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Aaron Katersky reports on Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche’s face-to-face meeting with Jeffrey Epstein's former companion Ghislaine Maxwell amid growing pressure to release the Epstein files; Whit Johnson has details on the death of professional wrestling icon Hulk Hogan, who went into cardiac arrest at his Florida home; Pierre Thomas has the latest on the Suffolk County, New York, police officer who was shot in the face while investigating the discovery of a dead body; Davis Muir looks back at the life and legacy of beloved Grammy-winning American jazz musician Chuck Mangione, who has died at age 84; and more on tonight’s broadcast of World News Tonight with David Muir.
Aaron Katersky reports on Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche’s face-to-face meeting with Jeffrey Epstein's former companion Ghislaine Maxwell amid growing pressure to release the Epstein files; Whit Johnson has details on the death of professional wrestling icon Hulk Hogan, who went into cardiac arrest at his Florida home; Pierre Thomas has the latest on the Suffolk County, New York, police officer who was shot in the face while investigating the discovery of a dead body; Davis Muir looks back at the life and legacy of beloved Grammy-winning American jazz musician Chuck Mangione, who has died at age 84; and more on tonight’s broadcast of World News Tonight with David Muir.
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00:00Tonight, we have breaking news as we come on the air involving President Trump and the Jeffrey Epstein case.
00:05The Justice Department spending hours today meeting with Epstein's co-conspirator, Glenn Maxwell.
00:11So what's behind this meeting?
00:13Also breaking tonight, just outside New York City, the ambush.
00:16An officer shot in the face.
00:18And in Ohio, the other ambush.
00:19And we have just learned tonight, an officer has now died.
00:23First this evening, the highly unusual meeting.
00:25The Deputy Attorney General going to meet with Jeffrey Epstein's co-conspirator, Glenn Maxwell.
00:30The meeting today lasting six hours.
00:33She's serving 20 years for sex trafficking.
00:35So what do both sides want out of this meeting?
00:38And it comes amid pressure on the White House to release the Epstein files.
00:42Also tonight, professional wrestling icon Hulk Hogan has died.
00:45Paramedics responding to calls of cardiac arrest.
00:48Rocketing to fame in the 1980s in wrestling and movies.
00:52And the scandals outside the ring, including what he said about race.
00:56Tonight, his complicated legacy as fans now pay tribute.
01:00Tonight, the dangerous, life-threatening heat.
01:02140 million Americans under extreme heat alerts.
01:05In New York City, it will soon feel like 105.
01:08Philadelphia, 106.
01:10Washington, D.C. will feel like 109 degrees.
01:14Lee Goldberg standing by.
01:15Tonight, the alarming attacks on police outside New York City.
01:18An officer has been shot in the face.
01:20Also, that disturbing ambush in Ohio.
01:23And moments ago, we have learned one of the officers has now died.
01:27Tonight, 24 hours after Brian Koberger was sentenced to life in prison,
01:31the families of those Idaho college students have now learned horrific new details
01:35about how their loved ones were killed.
01:38One student stabbed more than 50 times, many of them defensive wounds.
01:42She was fighting back.
01:43The extraordinary moment at the Federal Reserve building playing out late today in front of the cameras.
01:48President Trump and the Federal Reserve chair amid the president's pressure on Jerome Powell to bring down rates.
01:55The sudden move by the president, the numbers he pulled out.
01:58Jerome Powell then shooting them down.
02:01Tonight, the daring rescue in rough waters off the East Coast as a boat slams into the rocks.
02:05And tonight here, we remember a beloved Grammy-winning musician.
02:09Just a few notes and you'll know the song.
02:16Tonight, the music of Chuck Maggioni.
02:19From ABC News World Headquarters in New York, this is World News Tonight with David Muir.
02:30Good evening, and we begin tonight here with President Trump and the uproar over the Jeffrey Epstein files.
02:35Tonight, we have new reporting here on this very rare visit today.
02:38The Justice Department's second-in-command traveling to Florida to meet with Jeffrey Epstein's co-conspirator,
02:44Glenn Maxwell, who is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex trafficking.
02:49So tonight here, what do both sides want out of this meeting?
02:52Our chief investigative correspondent, Aaron Katursky, is in Florida where this meeting took place.
02:57We're told it lasted six hours.
02:59Aaron tonight, leading us off.
