NTD Evening News Full Broadcast (Aug. 31)

Welcome to NTD Evening News. Our top story tonight, President Trump unveils new deals with drug makers to lower prices. And what he tells NTD about his approach differs from that of the Democratic Socialists. Now he expects a new oil deal with Venezuela to also lower prices for Americans. The Trump administration is shutting down hundreds of truck driving schools nationwide. They say thousands of drivers who couldn't speak English were licensed, leading to deadly crashes that could have been prevented. And dozens of illegal immigrant truckers arrested in Arizona, with the Trump administration continuing its crackdown on illegally issued commercial licenses. And a deadly flash flood tears through the Grand Canyon, leaving at least two people dead and about 15 missing. Rescue efforts are still underway as more rain is expected tonight. Jason Perry reports. Cybersecurity pilot program to protect America's critical infrastructure. Trump administration launches Project Watershed 250 in Texas amid recent attacks on water systems. This is NTD Evening News, live from our global headquarters in New York City. Here's Kerry Dunst. Good evening. Thank you for joining us tonight. President Trump announcing new deals with nine drug companies to lower drug prices. He's also vowing to lower energy prices for Americans with a massive oil deal with Venezuela. Joining us now live is NTD's White House correspondent Iris Tao. Good evening, Iris. You were in the Oval Office today. What did the president tell you? Good evening to you as well, Kerry. So the president today announcing more deals with drug makers to lower drug prices for As the White House says, that would expect to save Americans about $600 billion in health care. Specifically, the president has now struck deals with nine more mid-sized drug makers in addition to the more than a dozen major drug makers that he was able to bring on board earlier this year for them to all agree on this most favored nation drug pricing policy. And now these drug makers will offer their drugs to Americans at much lower prices. The president also telling NTD about how his approach would contrast with what the Democratic Socialists of America's people are proposing, such as Medicare for all. Here's what he told us. Watch. Medicare for all, paid by the government, by taxing the higher earners. How do you contrast that approach with what you are highlighting today? Well, this is much bigger, much better, much less expensive. And it's something that works and the other doesn't work. And you know, when you talk Medicaid for usually that's the entire budget of the whole country. So you'd have to quadruple taxes. And Dr. Oz, the administrator for Medicare and Medicaid services, also echoing the president's point, telling NTD that Medicare for all would only limit options for Americans when it comes to health care. Whereas the Trump administration is now trying to democratize it, making Americans being able to have more options and re-own their own health care plans. Here's what he told me. This is a very good question. I'd like you to address that for a second. Those programs ultimately get more and more expensive until they devour the system. So they end up with a two-tiered system. So you have affluent people who get better quality care at private clinics, and you have the average American who would have to go to wherever they're allowed to go. And in other news, the president also telling NTD that the administration is working to lower oil and energy prices for Americans, this time through a historic, massive deal with Venezuela to get some of their oil reserve and refill our own strategic reserve. The president noting, though, it's unclear if the prices will actually come down significantly by November. But he says the American public should understand why he needed to go into Iran in the first place. Watch. How do you expect that to impact the lives of everyday Americans, both in the short and the long term? Well, I think it's going to be have a tremendous impact. It's going to ultimately prices are going to come down now. Will it before what happened before the election? I can't tell you that, but I think people are very smart. They know we had to go into Iran. And on Iran, over the weekend, there was a new wave of strikes between the U.S. and Iran after the U.S. struck some Iranian rocket launchers along the Strait of Hormuz and Iran retaliated by trying to target American bases in the region, though most of the missiles were intercepted. The president today telling Fox News that the U.S. will hit them back hard. Back to you. And Iris, in a major move tonight, the Supreme Court gives the green light now for the president's White House ballroom construction to proceed. Can you tell us more about that? Right. So that is a breaking development tonight as the high court now says they're greenlighting And specifically, the 5-4 ruling is likely the final word on this very sensitive matter that has been in the public's eyes for months, as it now means that the Trump administration can proceed with the above ground work after it was halted while the work above, of course, the work underground was held up by the court. And now, of course, this ruling is specifically says that the plaintiff who sued, which is the National Trust for Historic Preservation, lacks standing and bring this case to begin with. And that's why the court is ruling the way it did tonight. Back to you. All right. A busy Monday at the White House. Thank you, Iris. And next, Treasury Secretary Scott Besant also reacting to the latest retaliation from Iran. Here's what he said at a G20 meeting today in North Carolina. They're taking