karl thinks so. when he made his big discovery in the attic, he spied several wrinkled and grimy cards strewn among the rafters and the floorboards. karl believes that they went flying during one of his grandma jennie's cleaning purges, when she'd pitch boxes of junk right out the attic window into a big mound below. thank goodness she never got hold of that one box in the corner. i'm jamie colby for "strange inheritance." thank you so much for joining us. and remember, you can't take it with you. do you have a "strange inheritance" story you'd like to share with us? we'd love to hear it. send me an e-mail, or go to our website, strangeinheritance.com. ♪ >> a babe who photographed babies... >> she would get them to do the craziest things. >> ...becomes a celebrity herself. >> people knew her by name. she was a pin-up. >> there were definitely stories of skiing with the kennedys, definitely a lavish lifestyle for sure. >> what was her secret? >> isn't she adorable? >> what a winner shot. >> is it st

karl thinks so. when he made his big discovery in the attic, he spied several wrinkled and grimy cards strewn among the rafters and the floorboards. karl believes that they went flying during one of his grandma jennie's cleaning purges, when she'd pitch boxes of junk right out the attic window into a big mound below. thank goodness she never got hold of that one box in the corner. i'm jamie colby for "strange inheritance." thank you so much for joining us. and remember, you can't take it with you. do you have a "strange inheritance" story you'd like to share with us? we'd love to hear it. send me an e-mail, or go to our website, strangeinheritance.com. . jerry baker's interview with john bolton right here. from the fox studios in washington d.c. this is "maria bartiromo's wall street." bre happy weekend from washington. welcome to the program that analyzes the week that was and helps position you for the week ahead. i'm maria bartiromo. joining this week from washington d.c.. we have another star-stu

karl probably disagrees. it was more of the centrist vision that government is necessary, but not necessarily government. it was broadly applicable and appealing to the folks. we have lost that along the way. karl: i think it is broader than that. we have got two different things were talking about. we are talking about texas and the compassionate conservatives. karen hughes was the reflector of the phrase, but the phrase began when bush, talked about i am a conservative with a heart. that is different than what is going on nationwide. nationwide both political , parties are being disrupted. today, not back then. today, we are in a period, for the last 8, 10, 12 years, populism has been flowing through the political system in america as it has for most western democracies and being felt on the left and right. part of it in reaction to the financial crisis and partly in response to other things. both political parties are disrupted from top to bottom, nationally. >> i think i am a pretty good surrogate for a l

karl: i do not know the priests. i'm an episcopalian, so i am not allowed to have strong opinions of things that are religious. i have friends who are deeply questioning their faith because of this. i am not blind to the fact that these things happen in our world. again, do you think if we have a priest prey on one child, that they only do it once in their lifetime? no. they do it time and time again. >> this question is mostly for rove. bush's reelection was the last presidential election where a republican candidate won the popular vote. what does the republican candidate need to do to convince a plurality of the electorate to back them? >> a majority of the electorate or plurality? >> plurality. karl: we are in a strange. two of the five president selected recently won the majority vote. the republican party has to get itself right with the changing demography of america by the mistreating that it is open to that diversity. we need more alberto gonzaleses. more mia loves. recognize there is a center-right majority

i certainly agree with everything that karl said. it was such an honor and privilege to know him, to have worked for his son, certainly. he set an example for all of us. people have talked about tonight on your air, shannon, his character. i also wanted to mention a couple of other things. he taught us important might le lessons, how to live a life. this was a man who loved life. he went through so much, as karl mentioned, a college baseball player, a fighter pilot, then a husband and a father, a businessman, becomes a congressman, ambassador, the cia -- people often forget he was head of the cia. vice president, president, but most important to him as being a father and a grandfather and then a great grandfather, of course. he truly was a thousand points of light, which was his legacy of giving that was so important to him. he taught us, i think, to live with gratitude, and with grace and dignity, but also, just this unbelievable modesty that sometimes frustrated his communications handlers because he would never, ever brag about hi

hall and karl holley. both were members of the outlaws motorcycle gang in florida. >> narrator: smitty felt hall and holley had it in for him because he demoted them after a clubhouse altercation. >> j.j. hall and karl holley made a deal with the feds to put the finger on smitty. i'll give you the boss, that was their thinking. >> narrator: on the stand, j.j. hall said he had been offered $12,000 to murder collins, and he chose karl holley and smitty to carry out the hit. >> out of the two people, which would had the best training and the ability of doing explosive work? holley said that smitty had that experience from his time in the military. >> narrator: karl holley described how he carried out the hit with smitty. >> holley and smith went to jacksonville and met with another biker who provided the c-4. he brought out a three-foot stick of the explosive, they cut off a foot of it and they started a continuous drive to new orleans to conduct the hit. they went back to collins' house that night. smith sai

