i was like, you know, so george stephanopoulos of all people is the one who held him accountable. so again that didn't get a lot of play unfortunately, but i was very happy and it was a lesson learned. that obviously stephanopoulos was a democratic operative but he recognizes that his position now is a reporter. and he will throw the tough questions, but he does it evenly. he will throw them to the other side as well. so that's one of the surprises that i had is that where the unfair treatment came from, you know, sometimes i was surprised that it came from who should be friendly and supportive, and then a fair and balanced coverage came from people that i was going into these interviews expecting. so you can't really have a prejudice about, you know, it's whose professional, and whether it's the ap or gannett. you never know. you never know who's going to choose to take the role as a professional journalist seriously and who's going to use that role to advance a political agenda. but as we are going into the 2012 elections, what we can expect is that, you know, we can expect unfai

we are not putting her on with george stephanopoulos. i can handle george stephanopoulos. but he is very fair. he had on my opponent. i talk about this in the book. i talk about how my democratic opponent chris kuhns, everyone would ask when is that elections served in the lame-duck session? you would be sworn in to immediately fill the rest of the term vacated by joe biden. by opponent has literally no less than five positions on how he would vote on extending the bush tax cuts. he had twice 5 -- five positions. that is what he took. i would try to get this out but of course i say in rooms like this and it would never be picked up by the media. i was on good morning america one morning and as i was leaving to go to the next campaign event, they had cartoons on immediately after me and george stephanopoulos says your opponent accuses you of having no less than five position on tax cuts. tell me now how you would vote. i said thank you for allowing me the opportunity or something like this. i will get a lot of misquoting. something to the effect of thank you for allowing me

and george stephanopoulos says your opponent accuses you of having no less than five positions on tax cuts. and he says, thank you, george, for affording me the opportunity -- something to the effect of, you know, thank you for allowing me the opportunity to set the record straight. my position on the tax cuts has been and always been -- george stephanopoulos, i could have kissed the tv screen, pulls up his smartphone and says, well, i have your web site on my smartphone right here, and it says something different. i was like, ah! [laughter] you know? so george stephanopoulos, of all people s the one who held him accountable. again, that didn't get a lot of play unfortunately, but i was very happy, and there was a lesson learned that. , you -- obviously, george stephanopoulos recognizes his position now as a reporter. and he will throw the tough questions, but he does it evenly. he'll throw the other side as well. so that's one of the surprises is that what the unfair treatment came from. sometimes i was surprised by people who should friendly and supportive, and the fair and balanced

then george stephanopoulos will analyze just how bad things are at the white house.se reports after these messages. [ kristy ] my mom is well...weird. she won't eat eggs without hot sauce. she has kind of funny looking toes. she's always touching my hair. and she does ts ncing finger thing. [ male announcer ] with advanced technology from ge, now doctors can diagnose diseases like breast cancer on a cellular level. so that women, like kristy's mom, can get personalized treatment that's as unique as she is. [ kristy ] she's definitely not like oth moms. yeah, my mom is pretty weird. ♪ >> bill: thanks for staying with us. i'm bill o'reilly. in the kemi file segment, miss kelly living large where she's set to question the republican hopefuls at the debate. she'll be joined by chris wallace and bret baier and megyn joins us now. here is my problem with the debate tonight, you got fox news partnered up with google. they ask for questions from people all over the world and you got 20,000 of them. then there are thousands of people on the stage, right, running for the nomin

i'm george stephanopoulos in new york. have a good night. >> announcer: this has been an abc news special. >>> good afternoon, thanks for joining us for this abbreviated addition of abc 7 news at 4:00. >> binning with one of the company's touted by the president over the past year is a model for green jobs and is in big trouble tonight. >> fbi agents raided the fremont headquarters of solyndra. >> and took away a truck full of boxes. the solar panel manufacturer filed for bankruptcy, laying off over a thousand employees. they received $535 million in loans from the federal government, just part of a department of energy contract. >> i just found out, and said they're looking for documents. i don't know what they're looking for. >> and there is word two investors may try to possibly move the operations out of the country. something that is not allowed under the terms of the federal loan. >> and governor brown and the state assembly have struck a new deal designed to keep jobs in california. >> it would require companies to