them very seriously. If you look back what the Iranian political leadership has said over the past 10 days, they're in shock at the state of their economy. And you know, we're seeing gas lines. Could you imagine a country in the world with the third largest amount of energy resources has to import gasolines? And they now have three, four hour gas lines that go through the night. So I would think that they are lashing out kinetically because they are losing economically. And Besant says the Trump administration will continue to exert pressure on the Iranian regime, adding that new actions could come in the next weeks or months. The Treasury Secretary says the Iranian economy doesn't have to collapse, but the regime has to come to its senses. Besant says finance ministers have discussed the issue at the G20 meeting. He's also thanking the European Union for supporting the U.S. actions on Iran. The Treasury Secretary saying a day earlier that the U.S. plans to target another bank this week, as well as impose further secondary sanctions on Iran. Besant says the next step may be to cut a bank off entirely from the dollar-based financial system. He adds, quote, this is going to be financial violence if we have to. And with President Trump promising that Americans will receive the lowest drug prices globally, how is his administration ensuring that drug companies will deliver? Tune in tonight for analysis on Capitol Report with Steve Lance at 7 p.m. Eastern. And the Trump administration is shutting down nearly 300 commercial truck driving schools across the country. Federal officials say they have certified thousands of unqualified drivers, many in the country illegally, and fail to speak English. And it is Washington correspondent Jack Bradley has more. We're going to get rid of these agencies that have been taking advantage of the American people. The Trump administration's immediately shutting down 110 truck driving schools and moving to close another 160 across the country, saying they pumped thousands of unqualified drivers onto American highways, including many illegal immigrants who couldn't speak English. You have to speak English to operate a commercial motor vehicle. I didn't create that rule. President Trump didn't create that rule. That rule has been in place for decades. Many of these truck driving schools didn't have a classroom used on licensed instructors or had a parking lot too small to practice a turn. These individuals are dangerous. And because of the failure from the previous administration, from the Biden administration, they killed hundreds of people and unfortunately injured thousands. The announcement follows a string of fatal crashes involving non-citizen truck drivers, including a 2025 Florida crash that killed three people after the driver, an Indian national in the country illegally, made an illegal U-turn, unable to read the sign that said for official use only. That driver reportedly failed his written exam 10 times before being licensed in Washington state. Officials brought Delilah Coleman. She was five when an illegal immigrant with a commercial driver's license who couldn't speak English hit her family's car. She spent three months in a coma with a catastrophic brain injury. Officials say the last administration let the system rot with schools able to certify themselves, testers who passed people who couldn't read a road sign and licenses that said no name given. No name given. Meaning the people that was driving the truck didn't have to offer their name. They were giving CDL straight out of California and New York. And the Department of Transportation along with Homeland Security are also investigating 1000 fraud cases involving DMV workers suspected of taking payments to help illegal immigrants bypass driver's license requirements. Jack Bradley, NTD News, Washington. And more on fraudulent truckers. Customs and Border Protection has arrested 95 illegal immigrant commercial truck drivers in Arizona. The operation also stopped two human smuggling events and it sees traffic drugs and it is correspondent Jason Blair has more on that. Customs and Border Protection apprehended 95 illegal immigrant truckers during an operation in Arizona. 76 of those had commercial licenses from California and six from New York. CBP also stopped two human smuggling events involving four smugglers and 17 smuggled migrants as well as seized 74 pounds of methamphetamine and 169 pounds of marijuana. Acting Chief Patrol Agent Dustin Cottle says we are committed to protecting our citizens from all international threats whether that is from unlicensed or untrained drivers or transnational criminal organizations engaged in human or drug trafficking. During the one week operation a total of 143 people were arrested from 18 countries. The arrests come after the Department of Transportation issued a final rule earlier this year to stop unqualified foreign drivers from getting commercial licenses. 