03:01Tonight, as the White House struggles to contain the uproar over the Jeffrey Epstein investigation,
03:06Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche traveling to Tallahassee to meet with Epstein's one-time companion,
03:12Glenn Maxwell, who's serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex trafficking Epstein's victims.
03:17Do you have anything to say today?
03:20The meeting with the convicted sex offender, a highly unusual move by the Deputy Attorney General,
03:24who until recently was President Trump's personal lawyer.
03:27Blanche has said he wanted to ask Maxwell if she has, quote,
03:30information about anyone who has committed crimes against victims.
03:33For her part, Epstein's enabler wants to get out of prison.
03:37Her lawyer's arriving today.
03:38We're looking forward to a productive day.
03:40Maxwell has faced questions for more than a decade.
03:43Ask you about all the allegations that have come out, Glenn.
03:46Happy New Year.
03:47Maxwell and Epstein both socialized with Trump,
03:49and when she was arrested in 2020, the president said he wished her well.
03:53Mr. President, Glenn Maxwell has been arrested on allegations of child sex trafficking.
03:59Why would you wish such a person well?
04:00Well, first of all, I don't know that, but I do know that...
04:02She has. She's been arrested for that.
04:03Her friend or boyfriend...
04:05Epstein.
04:06...was either killed or committed suicide in jail.
04:09She's now in jail.
04:10Uh-huh.
04:10Yeah, I wish you well. I'd wish you well. I'd wish a lot of people well.
04:14Good luck.
04:14At her sentencing, the judge said Maxwell was instrumental in the abuse of several underage girls by Epstein,
04:20adding she herself participated in some of the abuse.
04:24Today, she met behind closed doors with the Deputy Attorney General for more than six hours.
04:28Well, she answered all the questions and answered them honestly.
04:32There were a lot of questions, and we went all day, and she answered every one of them.
04:38She never just said, I'm not going to answer, never declined.
04:40Maxwell has also been subpoenaed by the Republican-led House Oversight Committee,
04:44though some wonder why she should be trusted.
04:46Is she a credible witness?
04:48I mean, this is a person who's been sentenced to many, many years in prison
04:51for terrible, unspeakable conspiratorial acts and acts against innocent young people.
04:57I mean, can we trust what she's going to say?
04:59It comes as the Wall Street Journal reports that back in May,
05:02Attorney General Pam Bondi told the president his name was mentioned multiple times in the files,
05:07along with other high-profile people.
05:09Days before the article was published, ABC's Catherine Falder is asking Trump...
05:12Did she tell you at all that your name appeared in the files?
05:16No, no, she's given us just a very quick briefing,
05:21and in terms of the credibility of the different things that they've seen.
05:25The journal notes being named in the files is not evidence of wrongdoing.
05:28When Epstein was arrested in 2019, Trump said they had a falling out and had not spoken in 15 years.
05:34Today, as the deputy attorney general met with Epstein's accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell,
05:38some Senate Republicans demanding the Justice Department release the full Epstein files.
05:43I want all the information out.
05:45Just put everything out, make it as transparent as you can.
05:48Release the damn files.
05:50And tonight, David, sources tell ABC News it was Ghislaine Maxwell,
05:53who asked for the meeting here today with the deputy attorney general.
05:56It's still not clear what questions he asked or what responses she gave,
06:00but remember, David, ultimately, she wants to get out of prison.
06:04David, Aaron Petersky leading us off from Tallahassee, where this meeting took place today.
06:08Aaron, thank you.
06:09Now to the death of wrestling icon Hulk Hogan, who rocketed to fame in the 1980s,
06:13in the ring, transforming the wrestling industry,
06:16then appearing in the movies in recent years, taking a political stand.
06:19But there were scandals, too, outside the ring, including what he said about race.
06:23Tonight, his complicated legacy, as fans now pay tribute.
06:27Here's Whit Johnson.
06:28Hulk Hogan is in the building!
06:30He was an American sports and entertainment icon.
06:33Hulk Hogan now stands up for the Sheik and rams it!
06:37Hulk Hogan with that signature horseshoe mustache, bleach blonde hair, and bandana.
06:42Hulk Hogan, he drops a big leg on him!
06:44Helping to transform professional wrestling into a multi-billion dollar global phenomenon.
06:50We have a new champion!
06:51Hulk Hogan was born Terry Bollea, discovered at a gym in Tampa.
06:55At 6'7", 320 pounds, he'd take the name Hulk from the Incredible Hulk,
07:01joining the famed World Wrestling Federation in 1983,
07:05and facing the greats from Andre the Giant.