i want to bring in "good morning america" anchor george stephanopoulos. george? >> reporter: he's been in less than a month, diane, but this has been a month of perry surging right to the top of the republican field. look at these numbers right now. look at the numbers right now. he is ahead of mitt romney and ahead of michele bachmann who's really collapsed in the wake of the perry surge. her support has been cut in half. what's happened here is that rick perry has consolidated tea party and conservative support and that's really stopped bachmann in her tracks. >> and what does it shoho about up against obama, one-on-one? >> reporter: one-on-one, perry very competitive. he's getting the support of true believers. right now, republicans think that perry is best able to beat president obama. 30% believe perry can beat obama. only 20% say that for mitt romney. that is a huge shift. it was 32% to 6% back in july. now, when you put them up against president obama, both romney and perry are back sickly tied with president obama. 's defeating michele bachmann 50% to 43

george stephanopoulos has an interview with mahmoud ahmadinejad and his visit to the u.n. >> dicky: up next on an all-new "jimmy kimmel live" -- simon cowell. >> jimmy: you think i've had work done? >> yeah. >> jimmy: i don't even do work. the whole kardashian clan came out to support rob. there was so many in the

here's abc's george stephanopoulos. >> reporter: in his 35 years on the court, justice john stevens madesions but regrets only one. >> my vote in the texas death case, i came out wrong on that. >> reporter: that case found that the death penalty was not cruel an unusual punishment. it was just the first of many death penalty cases stevens would face and remains especially relevant in the wake of last year's controversial execution of troy davis in georgia. you became an outspoken opponent of the death penalty in the your time on the court. how did you evolve? >> i never felt that it was a particularly wise method of punishment, after our first decision in 1975, at which time i thought the court was adopting procedures and rules that would confine the imposition of the death penalty in a var narrow set of cases. and over the years, i was disappointed to find they expanded the category of cases. >> reporter: there was a moment in one of the presidential debates that the number of executions in texas was cited and the crowd cheered. >> yeah, i noticed that. >> reporter: what did you think?

he has written a new memoir, "five chiefs," and "gma" anchor george stephanopoulos sat down with himo ask, if after 60 years on the bench, he regrets any of the decisions he handed down, and he does. the one voting to reinstate the death penalty. >> over the years, the -- i was disappointed to find they expanded the category of cases rather dramatically and they also have relaxed procedures in ways that actually give the prosecutor advantages in capital cases that i don't think he has in ordinary criminal cases. >> and that decision to reinstate the death penalty was back in the mid-1970s. >>> and still ahead on "world news," the new course on surviving a plane crash. do you know which seat gives you the best chance of making it out alive? >>> and was this the biggest choke in history? and what did it teach the rest of us about sometimes coming up short? [ male announcer ] every day, thousands of people are choosing advil®. here's one story. [ regis ] we love to play tennis. as a matter of fact it was joy who taught me how to play tennis. and with it comes some aches and pains and on

and george stephanopoulos and i and the abc news team will be there for full coverage of the ten-yearat 8:00 a.m. eastern. later that night, a special in primetime at 10:00. and we thank you for watching tonight. we're always there at abcnews.com. and don't forget, "20/20" later. >>> tonight former employees looking for new jobs and an east bay manufacturer left holding the bag. >> right now in san bruno a memorial about to begin for those who died one year ago, one family tells us they're never going back. >> and we're safer now than a year ago. a year from now, safer, still. >> and how the explosion rocked a sense of safety in the neighborhood. >> a man miss aid train and survived the world trade center attacks. reporting tonight from ground zero. >> good evening, i'm dan ashley. >> i'm carolyn johnson. just days after sollar company filed for bankruptcy, more than a thousand people who lost their jobs