12, 15, 20 million people come into this country illegally and many of those people thought well a great way for me to make a living is I should drive truck and so they went out and they got commercial driver's licenses. The Trump administration has been acting to pull illegal immigrant commercial drivers off the road after several fatal crashes and findings that many could not speak English. Every death at the hands of an illegal is one too many. You have to speak English to operate a commercial motor vehicle. I didn't create that rule, President Trump didn't create that rule. That rule has been in place for decades. Also White House Bordasar Tom Homan says that body cameras for ICE agents have been purchased and are being rolled out after being delayed by the partial government shutdown earlier this year. When the trainer happened, that's where they send trainers to each field office to train somebody on the use of body camera. I know they're being deployed. Are they 100% deployed today? I'm not sure. Homan says he's a big proponent of having body cameras for agents. Earlier in August, Acting ICE Director David Ventrula said that the agency was on track to get every officer a camera by the end of August. Reporting in Washington, D.C., Jason Blair, NTD News. Deadly flash flooding hit the Grand Canyon over the weekend and rescue efforts are still underway. The National Park Service says at least two were killed, 15 could be missing. NTD's Jason Perry has the update. Rescue efforts in the Grand Canyon continuing on Monday after deadly flash flooding hit the area. The National Park Service confirming that at least two people were tragically killed and about 15 people could still be missing. It adds that nearly all foot bridges in part of the canyon had been destroyed, preventing hikers from crossing Bright Angel Creek. Video released over the weekend showing onlookers watching debris floating through the Grand Canyon. A rescue helicopter seen flying through the National Park during their search and rescue operations. The Grand Canyon National Park says that as of Sunday, at least 62 people had been evacuated. A hiker who witnessed the flash flooding says one of the creeks had debris in it and was moving faster than normal. Then when the rain hit and the rain continued, it got faster and faster. It was probably moving faster than I could run. A woman who got stuck in the Grand Canyon was seen trying to hold her tent down with her foot during the storm. She was able to make it to safety and later shared her experience. There are definitely lessons I've learned. Like if you see rain all around you and you're in a canyon, you need to be very careful and make very smart decisions. The flash flooding also damaged the only water pipeline in the canyon and tourists have been barred from staying at lodges and hotels inside the park. We are cooked. This comes as more rain hit the Grand Canyon on Monday and the chances of flooding are expected to increase in the evening. Jason Perry, NTD News. Search and rescue efforts continue in Nepal as over 5,000 people remain missing, including over 80 Americans. Some scientists and advocacy groups are now blaming China's hydropower projects in the region for the disaster. NDD's international correspondent, Arian Pasdar, has the latest. The latest footage on Monday shows grim scenes in a valley in Nepal. One of the worst affected areas by last week's flood. A local says almost the whole village was swept away by raging waters. There were houses everywhere you looked. They stretched all the way down to where the water is flowing now. The river swept them all away. Over 900 people are confirmed dead, with nearly 5,000 still missing. Rescue work is still ongoing. Footage shows the entrance of one of many tunnels inside a hydropower project, blocked by rock and debris. Nepali officials say the focus is to reach the hundreds of workers believed to be trapped in such tunnels. Eighty-five Americans also remain unaccounted for, the State Department saying nine have been evacuated and zero confirmed dead. The U.S. Embassy in Nepal is warning Americans to, quote, stay away from riverbanks, low-lying areas and active rescue sites, move immediately to higher ground if authorities issue a warning or you observe rapidly rising water and not travel to affected areas. The flood also affected neighboring Tibet. Many are pointing to hydropower projects by the Chinese Communist Party as a possible reason for the disaster. The International Campaign for Tibet published a report last year warning of reservoir-induced geological destabilization from a nearby dam. It estimated that over a million people face displacement if all of the CCP's planned hydropower projects in Tibet go ahead. Just a year ago, a flood struck the same area that was hit in last week's flash flood, destroying a bridge on the China-Nepal border and leaving 17 people missing. Multiple Chinese scientists at the time published a study saying another such event is expected to take place, but the CCP ignored them. And a Tibet organization in Australia is calling on the Australian government to question the CCP about the cause of last week's flood. Ariane Pasdar, NTD News. The Trump administration is launching a cybersecurity pilot program. It seeks to protect water systems. The pilot program will begin in Texas and then expand nationwide. Called Project Watershed 250, the six-month pilot program is designed to make U.S. water-critical infrastructure more resilient to cyberattacks. It'll pair cyber-defense resources from the private sector with local utility providers at no cost. The partnership will allow local utilities to harden water systems as well as eliminate cybersecurity gaps. Texas Governor Greg Abbott says the need for cyber-resilience is overwhelming and notes that many rural providers just don't have the resources that they need to be able to protect themselves. The governor stresses that Texas is under perpetual cyberattacks, including those on water systems from China, Russia and Iran. Abbott says that in the last month, over 30 municipal water utilities across 12 states were hit by an Iranian-backed cyberattack. And Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins says that the USDA is taking steps to support the beef industry. New measures include loans for small meat processors and using conserved land now for grazing. The push comes as American consumers face record beef prices amid a 75-year low in cattle herds. In