Father of Parkland victim slams NRA videos:
"If this was put out by a terrorist organization, we would be raising the terror threat level in this country. Why are we letting this lobby have anything to do with DC? I don't understand it!"
Former Pres. Jimmy Carter congratulates Joe Biden and Kamala Harris: "We are proud of their well-run campaign and look forward to seeing the positive change they bring to our nation.”
Sen. Ron Johnson says charges against Pres. Trump are "pretty thin gruel" and Speaker Nancy Pelosi's decision to withhold the articles of impeachment is "bizarre."
"They had to rush to this impeachment vote and then all of a sudden she's sitting on it."
NASCAR driver Tyler Reddick fires back at Pres. Trump's call for an apology from Bubba Wallace: "We don’t need an apology. We did what was right and we will do just fine without your support."
NEW: Bernie Sanders: “I am an existential threat to the corporate wing of the Democratic Party. For too long the Democratic Party and leaders have been going to rich peoples’ homes raising money and they’ve ignored the working class and the middle class.”
Sen. McCain on Pres. Trump congratulating Putin on election win: “An American president does not lead the Free World by congratulating dictators on winning sham elections."
JUST IN: "I'm not going to get into hypotheticals," Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says when asked if it's appropriate to condition Ukraine aid on political investigation after Mick Mulvaney's comments.
@GStephanopoulos
: "Except it's not a hypothetical"
Hugging a child, Rep. John Lewis vows action to stop practice of family separation.
"Just tell me whatever you want me to do. I will go to the borders. I'd get arrested again. If necessary, I'm prepared to go to jail."
Univision anchor Jorge Ramos shares a message in Spanish ahead of
#DemDebate
: "I am telling Latinos that despite the fact that we are facing difficult times, this is our country, too"
Sen. Bernie Sanders tells
@jonkarl
a key difference between him and 2020 rival Sen. Elizabeth Warren: “Elizabeth, I think, as you know, has said that she is a capitalist through her bones. I’m not.”
WATCH the full interview Sunday on
@ThisWeekABC
.
Pete Buttigieg on President Trump: "You have somebody who thinks it's alright to let somebody go in his place into a deadly war, and is willing to pretend to be disabled in order to do it. That is an assault on the honor of this country"
Stormy Daniels’ attorney
@MichaelAvenatti
calls Giuliani’s interview with
@GStephanopoulos
, “an absolute, unmitigated disaster for Rudy Giuliani and the president… I think it is obvious to the American people that this is a cover-up; that they are making it up as they go along.”
SUNDAY: As Democrats weigh impeaching Pres. Trump for inciting his supporters to violently attack the U.S. Capitol,
@GStephanopoulos
goes one-on-one exclusively with Rep.
@AOC
about the next steps in Congress. Only on
@ThisWeekABC
BREAKING: Attorney representing whistleblower who sounded the alarm on Pres. Trump’s dealings with Ukraine tells
@ABC
News he is now representing a second whistleblower who has first-hand knowledge of events.
“Yes,” Chris Christie tells
@GStephanopoulos
when asked if it’s time for President Trump to stop challenging the 2020 election results, adding that the president’s legal team has been a “national embarrassment.”
Sec. Pete Buttigieg pushes back on criticism that the COVID-19 relief package is too big: “This is a moment where the greatest risk we can take, as the president has said, is not the risk of doing too much, it’s the risk of doing too little.”
Pete Buttigieg to
@MarthaRaddatz
: "It's a continuing horror show right now in Washington. And you have a president who has turned the entire thing into a reality show. We've got to completely change the channel"
Sen. Bernie Sanders: “I don’t care what anybody says. We have got to deal with this pandemic... if Republicans want to work with us, they have better ideas on how to address those crises, that’s great. But to be honest with you, I have not yet heard that.”
NRA spokesperson
@DLoesch
on the missed signals for the Florida school shooter: “I wish that as much attention were given to the Broward County Sheriff and their abdication of duty as trying to blame five million innocent, law-abiding gun owners all across the country.”
