELL 39 MILLION SEATS DOMESTICALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY FROM NEXT WEDNESDAY INTO THE NEW YEAR. BUT YOU’LL REMEMBER, YOU’LL REMEMBER THAT SOUTHWEST MELTDOWN LAST DECEMBER WHEN ALMOST 17,000 FLIGHTS WERE CANCELED. PEOPLE WERE STRANDED ALL OVER

THE PLACE. SOUTHWEST SAID THE WEATHER CAUSED IT, BUT IT WAS THE ONLY AIRLINE HIT HARD BECAUSE PLANES AND CREWS, THEY WERE JUST IN THE WRONG PLACE. WE’VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THAT ROUGH WEATHER IN MAJOR CITIES WITH MAJOR AIRPORTS. THAT’S WHAT AIRLINES ARE WORRIED ABOUT NOW, IN NO

SMALL PART BECAUSE THE SHORTAGE IN AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS. UNITED SAYS, THOUGH, IT IS WITH MORE THAN 150 DEICING TRUCKS AND 15,000 NEW HIRES BY THE END OF THE YEAR. AND YOU JUST FORGET ABOUT THE ROADS. TRIPLE-A EXPECTS NEARLY 104 MILLION PEOPLE TO DRIVE OVER THE HOLIDAYS AND WEATHER, OF COURSE, COULD IMPACT THE

TRIP. NOW, IF YOU ARE DRIVING TRY TO AVOID AS BEST YOU CAN, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23RD, BECAUSE THAT WILL BE THE BUSIEST DAY. >> ALL RIGHT ABC NEWS TRANSPORTATION CORRESPONDENT GIO BENITEZ, THANKS FOR THAT DEAL. AND THAT ORGANIZATION IS TRYING TO MAKE THIS HOLIDAY TRAVEL SEASON LESS STRESSFUL. THOSE WITH AUTISM.

AUTISM DOUBLE CHECKED IS PROVIDING THE TRAVEL WITH TOOLS FOR TAKING CARE OF PEOPLE WITH SPECIAL NEEDS. >> TAKE A LOOK. THERE ARE NOT VERY MANY ORGANIZATIONS THAT HELP THE AUTISTIC COMMUNITY TO BE ABLE TO TO TRAVEL, TRAVEL CAN BE A STRESSFUL EXPERIENCE AND THE AUTISTIC COMMUNITY

TO BE ABLE TO HAVE THEM LEARN WHAT IT IS TO GO THROUGH THIS PROCESS. JUST AN AMAZING THING TO BE ABLE TO WATCH THESE YOUNG PEOPLE. ALSO DOUBLE IS AN ORGANIZATION THAT TACKLES TROUBLE WITH AUTISM TO ASPECTS. GET THE TRAVEL INDUSTRY READY FOR THE COMMUNITY. GETTING THE AUTISM COMMUNITY

READY FOR THE TRAVEL INDUSTRY. WHAT WE’RE DOING TODAY IS AN AUTISM FLIES EVENT, AND THIS EVENT IS REALLY BOTH SIDES. THAT EQUATION BEING ABLE TO PUT IT INTO PRACTICE. MY CO-FOUNDER AND I ARE LIFELONG TRAVEL PROFESSIONALS. BOTH HAVE SPECIAL NEEDS SONS. WE WERE LOOKING AT THE SIDE

OF THE INDUSTRY AS AN INDUSTRY WASN’T READY TO CATER TO PEOPLE WITH SPECIAL NEEDS. AND IT WAS ONE OF THOSE THINGS THAT SOMEBODY HAS TO DO IT. >> WOW. IT PROBABLY HAS TO BE US HERE AT THE OFFICE AND GIVE THEM EVERY COMPONENT OF IT EXCEPT THE ACTUAL FLIGHT.

THEY’RE GOING COME IN. THEY’RE GOING TO CHECK IN. THEY WILL GET A GAME PASS JUST A BOARDING PASS FOR A REAL FLIGHT THAT WILL GO THROUGH THE ACTUAL TSA LINE THAT WILL HAVE TO BE SCREENED THROUGH METAL DETECTOR. THEN THEY’LL COME TO THE GATE AND THEY WILL BE CALLED.

>> WE WILL BE STARTING THE BOARDING IN JUST A FEW MINUTES. MY SON’S EVER BEEN ON A PLANE? IT TERRIFIES HIM. SO WHEN AUTISM WISE CAME UP, IT WAS A WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY. IT WAS VERY, VERY NERVOUS. I THINK IT TOOK US ABOUT 30 MINUTES TO GET THROUGH SECURITY.

COMING BACK FOR A SECOND TIME WITH JAKE, WE WALKED THROUGH. HE HANDLED IT LIKE A CHAMP. HE DID NOT CRY. AND IT CAME THROUGH PRETTY QUICKLY. OUR HOPE WITH THIS IS THAT THE MORE WE DO THIS AND THE MORE OTHER AIRLINES SEE US DOING THIS. AND IT’S NOT JUST AIRLINES,

HOTELS AND IT’S AIRPORTS AND IT’S THE ENTIRE SORT OF TRAVEL ECOSYSTEM THAT IT REALLY CATCHES ON. WE WOULD LOVE FOR EVERY AIRLINE TO BE ABLE TO DO THIS, AND I THINK WE’D ALL BE BETTER FOR IT. BUT INSPIRATION EVERY DAY IS WHEN WE HEAR FROM FAMILIES THANKFUL TO MISS. THIS IS SO AWESOME.

JUST PEOPLE REALLY, REALLY APPRECIATE IT. AND TO SEE THIS, IT’S MADE A DIFFERENCE FOR THEM IS ALL THE MOTIVATION YOU COULD EVER WANT. >> THANKS TO OUR FRIENDS “GMA3” FOR THAT STORY. >> COMING UP, CELEBRATING 100 YEARS OF DISNEY LEGENDS AND STARS ARE COMING TOGETHER TO TELL THE STORIES BEHIND THE STORY.

WE HAVE A PREVIEW NEXT. HOUSTON POLICE SAY THE 16 YEAR OLD SHOT BOTH OF HIS PARENTS NOW FRIDAY INSIDE THE COURTROOM AND THE SHOCKING NEW EVIDENCE THAT CAME IN JUST DAYS BEFORE THE TRIAL BEGAN. YOU GOT TO BE KIDDING. WHOSE BLOOD IS THIS? I COULDN’T EVEN FATHOM THE IDEA

OF KILLING MY PARENTS. EVERYTHING THEY POINTS TO HIM. ONLY IN 2020. FRIDAY NIGHT AT 9 A.M. CENTRAL ON ABC. TONIGHT, A WOMAN’S TO MAKE HER OWN HEALTH CHOICES WITH ABORTION. PILL ACCESS SET GO BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT. IS A CRISIS BREWING? MORE AMERICANS TURN TO THE MOST WATCHED PROGRAM ON TELEVISION

“WORLD NEWS TONIGHT” WITH DAVID MUIR. YOU’RE BACK AT IT AGAIN. I GOT NOTHING ELSE TO DO. I GOT TO VISIT ALL MY HOUSE TOMORROW. CLOONEY, MICHAEL STRAHAN, THE ALL-NEW INTERVIEW PERSON YOU TRADE PLACES WITH FOR A DAY TOMORROW. IT’S A CRAZY DAY, LEON. >> GOOD MORNING, AMERICA.

PRETTY SOON, MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE FROM ABC NEWS THIS IS “START HERE” TO BE IN THE KNOW AND GET A DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE DAY’S TOP STORIES. A LOT OF NEWS TODAY SO LET’S GET INTO IT. LISTEN NOW TO THE DAILY NEWS PODCAST HONORED WITH FOUR

EDWARD R MURROW AWARDS AND SEE WHY THE NEW YORK CALLS IT A NEWS PODCAST WORTH LISTENING TO. YOU START HERE. ABC NEWS MAKE IT YOUR DAILY FIRST LISTEN NOW THAT’S A PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING. >> WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS START HERE. >> REPORTING OUTSIDE THE STRIP,

I’M MATT GUTMAN, WHEREVER THE NEWS IS. WE’LL TAKE YOU THERE. YOU’RE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE . >> WELCOME BACK TO ABC NEWS LIVE. FIRST, WE ARE CELEBRATING THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF OUR PARENT COMPANY, DISNEY. DISNEY LEGENDS AND. STARS ARE COMING TOGETHER TO TELL THE STORIES BEHIND THE STORY. ONE CENTURY IN THE MAKING,

CHRIS CONNELLY HAS IT ALL IN OUR TWO HOUR SPECIAL EDITION OF 2020. >> AND WE’VE GOT A PREVIEW. 100 YEARS OF THE WALT DISNEY COMPANY, STORIED HISTORY. IN 2 HOURS. >> NO PRESSURE. CHALLENGE ACCEPTED. LET’S. >> AND IT’S ALL HERE. THE MEMORIES. PIRATES CARIBBEAN. IT’S BEST RIDE I’VE EVER BEEN

ON THE MAGIC. I LOVE SNOW WHITE. >> SO GOOD. AND THE MAN WHO MADE IT ALL POSSIBLE AS YOU’VE NEVER HEARD HIM BEFORE. >> MY GREATEST REWARD THINK IS THAT I’VE BEEN ABLE TO BUILD THIS WONDERFUL ORGANIZATION AND ALSO TO HAVE THE PUBLIC APPRECIATE AND ACCEPT WHAT I’VE DONE ALL THESE YEARS.

THAT IS A GREAT, MONUMENTAL GENTLEMAN. HIS WERE LARGER THAN MOST PEOPLES. >> THE LIGHTS DOCUMENTARY EVENT CHOCK FULL OF DISNEY LEGENDS SHARING THEIR SECRETS. I DIDN’T HOW TO DANCE, SO I JUST FIGURED HE HAD A TREASURE TROVE OF DISNEY. >> DID YOU KNOW? WON’T EVEN DID MICKEY’S VOICE EARLY ON.

HOW DO YOU WANT TO GET TOTAL FREAK OUT AND THE WAYS IN WHICH THAT IS THE UNIVERSE HAS EXPANDED THROUGH THE YEARS TO BE A PART, SOMETHING LIKE BLACK PANTHER THAT REALLY CHANGES WHAT IS POSSIBLE WITH BLACK STORY. AND HOLLYWOOD HAS BEEN MONUMENTAL. >> WE’LL TAKE YOU INSIDE THE VAULTS.

>> THE FUNNY FACE IS SNEEZY. HE HAS HAY FEVER ACROSS THE GLOBE AND ALONG THE WAY, RELIVE THE STORIES. EXPERIENCES, GENERATION AFTER GENERATION HAVE BEEN JOINED TOGETHER THANKS TO WALL AND THE MANY WISHES IN HIS HEART. THAT WAS HIS SECRET THAT HE WAS STILL A CHILD INSIDE.

AND CHRIS CONNELLY JOINS ME NOW FOR MORE ON THIS. CHRIS, WHAT DO YOU THINK THIS 100 YEAR MARK MEANS FOR WALT LEGACY AND FOR THE COMPANY ITSELF? >> DIANE, I THINK IF YOU IMAGINE EVERYTHING THAT WALT DISNEY HIMSELF CREATED, DID, EVERYTHING THAT WAS CREATED BY, CREATIVE PEOPLE AND EXECUTIVES IN THE YEARS AFTERWARDS.

YOU THINK OF ALL THE AMAZING FRANCHISES THAT THE WALT DISNEY COMPANY ACQUIRED. ALL OF IT CAN SIT ONE ROOF. THAT’S CREATIVITY AND STORYTELLING, INNOVATION AND A SENSE OF OPTIMISM. >> AND ALSO THE IDEA THAT DISNEY AND EXPERIENCES ARE FOR EVERYONE IN THE WORLD TO ENJOY.

>> I THINK THOSE ARE THE VALUES THAT ENDURE AND PREVAIL. SO WHAT ELSE WILL WE SEE IN THE SPECIAL TONIGHT, CHRIS? >> WELL, THERE’S LOTS OF STUFF THAT. I DIDN’T KNOW THAT I WAS FASCINATED TO LEARN. YOU TAKE SOMETHING LIKE SNOW, IMAGINE ANY CREATIVE ENDEAVOR IN THE HOLLYWOOD BUSINESS WAS

LIKE AVATAR OR STAR WARS SNOW. IT WAS EVERY BIT ITS EQUAL IN TERMS OF CHALLENGE. PEOPLE LIKE STEVE JOBS ADMIRED SNOW WHITE IN PARTICULAR BECAUSE IT WAS SUCH A MONUMENTAL UNDERTAKING WITH, ITS TECHNOLOGY AND ITS CREATIVITY. YOU IMAGINE SOMETHING LIKE THE THAT WALL HELPED TO FUND THE CREATION OF DISNEYLAND

BY CREATING TELEVISION PRODUCT FOR ABC. THAT’S HOW THE MICKEY MOUSE CLUB GOT STARTED ORIGINALLY. AND IT TAKES SOMETHING LIKE THAT FANTASTIC SONG, LET IT. YOU’LL HEAR ABOUT HOW ITS CREATION AND ITS WONDERFUL PERFORMANCE FROM IDINA MENZEL CHANGED THE COURSE OF WHAT FROZEN WAS ALL ABOUT. SO EVERY MOMENT IN THIS SPECIAL

HAS SOME SORT OF INSIGHT ABOUT DISNEY CONTENT THAT YOU MAY HAVE NEVER HEARD BEFORE. >> SO CHRIS, IN ALL OF THIS AND YOUR OWN EXPERIENCE, LIKE SO MANY OF US, WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE DISNEY MOMENT? >> WELL, I YOU KNOW, MY FAVORITE DISNEY SHOW OF ALL TIME ON DISNEY CHANNEL.

>> IS KIM POSSIBLE AND I AM PLEASED TO SAY THAT WE’VE GOT CHRISTY CARLSON ROMANO TALKING ABOUT THAT SHOW. BUT, YOU KNOW, JUST A FEW BLOCKS AWAY FROM WHERE YOU ARE, I SAW MARY POPPINS AS, A KID, AND I WOUND UP IN MY THIRD GRADE GLEE CLUB SINGING THE ENTIRE TO OUR PARENTS.

>> SO I GO BACK A LONG WAY WITH DISNEY CONTENT ON IT. >> I LOVE IT. CHRIS CONNOLLY, THANKS FOR THAT. AND MORE OF YOUR FAVORITE STARS AND AN EXCLUSIVE INSIDE LOOK AT A BRAND NEW DISNEY ATTRACTION. WATCH DISNEY 100 A CENTURY OF DREAMS AIRING TONIGHT AT 9

P.M. EASTERN ON ABC AND THEN STREAMING ON HULU AND DISNEY PLUS. >> THANKS FOR STREAMING WITH US. I’M DIANE MACEDO ABC NEWS LIVE IS HERE FOR YOU ANYTIME WITH THE LATEST NEWS, CONTEXT AND ANALYSIS. YOU CAN ALWAYS FIND US ON VARIOUS STREAMING SERVICES ABC NEWS APP AND OF COURSE ON ABCNEWS.COM.

THE NEWS NEVER. WE’LL BE RIGHT BACK. >> WE ARE GETTING. >> I WAS TERRIFIED. >> IT WAS JUST A TRAUMATIC NIGHTMARE. PEOPLE NEED TO UNDERSTAND. PEOPLE WANTED BABIES. 18 FACING LIFE, DEATH. MEDICAL CONDITIONS. THEIR LIVES NOW OUT OF THEIR CONTROL. I FELT LIKE I WAS GOING TO DIE.

OUR LIVES AND OUR HEALTH ARE DEBATABLE. >> I WANT TO WISH THIS UPON MY WORST ENEMY. DIANE SAWYER SAT ON THE BRINK. NOW STREAMING ON HULU. HOUSTON POLICE SAY THE 16 YEAR OLD SHOT BOTH OF HIS PARENTS FRIDAY NIGHT. INSIDE THE COURTROOM IN THE SHOCKING EVIDENCE THAT CAME

IN JUST DAYS BEFORE THE TRIAL BEGAN. YOU GOT TO BE KIDDING ME. WHOSE BLOOD IS THIS? I COULDN’T FATHOM THE IDEA OF KILLING MY PARENTS. EVERYTHING. EVERYTHING POINTS TO HIM. ONLY 2020. FRIDAY NIGHT AT NINE EIGHT CENTRAL ON ABC. WE ARE HERE IN ISRAEL A NATION

AT WAR WITH THE TANK AFTER TANK POURING INTO THIS. >> THIS IS WHERE IT ALL BEGAN. BULLET HOLES ALL UP A WALL WITHIN MINUTES OF THE AIR RAID SIRENS GOING OFF IN A SIMILAR EXPLOSION DOWN HERE. TONIGHT, ISRAEL WAGING A FIERCE BOMBARDMENT OF GAZA, THE ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR, FOR NONSTOP LIVE COVERAGE

STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE REPORTING FROM SOUTHERN ISRAEL, FROM THE FRONT LINES, DOWNTOWN AND BEIRUT, WHEREVER THE STORY IS. WE’LL TAKE YOU THERE. >> ABC NEWS LIVE. FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. THERE’S A LOT GOING ON. EVERYBODY IN THAT HOME IS OKAY TO CATCH YOU UP WITH WHAT HAPPENED OVERNIGHT.

WE ARE HERE AT FASHION’S BIGGEST NIGHT OUT. WHAT’S HAPPENING TODAY? YOU TUBE HAS UNVEILED A NEW SET OF POLICIES. WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT, THE NEW AD CAMPAIGN FAST, STRAIGHT FORWARD WITH SOME FUN IN BETWEEN A REAL LIFE BARBIE DREAM HOUSE. A NAME CHANGE FOR THE WIENERMOBILE. FIRST THING IN THE MORNING,

AMERICA. THIS MORNING, AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE EARLY MORNING NEWS ON ABC NEWS ONE. >> WHAT YOU SAY MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE FOR ABC NEWS THIS IS “START HERE”. TO BE IN THE KNOW AND GET A DIFFERENT TAKE THE DAY’S TOP STORIES. A LOT OF NEWS TODAY SO LET’S GET RIGHT TO IT.

LISTEN NOW TO THE DAILY NEWS PODCAST HONORED WITH FOUR EDWARD OUR MURROW AWARDS AND SEE WHY THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS IT A NEWS PODCAST WORTH LISTENING TO. YOU START HERE. ABC NEWS. WE GET YOUR DAILY FIRST. LISTEN NOW, THAT’S A PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING.

>> WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS, START HERE. WELCOME BACK TO ABC NEWS LIVE. FIRST, THANKS FOR SHARING WITH US. YOU’RE LOOKING AT SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO, WHERE YOU CAN SEE SOME SNOW ON THE GROUND ON THIS THURSDAY. AND WE HAVE A LOT OF NEWS TO GET TO. HERE’S RUNDOWN RIGHT NOW.

FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE RUSSIA LAUNCHED ITS WAR AGAINST VLADIMIR PUTIN HAS HOSTED HIS ANNUAL PRESS CONFERENCE. RUSSIAN STATE MEDIA SAYS AT LEAST 2 MILLION QUESTIONS WERE SUBMITTED TO THE EVENT DURING THE FOUR HOUR CONFERENCE. PUTIN SAID THERE WOULD BE NO PEACE IN UKRAINE UNTIL THE KREMLIN REALIZES ITS GOALS.

LAST YEAR’S EVENT WAS CANCELED DUE TO THE WAR. AUTHORITIES ARE WARNING STUDENTS TO BE ON ALERT AFTER THREE ATTEMPTED ABDUCTIONS NEAR THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA. THEY SAY THREE WOMEN REPORT BEING FOLLOWED BY A MAN DRIVING A BLUE TOYOTA. ONE SAYS SHE WAS ATTACKED FROM BEHIND AND SCREAMED BEFORE THE SUSPECT.

ANOTHER SAYS SHE WAS GROPED BUT GOT AWAY. NOW THE IS INVESTIGATING. THE NBA SAYS GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS STAR DRAYMOND GREEN IS SUSPENDED INDEFINITELY. IT COMES AFTER GREEN GOT HIS SIXTH SUSPENSION IN HIS CAREER AND SECOND IN LESS THAN A MONTH. THAT WAS FOR SWINGING AT PHOENIX SUNS CENTER,

KNOCKING HIM TO THE GROUND LAST NIGHT. GREEN SAYS IT WAS UNINTENTIONAL . THE NBA SAYS FOR HIM TO RETURN TO THE COURT, HE WILL BE REQUIRED TO MEET CERTAIN LEAGUE AND TEAM CONDITIONS. AND A CURIOUS CASE OF A MISSING TOMATO HAS FINALLY BEEN SOLVED IN SPACE. EARLIER THIS YEAR, FRANK RUBIO

HARVESTED ONE OF THE FIRST TOMATOES EVER GROWN IN SPACE AT THE INTERNATIONAL STATION. BUT THEN, WHILE TALKING TO SOME KIDS, HE THE CHERRY TOMATO. NOT MORE THAN TWO MONTHS AFTER RUBIO RETURNED EARTH, ANOTHER ASTRONAUT REPORTS THAT TOMATO HAS BEEN FOUND. RUBIO IS NOW ABSOLVED OF SOME PLAYFUL ACCUSATIONS THAT HE ATE

THAT TOMATO. >> MEANWHILE, WOMEN WITH HIGH RISK PREGNANCIES ARE FACING A GROWING NUMBER OF EMERGENCY ISSUES AS THE LEGAL BATTLE FOR ABORTION ACCESS GROWS. SEVERAL DOZEN WOMEN ARE CURRENTLY WAITING ON DECISIONS IN A STRING OF CASES ABOUT HEALTH EXCEPTIONS IN STATES WITH SEVERE ABORTION RESTRICTIONS. NOW OUR DIANE SAWYER

AND RACHEL SCOTT HAVE TEAMED UP FOR AN ABC NEWS SPECIAL REPORT TO TELL THE STORIES OF WOMEN ENDURING THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE ABORTION LEGAL BATTLE. HERE’S PREVIEW. WE’RE THERE AS THEY WALK INTO A ROOM IN TEXAS, IDAHO, FLORIDA ,SOUTH CAROLINA, WISCONSIN, ARIZONA, ARKANSAS, TENNESSEE. THEY ARE STRANGERS WHO HAVE GATHERED TOGETHER

BECAUSE THEY SHARE A COMMON BOND SUFFERING THE CROSSFIRE AND CONFUSION OF NEW HEALTH CARE LAWS. LAWS IN 21 STATES IN THIS COUNTRY WITH VARYING BANS AND RESTRICTIONS. THESE WOMEN SAY THEY KNOW THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF OUT THERE LIKE THEM. IT TAKES COURAGE TO GO ON CAMERA.

I’M WONDERING HOW MANY OF YOU ALMOST DIDN’T COME. HOW MANY OF YOU FELT YOU HAD TO COME? YEAH, FOR SURE. WHAT? THAT IS ABOUT. AND I DON’T THINK PEOPLE REALIZE HOW COMMON THIS . >> IS THIS A DEBATE OVER ABORTION OR IS IT A DEBATE OVER HEALTH?

>> HEALTH CARE, OVER HUMAN RIGHTS? THAT’S WHAT PEOPLE NEED TO UNDERSTAND IS THAT THESE WERE UNWANTED BABIES. >> LET’S START WITH STORY OF THIS WOMAN IN THE FRONT ROW. KRISTEN AND I ARE LIKE, SO IN THIS ROOM, FOR MONTHS AND MONTHS, SHE’D BEEN TRYING TO GET PREGNANT. HERE’S THE MOMENT.

SHE GOT THE PHONE CALL OF HER DREAMS. >> HELLO, CHRISTIAN. IT MEANS WE’LL BE GOING TOGETHER. WE ARE IN THE GOOD RELATIONSHIP MAKING FOUR MONTHS OF COMPLETE HAPPINESS BEFORE THE DAY OF COMPLETE HEARTBREAK. ALL OF SUDDEN, KRISTEN FELT SOMETHING WRONG. THE MEMBRANES HER FETUS BROKE AND HER WATER. THE AMNIOTIC FLUID LOST.

DOCTORS SAY THIS HAPPENED SO EARLY, THE FETUS CANNOT BE SAVED WITH HER FETUS DYING INSIDE HER. KRISTEN IS NOW AT RISK. THE CLOCK BEGINS TICKING ON INFECTION AND THE TERROR OF SEPSIS. INFECTION CAN RAGE THROUGH YOUR BLOODSTREAM AND CAUSE ORGAN FAILURE IN STATES WHERE THERE ARE NO BANS, DOCTORS

WOULD ARRANGE TO INDUCE LABOR TO PROTECT HER HEALTH, HER FERTILITY, HER LIFE. >> WITHIN HOURS, I WAS SHOWING ALL SIGNS OF SEPSIS. THE DOCTORS NEEDED TO START INDUCING ME IMMEDIATELY. HOWEVER, THEY WERE UNABLE TO BECAUSE OF TEXAS ABORTION LAWS AND THE EXACT WORDS WERE WE HAVE TO PROVE TO THE ETHICS

BOARD AND THE MEDICAL OF THIS HOSPITAL THAT YOUR LIFE IS IN DANGER BEFORE WE COULD INTERVENE. >> SHE IS SHAKING VIOLENTLY FROM FEVER, VOMITING, NONSTOP. >> OUR DOCTOR NURSES WERE CRYING AT OUR BEDSIDE, AT MY BEDSIDE, WISHING THEY COULD DO SOMETHING WITH BLANK STARES ON THEIR FACES BECAUSE THEY LITERALLY COULDN’T DO

ANYTHING UNTIL THE BLOODWORK SHOWED THAT I WAS DYING. HOUR BY HOUR, THE DOCTORS MONITOR THE INCREASE OF THE INFECTION IN HER BLOOD. SHE KNOWS THERE’S NO CHANCE THE BABY. SHE’S LITERALLY DYING INSIDE OF ME AS I LAY ON THE BED GOING SEPTIC. AND WHAT THE WORLD. DOES THAT MAKE ANY SENSE

TO PREVENT HEALTH CARE FOR ME? >> YEAH. WHAT ABOUT MY LIFE? WE DIDN’T ASK FOR THAT. >> WE DIDN’T WANT THAT. SO YOU WERE WAITING AT HOW MANY HOURS? >> ALMOST 20 4 HOURS. FINALLY, THE BOARDS APPROVED TREATMENT. HER DOCTORS INDUCED LABOR. THE BABY PASSES. BUT KRISTEN IS SO SICK FROM

THE INFECTION, SHE HAS TO REMAIN IN THE HOSPITAL FOR THE NEXT FIVE DAYS. GETTING I.V. ANTIBODIES, TICKS AND BLOOD TRANSFUSIONS. A ROOM FULL OF WOMAN WITH SEARING STORIES OF TRYING TO GET MEDICAL CARE. BUT STATE LAWS HAVE TIED THEIR DOCTORS HANDS. THE STORIES WILL BREAK YOUR HEART. RISK OF BLOOD CLOTS,

INFECTIONS, EVERY SINGLE ONE OF MY SON’S ORGANS WERE GOING OUTSIDE OF HIS BODY. >> THAT IS A THAT’S MONSTROUS. >> MISSING THE SKULL, WOMAN AND DOCTORS SOUNDING THE ALARM. THAT SOMETHING HAS TO CHANGE IS 25% CHANCE OF DEATH. IS THAT. IS THAT ENOUGH? DOES SHE HAVE TO HAVE A 75%

CHANCE OF DEATH? WHO GETS TO DECIDE? >> YOU’RE NOT FATAL ENOUGH OR YOU’RE NOT ENOUGH. IT’S LIKE, IN WHAT WORLD ARE WE LIVING RIGHT NOW? >> MANY OF THEIR HUSBANDS ALSO FELT URGENT. NEED TO BE HERE, CALLING ON MEN ACROSS THE COUNTRY TO. >> JOIN IN PROTECTING PREGNANT

WOMEN, FIGHTING TO LIVE. CAN CHANGE WITHOUT THE SUPPORT OF MEN. NO, NO. IMAGINE THIS. CONTINUED TO KEEP GOING ON. AND WE DON’T STEP UP AS MEN. >> IT’S GOING TO BE A LOT OF CASUALTIES, A LOT OF WOMEN GOING TO DIE. >> AND RACHEL SCOTT IS JOINING

ME NOW FOR MORE ON THIS. RACHEL, YOU’VE BEEN REPORTING ON THIS FOR ALMOST A YEAR NOW. SO WHAT STICKS OUT TO YOU FROM THESE STORIES THAT YOU’VE HEARD? AND WHEN I ORIGINALLY STARTED ON THE IMPACT OF THE ABORTION LAWS ACROSS THE COUNTRY, DOCTORS WARNED THAT WOMEN WOULD GET HURT, THAT WOMEN’S LIVES,

THAT THEIR HEALTH COULD BE PUT IN DANGER. AND SO WHEN DOCTORS WHEN WE SAT DOWN WITH THEM, THEY PULLED BACK THE CURTAIN ABOUT HOW THEY FELT THEIR HANDS WERE TIED, OR THEY KNEW THAT THEIR OWN PATIENTS SUFFERING. THEY KNEW THAT THEIR OWN PATIENTS HEALTH, FUTURE FERTILITY, POSSIBLY THEIR LIVES

WERE AT RISK, BUT THEY FELT LIKE THEY COULDN’T JUST HAVE HONEST AND CONVERSATIONS WITH THEM. THEY FELT LIKE THEY COULDN’T EVEN SAY THE WORD ABORTION DOCTOR SAID THAT THEY FELT LIKE THEY HAD TO TALK IN CODE BECAUSE OF THE FINES THE PENALTIES UP TO LIFE IN PRISON THAT THEY COULD FACE

IN AT LEAST TWO STATES IN THIS COUNTRY. AND SO THIS REALLY IS SUCH AN INSIGHTFUL AND DEEP DIVE INTO THE CONVERSATIONS THAT ARE PLAYING OUT IN THESE STATES AND IN CLINICS ACROSS THE COUNTRY. AND I KNOW YOUR REPORTING AND DIANE’S REPORTING COVERS. >> YOU SPOKE TO NEARLY A HUNDRED DOCTORS.

SO HOW ARE THEY TALKING TO THEIR PATIENTS ABOUT THIS? THEY FIND IT EXTREMELY EXTREMELY DIFFICULT. AND THE REALITY IS A LOT OF TIMES THEIR PATIENTS SOME OF THEM TRAVEL OUT OF STATE, THEY COME BACK WITH THESE COMPLICATIONS. WE TALKED TO ONE WOMAN WHO WAS HEMORRHAGING IN THE BACK SEAT OF A RENTAL

CAR BECAUSE IT TOOK HER ONE MONTH TO BE ABLE TO FIND A STATE TO ACTUALLY A NON-VIABLE PREGNANCY. AND THAT NOW HAS POSED A RISK TO HER FUTURE FERTILITY. I MEAN, THESE STORIES ARE SEARING. THEY ARE HEARTBREAKING. AND AT THE END OF THE DAY THEY’RE JUST ASKING FOR SOMETHING TO CHANGE.

THESE WERE ALL WANTED PREGNANCIES. THERE ARE EXCEPTIONS IN THESE STATES THAT ALLOW FOR TO SAVE THE LIFE OF THE MOTHER. BUT SOMEHOW THESE PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS ARE NOT INCLUDED IN, THOSE EXCEPTIONS. AND THESE WOMEN WILL TELL YOU THEY FEEL LIKE THEY PAID THE PRICE. RIGHT. I KNOW THAT YOU’RE GOING

TO STAY ON TOP OF THIS STORY, RACHEL SCOTT. WE APPRECIATE IT. YOU. AND YOU CAN WATCH “IMPACT X NIGHTLINE” ON THE BRINK STREAMING ON HULU BEGINNING TODAY. AND CLOSING ARGUMENTS ARE EXPECTED TODAY IN THE JONATHAN MAJORS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE TRIAL. THE DEFENSE RESTED ITS CASE YESTERDAY AND JUDGE RELEASED

NEW EVIDENCE, INCLUDING VIDEO, AUDIO, TEXTS AND PHOTOS. >> SENIOR INVESTIGATIVE CORRESPONDENT AARON KATERSKY HAS THE LATEST ON THAT CASE. >> JONATHAN MAJORS RETURNS TO COURT AS THE JURY PREPARES TO DECIDE A DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CASE THAT COULD DETERMINE THE TRAJECTORY OF THE ACTOR’S CAREER. >> WHAT HAPPENED EXACTLY? YOU KNOW?

YOU KNOW, I DON’T KNOW. >> ON THE SECOND FRANCES MAJORS CALLED 911 BACK IN MARCH, I THINK I SAW A CUT BEHIND HER AFTER HE FOUND HIS EX-GIRLFRIEND, GRACE JABOURI, ON A CLOSET FLOOR IN THEIR APARTMENT. THE JURY SAW VIDEO FROM POLICE BODY CAMERAS. JABARI DID HAVE A CUT BEHIND

HER EAR. THE JURY, THIS PICTURE OF IT. THE JURY ALSO SAW A PHOTO OF JABBAR. HIS FINGER THAT. SHE TESTIFIED MAJORS FRACTURED DURING AN ASSAULT IN THE BACK SEAT OF AN SUV. MY HEAD WAS RESTING ON HIS SHOULDER, JABARI TOLD THE JURY. WE WERE CHATTING. HE WAS SCROLLING ON HIS PHONE

WHEN A MESSAGE POPPED UP SAYING, I WISH WAS KISSING YOU UPSET BY THE MESSAGE. JABARI TESTIFIED SHE THE PHONE. AND THEN I FELT A HEAVY THUD ON TOP OF ME WHAT I KNEW TO BE THE WEIGHT OF HIM ON TOP OF ME AND HIM TRYING TO PRY THE PHONE OUT OF MY FINGERS.

>> SURVEILLANCE VIDEO SHOWS MAJORS JABARI OFF THE GROUND AND SHOVING HER BACK IN THE CAR BEFORE SEEN RUNNING OFF. SHE CHASES AFTER HIM. HE PUSHES HER AWAY AND RUNS OFF. >> JABARI CROSSING TRAFFIC IN PURSUIT. JONATHAN MAJORS IS GOING TO HINGE ON TWO MAJOR COMPONENTS. ONE WILL YOU BELIEVE THAT BRACE

YOUR BODY WAS INJURED BY MAJORS. BOTH THE VIDEO AND TESTIMONY THAT WE SAW HEARD. >> AND TWO WAS JONATHAN MAJORS JUSTIFIED HIS ACTIONS AFTER GRACE JABARI ADMITTED THE TO HIS PROPERTY THAT BEING HIS CELL PHONE AND HE TRIED TO RECOVER IT FROM FORMER MAJORS CAREER HAD BEEN TAKING

OFF WHEN THE MARVEL STAR AND JABARI MET ON THE SET OF ANT-MAN AND THE WASP QUANTUMANIA AND BEGAN DATING SCOTT LEE BEFORE THE ALLEGED SHE TESTIFIED HE HAD MOOD SWINGS AND A TEMPER. >> THE JURY TEXT MESSAGES PURPORTING TO SHOW MAJORS DISSUADING JABARI GOING TO THE HOSPITAL FOLLOWING AN ALLEGED ALTERCATION BETWEEN

THEM IN 2022. >> THE JURY ALSO HEARING THIS RECORDING, THE ACTOR SCOLDING JABARI. >> HOW DID YOU COME FROM DROP THE THIRD PIECE OF OUR HOUSE AND TELLING HER HE NEEDS A GREAT WOMAN. >> HE’S A GREAT MAN. CORETTA SCOTT KING, YOU’RE GETTING AS ONE OF THE THINGS WHY MICHELLE OBAMA?

>> BARACK OBAMA’S WIFE. MY TEMPER, MY MICROBLOG. >> ALL THAT. ALL THAT SAID, I’M A GREAT MAN A GREAT MAN. I AM DOING GREAT THINGS. NOT JUST FOR ME, FOR MY FOR MY CULTURE IN THE WORLD. >> THAT’S ACTUALLY THE POSITION I’M THE WOMAN THAT SUPPORTS ME.

>> NEEDS TO BE A GREAT WOMAN. AND SENIOR INVESTIGATIVE CORRESPONDENT AARON KATERSKY, AN ABC NEWS LEGAL CONTRIBUTOR. JOIN ME NOW FOR MORE ON THIS. AND WHAT CAN WE EXPECT TO HAPPEN IN COURT TODAY? >> CLOSING ARGUMENTS ARE GOING TO COME THIS MORNING, DIANE. EACH GOING TO LAY OUT THEIR CASE.

THE GOVERNMENT IS EXPECTED TO CAST JONATHAN MAJORS AS SOMEONE WHO COMMITTED MISDEMEANOR ASSAULT AND HARASSMENT, WHO INJURED GRACE JABARI AND WHO LONG BEFORE THE ALLEGED ASSAULT BACK IN MARCH SUBJECTED HER TO BOTH PHYSICAL AND VERBAL ABUSE AND DEFENSE IS GOING TO CAST JABARI AS THE AGGRESSOR AND JONATHAN MAJORS AS THE

VICTIM OF HER AGGRESSION. >> THEY CALLED A WITNESS A MEDICAL EXPERT WHO REALLY CAST DOUBT ON THE SEVERITY OF GIBBERISH INJURIES AND HE WAS SEEN CALM, NOT BEHAVING LIKE THE KIND OF PERSON PROSECUTORS PORTRAYED. >> BRIAN, HOW IS THIS NEW EVIDENCE TO MAJORS IN THIS

CASE LIKE THE AUDIO WE JUST HEARD AND HOW STRONG DID THINK HIS THREE DEFENSE WITNESSES WERE? >> THE EVIDENCE IS VERY. IT PAINTS THE PICTURE OF THIS CRESCENDO, OF THIS EMOTIONAL AND VERBAL ABUSE LEADS TO THE ULTIMATE ISSUE THAT WE’RE HERE FOR. THAT BEING THIS ALLEGED ASSAULT ON GRACE JABARI AND THE

UNDERSTANDING OF WHO EXACTLY JONATHAN MAJORS IS IN TERMS THE THREE DEFENSE ATTORNEYS, I THINK THEY COULD HAVE BEEN BETTER, NOT NECESSARILY FROM THEIR WITNESSES. SORRY, WITNESSES. YES. SO THE THREE WITNESSES AND THEY COULD HAVE BEEN BETTER? NOT NECESSARILY THEY GAVE TO US, BUT WHAT THE DEFENSE WAS ABLE TO PULL OUT OF THEM.

THERE WAS A LOT OBJECTIONS THAT WERE SUSTAINED SPECIFICALLY FROM THE DOCTOR WHO WAS ABLE TO ARTICULATE KIND OF THAT THESE INJURIES DON’T SEEM TO BE FROM THE SAME MANNER THAT GRACE JABARI SAID THAT THEY CAME ABOUT, THAT THE WAY THE FRACTURE HAPPENED DOESN’T SEEM TO HAPPEN FROM THE WAY THAT SHE DESCRIBED

JONATHAN PULLING HER FINGER APART. I THINK ULTIMATELY THIS CASE WILL BE DECIDED FROM THE SUMMATIONS. >> SO, AARON, HE’S FACING MISDEMEANOR CHARGES OF ASSAULT AND AGGRAVATED HARASSMENT. >> WHAT HAPPENS IF HE’S FOUND GUILTY? HE COULD FACE UP TO A YEAR IN PRISON WHETHER HE WOULD ACTUALLY FACE THAT MUCH ON A

MISDEMEANOR, NO CRIMINAL RECORD REMAINS TO BE SEEN. BUT EVEN IF HE BEATS THE CHARGES AND IS ACQUITTED, THE REPUTATIONAL HARM MAY BE FAIRLY CONSEQUENTIAL. AND AS BRIAN SUGGESTS, HE HAS ALREADY BEEN PORTRAYED, EVEN IF HE BEATS ALLEGED ASSAULT, HE’S ALREADY BEEN PORTRAYED AS A SERIAL ABUSER OF GRACE JABARI, BOTH PHYSICALLY AND THE

JURY ALSO SAW IMAGES OF CANDLES AND OTHER ITEMS HE THREW AT HER HEAD. AND THEY SAW THOSE TEXT MESSAGES AFTER ALTERCATION IN 2022 WHERE HE SAYS, NO, NO, DON’T GO TO THE HOSPITAL, BECAUSE THEY’LL SUSPECT ME. >> ALL RIGHT, ERICA CHESKY BRIAN BUCKMIRE, THANK YOU BOTH. COMING UP.

>> OPRAH WINFREY SAYS SHE IS DONE WITH THE SHAMING, WHICH SHE’S REVEALING ABOUT USING MEDICATION FOR WEIGHT LOSS AND TONIGHT, A WOMAN’S RIGHT TO MAKE HER OWN HEALTH CHOICES WITH ABORTION PILL ACCESS SET TO GO BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT. IS A CRISIS BREWING? MORE AMERICANS TO THE MOST WATCHED PROGRAM ON TELEVISION.

“WORLD NEWS TONIGHT”, DAVID MUIR. YOU’RE BACK AT IT AGAIN. I GOT NOTHING ELSE TO DO. I GOT TWINS THAT GET OUT OF HOUSE TOMORROW. GEORGE AND MICHAEL STRAHAN, THE ALL-NEW INTERVIEW PERSON. YOU TRADE PLACES FOR A DAY TOMORROW. IT’S A CRAZY. STAY WITH ME ON GOOD MORNING AMERICA LEFT ME WITH THE

GOOD BAD BECAUSE OF LET’S GET SOME SUNSHINE ON SOME OF THE IS A LITTLE BIT ON THE IN AMERICA ALL ACROSS THE GLOBE. >> THE WORLD WILL BE CELEBRATING THE NEW YEAR AND YOU CAN SEE IT AS IT HAPPENS. WHY THE GLOBAL CELEBRATIONS SEE THE NEW YEAR AS IT COMES IN.

ALL DAY AND NIGHT ON ABC NEWS LIVE. ABC NEWS LIVE PRIME WINNER OF THE GRACIE AWARD FOR BEST NEWS PROGRAM IN ALL OF TELEVISION STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE PRIME WITH LINSEY DAVIS WEEKNIGHTS ON ABC NEWS LIVE. >> WE HAVE. >> I WAS TERRIFIED. IT WAS JUST SO TRAUMATIC. NIGHTMARE.

PEOPLE NEED TO UNDERSTAND. PEOPLE WANTED BABIES FACING LIFE AND DEATH, MEDICAL CONDITIONS, THEIR LIVES NOW OUT OF CONTROL. >> I FELT LIKE I WAS TO DIE. OUR LIVES AND OUR HEALTH ARE DEBATABLE. I WOULDN’T WISH THIS UPON MY WORST ENEMY. >> DIANE SAWYER. RACHEL SAT ON BRINK, NOW STREAMING ON HULU.

>> WELCOME BACK. OPRAH WINFREY IS OPENING UP ABOUT HER USE OF MEDICATION AND FOR WEIGHT LOSS. SHE SAYS THERE’S NO SHAME IN TAKING A DRUG TO LOSE WEIGHT . >> SHE DOESN’T WANT TO HIDE IT. EVA PILGRIM HAS MORE TO TELEVISION ICON OPRAH WINFREY REVEALING SHE’S USING MEDICATION, WEIGHT LOSS, TELLING “PEOPLE” MAGAZINE

THE FACT THAT THERE IS A MEDICALLY APPROVED FOR MANAGING WEIGHT AND STAYING HEALTHIER IN MY LIFETIME FEELS LIKE RELIEF, LIKE REDEMPTION, LIKE A GIFT, NOT SOMETHING TO HIDE BEHIND AND ONCE AGAIN BE RIDICULED FOR. I’M ABSOLUTELY DONE WITH THE SHAMING FROM OTHER PEOPLE AND PARTICULAR MYSELF.

>> THREE MONTHS AGO, SHE POSTED A DISCUSSION ABOUT THE WEIGHT LOSS DRUGS ON OPRAH DAILY. >> THE NEW WEIGHT LOSS DRUGS EVERYBODY’S ABOUT LOSING BIG WOULD GO THE MUNJAL. ARE THESE NEW DRUGS A MIRACLE CURE? ARE THEY SAFE? >> THAT’S WHAT WE ALL WANT TO KNOW. WHILE THESE DRUGS HAVE BECOME

POPULAR FOR WEIGHT LOSS, SHE SAYS THE MEDICATION IS NOT SINGULAR SOLUTION. I KNOW THAT IF I’M NOT ALSO OUT AND VIGILANT ABOUT ALL THE OTHER THINGS, IT DOESN’T WORK FOR ME. WINFREY, WHO WAS TURNING 70 NEXT MONTH, RECENTLY STUNNING AT THE COLOR PURPLE PREMIERE IN LOS ANGELES AND THE ACADEMY MUSEUM.

I CAN’T LIFT IT. IT IS AMAZING TO ME THAT. I CAN’T LIFT IT. BUT I USED TO CARRY IT AROUND EVERY DAY. THROUGHOUT HER ENTIRE CAREER, THE MEDIA MOGUL NEVER SHIED TO TALK ABOUT HER WEIGHT LOSS JOURNEY. >> MY HIGHEST WEIGHT WAS £237. I DON’T KNOW IF THERE

IS ANOTHER PUBLIC PERSON WHOSE WEIGHT STRUGGLE HAS EXPLOITED AS MUCH AS MINE OVER THE YEARS. >> AND OPRAH IS NOT ALONE IN HER WEIGHT LOSS STRUGGLES. OVER 73% OF ADULTS IN THE U.S. ARE CONSIDERED OVERWEIGHT OR OBESE. >> THESE MEDICATIONS ARE APPROVED IN COMBINATION WITH DIETARY CHANGE, PHYSICAL ACTIVITY.

AND WHEN A PATIENT HAS KIND OF OPTIMIZED ALL THOSE INTERVENTIONS AND THEY’RE STILL HAVING STRUGGLES WITH THEIR WEIGHT, THEN THIS IS A TOOL FOR THEM TO GET TO AN OVERALL HEALTHIER WEIGHT AND IMPROVE THEIR RISK OF HAVING OTHER WEIGHT RELATED CONDITIONS. >> EXPERTS SAY THAT ACCESS TO THESE DRUGS CAN BE BARRIER

AS THEY ARE NOT COVERED BY MEDICARE, AND DEMAND OUTWEIGHS THE CURRENT SUPPLY. THE NEW ISSUE OF PEOPLE IS AVAILABLE ON NEWSSTANDS NATIONWIDE FRIDAY. >> DIANE? ALL RIGHT, EVA PILGRIM, THANKS FOR THAT. AND ABC NEWS MEDICAL CONTRIBUTOR AND PHYSICIAN AT STANFORD CHILDREN’S HEALTH DR. ALOK PATEL JOINS ME NOW FOR MORE ON THIS.

DR. PATEL, OPRAH SAYS THAT SHE IS DONE GETTING FOR TAKING MEDICATION FOR WEIGHT LOSS. WHY DO YOU THINK SO? >> STIGMA COMES FROM TAKING THESE DRUGS. >> THAT IS A MISUNDERSTANDING AND I DON’T THINK WE KNOW THERE’S A MISUNDERSTANDING FROM SOCIETY ABOUT THE COMPLEXITY OF OBESITY, THAT IT’S ENVIRONMENTAL, CULTURAL,

IT’S GENETIC. >> AND PEOPLE HEAR OF OTHERS GETTING MEDICATIONS AS AS GOP ANTAGONISTS. >> AND YOU’RE COMMENTS LIKE THAT’S THE EASY WAY OUT FOR OBESITY IS A CHOICE. >> JUST GO AND EXERCISE. IT’S LIKE TELLING SOMEONE WITH DEPRESSION TO JUST FEEL BETTER BECAUSE CURRENTLY WHAT WE’RE DOING ADDRESS OBESITY IS NOT WORKING.

>> GIVEN THE FACT THAT OBESITY RATES HAVE NEARLY TRIPLED SINCE 1970 FIVE. >> SO WHATEVER WORKS FOR SOMEONE SHOULD RESPECTED AND MUST REMEMBER THAT PEOPLE ARE DOING THIS UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF A HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONAL. >> SO WE HEARD IN THE PIECE THERE, OPRAH SAYING THAT THIS MEDICATION IS NOT A SINGULAR

SOLUTION AND THAT IF SHE’S NOT WORKING OUT AND BEING VIGILANT ABOUT LIKE DIET, SLEEP AND STRESS THAT IT DOESN’T WORK FOR HER. IS COMMON FOR PEOPLE TAKING THESE MEDICATIONS. IT IS. AND WHAT OPRAH IS DESCRIBING IS EXACTLY HOW THESE MEDICATIONS INDICATED TO BE TAKING, YOU KNOW, ALL THE EARLY

TRIALS THAT WERE REPORTED THIS YEAR IN THE LAST SHOW, PEOPLE TAKING THESE MEDICATIONS ALONGSIDE DIETARY AND LIFESTYLE CHANGES. AND THEY’RE ACTUALLY BETTER FOR THAT. >> AND PEOPLE WHO JUST HAD THE CHANGES WITHOUT TAKING MEDICATIONS CHANGED YOUR WORKING OUT DOING ALL THAT IS GREAT FOR YOUR HEART, HEALTH, YOUR BONES YOUR MUSCLES

AND INCREASES YOUR PROBABILITY THAT ONE DAY YOU MAY BE ABLE TO GET ALL MEDICATIONS THAT INCREASES YOUR LONG TERM SUCCESS. >> AND I BEFORE WE LET YOU GO, I DO WANT TO ASK ABOUT THIS NEW STUDY THAT SAYS IT HAS FOUND A POSSIBLE CAUSE OF MORNING SICKNESS IN PREGNANT WOMEN.

WHAT ARE YOU HEARING ABOUT THAT? WHAT DO WE KNOW? WELL, IS A FINDING A VERY PROMISING FINDING FOR MILLIONS OF WOMEN OUT THERE. >> AND THE JOURNAL NATURE BASICALLY SHOWING THAT A HORMONE ATMOSPHERE MAY BE THE CULPRIT BEHIND THAT EARLY TRIAL, EARLY FIRST TRIMESTER, NAUSEA AND VOMITING AND A SEVERE FORM HYPEREMESIS

GRAVIDARUM CAN BE SEVERE IN ABOUT 2% OF WOMEN. >> ALSO SHOWING THESE LEVELS INCREASE DURING PREGNANCY IS MADE FROM THE FETUS. >> SOME WOMEN WHO NOT HAVE HIGH LEVELS BEFORE PREGNANCY, SUCH AS FROM GENETIC VARIANTS, MAYBE MORE SENSITIVE. AND THAT PAVES THE WAY FOR A LOT OF POTENTIAL TREATMENTS.

AND I KNOW SOME OF THE MEN OUT THERE, LIKE MY WIFE, ARE PLOTTING THIS BECAUSE HOW MANY PREGNANCIES ARE PLAGUED BY THAT? >> NAUSEA, VOMITING AND, THE SEVERE FORM, HYPEREMESIS GRAVIDARUM. SO VERY, VERY PROMISING RESULTS TODAY. >> WELCOME NEWS TO SO MANY ABC MEDICAL CONTRIBUTOR DR. ALOK PATEL. >> THANK YOU. THANK YOU.

>> COMING UP, TIME FOR A ROYAL BINGE. FINAL EPISODES OF THE CROWN ARE OUT AND WILL GANSS HAS A LO. THE LAST SEASON. >> WHAT DO SEE MANY PEOPLE START DAY HERE. FROM ABC NEWS THIS IS “START HERE” TO BE IN THE NORTH AND GET A DIFFERENT TAKE

ON THE DAY’S TOP STORIES. A LOT OF NEWS TODAY SO LET’S GET RIGHT TO IT. LISTEN NOW TO THE DAILY NEWS PODCAST HONORED WITH FOUR EDWARD R MURROW AWARDS AND SEE WHY THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS IT A NEWS PODCAST WORTH LISTENING TO. START HERE. ABC NEWS MAKE IT YOUR DAILY

FIRST LISTEN NOW THAT’S PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING. >> WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS, START HERE. >> TONIGHT, A WOMAN’S RIGHT TO MAKE OWN HEALTH CHOICES WITH ABORTION PILL ACCESS SET TO GO BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT. IS A CRISIS BREWING? MORE AMERICANS TURN THE MOST WATCHED PROGRAM ON TELEVISION.

“WORLD NEWS TONIGHT” GAME OF YOURS. WHEN THE ANNOUNCER CALLS MY NAME, THE WORLD ALMOST FADES AWAY. IT’S THE BIGGEST. IT’S MOST FAMOUS TARGET THAT THERE IS. WELCOME TO THE WORLD’S GREATEST DOPE SHOW. THE COMPETITION IN DOPE DANCING IS VERY HERE. EVERY DOG HAS ITS DAY ON THE DANCE.

DANCING WITH MY DOG IS THE CLOSEST THING TO A MAGIC SHOW WINNER AT ALL. SIX 2023 THE SECRET OF DANCING DOGS NOW STREAMING ON HULU. >> ALL RIGHT, HERE WE GO. READY? LET’S DO IT. YES, IT’S THE SHOW AMERICA WANTS AND AMERICA NEEDS RIGHT NOW. THIS IS. WHAT WOULD YOU DO?

ALL RIGHT. LET’S GO. HOW ARE YOU, YOU GUYS? SO WHAT WILL YOU BE WATCHING SATURDAY ON NEWS LIVE? WHAT WOULD YOU DO? I. I JUST FOUND OUT. WHAT WOULD YOU DO? MARATHON TO SIX EASTERN EVERY SATURDAY ON ABC NEWS LIVE. >> MY FAVORITE SHOW. WHY DO YOU IN PEOPLE START

THEIR DAY HERE AT ABC NEWS THIS IS START TO BE IN THE NEWS AND GET A DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE DAY’S TOP STORIES ARE HERE. THAT’S THE PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING. MAKE IT YOUR DAILY LISTEN. >> WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS, YOU’RE WATCHING AMERICA’S NUMBER

ONE STREAMING NEWS ABC LIVE. YOU KNOW, THAT TUNE MEANS IT’S TIME FOR THE TEAM WHERE WE BREAK DOWN SOME OF THE BUZZY PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT. OUR FRIEND WILL GANSS IS HERE TO SPILL IT. WELL, THAT TUNE MEANS IT’S TIME FOR THE TEE. THAT TUNE MEANS IT’S TIME TO TONGUE TWISTER.

YEAH. SAME DAY. YEAH. ALL RIGHT. WE BEGIN AT THE END THIS MORNING WITH NETFLIX RELEASING THE FINAL SIX EPISODES OF THE CROWN, ONE OF THE MOST EXPENSIVE TV SERIES EVER MADE. THE CROWN IS ALSO AN AWARD SHOW FAVORITE WITH MORE THAN 20 EMMY WINS UNDER ITS BELT. THE SHOW WRAPPING UP

AND REUNITING ALL THREE ACTRESSES WHO HAVE PLAYED HER MAJESTY CLAIRE FOY, OLIVIA AND IMELDA STAUNTON, WHO’S THE CURRENT QUEEN, AS AN HOMAGE TO QUEEN ELIZABETH THE SECOND. THEY ALSO HAVE OUR FIRST LOOK AT NEWCOMERS ED MCVAY AND MEG BELLAMY, THE YOUNG ADULT VERSIONS OF PRINCE WILLIAM AND KATE MIDDLETON.

I HAVE NOT HAD TIME SINCE 12 A.M. TO BINGE WATCH ALL SIX EPISODES OF THE SHOW. I KNOW. I FEEL LIKE THAT’S A GATED JOURNALISM, BUT THERE’S PLENTY OF DIRECTIONS. I THINK THE CROWN EVER DID WANT TO COME BACK. OBVIOUSLY, THE DRAMA CONTINUES TO DRAMA. WELL, THERE IS LOTS OF MATERIAL

TO WORK WITH. YES, BUT IT’S BITTERSWEET TO SAY GOODBYE TO SUCH A GROUNDBREAKING SHOW LIKE THAT. TURNING NOW TO THIS YEAR’S MOST NOMINATED ARTISTS AT THE GRAMMY AWARDS IS US SITTING DOWN WITH ZANE LOWE TO DISCUSS HER RECORD BREAKING YEAR AND HER HIT SINGLE KILL BILL. >> CARLOS SCRATCH VOCALS.