karl, i think it's fair to say that president bush was a classic moderate republican. he negotiated bipartisan compromises, such as the americans with disabilities act. in 1990 he negotiated a budget deal which may have cost him his presidency because in order to cut the deficit he broke his pledge, no new taxes. how different is the washington of george bush in terms of the idea of legislating, compromising, compared to the washington today? >> i think it's somewhat different in that respect, but i think it's really different in the tone that he said. he was of that greatest generation and there was a humility and respect and a decency about him that sometimes it is not seen frequently in washington today. his best friend in congress was a democrat from akron, ohio, and he had friendships across the aisle based on shared background, shared experiences and the time that they were together and we don't see that much in washington anymore. >> chris: it's interesting, when i asked your dad the question about iron ass, i was a little nervous, and he gave such a great answe

bush and karl rove. >> the oak ridge boys will do a rendition of "amazing grace." >> the feeling that so many people have who may never have met him. at one point people made fun of george bush. they never hated him. i think there is a big difference today in our politics.

i'm jonathan karl in for tom llamas. we begin with a storm threat, coming on the heels of record breaking rains in the south, you see the drone images of high water in georgia, and blowing snow on slick roads causing treacherous travel conditions in eastern new mexico and the texas panhandle. and now two systems team up to ring in a soggy new year in the northeast. rob marciano starts us off. >> reporter: the new storm coming together and heading east, just as millions are digging out or drying out from a massive storm that prompted dozens of water rescues, like this one in north carolina. >> oh, my god. >> reporter: watch this suv being swallowed by flood water. its driver trapped inside after plunging head first into a retention pond. >> he's still in the car! >> reporter: a bystander jumping in to save him. the driver narrowly escaping through the rear window of the car. similar scenes in georgia. a half a foot of rain there forcing drivers to take their chances on flooded roads. first responders using a ladder to car

criminally liable. >> so, let's get to jon karl, live at the white house tonight. and jon, president trump has said he is not concerned. do we have any idea if his legal team is concerned about the possibility that he could be indicted? >> reporter: david, the president's legal team is confidence that the justice department agrees with them that a sitting president cannot be indicted. as for whether or not they are concerned that he could face indictment after he leaves office, his legal team is much more concerned about things right here and now than something that far off, david. >> all right, jon karl live at the white house tonight. jon, thank you. >>> and just moments ago, george stephanopoulos sitting down for an interview with michael cohen. that interview airs tomorrow morning, right here on "good morning america." >>> in the meantime tonight, new details about that russian woman we have reported on here before, maria butina. she was in court today, pleading guilty to conspiring to act as a russian agent here in the u.s., and now agreeing to cooperate with

abc's chief white house correspondent jonathan karl leads us off. >> reporter: tonight, a visit by the commander in chief to troops at the al asad air force base in iraq. president trump's first visit to troops in a war zone since taking office nearly two years ago. >> we came to al asad to share our eternal gratitude for everything you do to keep america safe, strong and free. >> reporter: arriving with the first lady, president trump was greeted with a standing ovation by some of the more than 5,000 u.s. troops now deployed in iraq. he praised their effort in helping take on isis, the terrorist group that its peak some five years ago controlled about 40% of iraqi territory. >> two years ago, when i become president, they were a very dominant group, they were very dominant. today, they're not so dominant anymore. >> reporter: america played a key role in helping the iraqi army expel isis from most of the country. >> great job. i looked at a map, and two years ago, it was a lot of red all over that map, and now you have a couple little spots, and that's happening very quickly. >> repor

abc's chief white house correspondent jonathan karl leads us off. >> reporter: tonight, a visit by the commander in chief to troops at the al asad air force base in iraq. president trump's first visit to troops in a war zone since taking office nearly two years ago. >> we came to al asad to share our eternal gratitude for everything you do to keep america safe, strong and free. >> reporter: arriving with the first lady, president trump was greeted with a standing ovation by some of the more than 5,000 u.s. troops now deployed in iraq. he praised their effort in helping take on isis, the terrorist group that at its peak some five years ago controlled about 40% of iraqi territory. >> when i became president, they were a very dominant group, they were very dominant. today, they're not so dominant anymore. >> reporter: america played a key role in helping the iraqi army expel isis from most of the country. >> great job. i looked at a map, and two years ago, it was a lot of red all over that map, and now you have a couple little spots, and that's happening very quickly. >> reporter: the pre

