ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - May 28, 2025

Tonight, the Breaking News, the reality TV couple now going. free. President Trump's pardon tonight, after they were. convicted on tax evasion and fraud. Also, Elon Musk breaking with the. president on spending the president responding. tonight. That urgent manhunt right now for. a former police chief considered armed and dangerous. And the tornado watches and severe. storms. What's coming to the Northeast? First tonight, the breaking news reality TV stars Todd and Julie. Chrisley walking free. And now President Trump says he'll look. into pardoning the men convicted of a violent plot.

against Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer. Also tonight Elon Musk breaking with the president. on his so-called big beautiful bill, Musk pointing to the spending and what it could do to the. deficit, saying it undermines the work his team has been. doing cutting jobs. Tonight the president responding to. musk and the anger at town hall. Voters telling one congressman who admitted he didn't. read the whole bill to grow a spine. Tonight the urgent man hunt intensifying for a former. police chief and convicted murderer, roadblocks and.

security checkpoints, now near state lines the warning. tonight for the public. The dramatic moment at the trial of Sean Diddy-Colms. today, why Colms' attorneys the night of the day. We are. trying to find a way to get a judge responded, a storm tonight. in tornado watches across multiple. states. The system stretching from. the south then right up into the northeast. Lee Goldberg is here to. time this out tonight. The 18 year old just accepted. to the Air Force Academy. She was killed while kayaking hit by. a jet ski and now the charges.

New images tonight at the desperation. now come again families trying to feed their children, storming a UN warehouse for much needed food in Gaza, the. crush of people turning deadly. And tonight the Palestinian ambassador to the UN breaking. down as he pleads for help. The chilling surveillance video tonight of an alleged. kidnapping back here in the US, a man forcing a woman. into the trunk of her car. Authorities say he was following her with a tracking device. The image is just in tonight. There's been a massive glacier collapse tonight.

The search for the missing. And at the end of the broadcast tonight, the sister act, the nuns going viral tonight, keeping the. faith and the people. [MUSIC PLAYING]. From ABC News, World Headquarters in New York, This is World News Tonight with David New York. Good evening. It's great to have you with us here at a very. busy Wednesday night. We're tracking tornado watches up right now as we. come on and the severe storm. Slee Gullberg is standing by on this.

Also, the urgent manhunt for a former police chief. considered armed and dangerous authorities are now on state. lines at this hour and they're warning tonight. But we begin here with President Trump's new pardons exercising. the right of his office, the president, issuing a full. pardon to reality TV stars husband and wife Todd and Julie. Chrisley, serving time in separate prisons, convicted of tax evasion and fraud. Authorities say that a fraud had banks out. of tens of millions. And tonight the president now saying he. will take a look at pardoning the men, convicted of a violent. kidnapping plot against Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer, ABC's.

chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Carole, leading us. off tonight. Tonight, Donald Trump made it official, issuing a pardon. of reality TV stars Todd and Julie Crisley, who were. serving prison sentences for tax evasion and bank fraud. Today, their daughter thanking the president as she waited. for her father's release. "I'm just so grateful, and that's...I'm gonna. leave here with my dad.". The couple served just over two years behind bars. Todd was sentenced to 12 years, Julie Sevin.

Just yesterday, the president breaking the news. he intended to issue the pardon in a call to their daughter. - It's a great thing because the parents are gonna be. free and clean. - For years, the Christlie's portrayed themselves. as self-made real estate tycoons on their show. "Christlie Knows Best," showcasing a life of luxury. - Product is better than goods. - Gute, she's better than products. - I don't even know what product is. But federal prosecutors called the couple career swindlers who. have made a living by jumping from one fraud scheme to.

another, saying they defrauded banks of more than $30 million, using the money on luxury cars, homes and clothes. Daughter Savannah, a Trump supporter, had lobbied for the. pardon, suggesting in a speech at the Republican National. Convention that her parents were targeted because of their. politics and celebrity. Due to our public profile and conservative beliefs, they. accused my parents of fraud. And less than two months after Trump met with Michigan's.

Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer at the White House, "We're honored to have Gretchen Whitmer from Michigan, great state of Michigan. And she's really done an excellent job and. a very good person.". Trump said today is considering pardoning a group of men in. connection with a plot to kidnap Whitmer back in 2020. The two alleged ring leaders. of the plot are now serving sentences of 16 and. 19 years in prison. Today, Trump suggested they were not guilty.

