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JANAI NORMAN (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) Now to former President Donald Trump's challenging week ahead. He has a hearing this week in the federal classified documents case against him in Florida. Now, if he appears, it would be his first court appearance in that case since he was arraigned. ABC's Faith Abubey joins us live from Georgia. Another state where the former president has a hearing this week. Good morning to you, Faith. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

DAVID MUIR (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) Now to the ABC News exclusive here involving former President Trump. Tonight, ABC News learning one of the former president's closest aides, his personal secretary in the White House, has now talked to special counsel Jack Smith's team, reportedly telling investigators Trump used classified documents to write down notes and to-do lists, essentially as scrap paper. And what that aide claims Trump told her after leaving the White House about those boxes at Mar-a-Lago if anyone asked her. Here's our chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl now. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

DAVID MUIR (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) And tonight, there is also new reporting on the documents former President Trump took with him to Mar-a-Lago from the White House. "The Washington Post" reporting late today, some of those documents were marked classified. And tonight, the new book reporting some White House staff believed the former president would flush printed papers down the toilet. Rachel Scott, from Washington. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WHIT JOHNSON (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) T.J. now to that new bombshell report from "The New York Times" that the paper says is in part based President Trump's tax records. The report raising questions about whether Trump has profited from the presidency. Our chief national affairs correspondent Tom Llamas has that story. Tom, good morning. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

JUJU CHANG (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) Good evening, thanks for joining us. The self-proclaimed "law and order" president defending police officers while putting pen to paper for policing reform. But critics say it's not enough. Tonight, we take you to Maryland, where officers are already learning how to conquer stressful situations before they escalate out of control. Here's my "Nightline" co-anchor, Byron Pitts. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) Yeah, we've seen that in other hot spots as well, Tom, okay, thanks very much. We want to go to the White House now and the growing evidence that President Trump's top advisers were urgently warning him of a danger of a pandemic starting back in January. Despite those warnings President Trump spent weeks downplaying the covid-19 threat in public. Our chief White House correspondent Jon Karl is tracking the latest on all that. And, Jon, the paper trail in these reports is pretty damning and the President pretty clearly angry about it. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

DAN HARRIS (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) Let's bring in our chief political analyst Matthew Dowd who is joining us now from Texas. Matthew, good morning to you. You know, we talked a moment ago about "The New York Times'" headline that Trump's advisers are urging him to get even tougher on Russia. We've seen the President be as tough if not tougher at least on paper than former presidents. He's issued sanctions and he's expelled Russian diplomats. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS (ABC NEWS) (Voiceover) We have some breaking news overnight. It's about President Trump and the porn star Stormy Daniels. Her lawyer is now calling for the President to be deposed. He filed those papers overnight and Cecilia Vega's back with the new details. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

DAVID MUIR (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) We turn next here to new questions tonight about your money. How the Pentagon is keeping track of hundreds of millions in spending. An independent audit finding that the Pentagon's accounting failed to provide a paper trail for hundreds of millions of dollars, your taxpayer dollars, in construction projects. And it comes as President Trump is proposing a massive increase in the military budget. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

DAN HARRIS (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) David, thank you. For more on all of this, let's bring in ABC's Martha Raddatz, who will be hosting "This Week" later this morning, right here on ABC. Marth, good morning. I wanna get to the State Of The Union in a moment. But let me first ask you about a new report in "The Washington Post" this morning. The paper says Trump has recently been talking about firing Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. He's the official overseeing the Russia probe. This report comes just days after Trump allegedly ordered the firing of the special counsel himself, Robert Mueller, only to relent after a top White House lawyer threatened to resign if he went forward. So did these developments, taken in sum, bolster the case for obstruction of justice? [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]