Transcripts For KGO Good Morning America 20170228 : comparem

Transcripts For KGO Good Morning America 20170228

The tweet that may be at the center of it all and the man who may be responsible for the mistake now revealed. What the academy and Host Jimmy Kimmel are saying overnight as the plot thickens this morning. Good morning, america. A lot of news. And the winner is i know. You couldnt wait. Too soon . Too soon . We have new details about the major oscars mistake when Warren Beatty was, of course, handed the wrong envelope. We see this team on the red carpet every year. Ive got to say, they are lovely people, they really are. They have their briefcases and those briefcases are full of the og organization car winners. Usually its their moment in the spotlight but now theyre at the center of it. For a different reason. I got to feel bad for them this morning. More on that coming up. Big day in washington. Also, a big day in washington. Take a live look at the capitol where President Trump will make his first address to a joint session of congress. That, of course, is tonight. The president getting ready right now. He is expected to lay out the vision for the nation, so lets go right to abcs senior White House Correspondent cecilia vega with more on what we can expect tonight. Good morning, cecilia. Reporter robin, good morning to you. This is essentially a state of the union before a bitterly divided country. The president obviously no stranger to big speeches but he has never given a speech like this. The former reality tv star turned president will be back on prime time tonight. President trump on fox news dropping a few hints. All i can do is speak from the heart and say what i want to do. We have a really terrific, i believe, Health Care Plan coming out. Ill be talking about the military. Ill be talking about the border. And remember this, on the border and throughout our country, were getting the bad ones out, the bad people, gang members, drug lords, in some cases murderers. Reporter among the attendees at President Trumps first address to a joint session of congress, three guests sitting with the first lady, all family members of People Killed by undocumented immigrants. Still, aides say the president will offer an optimistic vision for the country focusing on national security, the economy and foreign policy. The president gearing up for that big speech with a dizzying schedule. I dont think weve ever had this many people in here. A record. This could be a new record forever. Reporter in a meeting with Top Health Insurance companies he promised his own Healthcare Plan is coming soon. Horrible effects that obamacare has had and were going to change it. Reporter on speaking to governors from around the country, this stark admission. Its an unbelievably complex subject. Nobody knew that health care could be so complicated. Reporter the president also discussing his proposed budget which offers a 10 hike in military spending. Thats 54 billion, and to help offset that, major cuts to come including to foreign aid. The budget on the president s agenda tonight. Those town hall protests across the country also on the president s radar and he told fox news overnight he believes president obama is behind them. Do you believe president obama is behind it, and if he is, is that a violation of the socalled unsaid president s code . No, i think he is behind it. I also think its politics. Thats the way it is. Reporter and the president also accused president obamas team of planting some of those leaks that have been dogging his administration but he said, quote, again, thats politics. It will probably continue, george, no comment so far from president obama or his team. Okay, cecilia, thanks very much. Lets bring in the man in charge of President Trumps budget, mick mulvaney. He joins us right now. Mr. Mulvaney, thank you for joining us this morning. You are already getting a lot of reaction to the plans we saw yesterday, big increase in defense spending, cuts in domestic programs. Democrats say thats just going to take a wrecking ball to programs that help the middle class like clean water, food safety, education and even republican budget experts believe the cuts like this are going to be dead on arrival on capitol hill so is this all symbolism . No, the president saying what he would do when he ran. The budget is nothing more than the manifestation through expenditures of policy and what you see in this budget is exactly what the president ran on. He ran on increasing spending on the military, he ran on defending the border. He ran on enforcing the laws that are already on the books. He ran on things like giving School Choice more opportunity and thats whats reflected in the budget. As you know, sir, the president also said he was going to pay down the debt, start to balance the budget. This doesnt bring down deficits at all, your plan. Youve said, you yourself, have said many times that cant happen unless you take on medicare and unless you take on Social Security, and the president said hes not going to do that. As you know when you were here this is a budget blueprint, the first year of a new administration. The budget process is a little different. Were actually rolling out the budget blueprint a little earlier than we otherwise would in large part because of the delay the Senate Democrats had in getting me confirmed, so were letting the public know earlier than ordinary. Where we are now is were simply the top line discretionary spending. Wont be until may we reveal our first thoughts on tax policy, Health Care Reform in terms of how that translates into the dollars and cents. Infrastructure will be after that. So, this is simply i know but let me just stop you let me just stop you right there. Can the president keep his promise both to move the budget towards balanced and pay down the debt and not touch medicare