with people like george washington, thomas jefferson, james madison. the house tells us that in the details as we look at it. the driveway that you would have come up as well during george mason's lifetime was lined in cherry trees and would have really created this house as a focal point and centerpiece of the property here at gunston hall. he didn't ever add on to the house, so the house that you see now is what mason built in 1759. it's kind of interesting because most other founding fathers did actually add third floors and wings like mt. vernon, or monticello which jefferson built out to be this grand home. george mason saw people like jefferson, many of the other founding generation, going into deep, deep debt doing things like this. today we think of it as keeping up with the joneses or keeping up with the kardashians. mason didn't want to be in that position himself so the house we see today is what mason ended up with in his lifetime. we will have a chance to explore all the spaces in the house,

his new cellmate, james george has advice for him. >> you work on your case, that's first and foremost not go to that courtroom and let them judges do whatever they will do to you. go to the law library, this is what it is,s this is what is going on. i need to read up on this. i need to find any loopholes in my case. i need to know what is going on. >> dawn is the inmate advocate for the bergen county sheriff's office. >> hopefully, be able to contact him. let them contact you. thank you. have a good day. >> while not a lawyer, she provides resources to inmates as they prepare their cases and often interacts on their behalf with family members and drug counselors and attorneys. >> sometimes i don't like the title so much because it sounds like i'm in between the inmates and officers and i'm not. i want what the officers want, i want peace. i want peace for inmates and peace for everybody. i like to keep the anxiety down. you know? many of the inmates were frustrated. a majority have public defenders but are not seeing them because they have lots of clients. they are feeling helpless. s

he was a wealthy gentleman and belonged in the upper class with people like george washington, james madison. the house tells us that in the details. the drive way that you would have come up during george mason's lifetime was lined in cherry trees and would have really created the house as a focal point and center piece. he didn't ever add on to the house. the house that you see now is what mason built in 1759. it's kind of interesting because most other founding fathers did actually add third floors and wings like mt. vernon and monticello. george mason saw people like jefferson going into deep, deep debt doing things like this. today we would think of it as keeping up with the jones' or kardashi kardashians. so we are going to have a chance to explore all of the spaces in the house, look at who george mason was, why we remember george mason today as we go through. so why don't we step inside? so we're stepping into the central passage of the mansion which is where visitors would have come in during george mason's lifetime. this space was very decorative and beautiful. when visitors

george w. bush after the invasion of iraq. james longman has more. from beirut.es, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, dan. the dust is settling here in the region. but a lot of questions about what just has been achieved and whether those air strikes went far enough. the buildings where death was once housed, now in ruins. syrian chemical weapons facilities apparently destroyed by the u.s.-led air strike. >> i think the words cripple and degrade are good, accurate words. >> reporter: take a look at these before and after satellite images of targeting areas. burn marks from stirikes, still visible. mission accomplished, tweeted donald trump. critics asking, what has changed? those precision air strikes, much more limited than many had expected. and assad said to still be in possession of the chemicals he's used to kill. u.s. ambassador nikki haley with another warning. >> if the syrian regime uses this poisonous gas again, the united states is locked and loaded. >> reporter: and the war of words with russia continues. the kremlin still making the wild

stephanopoulos for five hours. >> eric: that's sarah sanders criticizing george stephanopoulos as well as james comey. the five hours comprised into a one-hour interview by comey with mr. stephanopoulos. our media panel joins us right now. was george tough enough? james holloman is here with us. vince, let me start with you. james comey, credible or full of us? >> full of it. i mean, i think you can only come away with that impression having watched him sort of meander. we've seen him do this many times. meander through explanations and try to offer a self-justifying rationale. no matter what the accusation is against him, he finds a way to slip out of it. there's a very good reason he began this with bill clinton's former press secretary. this was the gentlest place he could have go to. he feels like he can get a fair hearing with hillary clinton supporters. >> eric: james do you buy that? you think mr. comey acquitted himself properly? >> it was -- george let comey talk. it was a long conversation. comey has some credibility. i read his book over the weekend. he criticizes himself at times. t

