This week with George Stephanopoulos begins now. Good morning, all of the news from the campaign trail coming up. Donald trump and Hillary Clinton dominating the headlines. But we begin with the brandnew front in the fight against isis. Abcs Alex Marquardt brings us the latest from beirut. Reporter good morning, george. Turkey has been accused of standing by as weapons cross their long border into turfsyria. Now, turkey has suddenly and dramatically stepped up its role in a way that could have big consequences for isis and itself. For the first time, wave of air strikes pounding isis in northern syria. Turkey, a nato ally, now also agreeing to let the u. S. Use an air base in the south, to launch drones and fighter jets against isis. Turkey jumping into the isis fight just days after a suicide bombing in Southern Turkey blamed on isis that left over 30 dead. This is probably more than the u. S. Ever expected to gain, we were only asking for basing rights. But now were getting basing ri
St. Josephs Preparatory School is a philadelphia institution. Mayor Michael Nutter and democratic candidate for mayor jim kenney all graduated from the prep. Not to mention past and present city council members, judges, and sports icons like phil martelly. Joining me is father john swop. He was recently named the new president at the prep. Thank you for being here. Pleasure to be here. You grew up in drexel hill. Im a drexel hill guy. How does it feel to be back . Its been a long journey. Its been many, many years, vai, traveling as a jesuit, working on different missions, even internationally, studies all over the country, but ive had some time now in the last important month or so that look back on my years as a jesuit and i think its all coming together and its all for a purpose and im going to bring it all to bear at st. Joes prep. Well talk about some of your International Travel and some of the many connections you have created over the years, but just getting back to st. Joes pr
And iowa, South Carolina or New Hampshire, 202 7488003. The website or send us an email. One of the local papers out of New Hampshire that cosponsor the event courtesy of museum. Gop. Ca meets the all eyes turned to the nations primary state as republican candidates take the stage. Each cast themselves as the most qualified candidate. Candidates took terms took turns answering questions about pressing domestic issues and they criticized the Iran Nuclear Deal and funding for planned parenthood and the Affordable Care act. 11 where in New Hampshire. Senators, tedan cruz, rand paul and marco rubio. They were in town for that vote on cutting funding and planned parenthood. Each of them participated for around of q a oneonone. They did two rounds of questions and the other candidates were sitting in the audience. View of these gop candidates . This is from the iowa paper. Also another cosponsor of last nights event. Gop hopefuls foul repeals. It says in a nationally televised voters first f
Hey, tony, we heard from one tribal source today who put it bluntly. He said theyre keeping all of their Legal Options open. And if they have to go to court, they will have a good case. Theyre not the only ones with the options. Utah, new mexico and colorado, they are keeping their option open too. But those are the longterm issues, and the shortterm issues are all about water, availability and priority. Gina mccarthy continues her trip since the spill in the animas river. She traveled with russell mcbay and other leaders, and said that they have a good working relationship, despite navajo threats to sue over the spill. And you know epa is not unfamiliar with litigation, but none that have tone was in the discussion this morning, and we hope to build a relationship with the new president , and we expend a lot of time talking about next steps. They are full partners right now in terms of being able to sample reporter people who depend on the river for irrigation and livestock have been
Is specific to the incidents onboard the fitzgerald and mccain. Youre right. The overall state of maintenance, modernization, those things are clear in the report. And what is the navy going to do to respond to that . And in just reading the incidents that happened on board the fitzgerald, theres breakdowns there that are significant. Are those training issues . Why didnt people respond as the way theyre supposed to . Is it training . So i think those are the things that will be of interest to the committee on what the navy does to respond to that internally and then were going to have to look at what do we do as members of congress concerning the efforts to resource and the policy directives on what the navy has to do to make sure the service lead is actually seeing the things being done that have been pointed out that need to be done. And then when the review is completed, we will be having again another joint subcommittee hearing for the benefit of the American Public and the Americ