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the first thing that karl niemeyer did when a prison we're come in, opinion at their chest and declare, you will never escape from here. so david gray and cecil and any number of others arrived at this camp and they do what they do at every other camp which is to begun to sunday suss out how to get out and they try to time the movement of the guards and then go over -- leapfrog over the three perimeter fences, that doesn't work. they decide at one point to break through some of the walls and try to go through the gates that ended badly. at one point they build a long chute, 16 feet long, that they put rails on, and they expended it out of a window and were going -- like a buggy, shoot over the wall. that of course did not work. they landed at the foot of the guards, and so david gray, who twice now had escaped former camps, twice had to come near the border, twice had brought back and punished severely, decided that the next time he went out, he was going to make it what they all called to the home run to freedom. and he needed a very good plan for that. so he and a number of others go

abc's chief white house correspondent jonathan karl tonight. >> reporter: with multiple investigations heating up, president trump today claimed he's been fully exonerated, tweeting, "democrats can't find a smoking gun." he misspelled smoking, and despite his confidence, the president is facing mounting legal threats. federal prosecutors now say trump's former lawyer, michael cohen, coordinated his actions with one or more members of the campaign when he facilitated payments to stormy daniels and karen mcguy dal. and said he acted in coordination with and at the direction of individual one, aka, then-candidate donald trump. the president's story on this has changed over time. first, he claimed to know nothing about the payments. only kbo rorte then, he e >>id kw abo thepayments? >> on, i kn. >> reporter: now, he calls it a "simple private transaction." all this has democrats preparing to take over the house, openly talking about the possibility of impeachment. >> well, they would be impeachable offenses, whether they are important enough to justify an impeachment is a different questio

david. >> all right, jon karl, on a friday night. jon, thanks, as always. >>> we're following a dangerous storm system hitting tonight and into the weekend. record rain and flash flooding in charleston, south carolina, already. a dangerous commute home tonight for millions here in the east. as this moves into the northeast tonight and tomorrow. we have the new track tonight. steve osunsami is in atlanta. >> reporter: parts of historic charleston, south carolina, are under water tonight. more than 2 inches of rain all at once set a daily rainfall record in the city, forcing drivers to take their chances on flooded roads. water is swallowing homes. a number of county offices closed early. >> you gotta get out of there, buddy! >> reporter: tonight, tow trucks are pulling and pushing stalled cars out of the water. >> yes, he's moving, after three hours. >> reporter: flood alerts are up tonight across eight states, including north carolina, where the ground is already soaking wet from the melt of last week's heavy snow. this same storm se

criminally liable. >> so, let's get to jon karl, he's live at the white house tonight. and jon, president trump has said he is not concerned. do we have any idea if his legal team is concerned about the possibility that he could be indicted? >> reporter: david, the president's legal team is confident that the justice department agrees with them that a sitting president cannot be indicted. as for whether or not they are concerned that he could face indictment after he leaves office, his legal team is much more concerned about things right here and now than something that far off, david. >> all right, jon karl live at the white house tonight. jon, thanks, as always. >>> and just moments ago, george stephanopoulos sitting down for an interview with michael cohen. that interview airs tomorrow morning, right here on "good morning america." >>> in the meantime tonight, new details about that russian woman we have reported on here before, maria butina. she was in court today, pleading guilty to conspiring to act as a russian agent here in the u.s., and now agreeing to cooperat

abc's chief white house correspondent jonathan karl tonight. >> reporter: with multiple investigations heating up, president trump today claimed he's been fully exonerated, tweeting, "democrats can't find a smoking gun." he misspelled smoking, and despite his professed confidence, the president is facing mountdeg gal rel ornow s cohen, coordinated his actions with one or more members of the campaign when he facilitated payments to stormy daniels and karen mcdougal. and they say he acted in coordination with and at the diof individua aka, then-candidate donald trump. the president's story on this has changed over time. first, he claimed to know nothing about the payments. >> did you know about the $130,000 payment to stormy daniels? >> no, no. >> reporter: then, he said he only knew about them after the fact. >> did you know about the payments? >> later on, i knew. later on. >> reporter: now, he calls it a "simple private transaction." all this has democrats, preparing to take over the house, openly talking about the possibility of impeachment. >> well, they would be impeachable offense

neil: karl rove, thank you very much. we remember a president, a one-termer as they say, but so consequential. touching us in areas that bespeak not of politics, but of simple humanity. remembering him on fox. >> and what a life it was, the nation mourning of loss of a true public servant dedicated his whole life to public service. george h.w. bush, the 41st president of the united states has died at age 94. memories pouring in not only in washington, but around the world. next two hours we'll take a look at the life and legacy of george h.w. bush. america's news headquarters from washington now, i'm deland vittert. >> i'm ebonik williams. >> good to be with you. and the tributes to