but it's so interesting, james gagliano. george stephanopoulos asked james comey about obstruction of justice, with an interesting response. let's listen. >> is president trump obstructing justice? >> possibly. i mean, it's certainly some evidence of obstruction of justice. >> that's interesting reveal. >> he couches his answer there. he said "possibly." now one of the major constructs of obstruction of justice is just like perjury. you have to prove intent. that's what he is saying. that was his interpretation of events. what really struck me on the sound you just played was the russia probe. you know, when the book was published, it had to go through a clearing house called prepublication review at the fbi. the fbi and the department of justice define an employee as anyone who holds or who has held a position of trust within the agency. james comey is still technically an fbi employee. how he is talking about an ongoing open investigation or case which is a prohibited disclosure, i have no idea. >> but they had the right to take

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james comey exclusive. the white house responding. comey telling george stephanopoulos he believes the president is a serial liar and is morally unfit to be president. and george asks comey, does he believe the russians have something on the president? and tonight, did comey's decision to go public again about hillary clinton's e-mails just 11 days before the election cost her the presidency? what comey now says. here's abc's chief white house correspondent jonathan karl. >> reporter: we tried, but as he left the white house this morning, the president would not answer questions about james comey. did you get a chance to watch the comey interview, mr. president? mr. president, comey says you are morally unfit to serve. any reaction, sir? in his interview with george stephanopoulos, the former fbi director offered a damning assessment of the president. >> a person who sees moral equivalence in charlottesville, who talks about and treats women like they're pieces of meat, who lies constantly about matters big and small and insists the american people believ

james comey interview. the abc news exclusive tonight. one on one with george stephanopoulos. comey calling the president unethical and untethered to the truth and the one thing james comey said the president was fixated on, the unverified dossier. >> how graphic did you get? >> meanwhile as the president tweets about james comey, is the president set to launch that military strike on syria? martha raddatz and our team in the region on what could be coming. what we just learned tonight. >>> also developing the president's personal attorney asking a judge to protect the evidence swept up in those fbi raids. >>> the major storms sweeping across the country this friday night, tornado watches and white out conditions on major highways. rob marciano with the new track. >>> the actor will ferrell hospitalized after a highway crash. news on his condition. >>> right here in beirut, what happens when we go looking for a boy you met right here four years ago. >> good evening tonight from beirut, the region bracing for any possible u.s. military strike that could be coming against syria.

first tonight, the full transcript of former fbi director james comey's interview with george stephanopoulos has been released. it's a massive interview clocking in at more than five hours. it's deeply revealing. by now you heard about what comey has had to say about donald trump and not very much of that was newsworthy it turned out. the real value of this interview is what it says about james comey. by the end you realize that coney never should have been fbi director. he's too partisan. trump's main mistake was not firing him on inauguration day. comey defends his prosecution of more that stewart who went to jail for lying to prosecutors. he attacks general petraeus. according to comey, he should have faced more charges for mishandling classified information. he should have gone to prison for lying. in his words "lying strikes at the heart of our rule of law in this country." fair enough. but then comey goes on to talk about the marc rich case. you remember that. on his way out of office, bill clinton sold a presidential pardon to a wanted felon who fled the county. comey says "i never he

. >> good morning mayor kpa will have much more from the exclusive james comey interview. join george stephanopoulos coming up at 7:00 a.m. right here after abc 7 mornings. >>> mountain view police say two men who tried to kidnap a woman have been arrested. two of the victim's friends showed up and one of the suspects pulled out a gun. the victim was able to get away. the two suspects drove off firing shots as they left. no one was injured. yesterday morning police arrested 29-year-old guillermo perez and 19-year-old walter ramirez. >>> the 49ers say reuben foster will not take part in team activities while he deals with domestic violence charges. the charges include dragging his girlfriend by her hair. she claims foster punched her in the head eight to ten times. she suffered a ruptured ear drum back in february. foster also faces felony assault weapons charges. police say they found a rifle inside his home. >>> hundreds of people marched from the lake mary amphitheater to the frank ag ga wah center to say no to wars. >> protesters took to the streets yesterday calling for peace acro

