. >> that was brian ross talking to george stephanopoulos on "good morning america." of course, it was not the jim holmes. on a scale of one to five if five is completely lacking in journalistic credibility where would you put this one? >> six. i mean and here is why. not only did they get it wrong, not only did brian ross use that great journalistic tool of going toll find this guy jim holmes but then they put brian ross that night on abc world news at 6:30 p.m. and did a completely different story about the shooting and never apologized. didn't apologize during the day. owed not only the viewer but also mr. holmes the innocent one a full retraction on the air. this goes into too good to check, couldn't wait, didn't even apologize. >> does nobody stop and think maybe we ought to check this out before we go to air with it? >> that is the interesting question about this episode. everybody makes mistakes but where were the editors? where were the people who would say maybe we ought not to put that on the air whether until we found out whether or not there is another jim

i believe george stephanopoulos used the phrase "that might be significant." go! >> there's a jim holmes in the aurora tea party site talking about him joining the tea party last year. we don't know if this is the same jim holmes, but it's a jim holmes of roerz, colorado. (audience reacts) >> jon: obviously correct response to that statement is brian, i thought you said you had something significant! (laughter) not "hey, george, let me interrupt you, i put the name james holmes into my search engine and hit the "i'm feeling lazy button." (laughter and applause) of course stephanopoulos is in the middle... stephanopoulos is in the middle of doing a lot of things and i'm assuming he was under the impression that brian ross checked out this (bleep) he's saying on air before saying it. because brian ross is the chief investigative correspondent and not, let's say, the office gossip. (laughter) yeah, jim hums and he's totally a porn star and i... (laughter) i'm just... george, i'm just saying the killer is a porn star. (laughter) oh, wait, i'm sorry, that's totally joh

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eek" with george stephanopoulos.ith george stephanopoulos. have a great day. >> live and in hd, this is an abc 7 news update. >> good morning at 8:56. a climb down from a peruvian peak turn deadly for two men. one was from fairfax county and found 1,000 feet below the ridge that they fell from. both for serious climbers. the body of an arlington boy was found. arlington county police said the caught on camera, store aroundh the 4:00 friday afternoon. >> good morning, what a change from mr. de. is a beautiful morning at the house and your house. the humidity is down and the high temperature was 97 degrees yesterday but nothing like that this morning. 75 degrees downtown right now. the dew point is down in the 60's. the high temperature today will be 87uç0. mostly sunny skies and wins out of the northwest and for change,, a bit of a partly sunny skies and a bit humid and a chance of an thunderstorm, around degrees in that same pattern with us all week long. a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms and the greatest

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let's ask matthew dowd who's in for george stephanopoulos on "this week" today. good morning. >> great to see you, dan. >> so, pretty good start to the visit to israel. he had a rough ride in london. did he do himself actually lasting damage, mr. romney, when he was in london, and can this israel trip make up for it? >> he did himself momentary damage. when you travel internationally for the first time and on the international stage you want to be competent. obviously that london part didn't demonstrate that. i think he obviously has to finish this up strong and well in israel and come back to the united states. because he wants to get back here as soon as he can and talk again about the economy. so, finish strong. put london past him. come back and talk about the economy. >> let me ask you a question closer to home, even the president's advisers, according to the "new york times" today, are a little worried that some of his tv ads have gone too negative. i know both candidates are negative. is there a special risk for the president that was the candidate for hop

george stephanopoulos will be taking a deep dive into the issue this morning and he's here right now.rning, sir. so in your view, is this going to -- this is clearly a big issue right now, but will it still be a big issue october/november when we're voting? >> not clear -- i actually don't think so. you talk to both campaigns -- and even though as you say it is an important issue, clear distinction between the two campaigns. neither one wants this to be the core of their campaign. both know that it's not at the top of voters' concerns right now that people are a lot more concerned about the economy and naturally going to be put into focus. >> obama knows it's unpopular and romney knows that he was involved in the sort of early version of this in massachusetts. >> that cuts it to him, as well. >> so let me ask you about the latest poll numbers. in the gallup tracking poll we're seeing a little bit of an uptick for president obama. is this significant and if show what's driving it? >> the president had so much trouble in the beginning of june and we saw him drive right into a dead heat

