let's bring in abc's chief white house correspondent, jonathan karl. what is the answer, jon? >> reporter: well, diane, these sanctions will sting. they go right at the lifeline of the russian company, hitting the energy, banking and defense sectors. it's a move that comes 12 days after the downing of malaysian flight 17, as president obama announced the moves, he made it clear that his aim is to make russia and vladimir putin in particular pay a high price for supporting the pro-russian rebels that shot that plane down. >> it doesn't have to come to this. it didn't have to come to this. it does not have to be this way. this is a choice that russia and president putin in particular has made. >> reporter: nothing in putin's behavior suggests that any of this will change his course. certainly nothing has changed it so far. but white house officials, diane, say these are the toughest actions taken by the united states and europe against russia so far. >> all right, jonathan karl reporting on it all from the white house tonight. thanks, jon. >>> and now, we move next to a dramatic

abc's chief white house correspondent jonathan karl has been talking to his sources all day. now from a rainy washington, here's jon. >> reporter: diane, this is an extraordinary move. the german government ordered the cia's station chief in germany to get out of the country, the kind of thing we almost never see with a close ally, but germany is outraged by what it considers u.s. spy games. last week german police arrested a german government employee accused of spying for the u.s. and just yesterday raided the apartment of a second alleged u.s. spy. this is especially embarrassing for president obama. if you remember when german chancellor angela merkel's phone calls were listened into by the u.s. it was revealed, the president personally promised that she would not have to worry about u.s. spying. the white house is saying almost nothing about this latest revelation. make no mistake about it, there is some serious damage control going on with u.s. officials and the government in germany. >> story getting bigger tonight. thank you so much jonathan karl. >>> now we turn to t

abc's chief white house correspondent jonathan karl. >> all: usa, usa. >> reporter: with anger over the border crisis at a boiling point -- >> we have to stand up and fight! >> reporter: -- the white house today asked congress for $3.7 billion to deal with the flood of unaccompanied children coming into the united states illegally. nearly half of the money would go to care for the children while they await deportation hearings, most of the rest for beefing up border security and hiring new judges and lawyers to process the cases. it's going to be a tough sell. republicans today accused the president of asking for a blank check. overall, more than 52,000 children have crossed the border alone illegally since october. the white house has refused to say how many of them have been deported. >> i don't have a specific number in front of me, jon. there are a couple of things. >> reporter: i've been asking this for a couple weeks. >> right. >> it's a pretty small number. >> i don't have the number in front of me, jon. >> reporter: president obama travels to texas tomorrow for political fund-ra

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jonathan karl, abc news, washington. >> and we thank you for watching.and i'll see you right back here again tomorrow night. until then, a good night. >> >>> tonight, protestors and the president, the fund raising trip and the teenager who shared a special moment with him. >> civil rights complaint against sjbe. >> a woman's frustration over pg&e response to a neighborhood emergency and what we found when going to investigate. >> a new stamp takes in consumers who don't even fall for it. 7 on your side is coming up. >> here is the president's motorcade. another quick runned raising trip for the president and another opportunity for discenters. good evening. >> we'll have more in just a moment. first a lawsuit has been filed against san jose police department by a man who claims he was beaten and detained. police show he grabbed him and forced him to the ground he was in san jose to give a key note speech to the graduation. wayne freedman is live with the story tonight. >> it's a formal conduct complaint. it happened here just weeks ago the department rec

here's abc's jonathan karl. >> reporter: a service member's best friend. >> oh!porter: and nowhere is the bond tighter than when they have been in battle together. sergeant jason voss and cici the chocolate lab spent a year together in iraq. >> this is my partner, my battle buddy. >> reporter: conducting nearly 100 missions, seeking out enemy explosions ives and weapons, keeping each other company. >> this is who i talk to every single day. so, that bond grew pretty quickly. >> reporter: when sergeant voss left the army, cici left behind. with help from the american humane society and mission canine rescue, they were reunited 18 months later. there have long been dogs of war. this photo is from world war ii, some 3,000 dogs have served in the u.s. military since 9/11. when they retire, they are put up for general adoption. but now there is a movement to reunite them with their battlemates. not just for the dog's sake -- >> we'll never label them as pets. we always call them our partners. >> reporter: staff sergeant james harrington was awarded the bronze star aft

here's abc's jonathan karl. >> reporter: with anger at the border at a boiling point, the white houseongress for $3.7 billion to deal with the flood of unaccompanied children coming into the united states illegally. nearly half of the money would go to care for the children. while they await deportation hearings. most of the rest for beefing up border security and hiring new judges and lawyers to process the cases. it's going to be a tough sell. republicans accuse the president of asking for a blank check. overall more than 52,000 children have crossed the border alone illegally since october. the white house has refused to say how many of them have been deported. >> i don't have a specific number in front of me, john. there are a couple of things -- >> i've asked this for a couple of weeks. >> i know. >> it's a pretty small number, right? not many are showing up for their hearings, right? >> i don't have the number in front of me. >> reporter: president obama travels to texas for political fund-raising in dallas and austin, but he will meet with texas governor rick perry. it may be a