. >>> also tonight, the white house reacts, after the james comey exclusive. telling georgephanopoulos president trump is morally unfit to be president. and george asks, do you think the russians have something on donald trump? and did comey's decision to go public about hillary clinton's e-mails 11 days before the election cost her the presidency? what comey now says. >>> just in tonight, police body cam, dash cam video of an officer involved shooting that prompted a lockdown of several

james comey breaks his silence. >> what happens next? >> the abc news exclusive event starts right now with chief anchor george stephanopolous. >> reporter: james comey. a polarizing man, for a polarized time. hillary clinton says that he cost her the white house. donald trump just called him an untruthful slimeball. now, he is sharing his story about standing at the crossroads of the most controversial election in modern history. you say it's a dangerous time in our country. >> i think it is. and i chose those words carefully. i was worried when i chose the word "dangerous" first. i thought, is that an overstatement? and i don't think it is. >> reporter: why not? >> i worry that the norms at the center of this country, we can fight as americans about guns, or taxes or immigration. we always have, but what we have in common is a set of norms. most importantly, the truth. and if we lose that, if we lose tethering of our leaders to that truth, what are we? >> reporter: i've talked to a lot of people who've watched you for a long time. some of them come out with this storyline on james comey. "here was a guy who loved being fbi director. he

cares. ♪ >> sean: in a ♪ >> sean: in a self-serving interview, disgraced former fbi director james comey told georgeopoulos about his bizarre reaction to the news of his firing. let's watch. >> stunned by the news, comey heads to the airport. it would be his last flight on the fbi jet. >> so you are in that private jet, basically alone. what did you do? >> i drank red wine from a paper coffee cup. i looked out at the lights of the country i love so much as we flew home. >> sean: joining us now, fox news contributor, former speaker of the house, and the creator of defending america course, on his website, newt gingrich is with us. sir, how are you?ri >> i'm doing well. i have to say, i don't think when this book came out and the book tour began, i didn't really expect the level of shrinkage. he's going from 6'8", by the end of the tour, he will be about 5'2". liberals are attacking him, the members of the obamare administration are attacking him, conservatives are attacking him. he's managed to have a range of people describe him as dishonest that is really pretty remarkable. >> sean: you know what m

kind of new that we've just heard as well in this interview is that the interviewee george stephanopoulos asked. james komi if he thought russia might have some compromising information on donald trump he was insinuating these unconfirmed reports that have circulated widely that russia might have videotape of with trump with women in hotels in moscow and in this interview james komi said no i cannot rule out that russia might have compromising information on the president of the united states absolutely remarkable that this is coming out and coming out publicly from the former f.b.i. director remarkable with this thanks so much deb rail as although that. earlier the u.s. president unleashed another torrent of abuse against james komi in a series of tweets donald trump suggests the former f.b.i. director should be jailed and challenges accusations he makes in a new book he says i never ask of me for personal loyalty hardly even knew this guy just another of these many lies his memos are self-serving and fake trump then calls komi slippery out of whack and the worst f.b.i. director in history by far all

. >>> firing back, president trump taking to twitter name-calling james comey following george's sit-down interview with the fired fbi director describing a one-on-one meeting with the president. >> how graphic did you get? >> i think as graphic as i needed to be. >>> plus, the new trouble for trump's personal attorney, michael cohen. >>> also this morning, deadly storms. the couple caught in an apparent tornado. >> i love you. i love you. >> their camper van swerving into a ditch. the twisters tearing through the south and the snow that will not stop. blizzard conditions in the midwest. >>> and comedians crash after will ferrell's accident on a california freeway. a passenger in an suv which overturned. how he's doing this morning. >>> good morning, everybody. let's get straight to the breaking news. president trump ordering strikes on syria. >>> we want to show you this new video coming in from the pentagon. american, british and french warships and planes launching dozens of missiles targeting the syrian regime's chemical weapons sites. video from syria overnight shows missiles lightin