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we'll have much more later on "this week" with george stephanopoulos on the tragedy in colorado.ou have a great day. thank you for watching "good morning america." >> bye, everybody. >> good morning, everyone, thanks for joining us. i'm carolyn tyler. let's start with a quick first look at the weather. here's our meteorologist, lease arrange. >> hi, carolyn. we are starting out with a little bit of fog in the city, but otherwise we are clear so we are on our way to another warm day inland. it is in the 60s over the hill. 62 livermore, 68 tonightel antioch. 60 san francisco. ed to begins a bit of a transition that will allow for a stronger sea breeze. areas of fog, then more sunshine by moon time. we are talking 60s and 70s, and by the afternoon we are

george stephanopoulos has a well-deserved morning off. as you just heard, it's been a rough week for both candidates. let's get right to it with their senior advisers. robert gibbs with president obama and kevin madden for mitt romney. >> good morning. >> who are the junior advisers? >> i tried to get that title before, nobody will give -- >> i make my own coffee >> i always wondered that. i want to start with, we're 100 days out. dead-even race. robert, what is going to make this race out, or is it going to stay this way until the end? >> i think it's going to be a very close race throughout. that's what we prepared for. i think what's going break this race out ultimately is the choice between two candidates and two extremely different visions about how we build this economy and how we come out of the economic disaster that we were in and how we recover and i think, whether or not you're going to have that choice of with whether barack obama who wants to invest in education, cut taxes on small businesses and build our economy here or som

let's go to george stephanopoulos. this mass group of politics on hold, how long will that last? >> you saw the president as you said, he's going to aurora today, he's going to move on and continue with the campaign swing on the west coast, he'll go to nevada and washington state, and he'll begin to campaign again, by tomorrow at the latest. and then at the same time, mitt romney who as you said suspending campaigning on friday, is planning a major overseas trip, he's going to israel, poland and great britain. starting on wednesday, and that's going to continue as well. i think we'll gradually get back to full reengagement on this campaign. >> both president obama and mitt romney spoke out about this. massacre on friday. but neither one addressed gun control. is this going to move anything? >> i doubt it. especially as we learn more about the killer and pretty clear that this is a person who snapped. as our pierre thomas has pointed out had a pretty clean background. nothing in his background would have prevented him getting the guns that he sought. and one of the other things th

don't miss "this "with george stephanopoulos coming up right here on abc7.e will have continuing coverage of the colorado theater massacre throughout the weekend. you can also get the latest anytime on abc7news.com and on twitter and on our facebook page, facebook.com/abc7news. back here in the bay area this morning a five-year-old girl is in critical condition at oakland children's hospital. she was the victim of a drive-by shooting yesterday afternoon. it happened at the corner of bancroft and 50th avenue in oakland. abc7 news reporter sergio quinn continuena explains how she was shot right in front of at fire station. >> rhonda said she was walking with her daughter and her friend's little girl in front of fire station 18. her daughter was playing with the station's doorbell when the gunman started shooting. >> that's all we heard was pow, pow, and she started walking slow and looked back and gush out with blood. >> the firefighters heard the gunshots and quickly went outside to see what was happening. >> we grabbed them and open the doors and brought her

don't miss "this week" with george stephanopoulos coming up right here on abc7.ave continuing coverage of the colorado theater massacre throughout the weekend. you can also get the latest anytime on abc7news.com and on twitter and on our facebook page, facebook.com/abc7news. >> this morning a five-year-old girl is in critical condition at oakland children's hospital. she was the victim of a drive-by shooting yesterday afternoon. it happened at the corner of bancroft and 50th avenue in oakland. abc7 news reporter sergio quintana explains how she was shot right in front of at fire station. >> rhonda said she was walking with her daughter and her friend's little girl in front of fire station 18. her daughter was playing with the station's doorbell when the gunman started shooting. >> that's all we heard was pow, pow, pow, pow, and she started walking slow and looked back and gush out with blood. >> the firefighters heard the gunshots and quickly went outside to see what was happening. >> we grabbed them and open the doors and brought her in. innocent bystander shoot

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for more on this let's go to george stephanopoulos, co-host of "gma" and "this week." this massacre put politics on hold but how long will that last? >> you saw the president, as you said, he's going to aurora today, he's going to move on and continue with the campaign swing on the west coast, he'll go to nevada and washington state, and he'll begin to campaign again, by tomorrow at the latest. and then at the same time, mitt romney, who as you say, suspended basically campaigning on friday is planning a major overseas trip. he's going to israel, he is going to poland, he is going to great britain starting on wednesday, and that's going to continue as well. so i think we'll gradually get back to full re-engagement on his campaign. >> both president obama and mitt romney spoke out about this massacre on friday. but neither one addressed gun control. it's something that cops up every couple of years when we have a massacre like we've seen. is this going to move anything? is this going to change anything at all especially during an election year >> i doubt it, especially