let's bring in karl rove, a family friend. i wondered if i could ask you to tell the viewers about the first time that you got to meet george h.w. bush. >> well, i was 22. i was the college republican national chairman, and i was summoned to the fourth floor of the republican headquarters. the college republicans were in the subbasement underneath the parking garage -- [laughter] so we were not exactly near the top of the power heap, but we were summoned for a he canture, me and my young executive director, a kid from south carolina named harvey lee atwater. and lee and i went up to meet the chairman. he was young and athletic and strong and charismatic, and he gave us a lecture about not messing up, not making mistakes, not making problems, not creating scandals, spend our money wisely, do the things we were asked to do. and at the end of the conversation, he said, now, boys, do either one of you have questions? and lee atwater said, yes, mr. chairman, i have a question, is it true you have a boston whaler with two 87 evenrud

karl qk to the program. this is historic a former president yule eulogizing his father perhaps you know more about it than i do i think it will be a celebration of bush 41's life what say you? >> i suspect so. i talked to president on saturday, and he wrote it personally he deliberately didn't want to get speech riders involved but he wanted to express thoughts of his heart, and it is as you say historic moment. we've only had two presidents who were related father and son. and john quincy adams was president when his father tied. but time and distance being what they were at that time, he did not learn of his father's death until after his father was buried so this is a -- a unique moment in american history. >> james baker very close to the the bush family said that he thought that bush 41 was probably the best single term president in american history. what do you say to that? >> well, i agree. of course i'm biased i readily admit but think about it first from foreign policy perspective we have -- remove

the three men lived in the best hotel in town situated on the renamed karl. this was also where they interviewed potential candidates they often occupied a table at home until late into the night. legal scholar and strode off who was among those invited to strasbourg for a preliminary interview at the restaurant he described the evening in his memoirs. the meal was of assumption snus beyond anything we knew the white house station wine a super burgundy and elegant champagne and in between the brutal armagnac. and stored up who was a preeminent legal expert serving the third reich his most significant work was a synthesis of nazi constitutional law which sought to provide. the legal underpinning for the regime. was typical of hooper in that it was an overwhelming compilation of material it was a perfectionist in many respects and try to take everything into consideration including regulations that for example address the exclusion of june. the decree also determines who is to be regarded as a citizen of german or related blood. jews are precluded from being a

eclipse even the sorbonne in paris with germany still in the midst of war the university president karl schmidt was in a combative mood. when i would. start . and. give one of the. right back here who was to head the anatomical institute of the medical faculty was also in attendance at the opening ceremony he first met vote sievers sievers was rushed manager of the ancestral research agency co-founded by. head of the notorious s.s. the organization was tasked with providing scientific proof to support the nazis racial doctrine. sievers had heard about here its research and the two wasted no time agreeing on what would become their murderous collaboration so they were extremely interested in talking to each other and this was not just an amicable meeting at the opening ceremony it was about research projects and making introductions very practical common interests here who do please do contact. just three months later on feb ninth one thousand nine hundred two here it presented both sievers of the ancestral research agency with a concrete proposal for research. we have extensive skull co

i'm jonathan karl, in for tom llamas. we begin with the breaking news from north carolina, a deadly attack by a lion. the tragedy at a conservation center dedicated to the care of wild animals. one of them somehow escaped and attacked one of its keepers, who did not survive. authorities revealing the worker was a young intern, just a few weeks on the job. zachary kiesch with the details just now coming in. >> reporter: tonight, a north carolina conservation center is devastated after a 22-year-old employee was attacked and killed by a lion that was in the center's care. these images from the center showing the resident lions. police say, in a desperate attempt to retrieve the worker, the lion was shot and killed. the victim, alexandra black, was a recent college grad and intern who had been on the job for only two weeks. according to officials there, a professionally trained animal keeper was doing routine cleaning when the lion somehow left a locked area and quickly attacked black. the company website says the center is

so silent night it is for karl lagerfeld. to grant plays the lead role in one of the world's best known christmas films it's bound to show up on t.v. over the holidays love actually is humorous take on christmas makes it an all time favorite most not only. to be cursed spot on. but the british actor probably won't be watching it i wasn't there on our christmas grinch is hugh grant who loves travelling abroad during the festive season grant often likes to travel with his dad ideally to a country where they don't celebrate christmas. grant says his dad's aversion to christmas must have rubbed off on him. irish musician bob geldof is also a major scrooge taking the top spot in our ranking geldof penned do they know it's christmas which shot to number one on the u.k. single charts in nineteen eighty-four. i. don't know got numerous pop stars together to raise funds for ethiopia the song is still popular at this time of year but killed off one said that hearing the song over and over in supermarkets every christmas is sheer tortur