but he refused to say exactly when, and abc's george stephanopoulos asked him about the fate of josh fattal and shane bauer, arrested more than two years ago after crossing the border into iran. >> reporter: guarantee they will come to the united states? >> translator: do i have to provide a guarantee? >> reporter: can you not guarantee? >> translator: yes, we act upon whatever we say. and if we don't want to act, we won't say. we didn't make this decision under pressure. it is a humanitarian decision. but when we said we will release them, we will release them. as a humanitarian gesture. >> and a reminder, you can see george's full interview with the iranian president ahmadinejad tomorrow on "good morning america." >>> history was made today as gay men and women serving in the u.s. military were finally allowed to live their lives in the open. the don't ask, don't tell, policy in effect for 18 years, is officially over. a marine in vermont married his boyfriend, a minute after midnight. the first moment he was able to do so. an air force serviceman who fought for this day in the sha

i'm george stephanopoulos at abc news headquarters here in times square. we're updating your regular program because abc news has learned anwar al awlaki who has been living in yemen. homeland security officials call him the most significant threat to homeland security has been killed. he's been tracked for months. ed there been a failed attempt in may. he got away. this time, we can confirm, that anwar al awlaki, the most dangerous al qaeda operative in the world today, has been killed. he's been linked to the 9/11 attacks. and in more recent years, linked to the ft. hood shooting. to the potential bombing in times square. and the failed underwear bombing in 2009. u.s. officials considered him, after the killing of osama bin laden, the most dangerous operative in the world. as we said he had escaped attacks in times past. he continued to be tracked by u.s. officials. and now, he has been killed. our chief investigative correspondent, brian ross has been tracking anwar al awlaki for years. and he files this obituary. >> reporter: the united states had been

in an interview with george stephanopoulos, ahmadinejad denied the courts were standing in his way andd soon be freed. >> guaranteed they will come to the united states? >> translator: do i have to provide a guarantee? >> i think a lot of americans would like that guarantee. can you not guarantee? >> translator: yes, we act on what we say. when we say we will release them, we will release them as a humanitarian gesture. >> reporter: fattal and bauer deny charges they illegally entered iran to spy. both were sentenced last month to eight years in prison. a third hiker was freed last september. people close to the negotiations say they believe this release will happen any day now, it's just a matter of timing and it may have to wait until president ahmadinejad leaves new york at the end of the week. rob and tanya? >>> and the white house has announced that president obama will meet with the palestinian president later today at the u.n. the last-minute change comes as the president tries to head off a major diplomatic crisis after a question of statehood for the republicans. >> the u.s. i

ahmadinejad is in new york to attend the united nations general assembly and spoke with abc's george stephanopoulos. >> when we said we'll release them we we lease -- release them. as a humanitarian gesture. >> the attorney for fattal and bower is going try again for release. >> a soldier seriously injured in afghanistan is back in the u.s. tonight and being treated in palo alto. he was carried off a jet last night, losing both legs after a bomb blew up under the humvee he was n a veteran's group made sure he got a proper home coming. >> we're here to escort him injured in afghanistan to v.ra. his wife request aid flag line for him. >> his wife is a santa clara native. veterans later followed the am back to you lance to v.a.center. >> a lot more to bring you here at 5:00. coming up bay area braces for a third spare the air day. >> and there is hot weather going to have you sweating again. i'll let you know when cooler weather will arrive. >> michael finney warns those failing to travel light. some fees will tack hundreds on to cost of the trip. the california university whose mascot is teeming up w

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today president spoke with george stephanopoulos open husband after he landed in new york to attend quantityedral assembly. >> do i have to provide begin tee? >> i thought of americans would like that guarantee. >> whatever you say. >> can you not begin tee? if. >> yes. we act upon whatever we say. >>reporter: sources in iran told abc news said it's unlik unlikely that the boys will be released while the iran president is in new york this week. >>> early warning systems may save lives but what happens when people ignore them. government report on last may deadly joplin, missouri tornado says the majority of resident either ignored or were slow to react when the first warning sirens so you knowed. resident surveyed say they didn't initially respond because of decades of false alarms. the report by the national ocean atmospheric administration doesn't indicate whether delayed row spoons cost lives. powerful tornado killed 162 people and devastated much of the southern half of the city. >>> now to warning system for earthquake. scientist are test thing out a new system here in california and you