james comey. sitting down with george stephanopoulos. tonight, comey reveals new details from one of the most controversial choices of his career, why he went public about reopening the investigation into hillary clinton just days before the election. here's abc's david wright. >> reporter: it was the october surprise that hillary clinton believes torpedoed her chance to be president. >> tonight, breaking news, the fbi bombshell for hillary clinton. >> reporter: just ten days before the election, then-fbi director james comey sent a letter to congress, alerting lawmakers the fbi found new e-mails "that appeared to be pertinent," on a computer clinton's top aide huma abedin shared with her husband, disgraced former congressman anthony wiener. >> hillary clinton's convinced that that letter defeated her, what do you say to her? >> i hope not. i don't know. i honestly don't know. i sure hope not. >> reporter: abc's george stephanopoulos pressed comey about that. >> try to realize that i'm not tryin' to help a candidate or hurt a candidate,

. >>> firing back, president trump taking to twitter name-calling james comey following george's sit-downrector describing a one-on-one meeting with the president. >> how graphic did you get? >> i think as graphic as i needed to be. >>> plus, the new trouble for trump's personal attorney, michael cohen. >>> also this morning, deadly

. >>> also tonight, the white house reacts, after the james comey exclusive. telling george stephanopoulos president trump is morally unfit to be president. and george asks, do you think the russians have something on donald trump? and did comey's decision to go public about hillary clinton's e-mails 11 days before the election cost her the presidency? what comey now says. >>> just in tonight, police body cam and dash cam video of an officer-involved shooting that pr

this is also, george stephanopoulos and james comey, this did not make air but we have the transcript. there's probably a reason this doesn't make air on abc news sunday. listen to this, george stephanopoulos says what about the rest of the steel dossier? has it checked out, is it a credible document? james comey says the answer is, i don't know.this is huge and this is why, because you are only allowed to present credible substantiated document to a fisa judge when you are looking to get a warrant on another american. if the fbi director knows or doesn't know about the credibility of the document and he's proffering that to a fisa judge, that's perpetrating fraud on a fisa court judge. >> moreover, we learn some of the documents, the memos he turned over had confidential information. the ones that he leaked. >>jesse: he's looking at serious consequences they are as well. >> that's another reason to get off the air. >>jesse: he's got to sell books. >> i read the book last week. i want to be fair to him. i love his upbringing. i love what he says about the fbi but i think he's got the

tonight what we never heard from james comey before one on one with george stephanopoulos. >> reporter: as you headed into trump tower that day, were you nervous? >> yes. >> reporter: fbi director james comey was with a group of intelligence agency heads briefing the president-elect and his top aides on how the russians interfered in our election. >> president-elect trump's first question was to confirm that it had no impact on the election and then the conversation, to my surprise, moved into a pr conversation about how the trump team would position this and what they could say about this. they actually started talking about drafting a press release with us still sitting there and the reason that was so striking to me is that is just not done, that the intelligence community does intelligence, the white house does pr and spin. >> reporter: you also said you were struck by what they didn't ask. >> very much. no one to my recollection asked so what -- what's coming next from the russians? how might we stop it? what's the future look like? it was all, what can we say about what they did

of international terrorism.the canadian government has not raised its terrorism alert. ( james ) president georgebush has been hospitalized in houston with an infection .... just after attending the funeral of his wife barbara. officials say the 93-year-old bush is "responding to treatments and appears to be recovering." bush was admitted to houston methodist hospital sunday morning after an infection spread to his blood. ( darya ) still ahead on the kron 4 morning news... people who knew the gunman who killed four people at a tennessee waffle house describe his odd behavior. that's ahead. ( darya ) plus... we continue to follow breaking news out of concord.a fire forcing evacuations. ( dave ) and i am tracking your bay area forecast. (ácommercialá)(áábreakáá) . ( james ) we are following breaking news we are following is out of concord... a fire at an apartment complex that is under construction... is forcing evacuations. this is another look at what the flames looked like this morning. this is on galidno street near the renaissance square apartments. there are 2 reported injuries at this time..