07:08To the rock, Dwayne Johnson.
07:10Hogan, responding to the question he was so often asked, is wrestling fake?
07:16Fake implies that the punches don't hurt, and you never get injured, and the people that
07:21have given up their bodies and actually their personal lives and everything, it's fake, and
07:28it's not.
07:28It's as real as it gets.
07:30Later starring in movies like Rocky III alongside Sylvester Stallone.
07:35Run for your life!
07:36In recent years, adding his celebrity to politics, endorsing then-candidate Donald Trump at the
07:422024 Republican National Convention.
07:44Let Trump-A-Mania rule again!
07:47Let Trump-A-Mania make America great again!
07:52But his life outside the ring at times seemed more challenging than inside.
07:56He admitted to steroid use.
07:58He was heard using a racial slur in audio secretly recorded, later sitting down with
08:03ABC asking the public for forgiveness.
08:06If everybody at their lowest point was judged on one thing they said, it'd be a sad world.
08:13People get better every day.
08:16People get better.
08:17Hulk Hogan died this morning after suffering cardiac arrest in his Clearwater, Florida home
08:22at the age of 71.
08:24The image that you want to relate to other people can be either a positive or a negative.
08:28For me, I would like to go from the positive aspect of trying to tell people to clean up
08:33their act and do the right type of things.
08:35And David, tonight the tributes have been pouring in.
08:38Sylvester Stallone writing online, my heart breaks.
08:42And President Donald Trump calling Hulk Hogan strong, tough, smart, but with the biggest heart.
08:47David?
08:48David?
08:49Lee Johnson with us here tonight.
08:50Whit, we appreciate it.
08:51Now to the dangerous and life-threatening heat.
08:53More than 140 million Americans on alert from Texas to New York to Maine.
08:57New York City will feel like 105.
08:59New York City already issuing an air quality alert tonight.
09:02Philadelphia?
09:03It'll feel like 106.
09:04Washington, D.C.
09:05109.
09:06Let's get right to Chief Meteorologist Lee Goldberg of WABC tracking it all for us.
09:10Hi, Lee.
09:11Hey, David.
09:12Indeed.
09:13New York City next in line.
09:14By this time tomorrow, blistering heat.
09:15You can already feel the change.
09:16But for tonight, the heat is from the mid-south of the Great Lakes.
09:19Feels like over 100 from Shreveport all the way to Detroit.
09:22Look how it feels cooler in Chicago.
09:24That's because of cooling thunderstorms.
09:25In fact, there's a severe thunderstorm watched just south of Chicago.
09:28The worst is away from the city.
09:30We've had damage reports near Aurora.
09:31But from Peoria all the way to Grand Rapids, a thunderstorm threat and a flash flood threat,
09:35that's in the Kansas City area.
09:37That heat, it expands to the east coast tomorrow, up and down the coast.
09:40It'll feel like 105 to 110 from New York to Philly, even close to 109 in D.C.
09:45That will bring thunderstorms in the afternoon hours to the I-95 corridor.
09:48Could impact the evening commute, damaging winds of possibility and heavy downpours.
09:51That will bring some brief relief to the northeast over the weekend
09:54before another heat wave next week.
09:55The southeast stays hot.
09:56David?
09:57Lee Gilbert with us tonight, Lee.
09:59Next tonight here, the alarming attacks on police just outside New York City.
10:02An officer has been shot in the face.
10:04Also, the disturbing attack in Ohio.
10:06One of the officers has now died.
10:08Here's Pierre Thomas.
10:09On New York's Long Island this morning, a Suffolk County police officer was shot in
10:14the face while investigating the discovery of a dead body.
10:18The suspect, 48-year-old Neves Reyes, is accused of killing the other man who was found
10:23in the brush.
10:24When police tried executing a search warrant, they say Reyes fired multiple shots from inside
10:29the home, hitting the officer who is expected to recover.
10:32The incident comes after three officers were shot in Lorain, Ohio Wednesday, ambushed with
10:37a barrage of gunfire while they were simply trying to have lunch.
10:41We are shot, fired.
10:43There's no extension.
10:44And everybody.
10:45Officers Phillip Wagner and Peter Gale were in separate cruisers parked on a dead-end street,
10:51eating pizza, when the suspect opened fire with a high-powered rifle.
10:56Officer Wagner later dying of his injuries.