anchored by diane sawyer and george stephanopoulos. now for the rest of the morning's headlines, let's go to ron claiborne. ron, good morning. >>> good morning, everyone. we begin with the flooding in pennsylvania and new york state. water levels are fininly receding but more than 70,000 people are still out of their homes and they are unsure when they'll be able to return. here's abc's linsey davis. >> reporter: the extent of the flooding is even more devastating from above as the governor of new york witneed first hand. >> there will be thousands of homes that will have sustained damage when all it is said and done. hundreds of businesses. so the damage is significant. >> reporter: in wilkes-barre, pennsylvania, the susquehanna river crested at a record 42 feet. that's one foot higher than the city's floodwalls. the end result of what noaa estimates to be 45 trillion gallons of rain dumped on the u.s. by tropical storm lee, enough to fill yankee stadium nearly 58,000 times. as the water recedes, joan thomas lule's anxiety is rising.

now reporting, diane sawyer and george stephanopoulos. >>> and good morning to you, i'm diane sawyer at abc news headquarters in new york with george stephanopoulos as we join to remember where we were, what we saw and the strength we found all of us together on september 11th ten years ago. t began with a blue sky, sunny morning and then game the darkest. 2,977 lost an attack that tested our nation in so many way, revealing weaknesses and strengths we haven't seen before. now we go to ground zero. it's become such a symbol of that resilience and rebirth of the united states. >> ten years later, another sky-blue day. i keep thinking the youngest of those who died, 2 1/2 years ol. you will be with us in a few moments as 20,000 family members are present at ground door row and expected to walk up for the first t me to those reflecting pools and find the names of those they love, etched around the edges. that ten years have brought us new terror threats, including the latest, george, bring us up to death. >> that's right. we have terror reports, intelligence reports that at least three

abc's george stephanopoulos asked justice stevens about any regrets he had about the court. >> over theed the category of cases rather dramatically and also relaxed procedures in ways that actually give the prosecutor advantages in capital cases that i don't think he has in ordinary criminal cases. >> as for current events, justice stevens says the court should rule on president obama's health care law before next year's election. the white house asked the supreme court to do just that some time next year which means the decision could come down during the election a big gamble for the white house. >> major political implications for sure. >>> a newspaper under investigation after posting a false article and tweets about standoff on capitol hill. the fake story on the "onion" website showed doctored photo of house speaker john boehner holding a gun to a little girl's head. >> it claimed members of congress had taken a group of visiting school children hostage. the onion said boehner and the bipartisan gang planned to kill the kids if they didn't get $12 trillion. funny? crossing the lin

and iran's president mahmoud ahmadinejad spoke with george stephanopoulos just after he landed in newted nations general assembly. >> do i have to provide a guarantee? >> i think a lot of american woz like that guarantee. >> whatever we say. >> can you not guarantee? >> yes. we act upon whatever we say. >> sources told abc news they believe it's unlikely they will be released while the iranian president is in new york this week. >> tonight's money matters world economy yernted a dangerous phase from the international monetary fund down grading it's outlook for the united states by 40% now predicting a rate of mere 1.5% next year. wall stret ignored the forecast most of the day and the dow up just seven points. and s and p off by two. after testing it on a invitation only basis google opened google plus to anyone who wants n but don't sign up for iphone support is still a ways off. walt disney company today announced a deal to build a new attraction based on the movie "avatar". animal kingdom getting the first one. >> scientists predicting debris from a falling satellite may hurt the e