. >>> also tomorrow on "this week" with george stephanopoulos. jonathan karl has an exclusive interview with dick cheney. what he thinks mitt romney should be looking for as vice presidential candidate and thoughts on sarah palin. >>> and the city of aleppo. rebel sources made big strides. abc's alex marquardt has the details. >> reporter: a syrian newspaper warned it will be the mother of all battle. a showdown has been looming for days. opposition and assad forces around aleppo. syrian's merchant capital. regime vowing to snuff out opposition fighters. the bbc has been there. >> it's been an incredible hot day in more ways than one. there's been constant activity. the sound of bangs through the air explosions. >> reporter: regime forces pounded the city with tanks and helicopter gunships. unverified video from today showed a fighter jet. the jet was used for the first time in battle this past week. the battle sent residents fleeing their homes in droves. the united states has warned of a potential flood bath. >> this say concern that we will se

. >> we have an interview with george stephanopoulos. >> we will talk about is fond memories of d.c.ar games. we will talk with both of them coming up in less than 30 minutes. now to the debate over same-sex marriage as the obama administration is asking the supreme court to settle the fight over a law that denies federal benefits to unmarried gay couples. the justice department is asking the court to hear an appeal striking down a portion of the defense of marriage act. they could decide to hear the case by late september. president obama will propose a bill for new college loans of 3.4% for college. the bill also maintains jobs on transportation projects across the country. >> presidentofficials say that a seizure caused commerce secretary john bryson to get into an accident with a stock car and then he ran into another vehicle and was found unconscious in his car. a jetblue pilot who left the cockpit during a flight was found not guilty by reason of insanity. he was shouting about terrorism and people needing to pray. a judge will decide if he should be released or the committed t

terry moran is hosting "this week," subbing for george stephanopoulos.erry, good morning to you. >> dan, there's no question that president obama is facing a huge challenge this year. it's his economy, he owns it. gas prices. depressing jobs reports. in particular, given the promises that he made, he promised that unemployment would be lower and that this could be recovery time in the united states so there's no question that he's going face serious headwinds in the campaign. >> terry, look forward to your broadcast this morning. goff a big show this morning. terry, see you then. >>> danger in the sky. the fbi is on the case after dangerous laser points were pointed at pilots. some may call it a prank. but it's becoming a growing problem. jim avila covers aviation for abc. >> reporter: these lasers happen at most critical times for the pilot. it happened just outside of san francisco's international airport. two commercial planes. a virgin atlantic and a sky west commuter jet. >> we just want to let you know that there's a laser by the bridge. >> reporte

. >>> also tomorrow on "this week" with george stephanopoulos. jonathan karl has an exclusive interview with former vice president dick cheney. what he says mitt romney should look for in a vice presidential candidate and his candid thoughts on sarah palin. >>> we turn to an epic battle over the country's industrial power center, the city of aleppo. rebel forces have made great strides there, then braced for a government backlash. that's finally arrived. abc's alex marquardt has the details. >> reporter: a syrian newspaper warned it will be the mother of all battle. a showdown has been looming for days. opposition and assad forces massing around aleppo, syria's commercial capital. regime vowing to snuff out opposition fighters who captured territory. the bbc's ian pannell has been there. >> it's been an incredibly hot day in more ways than one. there's been constant activity. throughout the day, the sound of bangs through the air, explosions, not far from here. >> reporter: regime forces pounded the city with tanks and helicopter gunships. unveri

global affairs anchor christiane amanpour is talking with george stephanopoulos this morning and touchedon what could be next. >> what certainly near israel and what the united states wants to try to encourage him to lose his grip totally and fully and completely whether or not attacks on ministers, more and more defections, unrail with willing to intervene they are trying continue people to take action against the system. >> reporter: the u.n. security council will take up another resolution today, countries, want in the resolution want a demand that could allow use of force, russia opposes any force it is not clear whether this resolution is going to pass today. >>> 6:14, nelson mandela is celebrating a birthday today he's 94-years-old and he company to help mark the occasion. former president clinton visited mandela yesterday at his home south africa. this photo shows the former president with mandel the former south african leader is increasingly frail and no longer appears in public. officials say mr. clinton's visit lasted an hour and a half. >>> we are learning about a bomb threat