10:58He was lying in wait.
11:00Responding law enforcement met with a hail of gunfire.
11:03A third officer, Brett Payne, also shot.
11:06And the suspect, identified as 28-year-old Michael Joseph Parker, killed at the scene.
11:11Video showing two rifles amid the contents of the suspect's silver sedan.
11:16Police say they also found handguns, loaded magazines, and a significant quantity of homemade
11:21explosives inside.
11:23Residents stunned.
11:24It's crazy.
11:25It's dangerous where we live in.
11:28According to the Fraternal Order of Police, there have been 36 ambush attacks on law enforcement
11:33so far this year.
11:3445 officers shot, eight killed.
11:37Tonight, we add one more name to the fallen.
11:40David.
11:41Pierre Thomas on this in Washington.
11:43Pierre, thank you.
11:44Next tonight here, just 24 hours after Brian Koberger was sentenced to life in prison for
11:48the Idaho college murders.
11:49Tonight, the families of those victims have now learned horrific new details about how
11:54their loved ones were killed.
11:55Here's Katie Whitworth.
11:57Just 24 hours after those searing statements from the victims of Brian Koberger.
12:02He took them from me, my friends, my people who felt like my home.
12:09A new mugshot as the convicted killer starts life behind bars in this maximum security prison.
12:15Officials now revealing a trove of chilling details about the murderers.
12:19One of the students, 20-year-old Zana Kurnodal, found with more than 50 stab wounds.
12:25Mostly defensive.
12:26And according to Moscow's former police chief, Kayla Gonsalves fought back too.
12:31I want your perspective on the fight that it sounds like both Zana Kurnodal and Kayla Gonsalves
12:38put up.
12:39I think it was a fight for their life.
12:41Documents also show a surviving roommate told police weeks earlier that Kaylee saw an unknown
12:47male outside the house staring at her.
12:49And around the time of the murders, a fellow teaching assistant of Koberger's remembered
12:53seeing injuries on his face and hands.
12:56When asked what happened, Koberger said he'd been in a car accident.
13:00And David, after those heartbreaking moments in court yesterday, those families are now
13:05learning brutal new details.
13:07But they're still left with the question of why.
13:09Why did he target those students in that house?
13:12David.
13:13Kena Whitworth.
13:14Kena, thank you.
13:15Now to the extraordinary moment playing out of the Federal Reserve Building late today
13:18in front of cameras.
13:19President Trump and the Federal Reserve Chair amid the president's continuing pressure on Jerome
13:23Powell to bring rates down.
13:25Today, the sudden move by the president, the numbers he pulled out, Jerome Powell then
13:29reading them in real time and shooting them down.
13:32Here's Mary Bruce.
13:33Tonight, an extraordinary scene at the Federal Reserve as President Trump ramps up his effort
13:38to pressure Fed Chair Jerome Powell to lower interest rates.
13:42Trump making a rare visit to the Fed to challenge Powell on the building's multi-billion dollar renovation.
13:48With cameras rolling, Trump pulling out a sheet of paper, trying to surprise the Fed chair
13:53with a new price tag for the project.
13:55But Powell telling the president that number factors in construction that was completed five years ago.
14:01It looks like it's about 3.1 billion.
14:03It went up a little bit or a lot.
14:06So the 2.7 is now 3.1.
14:09I'm not aware of that.
14:11Yeah, it just came out.
14:13I haven't heard that from anybody at the Fed.
14:16It just came out.
14:21Our notes added about 3.1 as well.
14:233.1.
14:243.2.
14:25This came from us?
14:26Yes.
14:27I don't know who does that.
14:31You're including the Martin renovation.
14:33That's our entire capital.
14:34You just added in a third building is what that is.
14:37That's a third building.
14:38Well, I know, but it's a building that's being built.
14:40No, it was built five years ago.
14:42We finished Martin five years ago.
14:44It's part of the overall work.
14:46It's not new.
14:47So we're going to take a look.
14:50But reporters then asking.
14:51As a real estate developer, what would you do with a project manager who would be over budget?
14:58Generally speaking, what would I do?
15:00I'd fire him.
15:01Trump making it clear what he's really after.
15:04Are there things the chairman can say to you today that would make you back off some of the earlier criticism?
15:10Well, I'd love him to lower interest rates.
15:12But other than that, what can I tell you?
15:15Now, Trump himself appointed Jerome Powell.