i want to bring in abc's chief westinghouse correspondent jonathan karl. i want to take our viewers back to the images we saw, the explosions, the ground incursion under way. what is the white house saying if anything? >> reporter: they seem to be blind-sided by the israeli invasion. yesterday the president came into the white house briefing room and before the cameras said he was working with world leaders to get a cease-fire. just hours before the invasion, the spokesperson for the state department expressed optimism that the cease-fire would take hold. now, of course, you have an escalation, not a cease-fire, although it's important to say the white house has said over and over again that israel does have a right to defend itself. >> optimistic just today about a cease-fire. i wanted to get back to the plane. we heard the president today say he would support the investigation, but the white house also waiting for word tonight on whether there were americans on board? >> reporter: no indication of americans on board. vice-president biden today darkly war

i'm jonathan karl, filling in for charlie rose, who son assignment. we begin tonight with a look at the escalating crisis in the middle east. alexander marquardt joins us from gaza. >> there's a huge amount of outrage and you look at the death toll. the vast majority of people who have been killed are civilians, not militants, and a lot are women and children. so when you drive around the gaza strip and you see the houses that have been blown apart that have massive craters in them, people lost their livelihoods, they're not turning around and say we want hamas to stop firing rockets, they're saying, we want revenge, we want you to keep firing the rockets. >>urther consideration in the middle east with vice admiral bob harward and former acting director of the c.i.a. john mclaughlin. >> it's a more existential threat to neighboring countries far beyond the threats that afghanistan pose. i think it's much more significant. we have to go back and remember, our goals were to create a sovereign nation and government in iraq. we met those objectives. so th

jonathan karl, abc news, the white house. >> let's dig in. our chief global affairs correspondent martha raddatz. carol lee who wrote that piece from "the wall street journal." and richard haass and julia ioffe. welcome to you all. martha, you have been living this first hand. ping-ponging in all these crises spots. >> i was in iraq. then israel. i returned to the shootdown of the malaysian airliner. this is an astonishingly bad time for the world. i mean, we can't say enough. you heard jonathan say that. places on the the map that airplane can't fly. you have an administration trying to deal with them all. i think one of the things you have to do is go back and look to see where they were focused over these past few years. john kerry was focused on israel and look at it today. >> look at it today. >> we herd the former chief say it's difficult to deal with two, three, four crises at the same time. are secretary kerry and john mccain correct when they say the world is in greater turmoil than any time before? >> any time is a big phrase. the b

the possible repercussions that can flow from this beyond the tragic loss of life. >> reporter: jonathan karlnews, the white house. >> that iranian flight that jon karl spoke about was a key moment, they say, during the cold war. the ronald reagan administration allowed worldwide access to its gps system. it's called gnss. and they found it important to allow access to it. >> the u.s. has never admitted responsibility for that or apologized for that incident. >> we'll be right back. >>> stay with us. d. big plans. so when i found out medicare doesn't pay all my medical expenses, i looked at my options. then i got a medicare supplement insurance plan. [ male announcer ] if you're eligible for medicare, you may know it only covers about 80% of your part b medical expenses. the rest is up to you. call now and find out about an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan, insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company. like all standardized medicare supplement insurance plans, it helps pick up some of what medicare doesn't pay. and could save you in out-of-pocket medical costs. to me, relationships ma

so there was abc's jonathan karl just the other day turning to dick cheney and asking, "what would you do in iraq?" there wasn't a bit of irony in his voice or in his eyes. >> well, it's an abomination. there's a moral problem here. they're not telling the full truth. and they're presenting themselves, the media, a false image. but i know, as a veteran from the networks, actually, i know exactly what that dynamic is. and you are rewarded for the gets you have. the people you -- big names that -- >> the interview you get. yeah, the -- >> right. and if you rip them to shreds, guess what, they're not going to come on your show. i've noticed that, as mike wallace's producer. >> you've lived in washington how long now? >> boy, wow, it's really scary. 40 years. >> so what did you learn in doing this book over the last nine years that you didn't know? >> well, it's possible i was in danger of becoming cynical before. but i have to say the extent of the lies. i actually didn't realize the pervasiveness. i just thought that occasionally some turkey would lie. i mean -- and but the -- it was the

i'm jonathan karl, filling in for charlie rose, who son assignment.begin tonight with a look at the escalating crisis in the middle east. alexander marquardt joins us from gaza. >> there's a huge amount of outrage and you look at the death toll. the vast majority of people who have been killed are civilians, not militants, and a lot are women and children. so when you drive around the gaza strip and you see the houses that have been blown apart that have massive craters in them, people lost their livelihoods, they're not turning around and say we want hamas to stop firing rockets, they're saying, we want revenge, we want you to keep firing the rockets. >>urther consideration in the middle east with vice admiral bob harward and former acting director of the c.i.a. john mclaughlin. >> it's a more existential threat to neighboring