AND I KNEW THAT IF I FUNNY, BUT THE SONG THAT I PUT THE LEAST AMOUNT OF EFFORT INTO THAT HAD TO LEAVE ABOUT A LONG TIME BEFORE I WAS LIKE, WOW, OKAY, SO KILL BILL IS NOMINATED FOR SONG OF THE YEAR, THE GRAMMYS. BUT HER SAYING THAT IT WAS

A SCRATCH VOCAL MEANING LIKE SHE JUST DID IT LIKE DID IT IT WAS PLEASE HOLD HER YEAH. AND I GUESS WHEN SHE WENT BACK TO THE STUDIO AND TRIED IT AGAIN, SHE’S LIKE, NOPE. THE SCRATCH VOCAL IS THE ONE. LIKE IT HAS THE VIBE THAT SHE WANTED. I LOVE THAT.

AND THAT REALLY JAZZ. SO YOU NEVER KNOW. IF YOU EVER SEE ME JUST SINGING MY PHONE, IT MIGHT BE A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO COUNT TO TEN. YEAH, YOU KNOW, I FINALLY. THIS ONE. THE TEA IS HOT HERE, YOU GUYS THE 80 YEAR OLD AIR. AIR WHO’S POISED TO LEAVE

BILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF HIS FORTUNE TO HIS GARDENER. NICHOLAS BUICK, WHO IS THE FIFTH GENERATION HEIR. IS HEIR IS BETWEEN TEN AND $11 BILLION. AND HE’S REPORTEDLY ALREADY BEGUN LEGAL PROCEEDINGS TO MAKE HIS GARDENER AND HANDYMAN THE IN LINE TO HIS FORTUNE, ACCORDING TO SWISS PUBLICATION TRIBUNE DESIGN AND THE

UNIDENTIFIED MAN IS 51 YEARS OLD, MARRIED TO A WOMAN, SPAIN, AND HAS A WHOLE FAMILY OF HIS OWN. SO PEOPLE ARE SAYING, LIKE IF YOU’RE A GARDENER, BE A GREAT GARDENER. I MEAN, I DON’T HAVE A GARDEN. SO I CAN’T SAY THE GARDENER PART. BUT FINDING A GOOD HANDYMAN THAT IS REALLY VALUABLE.

I MEAN, YOU NEVER KNOW. NEXT TIME SOMEONE ASKS ME TO FIX A LIGHT BULB OR SOMETHING. I’M GOING TO STEP UP THE LINE OF WORK FOR A WHILE. HEY, LISTEN, WE’LL SEE HOW IT TURNS OUT, YOU KNOW? ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU, FRIEND. THANK YOU. AND THANK YOU FOR SHARING IT WITH US.

I AM DIANE MACEDO. ABSOLUTELY. LIFE IS HERE FOR YOU. ANYTIME WITH THE LATEST NEWS, CONTEXT AND ANALYSIS, WE’LL BE RIGHT BACK ON. HOUSTON POLICE SAID A 16-YEAR-OLD SHOT BOTH OF HIS PARENTS FRIDAY INSIDE THE COURTROOM. AND THE SHOCKING NEW EVIDENCE THAT CAME IN JUST DAYS BEFORE THE TRIAL BEGAN.

YOU GOT TO BE KIDDING. WHOSE BLOOD IS THIS? I COULDN’T EVEN FATHOM THE IDEA OF KILLING MY PARENTS. EVERYTHING THEY POINTS HIM. ONLY 20, 20, FRIDAY NIGHT, 92, CENTRAL ABC. >> TONIGHT, A WOMAN’S RIGHT TO MAKE HER OWN HEALTH CHOICES WITH ABORTION. PILL ACCESS SET TO GO THE SUPREME COURT.

IS A CRISIS BREWING? MORE AMERICANS TO THE MOST WATCHED PROGRAM ON TELEVISION. “WORLD NEWS TONIGHT”, DAVID MUIR. YOU’RE BACK AT IT AGAIN. I’VE GOT NOTHING ELSE TO DO. I GOT TWINS THAT. OH, MY GOD. GET OUT OF HOUSE TOMORROW. GEORGE CLOONEY, MICHAEL STRINGHAM, THE ALL-NEW INTERVIEW PERSON YOU’D TRADE

WITH FOR A DAY TOMORROW. IT’S A CRAZY CEREMONY ON. GOOD IN AMERICA. >> WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY? >> FROM ABC NEWS THIS IS “START HERE” TO BE IN THE MIDDLE. GET A DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE DAY’S TOP STORIES. A LOT OF NEWS TODAY SO.

LET’S GET INTO IT. LISTEN NOW TO THE DAILY NEWS PODCAST HONORED WITH FOUR EDWARD R MURROW AWARDS AND SEE WHY THE NEW YORK TIMES IT A NEWS PODCAST WORTH LISTENING TO. YOU START HERE. NEWS MAKE IT YOUR DAILY FIRST LISTEN NOW THAT’S A PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING.

>> WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS, START HERE. >> ALL ACROSS THE GLOBE, THE WORLD WILL BE CELEBRATING THE NEW YEAR. AND YOU CAN SEE IT, AS IT HAPPENS, LIVES. THE GLOBAL CELEBRATIONS SEE THE NEW YEAR AS IT COMES IN STREAMING ALL AND NIGHT ON ABC NEWS LIVE REPORTING FROM

THE AFTERMATH OF THE MAUI FIRES. I’M MELISSA DI ROBERT. THE STORY WE’LL TAKE YOU THERE. YOUR STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE TODAY ON ABC NEWS LIVE TURNING UP THE PRESSURE. NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER SULLIVAN IS IN TEL AVIV MEETING WITH THE ISRAELI WAR CABINET MESSAGE THAT HE’S SENDING FROM THE WHITE HOUSE.

AND CLOSING ARGUMENTS BEGIN IN JONATHAN MAJORS ASSAULT TRIAL. WE HAVE THE SURVEILLANCE VIDEO ,AUDIO AND TEXT MESSAGES THAT THE JURY SAW. WHAT’S AT STAKE FOR THE ACTOR WITH JURY DELIBERATIONS. UP NEXT. PLUS, A POWERFUL CROSS-COUNTRY STORM IS BRINGING HEAVY RAIN AND SNOW. WE’RE TRACKING THE STORM

AND HOW IT COULD IMPACT YOUR HOLIDAY TRAVEL. HEY, EVERYONE, I’M ELIZABETH SCHULZE. AND OUR TOP STORY AT THIS HOUR IS WHITE HOUSE NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR IN ISRAEL FOR A HIGH STAKES VISIT. JAKE SULLIVAN SAYS HE’S URGING ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN AND HIS WAR CABINET TO WORK TOWARD ANOTHER CEASE FIRE,

GETTING MORE HOSTAGES IN GAZA OUT AND MORE AID IN. BUT AS THESE MEETINGS ARE TAKING PLACE, THE FIGHTING IS STILL RAGING. HAMAS SAYS A MASSIVE AIRSTRIKE BY ISRAEL EARLIER TODAY KILLED 19 PEOPLE IN NORTHERN GAZA. AND FIGHTING CONTINUES AROUND GAZA CITY. FOR MORE, LET’S BRING IN ABC NEWS SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT SELINA

WANG. AND ABC NEWS IS AND AS YOU LIKE. TARA IN TEL AVIV, ISRAEL SELINA THIS IS EXPECTED TO BE TENSE BETWEEN JAKE SULLIVAN AND PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU AS THE WHITE HOUSE TRIES TO CLARIFY PRESIDENT BIDEN’S COMMENTS THAT ISRAEL IS CONDUCTING INDISCRIMINATE BOMBING. IS SULLIVAN EXPECTED TO TRY TO WALK BACK THE PRESIDENT’S REMARKS?

AND WHAT KIND OF PRIORITIES ARE WE SEEING IN THIS CONVERSATION? >> WELL, LOOK, ELIZABETH, I THINK THE PRIORITY FOR SULLIVAN’S MEETINGS THERE IS TO PUSH THAT MESSAGE OF RESTRAINT ,TO BE MORE DISCRIMINANT AND TARGETED IN THEIR MILITARY OPERATIONS. AS YOU SAY, THIS IS A VERY TENSE TIME COMING JUST DAYS

AFTER PRESIDENT BIDEN, SOME OF HIS STRONGEST CRITICISM OF BOTH NETANYAHU AND HIS ISRAEL YET SAYING THAT THEY NEED TO PULL BACK THIS INDISCRIMINATE BOMBING THAT COULD LOSE GLOBAL SUPPORT HERE. ANOTHER KEY ASPECT OF THESE MEETINGS, ACCORDING TO THE WHITE HOUSE, IS GOING TO BE TRYING TO ANOTHER TEMPORARY PAUSE.

IT WAS SUCCESSFUL THE LAST TIME . BUT SINCE THEN, THE FIGHTING HAS RAMPED BACK UP. AND WITHIN THAT PAUSE, THEY WOULD LIKE TO GET MORE HOSTAGES OUT, AS WELL AS A SURGE IN HUMANITARIAN AID. THE AMERICANS BELIEVE THAT THERE ARE STILL A MAY EIGHT AMERICANS STILL BEING HELD HOSTAGE, ALTHOUGH

THE WHITE HOUSE HAS BEEN VERY CLEAR THAT THEY DO NOT KNOW WHERE THEY’RE HELD, IF IT’S BEING HELD BY HAMAS AND THEY’RE NOT SURE WHAT THE CONDITIONS THESE AMERICANS ARE. BUT WE KNOW THIS IS A TOP WHITE HOUSE PRIORITY. THE FAMILY MEMBERS OF THESE HOSTAGES RECENTLY MEETING WITH PRESIDENT BIDEN.

THE WHITE HOUSE ARE GOING TO CONTINUE TO PUSH FOR THAT FAMILY MEMBER IS JUST SO DESPERATE TO GET THEIR LOVED ONES HOME AS WE SAW THEM AT, THE WHITE HOUSE, AND AS WE DO KNOW THAT NOW, HALF OF THE AIR TO GROUND THAT ISRAEL HAS DROPPED INTO GAZA HAVE BEEN

UNGUIDED OR OTHERWISE KNOWN AS DUMB BOMBS. WHAT DOES THAT MEAN FOR INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY’S OPINION OF ISRAEL AND FOR THE WAR ITSELF? YEAH, ELIZABETH, AN ALARMING REPORT THERE THAT SAYS THAT NEARLY HALF OF AIR TO GROUND MUNITIONS THAT HAVE BEEN USED IN ARE UNGUIDED. AND SO, LIKE YOU SAY, THOSE

ARE KNOWN AS DUMB BOMBS. AND THE CONCERN WITH THOSE IS THAT THEY ARE LESS PRECISE AND SO THEY POSE A GREATER THREAT TO CIVILIANS, ESPECIALLY IN AN AREA THAT IS AS DENSELY POPULATED AS THE GAZA STRIP OR THE MOST DENSELY POPULATED AREAS IN THE WORLD. AND EVEN MORE DENSELY POPULATED

IN PARTS OF THE SOUTH, FOR INSTANCE, WHERE WE KNOW SO MANY PEOPLE HAVE MOVED TO TO TRY AND FLEE THE SHELLING IN THE NORTH. SO THESE KINDS OF COURSE, ISRAEL HAS BEEN FACING GROWING CALLS TO TRY AND DO EVERYTHING IT CAN TO MINIMIZE CIVILIAN CASUALTIES. THE ISRAELIS INSIST THAT THEY

TAKING STEPS TO MINIMIZE CIVILIAN CASUALTIES. BUT THESE TYPES OF REPORTS GOING TO RENEW THE CRITICISM FROM AROUND THE WORLD FOR TO DO MORE. AND THEY’RE GOING TO BE QUESTIONS AS TO WHY THESE TYPES OF MUNITIONS ARE BEING USED IN THE FIRST PLACE. THIS IS ALSO RENEWING CONCERNS THE HOSTAGES.

OF COURSE, I’M HERE AT HOSTAGE SQUARE WHERE SOME OF THE FAMILIES OF THE HOSTAGES JUST MET WITH THE ISRAELI PRESIDENT FOR LIGHTING OF THE FINAL CANDLE FOR HANUKKAH. A LOT OF THESE FAMILIES CONCERNED FOR THE WELL-BEING OF THE HOSTAGES THAT REMAIN IN GAZA, 135 HOSTAGES REMAIN IN GAZA. AND, OF COURSE, LOTS

OF CONCERNS AS TO WHAT THE RELENTLESS SHELLING OF THE GAZA STRIP COULD MEAN FOR THEM. >> AND SELINA, TO PICK UP ON SOME OF THOSE CONCERNS INES IS TALKING ABOUT, PRESIDENT BIDEN WARNED ISRAEL THAT IT MAY LOSING SUPPORT FROM THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY. SO WHERE DOES THE WHITE HOUSE STAND ON HOW ISRAEL’S

MILITARY IS CONDUCTING OPERATIONS RIGHT NOW INSIDE GAZA? YEAH, LOOK, WE’VE SEEN SOME OF THIS BEHIND THE SCENES DIPLOMACY THAT’S BEEN GOING ON FOR WEEKS. WELL, THAT IS STARTING TO SPILL INTO THE OPEN. BUT THE WHITE HOUSE HASN’T BEEN, AS POINTED IN ITS CRITICISM AS WHAT PRESIDENT BIDEN SAID THERE ABOUT THE INDISCRIMINATE

BOMBING. THE WHITE HOUSE MAKING CLEAR THAT THEIR SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL ISN’T GOING ANYWHERE, BUT THEY ARE GETTING MORE VOCAL ABOUT EXPRESSING THEIR CONCERNS TO BE MORE SURGICAL TO BE MORE TARGETED, TO REDUCE CIVILIAN HARD, EVEN THOUGH THERE ARE CLEAR DISAGREEMENTS HERE, THOUGH THE U.S. AND ISRAEL, THEY ARE ALIGNED,

GETTING MORE HOSTAGES OUT. AND U.S. OFFICIALS SAY TO ME THAT THIS DIPLOMACY IN THE PAST FEW WEEKS IT HAS BEEN SUCCESSFUL IN GETTING ISRAEL TO RESHAPE THE WAY THAT ITS COMBAT OPERATIONS ARE BEING STRUCTURED. BUT LOOK, THE FOCUS OF THIS MEETING FOR JAKE SULLIVAN NOT JUST GOING TO BE ON MILITARY

OPERATIONS AND HOSTAGES. JOHN KIRBY, THE NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL, SAID THESE MEETINGS WILL ALSO BE FOCUSED ON WHAT HAPPENS THE DAY AFTER. THE WHITE HOUSE MAKING VERY CLEAR THAT A REVITALIZED PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY SHOULD BE RULING GAZA NOT A LONG TERM REOCCUPATION OF THE ISRAELI MILITARY. A LOT OF QUESTIONS ABOUT THE

LONGER TERM PLANS. LINA AND SELINA, THANK YOU SO MUCH. FOR MORE ANALYSIS ON THE WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST, LET’S BRING IN ABC NEWS NATIONAL SECURITY, DEFENSE ANALYST AND FORMER DEPUTY ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF DEFENSE FOR THE MIDDLE EAST MICK MULROY. MIKE, I WANT TO PICK UP ON JAKE

SULLIVAN’S VISIT TO ISRAEL. OBVIOUSLY, WE’VE HEARD PRESIDENT BIDEN RAMPING UP HIS RHETORIC THAT ISRAEL’S MILITARY CAMPAIGN IS STARTING TO LOSE SOME OF THAT SUPPORT. WE’VE LEARNED THAT ABOUT HALF OF THE MUNITIONS THAT ISRAEL IS DROPPING GAZA ARE THOSE DUMB BOMBS THAT ARE UNGUIDED. CAN YOU PROVIDE A LITTLE BIT

OF CONTEXT ABOUT WHY ISRAEL WOULD BE USING THOSE DUMB BOMBS, WHY NOT USE GUIDED MISSILES, ESPECIALLY AMID SOME OF THIS CRITICISM? >> NICK, SO IT’S IMPORTANT TO POINT OUT THAT MOST COUNTRIES HAVE THOSE THEIR ARSENAL, INCLUDING THE UNITED STATES. AS YOU POINTED OUT, THE MOST EFFECTIVE ARE PRECISION GUIDED MISSILES, NOT THESE UNGUIDED

MISSILES THAT COME FROM THE AIR TO GROUND, BUT THEY CAN USED IN COMBAT AND THEY CAN BE USED IN URBAN CONTRAT A COMBAT. THE ISSUE IS YOU HAVE TO TAKE PARTICULAR CARE TO MAKE SURE THAT THE RADIUS OF THE EXPLOSION DOES NOT INCLUDE CIVILIANS. SO IT IS MORE COMPLICATED.

AND I THINK BY THE LEVEL DEATH AND DESTRUCTION THAT WE’VE SEEN, THAT IS REALLY WHAT IS CALLING THIS INTO QUESTION WHY YOU WOULD USE SO MANY ONGOING MUNITIONS. THAT ON TOP OF THE PRESIDENT’S COMMENTS THAT THE BOMBING HAS BEEN INDISCRIMINATE, I THINK WE’LL REALLY CALL THAT INTO QUESTION.

BUT JUST USING THEM ALONE DOES NOT INDICATE SOME KIND OF NEFARIOUS INTENT. IT’S HOW YOU USE GIVEN THE CRITICISM AND PRESIDENT BIDEN’S COMMENTS ABOUT INDISCRIMINATE BOMBING, WHAT YOU THINK JAKE SULLIVAN IS TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH WITH THIS FACE TO FACE MEETING IN TEL AVIV. SO THE USE OF THE TERM INDISCRIMINATE REALLY IT

OUTSIDE OF WHAT’S CALLED THE LAW OF ARMED CONFLICT, LIKE YOU’LL HEAR A LOT OF PEOPLE SAY. SO I THINK THAT NEEDS TO BE IF IT’S NOT AS PRECISE AS WE WOULD LIKE AND WE SHOULD SAY SAY THAT SPECIFICALLY. BUT WHEN YOU USE THE WORD INDISCRIMINATE, IT REALLY MEANS YOU’RE NOT JUST YOU’RE NOT

DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN FRIEND OR FOE, WHICH IS REQUIRED UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW. BUT I THINK MR. SULLIVAN IS REALLY TO PUSH FOR A CHANGE IN TACTICS WHEN IT COMES TO THE REMAINDER OF MAJOR OPERATIONS. HE’S GOING TO PUSH FOR A UN SUPPLY OF HUMANITARIAN AID, WHICH IS GREAT, GREATLY NEEDED.

AND LIKE YOU MENTIONED IN THE REPORT, YOU LIKE ALL OF THE REPORTS THAT THEY’RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT THE WAY AHEAD. WHAT IS NEXT? MOST ISRAELIS HAVEN’T BEEN THAT INTERESTED IN TALKING ABOUT THAT, BUT WE NEED TO NOW SO WE CAN PREPARE FOR IT, BECAUSE THE MESSAGE WE ALL WANT

A LONG TERM IDF OCCUPATION OF GAZA WHICH I DON’T EVEN THINK IS IN ISRAEL’S INTEREST. WE NEED TO START PLANNING FOR WHAT WOULD BE ALTERNATIVE, AND THAT NEEDS TO START NOW. >> AND STILL SO MUCH DEBATE ABOUT WHAT THAT ALTERNATIVE IS. WE KNOW THAT HOSTAGE HAVE BEEN REACTING ANGRILY TO REPORTS

THAT ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU ACTUALLY STOPPED THE HEAD OF MOSSAD FROM GOING TO QATAR, WHICH IS, OF COURSE, THE MAIN INTERMEDIARY IN THE HOSTAGE NEGOTIATIONS THAT STOPPED HIM FROM RESTARTING THOSE NEGOTIATIONS. WHY SHOULD ISRAEL BE PUTTING A PAUSE ON THOSE NEGOTIATIONS RIGHT NOW? WHAT WOULD BE THAT? >> SO I DON’T UNDERSTAND

THE LOGIC IN NOT SENDING YOUR NEGOTIATORS. AND IN CASES LIKE THIS WHERE IT’S A VERY SENSITIVE NEGOTIATION WITH, IN THIS CASE, A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION, OFTENTIMES THE INTELLIGENCE SERVICES LIKE THE CIA, LIKE MOSSAD ARE USED TO, THAT’S VERY NORMAL. BUT THERE IS NO WAY TO GET TO ANY KIND OF NEGOTIATED

SETTLEMENT, WHICH IS BY FAR THE MOST SAFE WAY TO GET HOSTAGES OF HARM’S WAY THAN A MILITARY OPERATION. THERE’S NO WAY TO GET THAT IF YOU’RE NOT EVEN TALKING. SO THAT DOESN’T MEAN YOU HAVE TO AGREE WITH EVERYTHING THAT’S BEING ASKED BY HAMAS. BUT THE DIALOG REALLY NEEDS

TO TAKE PLACE BECAUSE IT IS BY FAR THE MOST THE SAFEST WAY TO GET THESE THESE PEOPLE BACK AND BACK WITH THEIR FAMILIES. MICK MULROY, THANK YOU, AS ALWAYS, FOR YOUR ANALYSIS. THANKS, ELIZABETH. THE SUPREME COURT SAYS IT WILL CONSIDER CASE THAT COULD UNDO MORE THAN 100 CONVICTIONS

STEMMING FROM THE SIX ATTACK ON THE CAPITOL. PROSECUTORS ORIGINALLY FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP AND OTHER DEFENDANTS WITH OBSTRUCTING AN OFFICIAL PROCEEDING. THE CERTIFICATION OF ELECTORAL VOTES. NOW THE SUPREME COURT HAS TO WEIGH IN ON WHETHER PROSECUTORS STRETCHED THE LAW FAR, WHICH COULD IMPACT ROUGHLY 300 DEFENDANTS, INCLUDING THE FORMER PRESIDENT. SENIOR NATIONAL

CORRESPONDENT TERRY MORAN HAS LATEST. >> ELIZABETH, THIS CASE COULD HAVE A BIG IMPACT ON THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE WHO STORMED THE CAPITOL AND DONALD TRUMP HIMSELF HAVE ALL BEEN CHARGED UNDER THE SAME FEDERAL LAW. THAT MAKES IT A CRIME TO, QUOTE CORRUPTLY, OBSTRUCT AN OFFICIAL PROCEEDING.

BUT NOW THE SUPREME COURT HAS AGREED TO HEAR AN APPEAL FROM ONE OF THE JANUARY SIX DEFENDANTS WHO IS ARGUING THAT THAT LAW, WHICH WAS ORIGINALLY PASSED BY CONGRESS TO DEAL WITH WITNESS TAMPERING IN COURT, CORPORATE CRIME CASES, CANNOT BE APPLIED TO THE ATTACK ON THE CAPITOL. REPUBLICANS HAVE BEEN TRYING

TO MAKE THIS CASE FOR MONTHS. THEY SAY THAT SOME OF THE SIX DEFENDANTS HAVE BEEN OVERCHARGED BY THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT. AND IF THE SUPREME COURT AGREES WITH THIS ARGUMENT, TWO OF THE FOUR COUNTS AGAINST DONALD TRUMP IN THAT ELECTION APPEARANCE CASE WOULD GO AWAY. AND HE GOT ANOTHER BOOST

IN THIS CASE WHEN THE JUDGE PUT ALL THE PROCEEDINGS ON HOLD WHILE. DONALD TRUMP APPEALS ANOTHER ISSUE, HIS CLAIM OF PRESIDENTIAL IMMUNITY FOR ANYTHING HE DID TO OVERTURN THE 2020 ELECTION. AND THAT APPEAL COULD DELAY THE START OF THIS CASE, WHICH IS SCHEDULED TO BEGIN IN MARCH. FOR MONTHS.

ELIZABETH TERRY MORAN, THANK YOU. A POWERFUL NEW STORM IS MAKING ITS WAY ACROSS THE MIDWEST TODAY, BRINGING UP TO SIX INCHES OF SNOW IN COLORADO AND NEW MEXICO AND CAUSING CHAOS ON THE ROADS. THE STORM IS NOW MOVING SOUTH, ALSO BRINGING RAIN TO TEXAS AND THE GULF COAST.

JOINING ME NOW WITH THE FULL FORECAST IS ABC NEWS METEOROLOGIST DAN PACK. DAN, THANKS FOR BREAKING DOWN FOR US. WHAT’S THE LATEST ON THIS STORM RIGHT NOW? WELL, ELIZABETH, RIGHT NOW, THIS SYSTEM HAS A LOT OF COLD AIR TO WORK WITH. >> SO THAT MEANS THE SNOW IS BRINGING WIDESPREAD ICY

AND SLICK ROAD CONDITIONS TO PORTIONS OF COLORADO AND NEW MEXICO. AND UNFORTUNATELY, THE SNOW IS GOING TO STICK AROUND AT LEAST THROUGH TONIGHT. WE COULD SEE ADDITIONAL SNOW TOTALS OF 3 TO 6 INCHES ACROSS PORTIONS SANTA FE AND THEN INTO GARDEN CITY. AND THEN THIS SYSTEM WILL CONTINUE TO PUSH TOWARDS THE EAST.

SO WE’LL SEE THIS THING MOVING EASTWARD AND GETTING MORE MILD AIR TO WORK WITH, WHICH MEANS THAT WE WILL SEE MORE WIDESPREAD HEAVY RAIN DEVELOPING ACROSS SOME BIG TRAVEL AREAS. DALLAS TO HOUSTON, YOU’LL BE SEEING SOME HEAVY BY THE FRIDAY EVENING COMMUTE. AND THIS RAIN COULD ALSO TRIGGER FLOODING, WHICH COULD

HAVE ADDITIONAL IMPACTS ON ROADWAYS AND RIVERS IN THE REGION. >> NOT GREAT, ESPECIALLY THAT WE’RE HEADING INTO SUCH A BUSY TRAVEL WEEKEND. WHAT SHOULD PEOPLE KNOW GOING INTO THE WEEKEND, DAN? WELL, THE BIG THING I WANT TO EMPHASIZE IS THAT THE IMPACTS WITH THIS SYSTEM WILL GET WORSE AS WE HEAD INTO

THE WEEKEND. AS WE TAKE A LOOK AT THE MAPS. ONCE AGAIN, WE’RE GOING TO TIME THIS OUT LATE SATURDAY AND THEN INTO SUNDAY, YOU SEE BY SATURDAY EVENING, WE HAVE HEAVY RAIN ACROSS MUCH OF THE FLORIDA PENINSULA. ORLANDO, MIAMI, WE ALREADY HAVE FLOOD ALERTS AND WIND ALERTS ALONG THE FLORIDA ATLANTIC COAST.

SO WE COULD HAVE BIG TRAVEL IMPACTS BY SATURDAY NIGHT AND THEN INTO EARLY SUNDAY MORNING. THE SYSTEM THEN REALLY GETS GOING. IT BECOMES A POWERFUL STORM ALONG THE EAST ON SUNDAY AND MONDAY. AND THAT’S WHERE WE’RE NOW TRACKING WIDESPREAD IMPACTS FROM RALEIGH TO D.C., NEW YORK AND BOSTON LATE INTO

MONDAY AS THE STORM BECOMES MORE ORGANIZED AND BRINGS MORE WIDESPREAD, SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS TO MUCH OF THE EAST COAST, TRAVEL CONTINUES TO RAMP UP ACROSS THE EASTERN HALF OF THE COUNTRY. LOOK AT THESE RAINFALL TOTALS ALONG THE EAST COAST. THE BIGGEST LOOKS LIKE IT’LL BE IN SOUTH FLORIDA, 5 TO

10 INCHES OF RAIN. THAT’S CERTAINLY GOING TO TRIGGER LATER THIS WEEKEND. AND THEN WE TRACK WIDESPREAD BIG OF 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN OFF THE EAST COAST. >> SO WE’RE LOOKING HEAVY RAIN, POTENTIAL FOR FLOODING AND WIDESPREAD STRONG WINDS LATER THIS WEEKEND AND INTO MONDAY, JUST AS THAT HOLIDAY

TRAVEL IS RAMPING UP. >> ELIZABETH, DO NOT LIKE THE LOOK OF THAT FORECAST HERE IN D.C.. DAN PACK, THANKS SO MUCH FOR STAYING ON THIS FOR US. >> COMING UP, CLOSING ARGUMENTS ARE UNDERWAY IN THE ASSAULT TRIAL OF ACTOR JONATHAN MAJORS. THE EVIDENCE THE JUDGE ALLOWED TO BE RELEASED WHEN WE RETURN.

WHENEVER NEWS BREAKS. WE ARE HERE IN ISRAEL, A NATION AT WAR AFTER THAT BRUTAL SURPRISE BY HAMAS ON THE GROUND IN UKRAINE. >> REPORTING FROM LEWISTON, MAINE THE SCENE OF A HORRIFIC MASS SHOOTING, ABC NEWS LIVE IS RIGHT THERE FROM THE SCENE OF THAT DEADLY MISSILE STRIKE. THE NEED FOR UKRAINE REPORTING

FROM THE EARTHQUAKE IN TURKEY IN FORTH THIS TORNADO TORE THROUGH THIS LITTLE TOWN FROM THE MOST DEVASTATING DISASTER IN HAWAII. FROM CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA ,ON THE 2024 CAMPAIGN TRAIL IN ICELAND. LET’S GO BACK TRAVELING WITH THE PRESIDENT IN MEXICO CITY WHERE I WHEREVER THE STORY FROM THE LINES FROM SOUTHERN

ISRAEL OUTSIDE THE GAZA STRIP. IN BEIRUT, FROM THE FBI REPORTING FROM THE NURSES ON THE PICKET LINE HERE AT TEN DOWNING STREET IN LONDON, STREAMING LIVE TO YOU WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WE’RE GOING TO TAKE YOU THERE. WE’RE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE, ABC NEWS LIVE.

YOU’RE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE ,ABC NEWS LIVE, STREAMING FREE EVERYWHERE. NUMBER ONE, STREAMING NEWS. OKAY. WHAT ARE THE STORIES THAT? >> TAKE YOU BACK TO SOME OF YOUR HAPPIEST TIMES TONIGHT CELEBRATE 100 YEARS OF THINK OF DISNEY. >> ONE WORD THAT COMES TO MIND, THE AMAZING DREAM. OH, WOW.

SUPER CAN LIVE FOREVER. MAGICAL. THE SECRETS OF FUN WOW. AND THE STORIES BEHIND THE STORIES ABOUT NEVER SEEN BEFORE. DISNEY 100 A CENTURY OF DREAMS. TONIGHT AT NINE EIGHT CENTRAL ON ABC AND STREAM ON HULU AND DISNEY PLUS. >> FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. >> THERE’S A LOT GOING ON.

EVERYBODY IN THAT HOME IS OKAY TO CATCH YOU UP WITH WHAT HAPPENED OVERNIGHT. WE ARE HERE AT FASHION’S BIGGEST OUT. WHAT’S HAPPENING TODAY. YOUTUBE HAS UNVEILED A NEW SET OF POLICIES WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT. THE NEW AD CAMPAIGN FAST, STRAIGHT FORWARD WITH SOME FUN IN BETWEEN A REAL LIFE BARBIE

HOUSE. A NAME CHANGE FOR THE WIENERMOBILE. FIRST THING IN THE MORNING, AMERICA THIS MORNING, AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE EARLY MORNING NEWS ON ABC NEWS. >> WHAT? WELCOME BACK. CLOSING ARGUMENTS UNDERWAY IN THE ASSAULT TRIAL OF ACTOR JONATHAN MAJORS. THE DEFENSE ITS CASE YESTERDAY WITH MAJORS CHOOSING NOT TO TESTIFY IN HIS OWN DEFENSE.

BUT THE JUDGE DID ALLOW EVIDENCE, INCLUDING VIDEO, AUDIO, TEXTS AND PHOTOS RELATED TO THE ALLEGED ASSAULT OF MAJORS EX-GIRLFRIEND TO BE RELEASED. SENIOR INVESTIGATOR CORRESPONDENT AARON KATERSKY HAS THOSE DETAILS. >> JONATHAN MAJORS RETURNS TO COURT AS THE JURY PREPARES TO DECIDE A DOMESTIC VIOLENCE THAT COULD DETERMINE THE TRAJECTORY OF THE ACTOR’S CAREER.

>> WHAT HAPPENED EXACTLY, DO YOU KNOW? >> YEAH, I DON’T KNOW. UM, SHE’S UNCONSCIOUS. MAJORS CALLED 911 BACK IN MARCH. >> I THINK I SAW A COUPLE OF TIMES AFTER HE FOUND HIS EX-GIRLFRIEND, GRACE JABARI, ON A CLOSET FLOOR, THEIR APARTMENT. THE JURY SAW VIDEO FROM POLICE, BODY WORN CAMERAS.

JABARI DID HAVE A CUT BEHIND HER EAR. THE JURY SAW THIS PICTURE OF IT. THE JURY ALSO SAW A PHOTO OF JABARI FINGER THAT SHE TESTIFIED FRACTURED DURING AN ASSAULT IN THE BACK SEAT OF AN SUV. MY HEAD WAS RESTING ON HIS SHOULDER. JABARI TOLD THE JURY WE WERE

CHATTING AND HE WAS ON HIS PHONE WHEN A MESSAGE POPPED UP SAYING, I WISH I WAS KISSING YOU UPSET BY THE MESSAGE. JABARI TESTIFIED SHE GRABBED THE PHONE AND THEN I FELT A HEAVY THUD ON TOP OF ME. I KNEW TO BE THE WEIGHT OF HIM

ON TOP OF ME AND HIM TRYING TO PRY THE PHONE OUT OF MY FINGERS. >> SURVEILLANCE VIDEO SHOWS MAJORS JABARI OFF THE GROUND AND SHOVING HER BACK IN THE CAR BEFORE HE’S SEEN RUNNING OFF. SHE CHASES AFTER HIM, HE PUSHES HER AWAY, RUNS OFF JABARI CROSSING TRAFFIC IN PURSUIT. >> JONATHAN MAJORS CASE

IS GOING TO HINGE ON TWO MAJOR COMPONENTS. ONE WILL YOU BELIEVE THAT GRACE JABARI WAS INJURED BY? >> JONATHAN MAJORS WITH ALL THE VIDEO AND TESTIMONY THAT WE SAW AND HEARD AND TWO WAS JONATHAN MAJORS JUSTIFIED HIS ACTIONS AFTER GRACE JABARI ADMITTEDLY TOOK HIS PROPERTY THAT BEING HIS CELL PHONE

AND HE TRIED TO RECOVER IT FROM . >> HER MAJORS CAREER HAD BEEN TAKING OFF WHEN THE MARVEL STAR AND JABARI ON THE SET OF ANT-MAN AND THE WASP QUANTUMANIA AND BEGAN DATING SLIGHTLY BEFORE THE ALLEGED ASSAULT. >> SHE TESTIFIED HE HAD MOOD SWINGS AND A TEMPER. THE JURY TEXT MESSAGES

PURPORTING TO SHOW MAJORS DISSUADING JABARI GOING TO THE HOSPITAL FOLLOWING AN ALLEGED ALTERCATION BETWEEN THEM IN 2022. >> THE JURY ALSO HEARING THIS RECORDING OF THE ACTOR SCOLDING JABARI. >> HOW DID IT COME FROM JUST THE THIRD PIECE OF OUR HOUSE AND TELLING HER HE NEEDS A GREAT WOMAN BECAUSE HE’S A

GREAT MAN? >> CORETTA SCOTT KING AS ONE KING’S WIFE, MICHELLE OBAMA . >> BARACK OBAMA WIFE. MY TEMPER, MY MANTRA OVER OVER. >> ALL THAT SAID, I’M A GREAT MAN, A GREAT MAN. I GREAT THINGS, NOT JUST FOR ME, FOR NOT FOR MY CULTURE. >> IT’S A WORLD THAT’S

ACTUALLY THE POSITION I’M IN. >> THE WOMAN THAT SUPPORTS ME NEEDS TO BE A GREAT WOMAN. >> AARON KATERSKY JOINS US ALONG WITH LEGAL CONTRIBUTOR AND TRIAL ATTORNEY BRIAN VOLKMAR. I THANK YOU BOTH SO FOR BEING HERE. ERIN, YOU’VE BEEN INSIDE THIS COURTROOM FOR THE TRIAL. DESCRIBE WHAT THE ATMOSPHERE

HAS BEEN LIKE. >> WELL, IT’S TENSE AND THIS IS A DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CASE, ALTHOUGH ELIZABETH, NATURALLY, THERE’S A LOT AT STAKE, ESPECIALLY WHEN THE COMPLAINING GRACE JABARI TOOK THE STAND. SHE DESCRIBED IN DETAIL WHAT SHE SAYS HAPPENED TO HER IN THE BACK OF THAT SUV BACK IN MARCH.

BUT NOW WE’RE AT CLOSING ARGUMENTS AND THINGS GOT REALLY EMOTIONAL. JONATHAN MAJORS, DEFENSE ATTORNEY PRIOR TO CHAUDHRY, BROKE DOWN CRYING, IMPLORING THE JURY TO BELIEVE THAT HE’S INNOCENT AND ACCUSING JABARI OF MAKING ALL OF THIS UP OF LYING BECAUSE SHE’S OUT FOR REVENGE AFTER HE BROKE OFF THEIR RELATIONSHIP.

THAT TEXT MESSAGE ON HIS PHONE FROM ANOTHER WOMAN SAYING, I WISH I WAS KISSING YOU NOW. AND PROSECUTORS COMING BACK SAYING, WAIT A MINUTE, THIS IS NOT GRACE JABARI VERSUS JONATHAN MAJORS. THIS IS THE PEOPLE OF STATE OF NEW YORK. TAKING ISSUE WITH WHAT JONATHAN MAJORS IS ACCUSED

OF DOING AND THE PROSECUTOR REMINDING, THE JURY, THAT THIS HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH ANY KIND OF A REVENGE BY HIS EX-GIRLFRIEND. >> AND SOME OF THE EVIDENCE THAT YOU LAID OUT IN YOUR PIECE DOES SEEM PRETTY. BRIAN, WE HEARD YOU IN ERIN’S PIECE DESCRIBING SOME OF THE THE DEFENSE’S LEGAL STRATEGY.

WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THE WAY THAT MAJOR’S LAWYERS ARE BUILDING THAT? WELL, LET ME START BY SAYING THIS. TWO DEFENSE ATTORNEYS COULD BE VERY REASONABLE AND HAVE DIFFERENT INTERPRETATIONS OF HOW THE FACTS SHOULD COME FORWARD. I JUST DISAGREE WITH HOW THE DEFENSE ATTORNEY HERE. THERE WAS NO EVIDENCE

TO SUGGEST THAT GRACE OR BRIAN WAS LYING OR THIS REVENGE. >> TO ME, THIS CASE SHOULD BE STRICTLY ABOUT WHAT ONE PERSON TAKES, ANOTHER PERSON’S PROPERTY. WHAT DOES THAT PERSON ALLOWED TO DO TO GET THAT PROPERTY BACK? IT SHOULD BE GENDERLESS. IT BE BLIND TO WHO IS THE MALE

AND WHO IS THE FEMALE. SO JUST AS HE WOULD CHAMPION A WOMAN WHO FIGHTS BACK AT A MURDER, TAKING HER PURSE, WE SHOULD EQUALLY CHAMPION A MAN WHO TAKES BACK HIS CELL PHONE WITHOUT USING EXCESSIVE FORCE FROM A WOMAN. AND I THINK SHOULD BE THE ISSUE HERE. THIS IS NOT ABOUT RACE.

THIS IS NOT ABOUT FAME OR REVENGE. I THINK THEY SHOULD BE LOCKED INTO THAT ISSUE AND SAY THE ALLOWS YOU TO TAKE BACK YOUR PHONE. AND CLEARLY, THAT’S WHAT RACHEL MARTIN SAID HAPPENED. AND THEN JONATHAN MAJORS RAN AWAY. >> FEAR OF THE REPERCUSSIONS. BRIAN, JONATHAN MAJORS DECIDED

NOT TO TAKE THE STAND IN HIS OWN DEFENSE. DO YOU THINK THAT HELPS OR HIM ? >> SO THE LAW WOULD SAY THAT THAT IS YOUR FIFTH AMENDMENT RIGHT AND THAT THE JURY CAN NOT CONSIDER THAT. BUT THEY OFTEN DO. AND THE COURT OF PUBLIC THAT WOULD AFFECT HIM AS WELL.

FROM A LEGAL AND STRATEGIC STANDPOINT, I THAT’S SMART BECAUSE A LOT OF THE QUESTIONS THAT WOULD BE ASKED OF HIM THAT CAME ABOUT JUST THE TOXICITY OF THIS RELATIONSHIP I THINK WOULD NOT BE DAMAGING TO THE CASE, BUT ALSO TO HIS PR AND HIS CAREER GOING DOWN THE DOWN THE ROAD.

I THINK STAYING IN THIS PLACE, BEING SHIELDED BY THE FIFTH AMENDMENT IS SMART FOR HIM. BUT I THINK THE ARGUMENTS SURROUNDING HIM COULD HAVE BEEN BETTER TO PUT IT IN A BETTER LIGHT. >> WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE CHARGES THAT HE’S FACING, AARON, IT’S MISDEMEANOR CHARGES OF, ASSAULT AND AGGRAVATED HARASSMENT.

WHAT’S AT STAKE HERE FOR MAJORS? >> WELL, FROM A LEGAL PERSPECTIVE, HE COULD SERVE UP TO A YEAR IN PRISON. NOW, FIRST TIME OFFENDER MISDEMEANOR CHARGE OF ASSAULT AND AGGRAVATED HARASSMENT. IT’S HIGHLY UNLIKELY IF HE IS CONVICTED THAT HE WOULD SERVE A YEAR IN PRISON. BUT AS BRIAN NOTES, SOME OF

THE REPUTATIONAL THINGS THAT CAME OUT DURING THIS TRIAL THAT HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH HIS GUILT OR INNOCENCE ARE ACTUALLY POTENTIALLY QUITE TO HIS REPUTATION. THE JURY SAW IMAGES OF OF OBJECTS THAT HE HURLED AT GRACE JABARI AND THEN BROKE ALL OVER THE WALL AND THEN CAME CRASHING TO THE FLOOR.

THEY SAW TEXT MESSAGES WHERE HE IS DISSUADING HER FROM GOING TO THE HOSPITAL AFTER SOME KIND OF AN ALTERCATION THAT TOOK PLACE BETWEEN, THE TWO OF THEM IN 2022. SO BEFORE THE ALLEGED ASSAULT ISSUE THAT WILL DETERMINE GUILT OR INNOCENCE. THE JURY HEARD SEVERAL OTHER INSTANCES OF WHAT SOUNDED LIKE

PHYSICAL AND VERBAL ABUSE. AND FOR MAJORS, THAT CAN’T BE A GOOD LOOK AARON. AND BRIAN BOTH STAY ON THIS AS THOSE CLOSING ARGUMENTS ARE UNDERWAY. >> THANK YOU BOTH SO MUCH. COMING. >> RUDY GIULIANI SAYS HE WON’T TESTIFY AND THAT ELECTION DEFAMATION LAWSUIT BROUGHT BY TWO GEORGIA ELECTION WORKERS .

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THE FORMER TRUMP ATTORNEY WAS EXPECTED TAKE THE STAND TODAY AFTER TWO GEORGIA ELECTION WORKERS SUED HIM AND THEY RESTED THEIR CASE. ONE OF THOSE WORKERS, A SHAMUS, TESTIFIED THAT GIULIANI’S FALSE ACCUSATIONS MADE HER FEAR FOR HER LIFE. THE JUDGE HAS ALREADY A DEFAULT JUDGMENT TO THE TWO WOMEN. SO THIS TRIAL IS ONLY

DETERMINING WHAT DAMAGES GIULIANI WILL HAVE TO PAY. RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN SAYS HE IS IN TALKS WITH THE U.S. OVER PAUL WHELAN AND EVAN GERSHKOVICH, TWO AMERICANS UNJUSTLY JAILED IN RUSSIA. PUTIN SAYS THE KREMLIN WANTS TO FIND A SOLUTION. IT IS NOT EASY. WE LEARNED HAS BEEN IMPRISONED

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WEEKENDS ON ABC NEWS LIVE, ABC NEWS AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE NEWS SOURCE TODAY ON ABC NEWS LIVE. TURNING THE PRESSURE. NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER JAKE SULLIVAN IS IN TEL AVIV MEETING WITH THE ISRAELI WAR CABINET. THE MESSAGE THAT HE’S SENDING FROM THE WHITE HOUSE. AND CLOSING ARGUMENTS BEGIN IN JONATHAN MAJORS ASSAULT TRIAL.

WE HAVE THE SURVEILLANCE VIDEO AUDIO, TEXT MESSAGES THAT THE JURY SAW. WHAT’S AT STAKE FOR THE ACTOR WITH JURY DELIBERATIONS UP NEXT. PLUS, A POWERFUL CROSS-COUNTRY STORM IS BRINGING HEAVY RAIN AND SNOW. WE’RE TRACKING THE STORM AND HOW IT COULD IMPACT YOUR HOLIDAY TRAVEL. HEY, EVERYONE, I’M.

AND OUR TOP STORY AT THIS HOUR IS THE WHITE HOUSE NATIONAL ADVISOR IN ISRAEL FOR A HIGH STAKES VISIT. JAKE SULLIVAN SAYS HE’S URGING ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU AND HIS WAR CABINET TO WORK TOWARD ANOTHER CEASE FIRE. GETTING MORE HOSTAGES AND GAZA OUT AND MORE HUMANITARIAN AID IN.

BUT AS THESE MEETINGS ARE TAKING PLACE, THE FIGHTING IS STILL RAGING. HAMAS SAYS A MASSIVE AIRSTRIKE BY ISRAEL TODAY KILLED 19 PEOPLE IN NORTHERN GAZA AND FIGHTING AROUND GAZA CITY. FOR MORE, LET’S BRING IN ABC SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT SELINA WANG. AND ABC NEWS IS IN AS ARE LIKE

TARA IN TEL AVIV, ISRAEL, SELINA IS IS EXPECTED TO BE TENSE BETWEEN JAKE SULLIVAN AND PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU AS THE WHITE HOUSE TRIES TO CLARIFY PRESIDENT BIDEN’S COMMENTS. ISRAEL IS CONDUCTING INDISCRIMINATE BOMBING. IS SULLIVAN EXPECTED TO TRY TO WALK BACK THE PRESIDENT’S REMARKS? AND WHAT KIND OF PRIORITIES

ARE WE SEEING IN THIS CONVERSATION? WELL, LOOK, ELIZABETH I THINK THE PRIORITY FOR SULLIVAN’S MEETINGS THERE IS TO PUSH THAT MESSAGE OF RESTRAINT, TO BE MORE DISCRIMINANT AND TARGETED IN THEIR MILITARY OPERATIONS. AS YOU SAY, THIS IS A VERY TENSE TIME COMING JUST DAYS AFTER PRESIDENT BIDEN GAVE

SOME OF HIS STRONGEST CRITICISM OF BOTH NETANYAHU AND HIS ISRAEL YET SAYING THAT THEY NEED TO PULL THAT THIS INDISCRIMINATE BOMBING THAT COULD LOSE GLOBAL SUPPORT HERE. ANOTHER KEY ASPECT OF THESE MEETINGS, ACCORDING TO THE WHITE HOUSE, IS GOING TO TRYING TO NEGOTIATE ANOTHER TEMPORARY PAUSE. IT WAS SUCCESSFUL THE LAST

TIME, BUT SINCE THEN THE FIGHTING HAS RAMPED BACK UP. AND WITHIN THAT PAUSE, THEY WOULD LIKE TO GET MORE HOSTAGES OUT, AS WELL AS A SURGE IN HUMANITARIAN AID. THE AMERICANS BELIEVE THAT THERE ARE STILL A MAY EIGHT AMERICANS STILL BEING HELD HOSTAGE, ALTHOUGH THE WHITE HOUSE HAS BEEN VERY

CLEAR THAT THEY DO NOT WHERE THEY’RE BEG HELD, IF IT’S BEING HELD BY HAMAS AND THEY’RE NOT SURE WHAT THE CONDITIONS OF THESE AMERICANS ARE. BUT WE KNOW THIS IS A TOP WHITE HOUSE PRIORITY. THE FAMILY MEMBERS OF THESE HOSTAGES RECENTLY MEETING WITH PRESIDENT BIDEN AT THE WHITE HOUSE. THEY’RE GOING TO CONTINUE

TO PUSH FOR THAT. FAMILY MEMBERS JUST SO DESPERATE TO GET THEIR LOVED ONES HOME AS WE SAW THEM AT THE WHITE HOUSE. AND AS WE DO KNOW THAT NOW, HALF OF AIR TO GROUND MUSICIANS THAT ISRAEL HAS DROPPED INTO GAZA, BEEN UNGUIDED OR OTHERWISE KNOWN AS DUMB BOMBS. WHAT DOES THAT MEAN FOR

THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY’S OPINION OF ISRAEL AND FOR THE WAR ITSELF? YEAH, ELIZABETH, AN ALARMING REPORT THERE THAT SAYS THAT NEARLY HALF OF AIR TO GROUND MUNITIONS THAT HAVE BEEN USED IN GAZA ARE UNGUIDED. AND SO, LIKE YOU SAY, ARE KNOWN AS DUMB BOMBS. AND THE CONCERN WITH THOSE

IS THAT THEY ARE LESS PRECISE AND SO THEY POSE A GREATER THREAT TO CIVILIANS, ESPECIALLY AN AREA THAT IS AS DENSELY POPULATED AS THE GAZA STRIP, WHERE THE MOST DENSELY POPULATED AREAS IN THE WORLD AND EVEN MORE DENSELY POPULATED IN PARTS OF THE SOUTH, FOR INSTANCE, WHERE WE

KNOW SO MANY PEOPLE HAVE MOVED TO TRY AND FLEE THE SHELLING IN THE NORTH. SO THIS COMES, OF COURSE, AS ISRAEL HAS BEEN FACING GROWING CALLS TO TRY AND DO EVERYTHING IT CAN TO MINIMIZE CIVILIAN CASUALTIES. THE ISRAELIS INSIST THAT THEY ARE TAKING TO MINIMIZE CIVILIAN CASUALTIES, BUT THESE TYPES

OF REPORTS ARE GOING TO RENEW THE CRITICISM FROM AROUND THE WORLD FOR ISRAEL, TOO, TO DO MORE. AND THEY’RE GOING TO BE QUESTIONS AS TO WHY THESE TYPES OF MUNITIONS ARE BEING USED IN THE FIRST PLACE. THIS IS ALSO RENEWING CONCERNS FOR THE HOSTAGES, OF COURSE, I’M HERE AT HOSTAGE SQUARE

WHERE SOME OF THE FAMILIES OF THE HOSTAGES JUST MET WITH THE ISRAELI PRESIDENT FOR THE LIGHTING OF THE FINAL CANDLE FOR HANUKKAH. A LOT OF THESE FAMILIES ARE CONCERNED FOR THE WELL-BEING OF THE HOSTAGES THAT REMAIN IN GAZA. 135 HOSTAGES REMAIN IN GAZA. AND, OF COURSE, LOTS

OF CONCERNS AS TO WHAT THE RELENTLESS SHELLING OF THE GAZA STRIP COULD MEAN FOR THEM. >> AND SELINA, TO PICK UP ON SOME OF THOSE CONCERNS THAT INES IS TALKING ABOUT, PRESIDENT BIDEN WARNED ISRAEL THAT IT MIGHT START LOSING SUPPORT FROM THE INTERNATIONAL. SO WHERE DOES THE WHITE

HOUSE STAND ON HOW ISRAEL’S MILITARY IS CONDUCTING OPERATIONS RIGHT NOW INSIDE GAZA? YEAH, LOOK, WE’VE SEEN SOME OF THIS BEHIND THE SCENES DIPLOMACY THAT’S GOING ON FOR WEEKS WHILE THAT IS STARTING TO SPILL OUT INTO THE OPEN. BUT THE WHITE HOUSE HASN’T BEEN, AS POINTED IN ITS CRITICISM AS WHAT

PRESIDENT SAID THERE ABOUT THE INDISCRIMINATE BOMBING. THE WHITE HOUSE MAKING CLEAR THEIR SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL ISN’T GOING ANYWHERE, BUT THEY ARE GETTING MORE VOCAL ABOUT EXPRESSING THEIR CONCERNS TO BE MORE SURGICAL, TO BE MORE TARGETED, TO REDUCE CIVILIAN HARD, EVEN THOUGH THERE ARE CLEAR DISAGREEMENTS HERE, THOUGH, THE U.S.

AND ISRAEL, THEY ARE ALIGNED ON GETTING MORE HOSTAGES OUT. AND U.S. OFFICIALS SAY TO ME THAT THIS DIPLOMACY IN THE PAST FEW WEEKS IT HAS BEEN SUCCESSFUL IN GETTING TO RESHAPE THE WAY THAT ITS COMBAT OPERATIONS ARE BEING STRUCTURED. BUT LOOK, THE FOCUS OF THIS MEETING FOR JAKE SULLIVAN NOT

JUST GOING TO BE ON MILITARY OPERATIONS AND HOSTAGES. JOHN KIRBY, THE NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL, SAID THESE MEETINGS WILL ALSO BE FOCUSED ON WHAT HAPPENS THE DAY AFTER. THE WHITE HOUSE MAKING VERY CLEAR THAT REVITALIZED PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY SHOULD BE RULING GAZA, NOT A LONG TERM REOCCUPATION OF THE ISRAELI MILITARY.

A LOT OF QUESTIONS ABOUT THE LONGER TERM PLANS STILL. AND SULEIMAN AND I THANK YOU SO MUCH. FOR MORE ON THE WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST, LET’S BRING IN ABC NEWS. NATIONAL SECURITY AND DEFENSE ANALYST AND FORMER DEPUTY ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF DEFENSE FOR THE MIDDLE EAST. MICK MULROY MIKE, I WANT

TO PICK UP ON JAKE SULLIVAN’S VISIT TO ISRAEL. OBVIOUSLY, WE’VE HEARD PRESIDENT BIDEN RAMPING UP HIS RHETORIC, SAYING ISRAEL’S MILITARY CAMPAIGN IS STARTING TO LOSE SOME OF THAT SUPPORT. WE’VE THAT ABOUT HALF OF THE MUNITIONS THAT ISRAEL IS DROPPING ON GAZA ARE THOSE DUMB BOMBS THAT ARE UNGUIDED.

CAN YOU PROVIDE A LITTLE BIT OF CONTEXT ABOUT WHY ISRAEL WOULD BE USING THOSE DUMB BOMBS? WHY NOT USE GUIDED MISSILES, ESPECIALLY AMID SOME OF THIS CRITICISM? >> NICK, SO THIS IS IT’S IMPORTANT TO POINT OUT THAT MOST COUNTRIES HAVE THOSE IN THEIR ARSENAL, INCLUDING THE UNITED STATES.