15:18Asked today why he doesn't just fire him.
15:20Trump said he doesn't think it's necessary, saying when it comes to lowering interest rates, he believes Powell is, quote, going to do the right thing.
15:26David.
15:27All right.
15:28Mary Bruce at the White House again tonight.
15:29Thank you, Mary.
15:30Overseas tonight, U.S. negotiators walking out of the Gaza ceasefire talk, saying Hamas has failed to act in good faith, even as Gaza's hunger crisis worsens.
15:38The World Health Organization tonight saying nearly 30,000 children under five are now malnourished.
15:43ABC News was inside the children's ward of a hospital in central Gaza.
15:47Many of the children are so weak they're struggling to move.
15:50Tonight, the crisis leading French President Emmanuel Macron to announce that France will recognize the state of Palestine.
15:56Prime Minister Netanyahu strongly condemning the move tonight.
15:59When we come back here, the unruly passenger trying to rush the cockpit just 20 minutes after takeoff.
16:04And the grandmother, an army veteran who jumped in, holding the passenger down.
16:08And the images tonight, the daring rescue in rough waters right off the east coast, the boat slamming into the rocks.
16:13Ten people on board.
16:15How they saved them here a moment.
16:18Tonight, a grandmother, an army veteran restraining a woman allegedly trying to storm the cockpit.
16:22It happened on the Delta flight from Atlanta to Tucson.
16:25It happened about 20 minutes into the flight.
16:27The pilot returning to Atlanta, where authorities were waiting.
16:30Tonight, the daring rescue of 10 people trapped on a sailboat in rough waters in Avalon, New Jersey.
16:35Strong winds slamming a boat right into the rocks.
16:37Two sailing instructors and eight teenagers were on board.
16:40Everyone was wearing life jackets, jumping into the water.
16:4340 lifeguards and first responders getting everyone out of those rough waters. Incredible.
16:48When we come back here tonight, the hiker attacked by a bear.
16:51She called 911 for help herself in the attack.
16:54And remembering a musician who helped define the smooth sounds of the 70s and 80s.
16:58And you'll definitely know his music.
17:01To the index tonight, a hiker was mauled by a brown bear in Anchorage, Alaska.
17:05She called 911 herself.
17:07Authorities say she was two miles up the dome trail when the bear attacked.
17:10She was badly injured.
17:11She stayed on the phone until help arrived.
17:13She's now in stable condition.
17:14Wildlife officials have not located the bear.
17:17When we come back here tonight, the beloved musician with so many of his songs,
17:21it takes just a note or two for you to remember them in a moment.
17:26Finally tonight here, remembering American jazz musician Chuck Mangione.
17:30Chuck Mangione's Feel So Good was inescapable.
17:43It played everywhere.
17:44One of the biggest pop jazz tracks of all time.
17:51The mellow sound of his flugelhorn at his distinctive fedora helped define the music of the 70s and 80s.
17:57Chuck Mangione proving he did not need lyrics to make a hit.
18:02Feel So Good was nominated for Record of the Year at the Grammys.
18:05That album second only to the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack on the Billboard 200 back in 1978.
18:13His crossover sound fusing elements of disco, pop and mainstream jazz,
18:18helping to create what would be termed as smooth jazz.
18:22He would win two Grammys, one of them for his hit The Children of Sanchez.
18:27His song chased the clouds away at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal.
18:46Four years later, he would write the music for the 1980 Winter Games in Lake Placid.
18:50Performing, Give It All You Got.
18:58Chuck Mangione was born and raised in Rochester, New York,
19:01and would often say he picked up the trumpet at age 10 after seeing the Kirk Douglas film, Young Man with a Horn.
19:06And later would discover the flugelhorn and become perhaps its most famous player.
19:12Tonight, Chuck Mangione has died at the age of 84.
19:16Chuck Mangione in his own words.
19:18Chuck Mangione's instrumental music especially allows people to escape.
19:19It's a place to use your imagination to get into it.
19:24It really allows you to get in there in a day when everybody's talking and everybody all the time,
19:30to really use your imagination and get lost in the feeling of it all.
19:34the feeling of it all.
19:41He said he fell in love with music at eight years old.
19:44What a gift for the rest of us.
19:46I'm David Muir.
19:47Good night.
19:50David Muir, the most watched newscast in America.
19:54And now, ABC's World News Tonight has won the Emmy for Best Live News Program for the
20:01third year in a row.