so silent night it is for karl lagerfeld. to grant plays the lead role in one of the world's best known christmas films it's bound to show up on t.v. over the holidays love actually is humorous take on christmas makes it an all time favorite. not only did it all. do the curse spot on. but the british actor probably won't be watching it i wasn't there on our christmas grinch is hugh grant who loves travelling abroad during the festive season grant often likes to travel with his dad ideally to a country where they don't celebrate christmas. grant says his dad's aversion to christmas must have rubbed off on him. irish musician bob geldof is also a major scrooge taking the top spot in our ranking gold off penned do they know his christmas which shot to number one on the u.k. single charts in one nine hundred eighty four. i. don't know if got numerous pop stars together to raise funds for ethiopia the song is still popular at this time of year but killed off once said the hearing this song over and over in supermarkets every chris

so silent night it is for karl lagerfeld. to grant plays the lead role in one of the world's best known christmas films it's bound to show up on t.v. over the holidays love actually is humorous take on christmas makes it an all time favorite most know little about. the curse. but the british actor probably won't be watching it which brought it there on our christmas grinch is hugh grant who loves travelling abroad during the festive season grant often likes to travel with his dad ideally to a country where they don't celebrate christmas. grant says his dad's aversion to christmas must have rubbed off on him. irish musician bob geldof is also a major scrooge taking the top spot in our ranking gold off penned do they know his christmas which shot to number one on the u.k. single charts in one thousand nine hundred four. i. got numerous pop stars together to raise funds for ethiopia the song is still popular at this time of year but killed off once said that hearing this song over and over in supermarkets every christmas is shee

so silent night it is for karl lagerfeld. grant plays the lead role in one of the world's best known christmas films it's bound to show up on t.v. over the holidays love actually is humorous take on christmas makes it an all time favorite. not only did it all. do the curse. but the british actor probably won't be watching it i wasn't there on our christmas grinch is hugh grant who loves traveling abroad during the festive season brandt often likes to travel with his dad ideally to a country where they don't celebrate christmas. gran says his dad's aversion to christmas must have rubbed off on him. irish musician bob geldof is also a major scrooge taking the top spot in our ranking gold off penned do they know it's christmas which shot to number one on the u.k. single charts in one thousand nine hundred eighty four. i. don't know got numerous pop stars together to raise funds for ethiopia the song is still popular at this time of year but killed off once said that hearing this song over and over in supermarkets every christmas

karl rove, and a fox news contributor joins me now. some sounds from and culture are very frustrated with the president. listen here. >> either the whole thing was b.s. throughout the campaign and he was just lying to get himself elected or he has no earthly idea how to get it done and no interest in finding out. >> dana: this is also about the wall. part of the freedom caucus. it >> they believe that he is getting bad advice, promise not once, twice, but three different times that he would get border wall funding, and i would argue it's not punt. that actually improves the field advantage. this is a fumble. i would love to get your thinking on all of the sand of the stalemate that we are in now. >> we are in a bad place. and a lot of it goes back to the meeting that president trump had with the nancy pelosi and the senate minority leader, chuck schumer, where in fight over the government shutdown, that i'm a loser tends to be the people who look like they won the shutdown. so if he wants border funding, he should have not set in my op

jon karl joins us live from the white house. jon, everyone in that room knew cameras were rolling, and the president later describing the meeting at, quote, very friendly, and as you reported, a very different read on it from chuck schumer and nancype sure. chuck schumer later described the president as having a, quote, temper tantrum. and pelosi had some particularly harsh words for the president when she described the meeting to aup o demrats o capitol hill. according to an aide who was in the room, pelosi said of the wall, quote, it's like a manhood thing for him, as if manhood could ever be associated with him. that, david, are the -- that's the words of the incoming, presumptive incoming speaker of the house about the president of the united states. >> get ready for 2019, jon. >>> we're going to turn next tonight to the third new storm sweeping across the country, west to east,his one could bring several feet some snow in some places. ginger zee tracking it all for us. good evening. >> reporter: good evening, david. nearly

i want to bring in jon karl live from the white house. we haven't heard from the president today regarding this new interview. he tweeted about the job he's been trying to fill. his chief of staff? >> reporter: that's right. we have a new acting chief of staff. mick mulvaney. he's currently the director of the office of management and budget. he comes to this job with real political experience. six years as a member of congress from south carolina. a very conservative one. a founding member of the freedom caucus. there were several other candidates interrued, including chris christie, who pulled himself out of the running earlier today. it's important to note here that mulvaney will be the acting chief of staff. officials say he could be replaced sometime early in the year. or, if things work out, i'm told, he could be named the permanent chief of staff. david. >> thank you, jon. >>> we're following a dangerous storm system hitting tonight and into the weekend. record rained a flash flooding in charleston, south carolina, already. dangero