flexed i had a chance to have a conversation with george stephanopoulos when we visited new york last>are you coming back to d.c. sometime? >> i go back and forth, but it's pretty busy in new york right now. we have a wonderful time. >> you got used to being there for so long at the white house. now been in new york doing something completely different do you get a chance to look back and compare the two careers? >> all the time. and i still have my hand in it on sundays. there's so many different things up here. you never know what point to hit in the morning. that feeling of helping people start their day, you know what it's like, it's great fun. >> ever miss the white house? >> how could you not miss the white house? a once-in-a-lifetime experience. >> you still keep your hands full. it still cover all the political news. how do you balance that when doing a show like this? >> i get up real early and get here before 4:00 and work through about 9:00 a.m. and then take a break. in afternoon i do my political work and have two separate work lives. >> we are happy to be your opening ac

much more later on "this week" with george stephanopoulos. have a great day. >> inned knees this ?this morning, sun, july 29, a baby died after a pit bull attacked him in the home. and a 76-year-old woman is missing who suffers from dementia. thanks for joining us. i'm carolyn tyler. let's start with a quick look at the weather with our meteorologist francis. >> good morning, everyone. we are starting off with a live view from our roof camera out toward the bay bridge and a lot of low clouds. once again, we will start

we're joined by host of "this week" george stephanopoulos. safe to say this wasn't a good week for mitt romney. for someone to go within his own party to be more forthcoming. >> it's pretty tough. bentley came out with another statement that he said that romney didn't do anything wrong. no question increasing the pressure on romney to do that. i talked to the romney campaign this week, they're holding firm so far, he'll release his tax returns from 2011 probably sometime in september. they're going to draw the line there, you can bet the obama campaign and all of his allies aren't going to give this up. >> is this tactic working, focusing on his past opposed to a weak economy now. >> so far it seems to be working for the obama campaign. 75% of those ads are focused on mitt romney's record. when you look at the polling in those states right now, by 2 to 1, voters have a negative image of him in the private sector. they're trying to disqualify romney in the eyes of voters. >> quickly, another week, another name for vp, condi rice. >> big week f

. >> greg: do we have a baby seat for george stephanopoulos on the bus? >> dana: no, he's in the tank. >> bob: sack against george? >> greg: i needed to do it. >> eric: we have to go. coming up, comedian chris rock and congressman allen west getting beef for controversial comments. did they cross the line or do people need to lighten up a little bit? report on the side. ♪ ♪ çp7 ♪ ♪ >> dana: welcome back to "the five." we are going to talk about outrage. on a scale of 1 to 10 how outraged should you be somebody using hyperbole? >> greg: ahhh! [ applause ] >> dana: hyperbole. >> greg: i pronounced it hyper-bowl for the longest time. >> bob: why don't you been a the word then? >> dana: let me talk about yesterday. fourth of july. a couple things happened. one, look at what chris rock tweeted earlier in the day. he said, "happy white people's independence day. the slaves weren't free, but i'm sure they enjoyed fireworks." that rubs people the wrong way, which i can understand. but kimberly, do you think that people got a little bit on their outrage meter, off

. >> we are used to seeing george stephanopoulos in d.c. as well. i had a chance to talk with him. we will hear more that conversation tomorrow. >> looking forward to that. now adam caskey has the latest on the forecast. >> here's the sun rise over arlington, beautiful. mostly sunny skies. a little rain in lowell sutton maryland has moved off over the potomac and over the bay. we are dry with mostly sunny conditions to start the day. you will notice an increase in the humidity. there was dry heat yesterday. today we will notice an increase in the humidity. moisture moving back in from the south. -- a little rain in lower southern maryland has moved off over the potomac. it is 68 degrees in orange, virginia. . 69 degrees . what you are seeing is false returns on the radar in parts of maryland. clipping parts of the northern neck of virginia. i want to focus on the storm moving through the upper midwest. the energy in our atmosphere helping cause these storms that will drop towards washington late tonight and into the day tomorrow. that's why we have enhanced chance of thundershowers

when chicago mayor and former obama chief of staff, rahm emanuel, and kelly ayotte speak to george stephanopoulos. >> big show for george tomorrow. >>> meanwhile, we are hearing for the first time from the woman who has become the poster child for failed adoption. she caused an international incident when she put her adopted russian son, this young boy, on a plane home to russia with nothing but a note saying he was violent and mentally ill. now, she's telling her side of the story. and abc's john schriffen is here this morning. john, good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you. this made headlines around the world. and after two years of delays, torry hansen is speaking out in a tennessee courtroom. >> i have never mistreated or abused him or any child. >> reporter: for the first time we're hearing from the woman responsible for setting back relations between the u.s. and russia, because of the way she got rid of an adopted child from overseas she and her parents no longer wanted. >> they put him on a plane and he was went back to russia. >> reporter: when this happened two years ago, russian