a post on X, Rollins said that the Trump administration was putting American ranchers and American beef first. The Agriculture Secretary is saying American producers would get priority in government purchasing for the military, hospitals, schools, as well as other institutions. The new action comes after President Trump last week vowed to allow farmers and ranchers to process their own cattle. The president is saying the move is aimed at breaking up what he called a, quote, nasty monopoly among the top four meat packers. And coming up, a staggering price tag on the Democratic Socialist agenda. Find out how much it would cost the country over the next decade. And copyright lawsuit in the AI industry. Sonar, Sony, Warner and music companies, they're alleging that Anthropic illegally downloaded millions of pirated books. David Lamb has that story. And on the ballot in Massachusetts this week, a race for the U.S. Senate and a few congressional races where socialists are trying to expand their influence. Meanwhile, a humanitarian crisis is causing starvation for children across Africa. Your help is urgently needed. Dina has been struggling to find food for her family. By the time she brought her seven-month-old twins, Melda and Ekwem, to a Save the Children mobile clinic, they were severely malnourished. Every day, children are fighting to survive unbearable conditions. For one in five children, malnutrition is a death sentence. They need your help. Please call or go online now to give just $10 a month, only 33 cents a day. You can provide food, essentials and life-saving medical care to children in the most need. 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Meanwhile, Republicans are looking to flip the governor's seat from blue to red. NTD's Melina Weiskopf has the details. Two-term Senator Ed Markey is facing a primary challenge from Congressman Seth Moulton. Both described themselves as progressive candidates, Moulton setting himself apart as the younger candidate pushing for generational change. Well, I think everyone watching this debate can see that I'm more energized than I've ever been before and in my life. I am crisscrossing the state. I've done over 50 town halls. You've done a couple. You've missed three candidate forums just in the past week. It's a lot of work to represent this entire state. Markey is 80 years old and would be 86 by the end of his next Senate term. Despite his age, he's leading in the polls by a wide margin. In the congressional race to fill Moulton's seat, a packed Democratic primary. Analysts predict the race will come down to two candidates. Trumwin, who's backed by squad member Ayanna Pressley and former Biden aide Dan Coe. In the 4th and 8th districts, socialists are trying to unseat incumbents. Meanwhile, Republicans are hoping to flip the governor's seat from blue to red. Unopposed Governor Mara Healy is working to hold her seat as two Republican primary candidates to vie for the nomination. The people are tired of the hate and the dishonesty and the smear campaigns. We will set the bar high. Our campaign will be positive. We will talk about ideas. If you don't look for fraud and waste, you won't find it. A Republican served as the state's governor as recently as 2023. Reporting from Washington, D.C., Melina Wisecup, NTV News. And a staggering price tag on the Democratic socialist agenda. A new report from the Libertarian Cato Institute says that the organization's priorities could cost the country more than $200 trillion over the next decade. The Democratic socialists have notched major wins lately, including New York City Mayor Zoran Mamdani and several high-profile congressional primaries. The report warns that even the low-end estimate of their plan would push government spending to 57 percent of GDP, and that's up from about 40 percent in 2024 when you combine local, state, and federal spending. Now, the DSA says that wealth taxes on the rich would cover it. However, the report disagrees, saying, quote, it's mathematically impossible. At the high end, spending could reach 92 percent of GDP. Topping the DSA's wish list is universal health care. Estimated around $40 to $75 trillion over the next decade. Slavery reparations priced between $14 and $28 trillion. And a federal jobs guarantee that ranges from $4.5 to over $60 trillion. And with the midterms approaching, top House Republicans are making a direct appeal to Jewish voters, a group that has long favored Democrats. At the Republican-Jewish coalition's annual gathering in Las Vegas, Republicans argued that their party offers a stronger response to anti-Semitism as well as more reliable support for Israel. Mindy's Chris Bobb reports. Jewish Americans are being targeted, harassed, and insulted on our campuses, in our cities, and in political debates. GOP House Conference Chair Lisa McClain Sunday speaking to Jewish Republicans, arguing that universities receiving federal funding should face consequences when they fail to protect Jewish students. Hillel International tracked nearly 1,900 anti-Semitic incidents on college campuses during the 2025-2026 academic year. When our universities take billions in taxpayer dollars, they don't get to shrug while Jewish students are attacked on their own campuses. Federal funding is a privilege. And if you can't protect your students, then that funding should be revoked. Republicans are also trying to connect the issue directly to the direction of the Democratic Party. The once great party of FDR and JFK is now socialist, anti-Israel. We know what Mr. Mamdani has said about Israel and what he said last month about Prime Minister Netanyahu and the International Criminal Court. 