. >> thank you so much, jonathan karl. >>> overseas now to the rockets raining down on israel today. as israel tried to shoot them out of the sky. all part of a tinder box israelis and palestinians and here an israeli family trying to salvage what they can. one woman standing speechless among the ruins. abc's alex marquardt is in the middle of it all. >> reporter: running in terror as sirens wail. incoming rockets today over israel's biggest cities, the most brazen and provocative attacks yet by palestinian militants. over tel aviv, an interceptor fired by the famous iron dome anti-missile system knocking a rocket out of the sky. so far an estimated 150 rockets flew into israel today, targeting more than ten cities. israeli forces have streamed toward the gaza strip, preparing for a possible ground invasion, the government authorizing the call-up of 40,000 reserve troops. israeli warplanes already in the sky, saying they're stricking rocket launchers and hamas militants. in gaza we saw it up close, children scattering as missles land. as we get closer, a frenzy. an ambulance pulling

abc's chief white house correspondent jonathan karl in washington tonight. and jon, i wanted to take everyone home back to that image, those marines at the ready, word of f-16s in the air, but out of sight, as they evacuated the embassy in tripoli. jon, is this a sign of the post-benghazi era, the swift action, given the increasing danger? >> reporter: it sure is, david. the watch phrase is, no more benghazis. they don't want another situation like that. and when you think about it, this is one of the most heavily fortified u.s. embassies in the world, protected by a large contingent of marines. so, it tells you something about the security situation there, and the level of chaos that they ordered this full-blown evacuation. and you saw that image, of those ospreys waiting in italy to take part in this evacuation. the extraordinary security measures that were taken to ensure that convoy was protected, as it left libya. now, david, the official line is that the embassy will eventually reopen, that this is a temporary measure. but i talked to a lot of people a

let's turn right now to abc's chief white house correspondent jonathan karl tonight. >> reporter: if confirmed, it's not the first time a commercial airliner has been caught in the crossfire of a conflict, killing hundreds of innocent civilians. it's not the first time the white house has had to deal with the consequences. >> it looks like it may be a terrible tragedy. >> reporter: on july 3, 1988 a missile fired from a u.s. navy ship brought down an iranian airliner with 290 people on board as it flew over the persian gulf. the uss vincennes has been exchanging gunfire that day and mistakenly took the airbus for an iran be fighter jet. five years before that in september of 1983, a russian jet fighter shot down a korean plane with 269 passengers on board, the plane, a boeing 747, had excellently strayed into then soviet air space. one of the passengers was a u.s. congressman. the soviet government first denied involvement and later claimed the plane was spying on them. >> the similarities are very strong. in both of those cases there had been something else going on in the area the

. >>> good morning, i'm jonathan karl. george is off. martha will be along in a bit. it's an extraordinary move the president rarely makes. completely shutting down a u.s. embassy and rushing the americans inside to safety. that call was made in south vietnam at the end of the war. in somalia. nearly two years before blackhawk down. and just hours ago, president obama did it again. ordering the evacuation of the embassy in libya, with a dangerous and daring military operation to evacuate americans on the ground. abc's chief foreign correspondent terry moran is tracking all the breaking details. good morning, terry. >> reporter: good morning, jon. what an extraordinary episode this was. another sign of the turmoil out of control across the middle east. libya is a nation driven by rival gangs. the fighting so fierce in recent days and weeks that the decision was made to evacuate the embassy. as chaos and fighting increased, in tripoli, ambassador deborah jones and her staffers were spirited out of the compound. nearly 150 people, about half of them marines. a convoy of

jonathan karl has more from washington. >> with anger over the border crisis at boiling point. >> weave to stand up and fight. >> the white house today asked congress for 3.7 billion dollars to deal with the flood of unaccompanied children coming in the united states illegally. nearly half of the money would good to care for the children while they await deportation hearings. most of the rest for beefing up border security and hiring new judges and lawyers to process the cases. it's going to be a tough z.republicans accused the president of asking for a blank check. over all more than 5 52 crossed the border alone since october. white house has refused to say how many of them have been deported. >> i don't have a specific number in front of me john. couple things. pretty small number right. not many are showing up at the hearings. >> i don't have the number in front of me john. >> president obama travels to texas tomorrow for political fundraising in dallas and austin but also meet with texas governor rick perry. it may a tense conversation. perry has blamed the president for the cri

