Is the president damaging americas credibility . Plus President Trump declares a big break through with china. Is it real . Well talk to treasury secretary steven mnuchin. And you ready for the Bernie Sanders on his health, the campaign and a little baseball. Announcer from abc news its this week. Here now chief White House Correspondent jonathan karl. Good morning and welcome to this week. From the impeachment inquiry to a possible break through with china theres a lot to get to this morning. First the breaking news out of syria. A senior u. S. Official tells abc news at least 23 isis prisoners are believed to escape since turkey began its offensive against the kurds last week. Over 200,000 people have been displaced. Civilians in Northern Syria are now going to u. S. Bases seeking protection. Its a crisis that began after President Trump announced he was withdrawing u. S. Troops from syrias border. Abc news senior Foreign Correspondent ian pannell is on the ground in Northern Syria a
That includes the frontrunner specifically. And 20 years, we wont have jon stewart. Looking at his lasting comedy and politics. We begin this hour with a compelling and unique perspective on the phrase, and rally cry, black lives matter. This sunday marks a year since an a white Police Officer shot and killed an unarmed black teamer in ferguson, missouri, leading to resignations, and threats, and changed the conversation about Police Tactics and Race Relations. In an exclusive aljazeera interview, tony harris answered all of this with Michael Browns mother, lesley mcspadden. There were black men killed before your son by the police. Policeinvolved shootings, and there of been black men who have been killed since. Something about what happened to your son lit a fuse, it started a movement. You and that continues today. What is it about what happened to your son that has led to this movement . I wish i could answer that. What is it that hopped to my son that led to this moment . What abo
You must act. Reporter giffords came to happy hill with her husband capitol hill with her husband, retired astronaut mark kelly. A ban on large capacity magazines he said may have injured the gunman from taking his wifes life when he took six drives. When he tried to reload, he dropped the magazine and a woman grabbed it and it gave bystanders a time to tackle him. Reporter republican Lindsay Lindsey graham offered a counter example of a woman running out of bullets defending herself. Some Democratic Senators have introduced legislation to ban high capacity magazines and assault style weapons, expanding background checks also up for debate. My problem with background checks is youre never going to get criminals to go through universal back ground checks. Reporter Wayne Lapierre pressed the nras position. The criminals wont go to purchase the guns because there will be a background check. Well stop them from the original purchase. You miss that point completely and i think its basic. Se
President obama will make his case to the American People this wednesday for expanding the u. S. Military campaign against isis. The speech is scheduled just one day before the 13th anniversary of the september 11th attacks. The u. S. Is of course already broadening its military campaign in iraq, conducting another five air strikes on sunday in support of Iraqi Security forces. Protecting the hadithah dam in western iraq which provides electric power to baghdad. One of the real questions right now is how soon will that campaign be broadened to include air strikes on the groups bases in syria. Isis released new video just this weekend of its men humiliating and executing roughly 200 syria troops. The president says it is a mission that may take years to complete. What im going to be asking the American People to understand is, number one, this is a serious threat. Number two, we have the capacity to deal with it. Heres how were going to deal with it. I am going to be asking congress to
Short, and and were at 1100 and someone elts at 500 and 400 because were way head of everybody, i dont think you can say we dont get it automatically. I think youd have riots. Some are suggesting mr. Trump was just speaking figuratively, speaker of the house paul ryan is not amused. Nobody should say these things in my opinion. To address or hint to violence is unacceptable. With trumps warning were seeing reports the Republican National committee may ditch its massive rule book in favor of a, quote, simpler plan in what some critics are calling an effort to head off the effort to stop trump. Publisher of the federalist has been writing on the issue. Great to see you. So, ben, what is the rnc preparing to do . They say we just want more transparent, that is all, and that is a good thing. Rnc is considering a suggestion perhaps they should shift to roberts rules of order as opposed to using the 1500 page rule book. I do think this is a sign of how unwilling the Party Establishment is to