#ThisWeek
Sen. Rand Paul left the chamber after Chief Justice John Roberts declined to read his question.
"The presiding officer declines to read the question as submitted," the Chief Justice said.
Chris Christie on Michael Cohen testimony: "There hasn't been one Republican yet who's tried to defend the president on the substance. I think that's something that should be concerning to the White House."
"I don't believe he should be Speaker of the House."
Rep. Liz Cheney tells
@jonkarl
that Rep. Kevin McCarthy has been "completely unfaithful to the Constitution, and demonstrated a total lack of understanding of the significance and the importance of the role of speaker."
NEW: Retired Gen. Stanley McChrystal says if asked, he wouldn't join the Trump administration because "it's important for me to work for people" who are "basically honest."
@MarthaRaddatz
: "Is Trump immoral in your view?"
McChrystal: "I think he is."
"There never was nor shall there be an excuse for the criminal behavior you were subjected to," William Sweeney, assistant director in charge of the FBI's New York Field Office, says to victims at news conference on charges against Ghislaine Maxwell.
.
@jonkarl
: “(Dr. Fauci) was more than willing to join us, but the White House wouldn’t allow you to hear from the nation’s leading expert on coronavirus. In fact, they wouldn’t allow any of the medical experts on the president’s own coronavirus task force to appear on this show.”
Joe Biden: "This morning, all across the nation, little girls woke up, especially little Black and brown girls, who so often feel overlooked and undervalued...Today, just maybe, they're seeing themselves for the first time in a new way."
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: "I think that we have a very real risk of losing the presidency to Donald Trump if we do not have a presidential candidate that is fighting for true transformational change in the lives of working people in the United States"
EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Liz Cheney tells
@JonKarl
that it is possible that the Jan. 6 Committee will make a criminal referral against former Pres. Donald Trump.
“What kind of man knows that a mob is armed and sends the mob to attack the Capitol?”
Joined by his husband Chasten on stage, Pete Buttigieg, the little-known mayor turned 2020 contender, makes a historic presidential bid.
If elected, he would be the first openly gay president to occupy the White House:
The White House has been briefed on the Mueller report and "there is significant concern on the president's team about what will be in this report," and "what worries them most is what Don McGahn told the special counsel,"
@jonkarl
reports
#ThisWeek
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Super Tuesday results: "One of the things I was kind of not surprised by was the power of the establishment to force Amy Klobuchar, who had worked so hard, Pete Buttigieg who had really worked extremely hard as well out of the race."
New York attorney general’s office investigators are deposing Eric Trump as part of an investigation into the Trump Organization and tax benefits, according to a source.
Rep. Ken Buck: "Could you charge the president with a crime after he left office?"
Robert Mueller: "Yes"
Buck: "You could charge the President of the United States with obstruction of justice after he left office?"
Mueller: "Yes"
#MuellerHearings
BREAKING: An overwhelming 70% of Americans think Pres. Trump’s request to a foreign leader to investigate his political rival was wrong, new
@ABC
News/Ipsos poll finds.
51% believe his actions were wrong and he should be impeached and removed from office.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez unveiled a wide-ranging effort to tackle climate change, calling in part for 100 percent of U.S. energy demand to be "clean, renewable and zero-emission."
.
@GStephanopoulos
: "You clearly believe that there was a group of people working against you. Do you think Pres. Obama was behind it?"
Pres. Trump: "I would say that he certainly must have known about it ... I'm not gonna make that statement quite yet"
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says it isn't acceptable that acting DNI Joseph Maguire withheld the whistleblower complaint: "I think what the DNI did was broke the law... the DNI shall convey the complaint to the intelligence committee."
Sen. Joe Manchin calls for the Senate to "censure" President Trump: "Censure would allow this body to unite across party lines ... his behavior cannot go unchecked by the Senate."