. >> that was george stephanopoulos on abc. little more prodding now on fox news. >> this is going to raise taxes for those families. >> that's not what the supreme court said. they said this is constitutional. it didn't matter what congress called it. it is a penalty. >> wait a minute, sir. >> it's a penalty for people who choose not to buy insurance. >> they called it a tax. >> so, it's only fair. democrats are just following the president's lead from all the way back in 2009. >> for us to say that you've got to take a responsibility to get health insurance is absolutely not a tax increase. what it's saying is we're not going to have other people carrying your burdens for you. >> so, what is it? is it a tax, or is it a penalty? here's the chief justice's opinion. he says a financial penalty for not obtaining health insurance may reasonably be characterized as a tax. reasonably characterized as a tax. does that mean the bill is a tax? no. he's not explicit. and therein lies the problem. he's made room for both sides to spin th

. >> greg: do we have a baby seat for george stephanopoulos on the bus? >> dana: no, he's in the tank. >> bob: sack against george? >> greg: i needed to do it. >> eric: we have to go. coming up, comedian chris rock and congressman allen west getting beef for controversial comments. did they cross the line or do people need to lighten up a little bit? report on the side. ♪ ♪ building pass, corporate card, verizon 4g lte phone. the global ready one ? yeah, but you won't need... ♪ hajimemashite. hajimemashite. hajimemashite. you guys like football ? thank you so much. i'm stoked. you stoked ? totally. ... and he says, "under the mattress." souse le matelas. ( laughter ) why's the new guy sending me emails from paris ? paris, france ? verizon's 4g lte devices are global-ready. plus, global data for just $25. only from verizon. delivering mail, medicine and packages. yet the house is considering a bill to close thousands of offices, slash service and layoff over 100,000 workers. the postal service is recording financial losses but not for reasons you might thin

i'm here with george stephanopoulos.will also be easy for congress to go after certain industries and distort the market. we have tax credit. but we have had principle of equal taxation. a principle that individuals pay a certain rate and companies pay a certain rate. if the government dreadses it up in encouraging -- >> they do that all the time. they tax gas guzzlers, tax codes. >> stronger power now. >> but this court will limit that. >> keith, are you worried about the tax argument in the election? >> again, i think it's got to be a concern for the president that wasn't there before this terminology was used. but this was already such a huge issue in terms of this divide between people who are opposed to the obama care concept yet support each aspect of it. it was already a hot-button issue. >> anything that the president can do to independent voters who have been skeptical of the law? >> he can now point out that it did get the support of the supreme court, that's the easiest thing for people who are not in this the

president obama insisted in an interview in 2009 with george stephanopoulos of abc that the mandate was>>> a man wearing afghan army uniform shot and wounded coalition troops in eastern afghanistan today. it's a reminder while we are flipping burgers today, our forces are still engaged in a very dangerous war. still our heroes were able to celebrate independence day. dominic di-natale is in kandahar with more. >> a classic fourth of july cookout here in kandahar. enjoying the fourth of july. how the barbecue? >> it's great. good food. >> awesome brigade here. we have -- [ inaudible ] whatever they are calling it. this is the third expeditionary command in kandahar. they are in charge of throwing down all the heavy equipment. now that pakistan opened up the crucial supply land, talk to the commander. brigadier general french. thank you for joining us. happy fourth of july. you are in charge of getting everything home. >> right. right now we are enjoying our day, enjoying a nice fourth of july celebration, having a barbecue. then we'll get back to business. our first mission is sustaining

i watch abc news, i see george stephanopoulos talking. bill o'reilly? >> yeah. bill o'reilly. and i see your colleague, tom brokaw. that's what i wanted to get into. i love politics. i see the katrina response. i see people talking about fema. i read about president bush and his budget cuts. that gets my juices going. >> and in prison, he's discovered a captive audience for his brand of political punditry. >> i have a subscription to "usa today" and i have a line. i let everybody read it. i write little comments. you'd be surprised, we discuss things in here. everything in prison is not just violence or gangs. we discuss issues. people are surprised the conversations we have in here, you know what i'm saying? >> he tried out some spin in response to an unexpected line of questioning from our producer on the pin-ups decorating his cell. >> are these all your girlfriends? >> in another lifetime. most of them come out of "xxl" magazine. minority based magazines. kind of like "maxim." hip hop minority community. get tired of looking at gray w