listen to this exchange that he had, james comey with george stephanopoulos. >> hillary clinton is convinced defeated her. what do you say to her? >> i hope not. i don't know. i honestly don't know. i sure hope not. the honest answer is, it wouldn't change the way i think about it. my hope, i didn't write the book for this reason, but talking about leadership, it was important to tell the e-mail story, because it's me trying to figure out how to lead well. the people will read that story and try to put themselves in my shoes. try to realize that i'm not trying to help a candidate or hurt a candidate. i'm trying to do the right thing. and you can come up with different conclusions. reasonable people would have chose an different door for reasonable reasons. but it's just not fair to say we were doing it for some illegitimate reason. >> wasn't it to reveal that hillary clinton was going to win and your concerned that she wins, this comes out several weeks later and that's taken by her opponents as a sign she's an illegitimate president? >> it must have been. i don't remember thinking about tha

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. >>> james comey spoke about president trump in an interview with george stephanopoulos on abc news.n his memoir, "a higher loyalty," james comey explains what may be the most controversial decision of his career. days before the 2016 presidential election, he announced the reopening of the investigation into hillary clinton's use of personal e- mail while secretary of state. >> she's going to be elected president, and if i hide this from the american people, she will be i will i illegitimate. >> reporter: slime ball. other critics say comey went against the justice department protocol and never should have confirmed or denied the existence of an investigation, especially when it could influence an election. >>> i walked around sick to my stomach, alone, that everybody hated me, and there wasn't a way out of because it was the right thing to do. >> reporter: he describes president trump as a bum lip who is untethered to the tried. >> he treats woman like they're peaces of -- pieces of meat. he's not filth to be president. >> reporter: the president -- fit to be president. >> reporter

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zeleny reporting this morning about how allies of the president respond to the coming james comey interview with georgetephanopoulos. comey refers, i believe, to the president as a mob boss which is what set sean hannity off, it was a parallel right there. but the fact that republican party is putting out this website saying lying comey, we're also being told the republicans are coming out with ads with democrats speaking out against james comey, what do you make of this effort to discredit the former fbi -- this former fbi director? >> i think what's happening here, there's a lot of focus on what's going on with the investigation. a lot of what you're seeing isn't specifically always related to the investigation. it's related to coloring the american peoples' views of the investigators so if indictments come out the president can say, look, i told you all along this was a witch hunt. look at the indictment maybe against people in the white house and therefore if the president takes action, for example, pardons people involved in the indictments he can say all along i told you these guys were colored,

. >> james comey kicked off his publicity blitz for his new memoir with george stephanopoulous. the conversation included allegations of mr. trump and russian prostitutes to comey giving his personal take on mr. trump as president. >> i don't think he's medically unfit to be president, i think he's morally unfit to be president. >> he's criticizing the president in a way we haven't heard before. >> she's a professor at menlow college. he doesn't favor impeachment. >> the people voted for this, so it's kind of consistent with what i see as him continuing to say it's not my fault. a lot of folks think it is his fault. >> his fault for reopening the hillary clinton e-mail investigation just days before the investigation, which many believe cost her the white house. yet despite his defense over handling of the matter it appears neither democrats or republicans are going to walk away with a different opinion of him. >> he has no moral backbone. >> even so, preorders of his book have pushed it to the best-seller list. it will be released on tuesday. >>> we'll post the full transcript

we're going to talk about it. >> casual look-back there. >> a little bit. >>> george, your interview, of course, with jamesey getting a lot of headlines and his book is finally out today and this morning, the former fbi director will be here live as you see here in times square. there's so many questions, george. >> we have to get his reaction to all the reaction of the book. >>> but first, we begin with that big surprise in court. fox news anchor sean hannity named as one of the clients of president trump's personal attorney michael cohen. porn star stormy daniels also made an appearance in court and abc news kyra phillips is here about the latest. kyra, the key question in the courtroom was, would president trump's attorneys get a first look at those documents seized in the fbi raid? >> that's right. we'll talk about that. but first, you saw the media circus outside the courtroom. inside the courtroom, no cameras, but we did have producers there and when michael cohen's attorney had to reveal that third client over the past year, those in the courtroom literally gasped when they heard the name sean hanni