It looked to me like somewhat of a railroad job. I'll be honest with you. It looked to me like some. people said some stupid things, you know, they would. drink in and I think they said stupid things, but I'll take. a look at that. Last month, Trump pardoned Paul Wallsack, a nursing home. executive convictive cheating on his taxes, erasing an. 18-month prison sentence and a $4.4 million penalty. The New York Times reporting the pardon came three weeks after. his mother attended a $1 million per person fundraiser.

at Mar-a-Lago. All right, so let's bring in Jonathan Carly's. live in Washington, John, a string of pardons. here from President Trump. Is there a through line here, a common thread to these pardons? Well, well, first of all, David Donald Trump is using his. pardon power much earlier and much more broadly. than it is first time. And what we are seeing in many of these pardons is people that. have clear political connections or our political supporters of. Donald Trump, for instance, just today the White House announced. partens for former Republican Congressman.

from New York, Michael Grimm and former Republican. governor of Connecticut, John Rollins. Both had been convicted of tax fraud and other federal. crimes. John Carl, leading us. off here tonight, John. Thank you. Tonight, Elon Musk in a rare move, breaking with the president on his so-called. big beautiful bill. Elon Musk pointing to the level of spending. and what it could do to the deficit, saying it, quote, "Underminds the work. as team has been doing, cutting jobs.". Tonight, the president now responding to Musk. And the anger at town halls voters telling one congressman. who admitted he didn't read the whole bill.

to grow a spine, Rachel Scott at the White House. Tonight, Elon Musk is set to end his time. as a senior advisor to the president. His role as a special government employee. coming to an end. Posting on X, I would like to thank. President Trump for the opportunity to reduce. wasteful spending. In his last hours working for the. Trump administration, Musk breaking with the president. on his massive spending bill, arguing it would undo. their own efforts to shrink the federal government. "I was like disappointed to see the massive spending.

bill, frankly, which increases the budget deficit, not. just decrease it, and our minds the work that the. the bill Republicans just pushed through the house, officially called the one big beautiful bill act, promises to slash federal spending by $1.5 trillion. with major cuts to Medicaid and food assistance programs. But the nonpartisan Congressional budget office. now estimates it will add $3.8 trillion to the. national deficit over the next 10 years. Republicans in their own home districts press the defend.

the spending package. (crowd cheering). - I am going to do the very best job I can on your behalf. - At a town hall in Nebraska, Republican Congressman. Mike Flood, admitting he wasn't. aware of everything that was in the bill. when he voted for it. - This provision was unknown to me. when I voted for the bill. - Late today at the White House, the president asks about. Elon Musk and his criticism. President Trump's saying he isn't completely satisfied. either with the bill. I'm not happy about certain aspects of it, but I'm thrilled.

by other aspects of it. That's the way they go. It's very big. It's the big, beautiful bill. And late tonight, a federal court dealing a major blow. to the Trump administration. Ruling the president does not have the authority to impose his. sweeping tariffs on more than 50 countries, effectively. bringing them to a halt. The administration expected to appeal, saying tonight, quote, "it's not for unelected judges to design how to properly. address the national emergency.". So let's bring in Rachel Scott Live there at. the White House Rachel.

There was another moment in the Oval Office late today when. the president was asked about the war in Ukraine. He was asked if he believes Vladimir Putin still wants to. end this war, and here's how the president answered. I can't tell you that, but I'll let you know in about two weeks. I'm very disappointed at what happened a couple of nights. now where people were killed in the middle of what you. would call a negotiation. I'm very disappointed by that very, very disappointed. Yes, one thing I'll say, I don't like. When I see rockets being shot into cities, that's no good. We're not going to allow it.