Stacey Abrams: "Compassionate treatment at the border is not the same as open borders. President Reagan understood this, President Obama understood this, Americans understand this … America is made stronger by the presence of immigrants — not walls"
#SOTU
"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time," Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters says, quoting the late poet Maya Angelou, and adds, "This president has shown himself time and time again to believe that he is above the law."
BREAKING: 54% say Pres. Trump should be charged criminally with inciting a riot for having encouraged his supporters to march on the Capitol, new
@ABC
News/WaPo poll finds.
Rep. Liz Cheney: "We had people that are at the highest levels of our law enforcement ... saying that they were going to stop a duly elected president of the United States."
"That sounds an awful lot like a coup and it could well be treason," she adds
2020 candidate Andrew Yang to
@jonkarl
: "The Democratic Party, unfortunately, is acting like Donald Trump is the cause of all of our problems. He's a symptom and we need to cure the underlying disease."
Rep. Will Hurd: "Did you think that this was a single attempt by the Russians to get involved in our election or did you find evidence to suggest they'll try to do this again?"
Robert Mueller: "It wasn't a single attempt. They're doing it as we sit here"
"The president could have at any moment, walked those very few steps into the briefing room, gone on live television, and told his supporters who were assaulting the Capitol to stop," Rep. Liz Cheney says of former Pres. Trump's actions on Jan. 6.
Rep. Nadler pushes back against GOP criticism of impeachment timeline: "This is not about the clock and the calendar. It is about corruption and the Constitution. It is about a president who abused his power to coerce an ally to intervene in our election."
NEW: VP Mike Pence says the State Dept. will announce that the U.S. "will revoke 77 visas, including many officials of the Maduro regime and their families."
"We will continue to hold the Maduro regime accountable until libertad is restored in Venezuela"
Pressed by
@GStephanopoulos
on whether she has any evidence to support Pres. Trump’s election claims, GOP North Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem does not provide any evidence, but also refuses to acknowledge that Joe Biden as the apparent winner of the presidency.
Sen. Bernie Sanders addresses supporters after suspending his 2020 campaign: “I want to express to each of you my deep gratitude for helping to create an unprecedented grassroots political campaign that has had a profound impact in changing our nation.”
Andrew Yang: "Donald Trump is not the cause of all of our problems, and we are making a mistake when we act like he is. He is a symptom of a disease...It is our job of getting to the harder work of actually curing the disease."
#DemDebate
“We always hear that line about this being the most important election of our lifetimes, but this year it really is,” Eva Longoria says in
#DemConvention
opening speech.
.
@GovChristie
says Jan. 6 “was a riot that was incited by Donald Trump” in an effort to intimidate then-Vice Pres. Pence and Congress.
“He wanted the election to be overturned.”
JUST IN: 64% of Americans oppose the Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, including 53% who strongly oppose it, per new
@ABC
News/WaPo poll — and the public trusts Democrats over Republicans to handle abortion by a wide 20 points.
Former Vice President Al Gore to
@JonKarl
on impeachment proceedings: "My own view is that not seeking accountability for what appear to be credible allegations that crimes were committed —meaningful crimes – runs the risk of normalizing that behavior"
In a November 2005 speech at the National Institutes of Health, President George W. Bush laid out proposals in granular detail — describing with stunning prescience how a pandemic in the United States would unfold.
“If we wait for a pandemic to appear, it will be too late to prepare," President George W. Bush warned in 2005.
The strategies the U.S. is implementing now to fight COVID-19 came out of work done by the Bush administration, Tom Bossert says.
Rep. Ocasio-Cortez: "Mr. Yoho mentioned that he has a wife and two daughters. I am two years younger than Mr. Yoho's youngest daughter. I am someone's daughter, too. My father, thankfully, is not alive to see how Mr. Yoho treated his daughter."