AS YOU POINTED OUT, THE MOST EFFECTIVE ARE PRECISION GUIDED MISSILES, NOT THESE UNGUIDED MISSILES THAT COME FROM THE AIR TO GROUND, BUT THEY CAN USED IN COMBAT AND THEY CAN BE USED IN URBAN CONTRAT A COMBAT. THE ISSUE IS YOU HAVE TO TAKE PARTICULAR CARE TO MAKE SURE

THAT THE RADIUS OF THE EXPLOSION DOES NOT INCLUDE CIVILIANS. SO IT IS MORE COMPLICATED. AND I THINK BY THE LEVEL DEATH AND DESTRUCTION THAT WE’VE SEEN, THAT IS REALLY WHAT CALLING THIS INTO QUESTION WHY YOU WOULD USE SO MANY ONGOING MUNITIONS THAT ON TOP OF THE PRESIDENT’S COMMENTS

THAT THE BOMBING HAS BEEN INDISCRIMINATE? I THINK WE REALLY CALL THAT INTO QUESTION. BUT JUST USING THEM ALONE DOES NOT INDICATE SOME KIND OF NEFARIOUS INTENT. IT’S HOW YOU USE. >> GIVEN THE CRITICISM AND PRESIDENT BIDEN’S COMMENTS ABOUT INDISCRIMINATE BOMBING, WHAT YOU THINK JAKE SULLIVAN IS TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH

WITH THIS FACE TO FACE MEETING IN TEL AVIV. SO THE USE OF THE TERM INDISCRIMINATE REALLY IT OUTSIDE OF WHAT’S CALLED THE LAW OF ARMED CONFLICT AND A LACK YOU’LL HEAR A LOT OF PEOPLE SAY. SO I THINK THAT NEEDS TO BE IF IT’S NOT AS PRECISE AS WE WOULD

LIKE AND WE SHOULD SAY SAY THAT SPECIFICALLY. BUT WHEN YOU USE THE WORD INDISCRIMINATE, IT REALLY MEANS YOU’RE NOT YOU’RE NOT DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN FRIEND OR FOE, WHICH IS REQUIRED UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW. BUT I THINK MR. SULLIVAN IS REALLY GOING TO PUSH FOR A CHANGE IN TACTICS WHEN IT

COMES TO THE REMAINDER OF MAJOR OPERATIONS. HE’S GOING TO PUSH FOR A UN SUPPLY OF HUMANITARIAN AID, WHICH IS GREAT, GREATLY NEEDED. AND LIKE YOU MENTIONED IN THE REPORT AND LIKE ALL OF THE REPORTS HAVE, THEY’RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT THE WAY AHEAD. WHAT IS NEXT. MOST ISRAELIS HAVEN’T BEEN

THAT INTERESTED IN TALKING ABOUT THAT. BUT WE NEED TO NOW SO WE CAN PREPARE FOR IT, BECAUSE THE MESSAGE WE ALL WANT A LONG TERM IDF OCCUPATION OF GAZA WHICH I DON’T EVEN THINK IS IN ISRAEL’S INTEREST. WE NEED TO START PLANNING FOR WHAT WOULD BE ALTERNATIVE,

AND THAT NEEDS TO START NOW AND STILL SOME DEBATE ABOUT WHAT THAT ALTERNATIVE IS. WE KNOW THAT HOSTAGE HAVE BEEN REACTING ANGRILY TO REPORTS THAT ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU WILL ACTUALLY STOP THE HEAD OF MOSSAD FROM GOING TO QATAR, WHICH IS, OF COURSE, THE MAIN INTERMEDIARY IN THE HOSTAGE NEGOTIATIONS

THAT STOPPED HIM FROM RESTARTING THOSE NEGOTIATIONS. WHY SHOULD ISRAEL BE PUTTING A PAUSE ON THOSE NEGOTIATIONS RIGHT NOW? WHAT WOULD BE THAT? >> SO I DON’T UNDERSTAND THE LOGIC IN NOT SENDING YOUR NEGOTIATORS. AND IN CASES LIKE THIS WHERE IT’S A VERY SENSITIVE NEGOTIATION WITH, IN THIS CASE, A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION,

OFTENTIMES THE INTELLIGENCE SERVICES LIKE THE CIA, LIKE MASADA ARE USED TO. THAT’S VERY NORMAL. BUT THERE’S NO WAY TO GET TO ANY KIND OF NEGOTIATED SETTLEMENT, WHICH IS BY FAR THE MOST SAFE WAY TO GET HOSTAGES OF HARM’S WAY THAN A MILITARY OPERATION. THERE’S NO WAY TO GET TO THAT

IF YOU’RE NOT EVEN TALKING. SO IT DOESN’T MEAN YOU HAVE TO AGREE WITH EVERYTHING THAT’S BEING ASKED BY HAMAS. BUT THE DIALOG REALLY NEEDS TO TAKE PLACE BECAUSE IT IS BY FAR THE MOST THE SAFEST WAY TO GET THESE THESE PEOPLE BACK AND BACK WITH THEIR FAMILIES. MICK MULROY, THANK YOU,

AS ALWAYS, FOR YOUR ANALYSIS. THANKS A LOT. THE SUPREME COURT SAYS IT WILL CONSIDER CASE THAT COULD UNDO MORE THAN 100 CONVICTIONS STEMMING FROM THE SIXTH ATTACK ON THE CAPITOL. PROSECUTORS ORIGINALLY CHARGED FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP AND OTHER DEFENDANTS WITH OBSTRUCTING AN OFFICIAL PROCEEDING, THE CERTIFICATION OF ELECTORAL VOTES.

NOW, THE SUPREME COURT HAS TO WEIGH IN ON WHETHER PROSECUTORS STRETCHED THE LAW, TOO, WHICH COULD IMPACT ROUGHLY 300 DEFENDANTS, INCLUDING THE FORMER PRESIDENT. SENIOR NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT TERRY MORAN HAS LATEST. >> ELIZABETH, THIS CASE COULD HAVE A BIG IMPACT ON THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE WHO STORMED THE CAPITOL AND DONALD

TRUMP HIMSELF HAVE ALL BEEN CHARGED UNDER THE SAME FEDERAL LAW. THAT MAKES IT A CRIME TO, QUOTE CORRUPTLY, OBSTRUCT AN OFFICIAL PROCEEDING. BUT NOW THE SUPREME COURT HAS AGREED TO HEAR AN APPEAL FROM ONE OF THE JANUARY SIX DEFENDANTS WHO IS ARGUING THAT THAT LAW, WHICH WAS ORIGINALLY PASSED BY CONGRESS

TO DEAL WITH WITNESS TAMPERING IN COURT, CORPORATE CRIME CASES, CANNOT BE APPLIED TO THE ATTACK ON THE CAPITOL. REPUBLICANS HAVE BEEN TRYING TO MAKE THIS CASE FOR MONTHS. THEY SAY THAT SOME THE JANUARY SIX DEFENDANTS HAVE BEEN OVERCHARGED BY THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT. YET THE SUPREME COURT AGREES WITH THIS ARGUMENT.

TWO OF THE FOUR COUNTS AGAINST DONALD TRUMP IN THAT ELECTION CASE WOULD GO AWAY. AND HE GOT ANOTHER BOOST IN THIS CASE WHEN THE JUDGE PUT ALL THE PROCEEDINGS ON HOLD WHILE DONALD APPEALS ANOTHER ISSUE, HIS CLAIM OF PRESIDENTIAL IMMUNITY FOR ANYTHING HE DID TO OVERTURN THE 2020 ELECTION.

AND THAT APPEAL COULD DELAY THE START OF THIS CASE, WHICH IS SCHEDULED TO BEGIN IN MARCH. FOR MONTHS. >> ELIZABETH TERRY MORAN, THANK YOU. A POWERFUL NEW STORM IS MAKING ITS WAY ACROSS THE MIDWEST TODAY, BRINGING UP TO SIX INCHES OF SNOW IN COLORADO AND NEW MEXICO AND CAUSING

CHAOS ON THE ROADS. THE STORM IS NOW MOVING SOUTH, ALSO BRINGING RAIN TO TEXAS AND THE GULF COAST. JOINING ME NOW WITH THE FULL FORECAST IS ABC NEWS METEOROLOGIST DAN PACK. DAN, THANKS FOR BREAKING DOWN FOR US. WHAT’S THE LATEST ON THIS STORM RIGHT NOW? WELL, ELIZABETH, RIGHT NOW,

THIS SYSTEM HAS A LOT OF COLD AIR TO WORK WITH. >> SO THAT MEANS THE SNOW IS BRINGING WIDESPREAD ICY AND SLICK ROAD CONDITIONS TO PORTIONS OF COLORADO AND NEW MEXICO. AND UNFORTUNATELY, THE SNOW IS GOING TO STICK AROUND AT LEAST THROUGH TONIGHT. WE COULD SEE ADDITIONAL SNOW

TOTALS OF 3 TO 6 INCHES ACROSS PORTIONS SANTA FE AND THEN INTO GARDEN CITY. AND THEN THIS SYSTEM WILL CONTINUE TO PUSH TOWARDS THE EAST. SO WE’LL SEE THIS THING MOVING EASTWARD AND GETTING MORE MILD AIR TO WORK WITH, WHICH MEANS THAT WE WILL SEE MORE WIDESPREAD HEAVY RAIN DEVELOPING ACROSS SOME BIG

TRAVEL AREAS. DALLAS TO HOUSTON, YOU’LL BE SEEING SOME HEAVY RAIN, THE FRIDAY EVENING COMMUTE. AND THIS RAIN COULD ALSO TRIGGER FLOODING, WHICH COULD HAVE ADDITIONAL IMPACTS ON ROADWAYS AND RIVERS IN THE REGION. >> NOT GREAT, ESPECIALLY THAT WE’RE HEADING INTO SUCH A BUSY TRAVEL WEEKEND. WHAT SHOULD PEOPLE KNOW GOING

INTO THE WEEKEND? DAN? >> WELL, THE BIG THING I WANT TO EMPHASIZE IS THAT THE IMPACTS WITH THIS SYSTEM WILL GET WORSE AS WE HEAD INTO THE WEEKEND. AS WE TAKE A LOOK AT THE MAPS. ONCE AGAIN, WE’RE TO TIME THIS OUT LATE SATURDAY AND THEN INTO SUNDAY. YOU SEE, BY SATURDAY EVENING,

WE HAVE HEAVY RAIN ACROSS MUCH OF THE FLORIDA PENINSULA. ORLANDO, MIAMI, WE ALREADY HAVE FLOOD ALERTS AND WIND ALERTS ALONG THE FLORIDA ATLANTIC COAST. SO WE COULD HAVE BIG TRAVEL IMPACTS BY SATURDAY NIGHT AND THEN INTO EARLY SUNDAY MORNING. THE SYSTEM THEN REALLY GETS GOING. IT BECOMES A POWERFUL

STORM ALONG THE EAST ON SUNDAY AND MONDAY. AND THAT’S WHERE WE’RE NOW TRACKING WIDESPREAD IMPACTS FROM RALEIGH TO D.C., NEW YORK AND BOSTON LATE SUNDAY INTO MONDAY, AS THE STORM BECOMES MORE ORGANIZED AND BRINGS MORE WIDESPREAD, SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS TO MUCH OF THE EAST COAST AS TRAVEL CONTINUES TO RAMP UP ACROSS

THE EASTERN HALF OF THE COUNTRY. LOOK AT RAINFALL TOTALS ALONG THE EAST COAST. THE BIGGEST LOOKS, IT WILL BE IN SOUTH FLORIDA, 5 TO 10 INCHES OF RAIN. THAT’S CERTAINLY GOING TO TRIGGER FLOODING LATER THIS WEEKEND. AND THEN YOU TRACK WIDESPREAD BIG TOTALS OF 2 TO 3 INCHES

OF RAIN UP THE EAST COAST. SO WE’RE LOOKING AT HEAVY RAIN, POTENTIAL FOR FLOODING AND WIDESPREAD STRONG WINDS LATER THIS AND INTO MONDAY, JUST AS THAT HOLIDAY TRAVEL IS NOW RAMPING UP. DO NOT LIKE THE LOOK OF THAT FORECAST HERE IN D.C. PACK, THANKS SO MUCH FOR STAYING ON THIS FOR US.

COMING UP, CLOSING ARGUMENTS ARE UNDERWAY IN THE ASSAULT TRIAL OF ACTOR JONATHAN MAJORS . THE EVIDENCE THE JUDGE ALLOWED TO BE RELEASED. WHEN WE RETURN, HOUSTON, SAY THE 16 YEAR OLD SHOT BOTH OF HIS PARENTS. NOW, FRIDAY, INSIDE THE COURTROOM AND THE SHOCKING NEW EVIDENCE THAT CAME IN JUST

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KEEP STREAMING WITH ABC NEWS LIVE. WELCOME BACK. CLOSING ARGUMENTS ARE UNDERWAY IN THE ASSAULT TRIAL OF ACTOR JONATHAN MAJORS. THE DEFENSE RESTING ITS CASE WITH MAJORS CHOOSING NOT TO TESTIFY IN HIS OWN DEFENSE. BUT THE JUDGE DID ALLOW EVIDENCE, INCLUDING VIDEO, AUDIO, TEXTS, PHOTOS RELATED TO THE ALLEGED ASSAULT OF MAJORS.

EX-GIRLFRIEND TO BE RELEASED. SENIOR INVESTIGATIVE CORRESPONDENT AARON KATERSKY HAS THOSE. >> JONATHAN MAJORS RETURNS TO COURT AS THE JURY TO DECIDE A DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CASE THAT COULD DETERMINE THE TRAJECTORY OF THE ACTOR’S CAREER. >> WHAT HAPPENED EXACTLY? YOU KNOW, NO, I DON’T KNOW. >> UM, THE SUPREME COURT FROM

MAJORS 911 BACK IN MARCH. >> I THINK I SAW A COUPLE TIMES AFTER HE FOUND HIS EX-GIRLFRIEND, GRACE JABARI, ON A CLOSET FLOOR, THEIR APARTMENT. THE JURY SAW VIDEO FROM POLICE, BODY WORN CAMERAS. JABARI DID HAVE A CUT BEHIND HER EAR. THE JURY SAW THIS PICTURE OF IT.

>> THE JURY ALSO SAW A PHOTO OF JABARI FINGER THAT SHE TESTIFIED FRACTURED DURING AN ASSAULT IN THE BACK SEAT OF AN SUV. >> MY HEAD WAS RESTING ON HIS SHOULDER. JABARI TOLD THE JURY. WE WERE CHATTING AND WAS SCROLLING ON HIS PHONE WHEN A MESSAGE POPPED UP SAYING,

I WISH WAS KISSING YOU UPSET BY THE MESSAGE. JABARI TESTIFIED SHE GRABBED THE PHONE AND THEN I FELT A HEAVY THUD ON TOP OF ME. WHAT I KNEW TO BE THE WEIGHT OF HIM ON TOP OF ME AND HIM TRYING TO PRY THE PHONE OUT OF MY FINGERS. >> SURVEILLANCE VIDEO SHOWS

MAJORS HOISTING JABARI THE GROUND AND SHOVING HER BACK IN THE CAR BEFORE HE’S SEEN RUNNING OFF. SHE CHASES AFTER HIM. HE PUSHES HER AWAY AND RUNS OFF. JABAR CROSSING TRAFFIC IN PURSUIT. >> JONATHAN MAJORS CASE IS GOING TO HINGE ON TWO MAJOR COMPONENTS. ONE WILL YOU BELIEVE THAT GRACE

BODY WAS INJURED BY JONATHAN MAJORS WITH ALL THE VIDEO AND TESTIMONY WE SAW AND HEARD AND TWO WAS JONATHAN MAJORS JUSTIFIED IN HIS ACTIONS AFTER GRACE, JABARI ADMITTED HE TOOK HIS PROPERTY THAT BEING HIS CELL PHONE AND HE TRIED TO RECOVER IT FROM HER. >> MAJORS CAREER HAD BEEN

TAKING OFF WHEN THE MARVEL STAR AND JABARI MET ON THE SET OF ANT-MAN AND THE WASP QUANTUMANIA AND BEGAN DATING SCOTT LONG BEFORE THE ALLEGED ASSAULT. >> SHE TESTIFIED HE HAD MOOD SWINGS AND A TEMPER. THE JURY SEEING TEXT MESSAGES PURPORTING TO SHOW MAJORS DISSUADING JABARI FROM GOING TO THE HOSPITAL FOLLOWING AN

ALLEGED ALTERCATION BETWEEN THEM IN 2022. THE JURY ALSO HEARING THIS RECORDING OF THE ACTOR SCOLDING JABARI. HOW DID YOU COME FROM DROPPING THE THIRD PIECE OF ART AND TELLING HER HE NEEDS A GREAT WOMAN BECAUSE HE’S A GREAT MAN? >> RESCUING YOUR MARRIAGE AS ONE WOMAN’S WIFE. MICHELLE OBAMA. BARACK OBAMA.

LIKE MY TENDER. MY. MY COLOR OR AUDACITY. >> I’M A GREAT MAN. A GREAT MAN. I AM DOING GREAT THINGS. NOT JUST FOR ME, BUT FOR MY FOR MY CULTURE IN THE WORLD. >> THAT’S ACTUALLY THE POSITION I’M IN. THE WOMAN THAT SUPPORTS ME NEEDS TO BE A GREAT WOMAN.

AARON KATERSKY JOINS US NOW ALONG WITH LEGAL CONTRIBUTOR AND TRIAL ATTORNEY BRIAN BUCKMASTER. THANK YOU BOTH SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE. ERIN, YOU’VE INSIDE THIS COURTROOM FOR THE TRIAL. DESCRIBE WHAT THE ATMOSPHERE HAS BEEN LIKE. >> WELL, IT’S TENSE AND THIS IS A DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CASE, ALTHOUGH, ELIZABETH, SO NATURALLY THERE’S A LOT

AT STAKE, ESPECIALLY WHEN THE COMPLAINING WITNESS, GREAT JABARI TOOK THE STAND. SHE DESCRIBED IN DETAIL, SHE SAYS HAPPENED TO HER IN THE BACK OF THAT SUV BACK IN MARCH . BUT NOW WE’RE AT CLOSING ARGUMENTS AND THINGS GOT REALLY EMOTIONAL. JONATHAN MAJORS, DEFENSE ATTORNEY PRIYA CHAUDRY BROKE

DOWN CRYING THE JURY TO BELIEVE THAT HE’S INNOCENT AND ACCUSING JABARI OF MAKING ALL OF THIS UP, OF LYING BECAUSE SHE’S OUT FOR REVENGE AFTER HE BROKE OFF RELATIONSHIP. THAT TEXT MESSAGE APPEARING ON HIS PHONE FROM WOMAN SAYING I WISH I WAS KISSING YOU RIGHT NOW. AND PROSECUTORS COMING

BACK SAYING, WAIT A MINUTE, THIS IS NOT GRACE JABARI VERSUS JONATHAN MAJORS. THIS IS THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK TAKING ISSUE WITH WHAT JONATHAN? JONATHAN MAJORS IS ACCUSED OF DOING AND THE PROSECUTOR REMINDING THE JURY THAT THIS HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH ANY KIND OF A REVENGE PLOT BY HIS

EX-GIRLFRIEND. >> AND SOME OF THE EVIDENCE THAT YOU LAID OUT IN YOUR PIECE DOES SEEM PRETTY. AND, BRIAN, WE HEARD YOU IN ERIN’S PIECE DESCRIBING OF THE THE DEFENSE’S LEGAL STRATEGY. WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THE WAY MAJOR’S LAWYERS ARE BUILDING THAT DEFENSE? >> WELL, LET ME START BY THIS.

TWO DEFENSE ATTORNEYS COULD BE VERY REASONABLE AND HAVE DIFFERENT INTERPRETATIONS ON HOW THE FACTS SHOULD COME FORWARD. >> I JUST DISAGREE WITH HOW THE DEFENSE IS DOING HERE. THERE WAS NO EVIDENCE TO SUGGEST THAT CHRISTOPHER WAS LYING OR THIS IS REVENGE TO. >> THIS CASE SHOULD BE STRICTLY ABOUT WHAT ONE PERSON TAKES

ANOTHER PERSON’S PROPERTY. WHAT DOES THAT PERSON ALLOW DO TO GET THAT PROPERTY BACK? IT SHOULD BE GENDERLESS. IT SHOULD BE BLIND. WHO IS THE MALE AND WHO IS THE FEMALE? SO JUST AS WE WOULD CHAMPION WOMAN WHO FIGHTS BACK AT A MURDER, TAKING HER PURSE WHEN SHE EQUALLY CHAMPION A MAN

WHO TAKES BACK HIS CELL PHONE WITHOUT USING FORCE FROM A WOMAN. AND I THINK THAT SHOULD BE THE ISSUE HERE. THIS IS NOT ABOUT RACE. THIS IS NOT ABOUT FAME OR OR REVENGE. THINK WE SHOULD LOCK INTO THAT ISSUE AND SAY THE LAW ALLOWS YOU TO TAKE BACK YOUR PHONE?

AND CLEARLY, THAT’S WHAT GREAT YOU’VE ALREADY SAID HAPPENED. AND THEN JONATHAN MAJORS RAN AWAY OF FEAR OF THE REPERCUSSIONS. >> BRIAN, JONATHAN MAJORS DECIDED NOT TO TAKE THE STAND IN HIS OWN DEFENSE. DO YOU THINK THAT HELPS OR HURTS HIM? SO THE LAW WOULD SAY THAT THAT IS YOUR FIFTH AMENDMENT

RIGHT AND OF THE JURY CAN NOT CONSIDER THAT. BUT THEY OFTEN DO. AND THE COURT OF PUBLIC OPINION THAT WOULD AFFECT HIM AS WELL. FROM A LEGAL AND STRATEGIC STANDPOINT, I THINK THAT’S SMART BECAUSE LOT OF THE QUESTIONS THAT WOULD BE ASKED OF HIM THAT CAME ABOUT JUST THE TOXICITY OF THIS

RELATIONSHIP, I THINK WOULD NOT ONLY BE DAMAGING TO THE CASE, BUT ALSO TO HIS HIS PR AND HIS CAREER GOING DOWN THE DOWN THE ROAD. I THINK STAYING IN THIS PLACE, BEING SHIELDED BY THE FIFTH AMENDMENT IS SMART HIM. BUT I THINK THE ARGUMENTS SURROUNDING HIM COULD HAVE BEEN

BETTER TO PUT IT IN A BETTER LIGHT. >> WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE CHARGES THAT HE’S FACING, AARON, IT’S MISDEMEANOR CHARGES OF ASSAULT AND AGGRAVATED HARASSMENT. WHAT’S AT STAKE HERE FOR MAJORS. >> WELL, FROM A LEGAL PERSPECTIVE IF HE COULD SERVE UP TO A YEAR IN PRISON NOW, FIRST TIME OFFENDER,

MISDEMEANOR CHARGE OF ASSAULT AND AGGRAVATED HARASSMENT, IT’S HIGHLY UNLIKELY IF HE IS CONVICTED THAT HE WOULD SERVE A YEAR IN PRISON. BUT AS BRIAN NOTES, SOME OF THE REPUTATIONAL THINGS THAT CAME DURING THIS TRIAL THAT HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH HIS GUILT OR INNOCENCE ARE ACTUALLY POTENTIALLY QUITE TO HIS REPUTATION.

THE JURY SAW OF OF OBJECTS THAT HE HURLED AT GRACE JABARI AND THAT BROKE ALL OVER THE WALL AND THEN CAME CRASHING TO THE FLOOR. THEY SAW TEXT MESSAGES WHERE HE IS DISSUADING HER FROM TO THE HOSPITAL AFTER SOME KIND OF AN ALTERCATION THAT TOOK PLACE BETWEEN, THE TWO OF THEM IN 2022.

SO BEFORE THE ALLEGED ASSAULT AT ISSUE, THAT WILL DETERMINE GUILT OR INNOCENCE. THE JURY HEARD OTHER INSTANCES OF WHAT SOUNDED LIKE PHYSICAL AND VERBAL ABUSE. >> AND FOR MAJORS, THAT CAN’T BE A GOOD LOOK. >> AARON. AND BRIAN, YOU’LL BOTH STAY ON THIS AS THOSE CLOSING ARGUMENTS ARE UNDERWAY.

THANK YOU BOTH SO MUCH. COMING UP, RUDY GIULIANI SAYS HE WON’T TESTIFY AND. THAT ELECTION DEFAMATION LAWSUIT BROUGHT BY TWO GEORGIA ELECTION WORKERS. THE LATEST FROM COURT TODAY AFTER A SHORT BREAK. >> WE HAVE BEEN GETTING GETTING . >> I WAS TERRIFIED. IT WAS JUST SO TRAUMATIC. NIGHTMARE.

PEOPLE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THESE WERE WANTED BABIES, 18 FACING LIFE AND DEATH, MEDICAL CONDITIONS. THEIR LIVES NOW OUT OF THEIR CONTROL. >> I FELT LIKE I WAS GOING TO DIE. OUR LIVES AND OUR HEALTH ARE DEBATABLE. I WOULDN’T WISH THIS ON WORST ENEMY. >> DIANE SAWYER. RACHEL SCOTT ON THE BRINK NOW

STREAMING ON HULU. HOUSTON POLICE SAY THE 16 YEAR OLD SHOT BOTH OF HIS PARENTS ON FRIDAY NIGHT. INSIDE THE COURTROOM AND THE SHOCKING NEW EVIDENCE CAME IN JUST DAYS BEFORE THE TRIAL BEGAN. YOU GOT TO BE KIDDING ME. WHOSE BLOOD IS THIS? I COULDN’T EVEN THE IDEA OF KILLING MY PARENTS.

EVERYTHING. EVERYTHING POINTS TO HIM. ME IN 2020, FRIDAY NIGHT AT NINE EIGHT CENTRAL ON NBC. >> FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. THERE’S A LOT GOING ON. EVERYBODY IN THAT HOME IS OKAY TO CATCH YOU UP WITH WHAT HAPPENED OVERNIGHT. WE ARE HERE AT FASHION’S BIGGEST NIGHT OUT. WHAT’S HAPPENING TODAY?

YOUTUBE HAS UNVEILED A NEW SET OF POLICIES. WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE NEW AD CAMPAIGN FAST . STRAIGHT FORWARD WITH SOMEONE IN BETWEEN A REAL LIFE BARBIE HOUSE. A NAME CHANGE FOR THE WIENERMOBILE. FIRST THING IN THE MORNING, AMERICA. THIS MORNING, AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE EARLY MORNING NEWS ON ABC NEWS LIVE.

>> WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE? >> FROM ABC NEWS. THIS IS “START HERE” TO BE IN THE NEWS AND GET A DIFFERENT TAKE THE DAY’S TOP STORIES. A LOT OF NEWS TODAY. SO LET’S GET INTO IT. LISTEN NOW TO THE DAILY NEWS PODCAST, HONORED WITH FOUR

EDWARD R MURROW WORDS AND SEE WHY THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS IT A NEWS PODCAST WORTH. LISTENING TO YOU START HERE. ABC NEWS MAKE IT YOUR DAILY LISTEN. >> NOW, THAT’S THE PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING. WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS, START HERE.

>> REPORTING FROM THE TARMAC OF LAGUARDIA AIRPORT ON TREVOR AULT WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WE’LL TAKE YOU THERE. YOU’RE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE . THANKS SO MUCH FOR STREAMING WITH US. HERE ARE SOME OF THE OTHER TOP THAT WE’RE FOLLOWING AT THIS HOUR. RUDY GIULIANI WILL NOT TESTIFY IN HIS DEFAMATION TRIAL.

THE FORMER TRUMP ATTORNEY WAS EXPECTED TO TAKE THE STAND TODAY AFTER TWO GEORGIA ELECTION WORKERS SUED HIM AND THEY RESTED THEIR CASE. ONE OF THOSE WORKERS, A SHAMUS, TESTIFIED THAT GIULIANI’S FALSE MADE HER FEAR FOR HER LIFE. THE JUDGE HAS ALREADY AWARDED A DEFAULT JUDGMENT TO THE TWO WOMEN.

SO THIS TRIAL IS ONLY WHAT DAMAGES GIULIANI WILL HAVE TO PAY. RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN SAYS HE IS IN TALKS WITH THE U.S. PAUL WHELAN AND EVAN GERSHKOVICH, TWO AMERICANS UNJUSTLY IN RUSSIA. PUTIN SAYS THE KREMLIN WANTS TO FIND A SOLUTION. IT IS NOT EASY. WIELAND HAS BEEN IMPRISONED

IN RUSSIA SINCE 18 AND GERSHKOVICH HAS BEEN IN CUSTODY SINCE MARCH. BOTH ARE BEING HELD ON ESPIONAGE RELATED CHARGES THAT THEY AND THE US CALL POLITICALLY MOTIVATED. AND THE NBA HAS SUSPENDED GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS STAR DRAYMOND GREEN INDEFINITE LEAVE FOR SWINGING AT A PHOENIX SUNS CENTER, KNOCKING HIM THE GROUND

AT A GAME LAST NIGHT. GREEN SAYS THAT IT WAS UNINTENTIONAL. THIS IS GREEN’S SIX SUSPENSION IN HIS CAREER AND HIS SECOND IN LESS THAN A MONTH. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR STREAMING WITH US. I’M ELIZABETH SCHULZE FROM BREAKING NEWS TO ALL THE STORIES THAT MATTER TO YOU.

YOU CAN ALWAYS FIND US ON VARIOUS STREAMING SERVICES ON THE ABC NEWS APP AND OF COURSE, ON ABCNEWS.COM. THE NEWS NEVER STOPS. WE’LL BE RIGHT BACK. >> TONIGHT, A WOMAN’S RIGHT TO MAKE HER OWN HEALTH CHOICES. ABORTION PILL ACCESS SET TO GO BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT. IS A CRISIS BREWING?

MORE AMERICANS TURN TO THE MOST WATCHED PROGRAM ON TELEVISION. “WORLD NEWS TONIGHT”, DAVID MUIR, YOU’RE BACK AT IT AGAIN. I GOT NOTHING ELSE TO DO. I GOT TWINS I DON’T LIKE. I GET OUT OF HOUSE. TOMORROW, GEORGE CLOONEY AND MICHAEL STRAHAN, THE ALL-NEW INTERVIEW PERSON YOU’D TRADE PLACES WITH FOR

A DAY TOMORROW. IT’S A CRAZY DAY. ONLY ON GOOD MORNING AMERICA. OKAY WHAT ARE THE STORIES THAT TAKE YOU BACK TO SOME OF YOUR HAPPIEST TIMES? TOM TONIGHT CELEBRATES 100 YEARS OF UP DISNEY. >> ONE WORD THAT COMES TO MIND . >> THE AMAZING DREAM. OH, WOW.

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>> I WAS TERRIFIED. >> IT WAS JUST SO TRAUMATIC. NIGHTMARE. PEOPLE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THESE WERE WANTED BABIES. 18 FACING LIFE AND DEATH MEDICAL CONDITIONS. THEIR NOW OUT OF THEIR CONTROL. >> I FELT LIKE I WAS TO DIE. OUR LIVES AND OUR HEALTH ARE DEBATABLE. I WOULDN’T WISH THIS UPON

MY WORST ENEMY. >> DIANE SAWYER. RACHEL SAT ON THE BRINK NOW STREAMING ON HULU ALL ACROSS THE BUILDING. THE WORLD WILL BE CELEBRATING THE NEW YEAR. AND CAN SEE IT AS IT HAPPENS. WHAT DOES THE GLOBAL CELEBRATIONS SEE THE NEW YEAR AS IT COMES IN STREAMING ALL DAY AND NIGHT ON ABC NEWS

LIVE. >> I’M LINSEY DAVIS REPORTING FROM ROLLING FORK, MISSISSIPPI WHEREVER THE STORY IS WILL TAKE YOU THERE. YOU’RE STREAMING. ABC NEWS LIVE TODAY ON ABC NEWS LIVE UKRAINE AID AT A STANDSTILL ON CAPITOL HILL AS CONGRESS IS SET TO GO HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS. RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN SEIZING ON THE MOMENT

IN A NATIONAL SPEECH CALLING ON UKRAINE TO SURRENDER. TURNING UP THE PRESSURE IN THE MIDDLE EAST. NATIONAL SECURITY. JAKE SULLIVAN IS IN TEL AVIV MEETING WITH THE ISRAELI WAR CABINET. THE MESSAGE THAT HE’S SENDING FROM THE WHITE HOUSE. AND BUCKLE UP. A POWERFUL CROSS-COUNTRY STORM THAT COULD IMPACT THE

RECORD BREAKING HOLIDAY TRAVEL SEASON. HOW YOU CAN PREPARE. HEY, EVERYONE. I’M ELIZABETH SCHULZE. AND OUR TOP STORY AT THIS HOUR IS RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN SAYING THERE WILL BE NO PEACE UKRAINE, UNTIL RUSSIA REACHES ITS GOALS. HE SAYS RUSSIA WANTS WHAT HE CALLS DEMILITARIZATION AND NEUTRAL STATUS, UKRAINE.

IN OTHER WORDS, SURRENDER. FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE RUSSIA INVADED UKRAINE, PUTIN HELD HIS YEAR END PRESS VOICING CONFIDENCE IN HIS COMBAT GOALS. RUSSIAN STATE SAYS AT LEAST 2 MILLION QUESTIONS WERE SUBMITTED TO THE EVENT WHICH LASTED MORE THAN 4 HOURS. ABC NEWS PATRICK REEVELL HAS MORE. >> HI, ELIZABETH.

THIS WAS PUTIN’S ANNUAL MARATHON PRESS CONFERENCE AND HE SKIPPED IT LAST YEAR FOR THE FIRST TIME IN YEARS WHEN THE WAR IN UKRAINE WAS GOING VERY BADLY FOR RUSSIA. THAT HE HELD IT THIS YEAR SUGGESTS HE FEELS BACK IN CONTROL. PERHAPS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING HE SAID WAS THAT HE MADE

CLEAR HIS GOALS IN THAT WAR ARE UNCHANGED. HE SAID THE FIGHTING WILL UNTIL THE DEMILITARIZATION AND DE-NAZIFICATION OF UKRAINE . REPEATING THE SAME FALSE CLAIM THAT THE COUNTRY IS RUN BY . THAT MEANS STILL WANTS UKRAINE’S FULL CAPITULATION. REGIME CHANGE THE KEY TO GIVE UP AMBITIONS TO JOIN NATO AND

THE EUROPEAN UNION. WITH MORE U.S. AID IN DOUBT RIGHT NOW, HE’S PROJECTING CONFIDENCE. PUTIN WAS ALSO ASKED ABOUT A PRISONER SWAP FOR “WALL STREET JOURNAL” REPORTER EVAN GERSHKOVICH AND FORMER MARINE PAUL WHELAN, WHO RUSSIA IS HOLDING. PUTIN SAID RUSSIA WANTS AN AGREEMENT AND THAT THERE IS A

DIALOG AROUND A POSSIBLE DEAL. BUT THE US MUST LISTEN TO RUSSIA JUST THIS MONTH, THE U.S. SAID RUSSIA HAD REJECTED A SUBSTANTIAL OFFER FOR GERSHKOVICH AND WE’LL AND ONE OTHER THING THAT DID STICK OUT WAS PROBABLY THE STRANGEST MOMENT. A STUDENT FROM SAINT PETERSBURG CALLED IN VIA VIDEO LINK USING

A DEEP FAKE FILTER THAT MADE HIM LOOK LIKE PUTIN. >> LET’S TAKE A LOOK AT THAT YESTERDAY THAT YOU WOULD DO WITH YOUR UNIVERSITY YOU COULD USE PROCEEDS FROM THE NEW STORE WHEN YOU GO AT. >> MY QUESTION IS JIM KATARINA SOLD THEM. WELL THERE’S NOTHING WE CAN WIN WITH THEM.

YEAH BUT THE ISSUE STORE FOR ME. YEAH I MEAN WILSON GOES ON TO ADEYANJU LATER. >> THAT WAS A REFERENCE TO THAT HAVE BECOME INCREASINGLY POPULAR ON THE RUSSIAN INTERNET THAT PUTIN HAS MULTIPLE BODY DOUBLES. THE KREMLIN HAS DENIED IT, BUT CLEARLY TODAY SHOWS THEY’RE AWARE HOW WIDESPREAD THOSE RUMORS HAVE BECOME.

>> ELIZABETH. >> AN INCREDIBLY STRANGE MOMENT THERE, PATRICK REEVELL. THANK YOU. RUSSIAN PRESIDENT PUTIN DELIVERING THOSE REMARKS AS UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT VOLODYMYR ZELENSKYY PLEADS MORE FOR MORE AID FROM THE U.S. COUNTEROFFENSIVE IS STALLING AND SUPPORT FROM THE WEST IS BECOMING MORE FRACTURED. THE HOUSE PASSING AN $886 BILLION DEFENSE POLICY BILL.

IT IS NOW ON ITS TO PRESIDENT BIDEN’S DESK INCLUDES MILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO THE PENTAGON THAT THE PENTAGON WOULD SEND TO UKRAINE. THIS COMES AS A BIGGER FOREIGN AID PACKAGE IS STILL STALLED IN CONGRESS. JAY O’BRIEN JOINS US NOW FROM CAPITOL HILL. JAKE, WHAT EXACTLY IS IN THIS

DEFENSE BILL IN TERMS OF AID FOR UKRAINE? >> WELL, THIS IS THE BILL, ELIZABETH. REMEMBER, THAT FUNDS THE PENTAGON FOR THE YEAR. IT’S THEIR APPROPRIATIONS BILL AND IT IS THE FUNDING IT IT FOR UKRAINE IS FOR EXISTING PENTAGON PROGRAMS THAT ALREADY SUPPORT UKRAINE. SO YOU’RE LOOKING AT TENS OF MILLIONS FOR, FOR INSTANCE,

ONE PENTAGON PROGRAM THAT PAYS ARMED MANUFACTURERS AND OTHERS TO SEND WHAT THEY PRODUCE THE KIND OF ARMS THEY PRODUCE DIRECTLY TO UKRAINE, RATHER THAN SENDING THEM INTO THE U.S. STOCKPILE FOR US TO SEND TO UKRAINE. BUT IT IS CERTAINLY NOT, AS YOU JUST SAID THE $100 BILLION AID PACKAGE THAT THE PRESIDENT HAS

REQUESTED CONGRESS PASSED THAT INCLUDES FUNDING FOR UKRAINE, FOR ISRAEL AND BORDER SECURITY MEASURES. ALL OF THAT REMAINS STALLED AS ONGOING DELIBERATIONS CONTINUE IN THE SENATE. BUT I CAN TELL YOU, GETTING THAT PASSED, THAT PACKAGE BEFORE THE END OF, THE YEAR STARTS TO LOOK MORE UNLIKELY BY THE DAY BECAUSE HAS LEFT FOR

THE HOLIDAYS. WELL, AND WE KNOW THAT ONE OF THE STICKING POINTS OVER THAT AID PACKAGE TODAY WAS THAT REPUBLICANS WANT COMPREHENSIVE BORDER REFORM. HAS THERE BEEN ANY PROGRESS ON THOSE TALKS AS THIS DEADLINE KIND OF TICKS AND THE LIKELIHOOD OF THIS GETTING DONE BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR DIMINISHES?

WHAT WE KNOW THAT THERE ARE PROGRESS IN THOSE COMMUNICATIONS. FOR INSTANCE, WE HEARD CHUCK SCHUMER, THE TOP DEMOCRAT IN THE SENATE, SAY THAT SIDES ARE MAKING SOME HEADWAY IN THEIR ONGOING TALKS AND THAT IS PROGRESS, BECAUSE AS YOU AND I HAVE DISCUSSED OVER THE LAST FEW DAYS, THERE

ARE TIMES THOSE TALKS HAVE COMPLETELY STALLED OUT. THEN THEY STARTED BACK UP AGAIN AND. >> THEN THEY’VE STALLED. WE’RE HEARING THAT THOSE TALKS ARE PROGRESSING. BUT THE REALITY BOTH REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS I TALKED TO TELL ME THEY DON’T A PATH IN WHICH THOSE TALKS PRODUCE A PIECE OF LEGISLATION WITH IMMIGRATION POLICY CHANGES

THAT REPUBLICANS WANT INCLUDED IN THAT FOREIGN AID PACKAGE. THEY DON’T VIEW THOSE TALKS AS BEING PRODUCTIVE TO THAT POINT TO GET SOMETHING PASSED BY THE END OF THIS YEAR. THEY VIEW THOSE TALKS AS PROBABLY STRETCHING INTO THE NEW YEAR WITH ANY VOTE ON LEGISLATION BEING SOMETIME IN JANUARY.

AND THAT IS, OF COURSE, EXACTLY OPPOSED TO THE TIMELINE THE WHITE HOUSE HAS PRESENTED, WHICH SAYS UKRAINE NEEDS MONEY BY THE END OF THE YEAR OR THERE COULD BE DIRE CONSEQUENCES IN THAT COUNTRY’S DEFENSE AGAINST RUSSIA. >> COMPREHENSIVE IMMIGRATION REFORM, INCREDIBLY FRAUGHT ON CAPITOL HILL. JAY O’BRIEN. THANK YOU. THE WHITE HOUSE NATIONAL

SECURITY ADVISOR IS IN ISRAEL FOR A HIGH VISIT. JAKE SULLIVAN SAYS THAT HE’S URGING ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU AND HIS WAR CABINET TO WORK TOWARD. ANOTHER CEASEFIRE, GETTING MORE HOSTAGES IN GAZA OUT AND HUMANITARIAN AID IN. BUT AS THESE MEETINGS ARE TAKING PLACE, THE FIGHTING IS STILL RAGING.

HAMAS SAYS A MASSIVE AIRSTRIKE BY ISRAEL EARLIER TODAY KILLED 19 PEOPLE IN NORTHERN GAZA. AND FIGHTING CONTINUES AROUND GAZA CITY. FOR MORE, BRING IN ABC NEWS SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT SELINA WANG AND ABC NEWS. AND AS I LIKE TO TARA IN TEL AVIV, ISRAEL. SELINA, WHAT’S THE KEY TAKEAWAY

HERE FROM JAKE SULLIVAN’S MEETING WITH THE ISRAELIS? >> WELL, ELIZABETH I THINK THE KEY HEADLINE SO FAR IS THAT JAKE SULLIVAN TOLD THE ISRAELIS THAT WANTS TO SEE A TRANSITION FROM HIGH INTENSITY FIGHTING TO LOW FIGHTING IN THE FUTURE. HOWEVER, NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL’S KIRBY IN THE PRESS BRIEFING RIGHT THERE, FAILING

TO DETAIL WHAT EXACTLY LOW INTENSITY FIGHTING WOULD MEAN. BUT HE DID SAY THAT. THE MILITARY OPTIONS OPERATIONS GOING ON RIGHT NOW THAT WOULD BE CATEGORIZED AS INTENSITY FIGHTING. HE ALSO WOULDN’T PUT A TIME STAMP ON SAYING IT’S NOT IN THE US’S PLACE TO DO THAT. AND THE LAST THING AMERICA TO

DO IS TELEGRAPH TO HAMAS EXACTLY WHAT THE ISRAELI MILITARY PLANS ARE. WE ALSO KNOW THAT SULLIVAN BROUGHT UP THAT THE U.S. TO GET INTO GAZA.THING IT CAN THE U.S. BELIEVES THAT EIGHT AMERICANS ARE STILL BEING HELD HOSTAGE, BUT THE WHITE HOUSE MAKING CLEAR THAT THEY DON’T KNOW EXACTLY WHO IS HOLDING THEM, WHETHER

IT’S HAMAS OR ANOTHER GROUP. AND THEY DO NOT KNOW THEIR CONDITIONS STILL SET. SO MANY HOSTAGES BEING HELD. BUT AND AS YOU HAVE RECENTLY SPOKEN WITH ONE OF THE HOSTAGES WHO WAS FREED. >> TELL US ABOUT THAT CONVERSATION. YEAH, JUST MOMENTS AGO, ELIZABETH, WE SPOKE TO ROSS BEN-AMI, WHO IS A WOMAN

WHO WAS HELD HOSTAGE IN GAZA FOR CLOSE TO 60 DAYS. SHE WAS RELEASED JUST TWO WEEKS AGO. SHE WAS TAKEN TOGETHER WITH HER HUSBAND AND HER HUSBAND REMAINS IN CAPTIVITY. NOW DESCRIBED HOW SHE WAS TAKEN ON THE BACK OF A MOTORCYCLE. SHE HAD BEEN HIDING UNDER THE COVERS AND ON HER BED WHEN

SHE WAS TAKEN AND THEN TAKEN ON THE BACK OF A MOTORCYCLE INTO GAZA, WOULDN’T GET INTO THE SPECIFICS OF THE CONDITIONS, CONDITIONS THAT SHE WAS DETAINED IN IN GAZA, BECAUSE SHE IS STILL WORRIED ABOUT THE FATE OF HER HUSBAND. I THINK THAT WAS ONE OF THE MOST STRIKING THINGS WORK

WAS HER HER DAUGHTER IS TALKING ABOUT HOW EVEN THEY HEARD FROM THEIR MOTHER ABOUT WHAT IT WAS LIKE IN GAZA BECAUSE OF HOW TRAUMATIZED THEIR MOTHER IS TO HER. HER DAUGHTER, ELLA TALKING TO US ABOUT THE PAIN THAT THEY’VE BEEN GOING THROUGH, THAT THE RELIEF AT THEIR MOTHER COMING BACK,

BUT STILL SO MUCH PAIN BECAUSE OF THEIR FATHER STILL BEING HELD IN GAZA. SO I’LL LET T ELLA HAD TO SAY. >> FOR NINE DAYS NOW THAT MY DAD IS THERE AND I DON’T KNOW IF I WILL SURVIVE, MY MOM CAME BACK THEN SHE CAME BACK THURSDAY. SHE CAME BACK.

IN THE WAR SITUATION. HOPE IS ALWAYS ENDED WHAT SHE WAS WHEN SHE CAME OUT. AND IT’S BECAUSE THE WILL TO STAND UP AND SPEAK FOR US AND THEIR FAMILY. YOU KNOW, PRIME EXAMPLE OF THIS, THIS HEARTBREAKING SITUATION HERE FOR SO MANY FAMILIES. RELIEF AND SOME OF THEIR LOVED ONES COMING HOME.

BUT SOME OF THE HOSTAGES, A LOT OF THE MEN STAYING IN GAZA. AND THIS COMES, OF COURSE, AS NEGOTIATIONS HIT AN IMPASSE. THERE IS GROWING PRESSURE FOR BOTH SIDES TO GET BACK TO NEGOTIATING TABLE. BUT FOR NOW, ALL OF THAT KIND OF DIPLOMACY AT A STANDSTILL IS GREAT TO HEAR THAT INTERVIEW.

>> AND AS THE WORLD SPEAK WITH US FOR US, SHE SAYS, SELINA, PRESIDENT BIDEN HAS WARNED ISRAEL THAT IT MIGHT START LOSING THE WORLD SUPPORT . WHERE DOES THE WHITE HOUSE STAND RIGHT NOW ON THE IDF’S OPERATION INSIDE GAZA? >> YEAH, LIZBETH, THOSE WERE SOME OF THE PRESIDENT’S STRONGEST CRITICISMS YET OF ISRAEL.

AND WE ARE STARTING TO SEE THIS BEHIND THE SCENES NEGOTIATIONS AND DISAGREEMENT THAT IS STARTING TO SPILL IN THE PUBLIC. WHAT IS VERY CLEAR IS THAT THE WHITE HOUSE WANTS ISRAEL TO BE MORE TARGETED, MORE SURGICAL IN ITS MILITARY OPERATIONS, AND REDUCE HARM TO CIVILIAN CASUALTIES. THE WHITE HOUSE IS ADMITTING

THAT ISRAEL IS TRYING, BUT THE RESULTS ARE ALWAYS STACKING UP. BUT THEY SAY THEY DO RECOGNIZE THAT THE INTENT IS THERE AND U.S. BELIEVES THAT THEIR NEGOTIATIONS AND BEHIND THE SCENES DIPLOMACY HAVE LED ISRAEL TO SCALE BACK AND CHANGE THE WAY THAT IT ORIGINALLY WANTED TO CONDUCT ITS MILITARY OPERATIONS.

NOW, DURING THIS TRIP FOR JAKE SULLIVAN HERE THERE IN THE REGION, WE KNOW THAT THE DISCUSSIONS ARE NOT JUST ABOUT AND FUTURE MILITARY OPERATIONS, BUT ALSO ABOUT THE FUTURE OF GAZA. THE WAR ENDS. AND WE HAVE SEEN A RIFT BETWEEN THE TWO NATIONS HERE. BUT THE U.S. MAKING CLEAR THEY

WANT TO SEE A REVITALIZED AUTHORITY RULE OVER GAZA, NOT A PROLONGED ISRAELI OCCUPATION. ELIZABETH? AND AS WE TALK A MORE TARGETED APPROACH AND AS THE THE AIR TO GROUND MUNITIONS THAT ISRAEL HAS DROPPED INTO GAZA, WE NOW KNOW MANY OF THEM HAVE BEEN THERE, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THESE DUMB BOMBS.

WHY WOULD ISRAEL CHOOSE TO USE THESE WEAPONS, ESPECIALLY AS THEY’RE FACING CRITICISM, THEIR APPROACH? >> YEAH, THAT’S THE QUESTION HERE. SO THESE ARE MUNITIONS, NEARLY HALF OF ALL MUNITIONS THAT HAVE BEEN USED, GAZA, HAVE ALL AIR TO GROUND MUNITIONS HAVE BEEN UNGUIDED. AND SO THEY’RE LESS PRECISE

AND THEY POSE A GREATER THREAT TO CIVILIANS. AND THAT’S ESPECIALLY ALARMING IN AN AREA LIKE GAZA THAT IS SO DENSELY POPULATED, ONE OF THE MOST DENSELY POPULATED AREAS IN THE WORLD WITH PARTS OF GAZA, EVEN MORE DENSELY POPULATED. NOW, THE SOUTH, WE KNOW 1.8 MILLION PEOPLE HAVE BEEN DISPLACED, THE SOUTH.

SO, YOU KNOW, THERE ARE REAL CONCERNS FOR CIVILIANS THERE. 18,000 PEOPLE HAVE NOW BEEN KILLED IN GAZA, ACCORDING TO THE HAMAS HEALTH MINISTRY. AND, OF COURSE, WE LEARN ABOUT THESE DUMB BOMBS BEING USED AS. ISRAEL HAS BEEN FACING GROWING PRESSURE TO DO MORE TO TRY AND MINIMIZE CIVILIAN CASUALTIES.

SO YOU CAN BET THAT THIS NEWS IS GOING TO PROBABLY, YOU KNOW, RENEW CALLS FOR FOR ISRAEL TO TRY AND MINIMIZE CIVILIAN DEATHS THERE. ISRAEL HAS INSISTED IT IS TRYING TO, YOU KNOW, AT LEAST IN THE SOUTH, NOT REPEAT WHAT HAPPENED THE NORTH, BUT WE ARE LIKELY GOING TO SEE

MORE CRITICISM AS MORE OF THESE REPORTS COME OUT. AND, YEAH, LOTS OF QUESTIONS AS TO WHY THOSE SPECIFIC MUNITIONS ARE BEING USED. AND AS AND SELINA, THANK YOU BOTH SO MUCH. AND THE SUPREME COURT WILL CONSIDER A CASE THAT COULD UNDO MORE THAN 100 CONVICTIONS STEMMING FROM THE JANUARY

SIX ATTACK ON THE CAPITOL. PROSECUTORS ORIGINALLY CHARGED FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP AND OTHER DEFENDANTS WITH OBSTRUCTING AN OFFICIAL PROCEEDING, THE CERTIFICATION OF ELECTORAL VOTES. NOW, THE SUPREME COURT HAS TO WEIGH IN ON WHETHER PROSECUTORS STRETCHED THAT LAW TOO FAR COULD IMPACT ROUGHLY 300 DEFENDANTS, INCLUDING THE FORMER PRESIDENT. SENIOR NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT TERRY MORAN HAS

THE LATEST. ELIZABETH, THIS CASE COULD HAVE A BIG IMPACT, THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE WHO STORMED THE CAPITOL AND DONALD TRUMP HIMSELF HAVE ALL BEEN CHARGED UNDER THE SAME FEDERAL LAW. THAT MAKES IT A CRIME TO, QUOTE, CORRUPTLY OBSTRUCT AN OFFICIAL. BUT NOW THE SUPREME COURT HAS

AGREED TO HEAR AN FROM ONE OF THE JANUARY SIX DEFENDANTS WHO IS ARGUING THAT LAW, WHICH WAS ORIGINALLY PASSED BY CONGRESS TO DEAL WITH WITNESS TAMPERING IN COURT. CORPORATE CRIME CASES CANNOT BE APPLIED TO THE ATTACK ON THE CAPITOL. REPUBLICANS HAVE BEEN TRYING TO MAKE THIS CASE FOR MONTHS.

THEY SAY THAT SOME OF THE JANUARY 6 DEFENDANTS HAVE BEEN OVERCHARGED BY THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT. AND IF THE SUPREME COURT AGREES WITH THIS ARGUMENT, TWO OF THE FOUR COUNTS AGAINST DONALD TRUMP IN THAT ELECTION INTERFERENCE CASE WOULD GO AWAY. AND HE GOT ANOTHER BOOST IN THIS CASE WHEN THE JUDGE PUT

ALL THE PROCEEDINGS ON HOLD WHILE DONALD TRUMP APPEALS. ANOTHER ISSUE, HIS CLAIM OF PRESIDENTIAL FOR ANYTHING HE DID TO OVERTURN THE 2020 ELECTION. AND THAT APPEAL COULD THE START OF THIS CASE, WHICH IS SCHEDULED TO BEGIN IN MARCH . FOR MONTHS, ELIZABETH, INCREDIBLY HIGH STAKES TERRY MORAN. >> THANK YOU.

COMING UP, A JURY IS DELIBERATING AND REALLY RUDY GIULIANI’S DEFAMATION TRIAL. THE FORMER NEW YORK CITY MAYOR DECLINED TO TESTIFY. WE ARE LIVE AT THE COURT AFTER THE BREAK. >> WHENEVER NEWS BREAKS, WE ARE HERE IN ISRAEL, A NATION AT WAR AFTER THAT BRUTAL SURPRISE ATTACK BY HAMAS

ON THE GROUND IN UKRAINE. >> REPORTING FROM LEWISTON MAINE, THE SCENE OF A HORRIFIC MASS SHOOTING. >> ABC NEWS LIVE IS RIGHT THERE AT THE SCENE OF THAT DEADLY MISSILE STRIKE. THE NEED FOR UKRAINE REPORTING FROM THE EARTHQUAKE IN TURKEY IN ROLLING FORTH. THIS TORNADO TORE THROUGH THIS LITTLE TOWN FROM THE MOST

DEVASTATING DISASTER IN HAWAII. FROM CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA ,ON THE 2024 CAMPAIGN TRAIL IN ICELAND. LET’S GO TRAVELING WITH THE PRESIDENT IN MEXICO CITY, WORKING THE STORY FROM THE FRONT LINES FROM SOUTHERN ISRAEL OUTSIDE THE GAZA STRIP IN BEIRUT FROM THE FBI. REPORTER FROM THE NURSES ON THE PICKET LINE HERE AT TEN

DOWNING STREET IN LONDON STREAMING LIVE TO YOU FOREVER. THE STORY IS WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WE’RE GOING TO YOU THERE. WE’RE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE, ABC NEWS LIVE. YOU’RE ABC NEWS LIVE. >> ABC NEWS LIVE STREAMING FREE EVERYWHERE. >> AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS WHEN

THE ANNOUNCER CALLS MY NAME THE WORLD ALMOST FADES AWAY. >> IT’S THE BIGGEST IT’S THE MOST FAMOUS DOG EVENT THERE IS. WELCOME TO THE WORLD’S GREATEST DOG SHOW. THE COMPETITION IN DOG DANCING IS VERY DIFFERENT HERE. EVERY DOG ITS DAY ON THE DANCE FLOOR. DANCING WITH MY DOG IS THE

CLOSEST THING TO MAGIC. WINNER OF THE 2023. THE SECRET LIFE OF DANCING DOGS NOW STREAMING ON HULU. >> MARA HERE WE GO. READY? LET’S DO IT. YES, IT’S THE SHOW WANTS AND AMERICA NEEDS RIGHT NOW. THIS IS WHAT YOU DO. GIRL, HOW ARE YOU? YEAH. SO WHAT WILL YOU BE WATCHING?

SATURDAY IS ON ABC NEWS LIVE. WHAT WOULD YOU DO? I GUESS I JUST FOUND OUT. WHAT WOULD YOU DO? 2 TO 6 EASTERN EVERY SATURDAY ON ABC NEWS LIVE. >> MY FAVORITE. NOW. >> WELCOME BACK. JURY DELIBERATION AND HAVE BEGUN IN THE DEFAMATION TRIAL AGAINST RUDY GIULIANI AS HIS ATTORNEY.