. >> reporter: good monday morning to you in an explosive interview with george stephanopoulos, james president trump saying he's, quote, morally unfit to be president. he revealed he believes russia has information on the president to black mail the president. after a series of a number of recent hospitalizations, barbara bush has decided, quote, not to seek additional medical treatment and will instead focus on comfort care. the 92-year-old is surrounded by a family she adores. >>> uncontrollable wildfires are raging across hundreds of thousands of acres in oklahoma a state of emergency remains in effect through tuesday authorities say 2 people have been killed and 7 injured. briechb brian, back to you. >> phillip, thank you. pitch, almost perfect. the big story in the sports world has everybody talking this morning and is making us old guys feel a lot better. >>> plus, the latest calls on boycotting starbucks after two african-american men were arrested in a philadelphia location full details when "squawk box" continues. - i love my grandma. - anncr: as you grow older, your brain n

>> james: i think i screwed this up with george stephanopoulos. of course impeachment should follow the lawn the facts. the process laid out in our constitution. what i was trying to express was a sense i have that in a way it be too bad. first, the president trump word peace and convicted it would driver dysfunction and divide deep into her public culture that take us a long time to fix, and it would let the voters off the hook. the american people need to stand up and say forgets guns, taxes and supreme court justices. something matters and that is the leader reflect our values. [applause] >> mike: you think that process would be bad for america? >> james: in many ways the process would create a sense of illegitimacy among a big part of supporters that would be difficult online. that's what i mean by driver division. a healthier way to resolve it is that the american people, especially those who don't normally vote stand up and say this is what we stand for. that moment would be good for america. we cyclically find times where we have terrible p

melissa: here is james freeman from the "wall street journal" and a fox news contributor and annika green, former speechwriter for george worked for senator mcconnell early in her career. james, i thought this is where the rubber meets the road when you have actual math or actual money involved. republicans said, like mitch mcconnell, 80-90% of people see a tax cut, and democrats went out and said that's a lie, you know you're actually going to see this is just for the fat cats. you are going to see taxes go up. what is the truth that the american people are seeing and are going to see? >> almost everybody gets a tax cut here, you've got, obviously, a big corporate rate cut which is great for growth, on the individual side, it's rate cuts up and down the income leader, doubling in the standard deduction, it's great republicans are focusing on this again, after they passed this in december you saw the immediate surge in polling and the president's polling, it started to take a dive with all due respect we started the trade fighting, and then also the big spending bill, that was a downer, i think, for everybody hoping for

james comey. comey sits down with george stephanopoulos. d maggie rulli has the latest. >> reporter: fired fbi director james comey is holding very little back. >> honestly never thought these words would come out of my mouth, but i don't know whether the current president of the united states with prostitutes peeinging on each other in moscow. all right a >> reporter: comey offers a glask sdripgtsz of his first meeting with then president-elect donald trump on january 6, 2017. first briefing trump mike pence and other key members of how the russians interfered with the election. >> and then the conversation to my surprise moved in to a pr conversation about how the trump team would position this and what they could say about in. no one to my recollection asked so what is coming next from the russians? >> reporter: and then comey says he met with trump alone wanting to inform him about salacious details in the now infamous michael steele dossier, including allegations that he was filmed with prostitutes in moscow in 2013. >> he enter represe

george. >> we saw a lot from the president on twitter before the james comey interview. did he watch last night? what's his reaction? >> i spoke with the president before the interview and the president reminded me that jim comey said publicly that he felt nervous before he met the president, admitted that to you. what we don't understand is why, if you're going to meet the president of the united states, the president-elect you're not saying, my ticker list is i've got to tell him about the russian interference, i must tell him about the investigations that are ongoing. instead, he takes time to talk about the size of his hands and length of his tie. that's really gutter and the fact that mr. comey admitted to you that he allowed polling and politics to influence his decision is much why rod rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, in a scathing memo on may 9th and others, other former attorneys general had called for mr. comey to step aside because they felt like he can no longer hold up the values of the fbi. he admitted to you he purposely leaked information to a fri