Rachel, does the White House believe Putin is. listening to you, Trump? Well, David, this is rare frustration from. President Trump, making it clear that he is not. happy with President Putin after Russia launched some of its. largest attacks on Ukraine since the war began. Now the president says that he's giving it two weeks for. these peace negotiations to play out, but this is not the. first time that we have heard this from President Trump. He set that same deadline back in April and then again earlier. this month and now heading and to June, delivering. the same two-week deadline for these peace.

negotiations, David. - Rachel Scott with us as well. Rachel, thank you next tonight here, the urgent manhunt intensifying for a former police chief. and convicted murderer, roadblocks and. security checkpoints have now been set. up near state lines. And the warning tonight for the public, ABC's Faith the Boube on the scene again tonight, she's an Arkansas. - Tonight, authorities in Arkansas searching. this dense terrain as they expand their search. for former police chief turned escaped killer. Grant Hardin. We're going to have to have for me real quick. Officer stopping vehicles and multiple security checkpoints.

near the north central unit prison. Just south of the Missouri border, where authorities say. Hardin made that daring escape four days ago. We're not going to rule anything out. This point obviously, because all it takes is one vehicle. to hop in and you can be anywhere. But as of this time, they feel very confident he is still in. the area. Hardin seen here wearing a fake guard uniform. tonight and affidavit says a corrections officer at the. prison mistake in hardin for another officer opened a. secured gate and let hardin walk away.

Officials realizing he was gone less than 30 minutes. after his escape. Not to say that I don't trust that they're. doing everything they can. It's just he's obviously clever and it's it's nerve wracking. hard in serving a decades long prison sentence for the. 1997 rape of a school teacher and the roadside murder of James. Appleton in 2017. His crimes, the subject of investigation discoveries. devil in the Ozarks showing what he told investigators. Do you want me to your day? I will happen today.

I'll remain silent. OK? On that. Hours from that prison, the family of Hardin's murder. victim left reeling by his escape. It just seems so unreal. I mean, how does this happen? he is just an evil man. He should not be trusted. And David, a state prison official tells me. there's supposed to be a verification process. before doors are unlocked here at the prison. and that lapse tonight is under investigation. David. A major lapse there, faith the boob faith.

Thank you again. We turn out to the dramatic moment at the trial. of Sean Dady Combs here in New York today. by Combs' attorneys suddenly called for a mistrial. in that courtroom. Here's Aaron Katerzky. Tonight, Sean Combs' ex-girlfriend Cassie. Ventura, the star witness in the case, has given. birth to her third child, less than two weeks after. her emotional testimony. Today, the jury-herder former stylist testified he witnessed. Combs beating Ventura until her head hit a bed frame, this graphic photo showing the bloody gash. Deontay Nash testified Combs looked at him and said,

"Look what y'all made me do.". The defense has argued Combs' violence is not. evidence of sex trafficking. Today, his attorneys ask for a mistrial. The request came during the testimony of an. arson investigator who responded to kid. Cutty's home when the rapper's Porsche was torched. with a Molotov cocktail. He showed the jury pictures of a slash in the canvas top, a malt liquor bottle, and a burned cloth used as a wick. The defense attorneys have said "comes" was simply not involved, and today they accused prosecutors.

of unfairly suggesting "comes" was responsible. for the destruction of two fingerprints lifted from. Kid Cutty's front door. There's no way to unring this bell, a defense attorney said, demanding a mistrial. The judge denied it. - Our sin intimidation, threats, violence, David, these are all part of the criminal. enterprise federal prosecutors here say Sean Comes. was running. He's denied those allegations. David Airendtorsky at the courthouse again tonight. Aaron, thank you. Now to the severe storms on the move tonight and the tornado. watches up at this hour across multiple states.

These storms from the south, eventually making their way. right up to the northeast. Let's get right to chief meteorologist Lee Goldberg of. our New York station, W-A-V-C, back with us tonight. Highly. Hey David, severe. thunderstorm warning. North of Austin, Texas right now. Some baseball size hail, maybe some 60 mile-proud gusts. The watch from San Angel into Austin till 10 o'clock. there's a tornado watch from Eastern Colorado. That's in the Kansas, that's until 10 o'clock. and more severe storms along the Gulf Coast. Meanwhile, a wet night here in the Northeast, good soaking for New York City, moves into Boston late tonight, but it does get lighter.