HE WILL NOT TESTIFY. THE FORMER TRUMP ATTORNEY WAS EXPECTED TO TESTIFY TODAY AFTER THE TWO GEORGIA ELECTION WORKERS WHO ARE SUING HIM RESTED THEIR CASE. SHAYE MOSS TESTIFIED ABOUT THE ORDEAL, SAYING GIULIANI’S FALSE ACCUSATIONS LIMITED, HER JOB PROSPECTS EXPOSED HER FAMILY TO RACIST THREATS AND MADE HER FEAR FOR HER LIFE, LEFT HER

WITH A MAJOR DEPRESSIVE DISORDER. ABC NEWS SENIOR REPORTER KATHERINE FAULDERS JOINS US NOW FROM THAT COURTROOM IN D.C.. KATHERINE, THIS WAS A SURPRISE TODAY WHEN LEARNED THAT GIULIANI WASN’T TESTIFYING. HIS LAWYER DID ACKNOWLEDGE THAT HIS CLIENT ACTED IRRESPONSIBLY BUT PUSHED BACK ON. THE TENS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS ARE SOUGHT BY THESE PLAINTIFFS

AS CATASTROPHIC. WHAT ARE SOME OF THE KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM WHAT HAPPENED THERE TODAY IN COURT? RIGHT. SO WE DID EXPECT GIULIANI TO TAKE THE STAND. HAD SAID EARLIER THAT HE LOOKS FORWARD TO TELLING HIS SIDE OF THE STORY. BUT IT’S INTERESTING BECAUSE HE DECIDED NOT TO SPEAK

IN COURT, WHICH WOULD REQUIRE HIM TO BE UNDER OATH AND DURING THIS TRIAL, WHICH IS ONLY LASTED DAYS. SO FAR, GIULIANI HAS BEEN SPEAKING OUTSIDE OF COURT. HE’S UNDER OATH OUTSIDE OF COURT. HE’S BEEN MAKING COMMENTS THAT HE BELIEVES THAT WHAT HE SAID ABOUT THESE WOMEN IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE

2020 ELECTION AND HE BELIEVES WHAT HE SAID WAS TRUE. THE JUDGE HAS ADMONISHED HIM INSIDE COURT. SO HIS LAWYER WAS FORCED TO RECOGNIZE BEFORE THE JUDGE IN COURT SAYING, I UNDERSTAND THAT MY CLIENT, THE ABILITY TO TALK MAYBE A LITTLE TOO MUCH. UNFORTUNATELY. AND THE LAWYER, JOE SIBLEY, HAS

HAD TO DEAL WITH THAT HAS HAD TO ADDRESS IN COURT. BUT HE DID FOCUS, THE LAWYER SIMPLY DID, ON THE DAMAGES, IS THAT HE SHOULDN’T THAT RUDY GIULIANI SHOULDN’T HAVE TO PAY AS MUCH AS. THE LAWYERS FOR LOTS OF FREE MEN ARE REQUESTING. RIGHT. YOU, AS YOU POINT OUT,

YOU KNOW, JOSEPH SIBLEY, AN ATTORNEY FOR GIULIANI, HE BASICALLY CONCEDED GIULIANI HASN’T REALLY HELPED HIMSELF HERE WITH SOME OF THOSE COMMENTS HE MADE, INCLUDING TO OWN TERRY MORAN OUTSIDE OF COURT. HAVE THOSE COMMENTS FOLLOWING HIM INTO THE COURTROOM CATHERINE. YEAH, IT’S INTERESTING. THEY HAVE BEEN AND THEY HAVE

BEEN OVER THE COURSE OF A COUPLE OF DAYS. THE JUDGE, BERYL HOWELL, WHO’S OVERSEEING THIS AND MODEST AGAIN THIS MORNING, SHE EVEN INDICATED THIS COULD LEAD TO MAYBE AN ADDITIONAL DEFAMATION TRIAL. SO IT HAS TO BE ADDRESSED PUBLICLY INSIDE THE COURT IT’S NOT CLEAR IF GIULIANI WILL THEN AGAIN SPEAK OUTSIDE

OF COURT AGAIN AFTER THIS ALL WRAPS UP. IF THERE DOES HAPPEN TO BE A VERDICT TODAY. BUT WHAT HE HAS BEEN SAYING, WHICH BY THE WAY, HE’S ON TRIAL HERE, WHAT HE HAS BEEN SAYING IN TERMS OF THE AMOUNT HE HAS TO PAY FOR IT, THAT COULD BE HIM MAYBE AFTER THIS TRIAL

IS EVEN OVER. AND WHAT COMES NEXT YEAR? WHEN DO WE EXPECT THIS TO WRAP UP? CATHERINE YOU KNOW, IT’S ALWAYS HARD TO SAY IN THESE THIS IS SORT THE HE EXPECTED THIS TO BE SPEEDY. IT’S — IT’S THURSDAY IT’S ONLY BEEN GOING ON FOR FOUR DAYS SO FAR. THE JURY IS DELIBERATING.

THEY COULD RETURN A VERDICT AT ANY POINT. NOW, REMEMBER, WE’VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THIS A LOT. IT’S NOT FINDING HIM LIABLE OF DEFAMATION. IT’S HOW MUCH, OF COURSE, THE JURY WILL FIND THAT GIULIANI NEEDS TO PAY IN DAMAGES. ATTORNEYS FOR MS.. FREEMAN ARE REQUESTING UPWARDS OF $40 MILLION. SIBLEY GIULIANI, HIS ATTORNEY,

OF COURSE, WITH THAT. BUT THAT’S WHAT WE’RE WAITING ON, AT LEAST FROM THE JURY TODAY. WE DON’T KNOW HOW LONG THEY WILL CONTINUE DELIBERATING, BUT IT COULD COME BACK A VERDICT COULD COME BACK AS SOON AS TODAY, ELIZABETH. >> SO THE QUESTION OF HOW MUCH HE MUST PAY THEM, KATHERINE FAULDERS, THANK

YOU SO MUCH. >> COMING UP, HEADING HOME EARLY FOR THE HOLIDAYS. WELL, MAKE SURE YOU CHECK THE WEATHER FIRST, A STORMY HOLIDAY FORECAST. I’LL GIVE IT TO YOU RIGHT AFTER THIS. HOUSTON POLICE SAY THE 16 YEAR OLD SHOT BOTH OF HIS PARENTS NOW FRIDAY NIGHT INSIDE THE COURTROOM IN THE SHOCKING

NEW EVIDENCE CAME JUST DAYS BEFORE THE TRIAL BEGAN. YOU GOT TO BE KIDDING ME. WHOSE BLOOD IS THIS? I COULDN’T EVEN THE IDEA OF KILLING MY PARENTS. EVERYTHING. EVERYTHING POINTS TO HIM ON THE 2020 FRIDAY NIGHT AT 19TH CENTRAL ON ABC. TONIGHT, A WOMAN’S RIGHT TO MAKE HER OWN HEALTH CHOICES

WITH ABORTION. PILL ACCESS SET TO GO BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT IS CRISIS BREWING. MORE AMERICANS TURN TO THE MOST WATCHED PROGRAM ON TELEVISION. “WORLD NEWS TONIGHT”, DAVID MUIR, GET BACK IT AGAIN. I GOT NOTHING ELSE TO DO. I GOT TWINS THAT I GET OUT OF HOUSE TOMORROW. GEORGE CLOONEY AND MICHAEL

STRAHAN, THE ALL-NEW INTERVIEW PERSON YOU’D TRADE PLACES WITH FOR A DAY TOMORROW. IT’S A CRAZY CEREMONY ON GOOD MORNING AMERICA. WHEN THE ANNOUNCER CALLS MY NAME, THE WORLD ALMOST FADES AWAY. IT’S THE BIGGEST IT’S THE MOST FAMOUS TARGET THAT THERE IS. WELCOME TO THE WORLD’S GREATEST DOPE SHOW.

THE COMPETITION IN THE DANCING IS VERY STIFF HERE. EVERY DOG ITS DAY ON THE DANCE FLOOR. DANCING WITH MY DOG IS THE CLOSEST TO MAGIC. A WINNER OF THE 2023 PROJECT, THE SECRET LIFE OF DANCING NATURALLY AND PRETTY SOON MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE. >> FROM ABC NEWS THIS IS “START HERE”.

>> TO BE IN THE KNOW AND GET A DIFFERENT TAKE THE DAY’S TOP STORIES. A LOT OF NEWS TODAY SO LET’S GET INTO IT. LISTEN NOW TO THE DAILY NEWS PODCAST HONORED WITH FOUR EDWARD R MURROW AWARDS AND SEE WHY THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS IT A NEWS PODCAST WORTH. LISTENING TO.

START HERE. ABC NEWS LEAK IGNORED DAILY FIRST LISTEN NOW THAT’S A PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING. >> WHEREVER. >> GET YOUR PODCASTS. START HERE. GET READY, AMERICA. EVERY FRIDAY THE HOTTEST TREND STYLES AND MUST HAVE WHAT’S THE RIGHT STUFF TO BUY RIGHT NOW?

I REALLY LOVE THAT IT’S TIME TO BUY THE RIGHT AND SPEND BIG TIME TO WRITE STUFF RIGHT ON “GMA”. >> YOU’RE GOING TO LOVE IT. YOU HAVE. I WAS TERRIFIED. IT WAS JUST SO TRAUMATIC. >> NIGHTMARE. PEOPLE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THESE WERE WANTED BABIES, 18 WOMEN FACING LIFE AND DEATH, MEDICAL

CONDITIONS, THEIR LIVES NOW OUT OF THEIR CONTROL. I FELT LIKE WAS GOING TO DIE. OUR LIVES AND OUR HEALTH ARE DEBATABLE. I WANT TO WISH THIS UPON MY WORST ENEMY. >> DIANE SAWYER. RACHEL SCOTT ON THE BRINK NOW STREAMING ON HULU. >> FROM AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE NEWS COMES THE ALL-NEW

ABC NEWS APP FOR BREAKING NEWS VIDEO FASTER, SMARTER AND CUSTOMIZABLE TO YOUR. IF YOU LOVE BEING IN THE KNOW YOU’RE GOING TO LOVE THIS THE ALL-NEW ABC NEWS APP DOWNLOAD IT NOW. >> HERE’S SOME OF THE TOP HEADLINES THAT WE’RE FOLLOWING AT THIS HOUR AT ABC NEWS LIVE.

A NEW COVID VARIANT IS ON THE RISE. THE CDC SAYS THAT DAY AND ONE AND ONLY CRANKS UP VARIANT NOW MAKES UP 21% OF CASES IN THE U.S. THE AGENCY ADDS THAT THE VARIANT IS NOT MORE SEVERE THAN PREVIOUS STRAINS. THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION ALSO NOTES THAT THE UPDATED COVID 19 VACCINE PROTECTS

AGAINST THESE NEW VARIANTS. THE EUROPEAN UNION TODAY OPENING NEGOTIATIONS FOR UKRAINE AND MOLDOVA TO JOIN THE BLOC. THE ANNOUNCEMENT COMES AS EUROPEAN LEADERS DEBATE ANOTHER $50 BILLION AID PACKAGE FOR UKRAINE. UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR ZELENSKYY SAYS THE NEGOTIATIONS ARE A VICTORY FOR UKRAINE. THE NATION FIGHTS OFF A NEW OFFENSIVE FROM RUSSIA.

AND A POWERFUL NEW STORM IS MAKING ITS WAY ACROSS THE MIDWEST. IT’S BRINGING UP TO SIX INCHES OF SNOW IN COLORADO AND NEW MEXICO AND CAUSING CHAOS ON THE ROADS. THE STORM IS NOW MOVING SOUTH. ALSO BRINGING RAIN TO TEXAS AND THE GULF COAST. AND THAT STORM COULD IMPACT THE

EARLY START TO HOLIDAY TRAVEL. AIRLINES ARE GETTING READY FOR A RECORD BREAKING NUMBER AND AN END OF THE YEAR. ABC NEWS TRANSPORTATION CORRESPONDENT GIO BENITEZ IS AT LAGUARDIA AIRPORT WITH MORE. THANK YOU. HEY THERE. WE’RE NOT JUST TALKING ABOUT A SLIGHT INCREASE IN TRAVELERS HERE. >> WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE

BUSIER TRAVEL PERIOD EVER DURING THE HOLIDAYS. TAKE A LOOK AT THESE NUMBERS BECAUSE J EXPECT SOME 7.5 MILLION DOMESTIC TRAVELERS BETWEEN SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23RD THROUGH MONDAY, JANUARY 1ST. MORE THAN 2019. THE U.S. AIRLINES EXPECT TO SELL 39 MILLION SEATS DOMESTICALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY FROM NEXT WEDNESDAY INTO THE NEW YEAR.

>> BUT YOU’LL REMEMBER, YOU’LL REMEMBER SOUTHWEST MELTDOWN LAST DECEMBER WHEN ALMOST 17,000 FLIGHTS WERE CANCELED. PEOPLE WERE STRANDED ALL OVER THE PLACE. SOUTHWEST SAID THE WEATHER CAUSED IT, BUT IT WAS THE ONLY AIRLINE HIT HARD BECAUSE PLANES AND CREWS, THEY WERE JUST IN THE WRONG PLACE. NOW, WE’VE BEEN TALKING

ABOUT THAT ROUGH WEATHER IN MAJOR CITIES WITH MAJOR AIRPORTS. THAT’S AIRLINES ARE WORRIED ABOUT NOW IN NO SMALL PART BECAUSE OF THE SHORTAGE IN AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS. UNITED SAYS, THOUGH, IT IS WELL-PREPARED WITH MORE THAN 150 DEICING TRUCKS AND 15,000 NEW HIRES BY THE END OF THE YEAR. AND YOU JUST CAN’T FORGET

THE ROADS. TRIPLE AA EXPECTS NEARLY 104 MILLION PEOPLE TO DRIVE OVER THE HOLIDAYS. AND THAT WEATHER, OF COURSE COULD IMPACT THE TRIP. NOW IF YOU ARE DRIVING, TRY TO AVOID AS YOU CAN, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23RD, BECAUSE THAT WILL BE THE BUSIEST DAY. >> ELIZABETH GIO BENITEZ, THANK YOU SOME GOOD ADVICE THERE.

THANK YOU FOR STREAMING WITH US AT ELIZABETH SCHULZE FROM BREAKING NEWS TO ALL THE STORIES THAT MATTER TO YOU. YOU CAN ALWAYS FIND US ON VARIOUS STREAMING SERVICES ON THE ABC NEWS APP AND OF COURSE ON. THE NEWS NEVER STOPS. WE’LL BE RIGHT BACK. YOU HAVE REALLY GOT.

>> I WAS TERRIFIED. >> IT WAS JUST SO TRAUMATIC. NIGHTMARE. PEOPLE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THESE WERE WANTED BABIES. 18 FACING LIFE AND DEATH, MEDICAL CONDITIONS, THEIR LIVES NOW OUT OF THEIR CONTROL. >> I FELT LIKE I WAS GOING TO DIE. OUR LIVES AND OUR HEALTH ARE DEBATABLE.

I WOULDN’T WISH THIS UPON MY WORST ENEMY. >> DIANE SAWYER. RACHEL SAT ON THE BRAIN MASTER ON HULU. HOUSTON POLICE SAY THE YEAR OLD SHOT BOTH OF HIS PARENTS. NOW, FRIDAY NIGHT INSIDE THE COURTROOM AND THE SHOCKING NEW EVIDENCE THAT IN JUST DAYS BEFORE THE TRIAL BEGAN.

YOU GOT TO BE KIDDING ME. WHOSE BLOOD IS THIS? I COULDN’T EVEN FATHOM IDEA OF KILLING MY PARENTS. EVERYTHING WE THINK POINTS TO HIM. ONLY 2020. FRIDAY NIGHT AT NINE AND CENTRAL ON ABC. >> FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. THERE’S A LOT GOING ON. EVERYBODY IN THAT HOME IS OKAY .

TO CATCH YOU UP WITH WHAT HAPPENED OVERNIGHT. WE ARE HERE AT FASHION’S BIGGEST OUT. WHAT’S HAPPENING TODAY? YOUTUBE HAS UNVEILED A NEW SET OF POLICIES. WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT. THE NEW AD CAMPAIGN FAST, STRAIGHT FORWARD WITH SOME FUN IN BETWEEN A REAL LIFE BARBIE DREAM HOUSE. A NAME CHANGE FOR

THE WIENERMOBILE. FIRST THING IN THE MORNING, AMERICA THIS MORNING, AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE EARLY MORNING NEWS ON ABC NEWS. >> WHAT DO YOU SAY? >> MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE FROM ABC NEWS. THIS IS “START HERE” TO BE IN THE KNOW AND GET A DIFFERENT TAKE THE DAY’S TOP STORIES.

A LOT OF NEWS TODAY. SO LET’S GET INTO IT. LISTEN NOW TO THE DAILY NEWS PODCAST HONORED WITH FOR EDWARD R MURROW AWARDS AND SEE WHY THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS IT A NEWS PODCAST WORTH LISTENING TO START HERE ABC NEWS WE GET DAILY FIRST LISTEN NOW THAT’S A PART OF THE STORY

THAT YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING. >> WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS, START HERE. >> ALL RIGHT. HERE WE GO. YOU READY? LET’S DO IT. YES, IT’S THE SHOW AMERICA WANTS AND AMERICA NEEDS RIGHT NOW. THIS IS WHAT WOULD YOU DO? RIGHT. LET’S GO. HOW ARE YOU? I LIKE YOU. YEAH.

SO WHAT WILL YOU BE WATCHING SATURDAYS ON ABC NEWS LIVE. WHAT WOULD YOU DO? I GUESS I JUST FOUND OUT. WHAT WOULD YOU DO? MARATHON 2 TO 6 EASTERN EVERY SATURDAY ON ABC NEWS LIVE. MY FAVORITE SHOW WHENEVER NEWS BREAKS. WE ARE HERE IN ISRAEL A NATION AT WAR IN ROLLING FORK.

THIS TORNADO TORE THROUGH THE SOUND FROM LEWISTON, MAINE, THE SCENE OF A HORRIFIC MASS SHOOTING. FROM THE SCENE, THAT DEADLY MISSILE STRIKE. ABC NEWS LIVE. EVERYONE IN ICELAND. LET’S GO BACK ON THE 2024 CAMPAIGN TRAIL HERE AT TEN DOWNING STREET FOREVER. THE STORY IS WE’RE GOING TO TAKE YOU THERE.

YOU’RE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE, ABC NEWS LIVE YOU’RE STREAMING NEWS. WHY ABC NEWS LIVE STREAMING FREE EVERYWHERE WE ARE HERE IN ISRAEL, A NATION AT WAR WATCHING TANK AFTER TANK POURING INTO THIS AREA. THIS IS WHERE IT ALL BEGAN. BULLET HOLES ALL UP A WALL WITHIN MINUTES OF THE AIR RAID

SIRENS GOING OFF. YOU CAN HEAR THE SOUND EXPLOSION DOWN HERE TONIGHT. ISRAEL WAGING A FIERCE BOMBARDMENT OF GAZA. THE ISRAEL HAMAS WAR FOR A NONSTOP LIVE COVERAGE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE. >> REPORTING FROM SOUTHERN ISRAEL, FROM THE FRONT LINE IN DOWNTOWN IN WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WILL TAKE YOU THERE.

>> ABC NEWS LIVE TODAY ON ABC NEWS LIVE TURNING UP THE PRESSURE. NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER. JAKE SULLIVAN IS IN TEL AVIV MEETING WITH THE ISRAELI WAR CABINET. THE MESSAGE THAT HE’S SENDING FROM THE WHITE HOUSE AND THE CLOSING ARGUMENTS BEGIN IN JONATHAN MAJORS ASSAULT TRIAL. WE HAVE THE SURVEILLANCE VIDEO

AUDIO AND TEXT MESSAGES THAT THE JURY SAW. WHAT’S AT STAKE FOR THE ACTOR WITH JURY DELIBERATIONS? UP NEXT? WHAT’S A POWERFUL CROSS-COUNTRY STORM IS BRINGING HEAVY RAIN AND. SNOW. WE’RE TRACKING THE STORM AND HOW IT COULD IMPACT YOUR HOLIDAY TRAVEL. HEY, EVERYONE, I’M ELIZABETH SCHULZE. AND OUR TOP STORY AT THIS

HOUR IS WHITE HOUSE NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR IN ISRAEL FOR A HIGH STAKES. JAKE SULLIVAN SAYS HE’S URGING ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU AND HIS WAR CABINET TO WORK TOWARD ANOTHER CEASE GETTING MORE HOSTAGES IN GAZA OUT AND MORE HUMANITARIAN AID IN. BUT AS THESE MEETINGS ARE TAKING PLACE, THE FIGHTING

IS STILL RAGING. HAMAS SAYS A MASSIVE AIRSTRIKE BY ISRAEL TODAY KILLED 19 PEOPLE IN NORTHERN GAZA. AND FIGHTING CONTINUES AROUND GAZA CITY. FOR MORE, LET’S BRING IN ABC NEWS SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT SELINA WANG AND ABC NEWS. AND AS YOU LIKE TARA IN TEL AVIV, ISRAEL, SELINA IS IS

EXPECTED TO BE TENSE BETWEEN JAKE SULLIVAN AND PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU AS THE WHITE HOUSE TRIES TO CLARIFY PRESIDENT BIDEN’S COMMENTS. ISRAEL IS CONDUCTING INDISCRIMINATE BOMBING. IS SULLIVAN EXPECTED TO TRY TO WALK BACK THE PRESIDENT’S REMARKS? AND WHAT KIND OF PRIORITIES ARE WE SEEING IN THIS CONVERSATION? WELL, LOOK, ELIZABETH, THINK

THE PRIORITY FOR SULLIVAN’S MEETINGS THERE IS TO PUSH THAT MESSAGE OF RESTRAINT, TO BE MORE DISCRIMINANT AND TARGETED IN THEIR MILITARY OPERATIONS. AS YOU SAY, THIS IS A VERY TENSE TIME COMING JUST DAYS, PRESIDENT BIDEN GAVE SOME OF HIS STRONGEST CRITICISM TO BOTH NETANYAHU, ISRAEL, ISRAEL YET

SAYING THAT THEY NEED TO PULL THAT THIS INDISCRIMINATE BOMBING THAT COULD LOSE GLOBAL SUPPORT HERE. ANOTHER KEY ASPECT OF THESE MEETINGS, ACCORDING TO THE WHITE HOUSE, IS GOING TO BE TRYING NEGOTIATE ANOTHER TEMPORARY PAUSE. IT WAS SUCCESSFUL THE LAST TIME ,BUT SINCE THEN, THE FIGHTING HAS RAMPED BACK UP.

AND WITHIN THAT PAUSE, THEY WOULD LIKE TO GET MORE HOSTAGES OUT, AS WELL AS A SURGE IN HUMANITARIAN. THE AMERICANS BELIEVE THAT THERE ARE STILL A MAY EIGHT AMERICANS STILL BEING HELD HOSTAGE, ALTHOUGH THE WHITE HOUSE HAS BEEN VERY CLEAR THAT THEY DO NOT KNOW WHERE THEY’RE BEING HELD, IF

IT’S BEING HELD BY HAMAS, THEY ARE NOT SURE WHAT THE CONDITIONS OF THESE AMERICANS ARE. BUT WE KNOW THIS IS TOP WHITE HOUSE PRIORITY. THE FAMILY MEMBERS OF THESE HOSTAGES RECENTLY WITH PRESIDENT BIDEN AT THE WHITE HOUSE, THEY’RE GOING TO CONTINUE TO PUSH FOR. >> FAMILY MEMBERS JUST SO

DESPERATE TO GET THEIR LOVED ONES HOME AS WE SAW THEM AT THE WHITE HOUSE. AND AS WE DO KNOW THAT NOW, HALF OF THE AIR TO GROUND MUSICIANS THAT ISRAEL HAS DROPPED INTO GAZA HAVE UNGUIDED OR OTHERWISE KNOWN AS DUMB BOMBS. WHAT DOES THAT MEAN FOR THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY’S

OPINION OF ISRAEL, FOR THE WAR ITSELF? YEAH, ELIZABETH, AN ALARMING REPORT THERE THAT SAYS THAT NEARLY HALF OF AIR TO GROUND MUNITIONS THAT HAVE BEEN USED IN GAZA ARE UNGUIDED. AND SO LIKE, SAY, THOSE ARE KNOWN AS DUMB BOMBS. AND THE CONCERN WITH THOSE IS THAT THEY ARE PRECISE AND SO

THEY POSE A GREATER THREAT TO CIVILIANS, ESPECIALLY IN AN AREA THAT IS AS DENSELY POPULATED AS THE GAZA STRIP. ONE OF THE MOST DENSELY POPULATED AREAS IN THE WORLD, AND EVEN MORE DENSELY POPULATED IN PARTS OF THE SOUTH, FOR INSTANCE, WHERE WE KNOW SO MANY PEOPLE HAVE MOVED TO TO TRY

AND FLEE THE SHELLING IN THE NORTH. SO THESE KINDS OF CAUSES, ISRAEL HAS BEEN FACING GROWING CALLS TO TRY AND DO EVERYTHING IT CAN TO MINIMIZE CIVILIAN CASUALTIES. THE ISRAELIS INSIST THAT THEY ARE TAKING TO MINIMIZE CIVILIAN CASUALTIES, BUT THESE TYPES OF REPORTS ARE GOING TO RENEW THE CRITICISM FROM AROUND

THE WORLD FOR ISRAEL TO DO MORE. AND THEY’RE GOING TO BE QUESTIONS AS TO WHY THESE TYPES OF ARE BEING USED IN THE FIRST PLACE. THIS IS ALSO RENEWING CONCERNS FOR THE HOSTAGES COURSE. I’M HERE AT HOSTAGE SQUARE WHERE SOME OF THE FAMILIES OF THE HOSTAGES JUST MET WITH THE ISRAELI PRESIDENT FOR

THE LIGHTING OF THE FINAL CANDLE FOR HANUKKAH. A LOT OF THESE FAMILIES ARE CONCERNED FOR THE WELL-BEING OF THE HOSTAGES THAT REMAIN IN GAZA. 135 HOSTAGES REMAIN IN GAZA. AND, OF COURSE, LOTS OF CONCERNS AS TO WHAT THE RELENTLESS SHELLING OF THE GAZA STRIP COULD MEAN FOR THEM.

>> AND SLATED TO PICK UP ON SOME OF THOSE CONCERNS. AND AS WAS TALKING ABOUT, PRESIDENT BIDEN WARNED ISRAEL THAT IT MIGHT START SUPPORT FROM THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY. SO WHERE DOES THE WHITE HOUSE STAND ON HOW ISRAEL’S MILITARY IS CONDUCTING OPERATIONS RIGHT NOW INSIDE GAZA? YEAH, LOOK, WE’VE SEEN SOME OF

THIS BEHIND, THE SCENES DIPLOMACY THAT’S BEEN GOING ON FOR WEEKS. WELL, THAT IS STARTING TO SPILL OUT INTO THE OPEN. BUT THE WHITE HOUSE HASN’T BEEN, AS POINTED IN ITS CRITICISM, WHAT PRESIDENT BIDEN SAID THERE ABOUT THE INDISCRIMINATE BOMBING. THE WHITE MAKING CLEAR THAT THEIR SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL ISN’T GOING ANYWHERE, BUT THEY

ARE MORE VOCAL ABOUT EXPRESSING THEIR CONCERNS TO BE MORE SURGICAL, TO BE MORE TARGETED, TO REDUCE CIVILIAN HARD, EVEN THOUGH THERE CLEAR DISAGREEMENTS HERE, THOUGH, THE U.S. AND ISRAEL, THEY ARE ALIGNED ON GETTING MORE HOSTAGES OUT. AND U.S. OFFICIALS SAY TO ME THAT THIS DIPLOMACY IN THE PAST FEW WEEKS IT HAS BEEN

SUCCESSFUL IN GETTING ISRAEL TO RESHAPE THE WAY THAT ITS COMBAT OPERATIONS ARE BEING STRUCTURED. BUT LOOK, THE FOCUS OF THIS MEETING FOR JAKE SULLIVAN, IT’S NOT JUST GOING TO BE ON MILITARY OPERATIONS AND HOSTAGES. JOHN, THE NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL SAID THESE MEETINGS WILL ALSO BE FOCUSED ON WHAT HAPPENS, THE DAY AFTER.

THE WHITE HOUSE MAKING VERY CLEAR THAT A REVITALIZED AUTHORITY SHOULD BE RULING GAZA NOT A LONG REOCCUPATION OF THE ISRAELI MILITARY. A LOT OF QUESTIONS ABOUT THE LONGER TERM PLANS TO ALINA AND SELINA. AND AS THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR MORE ANALYSIS, THE WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST.

LET’S BRING IN ABC NEWS NATIONAL SECURITY AND DEFENSE ANALYST AND FORMER DEPUTY ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF DEFENSE FOR THE MIDDLE EAST. MICK MULROY. MIKE, I WANT TO PICK UP ON JAKE SULLIVAN’S VISIT TO ISRAEL. OBVIOUSLY WE’VE HEARD PRESIDENT BIDEN RAMPING UP HIS RHETORIC, SAYING THAT ISRAEL’S MILITARY CAMPAIGN

IS STARTING TO LOSE SOME OF THAT SUPPORT. WE’VE LEARNED THAT HALF OF THE MUNITIONS THAT ISRAEL IS DROPPING ON GAZA ARE DUMB BOMBS THAT ARE UNGUIDED. CAN YOU PROVIDE A LITTLE BIT OF CONTEXT ABOUT WHY ISRAEL WOULD BE USING THOSE DUMB BOMBS? WHY NOT USE GUIDED MISSILES, ESPECIALLY AMID SOME OF THIS

CRITICISM? >> SO IT’S IMPORTANT TO OUT THAT MOST COUNTRIES HAVE THOSE IN THEIR ARSENAL, INCLUDING THE UNITED STATES, AS YOU POINTED OUT, THE MOST EFFECTIVE ARE PRECISION MISSILES, NOT THESE UNGUIDED MISSILES THAT COME FROM AIR TO GROUND, BUT THEY CAN BE USED IN COMBAT AND THEY CAN BE USED IN URBAN

COMBAT COMBAT. THE ISSUE IS YOU HAVE TO TAKE PARTICULAR CARE TO MAKE SURE THAT THE RADIUS OF THE EXPLOSION DOES NOT INCLUDE CIVILIANS. SO IT IS MORE COMPLICATED. AND I THINK BY THE LEVEL OF DEATH AND DESTRUCTION THAT WE’VE SEEN, THAT IS REALLY WHAT IS IS CALLING THIS INTO QUESTION.

WHY WOULD USE SO MANY UNGUIDED MUNITIONS THAT ON TOP OF THE PRESIDENT’S COMMENTS THAT THE BOMBING HAS BEEN INDISCRIMINATE? I THINK WE REALLY CALL THAT INTO QUESTION. BUT JUST USING THEM ALONE DOES NOT INDICATE SOME KIND OF NEFARIOUS INTENT. >> IT’S HOW YOU USE IT. GIVEN THE CRITICISM AND PRESIDENT BIDEN’S COMMENTS

ABOUT INDISCRIMINATE BOMBING, WHAT DO YOU THINK JAKE SULLIVAN IS TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH WITH THIS FACE TO FACE MEETING IN TEL AVIV? >> SO THE USE OF THE TERM INDISCRIMINATE REALLY TAKES IT OUTSIDE OF WHAT’S CALLED THE MALL ARMED CONFLICT. LOCAL A LOT OF PEOPLE. JAKE.

SO I THINK THAT NEEDS TO BE CLARIFIED. IT’S NOT AS PRECISE AS WE WOULD LIKE AND WE SHOULD SAY SAY THAT SPECIFICALLY. BUT WHEN YOU USE THE WORD INDISCRIMINATE, IT REALLY MEANS YOU’RE NOT JUST YOU’RE NOT DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN FRIEND OR FOE, WHICH IS REQUIRED UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW.

>> BUT I THINK MR. SULLIVAN IS REALLY GOING TO PUSH FOR A CHANGE TACTICS WHEN IT COMES TO THE REMAINDER OF MAJOR COMBAT OPERATIONS. HE’S GOING TO PUSH FOR A UNINTERRUPTED SUPPLY, HUMANITARIAN AID, WHICH IS GREAT, GREATLY NEEDED. AND LIKE MENTIONED IN THE REPORT, LIKE ALL OF THE REPORTS

HAVE, THEY’RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT THE WAY AHEAD. WHAT IS NEXT? MOST ISRAELIS HAVEN’T BEEN THAT INTERESTED IN TALKING ABOUT THAT. BUT WE NEED TO NOW SO WE CAN PREPARE FOR IT BECAUSE THE MESSAGE WE ALL WANT A LONG TERM IDEA, OCCUPATION OF GAZA, WHICH I DON’T EVEN THINK IS IN ISRAEL’S INTEREST.

WE NEED START PLANNING FOR WHAT WOULD BE THE ALTERNATIVE, AND THAT IS TO START NOW. >> AND STILL SO MANY DEBATE ABOUT WHAT THAT ALTERNATIVE IS. WE KNOW THAT HOSTAGE FAMILIES HAVE BEEN REACTING ANGRILY, REPORTS THAT ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU ACTUALLY STOPPED THE HEAD OF FROM GOING TO QATAR, WHICH

IS, OF COURSE, THE MAIN INTERMEDIA IN THE HOSTAGE NEGOTIATIONS, STOPPED HIM FROM RESTARTING THOSE. WHY SHOULD ISRAEL BE PUTTING A PAUSE ON NEGOTIATIONS RIGHT NOW? >> WHAT WOULD BE BEHIND THAT? >> SO I DON’T UNDERSTAND THE LOGIC IN NOT SENDING YOUR NEGOTIATORS. AND IN CASES LIKE THIS WHERE IT’S A VERY SENSITIVE

NEGOTIATION WITH, IN THIS CASE, A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION, OFTENTIMES THE INTELLIGENCE SERVICES LIKE THE CIA, LIKE MOSSAD ARE USED TO. THAT’S VERY NORMAL. BUT THERE’S NO WAY TO GET TO ANY KIND OF NEGOTIATED SETTLEMENT, WHICH IS BY FAR THE MOST SAFE WAY TO GET HOSTAGES OF HARM’S WAY THAN A MILITARY OPERATION.

THERE’S NO WAY TO GET TO IF YOU’RE NOT EVEN TALKING. SO THAT DOESN’T MEAN YOU HAVE TO AGREE WITH EVERYTHING. OBVIOUSLY, THAT’S BEING ASKED BY HAMAS. BUT THE DIALOG REALLY NEEDS TO TAKE PLACE BECAUSE IT IS BY FAR THE MOST THE SAFEST WAY TO GET THESE THESE PEOPLE BACK

AND BACK WITH THEIR FAMILIES. MICK MULROY, THANK YOU, AS ALWAYS, FOR YOUR ANALYSIS. THANKS A LOT. THE SUPREME COURT SAYS IT WILL CONSIDER A CASE THAT COULD UNDO MORE THAN 100 CONVICTIONS STEMMING FROM THE JANUARY SIXTH ATTACK ON THE CAPITOL. PROSECUTORS ORIGINALLY CHARGED FORMER TRUMP AND OTHER DEFENDANTS WITH OBSTRUCTING AN

OFFICIAL PROCEEDING, THE CERTIFICATION OF ELECTORAL VOTES. NOW THE SUPREME COURT HAS TO WEIGH IN ON WHETHER PROSECUTORS STRETCHED THE LAW TOO FAR, WHICH COULD IMPACT ROUGHLY 300 DEFENDANTS, INCLUDING THE FORMER PRESIDENT. SENIOR NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT TERRY MORAN HAS THE LATEST. >> ELIZABETH, THIS CASE COULD HAVE A BIG IMPACT ON THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.

HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE WHO STORMED THE CAPITOL, DONALD TRUMP HIMSELF HAVE ALL BEEN CHARGED UNDER THE SAME FEDERAL LAW. THAT MAKES IT A CRIME TO, QUOTE, CORRUPTLY OBSTRUCT AN OFFICIAL PROCEEDING. BUT NOW THE SUPREME COURT HAS AGREED TO HEAR AN APPEAL FROM ONE OF THE JANUARY SIX DEFENDANTS WHO IS ARGUING

THAT THAT LAW, WHICH WAS ORIGINALLY PASSED BY CONGRESS TO DEAL WITH WITNESS IN COURT CORPORATE CRIME CASES CANNOT BE TO THE ATTACK ON THE CAPITOL. REPUBLICANS HAVE BEEN TRYING TO MAKE THIS CASE FOR MONTHS. THEY SAY THAT SOME OF THE JANUARY 6 DEFENDANTS HAVE BEEN OVERCHARGED THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT.

AND IF THE SUPREME COURT AGREES WITH THIS ARGUMENT, TWO OF THE FOUR COUNTS AGAINST DONALD TRUMP, THAT ELECTION INTERFERENCE CASE WOULD GO AWAY. AND HE GOT ANOTHER BOOST. THIS CASE, WHEN THE JUDGE PUT ALL THE PROCEEDINGS ON HOLD WHILE DONALD TRUMP APPEALS. ANOTHER ISSUE, HIS CLAIM OF PRESIDENTIAL IMMUNITY FOR

ANYTHING HE DID TO OVERTURN THE 2020 ELECTION. AND THAT APPEAL COULD DELAY THE START OF THIS CASE, WHICH IS SCHEDULED TO BEGIN IN MARCH FOR MONTHS. >> ELIZABETH TERRY MORAN, THANK . A POWERFUL NEW STORM IS MAKING ITS WAY ACROSS THE MIDWEST TODAY, BRINGING UP TO SIX INCHES OF SNOW IN COLORADO

AND MEXICO AND CAUSING CHAOS ON THE ROADS. THE STORM IS NOW MOVING. ALSO BRINGING RAIN TO TEXAS AND THE GULF COAST. JOINING ME NOW WITH THE FULL FORECAST IS ABC NEWS METEOROLOGIST DAN PACK. DAN THANKS FOR BREAKING THIS DOWN FOR US. WHAT’S THE LATEST ON THIS STORM RIGHT NOW?

WELL, ELIZABETH, RIGHT NOW THIS SYSTEM HAS A LOT OF COLD AIR TO WORK WITH. SO THAT MEANS THE SNOW IS BRINGING WIDESPREAD ICY AND SLICK ROAD CONDITIONS TO PORTIONS COLORADO AND NEW MEXICO. AND UNFORTUNATELY, THE SNOW IS GOING TO STICK AROUND, AT LEAST TONIGHT. >> WE COULD SEE ADDITIONAL SNOW

TOTALS OF 3 TO 6 INCHES ACROSS PORTIONS OF SANTA FE AND THEN INTO GARDEN CITY. AND THEN THIS SYSTEM WILL CONTINUE TO PUSH TOWARDS THE EAST. SO WE’LL SEE THIS THING MOVING EASTWARD, GETTING MORE MILD AIR TO WORK WITH, WHICH MEANS THAT WE WILL SEE MORE WIDESPREAD HEAVY RAIN DEVELOPING ACROSS SOME BIG

TRAVEL AREAS. DALLAS TO HOUSTON, YOU’LL BE SEEING SOME HEAVY RAIN BY THE FRIDAY EVENING COMMUTE. AND THIS RAIN COULD ALSO TRIGGER FLOODING, WHICH COULD HAVE ADDITIONAL IMPACTS ON ROADWAYS AND IN THE REGION. >> NOT GREAT, ESPECIALLY THAT WE’RE HEADING INTO SUCH A BUSY TRAVEL WEEKEND. WHAT SHOULD PEOPLE KNOW GOING

INTO THE WEEKEND DAN? >> ALL THE BIG THING I WANT TO EMPHASIZE IS THAT THE IMPACTS WITH THIS SYSTEM WILL ONLY GET WORSE AS WE HEAD INTO THE WEEKEND. AS WE TAKE A LOOK AT THE MAPS AGAIN, WE’RE GOING TO TIME THIS OUT LATE SATURDAY AND THEN INTO SUNDAY.

SEE, BY SATURDAY EVENING, WE HAVE HEAVY RAIN ACROSS MUCH OF THE FLORIDA PENINSULA. ORLANDO, MIAMI, WE ALREADY HAVE FLOOD ALERTS AND WENDLER ALONG THE FLORIDA ATLANTIC COAST. SO WE COULD HAVE BIG TRAVEL IMPACTS THERE BY SATURDAY NIGHT AND THEN INTO EARLY SUNDAY MORNING. THE SYSTEM THEN REALLY GETS GOING. IT BECOMES A POWERFUL

STORM ALONG THE EAST ON SUNDAY AND MONDAY. AND THAT’S WHERE WE’RE NOW TRACKING IMPACTS FROM RALEIGH TO D.C., NEW YORK AND BOSTON LATE SUNDAY INTO MONDAY, AS THE STORM BECOMES MORE ORGANIZED AND BRINGS MORE WIDESPREAD, SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS TO MUCH OF THE EAST AS TRAVEL CONTINUES TO RAMP UP ACROSS THE EASTERN

HALF OF THE. LOOK AT THESE RAINFALL TOTALS ALONG THE EAST COAST. BIGGEST LOOKS LIKE IT WILL BE IN SOUTH FLORIDA, 5 TO 10 INCHES OF RAIN. THAT’S CERTAINLY TO TRIGGER FLOODING LATER THIS WEEKEND. AND THEN WE TRACK WIDESPREAD BIG TOTALS OF 2 TO 3 INCHES

OF RAIN UP THE EAST COAST. WE’RE LOOKING AT HEAVY RAIN, POTENTIAL FOR FLOODING AND WIDESPREAD STRONG WINDS LATER THIS WEEKEND AND INTO MONDAY, JUST AS THAT HOLIDAY TRAVEL NOW WRAPPING UP. >> ELIZABETH, DO NOT LIKE THE LOOK OF THAT HERE IN D.C.. DAN PACK, THANKS SO MUCH FOR

STAYING ON THIS FOR US. >> COMING UP, CLOSING ARGUMENTS ARE UNDER WAY IN THE ASSAULT TRIAL OF ACTOR JONATHAN MAJORS. THE EVIDENCE THE JUDGE ALLOWED TO BE RELEASED. WHEN WE RETURN. TONIGHT, A WOMAN’S RIGHT TO MAKE HER OWN HEALTH CHOICES WITH ABORTION PILL ACCESS SET GO BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT.

IS A CRISIS BREWING? MORE AMERICANS TURN TO THE MOST WATCHED PROGRAM ON TELEVISION. “WORLD NEWS TONIGHT” WITH DAVID MUIR. YOU’RE BACK AT IT AGAIN. I GOT NOTHING ELSE TO DO. I GOT TWINS AT THAT HOUSE TOMORROW. GEORGE CLOONEY AND MICHAEL STRAHAN, THE ALL-NEW INTERVIEW PERSON. YOU’D TRADE PLACES FOR A DAY TOMORROW.

IT’S A CRAZY SAY ONLY ON GOOD MORNING. >> IF THEY WERE TO GO BACK TO THE BOONDOCKS. YEAH, BUT SO FAR, BESIDES A LITTLE BIT, THE IS A LITTLE BIT MY LITTLE MORE THAN A MINUTE I MY IN AMERICA ALL ACROSS THE WORLD THE WORLD WILL BE CELEBRATING

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PRIME WITH LINSEY DAVIS WEEKNIGHTS ON ABC NEWS LIVE. >> WE ARE GOING. >> I WAS TERRIFIED IT WAS JUST SO TRAUMATIC NIGHTMARE. PEOPLE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THESE WERE WANTED BABIES, WOMEN FACING LIFE AND DEATH, MEDICAL CONDITIONS. THEIR LIVES NOW OUT OF THEIR CONTROL. >> I FELT LIKE I WAS GOING

TO DIE. OUR LIVES AND OUR HEALTH ARE DEBATABLE. I WOULDN’T WISH THIS UPON MY WORST ENEMY. >> DIANE SAWYER. RACHEL SAT ON THE BRINK STREAMING ON HULU. WELCOME BACK. CLOSING ARGUMENTS ARE UNDERWAY AND THE ASSAULT TRIAL OF ACTOR JONATHAN MAJORS. THE DEFENSE RESTING ITS CASE YESTERDAY WITH MAJORS CHOOSING

NOT TO TESTIFY IN HIS OWN DEFENSE. BUT THE JUDGE DID ALLOW EVIDENCE, INCLUDING VIDEO, AUDIO TEXTS AND PHOTOS RELATED TO THE ALLEGED ASSAULT OF MAJORS. EX TO BE RELEASED. SENIOR INVESTIGATIVE CORRESPONDENT AARON KATERSKY HAS THOSE DETAILS. >> JONATHAN MAJORS RETURNS TO COURT. THE JURY PREPARES TO DECIDE A DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CASE

THAT COULD DETERMINE THE TRAJECTORY OF THE ACTOR’S CAREER. WHAT HAPPENED EXACTLY? THEY’RE NOT YOU KNOW, I DON’T KNOW. >> BUT SHE WENT CONSCIOUS. >> MAJORS CALLED 911 BACK IN MARCH. I THINK I SAW A COUPLE TRANSFER AFTER HE FOUND HIS EX-GIRLFRIEND, GRACE JABOURI, ON A CLOSET FLOOR IN THEIR APARTMENT.

>> THE JURY SAW VIDEO FROM POLICE BODY CAMERAS. JABARI DID HAVE A CUT BEHIND HER EAR. THE JURY SAW THIS PICTURE OF IT. THE JURY ALSO SAW A PHOTO OF JABBAR, HIS FINGER THAT. >> SHE TESTIFIED MAJORS FRACTURED DURING AN ASSAULT IN THE BACK SEAT OF AN SUV.

MY HEAD WAS RESTING ON HIS SHOULDER, JABARI TOLD THE JURY. WE WERE CHATTING. AND HE WAS SCROLLING ON HIS PHONE WHEN A MESSAGE POPPED UP SAYING, I WISH WAS KISSING YOU UPSET BY THE MESSAGE. >> JABARI TESTIFIED. SHE GRABBED THE PHONE AND THEN I FELT A HEAVY THUD ON TOP

OF ME. WHAT I KNEW TO BE THE WEIGHT OF HIM ON TOP OF ME AND HIM TRYING TO PRY THE PHONE OUT OF MY FINGERS. >> SURVEILLANCE VIDEO SHOWS MAJORS JABBAR OFF THE GROUND AND SHOVING HER BACK IN THE CAR BEFORE SEEN RUNNING OFF. SHE CHASES AFTER HIM.

HE PUSHES HER AWAY AND OFF. >> JABARI CROSSING TRAFFIC IN PURSUIT. JONATHAN MAJORS CASE IS GOING TO HINGE ON TWO MAJOR COMPONENTS. ONE WILL YOU BELIEVE THAT GRACE YOUR GUARD WAS INJURED BY? >> JONATHAN MAJORS WITH ALL THE VIDEO AND THE TESTIMONY THAT WE SAW AND HEARD.

>> AND TWO, WAS JONATHAN MAJORS JUSTIFIED HIS ACTIONS AFTER GRACE JABARI ADMITTEDLY TOOK HIS PROPERTY, THAT BEING HIS CELL PHONE, AND HE TRIED TO RECOVER FROM HER. >> MAJORS CAREER HAD BEEN TAKING OFF WHEN THE MARVEL STAR AND JABARI ON THE SET OF ANT-MAN AND THE WASP QUANTUMANIA AND BEGAN DATING

SLIGHTLY BEFORE THE ALLEGED ASSAULT. >> SHE TESTIFIED HE HAD MOOD SWINGS AND A TEMPER. THE JURY SEEING TEXT MESSAGES PURPORTING TO SHOW MAJORS DISSUADING JABARI FROM GOING TO THE HOSPITAL FOLLOWING AN ALLEGED ALTERCATION BETWEEN THEM IN 2022. >> THE JURY ALSO HEARING THIS RECORDING, THE ACTOR SCOLDING JABARI.

>> HOW DID YOU COME HOME TO DISTURB PEACE OUT OF OUR HOUSE? >> AND TELLING HER HE NEEDS A GREAT WOMAN BECAUSE. >> HE’S A GREAT MAN. CORETTA SCOTT KING. GOOD AS ONE OF KING’S WIFE, MICHELLE OBAMA. >> BARACK OBAMA LOST MY TEMPER. MY MICROBLOG OVER ALL THAT

SAID, I’M A GREAT MAN. A GREAT MAN. I DO GREAT THINGS. >> NOT JUST FOR ME, FOR MY FOR MY CULTURE. >> IT’S A WORLD. THAT’S ACTUALLY THE POSITION I’M THE WOMAN THAT SUPPORTS ME, NEEDS TO BE A WOMAN. AARON KATERSKY JOINS US NOW, ALONG WITH LEGAL CONTRIBUTOR

AND TRIAL ATTORNEY BRIAN BUCKMASTER. THANK YOU BOTH SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE. ERIN, YOU’VE BEEN INSIDE COURTROOM FOR THE TRIAL. DESCRIBE WHAT THE ATMOSPHERE HAS BEEN LIKE. >> WELL, IT’S TENSE AND THIS IS A DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CASE BIT ,ELIZABETH. SO NATURALLY, THERE’S A LOT AT STAKE WHEN THE COMPLAINING WITNESS, CRAIG JABARI, TOOK

THE STAND. SHE DESCRIBED IN DETAIL WHAT SHE SAYS TO HER IN THE BACK OF THAT SUV BACK IN MARCH. >> BUT NOW WE’RE AT CLOSING ARGUMENTS AND THINGS GOT REALLY EMOTIONAL. JONATHAN MAJORS, DEFENSE ATTORNEY PRIYA CHAUDHRY BROKE DOWN CRYING THE JURY TO BELIEVE THAT HE’S INNOCENT AND JABARI,

OF MAKING ALL OF THIS UP, OF LYING BECAUSE SHE’S OUT FOR REVENGE AFTER HE BROKE OFF RELATIONSHIP. THAT TEXT MESSAGE APPEARING ON HIS PHONE FROM ANOTHER WOMAN SAYING, I WISH I WAS KISSING YOU RIGHT NOW. AND PROSECUTORS BACK SAYING, WAIT A MINUTE, THIS IS NOT GRACE. JABARI VERSUS JONATHAN MAJORS.

THIS IS THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK TAKING ISSUE WITH WHAT JONATHAN? JONATHAN MAJORS IS ACCUSED OF DOING AND THE PROSECUTOR REMINDING THE JURY THAT THIS HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH ANY KIND OF A REVENGE PLOT BY HIS EX-GIRLFRIEND. >> AND SOME OF THE EVIDENCE

THAT YOU LAID OUT IN YOUR PIECE DOES SEEM PRETTY. AND, BRIAN, WE HEARD YOU IN ERIN’S PIECE DESCRIBING OF THE DEFENSE’S LEGAL STRATEGY. WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THE WAY THAT MAJOR’S LAWYERS ARE BUILDING THAT DEFENSE? >> WELL, LET ME START BY SAYING TWO DEFENSE ATTORNEYS CAN BE VERY REASONABLE TO HAVE

DIFFERENT INTERPRETATIONS ON HOW THE FACTS SHOULD COME FORWARD. I JUST DISAGREE WITH HOW THE DEFENSE IS DOING HERE. THERE NO EVIDENCE TO SUGGEST THAT GRACE YOUR WAS LYING OR THIS WAS REVENGE. TO ME, THIS CASE SHOULD BE STRICTLY ABOUT WHAT ONE PERSON TAKES ANOTHER PERSON’S PROPERTY. WHAT DOES THAT PERSON ALLOW

TO DO TO GET THAT PROPERTY BACK? IT SHOULD BE GENDERLESS. IT SHOULD BE BLIND. WHO IS THE MALE AND WHO IS THE FEMALE? SO JUST AS WE WOULD CHAMPION A WOMAN WHO FIGHTS BACK AT A MURDER, TAKING HER PURSE, WE SHOULD EQUALLY CHAMPION A MAN WHO TAKES BACK HIS CELL PHONE

WITHOUT USING FORCE FROM A WOMAN. AND I THINK THAT SHOULD BE THE ISSUE HERE. THIS IS NOT ABOUT RACE. THIS IS NOT ABOUT FAME OR OR REVENGE I THINK THEY SHOULD BE LOCKED INTO THAT ISSUE AND SAY THE LAW ALLOWS YOU TO TAKE YOUR PHONE. AND CLEARLY, THAT’S WHAT RACHEL

MARTIN SAID HAPPENED. AND THEN JONATHAN MAJORS RAN AWAY OF FEAR OF THE REPERCUSSIONS. >> BRIAN, JONATHAN MAJORS DECIDED NOT TO TAKE THE STAND IN, HIS OWN DEFENSE. >> DO YOU THINK THAT HELPS OR HURTS HIM? SO THE LAW WOULD SAY THAT THAT IS YOUR FIFTH AMENDMENT

RIGHT AND THAT THE JURY CAN NOT CONSIDER THAT. BUT THEY OFTEN DO. AND THE COURT OF PUBLIC OPINION THAT WOULD AFFECT HIM AS WELL FROM A LEGAL AND STRATEGIC STANDPOINT, I THINK THAT’S SMART, BECAUSE A LOT OF THE QUESTIONS THAT BE ASKED OF HIM THAT CAME ABOUT JUST THE TOXICITY OF THIS

RELATIONSHIP, I THINK, WOULD NOT ONLY BE DAMAGING TO THE CASE, BUT ALSO TO HIS HIS PR AND HIS CAREER GOING DOWN THE DOWN THE ROAD. I THINK STAYING IN THIS PLACE, BEING SHIELDED BY THE FIFTH AMENDMENT IS SMART FOR HIM. BUT I THINK THE ARGUMENT SURROUNDING HIM COULD HAVE BEEN

BETTER TO PUT HIM IN A BETTER LIGHT. >> WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE CHARGES THAT HE’S FACING, AARON, IT’S MISDEMEANOR CHARGES ,ASSAULT AND AGGRAVATED HARASSMENT. WHAT’S AT STAKE HERE FOR MAJORS? >> WELL, FROM A LEGAL PERSPECTIVE, HE COULD SERVE UP A YEAR IN PRISON. NOW, FIRST TIME OFFENDER MISDEMEANOR CHARGE, ASSAULT

AND AGGRAVATED HARASSMENT. IT’S HIGHLY UNLIKELY IF HE IS CONVICTED THAT HE WOULD SERVE A YEAR IN PRISON. BUT AS NOTES, SOME OF THE REPUTATIONAL THINGS THAT CAME OUT DURING THIS TRIAL THAT HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH HIS GUILT OR INNOCENCE ARE ACTUALLY POTENTIALLY TO HIS REPUTATION. THE JURY SAW IMAGES OF OF

OBJECTS THAT HE HURLED AT GRACE JABARI AND THEN ALL OVER THE WALL AND THEN CAME CRASHING TO THE FLOOR. THEY SAW TEXT MESSAGES WHERE HE IS DISSUADING HER FROM GOING THE HOSPITAL AFTER SOME KIND OF AN ALTERCATION THAT TOOK PLACE BETWEEN THE TWO OF THEM IN 2022. >> SO BEFORE THE ASSAULT

AT ISSUE THAT WILL DETERMINE GUILT OR INNOCENCE, THE JURY HEARD SEVERAL OTHER INSTANCES OF WHAT SOUNDED PHYSICAL AND VERBAL ABUSE. AND FOR MAJORS THAT CAN’T BE A GOOD LOOK AARON AND BRIAN BOTH STAY ON AS THOSE CLOSING ARGUMENTS ARE UNDERWAY. >> THANK YOU BOTH SO MUCH. >> COMING UP, RUDY GIULIANI

SAYS HE WON’T TESTIFY IN THAT ELECTION DEFAMATION LAWSUIT BROUGHT BY TWO GEORGIA ELECTION WORKERS. THE LATEST FROM COURT TODAY AFTER A SHORT BREAK. >> WHENEVER WHEREVER NEWS BREAKS, IT’S SO IMPORTANT TO ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT LIVES ARE CHANGED. >> HERE IN LONDON. IN BUFFALO, YOU HAULED IN TAXES ,SCOTLAND REPORTING FROM

ROLLING FORK, MISSISSIPPI, THE UKRAINIAN REFUGEES HERE IN WARSAW. WE’RE HEADING TO A SMALL COMMUNITY OUTSIDE OF MEXICO CITY BEHIND THE STORIES AS THEY HAPPEN ABC NEWS LIVE CRIME. >> WE’LL TAKE YOU THERE. >> STREAM NBC NEWS LIVE WEEKNIGHTS WHEREVER YOU STREAM. JOINING US ONLY ON ABC NEWS LIVE TONIGHT, A WOMAN’S

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I GUESS I JUST FOUND OUT. WHAT WOULD YOU DO? MARATHON 2 TO 6 EASTERN EVERY SATURDAY ON ABC NEWS LIVE. >> MY FAVORITE. NOW WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE ABC NEWS THIS IS STARTING TO BE IN KNOW AND GET A DIFFERENT TAKE

ON THE DAY’S TOP STORIES START. THAT’S THE PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING. YOU GET YOUR DAILY FIRST LISTEN WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS . ABC NEWS, AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE NEWS SOURCE REPORTING ON THE FOURTH STRAIGHT FROM TREASURE ISLAND. I’M GOING TO GO WHEREVER THE STORY IS WHAT PEOPLE THERE

YOU’RE SAYING. OKAY. OVER. THANKS SO MUCH FOR STREAMING WITH US. HERE ARE SOME OF THE OTHER TOP HEADLINES THAT WE’RE FOLLOWING AT THIS HOUR. RUDY GIULIANI WILL NOT TESTIFY IN HIS DEFAMATION TRIAL. THE FORMER TRUMP ATTORNEY WAS EXPECTED TAKE THE STAND TODAY AFTER TWO GEORGIA ELECTION WORKERS SUED HIM AND THEY

RESTED THEIR CASE. ONE OF THOSE WORKERS, SHANE MOSS, TESTIFIED THAT GIULIANI’S FALSE MADE HER FEAR FOR HER LIFE. THE JUDGE HAS ALREADY A DEFAULT JUDGMENT TO THE TWO WOMEN. SO THIS TRIAL IS ONLY DETERMINING WHAT DAMAGES GIULIANI WILL HAVE TO PAY. RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN SAYS HE IS IN TALKS

WITH THE U.S. OVER PAUL WHELAN AND EVAN GERSHKOVICH, TWO AMERICANS UNJUSTLY JAILED RUSSIA. PUTIN SAYS THE KREMLIN WANTS TO FIND A SOLUTION, BUT IT NOT EASY. WIELAND HAS BEEN IMPRISONED IN RUSSIA SINCE 2018 AND GERSHKOVICH HAS BEEN IN CUSTODY SINCE MARCH. BOTH MEN ARE BEING HELD ON ESPIONAGE RELATED CHARGES

THEY AND THE U.S. GOVERNMENT CALL POLITICALLY MOTIVATED. AND THE NBA HAS SUSPENDED GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS DRAYMOND GREEN INDEFINITELY FOR SWINGING AT A PHOENIX CENTER, KNOCKING HIM TO THE GROUND AT A GAME LAST NIGHT. SAYS THAT IT WAS UNINTENTIONAL. THIS IS GREEN’S SIX SUSPENSION IN HIS CAREER AND HIS SECOND

IN LESS THAN A. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR STREAMING WITH US. I’M ELIZABETH SCHULZE FROM BREAKING NEWS TO ALL THE STORIES THAT MATTER TO YOU . YOU CAN ALWAYS FIND US ON VARIOUS STREAMING SERVICES ON THE ABC NEWS AND OF COURSE, ON ABCNEWS.COM. THE NEWS NEVER STOPS. WE’LL BE RIGHT BACK.

