This Week’ Transcript 5-7-2017: Speaker Paul Ryan and Sen. Susan Collins
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT FOR 'THIS WEEK' on May 7, 2017 and it will be updated. ANNOUNCER: Starting right now on THIS WEEK with George Stephanopoulos.
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Trump Advisor Gorka Tells Jewish Crowd He’s Under Attack Because He’s Pro-Israel
White House aide Sebastian Gorka- caught sporting the medal of a Nazi-tied fraternal organization-told a conference of th Jerusalem Post that the media has attacked him and President Donald Trump because of their unwavering support for the Jewish State. In an onstage interview with editor-in-chief Yaakov Katz at the Marriot Marquis in Manhattan, the Hungarian-American deputy assistant to the president admitted he had often worn the badge that the Vitezi Rend , an ultra-nationalist anti-Semitic order known to have collaborated with the German occupiers during World War II, had bestowed upon his father in 1979.
Q&A: Trumpa s new travel ban faces key test in Virginia-based appeals court
President Donald Trump's revised travel ban targeting six Muslim-majority countries is about to be scrutinized by a federal appeals court for the first time.
Price defends cutting nearly $1 trillion from Medicaid
Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, after the House pushed through a health care bill. BRANCHBURG, N.J.>> Cutting nearly $1 trillion from Medicaid will give states the freedom to tailor the program to suit their needs, Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price said Sunday, as he defended a narrowly passed House bill that aims to undo parts of the health care law enacted by the previous administration.
Los Angeles City Council Wants to Impeach Trumpa Yet Can’t Fix Their Own Busted Roads
Los Angeles is a gigantic city that 4 million inhabitants call home. With that many people living in such close proximity to one another, it can have its share of problems.
82 freed Chibok schoolgirls arrive in capital
San Diego police have shot and killed a 15-year-old boy they say pulled a gun on them in a high school parking lot. President Donald Trump's revised travel ban targeting six Muslim-majority countries is about to be scrutinized by a federal appeals court for the first time.
ADB hoping US will keep support for regional lender, growth
The head of the Asian Development Bank says he is hoping the U.S. will step up and support the regional lender despite President Donald Trump's avowed preference for bilateral cooperation. ADB President Takehiko Nakao said Sunday that it "isn't really good" that the second largest shareholder in the development bank is lacking a permanent appointee to the U.S. executive directorship.
Some pastors praise Trump order, others worry over integrity
Central Presbyterian Church Pastor Wallace Bubar stands for a photo in his church in Des Moines, Iowa, on Friday, May 5, 2017. Bubar described President Donald Trump's Thursday, May 4, 2017 executive order as "pandering to the religious right."
The news media are losing their search for truth
To someone who has spent most of his career in the news business, it's distressing to confront the current state of the media. Rather than a source of information and varied opinion, the media increasingly act not so such as disseminators of information but as a privileged and separate caste, determined to shape opinion to a certain set of conclusions.
Trump tells the truth – the job is hard
President Donald Trump talks with House Speaker Paul Ryan in the Rose Garden of the White House Thursday after the House pushed through a health care bill. House Majority Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana is at left, and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Kevin Brady, R-Texas, is at right.
As Afghan stalemate grinds on, Trump mulls additional troops
Afghan soldiers are suffering what Pentagon auditors call "shockingly high" battlefield casualties, and prospects are narrowing for a negotiated peace settlement with the Taliban. The insurgents may have failed to capture and hold a major city, but they are controlling or influencing ever more territory.
France’s vote ripples across Europe, markets, diplomacy
Greenpeace activists display a banner at the Eiffel tower reads,"liberty, equality, fraternity" in Paris, France, Friday, May 5, 2017. The protest is against far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen two days before the runoff.
Even CNN Criticized Democrats’ Jeering of Republicans after ObamaCare Repeal Vote
Earlier in the day, the House of Representatives voted on the American Health Care Act . The bill still has to go through the Senate, where it will surely see changes, and therefore go back to the House, before going back to the Senate and then to the Oval Office where President Donald Trump would sign it.
Continue reading Crumbling roads and bridges bring higher taxes, fees
For the first time in nearly 30 years, Tennessee will soon tax motorists more to fill their tanks. So will California, Indiana and Montana.
Trump Weighing 95 Percent Cut to Drug Office, Chief Warns
The Trump administration is weighing a cut of almost 95 percent of the budget for the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy at a time the president has pledged to aggressively combat opioid addiction, according to an internal memo. The office, which coordinates much of U.S. drug strategy, including responses to trafficking, could see several grant programs for drug prevention discontinued under the proposal, which was decried by prevention advocates and members of Congress from both parties when it was reported on Friday.
Sanders defends Trump’s praise of Australian healthcare system
U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders said on Saturday that President Donald Trump was right to call Australia's universal healthcare system better than the U.S. system. Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist who ran for the Democratic presidential nomination last year, also said the Senate should use the Australian system as a model while crafting an alternative to Republican healthcare legislation that Trump endorses.
As GOP Health Care Push Moves To Senate, White House Questions Value of CBO Analysis
President Donald Trump celebrates with House Speaker Paul Ryan in the White House Rose Garden Thursday after the House voted to pass the American Health Care Act. After the GOP-controlled House passed a Republican-drafted health care bill Thursday without waiting for an analysis of the bill's costs and impacts by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, the White House is signaling that Washington's official legislative scorekeeper could be its next political foil.
The President Donald Trump Wants Corporate Tax Rate of 15%
The plan also called for almost doubling the personal exemption for individuals but eliminating deductions for state and local taxes . Republican lawmakers will be open-minded, but "they're going to likely start off from a skeptical point of view", said David Winston, a GOP consultant who has advised congressional leaders.
Conrad Hilton arrested for alleged car theft in Los Angeles
Paris Hilton's younger brother, Conrad Hilton, has been arrested in Los Angeles for allegedly stealing a car and violating an ex-girlfriend's restraining order. Paris Hilton's younger brother, Conrad Hilton, has been arrested in Los Angeles for allegedly stealing a car and violating an ex-girlfriend's restraining order.
The ‘breathtaking hypocrisy’ and ‘horrors’ of Trumpcare, spelled out in a New York Times editorial
Trumpcare is an utter disaster. You know that. The American people know that. Even Republicans in Congress know that.