190 countries, 190-some countries in the world, but the left always focuses on attacking two. Right? They always focus on attacking America and Israel. Before taking the stage, Florida Congressman Randy Fine told NTD Republicans must make that contrast explicit to Jewish voters. I think we need to show the contrast between them and us. And part of what I can help with is showing the contrast for American Jews on why it's no longer safe to vote for Democrats. And I think that our party stands with America's Jews, stands with Israel, and their party does not. A national survey conducted in March found Jewish voters still identified as Democrats over Republicans by nearly 3 to 1, but it also found being viewed as pro-Israel remains one of the Republican Party's strongest advantages with those voters. The contrast Republicans here hope will matter in November. The summit continues Tuesday. Chris Bobb, NTD News. Coming up, Treasury Secretary Scott Besant meeting with his finance counterparts at the G20 summit. He's warning nations about their significant trade deficits with China. We're going to get expert analysis on that topic. And China's Hubei province, that's the COVID-19 epicenter. It's now hiring a U.S. law firm to fight a legal judgment. Missouri has won a civil lawsuit over allegations that China's pandemic response resulted in billions of dollars in economic losses. We said we'd never give in to a meltdown. Babysit with a screen. We said we'd never let the toys take over. Never leave the house looking, well, out of our sight. 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Treasury Secretary Scott Besant is meeting with his finance counterparts at the G20 Summit starting today in Asheville, North Carolina, where he's warned nations about their significant trade deficits with China. Joining us now is retired Marine Colonel and former U.S. diplomat Grant Newsham. He's also a senior fellow at the Center for Security Policy, and he's the author of When China Attacks. Thanks for joining us this evening, Colonel Newsham. I want to get your view on what you think Besant's goals are for this gathering of G20 ministers, specifically in relation to China, who's, of course, in the room with them. Well, what he wants to get is a front, other countries to cooperate in taking protective measures against China's predatory economics. And that's really what's necessary. China has been very good at splitting the countries apart from each other. So they haven't had a unified front. And this is something the Chinese are very worried about. You can see they and Xi Jinping always complain about weaponization of trade and the formation of blocs. And by blocs, they mean the countries that they are targeting, getting together to protect themselves from something that the Chinese are doing. And for the Chinese, economic warfare is very much a thing. And they've been conducting it successfully for decades now. Now, the U.S. does hold the G20 presidency for 2026. So does this in any way make Besant's job easier? I think it does, because whenever you are the person putting on the show, you have a fair amount of influence over the agenda and what actually gets discussed. Yeah, indeed. And you see that with the invite list as well. Now, Besant called out the trade deficits with China as unsustainable. Can you explore that and what he's looking to highlight and what he hopes to get out of those statements? Well, he's talking about a $1.2 trillion deficit, which means that the free nations, the countries with free markets, are actually paying the Chinese $1.2 trillion a year to buy things from China. And that means that China is getting convertible currency that it uses to build its military, uses to build its economy. And in the meantime, you have American companies, American factories shutting down. So, for example, if you have an American or a Canadian carmaker that makes cars or trucks and tries to sell them, and China is selling them at very cheap prices because they're subsidizing their companies, the cost of capital in China is practically nothing. And you sell those in your target markets, say, Canada, Europe. And after a while, nobody is buying the European or the Canadian vehicles. And those companies go out of business, and all that is left to buy is Chinese companies. The Americans have protected themselves pretty well on the automobile, that front. The other countries in Europe and you'll find out soon in Canada and Australia, well, Australia has its own problems by not making anything these days. But they will have serious problems and will find that their companies are under extreme pressure. And that's already happening in both of those places, but particularly Europe, where they're losing something like 10,000 jobs a month in different industries, not just the automobile industry. So it is China using its manufacturing prowess as a weapon, and subsidizing these exports is against the rules of the World Trade Organization that China agreed to follow when it joined almost 25 years ago. They have never followed them and probably never will unless forced to do so. And thus, Secretary Besant is trying to rally a defense. Yeah, and I do want to come back to that point you made on Chinese autos and electric vehicles. But getting back to Besant, what options does he particularly have to shape the behavior of other countries in relation to China? Well, one is that he has the reality that these countries do see themselves as under attack now. They've ignored it for a good long while, but he also has the option of giving these countries favorable treatment if they cooperate. And that has always been a weapon, in effect, that the Americans have had to try and persuade countries to do what they ought to do and getting favorable treatment from the United States for access to the U.S. market for a variety of things they want to export to us. That is no small weapon or arrow to have in your quiver. Yeah, indeed. And then getting back to Canada in particular, China praised Canada for the trade tensions with the U.S. Canada already agreed to take in Chinese electric vehicles, as you pointed out. So I want to get your thoughts on that, specifically to the EVs, but also how China is potentially sitting in the background as it relates to the U.S.