Sen. Lindsey Graham tells
@GStephanopoulos
he's going to call for an investigation into "a despicable process," including "who in Feinstein's office" referred Christine Blasey Ford to her attorney Debra Katz and "who betrayed Dr. Ford's trust"
#ThisWeek
Pres. Trump: "Three years ago, we launched the great American comeback. Tonight I stand before you to share the incredible results."
"Our country is thriving, and highly respected again."
"To be born into a world that does not see you," Rabbi Lauren Holtzblatt says of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, "and despite this, to be able to see beyond the world you are in, to imagine that something can be different—that is the job of a prophet."
Rep. Liz Cheney responds to Trump spokesperson who said she was not fighting for the "principles" of the Republican Party, telling
@jonkarl
: “What I'm fighting for is the Constitution. What I'm fighting for is a perpetuation of the republic.”
NEW:
@GStephanopoulos
: You have been in a 6th place in Iowa. After a big investment, can you go on with a finish like that?
Andrew Yang: "We think we're going to surprise a lot of people ... you know that the Yang gang will be here the entire way."
"I'm running because he's unfit, somebody needs to step up and there needs to be an alternative. The country is sick of this guy's tantrum, he's a child," Joe Walsh tells
@GStephanopoulos
when asked about GOP support for Trump
Entrepreneur
@AndrewYang
has outlasted a dozen governors, mayors and members of Congress in the 2020 Democratic race. He joins “This Week” Sunday to discuss his campaign with
@jonkarl
, just one month before voters head to the polls
"I never worked for Russia," President Trump says on the White House lawn.
"Not only did I never work for Russia, I think it's a disgrace that you even asked that question because it's a whole big, fat hoax," he adds
“Nancy Pelosi went with 216 votes last time around and it was seen as a show of strength because she did it behind closed doors and without giving things up in the same way Kevin McCarthy did...He empowered the insurgents,” USA Today’s
@SusanPage
says.
EXCLUSIVE: In an interview with
@GStephanopoulos
, President Trump kept bringing up the Mueller report.
Asked why it bothers him so much, Trump says, "because it's untrue. I like the truth. I'm actually a very honest guy"
Rep. Ilhan Omar says President Trump's travel ban will "go down in history as a moral stain" on the U.S.
"I came to this country because I believed, even as a child, the promise of liberty, equality and justice...20 years later, it seems those fundamental ideals are in peril."
.
@angela_rye
tells
@GStephanopoulos
on state of policing after the Derek Chauvin trial: "We'd like to talk about bad apples a lot, but the issue is that the way the system of policing is currently set up, it doesn't punish bad systems or bad apples."
Former Pres. Trump “crossed lines no American president has ever crossed before,” GOP Rep. Liz Cheney says.
“When a president refuses to tell the mob to stop, when he refuses to defend any of the coordinate branches of government, he cannot be trusted.”
Mitt Romney: "I simply don't understand why the administration did not explain in advance to Erdogan that it's unacceptable for Turkey to attack an American ally."
"Are we so weak and so inept diplomatically that Turkey forced the hand of the United States of America? Turkey?"
"Mr. President, I have been directed by the House of Representatives to inform the Senate the House has passed H.Res.798, a resolution appointing and authorizing managers for the impeachment trial of Donald John Trump, president of the United States."
Elijah Cummings' daughter, Jennifer Cummings, reads a letter she wrote dedicated to the late congressman: "While you were congressman, Mr. Chairman...Perhaps the most important title you held in your 68 years of life on this earth was 'dad.'"
NEW: Former Homeland Security adviser Tom Bossert on impeachment inquiry against Pres. Trump: "It is a bad day and a bad week for the president and for this country if he is asking for political dirt on an opponent."
.
@davidhogg111
: “Columbine was about 19 years ago. Now that you’ve had an entire generation of kids growing up around mass shootings, and the fact that they’re starting to be able to vote, explains how we’re going to have this change. Kids are not going to accept this."
#ThisWeek