. >> reporter: former fbi director james comey one on one with george stephanopoulos, promoting his new book "a higher loyalty." the explosive first interview since he was fired by president trump, still making waves. >> he's morally unfit to be president. >> reporter: as the president's supporters scrutinize his motives. >> if he really felt like he was saving the country rather than selling books, why did he wait until an interview with you, not under oath, selling a book, not under oath? >> reporter: president trump himself, who has become comey's most powerful enemy, branding him a slimeball on twitter. calling him a liar, a leaker, even suggesting he should be in jail. comey responding on "the view" today. >> look, when he tweets that i should be in jail? my honest reaction is a shrug. yep, there's another one of those. then i stop myself and say, wait a minute, there's a danger in my shrug, that means i'm becoming numb to the fact that the president of the united states of america is saying that a private citizen should be in jail. that's not okay. >> reporter: it's not just polit

the world's attention on this growing young family as strong as ever, george. >> okay, james, amy is there for prince george's birth. lay out what's going to happen over the next few hours. >> we have the big royal announcement at be buckingham palace the official announcement. you find out how much the baby weighed and the name which everyone is anticipating. they have royal bets going on how much the baby weighs, what the name is. it's so exciting. i remember when i was standing out there. it was so joyful and fun and people love to celebrate with the royal family. >> they sure do. victoria murphy is there today. what does it feel like? >> hey, hello, good morning. it's an incredible atmosphere here today at the lindo wing. a cheer went up when they announced that news not long ago that kate safely delivered a baby boy at 11:01 this morning. amazing atmosphere. there are royal fans who have been camped out for two weeks wearing union flag jackets, waving those flags frantically now because we have a baby. of course, we're waiting for to see the couple leave the hospital together wi

. >> another thing that unnerved them is james comey talking to george stephanopoulos. today the book goes on sale. the quote he told npr is interesting. he talks about normalizing things that are terrifying really for the american public. how big a concern is it when the president tweets things like locking up a private citizen? >> it is a big one. that is where comey is most spot on. he has said we have normalized things that shouldn't be considered normal. we have accepted all sorts of behavior from the president such as that tweet. we move on from day-to-day. that is dangerous. that is how things erode in a democratic system. the problem is that might be exactly why his warnings don't have any effect. he is explaining why people would tune out on the book tour because our system is broken. >> we are looking at policy and trying to figure out the administration's policy toward syria and russia and you had u.n. am abbbassador nikki haley saying we will have strong sanctions on russia. now the white house is walking that back. what is the policy from the white house on

. >> and "good morning america" will have much more from the ex-sive james comey interview. join george stephanopoulos at 7:00 a.m. right after "abc 7 mornings." >>> mountain view police say two men who tried to kidnap a woman have been arrested. they tried to push the victim into a vehicle on castro street. two of the victim's friends showed up and one suspect pulled out a gun. the two suspects drove off firing shots as they left. no one was injured. yesterday morning police tracked down and arrested 29-year-old guillermo perez and 19-year-old walter ramirez. >>> this weekend hundreds of people marched in oakland to say no to war s >> the people united will never be defeated. >> protesters took to the streets calling for peace across the globe, including america's involvement with syria, palestine, afghanistan and what they say is violence against people of color on our own soil. >> with this administration the very meek and mild reforms that were in place because of obama are being rolled out. you hear i.c.e. agents and police officers feel like they've been unshackalled. the they've