anchored by diane sawyer and george stephanopoulos. a look at the weather. it's jackie meretsky in for our sam champion. good morning, again. >> thank you very much, josh. >>> let's talk about the midwest n the wake of the cold front, cooler temperatures in the midwest, 5 to 15 degeges below the norm, 70 in nashville. meanwhile, who won the weather lottery for labor day? it looks like las vegas. west of the continental divide, you got beautiful weatherer we have a cooldown in texas, dallas, 82. by the way the lone star state has had its hottest >>> this weather report has been brought to you by choice hotels lara? >> all right, jackie thank you. >>> switching gears, coming up, back to school with justin bieber. baby, baby, you want to see this, so stay with us on "good morning america." grime from out of the porous caverns of grout takes the right tools, but it also takes a gentle, caring touch. before you can deep clean, you learn to get a feel for its trouble spots. and hey, if you can't listen to grout, you can't truly know its want

i'm george stephanopoulos. >> i'm robin roberts.art of the show. >> we'll show that. >>> a new twist for amanda knox. she's back in court. but this time, the prosecution is under fire. the forensics of her case under scrutiny right now. are these the details that could spell freedom for amanda knox? >>> and chaz bono is taking on all of the backlash for him being on "dancing with the stars." he's g gng to answer critics this morning. >>> first, let's get right to the new season of "the real housewives of beverly hills," kicking off last night. viewers waited to see how the cast would handle the shocking death of estranged husband of one of the stars. and andrea canning is here to talk about the big premiere. >> reporter: this felt like a real reality show for once. so many of the shows get acued of being sort of scripted. this was very raw. the first several minutes of the show was taped on august 29th and dealt directly with the suicide of taylor armstrong's estranged husband, russell. the housewives could be seen sitting together,

abc's george stephanopoulos says all eyes will be on the front-runner in the latest new poll, texas governorrry. >> this has beenen a month of perry surging right to the top of the republican field. look at these numbers right now. he is ahead of mitt romney, 29-25. also ahead of michele bachmann, who has really collapsed in the wake of the perry surge. her support has been cut in half. what's happened here is that rick perry has consolidated tea party and conservative support. and that's really stopped bachmann in her tracks. right now republicans think rick perry is best able to beat president obama. 30% believe perry can beat obama. 20% say that for mitt romney. that is a huge shift. it was 32-6 back in july. when you put them up against president obama, both mitt romney and rick perry are basically tied with president obama. he's defeating michele bachmann 50-43. only gets 50%, more than 50%, when he's running against sarah palin. and when presidents, incumbent presidents are below 50% they generally lose. now, there is a year to go. >> interesting number it's interesting too, despite th

took a swipe at our colleague, george stephanopoulos. that was good. fascinating week.looking back. though it happened yesterday. >> tuesday. coming up next, the privacy concerns for all you facebook users. >> the website's big changes and what you need to know. you are watching "world news now." what you need to know. you are watching "world news now." >>> you might have noticed a big overhaul on facebook. if there were a dislike button to rate it i and millions of others would love to click it all day. >> what comes with newt face book, diana alvear explains. >> reporter: good morning. talk about a game changer. facebook is revolutionizing the way it works. depending on your perspective it could be the best facebook ever or could be enough to drive you away. here we go again. another facebook overhaul. but make no mistake, these are not superficial changes. at the facebook convention, face book founder mark zuckerburg, unveiled the time line. the time line is the story of your life. it has three pieces. all your stories, all your apps, in a new way to express who you

which means, george stephanopoulos, there is hope for you yet, my friend.sh is trying to get me back to the show. i got ten years to go. >> plenty of time for you, george. at least a decade. >> well, all right. >>> we've split up into zone coverage here. elizabeth and i are here. but lara is over there, with "the pop news heat index." >> thank you, george, elizabeth, josh. it is time for the "pop news heat index." let's get right to it. if you think you cannot possibly function without a cup of coffee every morning, listen up. a new study out of britain shows that having a cup of decaf gives you the exact same jolt as a regular cup of joe. they found that people who think they're drinking caffeinated coffee feel the effect even when secretly it was decaf. so, just get over it, people. >>> when a hurricane makes landfall, the federal emergency management agency relies on several very technical readings to determine how bad the damage is. and now they reveal they also have something they call the waffle house index. this is actually real. since waffle houses