>> AND HOUSTON POLICE SAY THE 16 YEAR OLD SHOT BOTH OF HIS PARENTS NOW FRIDAY NIGHT INSIDE THE COURTROOM IN THE SHOCKING NEW EVIDENCE THAT CAME IN JUST DAYS BEFORE THE TRIAL. YOU GOT TO BE KIDDING ME. WHOSE BLOOD IS THIS? I COULDN’T EVEN FATHOM THE IDEA

OF KILLING MY PARENTS. EVERYTHING. EVERYTHING POINTS TO HIM ON THE 2020 FRIDAY NIGHT AT 9 A.M. CENTRAL ON ABC. TONIGHT, A WOMAN’S RIGHT MAKE HER OWN HEALTH CHOICES WITH ABORTION. PILL ACCESS SET TO GO BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT. IS A CRISIS BREWING. MORE AMERICANS TURN TO THE MOST WATCHED PROGRAM ON TELEVISION.

“WORLD NEWS TONIGHT” DAVID MUIR ,YOU’RE BACK AT IT AGAIN. I GOT NOTHING ELSE TO DO. I GOT AT HOME LIKE A HOUSE TOMORROW. GEORGE CLOONEY, MICHAEL STRAHAN, THE ALL-NEW INTERVIEW PERSON. YOU’D TRADE PLACES FOR A DAY TOMORROW. IT’S A CRAZY SAY ONLY ON GOOD MORNING AMERICA. >> WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE START

THEIR DAY HERE? FROM ABC NEWS THIS IS “START HERE”. TO BE IN THE KNOW AND GET A DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE DAY’S TOP STORIES. A LOT OF NEWS TODAY SO LET’S GET INTO IT. LISTEN NOW TO THE DAILY NEWS PODCAST HONORED WITH FOR R MURROW AWARDS AND SEE WHY

THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS IT A NEWS PODCAST. WORTH LISTENING TO. YOU START HERE. ABC NEWS. >> YOU GET YOUR DAILY FIRST. LISTEN NOW, THAT’S A PART OF THE STORY. I BET YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING. >> WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS, START HERE ALL ACROSS THE GLOBE, THE WORLD

WILL BE THE NEW YEAR AND YOU CAN SEE IT AS IT HAPPENS, LIKE THE GLOBAL CELEBRATIONS. SEE THE NEW YEAR AS IT COMES IN THIS THEME ALL DAY AND NIGHT ON ABC NEWS LIVE REPORTING FROM THE FRONTLINES OF THE WAR IN ISRAEL. I’M IAN PANNELL. WHEREVER THE STORY IS.

WE’LL TAKE YOU THERE YOU’RE STREAMING. ABC NEWS LIVE TODAY ON ABC NEWS LIVE. TURNING UP THE PRESSURE. NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER JAKE SULLIVAN IS IN TEL AVIV MEETING WITH THE ISRAELI WAR CABINET. THE MESSAGE HE’S SENDING FROM THE WHITE HOUSE. GOP REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE NIKKI IS SURGING IN THE POLLS AFTER A KEY

ENDORSEMENT FROM NEW HAMPSHIRE REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR CHRIS SUNUNU. OUR JON KARL SAT DOWN WITH BOTH OF ABOUT WHAT IT WILL TAKE TO CATCH UP TO THE FRONT RUNNER, FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP ON THE BRINK. WOMEN SHARE THEIR DEEPLY ABORTION STORIES FIGHTING FOR THEIR LIVES DURING HIGH RISK PREGNANCIES AS THE LEGAL BATTLE

FOR ABORTION ACCESS HEATS UP. OUR DIANE SAWYER AND RACHEL SCOTT HAVE TEAMED UP FOR A SPECIAL EDITION OF “IMPACT X NIGHTLINE”. RACHEL SCOTT JOINS US LIVE WITH A SNEAK. HEY, EVERYONE, I’M ELIZABETH SCHULZE. AND OUR TOP STORY AT THIS HOUR IS THAT WHITE HOUSE NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER

JAKE IS IN ISRAEL FOR A HIGH STAKES VISIT. SULLIVAN SAYS HE’S URGING ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU AND WAR CABINET TO WORK TOWARD ANOTHER CEASEFIRE. GETTING MORE HOSTAGES IN GAZA OUT AND MORE HUMANITARIAN AID IN. BUT AS THESE MEETINGS ARE TAKING PLACE, THE FIGHTING IS STILL RAGING. HAMAS SAYS MASSIVE AIRSTRIKE

BY ISRAEL EARLIER TODAY KILLS 19 PEOPLE IN NORTHERN GAZA. AND FIGHTING CONTINUES GAZA CITY. FOR MORE, LET’S BRING IN ABC NEWS WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT KAREN TRAVERS AT THE WHITE HOUSE AND ABC NEWS. AND AS THE SECRETARY IN TEL AVIV. KAREN, WHAT IS JAKE SULLIVAN’S MAIN OBJECTIVE IN THIS HIGH

LEVEL MEETING WITH NETANYAHU? >> ELIZABETH THE NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER IS IN ISRAEL TO MEET WITH NETANYAHU AND OTHER SENIOR ISRAELI OFFICIALS TO THAT THE UNITED STATES STANDS IN ITS SUPPORT OF ISRAEL IN ITS FIGHT AGAINST HAMAS AND ALSO IS WORKING TO GET ANOTHER HUMANITARIAN. SO MORE HOSTAGES HELD BY HAMAS

CAN BE REUNITED WITH THEIR FAMILIES. ANOTHER PART OF HIS MESSAGE IS TALKING ABOUT THE NEXT PHASE OF ISRAEL’S FIGHT AGAINST HAMAS AND MAKING THAT MORE SURGICAL, MORE PRECISE. ALSO TALKING ABOUT GETTING MORE AID INTO GAZA. THIS IS JAKE SULLIVAN’S SECOND VISIT TO ISRAEL, THE OCTOBER 7TH ATTACKS, AND HE’S EXPECTED

TO BE THERE TOMORROW. >> MORE MEETINGS. ELIZABETH, AND AS WE TALK ABOUT THOSE HOSTAGES, AS YOU’VE HAD A CHANCE TO SPEAK WITH ONE OF THE HOSTAGES WHO WAS FREED, WHAT DID THEY TELL YOU? >> YEAH, A LITTLE BIT. WE JUST SPOKE TO ROSS BEN-AMI JUST MOMENTS AGO.

SHE IS A WOMAN WHO WAS TAKEN HOSTAGE ON OCTOBER SEVEN, TOGETHER WITH HUSBAND. SHE DESCRIBED HIDING UNDER THE COVERS WHEN MILITANTS STORMED HER HOME, BUT THEY STILL FOUND HER WHEN THEY TURNED ON THE LIGHTS. SHE SAID SHE WAS THEN TAKEN GAZA ON THE BACK OF A MOTORCYCLE AND SEPARATED FROM HER HUSBAND.

SHE WAS RELEASED. HER HUSBAND, OHAD, IS STILL BEING DETAINED AND THOUGH SHE’S VERY WORRIED ABOUT HIM, I ASKED HER, YOU KNOW, ARE YOU OKAY? SHE SAID, HOW CAN I BE OKAY WHEN MY HUSBAND IS STILL BEING HELD IN GAZA? NEED HIM BACK NOW? I THINK WHAT WAS MOST

INTERESTING IS SHE WOULDN’T GET INTO THE DETAILS OF THE CONDITIONS SHE WAS DETAINED IN. AND HER DAUGHTERS, ME THAT THEY STILL DON’T KNOW WHAT THEIR MOTHER WENT THROUGH. SHE STILL TALK ABOUT IT. SO I THINK THAT GIVES YOU A SENSE OF THE TRAUMA THIS THIS MUST HAVE GONE THROUGH.

I’LL LET YOU LISTEN TO WHAT HER DAUGHTER ELLA HAD TO SAY. >> FOR NINE DAYS NOW THAT MY DAD IS THERE AND I DON’T KNOW IF I WOULD HAVE SURVIVED THIS. MY MOM CAME BACK SINCE SHE CAME BACK THURSDAY. SHE CAME BACK IN THE WAR SITUATION.

HER SITUATION DID WHAT SHE WAS WHEN SHE CAME OUT. AND SO IT’S BIG FOR WORLD TO STAND UP AND SPEAK FOR US. >> AND THIS FAMILY JUST A PRIME EXAMPLE OF HOW DIVIDED SO MANY OF THESE FAMILIES. LOTS OF RELIEF WITH SOME OF THE HOSTAGES, A LOT OF THE WOMEN

AND CHILDREN WHO HAVE BEEN RELEASED, BUT THE MEN STILL BEING HELD IN GAZA. AND SO THE PAIN IS NOT OVER FOR THESE FAMILIES. WE KNOW 135 HOSTAGES ARE STILL BEING HELD IN GAZA. >> SO MUCH PAIN FOR THOSE FAMILIES. AND AS WE ARE LEARNING THAT HALF OF THE AIR TO GROUND

MUNITIONS THAT ISRAEL DROPPED INTO GAZA HAVE BEEN UNGUIDED. SO WHETHER IT’S TALKING ABOUT DUMB BOMBS, TALK ABOUT WHY WE KNOW ISRAEL CHOOSING TO USE THAT AND WHAT KIND OF CRITICISM MIGHT THEY BE FACING GIVEN THE CRITICISM ABOUT THEIR OVERALL OPERATIONS IN GAZA. YES, WE UNDERSTAND, ACCORDING TO THIS REPORT, THAT NEARLY

OF THE AIR TO GROUND MUNITIONS THAT ISRAEL IS USING IN GAZA ARE SO-CALLED DUMB BOMBS, WHICH ARE ESSENTIALLY UNGUIDED. AND SO THOSE POSE A REAL THREAT TO CIVILIANS BECAUSE THEY’RE NOT AS PRECISE, AND ESPECIALLY IN A VERY DENSELY POPULATED AREA LIKE THE GAZA STRIP, SPECIFICALLY GAZA, WHERE 1.8 MILLION

PEOPLE HAVE BEEN DISPLACED. THAT IS, YOU KNOW, REAL CONCERNS FOR THOSE CIVILIANS THERE. OVER 18,000 PEOPLE IN GAZA HAVE NOW BEEN KILLED, ACCORDING TO THE HAMAS RUN HEALTH. DO YOU WANT TO POINT TO SOME GUIDANCE WE GOT FROM OUR MILITARY ANALYST, STEVEN GANYARD? HE THAT PRECISION WEAPONS ARE EXPENSIVE AND IN

SHORT SUPPLY COMPARED TO DUMP. BUT IF ISRAEL IS USING PRECISION AERIAL WEAPONS, 55 TO 60% OF THE TIME, THEN THAT IS MORE THAN ANY COUNTRY IN THE HISTORY OF OF URBAN WARFARE. AND SO, YOU KNOW, WHETHER MEANS ISRAEL IS DOING ENOUGH TO PROTECT CIVILIAN LIVES AS A WHOLE OTHER MATTER.

BUT AN INTERESTING JUST INTERESTING CONTEXT THERE WHEN IT COMES TO THOSE DUMB BOMBS. >> YEAH, REALLY IMPORTANT CONTEXT. AND KAREN, I’LL GO TO YOU BECAUSE THERE ARE REPORTS COMING IN THAT THE U.S. HAS URGED ISRAEL TO SCALE BACK GROUND INVASION IN GAZA BY THE END OF THIS YEAR. WHAT’S WHITE HOUSE SAYING

ABOUT THAT? >> ELIZABETH, THE NATIONAL SECURITY SPOKESMAN, JOHN KIRBY, SAID THAT PART OF THE CONVERSATION THAT JAKE SULLIVAN, THE NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER, HAD WITH THE ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER, WAS ABOUT TRANSITIONING THE ISRAELI OPERATIONS RIGHT NOW FROM WHAT THEY’RE CALLING HIGH INTENSITY OPERATIONS. WHAT YOU’RE SEEING RIGHT NOW WITH THOSE STRIKES

AND BOMBARDMENT IN GAZA TO WHAT THEY’RE CALLING A LOWER INTENSITY OPERATION. NOW, KIRBY WOULD NOT TALK ABOUT THE TIMELINE ON THIS, JUST SAYING THAT IT WOULD BE IN THE NEAR FUTURE. >> BUT THEY DON’T WANT TO PUT A TIME STAMP ON IT BECAUSE THEY DON’T WANT TO TELEGRAPH

TO HAMAS WHAT COULD BE COMING IN THE NEAR FUTURE. THAT’S WEEKS OR MONTHS. BUT IN TERMS OF WHAT LOWER INTENSITY OPERATIONS MEAN, A U.S. OFFICIAL SAID THAT WOULD BE ELITE ISRAELI FORCES GOING INTO THE POPULATION CENTERS IN GAZA IN AND OUT, TRYING TO TARGET HAMAS LEADERS AND ALSO TO RESCUE HOSTAGES

AND GO AND TARGET AND DESTROY THOSE TUNNELS. WELL. SO MUCH DIFFERENT THAN WHAT YOU’RE SEEING RIGHT NOW. BUT THE ADMINISTRATION NOT WANTING TO PUT A TIMEFRAME ON WHEN THEY’RE SAYING THAT THE ISRAELIS COULD OR SHOULD START DOING THAT. >> DELICATE BALANCE THERE, KAREN TRAVERS. >> AND AS YOU LIKE, MATARA,

THANKS SO MUCH. WE ARE NOW JUST WEEKS AWAY, THE FIRST PRIMARY VOTING OF THE ELECTION CYCLE. FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP REMAINS THE FRONT RUNNER, BUT FORMER SOUTH CAROLINA GOVERNOR HALEY IS GAINING MOMENTUM AND JUST SCORED A BIG ENDORSEMENT FROM NEW HAMPSHIRE GOVERNOR CHRISTIE NEW NEW FRESH OFF THAT ENDORSEMENT.

OUR JONATHAN KARL SAT DOWN WITH BOTH HALEY AND SUNUNU FOR THE LATEST ON THE CAMPAIGN AND WHAT IT WILL TAKE TO CATCH UP TO DONALD TRUMP. TAKE A LISTEN. >> HEY, ELIZABETH, I JUST FINISHED A WIDE RANGING INTERVIEW WITH NIKKI HALEY AND WITH NEW HAMPSHIRE GOVERNOR CHRIS SUNUNU, WHO JUST ENDORSED HER.

HERE IN NEW HAMPSHIRE, A PRETTY SIGNIFICANT ENDORSEMENT. WE ASKED A LOT OF QUESTIONS, COVERED A LOT OF GROUND. I ASKED HER SPECIFICALLY ABOUT SOMETHING THAT HAPPENED AT ONE OF HER RECENT TOWN HALLS, A QUESTION SHE RECEIVED ABOUT HOW SHE APPROACHES DONALD TRUMP. AT ONE OF YOUR TOWN HALLS THIS

WEEK, THERE WAS A VOTER THAT STOOD UP AND SAID, YOU REALLY NEED TO TURN IT UP ON DONALD TRUMP. >> YOU NEED TO GO AFTER HIM HARD AND NOT JUST SAY IT’S CHAOS. >> IT’S INTERESTING THAT WE HEARD YOU SAY THAT HE WAS THE RIGHT PRESIDENT FOR THE RIGHT TIME.

WHAT DO YOU SAY TO VOTERS LIKE THAT THAT SAY YOU REALLY NEED TO DRAW THAT LINE? >> BECAUSE I I’M TRYING TO THE TIMES AND OTHER TIMES YOU SAID HE WAS FOR A PRESIDENT FOR THE RIGHT TIME. >> HE’S FIT FOR OFFICE. I MEAN, YOU’RE ONE OF THOSE, TOO.

YOU WANT ME TO EITHER LOVE OR HATE HIM ALL THE TIME ASKING ME TO RESPOND TO NEW HAMPSHIRE VOTERS. SO I DID. AND I RESPOND TO HIM AND EVERYWHERE. AND WHAT I SAID TO THEM WAS ANTI-TRUMP OR WANT ME TO HATE HIM. PRO-TRUMP VOTERS WANT ME TO LOVE HIM.

BUT THIS IS WHERE I STAND. THERE ARE THINGS I AGREE WITH THE PRESIDENT ON. I HAD A GOOD WORKING RELATIONSHIP OF THE THINGS I DON’T AGREE. I DON’T AGREE WITH THE FACT THAT, YES, WE HAD A GOOD ECONOMY WHILE HE WAS THERE, BUT PUT US $8 TRILLION IN DEBT

THAT OUR KIDS ARE NEVER GOING TO FORGIVE US FOR. I DON’T AGREE WITH HOW HE HANDLES NATIONAL. HE FOCUSED ON TRADE WITH CHINA, BUT HE DID NOTHING ABOUT THE FENTANYL FLOW. HE DID NOTHING ABOUT THE INTRUSION THAT THEY HAD IN OUR COUNTRY. HE DID NOTHING ABOUT SPY BASE

OFF OUR SHORES IN CUBA. HE DID NOTHING ABOUT THE FACT THAT FENTANYL HAS KILLED SO MANY OF OUR AMERICANS. I DON’T. YOU SHOULD PRAISE HEZBOLLAH. I DON’T THINK YOU SHOULD CRITICIZE NETANYAHU WHEN ISRAEL IS DOWN ON OUR KNEES. I DON’T THINK YOU SHOULD CONGRATULATE THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY ON THEIR 70TH ANNIVERSARY.

I THINK THAT WHEN IT COMES TO NATIONAL SECURITY. WE DON’T PRAISE THUGS. WE LET THEM KNOW WHERE WE STAND AND WE LET THEM KNOW THAT WE HELD A PAY IF THEY DO ANYTHING AGAINST US. >> THAT’S WHO I AM. AS YOU CAN HEAR, HALEY IS UNDOUBTEDLY STEPPED UP HER CRITICISM OF TRUMP.

IT’S PRETTY STRONG, BUT SHE ONLY GOES SO FAR. SHE KNOWS THAT ULTIMATELY SHE BOTH NEEDS TO FIND A WAY TO COMPETE AGAINST TRUMP, PULL VOTERS AWAY FROM HIM, BUT ALSO ULTIMATELY TO GET THE SUPPORT OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE SUPPORTED DONALD TRUMP. THERE’S A LOT MORE TO THIS INTERVIEW.

YOU CAN SEE MUCH MORE ON SUNDAY THIS WEEK. >> ELIZABETH. JON KARL, THANKS SO MUCH FOR THAT. AND AS YOU MENTIONED, YOU CAN SEE THAT FULL INTERVIEW ON THIS WEEK ON SUNDAY. THAT IS ONLY ON ABC. NOW TO SOME BIG NEWS FOR BORROWERS. MORTGAGE RATES HAVE DROPPED BELOW 7% FOR THE FIRST TIME

SINCE AUGUST. GOVERNMENT LENDER MAC SAYS THAT 30 YEAR FIXED MORTGAGE RATES ARE NOW AVERAGING .95 PERCENT. THIS COMES ON THE HEELS OF FED CHAIR JEROME PRESS CONFERENCE INSINUATING THAT RATES WILL POTENTIALLY BE CUT NEXT YEAR AFTER THE FED KEPT INTEREST RATES UNCHANGED FOR NOW. JOINING ME NOW IS EASY BUSINESS REPORTER ALEXIS CHRISTOFOROUS

ALEXIS, TALK ABOUT WHAT THIS DROP IN RATES MEANS FOR PEOPLE WHO MIGHT WANT TO BE TRYING TO BUY A HOME. WELL, IT THEY’RE GOING TO GET SOME MUCH NEEDED RELIEF BECAUSE HOMEBUYERS HOMEBUYERS HAVE BEEN HIT WITH A TRIPLE WHAMMY FOR A LONG TIME NOW. RIGHT. HIGHER MORTGAGE RATES, LOW INVENTORY AND HIGHER PRICES.

SO THIS DROP BELOW THAT SORT OF MILESTONE PERCENT PSYCHOLOGICALLY, I THINK WILL MEAN A LOT FOR POTENTIAL HOME BUYERS. BUT LOOK, LET’S LOOK AT WHAT IT REALLY MEANS IN TERMS OF DOLLARS. IF YOU HAVE A $400,000 MORTGAGE AT THAT CURRENT RATE THAT YOU SAID IS 6.95%, THAT WOULD REQUIRE A MONTHLY PAYMENT

OF $2,648. >> ABOUT TWO MONTHS AGO. THAT SAME LOAN WOULD REQUIRE A PAYMENT OF 2877, A DIFFERENCE THERE OF TO 29 A MONTH. >> AND LOOK, THAT MEANS A LOT MONEY OVER THE LIFE OF A LOAN. ALSO, THE FACT THESE RATES ARE STARTING TO COME DOWN MIGHT JUST CONVINCE SOME HOME OWNERS

TO FINALLY PUT THEIR HOUSE ON THE MARKET. THAT’S BEEN A BIG CHALLENGE LATELY AND WE KNOW THAT THAT’S BEEN PUTTING THE SQUEEZE ON INVENTORY ELIZABETH, AS SO MANY OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO LOCKED IN LOW RATES DON’T WANT TO MOVE AND RISK GETTING A HIGHER RATE, WHAT CAN YOU SAY TO PEOPLE

MAYBE HAD TO GET ONE OF THOSE HIGHER RATES IF THEY RECENTLY BOUGHT A LOAN? IS IT TOO LATE FOR THEM TO GET IN ON SOME OF THIS ACTION NOW? >> YEAH, REALLY TO TIME THE HOUSING MARKET. TOUGH TO TIME THE STOCK MARKET . YOU RARELY WIN WHEN YOU TRY TO DO THAT.

BUT IF YOU DID GET A MORTGAGE IN A MORTGAGE RECENTLY, REMEMBER RATES WERE ABOVE 8% JUST IN OCTOBER. YOU WANT TO DO THE MATH AND, FIGURE OUT IF REFINANCING REALLY MAKES SENSE, ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU CONSIDER THAT CLOSING COSTS RIGHT NOW ON AVERAGE ARE ABOUT 20 $300 FOR A SINGLE FAMILY HOME.

>> OVERALL, WE’RE AT INTEREST MORTGAGE RATES. THAT IS TO FALL SOMEWHERE BETWEEN FIVE AND 6% NEXT YEAR. I DON’T THINK WE’RE GOING TO GO BACK TO THOSE ULTRA LOW MORTGAGE RATES OF TWO AND 3% THAT WE SAW DURING THE PANDEMIC. BUT CERTAINLY 2024 AT LEAST, THE FED IS PROJECTING

THAT BUYERS ARE GOING TO GET SOME MUCH NEEDED RELIEF IN THE NEW YEAR. ALEXIS, GREAT TO CHAT WITH YOU AS ALWAYS. >> THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU. COMING UP, ON THE BRINK, THE ENDURING STORIES OF WOMEN FIGHTING FOR ABORTION ACCESS. OUR JOINS US LIVE WITH MORE

ON HER SPECIAL REPORTING WITH DIANE. THAT’S NEXT. >> WHENEVER NEWS WE ARE HERE IN ISRAEL, A NATION AT WAR AFTER THAT BRUTAL SURPRISE ATTACK BY HAMAS ON THE GROUND IN UKRAINE. >> REPORTING FROM LEWISTON, MAINE, THE SCENE OF A HORRIFIC MASS SHOOTING, ABC NEWS LIVE IS RIGHT THERE EVERYWHERE FROM

THE SCENE OF THAT DEADLY MISSILE STRIKE IN UTAH, UKRAINE. REPORTING FROM THE EARTHQUAKE IN TURKEY IN ROLLING FORTH THIS TORNADO TORE THROUGH THIS LITTLE FROM THE MOST DEVASTATING DISASTER IN HAWAII, FROM CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, ON THE 2024 CAMPAIGN TRAIL IN ICELAND. LET’S GO TRAVELING WITH THE PRESIDENT IN MEXICO CITY,

WHEREVER THE STORY IS ON THE FRONT LINES FROM SOUTHERN ISRAEL, OUTSIDE THE GAZA STRIP IN BEIRUT FOR THE FBI REPORTING FROM IT. NURSES ON THE PICKET LINE HERE AT TEN DOWNING STREET IN LONDON STREAMING LIVE TO YOU FOREVER. THE STORY IS, WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WE’RE GOING

TO TAKE THERE. WE’RE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE, ABC NEWS LIVE STREAMING, ABC NEWS LIVE, ABC NEWS LIVE STREAMING FREE EVERYWHERE. >> NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. THERE’S A LOT GOING ON. EVERYBODY IN THAT HOME IS TO CATCH YOU UP WITH WHAT HAPPENED OVERNIGHT. WE ARE HERE.

FASHION’S BIGGEST NIGHT OUT. WHAT’S HAPPENING TODAY? YOUTUBE HAS UNVEILED A NEW SET OF POLICIES. WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT, THE NEW AD CAMPAIGN, FAST, STRAIGHTFORWARD WITH SOMEONE IN BETWEEN A REAL LIFE BARBIE DREAM HOUSE. A NAME CHANGE FOR THE WIENERMOBILE FIRST THING IN THE MORNING, AMERICA THIS MORNING, AMERICA’S NUMBER EARLY

MORNING NEWS ON ABC NEWS. >> BUT WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE FROM ABC NEWS. >> THIS IS HERE TO BE IN THE MORNING AND GET A DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE DAY’S TOP. A LOT OF NEWS TODAY, SO LET’S GET RIGHT TO IT. LISTEN NOW TO THE DAILY NEWS

PODCAST HONORED WITH FOUR EDWARD ARMOR AWARDS AND SEE WHY THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS IT A NEWS PODCAST WORTH LISTENING TO START HERE ABC NEWS MAKE IT YOUR DAILY FIRST LISTEN. >> NOW, THAT’S A PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING. >> WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS, START HERE.

WELCOME BACK. WE’VE BEEN SEEING A GROWING TREND OF PREGNANT WOMEN FACING HIGH RISK EMERGENCIES WITH PRACTICALLY NO OPTIONS. AS THE LEGAL BATTLE FOR ABORTION ACCESS INTENSIFIES, DOZENS OF WOMEN ACROSS THE U.S. RIGHT NOW ARE CURRENTLY WAITING FOR DECISIONS. HEALTH EXCEPTIONS IN STATES WITH SEVERE ABORTION RESTRICTIONS.

MANY OF THESE CASES ARE LIFE OR DEATH. OUR DIANE SAWYER, RACHEL SCOTT, HAVE TEAMED UP FOR AN ABC NEWS SPECIAL REPORT LOOKING AT THE IMPACT OF ABORTION RESTRICTIONS IN AMERICA AFTER THE U.S. SUPREME COURT OVERTURNED ROE V. WADE AND JUNE 2022. WE HEAR A NUMBER OF BRAVE WOMEN WHO VULNERABLY TELL

THEIR STORIES OF ENDURING THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE ABORTION LEGAL. WE ARE THERE AS THEY WALK INTO A ROOM. >> TEXAS FROM IDAHO, FLORIDA, ALABAMA. SOUTH CAROLINA. WISCONSIN. ARIZONA. ARKANSAS. LOUISIANA TENNESSEE AND THEY ARE STRANGERS WHO HAVE TOGETHER BECAUSE THEY SHARE A COMMON BOND SUFFERING IN THE CROSSFIRE

AND CONFUSION OF NEW HEALTH CARE LAWS. >> LAWS IN 21 STATES IN THIS COUNTRY WITH VARYING AND RESTRICTIONS. THESE WOMEN SAY THEY KNOW THERE ARE OF OTHERS OUT THERE LIKE THEM. IT TAKES COURAGE TO GO ON CAMERA. >> I’M WONDERING HOW MANY OF YOU ALMOST DIDN’T COME.

HOW MANY OF YOU FELT YOU HAD TO COME FOR SURE WITHOUT A BATTLE? I DON’T THINK REALIZE HOW COMMON THIS IS. IS THIS A DEBATE ABORTION OR IS IT A DEBATE OVER HEALTH CARE? >> HEALTH CARE AND HUMAN RIGHTS. >> THAT’S WHAT PEOPLE NEED TO UNDERSTAND IS IT’S THESE WERE WANTED BABIES.

>> LET’S START WITH THE STORY OF THIS WOMAN IN THE FRONT ROW. KRISTIN AND I ARE LIKE SO MANY IN THIS. FOR MONTHS AND MONTHS, SHE BEEN TRYING TO GET PREGNANT. HERE’S MOMENT. >> SHE GOT THE PHONE CALL OF HER DREAMS. HELLO? HI, CHRISTINE.

IT’S UP TO ME TO TELL YOU THAT TOGETHER WE ARE BUILDING AND IT’S A GREAT FOUR MONTHS OF COMPLETE HAPPINESS BEFORE THE DAY OF COMPLETE HEARTBREAK. ALL OF A SUDDEN, KRISTIN FELT SOMETHING WRONG. THE MEMBRANES PROTECTING HER FETUS BROKE AND HER WATER. THE AMNIOTIC FLUID LOST. DOCTORS SAY THIS HAPPENED SO

EARLY, THE FETUS CANNOT BE SAVED WITH HER FETUS DYING INSIDE HER. CHRISTIAN NOW AT RISK. THE CLOCK BEGINS TICKING ON INFECTION AND THE TERROR OF SEPSIS INFECTION THAT CAN RAGE THROUGH YOUR BLOODSTREAM AND CAUSE ORGAN FAILURE. IN STATES WHERE THERE ARE NO BANS, DOCTORS WOULD RACE TO INDUCE LABOR TO PROTECT HER,

HER FERTILITY, HER LIFE WITH WITHIN HOURS. >> I WAS SHOWING ALL SIGNS OF SEPSIS. THE NEEDED TO START INDUCING ME IMMEDIATELY. HOWEVER, THEY WERE UNABLE TO BECAUSE OF TEXAS ABORTION LAWS. >> AND SO THE EXACT WORDS WERE WE HAVE TO PROVE TO THE ETHICS BOARD AND THE MEDICAL BOARD

OF THIS HOSPITAL THAT YOUR LIFE IS IN DANGER BEFORE WE CAN INTERVENE. >> SHE IS SHAKING FROM FEVER, VOMITING, NONSTOP. >> OUR DOCTOR NURSES WERE CRYING AT OUR BEDSIDE AT MY BEDSIDE, WISHING THEY COULD DO SOMETHING WITH BLANK STARES ON FACES BECAUSE THEY LITERALLY COULDN’T DO ANYTHING UNTIL THE BLOODWORK SHOWED I WAS

DYING. HOUR BY HOUR, THE DOCTORS MONITOR THE INCREASE THE INFECTION IN HER BLOOD. SHE KNOWS THERE’S NO CHANCE FOR THE BABY. >> SHE’S LITERALLY DYING INSIDE OF ME AS I LAY ON THE BED GOING SEPTIC. AND WHAT THE WORLD? DOES THAT MAKE ANY SENSE TO PREVENT HEALTH CARE FOR ME? >> YEAH.

WHAT ABOUT MY LIFE? WE DIDN’T ASK THAT. >> WE DIDN’T WANT THAT. SO YOU WERE WAITING. LIKE, HOW MANY HOURS? >> 24 HOURS. FINALLY, THE BOARD’S APPROVED HER TREATMENT. HER DOCTORS INDUCED LABOR. THE BABY PASSES, BUT KRISTEN IS SO SICK FROM INFECTION, SHE HAS TO REMAIN IN THE HOSPITAL

THE NEXT FIVE DAYS. >> GETTING I.V. ANTIBIOTICS. >> THAT BLOOD TRANSFUSIONS. A ROOM FULL OF WOMAN WITH SEARING STORIES OF TRYING TO GET MEDICAL CARE. BUT STATE LAWS TIED THEIR DOCTORS HANDS. THE STORIES WILL BREAK YOUR HEART. RISK FOR BLOOD CLOTS, INFECTIONS. EVERY SINGLE ONE OF MY SONS

ORGANS WERE GROWING OUTSIDE OF HIS BODY. THAT IS UNFORTUNATE, THAT MY DAUGHTER IS MISSING THE SKULL. >> WOMAN AND DOCTOR’S CELL AND THE ALARM. >> THAT SOMETHING HAS TO CHANGE. IT’S 25% CHANCE OF DEATH. IS THAT. IS THAT ENOUGH? DOES SHE HAVE TO HAVE A 75% CHANCE OF DEATH?

WHO GETS TO DECIDE YOU’RE NOT FATAL ENOUGH OR YOU’RE NOT SICK ENOUGH? >> IT’S LIKE, IN WHAT WORLD ARE WE LIVING IN RIGHT NOW? MANY OF THEIR HUSBANDS ALSO FELT THE URGENT NEED TO BE HERE. CALLING ON MEN ACROSS THE COUNTRY TO JOIN IN PROTECTING PREGNANT WOMEN, FIGHTING TO LIVE.

>> CAN THINGS CHANGE WITHOUT THE SUPPORT OF MEN? >> NO. NO. IMAGINE IF THIS CONTINUED THEY KEEP GOING AND WE DON’T STILL TALK AS MEN. IT’S TO BE A LOT OF CASUALTIES, A LOT OF WOMEN GOING TO DIE. >> SENIOR CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT RACHEL SCOTT JOINS US NOW WITH ON THIS

IMPACT SPECIAL PROJECT. RACHEL, THIS PROJECT COMES TO LIFE AFTER YEARS OF YOUR AWARD WINNING REPORTING ON ABORTION AND ITS OF THE LEGISLATION INTERSECTING WITH HEALTH CARE. I’M CURIOUS, YOU’VE BEEN HEARING THESE EARTH SHATTERING STORIES, WOMEN ACROSS THE COUNTRY FOR A WHILE. WHAT’S REALLY STOOD OUT TO YOU IN SPEAKING WITH THEM?

YOU KNOW SEVERAL THINGS, ELIZABETH. ONE, GETTING ALL OF THESE WOMEN ALL IN ONE ROOM. WE HAD 18 WOMEN FROM TEN DIFFERENT STATES WHO ALL SHARED ONE EXPERIENCE WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO HAVE THEIR HEALTH, THEIR FUTURE FERTILITY, EVEN THEIR LIVES AT RISK. THESE WERE ALL VERY PREGNANCIES.

AND THEY GOT THE NEWS THAT THEY NEVER WANTED TO HEAR. AND SO HEARING THE WOMEN SHARE IN THAT TRAUMA TOGETHER. SO MANY OF THEM HAD NEVER MET EACH OTHER BEFORE. THEY NEVER MET ANYONE THAT HAD GONE THROUGH WHAT THEY WENT THROUGH. BUT THEY HAD THIS DEEP UNDERSTOOD ENDING OF WHAT IT

MEANT TO LIVE THROUGH THAT. AND THE CONSEQUENCES OF MANY OF THESE ABORTION LAWS. I ALSO THINK THAT’S SOMETHING TO NOTE HERE, BECAUSE IN ALL OF THESE STATES, 21 STATES THAT RESTRICT ACCESS TO ABORTION, THEY ALL HAD THIS EXCEPTION TO SAVE THE LIFE OF THE MOTHER. BUT THERE ARE SOME DOCTORS,

THESE WOMEN, AS WELL AS OTHER LAWMAKERS OUT THERE WHO SAY THOSE EXCEPTIONS DO GO FAR ENOUGH. THEY DO NOT ACCOUNT FOR ALL OF THE PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, ALL THE THINGS THAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG. AND AS IT DID FOR THESE WOMEN. AND WE SAW THAT SO MUCH IN THE

RECENT CASE IN TEXAS. RACHEL, YOU’VE BEEN HEARING FROM THE DOCTORS WHO HAVE ALSO BEEN DIRECTLY IMPACTED BY THIS. WHAT SURPRISED YOU AS THEIR THIS QUESTION OF IS THE COURT KIND OF DOING THEIR JOB HERE? YEAH, OUR TEAM TALKED TO NEARLY 100 DOCTORS AND WHAT THEY TOLD US IS THAT THEY FEAR HAVING

A DIRECT CONVERSATION WITH THEIR PATIENT. >> AND A LOT OF THEY SAID THEIR HANDS WERE TIED WHERE THEY WERE WAITING ON MEDICAL BOARDS TO TELL THEM THAT THEY CAN GIVE HEALTH CARE TO THEIR PATIENTS, THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN ABLE TO GIVE THEM PRIOR TO ROE VERSUS WADE BEING OVERTURNED

INTO PRIOR TO THESE RESTRICTIVE ABORTION LAWS BEING IMPLEMENTED IN STATES. NOT ONLY THAT, THEY ALSO EXPLAINED TO US THE EFFECTS JUST HOW FAR REACHING THIS GOES. THE OF THIS AS WELL. RIGHT NOW, YOU’RE SEEING A DROP IN OB-GYN IN APPLICANTS IN STATES WHERE THERE ARE RESTRICTIVE ABORTION BANS. YOU’VE HEARD FROM DOCTORS LIKE

THE ONE THAT YOU JUST HEARD THERE IN THAT PIECE WHO SAY THEY’RE NOW LEAVING THESE STATES BECAUSE THEY FEEL LIKE THEIR HANDS ARE TIED, CANNOT PROVIDE ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE TO THEIR PATIENTS, THAT THEY DEEPLY ABOUT. SO IT REALLY LEAVES THE QUESTION OF IS THIS REALLY THE TYPE OF WHAT WE WANT

PREGNANT WOMEN IN THIS COUNTRY EXPERIENCE? BUT NOT ONLY THAT, WHAT ARE THE IMPACT? WHAT IS THE IMMENSE IMPACT THAT WE HAVE ON THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM AS A WHOLE IN THIS COUNTRY? SO INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT TO HEAR THEIR PERSPECTIVE AND USE THAT. RACHEL WIT, TV LEGEND DIANE SAWYER TO BRING THIS

THREE PART INVESTIGATION. TAKE US BACK TO THAT MOMENT WHEN YOU GOT THE CALL TO WORK WITH DIANE. THAT JUST MUST HAVE BEEN SURREAL. AND HOW DID YOU THINK ABOUT THIS GOAL OF TRYING TO TELL THE STORIES, THESE WOMEN WITH DIANE SAWYER? YEAH, I AM JUST SO GRATEFUL TO DIANE THAT SHE WANTED

TO TELL THIS STORY ALONGSIDE ME. THIS IS AN ISSUE THAT WE HAVE BEEN REPORTING ON FOR MONTHS, MAKING CALLS, TALKING TO THESE DOCTORS, REACHING OUT TO SO MANY OF THE WOMEN. THERE IS AN EXTRAORDINARY TEAM HERE AT ABC NEWS THAT HAS REALLY POURED HEARTS INTO THIS PROJECT.

AND IN A LOT OF WAYS, EVERY TIME WE STARTED TO RAISE THAT WE WERE DOING THIS. PEOPLE SAID I HAD NO IDEA THAT THAT WAS HAPPENING OR MAYBE IT ONLY HAPPENED TO ONE PERSON OR ONE WOMAN. >> AND EVEN THOUGH WE GOT THOSE 18 WOMEN TOGETHER ALL IN

ONE ROOM, THERE WERE SO MANY OTHER WOMEN THAT WE SPOKE TO WHO SHARED A VERY SIMILAR EXPERIENCE THAT WENT THROUGH SOMETHING THE EXACT SAME AS MANY OF THOSE WOMEN. SOME WERE REALLY NERVOUS TO SPEAK OUT. SOME DIDN’T WANT TO COME. WE HAD ONE WOMAN WHO EXPERIENCED A MEDICAL EMERGENCY THE NIGHT BEFORE

THAT INTERVIEW AND JUST COULDN’T SHOW UP HERSELF BECAUSE OF WHAT SHE WAS GOING THROUGH. AND SO REALLY, FOR US, THIS WAS ABOUT SHINING THE LIGHT ON CONSEQUENCES, UNINTENDED OR NOT. THE REALITY IS THE EARLY DISPATCHES, WHAT IT MEANS TO LIVE IN A POSTWAR AMERICA. >> AND I THINK WE’RE

ONLY STARTING TO SEE THE RIPPLE EFFECTS. ELIZABETH. ABC NEWS SENIOR CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT RACHEL SCOTT, SO GOOD TO TALK TO YOU. MY. SO GOOD TO SEE YOU. AND YOU CAN WATCH “IMPACT X NIGHTLINE” ON THE BRINK THAT STREAMING ON HULU BEGINNING TODAY. WE’LL BE RIGHT WITH MORE NEWS AHEAD.

>> >> WITH SO MUCH AT STAKE, SO MUCH ON THE LINE, MORE AMERICANS TURN HERE THAN ANY OTHER NEWSCAST. ABC NEWS WORLD NEWS TONIGHT WITH DAVID MUIR, AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST ACROSS ALL THE TELEVISION FROM AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE NEWS BECOMES THE ONLY ABC APP. BREAKING NEWS, INCREDIBLE VIDEO. FASTER, SMARTER

AND CUSTOMIZABLE TO YOUR INTERESTS. IF YOU LOVE BEING IN THE KNOW YOU’RE GOING TO LOVE THIS EXPERIENCE. THE ALL-NEW ABC NEWS APP DOWNLOAD IT NOW WHAT TO DO ABOUT SEXISM. >> IT’S FAIR TO SAY THAT OF THESE IS A LITTLE BUSINESS MINDED APPOINTMENT IN AMERICA ALL ACROSS THE WORLD THE WORLD

WILL BE CELEBRATING THE NEW YEAR AND YOU CAN SEE IT AS IT HAPPENS LIVE THE GLOBAL CELEBRATIONS SEE THE NEW YEAR AS IT COMES IN STREAM ALL DAY AND NIGHT ON BBC NEWS LIVE, ABC NEWS LIVE PRIME WINNER OF THE GRACIE AWARD FOR BEST NEWS PROGRAM IN ALL OF TELEVISION

AT STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE TIME WITH LINSEY DAVIS NEXT ON ABC NEWS LIVE. >> ALL RIGHT, HERE WE GO. GET READY. LET’S DO IT. YES, IT’S THE SHOW AMERICA WANTS AND NEEDS RIGHT NOW. THIS IS WHAT WOULD YOU DO NOW? I GO, HOW ARE YOU GUYS? SO WHAT WILL YOU DO?

WATCHING SATURDAY’S ON ABC NEWS LIVE, WHAT WOULD YOU DO? I GUESS I JUST FOUND OUT. WHAT WOULD YOU DO? MARATHON 2 TO 6 EASTERN EVERY SATURDAY ON ABC NEWS. >> MY FAVORITE SHOW, REPORTING FROM MONTEREY PARK, CALIFORNIA, I’M ROBIN ROBERTS. WHEREVER, WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WE’RE GOING TO TAKE

>> YOU’RE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE. >> HERE ARE SOME OF THE TOP HEADLINES THAT WE’RE FOLLOWING THIS HOUR AT ABC NEWS LIVE. JURY DELIBERATIONS HAVE BEGUN IN A DEFAMATION TRIAL AGAINST RUDY GIULIANI. AS HIS ATTORNEY SAYS, GIULIANI WILL NOT. THE FORMER TRUMP ATTORNEY WAS EXPECTED TO TAKE THE STAND

AFTER TWO GEORGIA ELECTION WORKERS WHO ARE SUING HIM RESTED THEIR CASE. ONE OF THOSE WORKERS, SHAYE MOSS, TESTIFIED THAT GIULIANI’S FALSE ACCUSATIONS MADE HER FEAR FOR HER LIFE. THE JUDGE IS ALREADY AWARDED A DEFAULT JUDGMENT TO THE TWO WOMEN. SO THIS TRIAL’S ONLY DETERMINING WHAT DAMAGES GIULIANI WILL HAVE PAY.

THE EUROPEAN UNION TODAY OPENING NEGOTIATIONS FOR AND MOLDOVA TO JOIN THE BLOC. THE ANNOUNCEMENT COMES AS EUROPEAN LEADERS DEBATE ANOTHER $50 BILLION AID PACKAGE FOR UKRAINE. UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT VOLODYMYR ZELENSKYY SAYS THE NEGOTIATIONS ARE A VICTORY FOR UKRAINE AS THE NATION FIGHTS OFF A NEW OFFENSIVE FROM RUSSIA. AND TAKE A LOOK.

THAT IS NOT A LOCAL TRAIN AT A STATION IN NEWARK, NEW JERSEY. IT’S A BULL. SOME PASSENGERS THOUGHT IT WAS A STUNT FOR THE LOCAL SOCCER TEAM, THE RED BULLS. BUT NO, IT’S A REAL LIFE BULL. IT IS NOT EXACTLY CLEAR HOW HE MADE HIS WAY ONTO THE TRACKS .

AND LUCKILY, POLICE WERE ABLE TO LASSO THE BALL. TRAINS GOT MOVING AGAIN AFTER ABOUT 45 MINUTES. >> THANKFULLY, NONE OF THE PASSENGERS THERE HAD A COW. THANK YOU FOR STREAMING WITH US? I’M ELIZABETH SCHULZE. THE NEWS NEVER STOPS. BE RIGHT BACK. >> WHENEVER WHEREVER NEWS BREAKS, IT’S SO IMPORTANT

TO ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT LIVES ARE CHANGED HERE IN LONDON, IN BUFFALO, DE TEXAS, EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND. REPORTING FROM ROLLING FORK, MRS. UKRAINIAN REFUGEES HERE IN WARSAW, WE’RE HEADING TO A SMALL COMMUNITY OUTSIDE OF MEXICO CITY HERE BEHIND THE STORIES AS HAPPEN. ABC NEWS LIVE PRIME WE’LL TAKE YOU THERE STREAM ABC NEWS LIVE

WEEKNIGHTS WHEREVER YOU STREAM MORNING IS ON ABC NEWS LIVE TONIGHT A WOMAN’S RIGHT MAKE HER OWN HEALTH CHOICES WITH ABORTION PILL ACCESS SET TO GO BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT. IS A CRISIS BREWING? MORE TURN TO THE MOST WATCHED PROGRAM ON TELEVISION. “WORLD NEWS TONIGHT”, DAVID MUIR WHEN THE ANNOUNCER

MY NAME, THE WORLD ALMOST FADES AWAY. IT’S THE BIGGEST IT’S THE MOST FAMOUS DOG EVENT HERE IS. WELCOME TO THE WORLD’S GREATEST DOG SHOW. THE COMPETITION IN DOG DANCING .VERY DIFFERENT HERE. EVERY DOG HAS ITS DAY. I’M ON THE DANCE FLOOR. DANCING WITH MY DOG IS THE CLOSEST THING TO MAGIC.

A WINNER ALL 2023. THE SECRET LIFE OF DANCING DOGS . >> MASTER ME. ALL RIGHT, HERE WE ARE. READY? LET’S DO IT. YES, IT’S THE SHOW. AMERICA WANTS AND AMERICA NEEDS RIGHT NOW. THIS IS WHAT WOULD YOU DO IT. LET’S GO. HOW ARE YOU? YOU? YEAH. SO WHAT WILL YOU BE

WATCHING SATURDAY IS ON ABC NEWS. WHY? WHAT WOULD YOU DO? >> I GUESS I JUST FOUND OUT. WHAT WOULD YOU DO? MARATHON 2 TO 6 EASTERN EVERY SATURDAY ON ABC NEWS LIVE. >> MY FAVORITE. NOW, WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE? ABC NEWS THIS IS STARTING TO BE

IN THE KNOW AND GET A DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE DAY’S TOP STORIES HERE. THAT’S THE PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING. YOU KEEP YOUR DAILY FIRST LISTEN WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS TODAY ON ABC NEWS LIVE. UKRAINE AID AT A STANDSTILL ON CAPITOL HILL AS CONGRESS SET

TO GO HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS. RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN SEIZING ON THE MOMENT IN A NATIONAL SPEECH CALLING ON UKRAINE TO SURRENDER, TURNING UP THE PRESSURE IN THE MIDDLE EAST. NATIONAL ADVISER JAKE SULLIVAN IS IN TEL AVIV MEETING WITH THE ISRAELI CABINET. THE MESSAGE THAT HE’S SENDING FROM THE WHITE HOUSE.

AND BUCKLE UP. A POWERFUL CROSS-COUNTRY STORM THAT COULD IMPACT THE RECORD BREAKING HOLIDAY TRAVEL SEASON. HOW YOU CAN PREPARE. HEY, EVERYONE. I’M ELIZABETH SCHULZE AND OUR TOP AT THIS HOUR IS RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN SAYING THERE WILL BE NO IN UKRAINE UNTIL RUSSIA REACHES ITS GOALS .

HE SAYS RUSSIA WANTS WHAT HE CALLS DEMILITARIZATION AND NEUTRAL STATUS FOR UKRAINE. IN OTHER WORDS, SURRENDER FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE RUSSIA INVADED UKRAINE. PUTIN HELD HIS YEAR END PRESS CONFERENCE CONFIDENCE IN HIS COMBAT GOALS. RUSSIAN STATE MEDIA SAYS AT LEAST 2 MILLION QUESTIONS WERE SUBMITTED TO THE EVENT,

WHICH LASTED MORE THAN 4 HOURS. ABC NEWS PATRICK REEVELL HAS MORE. >> HI, ELIZABETH. THIS WAS PUTIN’S ANNUAL MARATHON PRESS CONFERENCE AND HE SKIPPED IT LAST YEAR FOR THE FIRST TIME IN YEARS WHEN THE WAR IN UKRAINE WAS GOING VERY BADLY FOR RUSSIA. THAT HE HELD IT THIS YEAR SUGGESTS HE FEELS

MORE BACK IN CONTROL. PERHAPS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING HE SAID WAS THAT HE MADE CLEAR HIS GOALS IN THAT WAR ARE UNCHANGED. HE SAID THE FIGHTING WILL CONTINUE UNTIL THE DEMILITARIZED AND DE-NAZIFICATION OF UKRAINE. REPEATING THE SAME FALSE CLAIM THAT THE COUNTRY IS RUN BY . THAT MEANS HE STILL WANTS

UKRAINE’S FULL CAPITULATION, REGIME CHANGE AND THE KEY TO GIVE UP AMBITIONS TO JOIN NATO AND THE EUROPEAN UNION. WITH MORE U.S. AID IN DOUBT RIGHT NOW, HE’S PROJECTING CONFIDENCE. PUTIN WAS ALSO ASKED ABOUT A PRISONER FOR “WALL STREET JOURNAL” REPORTER EVAN GERSHKOVICH AND FORMER MARINE WHO RUSSIA IS HOLDING HOSTAGE.

PUTIN SAID RUSSIA WANTS AN AGREEMENT AND THAT THERE IS A DIALOG AROUND A POSSIBLE DEAL. BUT THE US MUST LISTEN. RUSSIA. JUST THIS MONTH, THE U.S. SAID RUSSIA HAD REJECTED A SUBSTANTIAL OFFER FOR GERSHKOVICH IN WILL. AND ONE OTHER THING THAT DID STICK OUT IS PROBABLY THE STRANGER MOMENT.

A STUDENT FROM SAINT PETERSBURG CALLED IN BY A VIDEO LINK USING ,A DEEPFAKE FILTER THAT MADE HIM LOOK LIKE PUTIN. LET’S TAKE A LOOK AT THAT. >> YES, YOU AGREE. TRUTH YOU LESS THAN YOU. I JUST PROCEED. PART OF THE ISSUE WAS NOT THE OF ISSUE. >> I THINK IT IS A QUESTION

I THINK YOU SHOULD ASK THEM WHAT THEY ARE MODERATELY MORE AMERICAN AND WE WILL LISTEN. MARIA BARTIROMO IN ISSUE TO BEHOLDER. INITIALLY I ENJOYED MY MOVIES AND GOES ON TO ADEYANJU LATER. >> THAT WAS A REFERENCE. RUMORS THAT HAVE BECOME INCREASINGLY POPULAR ON THE RUSSIAN INTERNET THAT PUTIN MULTIPLE BODY DOUBLES.

THE KREMLIN HAS DENIED IT, BUT CLEARLY TODAY SHOWS THEY’RE AWARE OF HOW WIDESPREAD THOSE RUMORS HAVE BECOME. ELIZABETH AN INCREDIBLY STRANGE MOMENT THERE, PATRICK REEVELL. THANK YOU. RUSSIAN PRESIDENT PUTIN DELIVERING THOSE REMARKS AS UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT VOLODYMYR ZELENSKYY PLEADS FOR MORE AID FROM THE U.S. UKRAINE’S COUNTEROFFENSIVE IS STALLING AND SUPPORT FROM THE WEST

BECOMING MORE FRACTURED. THE HOUSE PASSING AN $886 BILLION DEFENSE POLICY BILL. IT IS NOW ITS WAY TO PRESIDENT BIDEN’S DESK, INCLUDES MILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO THE PENTAGON THAT THE PENTAGON WOULD SEND TO UKRAINE. THIS COMES AS THE BIGGER AID PACKAGE IS STILL STALLED IN CONGRESS. JAY O’BRIEN JOINS US NOW FROM CAPITOL HILL.