bush. >> all right, jon karl across town at the white house tonight. jon, thank you. and before we move on, we want to let you know, the state funeral, wednesday morning at the national cathedral, and of course we're carry it live right here on abc wednesday morning. >>> but there is other news to get to this monday night. there was a deadly bus accident when a youth football team onboard. the team driving from dallas to memphis. the bus flipping over on the highway. here's abc's marcus moore tonight. >> reporter: tonight, investigators are trying to piece together why the driver lost control of this bus, killing one child and injured 45 people. >> we're still working on getting some of the ones that's trapped out. >> reporter: the accident happening near benton, arkansas, just before 3:00 this morning. that bus sliding and tumbling off interstate 30. >> i'm kind of speechless right now, to be honest with you. i'm just lost for words. >> reporter: the bus was carrying members of a youth football team on its way back to memphis, after playing a championship game this w

jonathan karl is in argentina tonight. >> reporter: in argentina today, an epic greeting. the russian president and the saudi crown prince, two men portrayed as supervillain dictators, were all smiles. donald trump at that moment in the background. he had abruptly cancelled a one-on-one meeting with vladimir putin, citing russia's aggression toward ukraine. >> hopefully they will be able to settle it out soon, because we look forward to meeting with president putin. >> reporter: the russians aren't buying it. a spokeswoman saying trump cancelled the meeting because of "the domestic political situation in the united states." she was clearly talking about this. >> mr. cohen, how are you feeling? >> reporter: the news that michael cohen, the president's with special counsel robert mue. cohen admitted the trump organization was in talks to build a moscow trump tower while trump was running for president, something that seems at odds with what trump has long said publicly. >> i have nothing to do with russia. i have no relationship to russia whatsoever. i have nothing to do wit

he was lazy as hell. >> jon karl with us live tonight from the white house. president trump today announcing his nominee for attorney general, who would replace jeff sessions. and could eventually oversee the russia investigation. you have news on that. and more on the tweet from the president, saying it totally clears me, thank you. what does he mean by that? >> reporter: well, there's nothing in these filings, david, that clears the president. so, it's unclear why he's claiming that. nothing in any of these filings says anything that would suggest totally clearing the president. regarding his pick for attorney general, an experienced washington hand, william barr. he served as attorney general for the elder george bush many years ago. >> jon, thank you. >>> and tonight, after turmoil all week on wall street, the dow losing more than 500 points at the close. falling 558 points, and more than 1,000 for the week. fueling new concern today, the jobs report. 155,000 new jobs in november, but that was slightly lower than expected. and, of course, the ongoing trad

the read from former chief of staff, karl rove. karl, if we shut down, who gets stuck with the blame? >> well, the president of the united states will. that's the way it works. let's remember what this is about. the president said he wants $5 billion in the homeland security authorization for the wall. democrats say they will only vote for $1.37 billion for border security. so we're talking about shutting down a nearly $4 trillion federal government over the difference between $5 billion and $1.37 billion. not all the government will shut down. there's six government agencies, the dent of defense, the veterans administration, the legislative branch and anything that is involved with energy and water. all of those budgets are passed through the end of fiscal year 19. there's nine government departments including agriculture and a number of others that will shut down. we got very little time to get this resolved. the house is out until wednesday night. there will be a sense wednesday night, thursday and friday and friday at midnight,

jon karl joins us live from the white house. jon, everyone in that room knew cameras were rolling, and the president later describing the meeting as, quote, very friendly, and as you've been reporting, a very different read on it from chuck schumer and nancy pelosi. >> reporter: that's for sure. senator schumer later described the president as having a, ote,u ansi had some particularly harsh words about the president when she described the meeting to a group of democrats on capitol hill. according to an aide who was in the room, pelosi called the wall, quote, like a manhood thing for him, as if manhood could ever be associated with him. those are the words of the presumptive incoming speaker of the house about the president of the united states. david? >> all right, get ready for 2019, jon. >>> we're going to turn next tonight to the third new storm now sweeping across the country. west to east, and this one could bring several feet of snow in some places. chief meteorologist ginger zee tracking it all for us. ginger, good eveni