-Canada negotiations. Well, China's got something special going on with Prime Minister Carney and his administration. He is abnormally willing to acquiesce and to accommodate the Chinese and saying things about the splendid relationship they have with the Chinese, while not a word about human rights or the what I mentioned earlier, Chinese trade practices. And he really is exposing the Chinese market, not just on electric EVs, but the broader market to extreme risk of being undercut by Chinese imports. And as a result, Chinese workers lose their jobs. Chinese companies go out of, excuse me, Canadian companies go out of business. Canadian workers lose their jobs. You're seeing it already in the timber industry and timber products industry, all this really low-priced Chinese stuff comes into the market, and Canadian companies cannot compete. It seems as though Prime Minister Carney doesn't care, and Canadian administrations, probably maybe not an accidental slip, have really been very accommodating to China for a long time now, starting with the Trudeau administration and before that as well. This goes back decades. But China's relationship with Canada poses a huge threat to Canada and really has hurt Canadian workers more than anyone. So there's something that's a little, it's very hard to explain about Prime Minister Carney's attitudes towards the PRC. And I think it goes beyond just sort of a resentment towards Donald Trump. I think it's a much deeper thing than that. But he is exposing Canada to great risk, and he's going to find it out the hard way. I think he already knows what's going to happen anyway, and perhaps he just doesn't mind at one point you have to reach that conclusion, as there's plenty of people sounding the alarm in Canada and the United States. But there's another problem, and that is that the Canadians are effectively using themselves as really a Chinese trans-shipment product, which means that Chinese products come into Canada, they get processed very slightly, and then exported to the United States as supposedly Canadian products. That's something that Peter Navarro in the Trump administration has pointed out, I think persuasively, and nobody has really challenged him on this. And that's something the Americans don't want to have happen. The Canadians, apparently, the Carney administration takes a front to that. And when one does say the Canadians, it often depends on which ones you're talking about, because there's many Canadians who don't agree with what the Carney administration is doing. They don't get heard much, however. Indeed. Well, Besant, one more day in Asheville with his colleagues from the G20. We'll see if he makes progress on China and or Canada. Colonel Grant Newsham, thank you for joining. Thanks for having me. And next, China's Hubei province has hired a U.S. law firm to fight a $24.5 billion judgment won by Missouri. Now, the state won a civil suit after alleging that China's response to the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in tens of billions of dollars in economic losses. Missouri filed the first of its kind lawsuit against Hubei and China's central government in April of 2020. Last year, a federal judge entered a default judgment against the defendants after they failed to respond or appear in court. Missouri's attorney general at the time, Andrew Bailey, said that the state would seek to collect the judgment by seizing Chinese-owned assets, which includes Missouri farmland. Now, Hubei province and the Chinese Academy of Sciences have hired U.S. law firm White & Case. They're asking a federal judge to void that judgment and dismiss the lawsuit. And more talks between Ukraine and the U.S. could be coming up. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says further discussions with representatives of President Trump will take place, adding that more details will be available today. We are doing everything possible to ensure that war does not remain the only option for future developments. It is important that America shares many of our views on the situation, including the situation on the front line and the situation regarding strikes. Zelensky says Russia's tactic is to wear down Ukraine through relentless drone attacks, including growing numbers of jet-powered Shahed drones. The attacks on Kiev and the surrounding region are stretching into the fifth day today with near round-the-clock air raid sirens, which are disrupting daily life for millions. The attacks have killed residents, damaged homes and upended daily life. Today's attacks injured four and it damaged warehouse facilities, an apartment block and a retail outlet in the Kiev region. A Russian drone strike on an ammunition depot on Friday sparked explosions and that killed 38 people. Litigation in the artificial intelligence industry. Sony, Warner and music companies are alleging that Anthropic illegally downloaded millions of pirated books. NDD's David Lamb reports. Sony Music Publishing, Warner Chapel Music and related entities are suing artificial intelligence company Anthropic. They say the company stole their copyrighted music material to train AI models. The lawsuit was filed in Silicon Valley