JAKE, WHAT EXACTLY IS IN THIS DEFENSE POLICY BILL IN TERMS OF AID FOR UKRAINE? THIS IS THE BILL, ELIZABETH, REMEMBER THAT FUNDS THE PENTAGON FOR THE YEAR. IT’S THEIR APPROPRIATIONS BILL AND IT A SENSE THE FUNDING GET IT FOR UKRAINE IS FOR EXISTING PENTAGON PROGRAMS THAT ALREADY SUPPORT UKRAINE.

SO YOU’RE LOOKING AT TENS OF MILLIONS FOR, FOR INSTANCE, ONE PENTAGON PROGRAM THAT PAYS MANUFACTURERS AND OTHERS TO SEND WHAT THEY PRODUCE TO KIND OF ARMS THEY PRODUCE DIRECTLY TO UKRAINE RATHER THAN SENDING THEM INTO THE U.S. FOR US TO SEND TO UKRAINE. >> BUT IT IS CERTAINLY NOT

YOU JUST SAID THE $100 BILLION AID PACKAGE THAT THE PRESIDENT HAS REQUESTED CONGRESS PASS, THAT INCLUDES FUNDING FOR UKRAINE, FUNDING FOR ISRAEL AND BORDER MEASURES. ALL OF THAT REMAIN STALLED AS ONGOING DELIBERATIONS CONTINUE IN THE SENATE. BUT I CAN TELL YOU, GETTING THAT THAT PACKAGE BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR STARTS

TO LOOK MORE UNLIKELY BY THE DAY BECAUSE CONGRESS HAS LEFT FOR THE HOLIDAYS. WELL, AND WE KNOW THAT ONE OF THE STICKING POINTS OVER THAT AID PACKAGE WAS THAT REPUBLICANS WANT COMPREHENSIVE BORDER REFORM. HAS THERE BEEN ANY PROGRESS ON THOSE TALKS AS THIS DEADLINE KIND OF TICKS AND THE

LIKELIHOOD OF THIS GETTING DONE BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR DIMINISHES? WHAT WE KNOW THAT THERE ARE PROGRESS IN THOSE COMMUNICATIONS INSTANCE. WE HEARD CHUCK SCHUMER, THE TOP DEMOCRAT IN THE SENATE, SAY THAT BOTH SIDES ARE MAKING SOME HEADWAY IN THEIR ONGOING TALKS, AND THAT IS PROGRESS,

BECAUSE AS YOU AND I HAVE DISCUSSED OVER THE LAST FEW DAYS, THERE ARE TIMES THOSE TALKS HAVE COMPLETELY STALLED OUT. THEN THEY STARTED BACK UP AGAIN AND THEN THEY’VE. >> WE’RE HEARING THAT THOSE TALKS ARE PROGRESSING. BUT THE REALITY IS BOTH REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS I TALKED TO TELL ME THEY DON’T

VIEW A PATH IN WHICH THOSE TALKS PRODUCE A PIECE OF LEGISLATION WITH IMMIGRATION POLICY CHANGES THAT REPUBLICANS WANT INCLUDE IT IN THAT FOREIGN AID PACKAGE. THEY DON’T VIEW THOSE TALKS AS BEING PRODUCTIVE TO THAT POINT TO GET SOMETHING PASSED BY THE END THIS YEAR. THEY VIEW THOSE TALKS AS PROBABLY STRETCHING INTO

THE NEW YEAR OR AT ANY VOTE ON LEGISLATION BEING SOMETIME IN JANUARY. AND IS, OF COURSE, EXACTLY OPPOSED TO THE TIMELINE. THE WHITE HOUSE HAS PRESENTED, WHICH SAYS UKRAINE NEEDS THIS MONEY BY THE END OF YEAR OR THERE COULD BE DIRE CONSEQUENCES IN THAT COUNTRY’S DEFENSE AGAINST RUSSIA. >> COMPREHENSIVE IMMIGRATION

REFORM FRAUGHT ON CAPITOL HILL. >> JAY O’BRIEN, THANK YOU. THE WHITE HOUSE NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR IS IN ISRAEL FOR A HIGH STAKES VISIT. JAKE SULLIVAN SAYS THAT HE’S URGING ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU AND HIS WAR CABINET TO WORK TOWARD ANOTHER CEASEFIRE, GETTING MORE HOSTAGES IN GAZA OUT AND MORE HUMANITARIAN IN.

BUT AS THESE MEETINGS ARE TAKING PLACE, THE FIGHTING IS STILL. HAMAS SAYS A MASSIVE AIRSTRIKE BY ISRAEL EARLIER KILLED 19 PEOPLE IN NORTHERN GAZA. AND FIGHTING CONTINUES AROUND GAZA CITY. FOR MORE, LET’S BRING IN ABC NEWS SENIOR WHITE CORRESPONDENT SELINA WANG AND ABC NEWS. AND AS TARA IN TEL AVIV ISRAEL.

SELINA, WHAT’S THE KEY TAKEAWAY HERE FROM JAKE SULLIVAN’S MEETING THE ISRAELIS? >> WELL, ELIZABETH, I THINK THE KEY HEADLINE SO FAR IS THAT JAKE SULLIVAN TOLD THE ISRAELIS THAT HE WANTS TO SEE A TRANSITION, HIGH INTENSITY FIGHTING TO LOW INTENSITY, FIGHTING THE FUTURE. HOWEVER, NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL’S JOHN KIRBY IN THE

PRESS RIGHT THERE, FAILING TO DETAIL WHAT EXACTLY LOW FIGHTING WOULD MEAN. BUT HE DID SAY THAT THE MILITARY OPTIONS OPERATIONS GOING ON RIGHT NOW THAT WOULD BE CATEGORIZED AS HIGH INTENSITY FIGHTING. HE ALSO WOULDN’T PUT A TIME STAMP ON IT, SAYING IT’S NOT IN THE US’S PLACE TO DO THAT.

AND THE LAST THING AMERICA WANTS TO DO IS TELEGRAPH TO HAMAS EXACTLY WHAT THE ISRAELI MILITARY PLANS ARE. WE ALSO KNOW THAT SULLIVAN UP THAT THE U.S. IS GOING TO DO EVERYTHING IT CAN TO HELP BROKER ANOTHER IN FIGHTING IN ORDER FOR MORE HOSTAGES TO BE RELEASED AND, MORE HUMANITARIAN AID TO GET

INTO GAZA. THE U.S. BELIEVES THAT AMERICAN JEWS ARE STILL BEING HELD HOSTAGE, BUT THE WHITE HOUSE MAKING CLEAR THAT THEY DON’T EXACTLY WHO IS HOLDING THEM, WHETHER IT’S HAMAS OR ANOTHER GROUP. AND DO NOT KNOW THEIR CONDITIONS STILL SET UP. SO MANY HOSTAGES BEING HELD. BUT IN AS YOU HAVE RECENTLY

SPOKEN WITH, ONE OF THE HOSTAGES WHO WAS FREED, TELL US ABOUT THAT CONVERSATION . YEAH, JUST MOMENTS AGO, ELIZABETH, WE SPOKE TO ROSS, WHO IS A WOMAN WHO WAS HELD HOSTAGE IN GAZA CLOSE TO 60 DAYS. SHE WAS RELEASED JUST TWO WEEKS AGO. SHE WAS TAKEN TOGETHER WITH HER

HUSBAND AND HER HUSBAND REMAINS IN. NOW, ROSS DESCRIBED HOW SHE WAS TAKEN ON THE BACK OF A MOTORCYCLE. SHE HAD BEEN HIDING UNDER THE COVERS AND ON HER BED WHEN SHE WAS TAKEN. AND THEN ON THE BACK OF A MOTORCYCLE INTO GAZA. SHE WOULDN’T GET INTO THE SPECIFICS OF THE CONDITIONS

THAT SHE WAS DETAINED IN IN GAZA, BECAUSE SHE IS STILL WORRIED ABOUT THE FATE OF HER HUSBAND. I THINK THAT WAS ONE OF THE MOST STRIKING THINGS WAS HER HER DAUGHTERS TALKING ABOUT HOW EVEN THEY HAVEN’T HEARD FROM THEIR MOTHER ABOUT IT WAS LIKE IN GAZA BECAUSE OF HOW TRAUMATIZED THEIR MOTHER IS.

HER DAUGHTER, ELLA, TALKING TO US ABOUT THE PAIN THEY’VE BEEN GOING THROUGH, THE RELIEF AT THEIR MOTHER COMING BACK, BUT STILL SO MUCH PAIN BECAUSE OF THEIR FATHER STILL BEING HELD IN GAZA. SO I’LL LET YOU LISTEN TO WHAT ELLA HAD TO SAY. >> IT’S THE NINE DAYS NOW

THAT MY DAD IS THERE, AND I DON’T KNOW IF I’M GOING TO SURVIVE THIS. MY MOM CAME BACK SAYING SHE CAME BACK THURSDAY. SHE BACK IN THE WAR SITUATION. >> HER SITUATION THAT WHAT SHE WAS WHEN SHE CAME OUT AND THE WORLD SHOULD SPEAK THE WORLD TO STAND UP AND SPEAK FOR

US AND THEIR FAMILY. YOU KNOW, PRIME EXAMPLE OF THIS THIS HEARTBREAKING SITUATION HERE FOR SO MANY RELIEF AT SOME OF THEIR LOVED ONES COMING HOME. BUT SOME OF THE HOSTAGES, A LOT OF THE MEN STAYING BACK IN GAZA. AND THIS COMES, OF COURSE AS NEGOTIATIONS HAVE HIT AN IMPASSE.

THERE IS GROWING PRESSURE FOR BOTH SIDES GET BACK TO THE NEGOTIATING TABLE. BUT FOR NOW, ALL OF THAT KIND OF DIPLOMACY AT A STANDSTILL. >> GREAT TO HEAR THAT INTERVIEW . AND AS THE WORLD SHOULD SPEAK WITH US FOR US, SHE SAYS. SELINA, PRESIDENT BIDEN HAS WARNED ISRAEL THAT IT MIGHT

START LOSING THE WORLD’S SUPPORT. WHERE DOES THE WHITE HOUSE STAND RIGHT NOW ON THE IDF’S OPERATIONS INSIDE GAZA? >> YELLOW SABBATH, THOSE WERE SOME OF THE PRESIDENT’S STRONGEST CRITICISMS YET OF ISRAEL. AND WE ARE STARTING TO SEE THIS BEHIND THE SCENES NEGOTIATIONS AND DISAGREEMENT THAT IS STARTING TO SPILL OUT IN THE PUBLIC.

WHAT IS VERY CLEAR IS THAT THE HOUSE WANTS ISRAEL TO BE MORE TARGETED, MORE SURGICAL IN ITS MILITARY OPERATIONS, AND REDUCE HARM TO CIVILIAN CASUALTIES. THE HOUSE IS ADMITTING THAT ISRAEL IS TRYING, BUT THE RESULTS ARE ALWAYS STACKING UP. BUT THEY SAY THEY DO RECOGNIZE THAT THE INTENT IS THERE

AND THE U.S. BELIEVES THAT THEIR NEGOTIATIONS AND BEHIND THE SCENES DIPLOMACY HAVE LED ISRAEL TO SCALE BACK AND CHANGE WAY THAT IT ORIGINALLY WANTED TO CONDUCT ITS MILITARY OPERATIONS. NOW, DURING THIS TRIP FOR JAKE SULLIVAN HERE THERE IN THE REGION, WE THAT THE DISCUSSIONS ARE NOT JUST ABOUT CURRENT AND FUTURE MILITARY OPERATIONS

,BUT ALSO ABOUT THE FUTURE OF GAZA. WHEN THE WAR ENDS AND HAVE SEEN A RIFT BETWEEN THE TWO NATIONS HERE. BUT THE U.S. MAKING CLEAR WANT TO SEE A REVITALIZED PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY RULE OVER GAZA, NOT A PROLONGED ISRAELI MILITARY OCCUPATION. >> ELIZABETH? AND AS WE TALK ABOUT A MORE TARGETED APPROACH AND AS

THE AIR TO GROUND MUNITIONS THAT ISRAEL HAS DROPPED INTO GAZA, WE NOW MANY OF THEM HAVE BEEN UNGUIDED THERE, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THESE DUMB BOMBS. WHY WOULD ISRAEL CHOOSE TO USE THESE WEAPONS, ESPECIALLY AS THEY’RE FACING CRITICISM OVER THEIR APPROACH? YEAH, THAT’S THE BIG QUESTION HERE. SO THESE ARE MUNITIONS NEARLY

HALF OF ALL MUNITIONS THAT HAVE BEEN USED IN GAZA HAVE ALL AIR TO GROUND MUNITIONS HAVE BEEN UNGUIDED. AND SO THEY’RE LESS PRECISE AND THEY POSE A GREATER THREAT TO CIVILIANS. AND THAT’S ESPECIALLY ALARMING IN AN AREA LIKE GAZA IS SO DENSELY POPULATED, ONE OF THE MOST DENSELY POPULATED

AREAS IN THE WORLD, THE PARTS OF GAZA, EVEN MORE DENSELY POPULATED. NOW, THE SOUTH, WE KNOW 1.8 MILLION PEOPLE HAVE BEEN DISPLACED TO THE SOUTH. SO THERE ARE REAL CONCERNS FOR CIVILIANS THERE. OVER 18,000 PEOPLE HAVE NOW BEEN KILLED IN GAZA, ACCORDING TO THE HAMAS RUN MINISTRY. AND, OF COURSE, WE LEARN

ABOUT THESE DUST BOMBS BEING USED AS. ISRAEL HAS BEEN FACING GROWING PRESSURE TO DO MORE TO TRY AND MINIMIZE CIVILIAN. SO YOU CAN BET THAT THIS NEWS IS GOING TO PROBABLY RENEW THOSE CALLS FOR FOR ISRAEL TO TRY AND MINIMIZE CIVILIAN DEATHS THERE. ISRAEL HAS INSISTED THAT.

IT IS TRYING TO, YOU KNOW, AT LEAST IN THE SOUTH, NOT REPEAT WHAT HAPPENED IN THE NORTH, BUT WE ARE LIKELY GOING TO SEE MORE CRITICISM. YOU KNOW, AS OF THESE REPORTS COME OUT. AND YET LOTS OF QUESTIONS AS TO WHY THOSE SPECIFIC MUNITIONS ARE BEING USED. AND AGAIN, SELINA, THANK

YOU BOTH SO MUCH. AND THE SUPREME COURT WILL CONSIDER A CASE COULD UNDO MORE THAN 100 CONVICTIONS STEMMING FROM THE JANUARY SIX ATTACK ON THE CAPITOL. PROSECUTORS ORIGINALLY CHARGED FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP AND OTHER DEFENDANTS WITH OBSTRUCTING AN OFFICIAL PROCEEDING, THE CERTIFICATION OF ELECTORAL VOTES. NOW THE SUPREME COURT HAS

TO WEIGH IN ON WHETHER PROSECUTORS STRETCHED THAT LAW TOO FAR, WHICH COULD IMPACT ROUGHLY 300 DEFENDANTS, INCLUDING THE FORMER PRESIDENT. SENIOR NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT TERRY MORAN HAS THE LATEST. >> ELIZABETH, THIS CASE COULD HAVE A BIG ON THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE WHO STORMED CAPITOL AND DONALD TRUMP HIMSELF HAVE ALL BEEN

CHARGED UNDER THE SAME FEDERAL LAW. THAT MAKES IT A CRIME TO, QUOTE, CORRUPTLY OBSTRUCT AN OFFICIAL PROCEEDING. BUT NOW THE SUPREME COURT HAS AGREED TO A HEAR AN APPEAL FROM ONE OF THE JANUARY SIX DEFENDANTS WHO IS ARGUING THAT LAW, WHICH WAS ORIGINALLY PASSED BY CONGRESS TO DEAL WITH WITNESS TAMPERING

IN COURT, CORPORATE CRIME CASES CANNOT BE APPLIED TO THE ATTACK ON THE CAPITOL. REPUBLICANS HAVE BEEN TRYING TO MAKE THIS CASE FOR MONTHS. THEY SAY THAT SOME OF THE JANUARY 6 DEFENDANTS HAVE BEEN OVERCHARGED BY THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT, AND YET SUPREME COURT AGREES WITH THIS ARGUMENT. TWO OF THE FOUR COUNTS AGAINST

DONALD TRUMP IN THAT ELECTION INTERFERENCE CASE WOULD GO AWAY. AND HE GOT ANOTHER BOOST IN THIS CASE WHEN THE JUDGE PUT ALL THE PROCEEDINGS ON HOLD WHILE DONALD TRUMP APPEALS ISSUE HIS CLAIM OF PRESIDENTIAL IMMUNITY FOR ANYTHING HE DID TO OVERTURN THE 2020 ELECTION. AND THAT APPEAL COULD DELAY

THE START OF THIS CASE, WHICH IS SCHEDULED TO BEGIN IN MARCH. FOUR MONTHS, ELIZABETH. >> INCREDIBLY HIGH STAKES, TERRY, THANK YOU. COMING UP, A JURY IS NOW DELIVERING AND REALLY RUDY GIULIANI’S DEFAMATION TRIAL AFTER THE FORMER NEW YORK CITY MAYOR DECLINED TO TESTIFY. WE ARE LIVE AT THE COURT AFTER THE BREAK.

HOUSTON POLICE SAY THE 16 YEAR OLD SHOT BOTH OF HIS PARENTS NOW FRIDAY NIGHT INSIDE THE COURTROOM AND THE SHOCKING NEW EVIDENCE THAT IN JUST DAYS BEFORE THE TRIAL BEGAN. YOU GOT TO BE KIDDING ME. WHOSE BLOOD IS THIS? I COULDN’T EVEN FATHOM THE IDEA OF KILLING MY PARENTS. EVERYTHING THEY CLOSED HIM

ON IN 2020, FRIDAY NIGHT AT NINE EIGHT CENTRAL ON ABC. TONIGHT, A WOMAN’S RIGHT MAKE HER OWN HEALTH CHOICES WITH ABORTION. PILL ACCESS SET TO GO BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT. IS A CRISIS BREWING. MORE AMERICANS TURN TO THE MOST WATCHED PROGRAM ON TELEVISION. “WORLD NEWS TONIGHT” WITH DAVID MUIR.

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EVERYBODY IN THAT HOME IS OKAY TO CATCH YOU UP WITH WHAT HAPPENED, OVERNIGHT? WE ARE HERE AT FASHION’S BIGGEST NIGHT OUT. WHAT’S HAPPENING TODAY? YOUTUBE HAS UNVEILED A NEW SET OF POLICIES. WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE NEW AD CAMPAIGN. FAST. STRAIGHT FORWARD WITH FUN IN BETWEEN A REAL LIFE BARBIE DREAM HOUSE.

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A LOT OF NEWS TODAY. SO LET’S GET INTO IT. LISTEN NOW TO THE DAILY NEWS PODCAST HONORED WITH FOR EDWARD OUR MURROW AWARDS AND SEE WHY THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS IT A NEWS WORTH LISTENING TO. START HERE. ABC NEWS GET YOUR DAILY FIRST. LISTEN NOW, THAT’S THE PART

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THE WORLD THE WORLD WILL BE CELEBRATING THE NEW AND YOU CAN SEE IT AS IT HAPPENS LIVE THE GLOBAL CELEBRATIONS SEE THE NEW YEAR. IT COMES IN STREAMING ALL DAY AND NIGHT ON ABC NEWS LIVECKCK. JURY DELIBERATIONS HAVE BEGUN IN THE DEFAMATION TRIAL AGAINST RUDY GIULIANI AS HIS ATTORNEY. HE WILL NOT TESTIFY.

THE FORMER TRUMP ATTORNEY WAS EXPECTED TO TESTIFY TODAY AFTER THE TWO GEORGIA ELECTION WORKERS ARE SUING HIM RESTED THEIR CASE. SEAMUS TESTIFIED THE ORDEAL SAYING GIULIANI’S FALSE ACCUSATIONS LIMITED, HER JOB PROSPECTS AND EXPOSED HER FAMILY TO RACIST THREATS AND MADE HER FEAR FOR HER LIFE LEFT HER WITH A MAJOR DEPRESSIVE DISORDER.

ABC NEWS SENIOR REPORTER KATHERINE FAULDERS JOINS US NOW FROM OUTSIDE THAT IN D.C.. CATHERINE, THIS WAS A SURPRISE TODAY WHEN WE LEARNED THAT GIULIANI WASN’T TESTIFYING. HIS LAWYER DID THAT HIS CLIENT ACTED IRRESPONSIBLY BUT PUSHED BACK ON THE OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS ARE SOUGHT BY THESE PLAINTIFFS AS CATASTROPHIC.

WHAT ARE SOME OF THE KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM WHAT HAPPENED THERE TODAY IN COURT? >> RIGHT. SO WE DID EXPECT GIULIANI TO TAKE THE STAND. HE HAD EARLIER THAT HE LOOKED FORWARD TO TELLING HIS SIDE OF THE STORY. BUT IT’S INTERESTING, ELIZABETH, HE DECIDED NOT TO SPEAK IN COURT, WHICH WOULD

REQUIRE HIM TO UNDER OATH AND DURING THIS TRIAL, WHICH IS ONLY LASTED FOUR DAYS. SO FAR, GIULIANI HAS BEEN SPEAKING OUTSIDE COURT. HE’S NOT UNDER OATH OUTSIDE OF COURT. HE’S BEEN MAKING COMMENTS THAT HE BELIEVES THAT WHAT HE SAID ABOUT THESE WOMEN IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE 2020 ELECTION, THAT HE BELIEVES

WHAT HE SAID WAS TRUE. THE JUDGE HAS ADMONISHED HIM INSIDE COURT. SO HIS LAWYER WAS FORCED TO RECOGNIZE BEFORE THE JUDGE IN COURT SAYING, I UNDERSTAND THAT MY CLIENT HAS THE ABILITY TO TALK MAYBE A LITTLE TOO MUCH ,UNFORTUNATELY. AND THE LAWYER, JOE SIBLEY, HAS HAD TO DEAL WITH THAT AS DO

YOU ADDRESS THAT IN COURT. BUT HE DID FOCUS, THE LAWYER SIMPLY DID, ON THE DAMAGES THAT HE SHOULD GET, THAT RUDY GIULIANI SHOULDN’T HAVE TO PAY MUCH AS THE LAWYERS FOR MARTIN FREEMAN ARE REQUESTING. RIGHT. AND YOU, AS YOU POINT OUT, YOU KNOW, JOSEPH SIBLEY, AN ATTORNEY FOR GIULIANI,

BASICALLY CONCEDED GIULIANI HASN’T REALLY HELPED HIMSELF HERE WITH SOME OF THOSE COMMENTS HE MADE, INCLUDING TO OUR OWN TERRY MORAN OUTSIDE OF COURT. HAVE THOSE COMMENTS BEEN FOLLOWING HIM INTO THE COURTROOM? YEAH, IT’S INTERESTING. THEY HAVE AND THEY HAVE BEEN OVER THE COURSE OF A COUPLE OF DAYS.

THE JUDGE, BERYL HOWELL, HAS OVERSEEING THIS AND MANAGED GIULIANI AGAIN THIS MORNING. SHE EVEN INDICATED THIS COULD LEAD TO MAYBE AN ADDITIONAL DEFAMATION TRIAL. SO IT HAS HAD TO BE ADDRESSED PUBLICLY INSIDE THE COURT. IT’S NOT CLEAR IF GIULIANI WILL AGAIN SPEAK OUTSIDE OF COURT AGAIN AFTER THIS WRAPS

UP, IF THERE DOES HAPPEN TO BE A VERDICT TODAY. BUT WHAT HE HAS BEEN SAYING, WHICH, BY THE WAY, HE’S ON TRIAL HERE FOR WHAT HE HAS BEEN SAYING IN TERMS OF THE AMOUNT HE HAS TO PAY FOR IT THAT COULD BE FOLLOWING HIM, MAYBE AFTER THIS TRIAL IS EVEN OVER.

>> AND WHAT COMES NEXT? WHEN DO WE EXPECT THIS TO WRAP UP? CATHERINE? YOU KNOW, IT’S ALWAYS HARD TO SAY IN THESE CASES. THIS IS SHORT. WE EXPECTED THIS TO BE SPEEDY. IT’S — IT’S THURSDAY. IT’S ONLY BEEN GOING ON FOR FOUR DAYS. SO FAR. THE JURY IS DELIBERATING.

THEY COULD RETURN A VERDICT AT ANY POINT. NOW, REMEMBER, WE’VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THIS A LOT. IT’S NOT FINDING HIM LIABLE OF DEFAMATION. IT’S HOW MUCH OF THE JURY WILL FIND THAT GIULIANI NEEDS TO PAY IN DAMAGES. ATTORNEYS FOR MS.. FREEMAN ARE REQUESTING UPWARDS OF $40 MILLION. SIBLEY GIULIANI, HIS ATTORNEY,

OF COURSE, DISAGREES WITH THAT. >> BUT THAT’S WHAT WE’RE WAITING ON, AT LEAST FROM THE JURY TODAY. WE DON’T KNOW HOW LONG THEY WILL CONTINUE DELIBERATING, BUT IT COULD COME BACK A VERDICT COULD COME BACK AS SOON AS TODAY, ELIZABETH. >> SO THE QUESTION OF HOW HE MUST PAY THEM,

KATHERINE FAULDERS, THANK YOU SO MUCH. COMING UP, HEADING HOME EARLY FOR THE HOLIDAYS WHILE. MAKE SURE YOU CHECK THE WEATHER FORR GIVE IT TO YOU RIGHT AFTER THIS. >> YOU HAVE. >> I WAS TERRIFIED. IT WAS JUST SO TRAUMATIC. NIGHTMARE. PEOPLE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THESE

WERE WANTED BABIES, 18 WOMEN FACING LIFE AND DEATH, MEDICAL CONDITIONS, THEIR LIVES NOW OUT OF THEIR CONTROL. >> I FELT LIKE I WAS GOING TO DIE. OUR LIVES AND OUR HEALTH ARE DEBATABLE. I WOULDN’T WISH THIS UPON OUR WORST ENEMY. >> DIANE SAWYER RACHEL SCOTT ON THE BRINK NOW STREAMING ON HULU.

>> WE ARE HERE IN ISRAEL, A NATION AT WAR WITH TANKS AFTER TANKS POURING INTO THIS AREA. THIS IS WHERE IT ALL BEGAN. >> BULLET HOLES ALL UP THE WALLS. WITHIN MINUTES OF THE AIR RAID, SIRENS GOING OFF, YOU CAN HEAR THE SAME EXPLOSION COMING DOWN HERE. TONIGHT ISRAEL WAGING A FIERCE

BOMBARDMENT OF GAZA. THE ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR NONSTOP LIVE COVERAGE STREAM. >> ABC NEWS LIVE REPORTING FROM SOUTHERN ISRAEL FROM THE FRONT LINES IN DOWNTOWN IN BEIRUT. WHEREVER STORY IS, WE’LL TAKE YOU THERE. ABC NEWS LIVE HOUSTON POLICE SAID THE 16-YEAR-OLD SHOT BOTH OF HIS PARENTS FRIDAY NIGHT INSIDE THE COURTROOM AND THE

NEW EVIDENCE THAT CAME IN JUST DAYS BEFORE THE TRIAL. YOU GOT TO BE KIDDING ME. WHOSE BLOOD IS THIS? I COULDN’T EVEN FATHOM THE IDEA OF KILLING MY PARENTS. EVERYTHING WE THINK POINTS TO HIM. ON 2020, FRIDAY NIGHT AT 9 A.M. CENTRAL D.C., FIRST THING IN THE MORNING.

THERE’S A LOT GOING ON. EVERYBODY IN THAT HOME IS OKAY . TO CATCH YOU UP WITH WHAT HAPPENED OVERNIGHT. WE ARE HERE AT FASHION’S BIGGEST NIGHT OUT. WHAT’S HAPPENING TODAY? YOUTUBE HAS UNVEILED A NEW OF POLICIES. WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE NEW AD CAMPAIGN. STRAIGHT FORWARD WITH SOMETHING

IN BETWEEN A LIFE BARBIE DREAM HOUSE. A NAME CHANGE FOR THE WIENERMOBILE FIRST THING IN THE MORNING, AMERICA THIS MORNING, AMERICA’S NUMBER EARLY MORNING NEWS ON ABC NEWS. >> WHY? WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE? >> FROM ABC NEWS THIS IS “START HERE”.

TO BE IN THE KNOW AND GET A DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE DAY’S TOP STORIES. A LOT OF NEWS TODAY SO LET’S GET INTO IT. LISTEN NOW TO THE DAILY PODCAST HONORED WITH FOUR EDWARD ARMOR AWARDS AND. SEE WHY THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS IT A NEWS PODCAST WORTH LISTENING TO START HERE.

ABC NEWS MAKE IT YOUR DAILY FIRST LISTEN. >> NOW, THAT’S THE PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING. >> WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS, START HERE. YOU’RE WATCHING AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS KEEP STREAMING WITH ABC NEWS LIVE REPORTING FROM BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS. I’M WHEREVER THE STORY IS,

WE’LL TAKE YOU THERE. YOU’RE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE . >> HERE ARE SOME OF THE TOP HEADLINES THAT WE’RE FOLLOWING AT THIS HOUR AT ABC NEWS LIVE. A NEW COVID VARIANT IS ON THE RISE. THE CDC SAYS THAT DAY AND ONE AND ONLY CRANKS UP VARIANT NOW

MAKES UP 21% OF CASES IN THE US. THE AGENCY ADDS THAT THE VARIANT IS NOT MORE SEVERE THAN PREVIOUS STRAINS. THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION ALSO NOTES THAT THE UPDATED COVID 19 VACCINE PROTECTS THESE NEW VARIANTS. THE EUROPEAN UNION TODAY OPENING FOR UKRAINE AND MOLDOVA TO JOIN THE BLOC. THE ANNOUNCEMENT COMES

AS EUROPEAN LEADERS DEBATE ANOTHER $50 BILLION AID PACKAGE FOR UKRAINE. UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR SAYS THE NEGOTIATIONS ARE A VICTORY FOR UKRAINE AS NATION FIGHTS OFF A NEW OFFENSIVE FROM RUSSIA. AND A POWERFUL NEW STORM IS MAKING ITS WAY ACROSS THE MIDWEST TODAY. IT’S BRINGING UP TO SIX INCHES

OF SNOW IN COLORADO AND NEW MEXICO AND CAUSING CHAOS ON THE ROADS. THE STORM IS NOW MOVING SOUTH, ALSO BRINGING RAIN TO TEXAS AND THE GULF COAST. AND THAT STORM COULD IMPACT THE EARLY START TO HOLIDAY TRAVEL. AIRLINES ARE GETTING READY FOR A RECORD BREAKING NUMBER AND AN

END OF THE YEAR. ABC NEWS TRANSPORTATION CORRESPONDENT GIO BENITEZ AT LAGUARDIA AIRPORT WITH MORE. HEY, JOE. HEY THERE. >> WE’RE NOT JUST TALKING ABOUT A SLIGHT INCREASE IN TRAVELERS HERE. WE ARE TALKING THE BUSIEST TRAVEL PERIOD EVER. DURING THE HOLIDAYS, TAKE LOT OF THESE NUMBERS BECAUSE TRIPLE J EXPECT SOME 7.5 MILLION

DOMESTIC TRAVELERS BETWEEN SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23RD THROUGH MONDAY, JANUARY 1ST. THAT’S MORE THAN 2019. THE U.S. AIRLINES EXPECT TO SELL 39 MILLION SEATS DOMESTICALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY FROM NEXT WEDNESDAY INTO THE NEW YEAR. BUT YOU’LL REMEMBER, YOU’LL REMEMBER THAT SOUTHWEST MELTDOWN LAST DECEMBER WHEN ALMOST 17,000 FLIGHTS WERE CANCELED. PEOPLE WERE STRANDED ALL OVER

THE PLACE. SOUTHWEST SAID THE WEATHER CAUSED IT. IT WAS THE ONLY AIRLINE HIT HARD BECAUSE PLANES AND CREWS, THEY WERE JUST IN THE WRONG PLACE. NOW, WE’VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THAT ROUGH WEATHER IN MAJOR CITIES WITH MAJOR AIRPORTS. THAT’S WHAT AIRLINES ARE WORRIED ABOUT NOW, IN NO SMALL PART BECAUSE OF THE

SHORTAGE IN AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS. UNITED SAYS, THOUGH, IT IS WELL PREPARED WITH MORE THAN 150 DEICING TRUCKS AND 15,000 NEW HIRES BY THE END OF THE YEAR. AND YOU JUST CAN’T FORGET ABOUT THE ROADS. TRIPLE AA EXPECTS NEARLY 104 MILLION PEOPLE TO DRIVE OVER THE HOLIDAYS. AND THAT WEATHER, OF COURSE

COULD IMPACT THE TRIP. NOW IF YOU ARE DRIVING, TRY TO AVOID AS BEST YOU CAN SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23RD, BECAUSE THAT WILL BE THE BUSIEST DAY. >> ELIZABETH, DO YOU HAVE ANY SIZE? THANK YOU. SOME GOOD ADVICE THERE. THANK YOU FOR STREAMING WITH US. I’M A ELIZABETH SCHULZE. FROM BREAKING NEWS TO ALL

THE STORIES THAT MATTER TO YOU ,YOU CAN ALWAYS FIND US ON VARIOUS STREAMING SERVICES ON THE ABC NEWS APP AND OF COURSE, ON ABCNEWS.COM. THE NEWS NEVER STOPS. WE’LL BE RIGHT BACK. TONIGHT A WOMAN’S RIGHT TO MAKE HER OWN HEALTH CHOICES WITH ABORTION PILL SET TO GO BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT, IS A

CRISIS BREWING. MORE AMERICANS TURN TO THE MOST WATCHED PROGRAM ON TELEVISION. “WORLD NEWS TONIGHT”, DAVID MUIR. YOU’RE BACK AT IT AGAIN. I GOT NOTHING ELSE TO DO. I GOT TO VISIT ALL MY HOUSE. I TOMORROW. GEORGE CLOONEY AND MICHAEL STRAHAN, THE ALL-NEW PERSON YOU’D TRADE PLACES WITH FOR

A DAY TOMORROW. IT’S A CRAZY 7 MILLION. GOOD MORNING AMERICA. OKAY. >> WHAT ARE THE STORIES THAT TAKE YOU BACK TO SOME OF YOUR HAPPIEST TIMES? TONIGHT, CELEBRATE 100 YEARS OF HAVING A DISNEY ONE WORD THAT COMES TO MIND. >> THE AMAZING DREAM. >> OH, WOW. SUPER. REMEMBER FOREVER MAGICAL

SECRETS, THE FUN, THE WOW, AND THE STORIES BEHIND. THE STORIES. NEVER SEEN BEFORE. DISNEY. 100 A CENTURY OF DREAMS. TONIGHT AT NINE EIGHT CENTRAL ON ABC AND STREAM ON HULU, DISNEY PLUS YOU HAVE REALLY ANY ? >> I WAS TERRIFIED. IT WAS JUST TOO TRAUMATIC. NIGHTMARE.

PEOPLE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THESE WERE WANTED BABIES AT FACING LIFE AND DEATH, MEDICAL CONDITIONS, THEIR LIVES NOW OUT OF THEIR CONTROL. >> I FELT LIKE I WAS GOING TO. OUR LIVES AND OUR HEALTH ARE DEBATABLE. I WOULDN’T WISH THIS UPON MY WORST ENEMY. >> DIANE SAWYER RACHEL SCOTT ON THE BRAIN NOW STREAMING

ON HULU. >> ALL ACROSS THE WORLD. THE WORLD WILL BE CELEBRATING THE NEW YEAR. AND YOU CAN SEE IT AS IT HAPPENS. LIVE. THE GLOBAL CELEBRATION AS YOU SEE THE NEW YEAR AS IT COMES IN. CHRISTINE. >> ALL DAY AND NIGHT ON ABC NEWS LIVE REPORTING FROM LAGUARDIA AIRPORT, I’M GIOVANNI BENITEZ.

WHEREVER THE STORY IS WE’LL TAKE YOU THERE. YOUR THREE ABC NEWS WALL. HELLO, I’M JAY O’BRIEN. HERE ARE SOME TOP HEADLINES WATCHING AT ABC NEWS LIVE AT THIS HOUR. THE WHITE HOUSE NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER IS IN ISRAEL FOR A HIGH STAKES VISIT. JAKE. AND ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU DISCUSSING

ISRAEL’S WITH HAMAS GETTING MORE HOSTAGES OUT OF GAZA AND MORE HUMANITARIAN AID INTO THAT TERRITORY. BUT AS THOSE MEETINGS TOOK PLACE, THE WAR RAGES ON AS HAMAS SAYING A MASSIVE AIRSTRIKE EARLIER IN THE DAY KILLED 19 PEOPLE IN NORTHERN GAZA. WHILE FIGHTING CONTINUES AROUND GAZA CITY. A U.S. OFFICIAL CONFIRMING

THAT NEARLY HALF OF THE AIR TO GROUND MUNITIONS THAT ISRAEL HAS DROPPED ON GAZA HAVE BEEN UNGUIDED, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS DUMB BOMBS. TACTIC OF USING SO-CALLED DUMB BOMBS PROVIDES BETTER FOR A REASONABLE DEGREE OF ACCURACY. >> NOW, THE CLOSING BELL JUST RINGING ON WALL STREET. STOCKS IN THE GREEN A DAY AFTER

THE DOW TOPPED 37,000 FOR THE FIRST TIME. RETAIL SALES NUMBERS TODAY BESTED ANALYSTS ESTIMATES. THE LATEST SIGN THAT CONSUMER SPEND REMAINS STRONG THIS HOLIDAY SEASON. IT COMES AS MORTGAGE RATES DROPPED BELOW 7% FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE AUGUST. GOVERNMENT LENDER FREDDIE MAC SAYS 30 YEAR FIXED RATE MORTGAGE MORTGAGE RATES ARE NOW

AVERAGING 6.95%. JURY DELIBERATIONS HAVE BEGUN IN A DEFAMATION TRIAL AGAINST FORMER NEW YORK MAYOR RUDY GIULIANI AS HIS ATTORNEY NOW SAYS, GIULIANI WILL NOT TESTIFY. THE FORMER TRUMP ATTORNEY WAS EXPECTED TO TAKE THE STAND TODAY AFTER THE TWO GEORGE ELECTION WORKERS WHO ARE SUING HIM RESTED THEIR. SHAYE MOSS TESTIFIED ABOUT THE

ORDEAL, SAYING THAT GIULIANI FALSE ACCUSATIONS THAT SHE WAS ENGAGED IN ELECTION FRAUD LIMITED HER JOB PROSPECTS, EXPOSED HER FAMILY TO RACIST THREATS AND LEFT HER WITH SERIOUS CLINICAL DEPRESSION. GIULIANI COULD BE FORCED TO PAY DAMAGES OF OVER $40 MILLION. THANK YOU FOR STREAMING WITH US. I’M JOE O’BRIEN.

ABC NEWS LIVE IS HERE WITH YOU ANY TIME. FOR THE LATEST NEWS CONTEXT AND ANALYSIS, YOU CAN ALWAYS FIND US ON VARIOUS STREAMING SERVICES THE ABC NEWS APP AND OF COURSE, ON ABC NEWS.COM. THE NEWS NEVER STOPS. “GMA3” STARTS RIGHT NOW >> DeMarco: “WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW” RIGHT NOW ON “GMA.”

THE SUNNIER ECONOMIC OUT LOOK SHAPING UP AS THE FEDERAL RESERVE MAKES CLEAR IT EXPECTS TO CUT INTEREST RATES IN THE YEAR AHEAD. >> Eva: THE JURY ABOUT TO GET THE CASE IN THE ASSAULT TRIAL OF JONATHAN MAJORS. AARON KATERSKY HAS THE LATEST DETAILS.

>>> AND WE’RE GOING BEHIND THE CURTAIN AT THE EPIC DIZSNEY 100 CELEBRATION. CHRIS CONNELLY HAS THE DETAILS. >> DeMarco: PLUS, YOUR “GMA3” PODCAST OF THE MONTH SHINES A LIGHT ON ONE OF OUR OWN, BRAD MIELKE. >> Eva: LALSO, ADDRESSING THE SIGNIFICANT BARRIERS WOMEN FACE

IN THE HOLLYWOOD INDUSTRY. MAGGIE RULLI HAS THE INTERVIEW WITH CATE BLANCHETT, MAKING A DIFFERENCE WITH PROOF OF CONCEPT. >> DeMarco: AND GET THE POPCORN. WE’RE GOING UNDERWATER WITH JASON MOMOA, STAR OF “AQUAMAN” AND “THE LOST KINGDOM.” >> Announcer: NOW FROM TIMES SQUARE, DeMARCO MORGAN AND EVA

PILGRIM WITH DR. JEN ASHTON AND “WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW.” >> DeMarco: GOOD AFTERNOON. WELCOME TO “WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW.” HERE’S A LOOK AT “WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW” TODAY ON THIS BABY FRIDAY. OUR OWN EVA ON THE COVER OF THE “BOCA RATON OBSERVER”.

>> Dr. Jen: I MEAN, ARE YOU KIDDING ME? >> Eva: WE’VE GOT GREAT PEOPLE THAT MAKE ME LOOK LIKE THAT. >> DeMarco: THAT’S WHAT YOU LOOK LIKE EVERY DAY. >> Eva: I HAVE TO SAY A BIG THANK YOU. I DIDN’T PLAN WELL FOR THIS.

A GOOD FRIEND OF MINE LET ME BORROW A BUNCH OF DRESSES. >> DeMarco: THIS IS A BIG DEAL. IT’S A LUXURY MAGAZINE. >> Dr. Jen: AND A BIG DEAL FOR US, DeMARCO, BECAUSE WE KNOW HER. THE COVER, THE COVER 6789 BEAUTIFUL, BRILLIANT, KIND AND

NOW A COVER GIRL. >> DeMarco: YOU HAVE TO SIGN MY COPY. >> Eva: I WILL. >> DeMarco: WE’RE PROUD OF YOU. LET’S TALK TO AMERICA’S FAVORITE DOCTOR WHO HAS HER OWN MAGAZINE. LET’S TALK ABOUT HOW RACISM IN THE U.S. HAS BEEN FOUND TO DEEPEN MENTAL HEALTH DISPARITIES

FOR BLACK AMERICANS. TALK US THROUGH THIS. >> Dr. Jen: RECENT STUDY PUBLISHED IN LANCET. SO IMPORTANT WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT A DISEASE TO LOOK AT HOW IT AFFECTS DIFFERENT PEOPLE DIFFERENTLY. THIS IS LOOKING AT MENTAL ILLNESS AND BLACK PEOPLE. LOOK AT THE HIGHLIGHTED FINDINGS.

ON THE PROVIDER END, 58% OF BLACK PEOPLE RECEIVE TREATMENT FOR MENTAL ILLNESS COMPARED TO THE NATIONAL AVERAGE OF 64%. BLACK PEOPLE LESS LIKELY TO SEEK CARE AND COMPLETE TREATMENT FOR MENTAL ILLNESS VERSUS WHITE AMERICANS. IF YOU LOOK AT THE ENVIRONMENT, LIMITED ACCESS TO QUALITY HEALTH

CARE AND EDUCATION. THAT’S OBVIOUSLY A FIXABLE ISSUE. THEN IN TERMS OF THE RESEARCH AND SCIENCE AND THE COMMUNITY, BLACK SCIENTISTS ARE LESS THAN 1% OF RESEARCHERS AT THE N.I.H. RECEIVING FUNDING. >> DeMarco: IS THIS SYSTEMIC RACISM? >> Dr. Jen: WE WERE TALKING. IT’S 360 DEGREES.

THERE ARE A LOT OF TARGETS FOR IMPROVEMENT AND INTERVENTION. THESE ARE ALL FIXABLE ISSUES. NOT TO SAY THEY’RE EASY, BUT WHEN YOU LOOK AT MENTAL ILLNESS, DIFFERENT AGE GROUPS, DIFFERENT SOCIOECONOMIC GROUPS AND THESE WERE NOT GOOD FINDINGS. >> Eva: DR. JEN, THANK YOU.

>>> WE TURN TO MARYALICE PARKS IN WASHINGTON WITH THE LATEST HEADLINES. >> Reporter: WE BEGIN WITH THE POSITIVE ECONOMIC SIGNALS. THE DOW SOARING TO AN ALL-TIME HIGH, OVER 37,000, OVER INFORMATION FROM THE FED THAT INFLATION HAS COOLED ENOUGH NOT

ONLY TO STOP RAISING RATES, BUT POSSIBLY REVERSING THEM IN THE SPRING. >>> JAKE SULLIVAN IS MEETING WITH ISRAEL, URGING THEM TO SHIFT ITS PRACTICE IN GAZA. PRESIDENT BIDEN MEETING WITH EIGHT AMERICANS TAKEN HOSTAGE BY HA HAMAS. >>> MILLIONS OF AMERICAN WOMEN

WILL BE WATCHING A GAS GOING BEFORE THE U.S. SUPREME COURT CHALLENGING ACCESS TO A COMMONLY USED ABORTION PILL, MIFEPRISTONE. THE JUSTICES ARE EXPECTED TO WEIGH IN BY JUNE ON WHETHER TO MAKE IT HARDER TO GET THE PILL EVEN IN STATES WHERE ABORTION IS CURRENTLY LEGAL.

>>> WE TURN TO SAM CHAMPION FOR OUR LATEST WEATHER. >> MANY TIMES WE’VE HAD BIG STORMS ON TOUGH TRAVEL TIMES. WE HAVE ANOTHER ONE COMING. BIG SNOW FALL FOR PARTS OF THE SOUTHERN ROCKIES. THIS IS AROUND COLORADO SPRINGS. THEY HAD SOME TRAVEL TROUBLE THERE.

AS THE LOW MOVES INTO THE MIDDLE OF THE COUNTRY IT’S RAIN FOR TEXAS. WATCH IT PICK UP ENERGY FROM THIS LOW IN THE GULF. IT’S HEAVY WIND AND RAIN ALONG THE EAST COAST. WE’LL TIME THIS OUT SUNDAY MORNING. BY SUNDAY AFTERNOON, THIS IS RALEIGH DURHAM.

ALL FIVE NETWORKS INTO NEW YORK COMING MONDAY. SOME AREAS COULD HAVE 5 TO 10 INCHES OF RAIN. LOOK AT THE NEW YORK CORRIDOR. IT’S ABOUT 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN POSSIBLE WITH STRONG WINDS. >> Reporter: FINALLY, THE HELPING HAND FROM TAYLOR SWIFT

TO THE TUNE OF $1 MILLION. REPORTS CONFIRMING THE MUSIC SUPERSTAR HAS PITCHED IN TO HELP FAMILIES IN HARD-HIT TENNESSEE PICKING UP THE PIECES AFTER THAT VICIOUS TORNADO OUTBREAK. TAYLOR MAKING HEADLINES ALL YEAR LONG. BACK TO YOU GUYS. >> DeMarco: EVEN IF YOU’RE NOT A SWIFTIE, IT’S IMPOSSIBLE TO NOT

LIKE TAYLOR SWIFT. >> Eva: YES. >> DeMarco: LOOK AT THAT. A HEART OF GOLD. >> Dr. Jen: I’M A SWIFTIE. >> DeMarco: STILL AHEAD ON THIS THURSDAY HERE ON “GMA3,” HE STARS IN SO MANY BLOCKBUSTER MOVIES, NOW THE JURY IS ABOUT TO

DECIDE WHAT’S NEXT FOR JONATHAN MAJORS IN THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE TRIAL AGAINST HIM. WE HAVE THE LATEST. >> Eva: PLUS, WHEN YOU WISH UPON A STAR. WE HAVE A FRONT ROW SEAT TO THE DISNEY CELEBRATION OF A CENTURY. “GMA3,” WHEN WE COME BACK. Whenever news breaks,

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>> DeMarco: WELCOME BACK TO “GMA3.” CLOSING ARGUMENTS ARE SET TO BEGIN TODAY IN THE TRIAL OF ACTOR JONATHAN MAJORS FOR ALLEGEDLY ASSAULTING AND HARASSING HIS EXGIRLFRIEND. >> Eva: JOINING US TO DISCUSS AARON KATERSKY AND BRIAN BUCKMEYER. AARON, MAJORS IS A MARVEL STAR

WHO’S PLEADED NOT GUILTY AND HE’S OPTED NOT TO TESTIFY. FILL US IN ON WHAT’S GOING ON. >> WE’RE AT CLOSING ARGUMENTS. THE JURY IS ON THE VERGE OF DECIDING THIS CASE THAT COULD DECIDE THE TRAJECTORY OF JONATHAN MAJORS’ CAREER. HE WAS ON THE ROAD TO SUPERSTAR.

ON THE SET IS WHERE HE MET HIS GIRLFRIEND GRACE. LAST MARCH IN NEW YORK CITY THEY WERE ON THEIR WAY BACK FROM DINNER AND HE SAYS IN THE BACK OF THEIR FOR-HIRE SUV A TEXT MESSAGE POPPED UP ON HIS PHONE FROM ANOTHER WOMAN.

THE MESSAGE SAID, I WISH I WAS KISSING YOU. SHE WAS ENRAGED AND GRABBED THE PHONE. SHE THEN SAID HE ASSAULTED HER. THERE’S NO EVIDENCE OF VIOLENCE BEFORE SHE GRABBED FOR HIS PHONE, BUT THE JURY HEARD EVIDENCE OF VIOLENCE IN THEIR RELATIONSHIP, PHYSICAL AND

VERBAL, OVER THE COURSE OF THE TWO YEARS THEY WERE DATING. >> DeMarco: BRIAN, YOU SAY THE TRIAL WAS FOCUSSED ON WAS HE ABUSER OR WAS HE TRYING TO GET AWAY FROM HIS ATTACKER? >> ABSOLUTELY. BOTH SIDES HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO PAINT A PICTURE.

THE DEFENSE GOES FIRST AND THE PROSECUTION GOES AFTER. FOR THE DEFENSE, THEY’RE SAYING JONATHAN MAJORS MAY NOT BE THE GREATEST BOYFRIEND, BUT THE ALLEGATION OF ASSAULT HAPPENS WHEN? WHEN SHE TOOK HIS PROPERTY. THE QUESTION IS WAS HIS FORCE EXCESSIVE OR NOT.

THE DEFENSE WILL HAVE TO TRY TO SEPARATE THE HORRIBLE BOYFRIEND, EMOTIONAL AND VERBAL ABUSE WE SAW IN TEXT MESSAGES FROM THE ACT OF HIM TAKING HIS CELL PHONE BACK AND RUNNING DOWN THE STREET BEING CHASED BY HER. THE MAIN QUESTION THEY POSED IS WAS SHE INJURED?

WE SAW INTERVIEWS AND TESTIMONY OF HER FRIENDS NOT REALLY SEEING THAT BROKEN FINGER. >> Eva: LET’S TALK ABOUT THE EVIDENCE. HE MENTIONED VIDEO, TEXT MESSAGES, PHOTOS, AUDIO. THE JUDGE ALLOWED THEM TO BE INTRODUCED. WHAT DOES IT SHOW US? >> IT SHOWS A COUPLE THINGS. THERE’S EVIDENCE OF INJURY.

SHE HAS A LACERATION BEHIND HER EAR. HER FINGER IS DISCOLORED FROM WHERE SHE SAYS MAJORS FRACTURED IT. YOU SEE WHAT HAPPENS NOT INSIDE THE SUV WHERE THE ALLEGED ASSAULT OCCURRED, BUT WHAT HAPPENED AFTER. JONATHAN MAJORS TRIES TO GET OUT OF THE CAR AND HOISTS HER UP AND

SHOVES HER BACK IN THE CAR AND TRIES TO TAKE OFF. SHE GIVES CHASE DOWN THE BLOCK T FOR SEVERAL BLOCKS. HE’S PUSHING HER AWAY AND RUNNING OFF. THEN YOU SEE VIDEO OF HER IN A NIGHTCLUB. SHE RUNS INTO THESE PEOPLE. SHE DIDN’T HAVE HER PHONE.

SHE WAS UPSET BY HIS APPARENT INFI INFIDELITY. THEY TAKE HER TO A CLUB AND SHE GOES DANCING. IF YOU WERE JUST ASSAULTED, WHY ARE YOU IN A CLUB DRINKING AND DANCING. SHE SAID SAID SHE DIDN’T WANT TO BE ALONE. >> DeMarco: HOW DAMNING IS THE

VIDEO AND WHAT’S NEXT? >> CLOSING ARGUMENTS. THEN THE JURY WILL DELIBERATE. I WOULD EXPECT, IF I WAS A BETTING MAN, WE’LL FIND OUT SOMETIME THIS WEEK. WHAT COMES AFTER THAT, IS HE GOING TO HAVE A CRIMINAL RECORD? WILL HE LOSE EVERYTHING BASED ON THESE ALLEGATIONS OR A CONVICTION?

IF HE’S CONVICTED, I WOULD EXPECT AN APPEAL. FOR SOMEONE, WHETHER ANOTHER ATTORNEY PICKS UP THE CASE, WE’LL SEE WHAT HAPPENS NEXT. IN TERMS OF THESE ALLEGATIONS, HIS REPUTATION MAY NOT COME BACK. >> Eva: YEAH, IN THE COURT OF PUBLIC OPINION.

>> THE JURY SAW PRIOR EPISODES. HE’S THROWING CANDLES AT HER HEAD. TEXT MESSAGES DISSUADING HER FROM GOING TO THE HOSPITAL. WHAT’S THAT ABOUT? >> Eva: THANK YOU BOTH FOR BEING HERE. ALWAYS APPRECIATE YOU. >>> JUST AHEAD ON “GMA3,” WE’LL GET AN ADVANCED PEEK OF SOMETHING WONDERFUL.

>> DeMarco: THE SPECIAL EDITION OF 20/20 AIRING TONIGHT DOCUMENTS 100 YEARS OF DISNEY WE’RE BACK IN A MOMENT WITH MORE “GMA3.” COME ON BACK. Tonight A Woman’s right to make her own health choices with abortion pill access set to go before The Supreme Court is

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>>> WHEN I THINK OF DISNEY ONE WORD COMES TO MIND — >> AMAZING. >> DREAMS. >> MAGICAL. >> AND THE STORIES BEHIND THE STORIES YOU LOVE AS NEVER SEEN BEFORE. YOU MAY EVEN SAY WHAT? >> WALT DID MICKEY’S VOICE EARLY ON?

>> WALT WAS ONCE THE VOICE OF MICKEY? >> BE QUIET AND I’LL LET YOU OUT. >> DeMarco: HOW CAN YOU NOT SMILE. THAT WAS A LOOK AT TONIGHT’S SPECIAL EDITION OF “20/20, A CENTURY OF DREAMS.” >> Eva: IT’S A LOOK BACK ON THE

HISTORY OF DISNEY, CELEBRATING THE COUNTLESS CREATORS THAT BROUGHT THE MAGIC TO LIFE. HERE TO TELL US MORE ABOUT THE SPECIAL IS DISNEY 100 CONTRIBUTOR, CHRIS CONNELLY. >> Reporter: HEY, GOOD MORNING, GUYS. >> Eva: THERE’S ALL KINDS OF SURPRISES EVEN FOR THE BIGGEST OF DISNEY FANS.