Then that storm in the plains, it brings storms down. to the southeast. So we're focused on some thunderstorms in Atlanta. Friday, the severe threat is more organized. It means a soaker for the Northeast this weekend. David. - Legal back with. us tonight, Lee. Thanks as always. Next tonight here, the 18 year old. who just been accepted to the Air Force Academy, killed while kayaking hit by a jet ski. The jet ski driver then speeding away. in tonight here at the charges. ABC's Maria V. Rial in Texas tonight. Tonight, two people facing charges. After a hit and run, jet ski crash in Texas.

over Memorial Day weekend that left a beloved Air Force. cadet dead. Authorities say 18-year-old Ava Moore, a standout high school basketball player, just accepted into the U.S. Air Force Academy was kayaking on late. great-buy now outside Dallas Sunday night. when a jet ski plowed into her from behind. Police say the alleged jet ski driver, 21-year-old Decker-Lin Gonzales Gonzales, fled the scene. She was arrested Tuesday, now.

charged with manslaughter. Mikel Coeroperozo, who police say wasn't. on the jet ski, also facing charges tonight. Authorities say he hit two vehicles. while allegedly driving Gonzalez away from the scene. - David DHS says both of these aspects. are from Venezuela. They were apprehended, arrested at the border process, and then released into the US. David. - Maria V. Rial tonight. Maria, thank you. Overseas and out of Gaza tonight, there are new images of the desperation. coming in this evening, families trying to feed their.

children, storming a UN warehouse for much-needed food. The crush of people there turning deadly. Here's James Longman. Chaos is spreading in Gaza tonight, as another. aid center is overrun by hundreds of starving. Palestinians tearing down the walls of this world food. program warehouse where supplies have been stuck while. Israel carries out what it calls security checks. The WFP says this desperate fight for survival has. left at least two dead and dozens injured. The despair reached a new climax Tuesday when this new.

A-distribution center in Raffa was overwhelmed, a facility. run by the controversial Gaza Humanitarian. Foundation, which is an operation backed by the U.S. and Israel and employs private armed security contractors. with support from Israeli troops. The UN says it violates humanitarian principles. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the. system is in place to stop Hamas from stealing. aid. Palestinian ambassador to the. UN, Riyadh Mansor, was overcome with emotion in a speech.

today, saying children there are dying of starvation. "I have to be Arab, I have a quick address.". David, growing international pressure on Israel might now. mean that a ceasefire plan put together by White House. Special Envoy Steve Wicoff has a greater chance now of success, but it does mean that Israel needs to stop its. military campaign in Gaza. James Longman in London tonight, James, thank you. When we come back here, the prices you pay and tonight the. newest major chain now warning customers that prices will be.

going up because of the tariffs. And look at this tonight, the chilling video of an alleged kid. napping, a man forcing a woman right into the trunk of her car. Authorities say he'd been following her with. a tracking device, more on this in a moment. Tonight the dramatic image is just in here, a. massive glacier collapse. And now the earth and search at this hour and the Swiss. elps, this playing out in the village of Blatton, now. partially destroyed tonight. A huge chunk of the glaciers smashing down Holmes, Flatton, many residents had evacuated,

They are searching for the missing tonight. Back here in the US and to Florida, police say a. terrifying alleged kidnapping was caught on surveillance. Authorities arresting a man they say used a tracking device. to follow his ex-girlfriend, allegedly forcing her into. the trunk of her car, driving away with her in the trunk. The alleged victim suffering minor injuries, that suspect, is under arrest tonight. When we come back here, the prices you pay. tonight, the newest major chain warning customers, the city of New York. The city of New York is the only. city in the city.

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Tonight the two nuns with their voices and their moves. reaching millions. They're being called the new Sister Act. Sister Marizelli and Sister Mariza on a Brazilian Catholic. the TV show talking about their work to reach the faithful. When Sister Mariselli begins a sing-a-song called "Vocation,". being called "The Religious Life.". Sister Marisa, joining Yes. Ajo de ahí. But then, no one was expecting this.

Sister Marizelli beat boxing. They weren't done standing up. they had moves too. [MUSIC - "BORKASA HELLO"]. Dan, what are the hosts? The Deacon joining in. [MUSIC - "BORKASA HELLO"].

The performance going viral. Tonight here, the sisters on the moment. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Sister Marzelli saying, be boxing dancing and the songs. themselves are tools that God uses to reach the hearts. of the people we work with. >> The names. >> Sister Mariza saying, we didn't expect the. audience to be so many young people, all kinds of people. >>. [SOUND] >> Tonight, many who have seen this now comparing. it to another sister act. The famous movies, the nuns helping to move their.

community through music. Tonight, the real life sister act, hoping they'll do the same. Always the nuns who lift us up. I'm David viewer. I hope to see you right back here tomorrow. Thank you for making World News Tonight with David Neuer. America's most watched newscast.