on August 28th. It alleges that in 2021, Anthropic illegally downloaded at least 5 million copies of books from the library Genesis pirate website. The books contain lyrics and sheet music to copyrighted compositions including and as well as Great Balls of Fire, Ramblin' Man and Hallelujah. Anthropic denies the accusations stating, quote, we disagree with the publisher's claims and we intend to defend ourselves robustly in court. The music companies are seeking up to $150,000 for each work infringed and for Anthropic and its partners to stop violating copyright law. The lawsuit also wants the AI company to disclose its training data and methods used in copyrighted works. In a separate case, Anthropic justified its practice, arguing that using lyrics to train AI is transformative under the fair use doctrine. The case is ongoing. David Lamb, NTD News. And in a Sunday interview on Fox News, President Trump says he is not living in fear despite multiple assassination attempts. I purposely don't think about it. I don't want to think about it. Because if I did, I wouldn't be here. It's, I guess, a compliment, but a very strange form of compliments. Only consequential presidents get shot or shot at. And I am very consequential. We've changed this whole world. We've saved this country. There have been multiple attempts on the president's life in recent years, most notably, of course, in July of 2024 during that campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. That same year, another assassination attempt took place in West Palm Beach at the president's golf course. Most recently, this June, an armed suspect breached a security gate outside the White House Correspondents Association dinner and opened fire. He was later charged with the attempted assassination of the president. And last month in the nation's capital, federal authorities launched an investigation into an act of vandalism on the National Mall. The number 8647, which is often seen as a threat to President Trump, could be seen etched into the lawn. So how are everyday Americans viewing the vandalism given the political climate that we're now in? LNTD's Sam Wong was out on the National Mall in D.C. to hear from the people. What do you make of all the vandalism that is happening here around our monuments, specifically on the other side of the reflecting pool, somebody carved 8647 into the grass of the National Mall? Well, I'm not a fan of President Trump, but I do not believe in vandalism or advocating for violence. Well, I mean, I think it's pretty absurd of people to try to, like, be the same side that's complaining about political violence and then do, you know, something like 8647. It's hypocritical. I think that it's totally disrespectful. I think that it's un-American. But considering that we've had a rise in communist sentiment, a rise in anti-American sentiment, it's not a surprise that you have these lunatics doing this type of stuff. Well, we're standing here in front of the Lincoln Memorial, and that was a tragedy. It hurt the South, because he was a friend of the South. It hurt our country. And it hurt our country. There's better ways to resolve conflict than, you know, with violence. Over the past year, we've seen several high-profile assassinations and assassination attempts. Considering all that, do you think this kind of exacerbates and facilitates the divisions and the political violence that we're seeing today? I absolutely do. You have these Marxist-minded people who, the root of their philosophy is revolution. So it's not a surprise that they're enacting violence and defacing property and talking about killing folks. Yeah, I think it does create division. And if Democrats and Republicans and independents don't come together, I don't know what's going to happen to this country. I think it does open up a permission structure for people to, like, talk that way. You know, the Overton window's expanded so much that it kind of contains everything. And I don't think that's healthy. It's not like even in the days of when they wrote the Declaration of Independence, there was disagreement. There was disagreement among all of the delegates. But they worked it out. They worked it out, yeah. They stayed inside that room until they worked it out. The population of our country used to be more virtuous. And it needs to return to that virtue and integrity. And we have breaking news. A woman was seen wielding a knife and running after pedestrians in Times Square, New York City. The video shows the NYPD officers shooting the woman and the woman collapsing. So far, we do not know the identity of the knife-wielding woman or the situation that led up to the shooting. This is a developing story. We will be keeping you updated on the latest information in later shows this evening. And next, coming up in soccer, one of the world's biggest stars, he calls it quits. Dave Martin joins us to go over the career of Lionel Messi. Today's seniors are enjoying life more than ever before. 