THIS BLEW MY MIND. WALT DISNEY’S ORIGINAL CHARACTER WASN’T MICKEY MOUSE? >> Reporter: HE WAS OSWALD THE LUCKY RABBIT. HE WAS VERY POPULAR FROM THE BEGINNING ON THE WALT DIDN’T HAVE THE RIGHTS TO HIM. THAT’S WHEN HE CREATED MICKEY MOUSE. >> DeMarco: TALK ABOUT HOUR

POWERFUL MUSIC HAS BEEN WHEN IT COMES TO DISNEY STORY TELLING. >> Reporter: I DON’T THINK THERE’S ANYTHING THAT TOUCHES US EMOTIONALLY MORE THAN DISNEY SONGS. WE HAVE ONE OF SHERMAN BROTHERS, RICHARD SHERMAN, IN HIS 90s PLAYS “FEED THE BIRDS” THE SONG FROM “MARY POPPINS,” A SONG THAT

WALT DISNEY THOUGHT WAS ONE OF HIS ALL-TIME FAVORITES. WE HAVE LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA, ELTON JOHN, ALAN MANKIN AND IDINA MENZEL. YOU GET TO HEAR THE CREATORS TALK ABOUT THE MUSIC. >> Eva: YOU MENTIONED SOME BIG NAMES. SO MANY ICONS HAVE BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH DISNEY.

WHAT WERE YOU MOST EXCITED TO SHED A LIGHT ON? >> Reporter: I’M NOT GOING TO LIE. WE HAVE CHRISTIE CARLSON ROMANO, THE ORIGINAL “KIM POSSIBLE.” I GOT TO TALK TO KATY PERRY WHO SAYS SHE VOWS TO GO TO EVERY SINGLE DISNEY PARK. SHE’S LIABLE TO DO IT I IMAGINE.

I SAT DOWN WITH DICK VAN DYKE WHO TURNED 98 YESTERDAY. SHARP AS A TACK AND SO MUCH FUN. TELLING WONDERFUL STORIES ABOUT WALT AND MAKING “MARY POPPINS” WITH JULIE ANDREWS. I WAS TRANSPORTED. I THINK YOU WILL BE TOO HEARING HIM REMEMBER WHAT A FANTASTIC EXPERIENCE THAT WAS.

SO MUCH OF WHAT’S GREAT ABOUT DISNEY, THE CREATIVITY AND STORY TELLING, THE INNOVATION AND OPTIMISM AND THE SENSE THAT ALL THESE DISNEY STORIES ARE FOR ALL OF US TO ENJOY. >> Eva: “DISNEY 100” PREMIERS TONIGHT AT 9:00 ON ABC AND STREAMING ON HULU AND DISNEY+.

CHRIS CONNELLY, ALWAYS A PLEASURE. >> DeMarco: WE LOVE CHRIS. >> Eva: LOTS MORE COMING UP ON “GMA3.” DR. JEN WITH MORE ON THE “BIG BANG THEORY” STAR WITH THE UNEXPECTED DIAGNOSIS. >> DeMarco: AND THE ONE AND ONLY JASON MOMOA JOINS US WITH A NEW

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You’re gonna love this experience. The all new ABC News app, download it now, You’re watching America’s number one streaming news keeps screaming with ABC News live. >> DeMarco: WE’RE BACK WITH DR. JEN TALKING ABOUT HOW HIGH LEVELS OF A SPECIFIC HORMONE MAY BE LINKED TO MORNING SICKNESS.

>> Dr. Jen: FIRST OF ALL, IF YOU SPEAK TO ANY WOMAN WHO’S BEEN PREGNANT AND SUFFERED FROM MORNING SICKNESS, WHICH IS ABOUT 70%, THIS IS GOING TO GET ATTENTION. THERE’S A RECENT STUDY PUBLISHED IDENTIFYING A HORMONE KNOWN AS GDF-15. I HAD NEVER HEARD OF IT.

THE ASSOCIATION LINK BETWEEN WOMEN WHO SUFFER MORNING SICKNESS AND POTENTIALLY A SEVERE FORM. THEY FOUND THAT WOMEN WHO HAD LOW LEVELS OF THIS HORMONE BEFORE PREGNANCY AND HIGH LEVELS DURING THE FIRST TRIMESTER WERE MORE LIKELY TO HAVE MORNING SICKNESS. IT’S IDENTIFY, OBSERVATION AND

THEN POTENTIALLY DOWN THE ROAD IF IT BEARS OUT TO BE CAUSATIVE, TARGET INTERVENTION. >> Eva: THAT’S MY QUESTION. AS A PREGNANT WOMAN, WHEN YOU’RE SICK LIKE THAT, THEY HAVE A PRESCRIPTION THAT YOU CAN TAKE, BUT THERE’S REALLY NOT A LOT — THERE’S A LOT OF EATING AVOCADOS

AND MINTS AND TRYING TO MANAGE IT THAT WAY. COULD THERE POTENTIALLY BE A TREATMENT? >> Dr. Jen: THAT’S THE HOPE. WE’RE A LONG WAY AWAY FROM THAT. FIRST WE HAVE TO IDENTIFY THAT THIS IS CAUSATIVE. THEN IT HAS TO BE TESTED AND PROVEN SAFE, PARTICULARLY IN A

PERIOD OF PREGNANCY IN THE FIRST TRIMESTER WHERE WE’RE CAUTIOUS ABOUT GIVING ANYTHING BECAUSE THAT’S SUCH A CRITICAL TIME IN FETAL DEVELOPMENT. THIS IS A BIG ADVANCE IN AN ARE SUFFERED FOR SURE. >> DeMarco: WE’RE BACK IN A MOMENT.

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POWERFUL STORM IS MAKING ITS WAY ACROSS THE MOUNTAIN STATES AND MIDWEST TODAY, BRINGING UP TO SIX INCHES OF SNOW IN COLORADO AND NEW MEXICO AND CAUSING CHAOS ON. THE ROADS THERE, A FEW MORE INCHES EXPECTED TO FALL OVERNIGHT IN NEW MEXICO, WESTERN KANSAS. THE STORM NOW MOVING SOUTH.

ALSO RAIN TO TEXAS AND THE GULF COAST INTO THE WEEKEND. IT WILL MOVE TO FLORIDA WITH WIDESPREAD HEAVY RAIN CAUSING FLOOD WATCHES IN SOME AREAS THERE LATER IN THE WEEKEND. THE STORM EXPECTED TO BRING HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG WINDS TO THE EAST COAST. NOW TO THE SUPREME COURT ANNOUNCING IT WILL CONSIDER

A CASE THAT COULD UNDO MORE THAN 100 CONVICTIONS STEMMING FROM THE JANUARY SIXTH ATTACK ON THE CAPITOL. PROSECUTORS ORIGINALLY CHARGED FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP AND OTHER DEFENDANTS WITH OBSTRUCTION, OBSTRUCT IN A FEDERAL PROCEEDING. THAT PROCEEDING WAS THE CERTIFICATION ELECTORAL VOTES IN CONGRESS. NOW, THE SUPREME COURT HAS TO WEIGH IN ON WHETHER

PROSECUTORS STRETCHED THE LAW, TOO FAR WITH THOSE CHARGES, WHICH COULD IMPACT ROUGHLY THREE DEFENDANTS, INCLUDING THE FORMER. JURY DELIBERATIONS ARE NOW UNDER WAY IN THE ASSAULT TRIAL OF ACTOR JONATHAN MAJORS AFTER BOTH THE PROSECUTION AND THE DEFENSE DELIVERED CLOSING ARGUMENTS TODAY. JURORS WILL NOW DECIDE WHETHER OR NOT.

THE MARVEL ACTOR IS GUILTY OF ASSAULTING HIS THEN GIRLFRIEND GRACE JABARI. THIS COMES AFTER TWO WEEKS OF CLASHING NARRATIVES, BOTH SIDES IN COURT AND AFTER EVIDENCE WAS PRESENTED INCLUDING VIDEO, AUDIO, TEXTS AND PHOTOS RELATED TO THE ALLEGED ASSAULT. MAJORS DID NOT TESTIFY IN HIS OWN DEFENSE.

HE FACES UP TO A YEAR IN PRISON IF CONVICTED. THANK AS ALWAYS FOR STREAMING WITH US ON JAY O’BRIEN. ABC NEWS LIVE IS HERE WITH ANY TIME FOR THE LATEST NEWS, CONTEXT AND ANALYSIS. YOU CAN ALWAYS US ON VARIOUS STREAMING SERVICES THE ABC NEWS APP AND OF COURSE ON ABCNEWS.COM.

THE NEWS NEVER STOPS. NOW BACK TO MORE “GMA3” RIGHT NOW >> Eva: BACK NOW AND ACTRESS AND COMEDIAN KATE MICUCCI KNOWN FOR HER ROLE AS LUCY ON “THE BIG BANG THEORY” REVEALED ON TIKTOK SHE WAS DIAGNOSED WITH LUNG CANCER DESPITE NEVER SMOKING A CIGARETTE IN HER LIFE.

>> DeMarco: DR. JEN, TAKE US TO MINI MED SCHOOL. >> Dr. Jen: WHEN DOCTORS HEAR THAT SHOCK, WE SAY IT’S NOT A SURPRISE. UP TO 20% OF LUNG CANCER OCCURS IN PEOPLE THAT NEVER SMOKED. THE MAJORITY DO OCCUR IN SMOKERS DESPITE THAT WELL-KNOWN

STATISTIC, THE LAY PUBLIC HAS THE SAME REACTION, ABSOLUTE SHOCK WHEN THEY HEAR SOMEONE’S DIAGNOSED WITH LUNG CANCER AND THEY NEVER SMOKED. THERE ARE, OF COURSE, CERTAIN RISK FACTORS IN GENERAL FOR THIS TYPE OF CANCER. LET’S GO THROUGH IT. NUMBER ONE, OBVIOUSLY SMOKING. SECOND-HAND SMOKE EXPOSURE IS A

SIGNIFICANT RISK FACTOR. AIR POLLUTION MAY BE IMPLICATED. WHEN YOU LOOK AT THINGS LIKE RADIATION EXPOSURE, WHETHER OCCUPATIONAL OR THERAPEUTIC FROM CANCER TREATMENT, OR A FAMILY HISTORY OF LUNG CANCER, THESE ARE THE BIG ONES. WHEN YOU LOOK AT ONE DISEASE, VERY IMPORTANT TO LOOK AT

DIFFERENT SUB TYPES, DIFFERENT PATHOLOGY AND DIFFERENT PEOPLE IT AFFECTS. >> Eva: WHAT SHOULD YOU DO IF YOU’RE CONCERNED ABOUT IT? >> Dr. Jen: THE THING YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER WHEN YOU LOOK AT SCIENCE AND SCREENING TESTS, YOU CAN’T JUST SCREEN BECAUSE YOU’RE CONCERNED.

THERE ARE HARMS ASSOCIATED WITH THAT. IT’S NOT FEASIBLE FOR A VARIETY OF REASONS. CERTAINLY IF YOU HAVE ONE OF THOSE KNOWN RISK FACTORS, YOU SHOULD TALK TO YOUR HEALTH CARE PROVIDER ABOUT WAYS TO GET SCREENED. OTHERWISE, WHEN YOU HEAR A STORY

LIKE THIS AND KUDOS TO HER FOR USING HER PLATFORM TO INCREASE AWARENESS, PARTICULARLY AMONG NONSMOKERS, YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THAT IT’S OUT THERE 6THERE. AWARENESS IS IMPORTANT. >> DeMarco: WHEN SHOULD YOU YOU BE SCREENED? >> Dr. Jen: LET’S GO THROUGH THE SCREENING RECOMMENDATIONS.

THIS IS CONCLUSIVE AND WELL ACCEPTED. ADULTS AGE 50 TO 80 YEARS OLD WITH A SMOKING HISTORY, THAT’S 20-PACK YEAR SMOKING HISTORY, OR THOSE WHO CURRENTLY SMOKE OR HAVE QUIT WITHIN THE PAST 15 YEARS. IT IS RECOMMENDED TO GET A LOW DOSE C.A.T. SCAN OF THE CHEST

ANNUALLY. AN X-RAY WILL NOT PICK UP SMALL TUMORS IN THE LUNGS. DON’T BE LULLED INTO A FALSE SENSE OF SECURITY SAYING, I HAD AN X-RAY AND IT WAS FINE. IF YOU HAVE SYMPTOMS LIKE UNINTENTIONAL WEIGHT LOSS, ANY BLOOD YOU’RE COUGHING UP GET EVALUATED QUICKLY.

WHEN WE TALK ABOUT PACK YEAR, IT’S A MATHEMATIC CALCULATION. IF YOU SMOKED ONE PACK A DAY FOR TEN YEARS, THAT’S TEN-PACK YEARS. IT’S JUST A SIMPLE WAY TO EQUATE SOMEONE’S VOLUME OF SMOKING. >> DeMarco: IT’S VERY ALARMING. >> Dr. Jen: AWARENESS AND EDUCATION IS SO IMPORTANT WITHIN

THE LAY PUBLIC AND MEDICAL PROFESSION. THIS IS A GREAT EXAMPLE. >> Eva: SHE WAS SAYING SHE CAUGHT IT EARLY. >> Dr. Jen: SHE CALLED IT SICKTOK, USING HER PLATFORM. >> DeMarco: COMING UP, BRAD MIELKE JOINS US WITH OUR “GMA3” PODCAST OF THE MONTH.

>> Eva: PLUS, THE LONG DROUGHT IS OVER FOR FANS OF AQUAMAN. JASON MOMOA IS HERE IN OUR STUDIO. >> DeMarco: IN THE FLESH. When the announcer course my name the world almost Fades away. It’s he gets the most famous dog adapter is welcome

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Abortion pill access set to go before The Supreme Court is a crisis Brewing more Americans turned to the most watched program on television World News Tonight with David Muir. Which could do watch. Read, where can I get a great deal on? What? I’m just dying to buy. Oh, it’s all right here.

GMA life get the latest celebrity, Buzz Deals and Steals, and the coolest lifestyle tips from GMA, I love that so much steam weekends on, ABC News live, >> Eva: WELCOME BACK. TURNING TO OUR DECEMBER PODCAST OF THE MONTH. ABC’S FLAG SHIP PODCAST “START HERE,” A DAILY NEWS SHOW GIVING

YOU A LOOK AT THE TOP NEWS IN 20 MINUTES. >> DeMarco: IT’S HOSTED BY AN AWARD-WINNING ABC NEWS CORRESPONDENT. HE’S HERE TO TELL US MORE. PLEASE WELCOME HOST BRAD MIELKE. >> Eva: HE’S ALSO OUR FRIEND. >> I GET TO SIT IN THE CHAIR.

I FEEL LIKE I’M IN BOCA RATON. >> DeMarco: GOOD TO SEE YOU, MAN. FOR THOSE WHO DON’T KNOW ABOUT “START HERE” TELL US ABOUT IT. >> WE STARTED WITH A SIMPLE PREMISE. WHAT IF YOU COULD HAVE YOUR FRIEND EXPLAIN THE NEWS? WHAT IF YOUR FRIEND ACTUALLY

KNEW STUFF? I DON’T KNOW ABOUT YOUR FRIENDS, BUT MY FRIENDS DON’T HAVE ALL THE FACTS AT HAND. LUCKILY, I HAVE ACCESS TO THE GREAT JOURNALISTS AT ABC. EVERY DAY FOR 20 SOMETHING MINUTES I RUN AROUND AND CALL UP ALL THE REPORTERS I KNOW AND ASK

THEM WHAT ARE YOU WORKING ON AND WE BREAK DOWN THREE OR FOUR OF THE BIGGEST STORIES OF THE DAY. >> Eva: YOU’VE BEEN DOING THIS FOR FIVE YEARS. >> YEAH. WE’RE WALKING. WE’RE ABOUT TO GO TO KINDERGARTEN. IT’S EXCITING FOR US, 5 YEARS OLD.

IT STARTED DURING THE 2016 PRESIDENTIAL CYCLE WHEN DONALD TRUMP WAS BECOMING PRESIDENT TRUMP. I WAS OUT AS AN EMBED IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. I WAS ONE OF THESE YOUNG REPORTERS WHO IS SORT OF IN THE SNOW INTERVIEWING THE CANDIDATES. THE COOL THING IS YOU GET MORE

EXPERIENCED JOURNALISTS, THE EVA PILGRAMS OF THE WORLD COMING THROUGH. I’M SO OBNOXIOUSLY INQUISITIVE THAT I WANT TO KNOW WHAT YOU’RE WORKING ON. WHAT’S THE STORY BEHIND THE STORY? WHAT DO YOU FIND INTERESTING? THOSE RARE THE CONVERSATIONS THT GOT ME A SENSE OF WHAT WE DO HERE.

>> DeMarco: YOU’VE ALSO BEEN DOING INDEPENDENT REPORTING ON BIG ISSUES. WHAT ARE YOU WORKING ON? >> THIS IS AN KPEXCITING TIME F US. WE’RE GOING TO BE ON THE GROUND IN IOWA AND NEW HAMPSHIRE. THAT’S THE HEADLINES YOU KNOW ARE COMING. THERE’S ALSO STORIES — I’M

FASCINATED BY THE LARGER FORCES IN THE WORLD THAT AFFECT US WHETHER WE KNOW IT OR NOT. WE DID THIS BIG SERIES ON HOW BONKERS THE REAL ESTATE MARKET IS AND HOW IT APPLIES TO YOU IF YOU’RE TRYING TO BUY A HOUSE,

BUT ALSO HOW IT CHANGES YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD. HOW IT EVEN AFFECTS YOUR OFFICE LIFE. WE HAVE OFFICE BUILDINGS SHUTTING DOWN BECAUSE LANDLORDS CAN’T FIND ANYONE TO RENT THEM. HOW DOES THAT AFFECT THE NEIGHBORHOOD? DOES THAT CHANGE YOUR BOSS DEMANDING YOU TO COME BACK INTO THE OFFICE?

>> Eva: THE STUFF THAT AFFECTS OUR EVERY DAY LIVES. >> RIGHT. THERE’S HEADLINES AND HEADLINES IN YOUR OWN LIFE. >> DeMarco: ANY TOPICS OFF THE TABLE? >> NO. WHAT I FIND INTERESTING IS THE STORIES AFFECTING YOUR LIVES. THEN WE END WITH SOME OFFBEAT.

WE DID A WHOLE SEGMENT ON TREASURE HUNTING. MODERN DAY TREASURE HUNTERS LIKE INDIANA JONES. THEY HAVE MUSEUMS UPSET WITH THEM AND EVERYTHING — ANYTHING WE FIND INTERESTING. ANYTHING THAT MAKES YOU GET OUT OF YOUR CAR OR SHOWER AND MAKES YOU GO, HUH, I’M SMARTER THAN I

WAS 20 MINUTES AGO. >> Eva: HOW DO YOU HOPE PEOPLE FEEL AFTER LISTENING? >> MY FAVORITE TYPE OF NEWS IS THE NEWS THAT ARMS ME AS I GO TO A FAMILY GATHERING. YOU KNOW HOW EVERYONE HAS THAT BLOW-HARD UNCLE WHO KNOWS EVERYTHING.

JUST, LIKE, I KNOW THE CONTEXT OF THE STORY. BRAD TOLD ME. I HOPE THAT PEOPLE TAKE AWAY A SENSE OF CONTEXTUALIZATION OF THE NEWS. SOMETIMES THINGS ARE MORE IMPORTANT TODAY THAN THEY WERE. SOMETIMES IT’S LESS IMPORTANT THAN IT WILL BE A FEW DAYS FROM NOW.

I TRY TO TELL LISTENERS HERE’S WHY YOU SHOULD CARE. >> DeMarco: THIS IS FUN. >> Eva: IT’S ALWAYS NICE WHEN YOU’RE HERE. YOU’RE EVERYONE’S FRIEND GIVING THEM THE NEWS. BRAD, THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE. “START HERE” IS AVAILABLE EVERYWHERE YOU LISTEN TO PODCASTS.

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You’re streaming, ABC News live. ♪ >> DeMarco: WELCOME BACK, EVERYONE. ACTOR AND PRODUCER CATE BLANCHETT, ALONG WITH TWO OTHER WOMEN IN THE FILM INDUSTRY, THEY ARE LAUNCHING A PROJECT THEY HOPE WILL HAVE AN IMPACT ON WHAT YOU’LL BE SEEING IN MOVIE THEATERS.

>> Eva: THEY’RE WORKING TO PROVIDE MENTORSHIP TO WOMEN DIRECTORS. ABC’S MAGGIE RULLI SAT DOWN WITH THE THREE OF THEM IN THIS EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW. >> IF YOU’RE HERE, YOU KNOW WHO SHE IS. >> Reporter: CATE BLANCHETT IS NO STRANGER TO THE BIG SCREEN —

>> I KNOW WHAT I MUST DO. >> Reporter: — TO INDY FLICKS. SHE’S WON TWO OSCARS FOR HER ROLES IN “THE AVIATOR” AND “BLUE JASMINE.” BUT SHE’S NOTICED SOMETHING — >> YOU WALK ON TO SET AND BRACE YOURSELF BECAUSE YOU’RE THE ONLY WOMAN THERE. SOMETIMES YOU’RE LUCKY IF

ANOTHER WOMAN IS WORKING IN FRONT OF THE CAMERA. WE’RE TALKING ABOUT REFLECTING THE REAL WORLD AND THE REAL WORLD IS NOT REFLECTED IN THE WORKPLACE. >> Reporter: SHE’S JOINING COCO FRANCINI TO LAUNCH PROOF OF CONCEPT. >> WE’RE GOING TO PICK EIGHT FILM MAKERS.

THEY’LL COME TO US WITH A SHORT FILM CONCEPT THAT LEADS TO A FEATURE FILM CONCEPT. WE’RE GOING TO PROVIDE THEM THE MENTORSHIP, FINANCIAL SUPPORT AND THE GUIDANCE TO MAKE THE SHORT FILM AND TURN IT INTO A SELLABLE PACKAGE TO MAKE THEIR FEATURE VERSION.

>> WE WERE FORTUNATE BECAUSE WE WENT TO NETFLIX AND PITCHED THIS IDEA AND NETFLIX GENEROUSLY UNDERWROTE THE COST OF THE INITIATIVE. IT WAS IMPORTANT. >> PEOPLE ARE OFTEN AFRAID TO TALK ABOUT MONEY, BUT IT FEELS LIKE MONEY CAN BE SUCH A DRIVER

FOR EQUALITY OR INEQUALITY. >> WE’VE DONE A LOT OF ECONOMIC ANALYSIS. IF YOU HAVE A WOMAN IN A LEADING ROLE FOR EXAMPLE, YOU TYPICALLY RECEIVE LOWER PRODUCTION COSTS, LOWER MARKETING COSTS. YOUR FILMS ARE TYPICALLY SHOWN IN FEWER THEATERS IN THE U.S. AND INTERNATIONALLY.

THE FINANCIAL SUPPORT IS TYPICALLY GIVEN AND TILTED TOWARD MALE-DRIVEN STORIES. >> THE CHOICE IS NOW YOURS. >> YOU HAVE TO WANT TO KNOW. >> Reporter: THE FILM “BARBIE” SHOWS WHAT CAN BE POSSIBLE WHEN IT’S A WOMAN’S VISION. DR. SMITH SAYS WOMEN BEHIND THE CAMERA REMAIN RARE.

LAST YEAR ON THE 9% OF FILMS WERE DIRECTED BY WOMEN. >> 9 %, THAT’S ROUGHLY A THIRD. >> WHY ARE WE STILL AT 9%? WHY IS THE INDUSTRY SO RESISTANT TO THIS CHANGE? >> I THINK IT’S A FAILURE OF IMAGINATION. IT’S WHY WITH PROOF OF CONCEPT

WE WANT TO PROVIDE AN UNDENIABLE DOCUMENT FOR THOSE WHO LACK THE IMAGINATION TO SEE WHAT CAN BE ON SCREEN FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF WOMEN, TRANS AND NONBINARY PEOPLE. >> Reporter: THIS IS FOR ANYONE IN THEIR CAREER, NOT JUST FIRST TIMERS.

>> IT CAN BE SOMEBODY WHO MADE A FILM AND CAN’T GET THEIR SECOND OFF THE GROUND. YOU HAVE A FILM AT SUNDANCE AND IT’S WELL RECEIVED. NOW WHAT? >> Reporter: THEY TELL ME WOMEN WANT TO SUPPORT OTHER WOMEN, A COMRADERY YOU CAN SEE WITH THESE THREE.

>> WE NEED DIVERSITY TO KEEP OUR INDUSTRY VITAL, TO KEEP OUR INDUSTRY RELEVANT. OUR GOAL IS NOT ONLY TO BRING MORE DIVERSE VOICES TO THE SCREEN, BUT ALSO JUST TO BRING ORIGINAL VOICES TO THE SCREEN BECAUSE THOSE ARE THE PEOPLE THAT GET THE AUDIENCE INTO MOVIE

THEATERS. >> Reporter: MAGGIE RULLI, ABC NEWS, LONDON. >> DeMarco: WE SAY IT ALL THE TIME. REPRESENTATION MATTERS. >> Eva: IT DOES. >> DeMarco: IF YOU WANT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT PROOF OF CONCEPT, THEIR WEBSITE IS LAUNCHING TODAY. >> Eva: NEXT UP, THE

MUCH-ANTICIPATED BLOCKBUSTER SEQUEL “AQUAMAN” IS HERE. >> DeMarco: IN HOUSE. THE ONE AND ONLY JASON MOMOA IN OUR AND WE CAN’T WAIT FOR THIS ONE. COME ON BACK. We have really gone again. I was terrified. It was just so traumatic nightmare people need to understand. These were wanted babies 18

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>> Eva: WE HAVE A SPECIAL GUEST HERE TO TELL US ALL ABOUT IT. PLEASE WELCOME THE KING OF ATLANTIS, JASON MOMOA. [ APPLAUSE ] >> Eva: PEOPLE HAVE BEEN WAITING A VERY LONG TIME FOR THIS SEQUEL. >> FIVE YEARS. >> Eva: THAT’S LONG IN THE WORLD OF MOVIES.

TELL US WHERE THIS PICKS UP. >> WELL, IT KIND OF PICKS UP — WE CONTINUE RIGHT INTO THE STORY. NOW HE’S A FATHER AND HE’S THE KING OF ATLANTIS. HE’S A HUSBAND. WE FOLLOW HIS STORY OF TRYING TO RUN A KINGDOM THAT DOESN’T LIKE

HIM AND TRY TO BE A DAD, WHICH IS VERY CHALLENGING. >> Dr. Jen: EVEN WITH THE MAGIC OF SPECIAL EFFECTS, THERE’S A LOT OF ACTION IN THIS. YOU ARE CLEARLY IN VERY GOOD SHAPE. THAT’S MY MEDICAL OBSERVATION. >> THANK YOU.

>> Dr. Jen: CAN YOU TELL US A LITTLE BIT ABOUT YOUR FITNESS ROUTINE? DID YOU HAVE TO TRAIN? >> ABSOLUTELY, DOCTOR. YOU HAVE TO LIFT AND PICK UP HEAVY THINGS AND PUT THEM DOWN. YOU KNOW WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT. >> DeMarco: I’LL TAKE THAT AS A COMPLIMENT.

>> I GAVE HIM A HUG. NORMALLY JUST SO YOU DON’T HURT YOURSELF. THE MOVIE TAKES SIX MONTHS TO SHOOT. JUST TO MAKE SURE YOU’RE PADDED AND YOU DON’T INJURY YOURSELF. YOU PUT THAT SUIT ON, 40 POUNDS, ANY MOVEMENT IS ADDED WEIGHT. YOU HAVE TO MAKE SURE EVERYTHING’S GOOD.

>> DeMarco: HOW MUCH OF YOURSELF DID YOU GET A CHANCE TO BRING TO THIS CHARACTER? DID YOU HAVE ANY WIGGLE ROOM, ESPECIALLY WITH THE JOKES? WAS ANY OF IT YOU? >> YEAH. THIS IS THE LONGEST I’VE EVER PLAYED A ROLE, 12 YEARS DOING THIS.

A BUDDY OF MINE — I DON’T WANT TO NAME DROP — HE DID X MEN AND ALL THESE DIFFERENT ROLES AND GAVE ME GOOD ADVICE IN THE BEGINNING, WHICH WAS YOU NEED TO ADD LITTLE MOMENTS OF YOU IN THESE SUPERHERO MOVIES. IF YOU ADD THINGS THAT MAKE YOU

GI GIGGLE, IT WILL MAKE THE AUDIENCE GIGGLE. >> Eva: YOU REALLY ARE THE KING OF ATLANTIS. >> WELL, I DO SWIM PRETTY FAST. >> Eva: THIS MOVIE COMES OUT BEFORE CHRISTMAS. HOLIDAY TRADITIONS? >> BARBRA STREISAND, EAT GOOD FOOD WITH MY BABIES AND FAMILY TELL.

>> Eva: YOU SAY BABIES. >> WOLFIE’S 15 TOMORROW. THEY’RE STILL MY BABIES. >> DeMarco: NOT READY TO LET THEM GO. >> GOSH NO. >> Eva: ANY BABIES IN YOUR FUTURE? >> GOD NO. >> Eva: THAT WAS JUST FOR THE MOMENT.

>> Dr. Jen: I SEE EVA’S BABY AND I DON’T MISS THOSE YEARS. IT’S A LOT OF WORK. >> IT IS, BUT I LOVE IT. MAYBE I’LL BE A GOOD GRANDPA. I’VE BEEN MARRIED A LONG TIME. >> Eva: FOR NOW YOU’RE THE KING OF ATLANTIS.

>> DeMarco: THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE. YOU CAN SEE “AQUAMAN” IN THEATERS DECEMBER 22nd. THAT IS “WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW” FOR THIS THURSDAY. I’M DeMARCO MORGAN. >> Eva: I’M EVA PILGRAM. >> Dr. Jen: I’M DR. JEN ASHTON.

>> Eva: FOR ALL OF US HERE AT ABC NEWS AND JASON MOMOA — >> DeMarco: WHAT A TREAT. >> Eva: — MAKE IT A GOOD ONE. ♪ ♪ Why do so many people start their day here from ABC News?

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SOON LEARN JUST HOW MUCH MONEY FORMER TRUMP ATTORNEY RUDY GIULIANI WILL NEED TO PAY IN HIS MORE TIME MILLION DOLLAR DEFAMATION TRIAL. THE CLOSING ARGUMENTS FROM ATTORNEYS, TWO FORMER ELECTION WORKERS, AND GIULIANI’S LEGAL TEAM. THE JURY DELIBERATING RIGHT NOW AND AUTHORITIES IN EUROPE ANNOUNCING ARREST OF SEVERAL TERROR SUSPECTS, INCLUDING

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THE LAUNCH OF A DEADLY INVASION INTO UKRAINE. WE’LL HAVE THAT AND MORE COMING UP. BUT WE BEGIN RIGHT NOW WITH JURORS WEIGHING IN ON JUST HOW MUCH MONEY RUDY GIULIANI WOULD NEED PAY FOR MAKING FALSE CLAIMS AGAINST TWO FORMER GEORGIA ELECTION WORKERS WHO WERE THEN SUBJECTED TO RACIST AND VIOLENT THREATS.

ATTORNEYS FROM BOTH SIDES DELIVERING CLOSING REMARKS TODAY AND GIULIANI INDICATING YESTERDAY THAT HE WOULD TAKE THE STAND IN HIS OWN DEFENSE. BUT TODAY HE DECLINED TO DO SO. A JURY UP OF EIGHT PEOPLE HEARD TEARFUL TESTIMONY FROM RUDY, RUDY FREEMAN AND SHAME LOSS. THEY DESCRIBED THE ONSLAUGHT OF HARASSMENT FOLLOWING GIULIANI’S FALSE CLAIMS

THAT THE MOTHER AND DAUGHTER TOOK PART IN VOTER FRAUD DURING THE 2020 ELECTION. THE JUDGE HAS ALREADY THAT GIULIANI DID DEFAMED THEM. THE FORMER TRUMP ATTORNEY ACKNOWLEDGES, THAT HIS STATEMENTS WERE FALSE, BUT HE CONTENDS THAT HIS WORDS WERE PROTECTED UNDER THE CONSTITUTION. >> SO FOR MORE ON THIS, WE WANT

TO BRING IN OUR ABC NEWS SENIOR REPORTER KATHERINE FAULDERS HERE IN WASHINGTON, ALONG WITH HER ABC NEWS LEGAL CONTRIBUTOR AND PROFESSOR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE SCHOOL OF LAW, KANG WHALEY. GUYS, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING ME TO TALK ABOUT THIS. KATHERINE I WANT TO GO TO YOU

FIRST BECAUSE YOU HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING THIS VERY CLOSELY. GIULIANI SAID YESTERDAY THAT IT WAS HIS INTENTION TO TAKE THE WITNESS STAND TODAY AND DEFEND HIMSELF. SO ANY WORD ON WHY HE DECIDED TO REVERSE TODAY AND AS FAR AS THE JURY IS CONCERNED, DID. WHAT DO WE WHAT DID THEY HEAR

IN THOSE CLOSING ARGUMENTS TODAY? >> WELL, IN THE CLOSING ARGUMENTS, YOU HEARD ATTORNEYS FOR SHAMUS AND RUBY FREEMAN ESSENTIALLY SAY THEY WERE ENTITLED EACH TO $24 MILLION BECAUSE OF REPUTATION AND OR HARM. YOU HEARD RUDY GIULIANI, THIS ATTORNEY, JOE SIBLEY, ESSENTIALLY REFUTE THAT, BUT DID SAY THAT HE DOES BELIEVE HIS CLIENT, RUDY

GIULIANI’S CONDUCT HAS BEEN IRRESPONSIBLE IT’S BEEN WRONGFUL CONDUCT, BUT THAT HE SHOULDN’T HAVE TO PAY THAT MUCH. IN TERMS OF GIULIANI NOT TESTIFYING THE PAST FEW DAYS, GIULIANI HAS SPOKEN OUTSIDE OF COURT. HE SAID HE LOOKS FORWARD TO PRESENTING HIS CASE. BUT I THINK IT’S NOTABLE

THAT HE REVERSED COURSE AT THE LAST MINUTE. A LOT OF THIS, EVEN OVER THE PAST FEW DAYS, HAS BEEN THE JUDGE REPRIMANDING GIULIANI FOR COMMENTS THAT HE’S MADE OUTSIDE THE COURTHOUSE. GIULIANI HAS SAID THAT STILL BELIEVES THE COMMENTS THAT HE MADE IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE 2020 ELECTION ABOUT THESE TWO POLL WORKERS.

>> HE SAYS THAT HE ESSENTIALLY STILL BELIEVES THAT AND THE JUDGE REPRIMANDED HIM, SAYING THAT THAT COULD BE WRONGFUL CONDUCT THE LINE. SO I THINK IT’S IMPORTANT TO POINT OUT THAT WHAT GIULIANI SAYING OUTSIDE THE COURTHOUSE IS NOT UNDER OATH. WHAT HE’S SAYING INSIDE THE COURTROOM, WHICH IS NOTHING.

HE DECIDED NOT TO TESTIFY, WOULD BE UNDER OATH, OBVIOUSLY. LAWYERS TYPICALLY ADVISE THEIR CLIENTS NOT TO TAKE THE STAND. IT WAS A REVERSAL GIVEN THAT GIULIANI SAID ALL ALONG THAT HE WOULD BUT I THINK HIS LAWYER FOR HIS PART, JOE SIBLEY, SAID IN COURT THAT GIULIANI TAKE THE STAND

OUT OF RESPECT FOR THESE TWO WOMEN, EVEN THOUGH BEEN TALKING ABOUT THEM OUTSIDE THE COURTHOUSE AS WELL. >> AND KIM, I WANT YOU TO WEIGH IN HERE. YOU KNOW, GIULIANI’S OWN ATTORNEY ARGUED THAT UP TO $43 MILLION PAYOUT, THE PLAINTIFFS ARE LOOKING HERE IS THE EQUIVALENT OF THE DEATH PENALTY

IN THE EQUIVALENT OF THE DEATH PENALTY. >> THAT’S HOW HE PUT IT. HE EVEN URGED THE TO LEVY A FAR LOWER FIGURE HERE. SO DOES AN ARGUMENT LIKE THAT SWAY A JURY, ESPECIALLY AFTER THE LAWYER HIMSELF ACKNOWLEDGED HIS CLIENT ACTED IRRESPONSIBLY IN THIS SITTION ? >> WELL, THESE TWO PLAINTIFFS,

I’M SURE, ARE TUGGED ON THE OF ALL THOSE JURORS LIKE OF MANY AMERICANS WHO SAW STORY BOTH DURING THE JANUARY SIX COMMITTEE HEARINGS AND THROUGH THIS PROCESS. THEIR LIVES WERE DESTROYED. THEY LOST THEIR JOBS. THEIR FAMILIES WERE THREATENED . THEY’RE HAVING DIFFICULTY LEAVING THEIR HOUSE. SO THERE’S ALL OF EMOTIONAL

HARM, HARM TO THEIR REPUTATION WAS MENTIONED AS WELL AS THEIR JOB PROSPECTS. BUT THIS CASE ALSO INVOLVES PUNITIVE DAMAGES. SO THEY’RE ABLE THIS JURY IS ABLE TO GO BEYOND JUST HOW DO YOU MAKE THESE PLAINTIFFS WHOLE, IF THAT’S EVEN POSSIBLE, AND ACTUALLY PUNISH RUDY GIULIANI. THAT’S NOT TYPICAL IN LOT OF CASES.

THAT’S THAT’S KIND OF DAMAGES PLUS AND THE FACT THAT THERE WAS AN EXPERT THAT SAID JUST OVER A PERIOD, THREE YEARS, THEY WERE MENTIONED 700,000 TIMES ON SOCIAL MEDIA. THAT KIND OF HARASSMENT, EXPONENTIAL IMPACT, I THINK IT’S GOING TO BE VERY HARD FOR THESE JURORS NOT TO WANT

TO REALLY DO SOMETHING TO MAKE THESE WOMEN’S LIVES BETTER, FRANKLY, GIVEN WHAT THEY’VE ENDURED AT THE HANDS OF RUDY GIULIANI. AND AS WAS MENTIONED, HE STIPULATED FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS TRIAL TO THE UNDERLYING FACTS. AND THE ONLY QUESTION IS HOW MUCH DAMAGE IS HIS RESPONSIBLE FOR?

>> AND JUST MOMENTS AGO, WE JUST GOT NEWS FROM A COURTROOM THAT THE JURORS ACTUALLY HAVE LEFT FOR DAY. THEY DELIBERATED FOR ABOUT 3 HOURS. THEY DIDN’T A VERDICT. SO IT SEEMS LIKE WE’RE GOING TO HAVE TO WAIT ANOTHER DAY BEFORE WE FIND WHAT THEY DECIDE IN THIS CASE. AND KIM GIULIANI’S OWN

ATTORNEY HAS SAID THAT THE FORMER MAYOR IS STRAPPED FOR CASH. AND WE’VE LEARNED THE MOUNTAIN OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAWSUITS THAT HE’S BEEN FACING HAVE ESSENTIALLY LEFT HIM WITH THAT MONEY. HE’S FACING FINANCIAL DIFFICULTY ACCORDING TO HIS OWN LEGAL TEAM. SO WHAT HAPPENS IF THE JUDGE DECIDES TO AWARD

FREEMAN AND MOSS A SIGNIFICANT SUM OF MONEY AND GIULIANI JUST CAN’T COME UP WITH THAT MONEY, THEN? >> THAT’S UNFORTUNATE REALLY IT’S LEFT FOR FREEMAN AND MOSS TO TRY TO TRACK IT DOWN, TO TRY TO, YOU KNOW, SECURE SOME ASSETS. I MEAN, SOME OF US REMEMBER THE SIMPSON TRIAL, RIGHT?

HE WAS ACQUITTED IN THE CRIMINAL SIDE, BUT THERE WAS A BIG CIVIL VERDICT THAT NEVER WAS PAID. AND SO CAN JUST BASICALLY WALK OFF AND SAY, I’M, YOU KNOW, I’M BANKRUPT THERE’S NO MONEY THERE. AND SO THAT’S SORT OF THE SAD PIECE OF THE STORY. IT COULD BE THAT IS THAT

THEY WON’T SEE ACTUAL DOLLARS, BUT HOPEFULLY THEY WILL BE VINDICATED IN THE PUBLIC EYE AS INNOCENT. ANY OF THE THE FRAUD, THE WRONGDOING, THE WRONGDOING THAT THAT THAT BOTH RUDY GIULIANI AND FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP FALSELY ACCUSED THEM OF FOR OVER A PERIOD OF MANY MONTHS.

>> AND THAT WAS WE WERE WAITING FOR, YOU KNOW, THE INFORMATION FROM THE JURY, THE JURY ON WHAT HAPPENS NEXT. THEY’RE SUPPOSED TO COME BACK TOMORROW MORNING AT 9:00 IN THE MORNING TO CONTINUE THE DELIBERATIONS HERE. >> CATHERINE, I JUST WANT TO COME TO YOU ONCE THIS CASE IS OVER.

GIULIANI’S LEGAL TROUBLES DON’T END THERE. HE HAS A LOT OF OTHER LEGAL TROUBLES THAT HE’S IN. HE’S DEALING WITH. HE’S ALSO ONE OF THE 18 TRUMP CO-DEFENDANTS CHARGED IN THE GEORGIA RICO CASE FOR HIS ALLEGED ROLE IN TRYING TO OVERTURN THE STATE’S ELECTION RESULTS THERE DURING THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.

SO HOW MUCH POTENTIAL TROUBLE IS HE’S FACING HERE? >> LOOK, AS YOU SAID, THIS IS BY NO MEANS THE END OF THE ROAD FOR GIULIANI. LEGAL TROUBLES IN ANY IN ANY WAY. HE HAS OBVIOUSLY CHARGED IN GEORGIA WITH 13 CRIMES IN THAT GEORGIA INDICTMENT, INCLUDING ELECTION FRAUD. WHAT THE PROSECUTORS THERE

THE STATE PROSECUTORS THERE HAVE CALLED THIS CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE. >> HE IS ALSO ONE OF THE UNINDICTED COCONSPIRATORS IN THE SPECIAL COUNSEL’S HERE, THE ELECTION SUBVERSION CASE THAT JACK SMITH HAS CHARGED DONALD TRUMP. HE’S ONE OF THOSE COCONSPIRATORS WHO’S LISTED THERE, ALONG WITH MULTIPLE OTHER DEFAMATION LAWSUITS FOR, EXAMPLE.

SO HE IS FACING A LOT OF CRIMINAL LIABILITY HERE, EVEN PAST THIS TRIAL HERE THIS WEEK. >> AND AGAIN, MOMENTS AGO, WE LEARNED FROM THE COURT THAT THE JURY THAT’S DELIBERATING GIULIANI’S DEFAMATION DAMAGES IN THIS TRIAL HAS NOW GONE HOME FOR THE DAY. THEY WILL RETURN AT 9:00 FRIDAY MORNING TO CONTINUE.

WE WILL LEARN THEN AT SOME POINT WHEN WHAT IN TERMS OF THE DAMAGES THAT GIULIANI WILL TO PAY IN THIS TRIAL. >> KATHERINE KIM, THANK YOU BOTH. WE WANT TO TURN TO THE NEWS OVERSEAS THIS AFTERNOON. AUTHORITIES IN EUROPE SAY THEY’VE STOPPED WHAT THEY’RE CALLING AN ALLEGED TERROR PLOT IN THREE COUNTRIES.

AT LEAST SEVEN PEOPLE, INCLUDING FOUR, SUSPECTED HAMAS MEMBERS, WERE ARRESTED IN DENMARK AND GERMANY AND THE NETHERLANDS. ALL SUSPECTED OF PLOTTING ATTACKS ON MULTIPLE JEWISH INSTITUTIONS, JEWS IN EUROPE. AND GERMAN PROSECUTORS SAY THREE OF THE SUSPECTS WERE DETAINED IN BERLIN AND ANOTHER ONE WAS DETAINED IN THE NETHERLANDS.

THE HEAD OF DENMARK’S SECURITY AND INTELLIGENCE SERVICE CALLED IT A SERIOUS SITUATION. >> IN THE MEANTIME, IN TEL AVIV TODAY, U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER JAKE SULLIVAN MEETING WITH ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU TO DISCUSS HUMANITARIAN AID IN DEFEATING HAMAS AND THE RELEASE OF HOSTAGES AND ANOTHER CEASE FIRE. SULLIVAN ALSO WITH MEMBERS

OF ISRAEL’S WAR MANAGEMENT CABINET TO DISCUSS THE DIRECTION OF THIS WAR. AS THE FIGHTING RAGES ON IN GAZA. LET’S TALK ABOUT THIS WITH ABC AND NPR, PITARO, WHO’S IN TEL AVIV AND ABC NEWS NATIONAL SECURITY, DEFENSE ANALYST AND MICK MULROY. THANK YOU BOTH FOR JOINING US HERE.

MICK, I WANT TO JUST START WITH YOU AND TALK ABOUT THESE REPORTS, THESE FOILED TERROR ATTACKS IN EUROPE. THE FEAR WHEN ALL OF THIS STARTED OCTOBER 7TH, WAS THE IDEA THIS WAR COULD ACTUALLY SPREAD TO OTHER REGIONS. >> WHAT’S AT PLAY HERE? >> SO THIS VERY TROUBLING BECAUSE WE EXPECTED TO SEE

A LOT OF THESE TYPE OF TERRORIST ACTIONS OUTSIDE OF GAZA. ISIS’S CALL FOR WHAT AL QAEDA HAS CALLED FOR. AND THIS WAS ACTUALLY HAMAS, WHICH IS SOMEWHAT UNUSUAL BECAUSE ALTHOUGH HAMAS IS A DEDICATED DESIGNATED TERRORIST ORGANIZATION, THEY REALLY AREN’T INTERNATIONALLY, REALLY DON’T REALLY HAVE THE CAPABILITY TO DO THAT.

AND MAYBE THAT’S WHY THIS THWARTED. BUT THAT DOESN’T MEAN IT’S OVER. THIS COULD BE JUST THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG. HATS OFF TO THE INTELLIGENCE SERVICES AND LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES THAT STOPPED THIS. >> BUT I DO THINK THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE MIGHT SEE REPLAYED AGAIN. >> AGAIN.

AND, OF COURSE, IT’S RAISING ALARMS AMONG INTELLIGENCE ALL ACROSS THE WORLD RIGHT NOW. AND AS I WANT TO COME TO YOU, YOU KNOW, WE KNOW FAMILIES OF THE HOSTAGES CONTINUE TO PUT PRESSURE ON ISRAEL TO DO MORE TO BRING LOVED ONES BACK HOME. AT THIS POINT, WHAT CAN YOU TELL US ABOUT WHERE

STAND AS FAR AS THE WAR AND HOW THE VISIT BY JAKE SULLIVAN TODAY, THE NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER IS BEING RECEIVED THERE IN ISRAEL? >> YEAH, SO, I MEAN, IN TERMS OF WHERE THINGS STANDS, THOSE NEGOTIATIONS MUCH AT AN IMPASSE. THERE WERE SOME REPORTS SURFACING YESTERDAY THAT ISRAEL HAD ASKED QATAR AND EGYPT

TO MAYBE SOME KIND OF NEW TRUCE. AND THEN THERE WERE REPORTS THAT ISRAEL HAD ACTUALLY BLOCKED THE THE ISRAELI NEGOTIATORS, ISRAELI INTELLIGENCE SERVICE FROM MOVING FORWARD WITH THOSE TALKS. SO HOSTAGE FAMILIES HERE OUTRAGED. THEY PUT OUT A STATEMENT DEMANDING ANSWERS FROM, THE GOVERNMENT. TODAY, THE ISRAELI PRESIDENT DID MEET WITH SOME

OF THOSE HOSTAGE FAMILIES AT HOSTAGE SQUARE. WE WERE THERE. WE SPOKE A FREED HOSTAGE, ACTUALLY A WOMAN NAMED ROSS BEN-AMI WAS RELEASED JUST TWO WEEKS AGO. SHE WAS TAKEN HOSTAGE ON OCTOBER 7TH, ALONG WITH HUSBAND. HER HUSBAND REMAINS IN CAPTIVITY. SHE TOLD US ABOUT HOW SHE HID UNDER THE COVERS WHEN HAMAS

MILITANTS STORMED HER HOME. SHE HEARD THEM TAKING HUSBAND HOSTAGE. THEY STILL FOUND HER. THEY TOOK HER ON THE BACK OF MOTORCYCLE INTO GAZA. AND AGAIN, SHE WAS JUST RELEASED JUST TWO WEEKS AGO. >> I’LL LET YOU LISTEN TO WHAT SHE HAD TO SAY. LIKE MY DAUGHTER SAID, ANYTHING

THAT I SELL A HOUSE, YOU NAME THINGS. ARE YOU OKAY? AND THAT’S OKAY. YOU KNOW, HOW CAN YOU. OKAY, I’M GOING TO GIVE YOU IS THERE AND I’M HERE. >> THAT’S ALL WE WANT. AND SHE WOULDN’T GET INTO THE DETAILS, WHAT SHE WENT THROUGH. IN FACT, HER DAUGHTERS TELLING

US THEY STILL DON’T KNOW WHAT THEIR WENT THROUGH. I THINK THAT SPEAKS TO THE TRAUMA HERE OF WHAT SOME OF THESE HOSTAGES HAVE GONE THROUGH THAT THEY HAVEN’T EVEN BEEN ABLE TO REALLY PROCESS THEIR ORDEAL AND THE HEARTBREAK THAT THEY’RE FEELING. YOU CAN JUST JUST IMAGINE WHAT THEY’RE GOING THROUGH RIGHT NOW.

AND AS MICK. THANK BOTH. >> RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN SAYS THERE WILL BE NO PEACE IN UKRAINE UNTIL RUSSIA REACHES ITS GOALS. THERE PUTIN’S COMMENTS COMING TODAY DURING HIS ANNUAL PRESS CONFERENCE, WHICH HAPPENED FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE RUSSIA LAUNCHED ITS INVASION OF UKRAINE. STATE MEDIA REPORTING AT LEAST

2 MILLION QUESTIONS WERE SUBMITTED FOR THAT EVENT, WHICH LASTED OVER 4 HOURS. ABC’S PATRICK REEVELL HAS MORE FROM LONDON. >> HI, FAITH WAS PUTIN’S ANNUAL MARATHON PRESS CONFERENCE AND HE SKIPPED IT LAST YEAR, THE FIRST TIME IN YEARS WHEN THE WAR IN UKRAINE WAS GOING VERY BADLY FOR RUSSIA.

THAT HE HELD IT THIS YEAR SUGGESTS HE FEELS MORE BACK IN CONTROL. PERHAPS MOST IMPORTANT, HE MADE CLEAR HIS GOALS IN THAT WAR ARE UNCHANGED. HE SAID THE FIGHTING WILL CONTINUE UNTIL THE DEMILITARIZATION AND DE-NAZIFICATION OF UKRAINE. REPEATING THE SAME FALSE CLAIM THAT THE COUNTRY IS RUN BY .

>> AND THAT MEANS THAT HE STILL WANTS UKRAINE’S CAPITULATION, REGIME CHANGE AND FOR KEY TO GIVE UP ITS AMBITIONS, JOIN NATO AND THE EUROPEAN UNION. WITH MORE U.S. AID IN DOUBT NOW PUTIN IS PROJECTING CONFIDENCE. PUTIN WAS ALSO ASKED A PRISONER SWAP FOR “WALL STREET JOURNAL” REPORTER EVAN GERSHKOVICH

AND FORMER MARINE WHO RUSSIA IS HOLDING HOSTAGE. PUTIN SAID RUSSIA WANTS AN AGREEMENT AND THAT THERE IS A DIALOG AROUND A POSSIBLE DEAL. BUT THE US LISTEN TO RUSSIA. JUST THIS MONTH, THE U.S. SAID RUSSIA HAD REJECTED A SUBSTANTIAL OFFER FOR GERSHKOVICH AND WE LEARNED. ONE OTHER THING THAT DID STICK

OUT IS PROBABLY THE STRANGE MOMENT OF THE PRESS CONFERENCE. A STUDENT FROM SAINT PETERSBURG CALLED VIA VIDEO LINK USING A DEEPFAKE FILTER THAT MADE HIM LOOK LIKE PUTIN. >> TAKE A LOOK AT THAT YESTERDAY THAT YOU WOULD PICTURE THAT IN NEW YORK CITY. IT WAS THE LEFT OVER FROM

THE WINNING ISSUE A NICE TIME CAPTURING EACH OF THEM. WELL, THERE’S MORE TO BRITAIN IN THE MEDIA FOR A VERY COMMON REALISM THERE. BUT PERDOMO ISSUES THE MESSENGER. THE GREAT MARION WILSON GOES ON TO ADD THE INJURY. THAT WAS A REFERENCE TO RUMORS THAT HAVE BECOME INCREASINGLY

POPULAR ON THE RUSSIAN INTERNET THAT PUTIN HAS MULTIPLE BODY DOUBLES. THE KREMLIN HAS DENIED IT, BUT CLEARLY TODAY SHOWS THAT THEY’RE AWARE OF HOW WIDESPREAD THOSE RUMORS HAVE BECOME. >> FAITH PATRICK, THANK YOU. AND WE’RE NOW JUST TWO WEEKS AWAY FROM THE FIRST PRIMARY VOTING OF THE 2024 ELECTION CYCLE.

DONALD TRUMP REMAINS FAR AND AWAY THE FRONT RUNNER HERE, BUT FORMER SOUTH CAROLINA GOVERNOR NIKKI HALEY IS GAINING MOMENTUM AND JUST SCORED A BIG ENDORSEMENT FROM NEW HAMPSHIRE GOVERNOR CHRIS SUNUNU. ABC CHIEF WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT JONATHAN KARL SAT DOWN WITH BOTH HALEY AND SUNUNU. >> AND HE JOINS US RIGHT NOW.

HEY, BRAD, I JUST UP A WIDE RANGING INTERVIEW WITH NIKKI HALEY AND NEW HAMPSHIRE GOVERNOR CHRIS SUNUNU, WHO JUST ENDORSED HER. I ASKED HER ABOUT SOMETHING THAT SHE WAS ASKED AT ONE OF HER TOWN HALLS RECENTLY HERE IN NEW HAMPSHIRE ABOUT DONALD TRUMP. >> AND ONE OF YOUR TOWN HALLS

WEEK, THERE WAS A VOTER THAT STOOD UP AND SAID, YOU REALLY TO TURN IT UP ON DONALD TRUMP. YOU NEED TO GO AFTER HARD AND NOT JUST SAY IT’S CHAOS. IT’S INTERESTING THAT WE HEARD YOU SAY THAT HE WAS THE RIGHT PRESIDENT FOR THE RIGHT TIME. WHAT DO YOU SAY TO VOTERS LIKE

THAT THAT SAY THAT YOU REALLY NEED TO DRAW THAT LINE? >> BECAUSE I AND I’M TRYING TO THE TIMES AND OTHER TIMES YOU SAID HE WAS RIGHT PRESIDENT FOR THE RIGHT TIME. >> HE’S FIT FOR OFFICE. I MEAN, YOU’RE ONE OF THOSE, TOO. WANT ME TO EITHER LOVE HIM OR HATE HIM.