>> jon karl reporting from argentina, jon, thank you. let's bring in chief anchor tereinr the current esump speak in glowing terms about george h.w. bush. he seems to be taking a different tack here. even know he had a prickly relationship with the bush family, he also had a prickly relationship with the mccain family and was not so glowing when the former senator, john mccain, died. >> there's a change here. he wasn't invited to john mccain's funeral. he has been invited to the funeral of george h.w. bush. i think you probably can say the president's learned a bit from that experience. that was not a good experience for him. you're exactly right. he's not had a good relationship with the bush family, particularly george w. and jeb bush. george h.w. bush told his biographer he just doesn't like president trump. he said that back in 2016. but, i think this was an important moment. i remember around the inauguration, jon karl and i were discussing the fact that george h.w. bush didn't vote for president trump. i guess president trump was w

brit hume, karl rove and more so stay tuned for all of that. a major provocation from iran as secretary of state mike pompeo confirms the country tested a mid range ballistic missile with the capacity to carry multiple war heads. jack keane will join us with his reaction to that. >> jon: it's official. former f.b.i. director james comey will sit down with a house committee later this week. what lawmakers are hoping to learn from his testimony. >> mr. comey is, as the former f.b.i. director at the center of both of these investigations launched in 2016 with regard to hillary clinton and the trump campaign. and it is the culmination of that. you see me. but if you saw me before cosentyx... ♪ i was covered. it was awful. but i didn't give up. i kept fighting. i got clear skin with cosentyx. 3 years and counting. clear skin can last. see if cosentyx could make a difference for you. cosentyx is proven to help people with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis find clear skin that can last. don't use if you're allergic to cosentyx. before starting cos

connell: let me go back to the spending battle for a moment, karl. blake was talking about a deal in place that will get us through up until february at the very least. what happened here with the white house? some would say, conservatives the president is giving in here on his wall. what is it going on? >> look, we have, first of all let's put this in perspective, the federal budget is $4,407,000,000,000. we have a fight between the president who wants $5 billion. that is 00.005 of a trillion. versus the senate democrats who say we will give you $1.6 billion, which is, 3 or 4 billion-dollar difference out of a $4.407 trillion budget but you can't use any of it on the wall. this is all politics. the president is committed to a wall. he talked about it during a campaign. senator schumer in 2005 was one of 80 members of the u.s. senate who voted for the secure fencing act which authorized 700 miles of border wall and fencing. we have 650 of various sorts and variations. so i mean you can look at this, say, mr. president, i'm chuck schumer, i voted for

bush. >> all right, jon karl across town at the white house tonight. jon, thank you. and before we move on, we want to let you know, the state funeral, that will be held wednesday morning at the national cathedral, and of course, we will carry it live right here on abc wednesday morning. >>> but there is other news to get to this monday night. there was a deadly bus accident with a youth football team onboard. the team driving from dallas to memphis. the bus then flipping over on the highway. here's abc's marcus moore tonight. >> reporter: tonight, investigators are trying to piece together why the driver lost control of this bus, killing one child and injuring 45 people. >> we're still working on getting some of the ones that's trapped out. >> reporter: the accident happening near benton, arkansas, just before 3:00 this morning. that bus sliding and tumbling off interstate 30. >> i'm kind of speechless right now, to be honest with you. i'm just lost for words. >> reporter: the bus was carrying members of a youth football team on its way back to memphis, after playing

i want to bring in abc's jonathan karl tonight. it seems it might have been one last call to service for the late president, george h.w. bush, orchestrating this rare moment of unity. >> reporter: in fact, david, the bush namely reached out to the trump white house months ago. they had a clear message. the message was that president bush wanted president trump and the first lady to be part of his memorial. and if you looked out at that crowd today, you also noticed that the bush family also invited many of the president's top advisers, top white house officials were also there. and for his part, president trump honored every request that the bush family made in planning this week's events, and perhaps most importantly, he remained quiet, uncharacteristically so, leaving the spotlight for this week entirely on the memory of the 41st president. >> important unity for the country. jon karl, thank you for your reporting. and our coverage of the celebration of george h.w. bush continues tomorrow. the final service in houston, that's at

jon karl, thanks so much for your reporting all day. and our coverage of the celebration of george h.w. bush continues tomorrow. the final service at st. martin's episcopal church in houston. that's at 11:00 a.m. eastern tomorrow morning, right here. >>> in the meantime, we do move onto the other news this wednesday night. and there is a breaking headline tonight. a military accident involving a marine fa-18 and a kc-130, plunging into the sea off the coast of japan. several american service members onboard, and there is a search and rescue mission under way at this hour. here's abc's chief global affairs correspondent martha raddatz tonight. >> reporter: the midair mishap was in the middle of the night, in cloudy skies, 200 miles off the ast of japan. both aircraft ended up in the water, indicating a midair collision. details are still unclear, but the f-18, like this one, may have been attempting to refuel off of the kc-130. two were aboard the fighter jet, which does have ejection seats, and five aboard the refueler. it was the japan

