Will the gop hang together . Is their hold on congress at stake if they dont . That debate ahead with the senate, the white house, and our powerhouse roundtable. Well break down the politics, smoke out the spin. The facts that matter this week. From abc news, its this week. Here now, chief anchor george stephanopoulos. Good morning, the litany of allegations continued to grow more women came forward. Charging powerful men with Sexual Misconduct. Its sparked a National Conversation from hollywood to capitol hill, in Corporate Board rooms and kitchen tables all across the country. Question now, will all this talk bring real change . He mashes his lips against my face. And he stuck his tongue in my mouth. Leeann tweeden said that happened on a uso tour back in 2006 before al franken was a senator. Just the latest in a series of disturbing stories. I remember the lurch when i went to the desk and i said, mr. Weinstein is he on the patio . They said, hes in his room. I was like, ugh. Are yo
Area, but around the country. Lets hear your reaction. What do you think really happened here . Well, we can only talk about we dont know what happened other than the feds did not see anything they can charge him with, so the statute of limitation passed. He is still the chairman of the Democratic Party and still has tremendous amount of influence in capitol hill. I mean, they call him the mayor of capitol hill. Now, what we have lost is a Senior Leader who would have been chairman of committees from congress. You know, this is a trend where more and more members of congress who are incumbents are dissatisfied with how what the job is, and because its such a tough job youre all day long reacting to complaints and criticisms by the constituency. There is no resultoriented job anymore because youre not accomplishing much. Youre just sort of dealing with crisis and complaints. He did mention partisanship. You know, trey gowdy, congressman brady, many of them are not deciding to run again.
And were on the road for the midterms. Hello, pennsylvania. This is a race with national implications. Our first look at the crucial battlegrounds. All the weeks politics on our power house round table. Well break down the politics, smoke out the spin. The facts that matter this week. Well break down the politics, smoke out the spin. The facts that matter this good morning. President trump ramped up his war on the fbi this week signaling hell do whatever it takes to discredit the russia probe. Hes already fired one fbi director. Forced out a deputy. He publicly attacked his attorney general and threatened other officials behind closed doors. It all broke open friday when the president declassified the infamous memo from republicans on the House Intelligence Committee. The president claims it shows if fbi wrongly convinced a judge to approve a wire tap against carter page by relying on a dossier paid for by the Clinton Campaign and failing to disclose that funding. Democrats say its sim
To get to this morning including the countdown to the first Republican Debate frontrunner donald trump will be center stage, is he ready . What is his strategy . Trump will be with us live momentarily but first, we start off with breaking news this piece of debris has been found near a fragment of a wing was found just days ago that piece is set to undergo analysis to see it from missing Malaysian Air flight 370. Lets bring in steve ganyard, many are wondering is this part of that plane . This these to go back for forensics testing. We need to continue to go deliberately slowly and make sure we look at these pieces by themselves and figure out if this is part of the airplane. If this turn turns out to be part of that plane will it help us pinpoint where that plane went down in. Not really because theyll go back and theyll do some forensics on the metal, it will tell us what happened at the end when this airplane hits the water, its not going to tell us where the pieces of that airplane
Well go through some of the details. Whats your initial blush on this . Is your reaction that its politically motivated . He is a democrat. The president s a democrat. Much of the administration is democratic appointees, and others. Why would they be doing it, and if so, what is the point . Well, my initial take is that its not politically motivated its that when you read the indictment, theres a real case here. Now, obviously, the congressman is presumed innocent, but its gonna be a tough climb for him because theyve got a lot of goods. Theres a lot there. He did say hes gonna stay in office. He will not resign. He stepped down from a subcommittee appropriations level appointment in the house so that he wouldnt have to be dealing with money issues. But nonetheless, hes staying in office. And well read a statement from him, saying that he has as i previously stated, ive never participated in any illegal activity or misappropriation of taxpayer dollars as an elected official. He says th