let's go to washington and abc's chief white house correspondent, jonathan karl, hosting "this week" later this morning. jon, good morning to you. the obama administration has been scrambling to resolve this crisis, thus far, really to no avail, despite the 24-hour extension this morning. are they starting to feel helpless at the white house? >> maybe not starting, dan. this has been -- this has been a process here. the administration, of course, had worked hard to get a peace deal between the palestinians and israelis. all for naught. very low expectations on this. i mean, consider this. the united states doesn't have any diplomatic relations, any diplomatic contact with hamas. has to go through third parties. it's hard to be an influential player when you can only talk to one side. >> let me ask you about the other story. we reported on the evacuation of the american embassy in tripoli. how much of this is motivated by the lingering trauma of what happened in benghazi, when we lost americans when our diplomatic outpost there was attacked? >> a lot of it, dan. the thing for the whit

abc news white house correspondent jonathan karl has been leading the way, putting the obama administration see, the situation with terrorist group taking over bath territory. you see russian crew rainy. see concerns about chinese aggression in the south china sea. it doesn't seem like a time to be touting tranquility on the international scene. did you think the president's foreign policy bears any responsibility for any of this or is there is anything that he can do about any of this? >> i think what the president has been really clear about is that he will allow one core principle to guide his thinking about what we can can do to advance u.s. interest in each of these hot spots that you have mentioned and that's the national security interest of the united states of america. >> that's gobblably gook that statement means nothing joining us from washington rick klein political director for abc news. millions of americans believe all the networks, cnn, nbc, were very soft on president obama until recently. do you see it that way? >> i think there has been accountability throughout. i do thi

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let's bring in correspondent jonathan karl from the white house.esident will give an update in the investigation what what happened with the downing of flight mh 17 and the diplomacy following it. the white house has not directly pointed the finger at russia in terms of blane for that. but it's come very close saying there's a welt much evidence lewding satellite imagery, also video, of a missile launcher, leaving that area, with one of its missiles missing, and the president himself has made it clear that that is a sophisticated system that would require russian training. in other words, there is a lot of circumstantial evidence that the russians were at the very least complicit what happened. i expect the president will look to the united nations security council which is meeting later this afternoon to talk about the need to keep that crash sight secure for investigators. the administration is deeply concerned. there is tampering with the evidence. now, you see the president making the walk from the oval office out to the south lawn. we'll be he

offering to talkwith rick perry about the influx of children crossing the border according to abc's jonathan karl. on thatkeep you posted story as well. thursday, the homeland security secretary jeh johnson and the health and human services secretary will be on capitol hill talking about the administration's new initiative, their request for more funding and the situation at the border. the appropriations committee will be live on c-span three at 2:30 eastern. to thelance threats cyber security internet freedom and the economy were the topic of a discussion at the new america foundation yesterday. they heard from an attorney working at google and a policy analyst and internet security technologies professionals. this is just about two hours. >> we will go ahead and get started. hi. welcome to new america, a nonprofit civic enterprise dedicated to preserving foundational american values in a time of rapid technological change. i am the policy director of the open technology institute, the tech policy and development wing . we are focused on building a stronger and more open internet for a stronger

abc's chief white house correspondent, jonathan karl, has the latest.ood morning, jon. >> reporter: good morning, george. these are sanctions designed to inflict some real economic pain on russia. they hit two of the largest russian energy company, two of the largest russian banks and it comes just as russia has amassed some 12,000 troops on the border with ukraine and the white house is worried that there could be further problems in that country. the russians are saying putin himself saying this is actually going to hurt the u.s. economy. exxon mobil has deals with one of these big energy companies and the kremlin has denounced these sanctions as, quote, a primitive attempt to take vengeance for the fact that events in ukraine are not going according to the washington script. >> he's taking a broadside against president obama's foreign policy. >>> going to switch gears now to politics. new jersey governor, chris christie, putting his toe back in the presidential waters heading to iowa after that traffic scandal. no official announcement, but he's got

karl rove is trying to -- >> you know, you know at the same time, jess, let me just break if here, jonathan. because at the same time, jess, republicans seem to have it both ways. they are saying that impeachment is still valid. but it won't happen. listen to this, jess -- >> there might be a ton of proof there to say, hey, he might qualify for impeachment. democratic strategy, like drawing up faux fear in terms of an impeachment call when this is just a call to hold the president accountable. >> people make the case for it, but have you -- >> you can absolutely make a case. >> have you heard anyone in power in washington, anyone, privately, publicly, actually make that case? >> no. >> but no one is calling for -- sarah palin brought it up. i agree on the legal side that there's merit. but politically, no one supports it. because it would back fire and boomerang. >> i mean, aren't they trying to have it both ways, jess? >> yes. and they are doing a poor job of it. jonathan's absolutely right. there are already top tier senate candidates, joey earnest in iowa, who seem open to the idea of im