jon karl also at the national cathedral. >> reporter: president trump made air force one available to transport george h.w. bush's casket here to washington. after this ceremony he will board that plane that is air force one to go back to texa this is a truce, a truce in what is a very tense relationship between donald trump and the entire bush family. i mean, you really can't overstate it, george. george herbert walker bush in his last political act actually voted for a democrat, voted for hillary clinton, he was so upset by the way donald trump had treated his son, jeb bush, during that campaign. but there was certainly a change. he reached out to donald trump just days before his inauguration. and george, earlier this summer, this year, the bush family reached out to the trumps and made it very clear that they wanted him to be at this memorial. of course you remember he was not invited to barbara bush's memorial earlier this year but they made it clear they wanted this to be a time of unity. they wanted the president to be part of it, and that this would not be in any way a politic

but at the end of the day it feels weird, but i'm going with karl rove over tim scott, both of whom i do not agree with. this is president trump's problem, he said that he was more than happy to own the shutdown. >> julie: the republicans have to somewhat come up with some negotiation. i understand that the wall is a sensitive spot for democrats, so $1.7 billion is not enough for a down payment on one, but if you called it a fence, if you called it slats of steel, is at the wall that has them so against us? because as part of the democrats mission to secure the borders, they want to put measures for tougher border security, and certainly some kind of structure blocking mexico in the united states would do that, god forbid, do not call it a wall, call it something else. are they able to somehow compromise? >> i would like to think that they could. it is unfortunate that we are in the situation. and i think the democrats are in a position of do they want to give the president a win by funding the structure and having the president call it a wall, or do they want to give their base what

pure grace to somebody who he really resented during the campaign. >> jon karl, thank you very much. jon karl reporting in from argentina. >>> we also have with us this morning matthew dowd, our chief political analyst. matt joins us from bush's home state of texas. matt, you worked with george w. bush, 43. what are your observations on this morning? >> well, i got to know 41 through 43 having worked for him, and as everyone has said up until today, he was such a decent, kind, gentle man, but one thing, don't be fooled, i got to know 41 in politics. i worked for lloyd bentsen, who was a senator from texas who beat then president bush in 1970 and i worked for bush in '88 when bush beat bentsen in texas. but george herbert walker bush was extremely adept at the rough and tumble of partisan politics. there's no question about it. he was a decent, kind man, but he would bring out the bare knuckles in a political race if that's what he thought he had to do to win. he was just such a decent man and i think he's such a commitment to public service and one line from his -- in the inaugural s

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what did karl marx come up with? eliminated god, we can do it without this. not these boys, not our guys. they knew very well we hold these truths to be felt evident that all men are created equal and endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights including the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness. i know you know the genius of our architecture of our founded, this constitution, where it came from, the bill of rights and the declaration, the thought of you being the one, you understand the genius of them to save the pursuit of happyness because of you go into a communist country as i did, i went to moscow to make a little film in 1991, the time that they were changing things with more openness, so i was there and what did i see? people with the heads down were not looking me in the eye, nothing worked at the hotel, he went to the desk to ask for something, a light bulb change, they wouldn't look at you, pretended they didn't speak english in this deep unhappiness, they had no possibility to pursue happiness and that's the difference. that's what soc

recovery on december 14th who -- karl rove who has a fascinating book on mckinley. so please plan on joining us for both of those. we also want to call your attention to our holiday season special exhibit called a season of stories, christmas at the white house, 2003, opening on november 19th. the exhibit will feature a number after handcraft decorations depicting beloveds storybook characters displayed at the white house for christmas in 2003. we hope you'll come and experience that. also terrific for family is, of course. tonight, we are excited to present you with a conversation between president bush and author jon meachum. they'll discuss meachum's new book, destiny and power, the american odyssey of george herbert walker bush. jon was granted exclusive access to president bush 41, as we call him, die's to write the book and he delivers an unprecedented and comprehensive portrayal of a great man who has long held a special place in our history and in our hearts. now, please join me in welcoming to the stage, my boss, the 43rd president of the united states, geo

season's runners—up sevilla scraped through against third—tier side villa—novense 1—0 on aggregate. and karl—toko ekambi scored four as villarreal thrashed almeria 8—0 on the night, and 11—3 over the two legs. staying with football, boca juniors have arrived in madrid for the second leg of the copa libertadores final. boca from buenos aires will be bidding to win the trophy for a record—equalling seventh time when they face city rivals river plate at the bernabeu on sunday night. the match was controversially moved to madrid after boca's team bus was attacked by river plate fans ahead of the second leg. the two sides are level at 2—2 after the first leg at boca juniors. river plate were given a good send—off when they left for spain on wednesday afternoon. their appeal against the match being played in madrid was rejected by south american football's governing body, who've moved the showpiece occasion out of the continent for the first time. it's been a stellar year for italian golfer francesco molinari. after winning his maiden major, the open at carnoustie, he won all five of his matc