and Social Security . Again, those are bigger discussions for another day. Look at what hes done here, hes kept his promises without adding to this years deficit. It would have been very easy for the president to come in and say lets spend more money and blow up the deficit. But what youre seeing here is a powerful message. What the president wants is to move spending from, say, overseas back in this country. Thats why youll see fairly significant reductions in his proposals regarding foreign aid. But hes doing all of this without adding to this years deficit. I think that is a very powerful message from the president of the United States to congress. The president promising Something Special tonight on health care. But it looks like his plans to repeal and replace obamacare are kind of stuck on capitol hill right now so is the president going to come forward with a specific plan of his own and will it meet his promise to cover everyone at lower costs . Tonight i dont want to give away what the president is going to say tonight. Thats not my job. What you have seen already is work done by tom price, the new head of health and human services, also by the way, late in getting appointed. Starting to see some of the impacts, george, of the obstruction with the cabinet. What youll see is an introduction to some of the topics. I dont think youll see specifics for the next couple of weeks. But is the president standing by his promise not to sign a replacement bill that will cause people to lose coverage . Look at it this way. The president has done nothing but keep his promises up to now. The budget is a manifestation of that. He promised this, this and this and the budget has it. He promised to reduce that, that and that and the budget delivers that. If the president has done anything in his first month in office hes proved he is keeping his promises and i think you can expect that to continue. You would agree that until you get to the big ticket promises on tax cuts, on balancing the budget, on health care, what youre talking about now is a small, small fraction of what its going to take. Well, certainly the big issues of the day are the things that you just mentioned and its going to take more than ive been on the job i think nine days. More than nine days to start to address those things and i do hope we get a chance to address them. We just havent had a chance to do it in this first couple of weeks, and thats not the purpose of the budget we brought forth last night. Mr. Mulvaney, thanks for your time. Thanks, george. All right, george, we turn to our chief White House Correspondent jon karl and, jon, what is your take on whats at stake for the president tonight . Reporter robin, we are now entering the next phase of the trump presidency. He started out with a blizzard of executive actions, getting his nominees confirmed. Now he has to see can he get the big stuff through congress. Whats at stake tonight, hes got to get first and foremost, the Republican Party on the same page. Right now you have a deeply divided Republican Party on those big issues that george just talked about. On obamacare, on tax reform, on budget. So i would say his most his biggest stake tonight is getting republicans giving them some guidance on where to go and getting them on the same page. Jon, as we heard in cecilias piece the president is making a statement on who he is inviting to sit with the first lady tonight. Reporter its extraordinary. The white house only released six names of people that would be in the first ladys box. Fully half of them, three, are people who family members have been killed by undocumented immigrants. Clearly thats going to be a major theme, tough border enforcement. Another guest, by the way, is the widow of justice scalia, so clearly a look ahead to that confirmation battle. What about the democrats tonight . What are you expecting from them . Reporter the democrats will be doing exactly the opposite. They will be bringing in people who have been victimized, they say, by the policies that trump is pursuing, including immigrants, muslims, dreamers, people who got healthcare because of obamacare. And look for this, robin, the Democratic Womens Working Group in the house is going to be wearing white or encouraging women to wear white on the floor of the house as a silent protest in favor of womens rights. Jon, let me follow up again on this obamacare. That is going to be at the heart of the president s speech tonight in addition to the budget, and a little bit of a reality check. Turns out that top house and Senate Conservatives now come out against the plans that the president has been working on, so is it dead right now . Reporter right now the republicans are utterly divided on this question and, george, because this is such a partisan issue, they cannot pass a repeal and replacement of obamacare unless they are united. They are not going to get any democratic help on this. As you know, there are only 52 republicans in the senate. Theres a slightly bigger majority in the house, but they need to be on the same page and right now they are not. All right, jon, thank you very much. Well hear what the president has to say tonight because we will carry the president s address to congress and the nation live at 9 00 p. M. Eastern. Join george and our Powerhouse Political Team right here on abc. Michael. Thank you, robin. We turn to these incredible images coming out of Southern California this morning. After a plane crashed into a neighborhood on its way back from a cheerleading event and abcs Kayna Whitworth is in riverside with the story. Good morning, kayna. Reporter michael, good morning. Just a horrifying scene out here after a plane carrying four passengers and a pilot crashed into these homes behind me. You can see theyre actually still smoldering. Neighbors saying that when it happened, their homes actually shook