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My favorite, the greatest of all time on the men's side, Novik Djokovic, goes down in the first round. What happened? I mean, we're still, I'm still shocked about that. Of course, if you actually saw the match, you can kind of understand why, why what happened really happened, you know. Of course, right now, even though that was yesterday, of course that happened, buzz still about Djokovic losing that match. It's understandable how he looked. Now, he had to have his back massaged between the fourth and fifth sets during a medical timeout. It was, of course, late in the match. He threw up at one point. He was cramping at several other times. I mean, considering all that, it's actually amazing. He lasted for a little over four and a half hours that match. So, he is now out. And, of course, the number one ranked Yannick Sinner was never even in this event with an injury. So, the men's side is somewhat wide open. That said, third-ranked Carlos Alcaraz advanced today in straight sets. Second-ranked Alexander Zverev plays his first match tomorrow. Those are the two favorites really remaining on the men's side. On the women's side, top-ranked Irina Sabalenka won today. She's a two-time defending champion, 2022 champion here. Iga Sviatek played her first match in just a few minutes here at 7 p.m. Eastern time. And American Coco Gauff, who plays her opener tomorrow. Gauff won this event in 2023. So, no big upsets yet on the women's side. Though, we're still only halfway through the first round. But plenty of excitement thus far here, Kerry. I mean, I thought this is the first time Djokovic has lost in the first round in more than 20 years. He was a teenager the last time. First round of a grand slam event. He'd never lost in the first round of the US Open. So, quite an event yesterday. Well, I know he went down earlier in the French, but a lot of people were. They were in the middle of that heat wave. He made a great run at Wimbledon. He went all the way to the semis. He was knocking on the door there. It looked like maybe a stomach bug or a flu, you know. You know, it looked like it was something going on. It looked like he had multiple problems. He didn't stay after the match, but you could tell his back didn't look like it. He wasn't moving very well. Certainly, the fourth and fifth sets, he was not able to move hardly at all. So, it was a heroic effort that he lasted four and a half hours. I'll say that much. All right, well, hoping that's not the last we see from him. Let's move on to another legend, this one in soccer or football, depending on which side of the pond you're on. Lionel Messi, he is retiring. Yeah, Messi just led Argentina to their second— almost led them to their second straight World Cup title just last month. And according to his announcement today, that will be his final appearance for Argentina. Now, the 39-year-old Messi made the announcement on Instagram where he said he actually wrote his retirement announcement just two days after the World Cup final. That would be July 21st in Argentina, two days after they lost to Spain. He said what happened with his dad makes him more convinced even than before. Now, Messi's father, Jorge Messi, passed away on August 8 at the age of 68. Lionel Messi, meanwhile, the country's all-time leading scorer with 125 goals in 207 games. He's also the second-leading scorer all-time in World Cup history with 21 goals. Of course, he's still playing right now, though he plays for Inter Miami CF of the MLS, though, and actually leads the league with 18 goals this season. As we saw in the World Cup, Kerry, he's still one of the best in the game. Like we were saying, he was clearly one of the best players at the World Cup. He's the best player in MLS, I think you can say, at this point still. The guy is 39 years old, so what he's doing is pretty remarkable. But yeah, 39 years old, that's the same age, actually, as Djokovic, I just realized right now. And what I love about him, I think he walked 85% of the games in the World Cup and still came in second in the, you know, he almost was the highest scorer. He just picks his spot. He's efficient. He's got to be the most efficient player out there. Yeah, I don't know how he does it in that heat, too. And he's not obviously the biggest guy, either. He's pretty remarkable. He can pass, he can still score, he can shoot. Yeah, the guy is amazing. All right, we talked about Djokovic, we talked about Messi. Now let's talk about an American football legend. We've got Aaron Donald. He's going to sign with the Rams. Yeah, he just actually officially, finally made it official yesterday, signed with the L.A. Rams there after a two-year retirement. Now, whether he plays in their home opener, the Rams, of course, have not said for sure. Although Donald officially signed with them yesterday, he had been working out for really the past three to four months in preparation for this after retiring in 2024. Now, the catalyst for his return was the Rams trading for Myles Garrett, who's pretty much nearly his equal on the defensive line. Now, Donald, an offensive tackle, played 10 seasons from 2014 to 2023, was about as good as gets. Made 10 Pro Bowls, was an All-Pro nine times, and won three Defensive Player of the Year awards. Garrett, meanwhile, defensive end. He's played nine seasons, made seven Pro Bowls, five All-Pros, and he's been a Player of the Year, Defensive Player of the Year twice, both in the last three seasons. So what to expect is really hard to say. I mean, Garrett's still only 30 years old, and his last three seasons have really been his best. Donald, meanwhile, he's 35 years old. The list of players who've retired for one or more seasons and come back playing at the same level, very short, of course. At least Donald probably won't have to worry about being double teamed on the defensive line this year with Garrett right next to him. That's for sure. Now, meanwhile, their Rams, I should say, start their season in Australia on September 10th when they play the San Francisco 49ers. That's about 10 days from right now. All right, a lot of sports news on a Monday. Thanks, Dave. Thank you, Kerry. That is all the time we have for tonight's evening news, but for around-the-clock coverage, you can always visit us at NTD.com. Even better, use our NTD app. Thanks for tuning in. He's Dave Martin. I'm Kerry Dunst. Be true and kind. Hold the line.