tracie, what's been the fallout between george stephanopoulos and james comey?er: comey is a leaker, as the president has said, and that he should have been fired the reaction from president trump, you just said in his tweets, reaction from the white house or pre-action because they knew this was coming out was that the focus should really be on the credibility of james comey. that is what the president, white house and republican party are focusing on. he has a lot of explosive detaid detai details. you talked about some of the things that came out in the interview. comey said it was unlikely but possible that russia has information to black mail president trump. keep in mind it was comey who went up to the president three months before. the so-called russian -- the president denied the allegations and said they were ridiculous, but it was comey's job to go give him information that he pretty much assured that would probably anger the president-elect. he talked about the closed door meetings in the oval office and also the dinner where he was called to the whit

elizabeth hur has more. >> the interview, james comey. >> reporter: former fbi director james comey sitting down with abc's georgeanopoulos in his first prime time interview. >> and what part of you is thinking i helped elect donald trump? >> a whole lot of me was thinking, oh, my god, did we have some role in this? >> reporter: revealing new details of some of the most controversial choices of his career. >> the norm is, if you can avoid it, you take no action that might have an impact on the election, and i can't see a door that's labeled no action here. >> reporter: just 11 days before the election, comey maintains he had no choice. he also recalls his first impression of president trump. >> he had impressively coifed hair. tie is too long as it always is. he looked slightly orange up close. >> reporter: he likened trump to a mob boss. >> not trying to suggest that president trump is out breaking legs and shaking down shopkeepers. what i'm talking about is that leadership culture. >> reporter: in a series of tweets sunday president trump fired back, insisting he never demanded loyalty, writing slippery james c

george. take a look, james comey is a proven leaker and liar.e leaked classified information for which he should be prosecuted. the president calls him a weak and untruthful slime ball who was, as time has proven, a terrible director of the fbi. he says the handling of the hillary clinton case and the events surrounding it will go down as one of the worst botched jobs of history. quote, it was my great honor to fire james comey and it's not just the president. the rnc is firing back too. they've got a website calling him lying comey.com and even a war room set up, george. >> what other headlines that caught your eye that you expect to get a response from the white house. >> reporter: i expect to hear about this anecdote of chief of staff john kelly saying he intended to quit after comey was fired because he didn't want to, quote, work for dishonorable people. i'm also struck by the language that comey is using to describe the president. he calls this presidency a forest fire. the president himself he says is ego driven. he gets really personal,

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george steph nobody loushe was . >> that's james comey. has nothing to do with george. has everything to do with what comey is doing and how hi's doing it. his whole rollout is political. almost like a campaign for a politician. >> thanks you for being here >>> president trump putting putin on notice with the strikes in syria. so are we on a collision course towards another cold war with russia. >>> plus, reverend franklin grand, marra ey maria bartiromoa carter live, all coming up live. don't go anywhere. . >>> welcome back. well the white house putting putin on notice following the strikes against syria. >> our message to russia is yen u ooh oreyou're on the wrong sif history. >> russia has had four years to get this out of syria and failed to do that. >> we call on russia to take a hard look at the company it keeps. >> putin firing back saying, quote, the u.s. makes the already catastrophic humanitarian situation in syria even worse and brings suffering to civilian ps current escalation around syria is destructive for the entire international system. so are we on col

trump sitting at the white house this weekend hearing about the writing of james comey, and then comey will go one on one with george much more this morning on "start here." >> and james comey will reveal his own take in his own words in an abc exclusive interview with george stephanopoulos. >>> and we're learning about a former doorman at a trump building here in new york. kiara phillips reports. >> reporter: growing questions about hush money paid during donald trump's presidential campaign. abc news has reported on payments to a porn star and former playboy playmate during the campaign to silence their claims of affairs with mr. trump. >> they wanted to squash the story. >> reporter: mr. trump's spokespeople have denied the allegations of affairs. and now a new allegation, involving a former trump world tower doorman. dino sajudin. and "the new yorker" first reported on a $30,000 payment made to sajudin. the payment came from ami, the parent company of the national enquirer. turns out his story was never published. a tactic known as "catch and kill." sajudin confirms he had a conversation. >> reporter: they were