and when they opened their doors to try and help, they were met by a wave of heat from the flames. Is everybody safe . Reporter these are the horrifying images of a deadly plane crash in Southern California. The plane hit a residence and the residence is on fire. Reporter the plane carrying a group home from a cheerleading competition at disneyland struck two homes in this residential area. In this Surveillance Video you can see the plane suddenly falling from the sky. Then flames erupt and billowing smoke. I heard a big, loud like boom. I looked outside my window and turned and it was like flames in the air, everything. Oh, my gosh reporter neighbors say one of the victims was able to flee the burning home. We see this lady crawling, half her clothes were on fire and she said, i need help, i need help. Reporter bystanders rushing to her side as rescue crews begin pouring in. I have one patient. Weve got four victims that were in the airplane. Were checking for reporter firefighters searching the home for victims. You can see them here pulling someone out of the building. At least three people died and two more hospitalized in critical condition. Almost looks like a piece of the airplane still remains on the roof. Its reported that it was other victims in the home and were still searching for those victims. Reporter and this morning, crews still searching the smoldering remains as authorities begin to investigate the crash. Authorities dont believe that anybody on the ground was injured or killed but they will be going through that wreckage today just in case. Also, the ntsb will be on hand to investigate. Michael. All right, thank you, kayna. Scary situation. What a scene. We move on to a massive storm moving across the country, stretching from arkansas through the ohio valley and ginger is tracking its path. Hey, ginger. Good morning to you, george. This is the time of year that the atmosphere energizes, a separate storm did this in seattle, washington. Thats the space needle getting hit by lightning. They had hail and sleet and graupel and then transitioned to snow so a ruckus there. In san diego they had their wettest day on record. More than two inches of rain. You can see the rescues at san diego airport. Up to seven inches of rain drowning cars in the foothills in the mountains, so lots of rain and now that storm, the low you see, is going to start moving to the east and today, this is the area, later this afternoon and evening and especially into the overnight hours, that the area you see in orange here, indianapolis, back through parts of central and southern illinois, down to little rock, thats in the enhanced risk, so, michael, guys, well be watching this and it moves east tomorrow. Certainly keep an eye on that. All right, ginger, thank you. A new wave of apparent hate crimes across the country shutting down Jewish Community centers coast to coast monday. Another incident at a Jewish Cemetery where more than 100 gravestones were vandalized. Our senior justice correspondent Pierre Thomas is in washington with much more on that. Good morning, pierre. Reporter good morning, robin. A series of ugly and tragic incidents now has the full attention of the highest levels of government as the fbi investigates a week of potential hate crimes capturing national attention. More bomb threats to nearly two dozen jewish schools and Community Centers across the country on monday. Having your child threatened with violence is probably the worst feeling as a mom you will ever encounter. Reporter the hoax bomb threats part of a wave of antisemitic harassment, at least 90 jewish facilities targeted in 30 states since the beginning of the year. The president continues to condemn these and any other form of hateful and antisemitic acts in the strongest terms. Reporter over the weekend, more than 100 graves damaged or overturned at a Jewish Cemetery in philadelphia. This on the heels of similar vandalism at a Jewish Cemetery near st. Louis last week. This department of justice will do what it can to assess and push back against that and prosecuting anybody that is proved to be a part of it. Reporter the Justice Department is closely monitoring all these incidents, trying to determine whether federal civil rights laws have been violated during what was a tragic week. And two more incidents under scrutiny. A suspicious fire at a mosque near tampa and that deadly shooting near kansas city where two men were shot allegedly because a suspect thought that they looked middle eastern. One of those men died. A terrible week, robin. Certainly has been, all right, thank you so much, pierre. Now lets go to amy with the mornings other top stories starting with a murder suspect who is on the run. Thats right, there is an urgent manhunt across chicago for an accused killer who was mistakenly released from prison. 29yearold Garrett Glover is charged in a deadly highway shooting but was allowed to walk after being paroled in a separate case. Authorities warn they consider him to be a danger to the public and theyre now trying to figure out what caused the confusion before his release. Five major automakers are under scrutiny this morning after the Japanese Company takata pleaded guilty to fraud over its faulty airbags. Takata has agreed to pay 1 billion in penalties for concealing that defect blamed for now at least 11 deaths in the United States. New Court Documents allege that toyota, honda, ford, nissan and bmw knew for years those airbags were dangerous but continued to use them to save money. Well, the private Space Travel Company spacex has agreed to fly two tourists around the moon next year. That trip estimated to cost more than 200 million will be paid for by those two private citizens, the first trip of its kind. Spacex has not revealed the customers names yet but says theyve already

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