>> I WANT TO ASK YOU TO RESPOND TO THE NEW HAMPSHIRE VOTERS. SO I DID. AND I RESPONDED TO HIM AND EVERYONE. AND WHAT I SAID TO THEM WAS ANTI-TRUMP RAGE. WANT ME TO HATE HIM? PRO TRUMPERS WANT ME TO LOVE HIM. BUT IS WHERE I STAND. THERE ARE THINGS I AGREE

WITH THE PRESIDENT ON. I HAD GOOD WORKING RELATIONSHIP. >> THERE ARE THINGS I DON’T AGREE. I DON’T AGREE WITH THE FACT THAT, YES, WE HAD A GOOD ECONOMY WHILE WAS THERE, BUT HE PUT US $8 TRILLION DEBT THAT OUR KIDS ARE NEVER GOING TO FORGIVE US FOR. I DON’T AGREE WITH HOW

HE HANDLES NATIONAL SECURITY. HE FOCUSED ON TRADE WITH CHINA . BUT HE DID NOTHING ABOUT THE FENTANYL FLOW. HE DID NOTHING ABOUT THE INTRUSION THEY HAD IN OUR COUNTRY. HE DID NOTHING ABOUT THE SPY BASE OFF OUR SHORES IN CUBA. HE DID NOTHING ABOUT THE FACT THAT FENTANYL HAS KILLED SO

MANY OF OUR AMERICANS. I DON’T THINK YOU SHOULD PRAISE HEZBOLLAH. I DON’T THINK YOU SHOULD CRITICIZE NETANYAHU WHEN ISRAEL’S DOWN ON EARNINGS KNEES. I THINK YOU SHOULD CONGRATULATE THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY ON THEIR 70TH ANNIVERSARY. I THINK THAT WHEN IT COMES NATIONAL SECURITY, WE DON’T PRAISE THUGS. WE LET THEM KNOW WHERE WE

STAND AND WE LET THEM KNOW THEY’LL BE HELD TO PAY IF THEY DO ANYTHING AGAINST US. >> THAT’S WHO I AM. AS YOU CAN HEAR, NIKKI HALEY IS CLEARLY STEPPING UP HER CRITICISM OF TRUMP. >> BUT SHE’S ONLY GOING SO FAR. SHE KNOWS THAT SHE BOTH NEEDS TO RUN AGAINST TRUMP, NEEDS

TO PEEL VOTERS AWAY FROM HIM, ULTIMATELY, ALSO NEEDS TO GET SUPPORT FROM PEOPLE WHO HAVE SUPPORTED DONALD TRUMP. THERE’S A LOT MORE TO THIS INTERVIEW. YOU CAN SEE IT ON SUNDAY ON THIS WEEK. >> OUR THANKS TO JONATHAN KARL FOR, THAT CONVERSATION. YOU CAN CATCH THE FULL INTERVIEW THIS SUNDAY ON THIS

WEEK ONLY ON ABC NEWS. >> COMING UP, SOME GOOD NEWS. THE ECONOMY SENDING STOCKS SOARING. THAT’S NEXT AFTER THE BREAK BREAK. >> WHENEVER NEWS BREAKS, WE ARE HERE IN ISRAEL, A NATION AT WAR AFTER THAT BRUTAL SURPRISE ATTACK BY HAMAS ON THE GROUND IN UKRAINE. >> REPORTING FROM LEWISTON

MAINE, THE SCENE OF A HORRIFIC MASS SHOOTING. >> ABC NEWS LIVE IS RIGHT THERE AT THE SCENE OF THAT DEADLY MISSILE STRIKE IN UKRAINE. UKRAINE REPORTING FROM THE EARTHQUAKE IN TURKEY, ENROLLING IT. THIS TORNADO TORE THROUGH THIS LITTLE TOWN FROM THE MOST DEVASTATING DISASTER IN HAWAII, FROM CHARLESTON, SOUTH

CAROLINA, ON THE 2024 CAMPAIGN TRAIL IN ICELAND. >> LET’S GO TRAVELING WITH THE PRESIDENT IN MEXICO CITY THIS MORNING FROM. THE FRONT LINES FROM SOUTHERN ISRAEL OUTSIDE THE GAZA STRIP TO GET FAVORS FROM. THE FBI. REPORTING FROM THE NURSES ON THE PICKET LINE HERE AT TEN DOWNING STREET IN LONDON

STREAMING LIVE TO YOU OR EVER. THE STORY IS WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WE’RE GOING TO TAKE YOU THERE. WE’RE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE, ABC NEWS LIVE HERE, STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE, ABC NEWS LIVE STREAMING FREE EVERYWHERE. >> AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS.

>> WHEN THE ANNOUNCER CALLS MY NAME THE WORLD ALWAYS FADES AWAY. IT’S THE BIGGEST IT’S THE MOST FAMOUS DOG EVENT THERE IS WELCOME TO CROOKS, THE WORLD’S GREATEST DOPE SHOW. THE COMPETITION. DOG DANCING IS SERVICED EVERY YEAR, EVERY DOG HAS ITS DAY ON THE DANCE FLOOR. DANCING WITH MY DOG,

THE CLOSEST THING TO MAGIC. WINNER OF THE 2023 SECRET OF DANCING DOGS NOW STREAMING ON HELLO. >> OH, ARE YOU READY? LET’S DO IT. YES, IT’S THE SHOW AMERICA WANTS AND AMERICA NEEDS IT RIGHT NOW. THIS IS. WHAT WOULD YOU DO? ALL RIGHT, LET’S GO. HOW ARE YOU? I KNOW YOU.

SO WHAT WILL YOU DO? WATCHING SATURDAY’S ON ABC NEWS LIVE, WHAT WOULD YOU DO? I GUESS. >> I JUST FOUND OUT. WHAT WOULD YOU DO? MARATHON TO SIX EASTERN EVERY SATURDAY ON ABC NEWS LIVE. MY FAVORITE SHOW. >> AND WE TURN NOW TO THE ECONOMY. THAT BIG ANNOUNCEMENT FROM

THE FEDERAL RESERVE SIGNALING THAT IT’S DONE RAISING INTEREST RATES AND COULD START CUTTING THEM AS EARLY NEXT YEAR. THE NEWS SENDING THE STOCK MARKET SOARING. ABC’S HAS THE LATEST. A POWERFUL RALLY ACROSS WALL STREET. THE DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE RISING MORE THAN 500 POINTS, HITTING A RECORD HIGH WEDNESDAY, CLOSING ABOVE 37,000

FOR THE FIRST TIME WITH THE FEDERAL RESERVE ANNOUNCING PLANS TO CUT INTEREST NEXT YEAR. >> WALL STREET LIKES THIS BECAUSE IT’S GOOD FOR THE ECONOMY, HAVE LOWER RATES. >> THAT MEANS IT’S CHEAPER FOR FAMILIES AND HOUSEHOLDS AND BUSINESSES AND EVERYBODY TO BORROW MONEY. >> THE FEDERAL RESERVE, IT WILL CUT INTEREST RATES

THREE TIMES IN 2024 AFTER A HISTORIC SERIES OF RATE HIKES ,MEANING MORTGAGE RATES, AUTO LOANS AND CREDIT CARD COSTS WOULD DOWN. THAT WOULD BE A WELCOME RELIEF. AMERICANS CREDIT CARD DEBT IS AT A RECORD HIGH, WITH ALMOST HALF OF CARDHOLDERS CARRYING BALANCE FROM MONTH TO MONTH. >> THE FED RAISES RATES TO SLOW

DOWN THE ECONOMY. AND NOW THAT THEY THINK THAT THEY MAY BE DONE SLOWING DOWN THE ECONOMY, NOW THEY CAN THINK ABOUT GOING BACK TO A MORE NEUTRAL LEVEL OF INTEREST RATES. >> FOR THE THIRD TIME IN A ROW, THE FEDERAL RESERVE LEAVING INTEREST RATES UNTOUCHED. >> ITS MEETING WEDNESDAY.

INFLATION HAS EASED FROM ITS HIGHS AND HAS COME WITHOUT A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN UNEMPLOYMENT. >> THAT’S VERY GOOD NEWS. >> NEW DATA SHOWS INFLATION SLOWED TO A RATE OF 3.1% LAST MONTH, DOWN SLIGHTLY FROM 3.2% IN OCTOBER. >> BUT LOWER INFLATION READINGS THE PAST SEVERAL MONTHS ARE WELCOME.

BUT WE WILL NEED TO SEE FURTHER EVIDENCE TO BUILD CONFIDENCE THAT INFLATION IS MOVING DOWN SUSTAINABLY TOWARD OUR GOAL. WHILE WE BELIEVE THAT OUR POLICY RATE IS LIKELY AT OR NEAR ITS PEAK FOR THIS TIGHTENING CYCLE, WE ARE PREPARED TO TIGHTEN POLICY FURTHER. IF APPROPRIATE. >> AND OUR THANKS TO REENA ROY

FOR THAT REPORT. >> COMING UP, HOUSTON, WE’VE SOLVED THE. WHAT ASTRONAUTS FOUND IN SPACE TODAY SOLVING ALMOST A YEARLONG MYSTERY. HOUSTON SAY THE 16 YEAR OLD SHOT BOTH OF HIS PARENTS NOW FRIDAY. INSIDE THE COURTROOM AND THE SHOCKING NEW EVIDENCE THAT CAME IN JUST DAYS BEFORE THE TRIAL BEGAN.

YOU GOT TO BE KIDDING ME. WHOSE BLOOD IS THIS? I COULDN’T EVEN FATHOM THE IDEA OF KILLING MY PARENTS. EVERYTHING. EVERYTHING POINTS TO HIM. I MEAN, 20, 20. FRIDAY AT 9 A.M. CENTRAL ON ABC. YOU’RE BACK AT IT AGAIN. I GOT NOTHING ELSE TO DO. I GET TO WITNESS IT.

I GOT TO GET OUT OF HOUSE TOMORROW. GEORGE CLOONEY AND MICHAEL STRAHAN, THE ALL-NEW INTERVIEW PERSON TRADE PLACES WITH FOR A DAY TOMORROW. IT’S A CRAZY DAY. ONLY ON GOOD MORNING AMERICA. >> TONIGHT, A WOMAN’S RIGHT TO MAKE HER OWN HEALTH CHOICES WITH ABORTION. PILL ACCESS SET GO BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT.

IS A CRISIS BREWING? MORE AMERICANS TURN TO THE MOST WATCHED PROGRAM ON TELEVISION. “WORLD NEWS TONIGHT”, DAVID MUIR. WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE? >> ABC NEWS. THIS IS “START HERE” TO BE IN THE NEWS AND A DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE DAY’S TOP STORIES.

A LOT OF NEWS TODAY. SO LET’S GET INTO IT. LISTEN NOW TO THE DAILY NEWS PODCAST HONORED WITH FOR R MURROW AWARDS AND SEE WHY THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS IT A PODCAST WORTH LISTENING TO START HERE. ABC NEWS MAKE IT YOUR DAILY FIRST LISTEN. >> NOW THAT’S THE PART OF THE

STORY THAT YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING. >> WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS, START HERE. ALL ACROSS THE WORLD, THE WORLD WILL BE THE NEW YEAR. AND YOU CAN SEE IT AS IT HAPPENS. WHY THE GLOBAL CELEBRATIONS? SEE NEW YEAR AS IT COMES IN, CHRISTINE. ALL DAY AND NIGHT ON ABC NEWS LIVE.

WE ARE HERE IN ISRAEL A AT WAR WATCHING TANK AFTER TANK POURING INTO THIS. >> THIS IS WHERE IT ALL BEGAN. BULLET HOLES ALL UP THE WALL. >> WITHIN MINUTES OF THE AIR RAID SIRENS GOING OFF. SOUND EXPLOSION DOWN HERE TONIGHT, ISRAEL WAGING A FIERCE BOMBARDMENT OF GAZA, THE ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR.

FOR NONSTOP LIVE COVERAGE, STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE REPORTING FROM SOUTHERN ISRAEL, FROM THE FRONT LINE DOWNTOWN IN BEIRUT. WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WE’LL TAKE YOU THERE. >> ABC NEWS WAS TRAVELING WITH PRESIDENT BIDEN IN IRELAND AND KAREN TRAVERS WHEREVER THE STORY IS. WE’LL TAKE YOU THERE. YOU’RE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE

SO NASSER MAY NOT HAVE FOUND EVIDENCE OF ALIENS IN SPACE, BUT THEY’VE SOLVED WHAT HAS BEEN CALLED ONE OF THE BIGGEST MYSTERIES, THE MYSTERY OF THE MISSING TOMATO. THIS WEEK, NASA ANNOUNCING THAT A TOMATO THAT ASTRONAUT FRANK RUBIO LOST EIGHT MONTHS AGO HAS BEEN FOUND AND IT WAS FLOATING AROUND

THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION IN A PLASTIC BAG. RUBIO CAME BACK TO EARTH BACK IN SEPTEMBER AFTER COMPLETING THE LONGEST SINGLE SPACEFLIGHT FOR AN AMERICAN ASTRONAUT. ANDREAS 371 DAYS IN ORBIT. HE HARVESTED THE FIRST TOMATO IN SPACE, BUT IT FLOATED AWAY WHILE HE WAS DOING A SHOW AND TELL WITH SCHOOLCHILDREN.

NOW, IT WAS ONE OF THE MANY PLANTS THAT HE GREW FOR RESEARCH DURING HIS RECORD BREAKING ORBIT THERE. THE ASTRONAUT LAMENTING THAT WHAT WAS ONCE THE FIRST TOMATO GROWN IN SPACE BECAME THE FIRST TOMATO LOST IN SPACE. SO RUBIO SAYS SOME ACTUALLY SUSPECTED HIM OF ACTUALLY EATING THE TOMATO.

BUT TODAY, HIS HAS FINALLY BEEN CLEARED. >> ALL RIGHT. WE WILL CERTAINLY WE’RE HAPPY TO. THAT MYSTERY HAS ACTUALLY FINALLY BEEN SOLVED. SO THERE YOU GO. MUCH MORE NEWS AHEAD ON ABC NEWS LIVE IN. TODAY’S BIG STORY. DELIBERATIONS GETTING UNDERWAY AS JURORS WEIGH ON HOW MUCH RUDY GIULIANI SHOULD PAY AND IS

MORE MILLION DOLLAR DEFAMATION TRIAL. IN THE CLOSING ARGUMENTS TODAY FROM, BOTH SIDES AND HOW THE PAYOUT, WHATEVER THE AMOUNT IS, COULD BE ENFORCED. AND IN OUR SPOTLIGHT, THE SUPREME COURT TAKING A DISPUTE SURROUNDING A MEDICATION USING COMMENT ABORTION DRUG, A COMMON ABORTION DRUG IN THE U.S.. OUR PANEL WILL WEIGH IN ON

THE POTENTIAL POLITICAL IMPACT OF THAT CASE. THAT IS COMING HERE ON ABC NEWS LIVE. RIGHT NOW, JURORS ARE NOW WEIGHING IN. >> YOU ARE FEELING FEELING. I WAS TERRIFIED. IT WAS JUST SO TRAUMATIC. >> NIGHTMARE. PEOPLE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THESE WOMEN WANTED BABIES, 18 FACING LIFE AND DEATH, MEDICAL CONDITIONS.

>> THEIR LIVES NOW OUT OF THEIR CONTROL. I FELT LIKE I GOING TO DIE. OUR LIVES AND OUR HEALTH ARE DEBATABLE. I TO WISH UPON MY WORST ENEMY. >> DIANE SAWYER. RACHEL SAT ON BRAIN, NOW STREAMING ON HULU. HOUSTON POLICE SAY THE 16 YEAR OLD SHOT BOTH OF HIS

PARENTS NOW FRIDAY NIGHT, INSIDE THE COURTROOM IN THE SHOCKING NEW EVIDENCE THAT CAME IN JUST DAYS BEFORE THE TRIAL BEGAN. YOU GOT TO BE KIDDING. WHOSE BLOOD IS THIS? I COULDN’T EVEN FATHOM IDEA OF KILLING MY PARENTS. EVERYTHING PRETTY CLOSE HIM ON THE 2020. FRIDAY NIGHT AT NINE IN CENTRAL

D.C. FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. THERE’S A LOT GOING ON. EVERYBODY IN THAT HOME IS OKAY . TO CATCH YOU UP WITH WHAT HAPPENED OVERNIGHT. WE ARE HERE AT FASHION’S BIGGEST NIGHT OUT. WHAT’S HAPPENING TODAY? YOUTUBE HAS UNVEILED A NEW SET OF POLICIES. WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT.

THE NEW AD CAMPAIGN FAST. STRAIGHT FORWARD WITH SOME FUN IN BETWEEN A REAL LIFE DREAM HOUSE. A NAME CHANGE FOR THE WIENERMOBILE. FIRST THING IN THE MORNING, AMERICA. THIS MORNING, AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE EARLY MORNING NEWS ON ABC NEWS. >> WHAT DO YOU SAY? >> MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY

HERE FROM ABC NEWS. THIS IS “START HERE”. TO BE IN THE KNOW AND GET A DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE DAY’S TOP STORIES. A LOT OF NEWS TODAY SO LET’S GET RIGHT TO IT. LISTEN NOW TO THE DAILY NEWS PODCAST HONORED WITH FOUR EDWARD ARE MURROW AND SEE WHY

THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS IT A NEWS PODCAST LISTENING TO START HERE. ABC NEWS MAKE IT DAILY FIRST LISTEN NOW THAT’S A PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN’T SEE. >> WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS, START HERE. OKAY. >> WHAT ARE THE STORIES THAT TAKE YOU BACK TO SOME

OF YOUR HAPPIEST? TONIGHT, CELEBRATE 100 YEARS OF WHAT I THINK OF DISNEY. ONE WORD THAT COMES TO MIND. THE AMAZING DREAM. OH, WOW. SUPER CAROL. IT WAS FOREVER MAGICAL. THE SECRETS, THE FUN, THE WOW AND THE STORIES BEHIND THE STORIES YOU NEVER SEEN BEFORE. DISNEY HUNDRED A CENTURY OF DREAMS.

TONIGHT AT NINE EIGHT CENTRAL ON ABC AND STREAM ON HULU AND DISNEY PLUS. >> ALL RIGHT, YOU READY? LET’S DO IT. S, IT’S THE SHOW AMERICA WANTS AND AMERICA NEEDS, RIGHT NOW. THIS IS. WHAT WOULD YOU DO? LET’S GO. HOW ARE GUYS? SO WHAT WILL YOU BE

WATCHING SATURDAY ON ABC NEWS LIVE? WHAT WOULD YOU DO? I GUESS I JUST FOUND OUT. WHAT WOULD YOU DO? MARATHON 2 TO 6 EASTERN EVERY SATURDAY ON ABC NEWS LIVE. >> NOW MORE AMERICANS CHOOSE ABC NEWS. >> AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE NEWS SOURCE AND JURORS WEIGHING JUST

HOW MUCH MONEY RUDY GIULIANI NEED TO PAY FOR MAKING FALSE CLAIMS ABOUT TWO FORMER GEORGIA ELECTION WORKERS. I’M FAITH ABUBEY IN WASHINGTON . AND TODAY’S BIG STORY, JURY DELIBERATIONS GETTING UNDERWAY AFTER, CLOSING ARGUMENTS IN GIULIANI’S DEFAMATION TRIAL. TWO WORKERS, ELECTION WORKERS FROM GEORGIA, A MOTHER AND DAUGHTER, TENS OF MILLIONS

OF DOLLARS IN DAMAGES. WHAT ATTORNEYS FOR BOTH SIDES TOLD THE JURORS TODAY. AND IN OUR SPOTLIGHT, THE SUPREME COURT TAKING UP A DISPUTE SURROUNDING A MEDICATION USED IN THE MOST COMMON OF ABORTION HERE IN THE U.S.. OUR PANEL WEIGHS IN ON HOW THE BATTLE COULD IMPACT THE 2024 PRESIDENTIAL RACE.

THE AND WE BEGIN WITH OUR BIG STORY. A JURY NOW WEIGHING RUDY GIULIANI SHOULD PAY MILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO TWO FORMER GEORGIA ELECTION WORKERS. THE FORMER TRUMP ATTORNEY ALREADY LIABLE FOR MAKING FALSE CLAIMS ABOUT THE MOTHER AND DAUGHTER WHO THEN FACED RACIST AND VIOLENT THREATS. RUBY FREEMAN AND SHANE MOSS

ARE SEEKING UP TO $43 MILLION IN DAMAGES. AND TODAY, ONE OF THEIR ATTORNEYS TOLD JURORS THAT THE PAIR ARE ENTITLED TO EVEN MORE MONEY. GIULIANI ADMITS HE FALSELY ACCUSED MOSS AND FREEMAN OF MANIPULATING DURING THE 2024 ELECTION. BUT HE ARGUES THAT HIS WORDS WERE UNDER THE CONSTITUTION. JURY DELIBERATIONS HAVE ENDED

FOR THE DAY THEY SET TO RESUME TOMORROW. JOINING ME NOW IS NEWS SENIOR REPORTER HERE IN WASHINGTON FOLLOWING ALL OF THESE DEVELOPMENTS, KATHERINE BEING DELIBERATED FOR HOURS. >> THE JURY DELIBERATED FOR HOURS. IT SEEMS LIKE WE’RE GOING TO HAVE TO WAIT JUST A LITTLE LONGER BEFORE THEY MAKE THAT. YEAH, WE WILL.

FAITH IN THIS TRIAL HAS GONE REALLY FAST. WILL NOTE THAT IT JUST STARTED ON MONDAY. THE JURY BEGAN DELIBERATING EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. THEY DELIBERATED FOR A LITTLE OVER 3 HOURS HERE AND THEN SENT A NOTE TO THE JUDGE THAT SAID THEY WERE TO GO HOME AND COME BACK TOMORROW

AROUND 9 A.M. EASTERN TIME TO CONTINUE THEIR DELIBERATIONS. I IT’S WORTH POINTING OUT HERE THAT THEY’RE NOT FINDING GIULIANI GUILTY, FOR EXAMPLE, OF DEFAMATION. THIS IS ABOUT, AS YOU MENTIONED, HOW MUCH MONEY GIULIANI WILL ULTIMATELY PAY SEAMUS OVER THE TREATMENT, OF COURSE, ARE ASKING FOR $24 MILLION EACH, UP TO $24 MILLION

EACH. RUDY GIULIANI, HIS ATTORNEY, FOR HIS PART, ESSENTIALLY SAYS THAT THAT IS TOO MUCH. HE SHOULDN’T HAVE TO PAY THAT MUCH AT ALL. THAT SAID, THEY WILL BE BACK THERE TOMORROW MORNING IN THE COURTHOUSE, CONTINUING DELIBERATIONS. >> AND, YOU KNOW, THE CLOSING ARGUMENTS WERE REALLY INTERESTING WE HEARD BOTH SIDES

DELIVER THOSE CLOSING ARGUMENTS TODAY. GIULIANI’S ATTORNEY ACKNOWLEDGING HIS CLIENT MUST PAY SOMETHING, BUT ENCOURAGING THE JURY TO ACTUALLY ISSUE A MEASURED PUNISHMENT, CALLING GIULIANI A GOOD MAN. >> SO THE JURORS APPEAR RECEPTIVE. HIS ARGUMENT THERE? WELL, IT’S HARD TO SAY AND HARD TO TELL UNTIL WE HEAR ULTIMATELY WHAT THE JURY

DECIDES IN OF DAMAGES HERE. BUT AS YOU MENTIONED, THESE WERE INTERESTING CLOSING ARGUMENTS. OF COURSE, WE HEARD ATTORNEYS FOR FREEMAN IN MARSEILLES TALK ABOUT THE REPUTATIONAL HARM THAT THEY FACE, HOW THEY’VE HAD MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES ALONG THE WAY SINCE GIULIANI HAS BEEN MAKING THESE PUBLIC COMMENTS AFTER THE 2020 ELECTION

THAT WERE FALSE ABOUT THEM. BUT ALSO, AS YOU MENTIONED, GIULIANI’S ATTORNEY, JOE SIBLEY ,WAS TRYING TO TOW THIS FINE LINE HERE. HE WAS SAYING THAT GIULIANI, THAT HIS STATEMENTS WERE FALSE. HE EVEN SAID THE FOR RUDY GIULIANI SAID THAT THEY WERE IRRESPONSIBLE COMMENTS, WRONGFUL CONDUCT. BUT EVEN THOUGH IT WAS WRONG

FOR CONDUCTING IRRESPONSIBLE STATEMENTS. HE SHOULDN’T HAVE TO PAY OR BE SUBJECT TO PAYING AS MUCH AS THE PLAINTIFFS ARE SEEKING. AND, CATHERINE, YOU TALKED A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THIS. I JUST WANT TO GO BACK TO THAT POWERFUL TESTIMONY FROM FREEMAN IN BOSTON DURING THIS TRIAL. THEY SAID AT THE THAT THE

THREATS THEY RECEIVED WERE HUGELY DETRIMENTAL TO THEIR LIVES, THEIR MENTAL HEALTH, AND SAW THEM BREAK DOWN ON THE WITNESS STAND. WHAT CAN YOU TELL US ABOUT THEIR TESTIMONY, THEIR REALLY EMOTIONAL TESTING AT TIMES TESTIFYING THROUGH TEARS? WE, RUBY FREEMAN, SEAMUS ESPECIALLY SAY THAT SHE LIKE SHE DIDN’T JUST LIKE HER JOB

AS AN ELECTION POLL WORKER. >> SHE LOVED HER JOB. GIULIANI’S COMMENTS ESSENTIALLY RUINED HER REPUTATION, GIVEN HIS PUBLIC PROFILE AND WHAT HE WAS SAYING. AND SHE HAD TO QUIT HER JOB. SHE APPLIED FOR OTHER JOBS. SHE SAID SHE GAINED A LOT OF WEIGHT. SHE COULDN’T LEAVE HER HOUSE.

AT ONE POINT, FREEMAN SAID SHE WAS FORCED TO LEAVE HER HOUSE BECAUSE OF ALL THE THREATS THAT THEY WERE RECEIVING WITH NO TO REALLY COUNTERACT THEM. GIVEN THAT GIULIANI WAS ACTING ON BEHALF OF FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP AND ALLEGING THAT THESE TWO WOMEN ESSENTIALLY CHANGED THE VOTE, THAT THEY TAMPERED WITH BALLOTS

IN FULTON COUNTY ON ELECTION DAY. SO IT WAS IT WAS QUITE TESTIMONY FROM THOSE TWO WOMEN AND GIULIANI HIS ATTORNEY SAID THAT GIULIANI ULTIMATELY DECIDED NOT TO TESTIFY BECAUSE THE WOMEN HAD BEEN THROUGH ENOUGH. >> AND ANOTHER INTERESTING DEVELOPMENT DURING THIS TRIAL. YOU REMEMBER RUDY GIULIANI ADMITTED THAT HIS STATEMENTS

AND THE STATEMENTS THAT HE MADE DURING THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION WERE FALSE. >> BUT EARLIER THIS HE SEEMED TO HAVE BACKTRACKED ON THAT IN AN EXCHANGE OUTSIDE THE COURTHOUSE, OUR ABC NEWS LIVE ANCHOR, TERRY MORAN, HE SORT OF BACKTRACKED ON ALL OF THAT. >> I JUST WANT YOU TO TAKE

A LISTEN TO THIS. >> DO YOU REGRET WHAT YOU DID TO RUBY? AND I TOLD THE TRUTH. THEY THEY ENGAGED IN CHANGING VOTES. >> THERE’S NO PROOF OF THAT. DAN RATHER’S STATEMENT THAT. SO IF GIULIANI KEEPS MAKING STATEMENTS LIKE THE ONE YOU JUST HEARD THERE, EVEN AFTER THIS IS OVER, COULD

HE FACE EVEN MORE LEGAL TROUBLE? >> YEAH, HE GOOD FAITH IN THE JUDGE OVERSEEING THIS CASE. BERYL HOWELL HAD ADMONISHED GIULIANI INSIDE THE COURTROOM FOR THOSE STATEMENTS, SAYING THAT IF HE KEEPS MAKING THESE DEFAMATORY STATEMENTS, HE COULD FACE ANOTHER DEFAMATION SUIT DOWN THE ROAD. AND HIS OWN ATTORNEY, JOSEPH COURT, ESSENTIALLY

SAID THAT GIULIANI HASN’T HELPED HIMSELF THE LAST DAYS, ADMITTED THAT HIS COMMENTS OUTSIDE THE COURTHOUSE HAVEN’T BEEN HELPFUL. I’LL NOTE THAT WHAT HE’S SAYING OUTSIDE COURT, HE’S NOT UNDER OATH. HE’S OF COURSE, OATH INSIDE COURT, HENCE WHY HE LIKELY DIDN’T TAKE THE STAND TO TESTIFY IN HIS DEFENSE.

>> AND AT THIS POINT, THE JURORS HAVE LEFT FOR THE DAY. THEY’RE GOING TO COME BACK TOMORROW AND 9:00 IN THE MORNING TO CONTINUE DELIBERATING. AT THIS POINT, HOW COULD THIS PAYOUT, WHATEVER THE AMOUNT IS, BE IN FORCE, ESPECIALLY CONSIDERING GIULIANI IS ALREADY REPORTEDLY FACING FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES.

SO NO MATTER HOW MUCH THE AMOUNT IS, NO MATTER WHAT THE DECISION IS BY THE JUDGE AND JURY HERE, WHAT ARE THE DIFFICULTY MOVING FORWARD? >> IT’S A GOOD QUESTION. AND IT’S HARD TO SAY IF GIULIANI HAVE THE MONEY IS NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO PAY THEM. IT WOULD BE ON LOSS.

AND FREEMAN ESSENTIALLY TO FIGURE THIS OUT WITH GIULIANI, IF THERE WAS ANY ASSETS, FOR EXAMPLE, WHERE THEY CAN FIGURE THIS OUT. BUT IF GIULIANI JUST DOESN’T HAVE THE MONEY, IF HE IS BANKRUPT, HE HE CAN’T PAY THEM. SO IT WILL BE INTERESTING, INTERESTING TO SEE ULTIMATELY HOW THAT PLAYS OUT AND HOW

THAT’S ULTIMATELY ENFORCED. CATHERINE, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR STAYING ON TOP OF THIS FOR US. I WANT TO BRING IN THE BIG STORY TO OUR PANEL. JOINING US RIGHT NOW, WE HAVE ABC NEWS CONTRIBUTOR SIRIUS XM RADIO HOST MIKE MYERS. WE HAVE ABC NEWS POLITICAL CONTRIBUTOR AND FORMER REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN FOR

NEW YORK JOHN KATKO AND ABC POLITICAL CONTRIBUTOR AND FORMER DEMOCRATIC SENATOR FOR NORTH DAKOTA HEIDI HEITKAMP AND ABC NEWS CONTRIBUTOR AND OP ED COLUMNIST, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES LZ GRANDERSON GRANDERSON. JOHN, I JUST WANT TO START WITH YOU. YOU’RE VERY FAMILIAR WITH NEW YORK POLITICS HERE. SO HOW DO REPUBLICANS IN THAT

STATE FEEL ABOUT WHERE THIS IS RIGHT NOW IN TERMS OF GIULIANI, WHERE HE’S HIS FALL FROM GRACE, ESSENTIALLY? AND WHAT’S YOUR TAKE ON CRITICS ARE SAYING. HAS BEEN REALLY A MAJOR FALL FROM FOR HIM SINCE HIS 911 DAYS. AT ONE POINT, HE WAS CALLED THE MAYOR AMERICA. YEAH. YOU KNOW, I REMEMBER

911 VIVIDLY. I LOST FRIENDS ON 911, AS MANY OF NEW YORKERS DID. AND THE WAY HE HANDLED HIMSELF ON 911 WAS GREAT. AND THE WAY HE HANDLED HIMSELF A FEDERAL PROSECUTOR BEFORE AND LIKE I WAS WAS WAS MASTERFUL. HE HE HE REALLY WENT AFTER THE ORGANIZED CRIME AND DID GREAT JOB.

AND I TRUST PARTLY BECAUSE OF THE PATH THAT HE BLAZED. AND IT’S HARD TO JUXTAPOSE THAT PERSON WITH THE PERSON THAT WE SEE IN COURT TODAY. LIABILITY TO ME IS NOT AN ISSUE, AND I DON’T THINK THEY CAN GIVE THESE PEOPLE ENOUGH MONEY. BUT FRANKLY, HIS CONDUCT HAS

BEEN DISGRACEFUL AND IT’S FALL FROM GRACE HAS BEEN REALLY KIND OF STUNNING. AND I THINK IT STUNNED A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO KNOW, LIKE MYSELF AND YOU LOOK BACK ON HIS CONDUCT AT AROUND JANUARY 6, A FEW YEARS AGO AND UP UNTIL TODAY AND HIS COMMENTS THIS WEEK OUTSIDE

THE COURTROOM, IT JUST DOESN’T MAKE ANY SENSE. AND LIKE I SAW LIABILITY IS NOT AN ISSUE AND I DON’T THINK CAN GIVE THESE POOR PEOPLE ENOUGH MONEY. THEIR REPUTATIONS HAVE BEEN DESTROYED AND THEY’VE BEEN DESTROYED INTENTIONALLY. THE LAW GIVES THEM AN AVENUE FOR REDRESS AND TAKING IT.

>> AND, HEIDI, I WOULD IMAGINE DEMOCRATS WHO ARE WATCHING OF THIS, ALL THE CIVIL AND CRIMINAL CASES AGAINST GIULIANI. WHAT’S YOUR SENSE OF THEIR REACTION RIGHT NOW? >> ARE THEY REVELING IN ALL OF THIS? >> I DON’T THINK ANYONE SHOULD TAKE ANY JOY WATCHING SOMEONE WHO GOES TO A COURTROOM

AND SAYS, I’M SO I AM NOT GOING TO TESTIFY BECAUSE I DON’T WANT TO HURT YOUR FEELINGS THEN WALKS OUT THE DOOR AND REPEATS THE LIE. I MEAN, THAT IS JUST PATHETIC. BUT THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF THIS, FOR THOSE OF US WATCH, THE DANGER TO DEMOCRACY IS A

LARGE JURY VERDICT SENDS A VERY CLEAR MESSAGE IN THE NEXT CYCLE. DO NOT LIE ABOUT ELECTION WORKERS. THEY ARE NOT REGULAR POLITICIANS. THEY ARE SIMPLY DOING A JOB. AND I HOPE, AS THE CONGRESSMAN SAYS, I HOPE THEY THROW THE BOOK AT HIM AND I HOPE THAT THEY REALLY

EVALUATE WHAT THIS MEANS FOR OUR DEMOCRACY GOING FORWARD AS A LARGE JUDGMENT. I’LL SEND CLEAR MESSAGE. GIULIANI HE’S BEYOND REPAIR, IN MY OPINION. >> AND, MIKE, TO HEIDI’S POINT, THERE YOU KNOW, THE IMPACT OF ALL THE RACIST AND VIOLENT THREATS THAT FREEMAN AND SHANE MOSS RECEIVED HERE, THEY TALKED ABOUT IT.

THEY DETAILED IT’S PART OF THE YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE HEARTBREAKING THINGS ABOUT THIS. SO I GUESS THE QUESTION TO YOU HERE IN TERMS OF HOW THIS HAS AFFECTED THESE TWO FAMILIES OR THE FAMILY, THESE TWO VICTIMS HERE, HOW HOW GIULIANI’S CLAIMS UPENDED THEIR LIVES AND HAD

A SEVERE IMPACT OF THEM, MATTER HOW MUCH MONEY HERE SHOULD HE HAVE TO PAY THEM? THEY’RE SEEKING UP TO $43 MILLION. >> WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON THIS JUST ARE THE PREVIOUS FAMILIES HAD BOTH THAT MENTIONED THERE IS MONEY THAT COULD GET RID OF ALL THE MENTAL ANGUISH THAT THESE

TWO WOMEN HAD GONE THROUGH. BUT LIKE HEIDI WAS GOING FACED WITH THAT AND WHAT HEIDI WAS ALLUDING WAS THAT IT SENDS A SIGNAL TO OTHER INDIVIDUALS NOT TO DO THIS TYPE OF TREATMENT TO PUBLIC SERVANTS, THOSE WHO ARE VOLUNTEERING TIME IN ORDER TO HELP MAINTAIN THE SYSTEM OF OUR DEMOCRACY WHICH

IS VOTING IN FAVOR OF ME. BUT THAT SIGNAL THERE IS A PARTICULAR AND URBAN CENTERED AREAS WHERE THERE IS LARGE AMOUNTS OF BLACK VOTER BASE. WE SEE THERE’S A HUGE CAMPAIGN AND A PUSH FOR VOTER SUPPRESSION. AND SO WHAT WE NEED AND THOSE MOMENTS ARE PUBLIC SERVANTS WHO ARE WILLING TO VOLUNTEER

THEIR TIME TO ENSURE THE SAFETY OF OUR ELECTIONS TO ENSURE THE SAFETY OF THOSE WHO ARE SHOWING UP TO THE POLLS TO VOTE TO EXERCISE THEIR RIGHT TO VOTE AND TO MAKE SURE THAT IT IS DONE WITH EFFICIENCY WITHOUT HAVING THE FEAR OF HAVING THEIR LIVES ENDED TRAUMATIZED BECAUSE PEOPLE ONLINE COULD

POST SOMETHING ABOUT THEM THAT COULD RUIN THEIR LIVES AND THEIR MENTAL CAPABILITIES GOING FORWARD. AND SO I THINK THIS IS THE PURPOSE OF THIS TRIAL IS TO SET A PRICE THAT IS HIGH ENOUGH TO MAKE PEOPLE GET PAUSE BEFORE THEY WILL EVEN ATTEMPT TO HARASS ELECTION WORKERS. RUSSELL POLL WORKERS TO STILL

VOLUNTEER IN THEIR CITIES, THEIR NEIGHBORHOODS AND THEIR DISTRICTS IN ORDER TO ENSURE A SMOOTH ELECTION DAY. AND IT SEEMS LIKE WE’RE GOING TO HAVE TO WAIT AT LEAST ONE MORE DAY BEFORE THE JURY COMES TO A DECISION ON THIS. BUT L.Z., IS THERE ANY POTENTIAL REDEMPTION ARC TO BE HAD HERE? GIULIANI?

WE’VE TALKED ABOUT HIS FALL FROM GRACE. RIGHT. OR DO YOU THINK COULD SEE HIM FACE EVEN MORE FINANCIAL AND LEGAL TROUBLE IN THE MONTHS AND YEARS AHEAD? >> FIRST OF ALL, I HAVE NO INTEREST AND SALARIES IN ANYTHING HAVE TO DO WITH RUDY GIULIANI. WELL, I UNDERSTAND A LOT

OF PEOPLE LIKE TO SAY, OH, MY GOSH, I KNOW WHAT HE DID FOR 911. I ALSO REMEMBER WHAT HIS POLL NUMBERS WERE LIKE BEFORE 911. I REMEMBER HIM BEING INVESTIGATED FOR CORRUPTION AND USING THE DEPARTMENT TO ESCORT HIS MISTRESS. SO I KNOW WE LIKE TO THINK ABOUT ALL THE GREAT THINGS

ABOUT RUDY GIULIANI, BUT EVERYTHING THAT HAS TRANSPIRED ISN’T EXACTLY FOREIGN TO THE PERSON THAT WE KNOW IN THE PUBLIC. SO WITH THAT BEING SAID, NO, I DON’T SEE HIM COMING BACK FROM THIS AND I DON’T REALLY CARE ABOUT HIM COMING BACK TO THIS. I CARE ABOUT THE TWO WOMEN

WHO HAVE THEIR LIVES CHANGED BECAUSE OF WHAT HE SAID. I CARE ABOUT THE TWO BLACK WOMEN WHO ARE BEING HARASSED IN THE SHADOW OF A MAN AFTER HIS DEATH. PUT THIS IN CONTEXT. GEORGE FLOYD, BREONNA TAYLOR AND ARBERY. AND THIS, YOU KNOW, THIS MOB BEING SENT TO CHASE THEM.

AND THEY HAVE NO. AND WHO SENDS THE MOB AN EXTENSION OF DONALD, WHO REPRESENTS JANUARY 6TH. SO YOU PUT ALL OF THEM CONTEXT. YOU KNOW, I DON’T CARE ABOUT RUDY GIULIANI. YOU KNOW TMZ. I CARE ABOUT THESE TWO WOMEN FINALLY HAVING, SOME PEACE. >> WELL, NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS

IN THIS CASE, THERE SEEMS TO BE MORE CRIMINAL AND CIVIL CASES AHEAD FOR GIULIANI TO DEAL WITH. >> MIKE, JOHN, HEIDI AND LIZ, THANK YOU GUYS SO MUCH. >> ALL RIGHT. COMING UP HERE, ANOTHER CASE HEADED TO THE SUPREME THAT COULD RESTRICT WOMEN’S ACCESS TO ABORTIONS EVEN

IN STATES WHERE THERE ARE FEW RESTRICTIONS RIGHT NOW. THE LEGAL BATTLE FOR ABORTION ACCESS. AND THAT IS OUR SPOTLIGHT. WE’LL HAVE THAT FOR YOU AFTER THE BREAK. WHENEVER NEWS BREAKS, WE ARE HERE IN ISRAEL, A NATION AT WAR. >> THAT BRUTAL SURPRISE ATTACK BY HAMAS ON THE GROUND IN UKRAINE.

>> REPORTING FROM LEWISTON, MAINE, THE SCENE OF A HORRIFIC MASS SHOOTING, ABC NEWS LIVE IS RIGHT THERE FROM THE SCENE OF THAT DEADLY MISSILE STRIKE IN UKRAINE. UKRAINE REPORTING FROM THE EARTHQUAKE IN TURKEY, THEN ROLLING FORWARD. THIS TORNADO TORE THROUGH THIS LITTLE TOWN FROM THE MOST DEVASTATING DISASTER IN HAWAII

FROM CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA ,ON THE 2020 CAMPAIGN TRAIL IN ICELAND. LET’S GO TRAVELING WITH THE PRESIDENT IN MEXICO CITY, WHEREVER THIS IS ON THE FRONT LINES FROM SOUTHERN ISRAEL, OUTSIDE THE GAZA STRIP IN, BEIRUT FROM THE FBI REPORTING FROM THE DAWSONS ON THE PICKET LINE HERE AT TEN DOWNING STREET

IN LONDON, STREAMING LIVE TO YOU WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WHEREVER THE STORY. WE’RE GOING TO TAKE YOU THERE. WE’RE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE, ABC NEWS LIVE, YOU’RE STREAMING, ABC NEWS LIVE, ABC NEWS LIVE STREAMING EVERYWHERE. AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS WHEN THE ANNOUNCER CALLS MY NAME

THE WORLD ALWAYS FADES AWAY. IT’S THE BIGGEST, IT’S THE MOST DOG EVENT HERE IS. WELCOME TO THE WORLD’S GREATEST SHOW. THE COMPETITION IN DOG DANCING IS VERY HERE. EVERY DOG HAS ITS DAY ON THE FLOOR. DANCING WITH MY DOG IS THE CLOSEST THING TO MAGIC. A WINNER. OH, STRICTLY 23 WEEK LIFE

OF DANCING DOGS. NOW STREAMING IN THE WORLD ARE . HERE WE GO. READY? LET’S DO IT. YES. IT’S THE SHOW. AMERICA AND AMERICA NEEDS RIGHT NOW. >> THIS IS WHAT WOULD YOU DO? LET’S GO. HOW ARE YOU? I LIKE YOU. YEAH. SO WHAT WILL YOU DO? WATCHING SATURDAY ON ABC NEWSWIRE.

WHAT WOULD YOU DO? >> I GUESS I JUST FOUND OUT. SO WHAT WOULD YOU DO? MARATHON IN 2 TO 6 EASTERN EVERY SATURDAY ON ABC NEWS LIVE? MY FAVORITE. NOW, WHY DO SO MANY START THEIR DAY HERE FROM ABC NEWS? >> THIS IS HERE TO BE IN THE

KNOW AND GET A DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE DAY’S TOP STORIES. A LOT OF NEWS TODAY SO LET’S GET TO IT. LISTEN NOW TO THE DAILY NEWS PODCAST HONORED WITH FOUR EDWARD R MURROW AWARDS AND WHY THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS IT A NEWS PODCAST WORTH LISTENING . START HERE.

ABC NEWS MAKE IT YOUR DAILY FIRST LISTEN. >> NOW, THAT’S A PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING WHEREVER. >> YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS START HERE. AND IT WAS MY THE WORLD’S FIRST YEAR AND HE HAD TWO HOLES IN HIS HEART, NO NOSE BONE

AND HIS BRAIN WAS NOT TO THE HEART. >> THERE WAS MUCH I DIDN’T. >> I EVEN ASKED IF I COULD JUST BE INDUCED. NOW THERE’S NO THERE’S NOTHING THAT THEY CAN DO THAT I HAD TO HAVE IT. >> AND THAT IS AN EXCERPT FROM THE ABC NEWS DOCUMENTARY

ON BRINK THAT DROPPED ON HULU TODAY, SHOWCASING SOME OF THE PAINFUL EMOTIONAL DECISIONS WOMEN ARE FACING TODAY AND THE SUPREME COURT DECISION TO HEAR CASES CHALLENGING THE ABORTION PILL. AND IF A PERSON COULD THREATEN AND CURTAIL ABORTION ACCESS FOR WOMEN IN STATES WHERE ABORTION LEGAL AND PROTECTED. THIS JUST THE LATEST IN THE

LEGAL QUAGMIRE OF RESTRICTIONS ON ABORTION ACCESS. NOW WOMEN ACROSS THE U.S. ARE FACING MANY STATES. >> AND AS WE KNOW, FOR DAYS, EXPECTANT WOMEN. >> MANY OF THESE CASES WERE LIFE OR DEATH. LET’S BRING BACK OUR PANEL MIKE JOHN HEIDI. AND ALSO JOINING US IS OUR SENIOR NATIONAL POLICY REPORTER AND FLAHERTY.

AND I WANT TO BEGIN WITH YOU. I WANT YOU TO JUST EXPLAIN TO US, GIVE US SOME CONTEXT HERE, HOW THE SUPREME COURT IS NOW GOING TO WEIGH IN ON A DRUG THAT’S BEEN FDA APPROVED NOW FOR OVER 20 YEARS. THIS IS A DRUG THAT’S BEEN PROVEN TO BE SAFE AND EFFECTIVE

IN TERMINATING PREGNANCY. IT’S UP TO TEN WEEKS GESTATION. SO EXPLAIN MORE. WHAT ARE THEY DOING HERE IN TERMS OF THE SUPREME COURT? >> YEAH, THAT’S RIGHT. IMPORTANT TO KNOW THAT WE’RE TALKING ABOUT VERY PREGNANCIES WITH THIS DRUG METHOD STONE THAT HAS BEEN ON THE MARKET, AS YOU SAY, FOR 20 YEARS.

FACT THIS IS THE BIGGEST ABORTION CASE TO REACH SUPREME COURT SINCE ROE FELL 18 MONTHS AGO. AND IT’S GOING TO LAND SMACK IN THE MIDDLE OF AN ELECTION YEAR. WHAT THIS IS ABOUT ISN’T MUCH THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE AN ABORTION. IT’S ABOUT ACCESSIBILITY IT’S ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT THIS DRUG CAN BE PRESCRIBED

VIRTUALLY THROUGH A TELEHEALTH APPOINTMENT SENT, MAILED TO SOMEBODY’S HOME WITH VERY MINIMAL SUPERVISION. BASICALLY, BECAUSE THE FDA HAS SAID WE’VE HAD THIS ON THE MARKET FOR 20 YEARS, WE KNOW IT’S SAFE. WE KNOW THAT WE CAN ADHERE TO THESE RULES. BUT ANTI ABORTION OPPONENTS SAY ,YOU KNOW, LOOK, WE DON’T

THINK THIS DRUG IS SAFE AND EFFECTIVE. AND, JOHN, 21 STATES RIGHT NOW HAVE RESTRICTED ABORTION RESTRICTIVE ABORTION BANS. THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST DIVISIVE POLITICAL TALKING POINT WE HAVE RIGHT NOW. WHAT DO YOU SAY ABOUT DECISIONS ABOUT WOMEN’S HEALTH CARE BEING DICTATED BY? MALE LAW LAWMAKERS IN CONSERVATIVE STATES?

YEAH, I MEAN, THIS IS A VERY, VERY TROUBLING THING. I SAW THAT FROM A WOMAN WHAT SHE HAD TO GO THROUGH IN DALLAS, IN THE TEXAS RECENTLY BECAUSE SHE HAD A NON-VIABLE CITIZENS FROM ABLE TO HAVE AN ABORTION. AND, YOU KNOW, NO EXCEPTIONS FOR LIFE OF THE MOTHER OR OF

OR OR ANYTHING. AND SOME OF THE SUPREME COURT DID A FEW YEARS AGO, THEY SAID, WE’RE GOING TO IT UP TO THE STATES. NOW, THE QUESTION IS, IS WHAT THE STATES DO COMPLETELY UNFETTERED. AND THAT IS THE ISSUE THAT’S GOING TO BE DECIDED AND NOT. LORD KNOWS WHAT THE DISTRICT

COURT’S GOING TO DO. >> AND, HEIDI, WE SAW THE IMPACT ON THE MIDTERM ELECTIONS AS AS ABORTION AND SOON AFTER THE SUPREME COURT DECISION. HOW DO YOU SEE THIS MOVING FORWARD, HOW DO YOU SEE THIS PLAYING OUT IN THE 2024 CAMPAIGN? >> EVERY DAY THAT ANOTHER OUTRAGEOUS RESTRICTION

ON WOMEN’S RIGHTS HERE, WHETHER IT IS WHETHER THEY CAN GET THIS PRESCRIPTION IN THE MAIL OR WHETHER THEY HAVE A NON-VIABLE FETUS, THAT’S JUST ANOTHER DAY THAT REMINDS VOTERS, THAT REMINDS ESPECIALLY SUBURBAN WOMEN WHO’S ON THEIR SIDE. AND IT’S NOT THE PEOPLE WHO WANT RESTRICT THEIR ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE.

THIS THAT I THINK THE PARTY WOULD LOVE THIS ISSUE TO GO AWAY INTO THE BACKGROUND. IT’S NOT GOING TO. IT’S GOING TO BE A VOTING ISSUE . AND AS A VOTING ISSUE, IT’S A VOTING ISSUE THAT’S GOING TO HELP THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY BECAUSE THEY ARE THE THEY ARE ON THE SIDE OF WOMEN.

>> AND WE CONTINUE TO SEE MORE AND MORE OF THESE WOMEN COME FORWARD. THEY’RE TALKING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, THEIR THEIR LIVES AND HOW THIS IS IMPACTING THEM. LIFE OR DEATH, PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PREGNANCIES FROM SEXUAL ASSAULT, AMONG OTHER THINGS. AND STILL A LOT OF THEM DON’T OR DO NOT HAVE THE RIGHT

TO CHOOSE AT THIS POINT ON WHAT STATE THEY’RE THEY’RE IN. IS THERE A COMPROMISE ANYWHERE IN THIS ABORTION FIGHT, MIKE? THIS ONE IS FOR YOU. WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON THAT ? THE QUESTION IS, IS THERE A COMPROMISE? YEAH IS THERE A COMPROMISE AS WE TALKING ABOUT THIS ABORTION FIGHT AND PEOPLE

ON EITHER SIDE OF THE SPECTRUM ,I DON’T KNOW, SAY IT’S A COMPROMISE RELATIONSHIP TO POLITICAL IDEOLOGY IN REGARDS THIS. I THINK THAT WHAT’S GOING TO BE REALLY INTERESTING REGARDING THIS SUPREME COURT THAT IS GOING TO BE SET TO TAKE PLACE TO BE RULED IN JUNE, RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS ELECTION CYCLE.

THIS SEASON IS WHAT PRECEDENT IS IT GOING TO SET? AND PARTICULARLY BECAUSE ALSO TO AT THE CORE OF, THIS IS WHETHER OR NOT HOW THE FDA IS ABLE TO ON THE SAFETY OF PRESCRIPTION DRUGS IN THE PHARMACEUTICAL BASED UPON SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE AND DATA IN OF WHAT IS SAFE FOR IT TO BE

APPROVED. AND SO MY CONCERN GOING FORWARD, IF I’M INTERNALLY WATCH FOR, IS WHEN POLITICAL IDEOLOGY COMES INTO QUESTION WITH SCIENTIFIC STUDY AND DATA TO DETERMINE WHEN MEDICATION CAN GO FORWARD AND INTERFERING WITH IDEOLOGY VERSUS SCIENCE. >> AND THE FDA HAS SAID THEY GOT IT RIGHT. THEY APPROVED THIS MORE THAN 20 YEARS AGO.

WE’LL SEE WHAT THE COURT TO DECIDE ON THIS. THANK YOU TO OUR PANEL. “IMPACT X NIGHTLINE” ON THE BRINK IS STREAMING RIGHT NOW ON HULU. >> COMING UP IN OUR LAST CALL, THE MORNING COMMUTE IS OFTEN FRUSTRATING, BUT SOMEWHERE IN NEW JERSEY THIS MORNING, WE’RE CALLING IT BULL.

WE’LL SHOW YOU WHAT HAPPENED WHEN WE COME BACK. >> WE ARE HERE IN ISRAEL, A NATION AT WAR. WE’VE SEEN TANK AFTER TANK POURING INTO THIS AREA. THIS IS WHERE IT ALL BEGAN. >> IT HOLDS ALL OUT WAR WITHIN MINUTES OF THE AIR RAID, SIRENS GOING OFF IN A SOUND EXPLOSION

COMING DOWN HERE TONIGHT. >> ISRAEL, A FIERCE BOMBARDMENT OF GAZA. THE ISRAEL HAMAS WAR ANNOUNCED LIVE COVERAGE STREAM. >> ABC NEWS LIVE REPORTING FROM SOUTHERN ISRAEL FROM THE FRONT LINE IN DOWNTOWN IN BEIRUT WHEREVER THE STORY WILL TAKE YOU THERE. >> ABC NEWS LIVE. YOU’RE BACK AT IT AGAIN.

>> I’VE GOT NOTHING ELSE TO DO. I GOT TO VISIT THAT HOUSE TOMORROW. GEORGE CLOONEY, MICHAEL STRAHAN ,THE ALL-NEW INTERVIEW PERSON YOU’D TRADE PLACES WITH FOR A DAY TOMORROW, A CRAZY ECONOMY ON GOOD MORNING AMERICA TONIGHT ,A WOMAN’S RIGHT TO MAKE HER OWN HEALTH CHOICES WITH ABORTION PILL ACCESS SET

TO GO BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT, IS A CRISIS BREWING, MORE AMERICANS TURN TO THE MOST WATCHED PROGRAM ON TELEVISION. “WORLD NEWS TONIGHT”, DAVID MUIR. WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE? >> FROM ABC NEWS, THIS IS “START HERE” TO BE IN THE MIDDLE AND GET A DIFFERENT TAKE

ON THE DAY’S TOP STORIES. A LOT OF NEWS TODAY. SO LET’S GET RIGHT TO IT. LISTEN NOW TO THE DAILY NEWS PODCAST WITH FOUR EDWARD R MURROW AWARDS AND SEE WHY THE NEW YORK CALLS IT A NEWS PODCAST WORTH LISTENING TO. START HERE. ABC NEWS WE GET YOUR DAILY FIRST.

LISTEN NOW THE PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING. >> WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS, START HERE FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. >> THERE’S A LOT GOING ON. EVERYBODY IN THAT HOME IS OKAY TO CATCH YOU UP WITH WHAT HAPPENED OVERNIGHT. WE ARE HERE AT FASHION’S BIGGEST NIGHT OUT.

WHAT’S HAPPENING TODAY. YOUTUBE HAS UNVEILED A NEW SET OF POLICIES. WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE NEW AD CAMPAIGN FAST. STRAIGHT FORWARD WITH SOME FUN IN BETWEEN A REAL LIFE BARBIE DREAM HOUSE. A NAME FOR THE WIENERMOBILE. FIRST THING IN THE MORNING, AMERICA. THIS AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE EARLY MORNING NEWS ON ABC NEWS.

>> WHAT ALL ACROSS THE WORLD WILL BE CELEBRATING THE NEW YEAR. AND YOU CAN SEE IT AS IT HAPPENS LIVE THE GLOBAL CELEBRATIONS. SEE THE NEW YEAR AS IT COMES IN STREAM ALL DAY AND NIGHT ON ABC NEWS LIVE REPORTING FROM TAIWAN I’M BRITT CLENNETT. WHEREVER THE STORY IS WILL TAKE

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