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Things are going. >> have you looked at the news because now things are worse. >> not on the real news. >> please. >> after that, roseanne revival debuteded in march and those ratings have declined since then, the president celebrated roseanne barr has a kindred spirit. >> look the an roseanne. i called her yesterday. look at her ratings. look at her ratings. >> they were unbelievable. over 18 million people. and it was about us. >> with me now to discuss all this my colleague and co-host for to...

Along issuing subpoenas and looking at evidence. the new development here, the real new development here, credit to abc for getting the scoop, the new thing here is that the grand jury sitting in newark that was already looking into this matter, that grand jury has moved on to a new phase of the investigation in which they are hearing testimony. witnesses are being compelled to testify before them. we do not know if michael druniak, the governors spokesman was the first witness who had to testif...

>> does mike have any information about governor christies personal knowledge or direct role -- >> im not going to comment about anything with respect to that. were here, were here to answer questions and thats what michael did today. >> that is michael drewniak at the end, the big bald guy on the left side of your screen. hes this famously pugnacious aggressive spokesman for chris christie. hes famous for swearing at people and screaming at people. kind of amazing just to see him standing there...

Charm offensive doing the requisite multipart and appeared on abcs "world news with diane sawyer." that was this time last week. governor christie setting off on a well staged managed lets put this all behind us tour with abcs flagship news show playing a key role in that. but now today, new late breaking news in the scandal broken of all places on abc news. this is how it was reported on wabc here in new york city. watch this. >> a new development tonight in the bridge-gate scandal in new jerse...

Insists drewniak is just a witness and not the target of any investigation. >> abc breaking the news tonight that a federal grand jury has now begun hearing testimony from witnesses in the new jersey bridge scandal. this is the first time that has ever been reported. we knew that at least a preliminary inquiry had been started by federal prosecutors, but before this late breaking news tonight, we had no idea the inquiry had gone so far that they were subpoenaing members of the christie administr...

Do it? is this something where youre legally compelled? >> they have a choice in the sense that somebody can take the fifth amendment. it appears here he is not. i think what were seeing, guessing lots of speculation, the feds arent going to say a single word about whats going on inside the federal grand jury investigation. with respect to this witness status, what his attorney says makes a certain amount of sense. hes there as a witness. otherwise, frankly, he wouldnt be there. and the corollar...

Abc blew it. turns out they werent actually quoting white house e-mails at all. yesterday cnn was first to publish what looked like a very different account of what abc said happened with the talking points, stamped at the same time, same date, same white house adviser quoted as the author but what they quoted looked to be different from what abc published. heres what they say said it said. quote, we need to resolve this in a way that respects all of the relevant equities, particularly the inves...

Abc blew it. turns out they werent actually quoting white house e-mails at all. yesterday cnn was first to publish what looked like a very different account of what abc happened with the talking points, stamped at the same time, same date, same white house adviser quoted as the author but what they quoted looked to be different from what abc published. quote, we need to resolve this in a way that respects all of the relevant equities, particularly the investigation. no mention of the state depar...

Them and made it a mainstream story, that abc article turns out was totally wrong. abc blew it. turns out they werent actually quoting white house e-mails at all. yesterday cnn was first to publish what looked like a very different account of what abc happened with the talking points, stamped at the same time, same date, same white house adviser quoted as the author but what they quoted looked to be different from what abc published. quote, we need to resolve this in a way that respects all of t...

Apologized but the blowback was swift. her agent dropped her as a client and abcs president channing dungey deemed barrs comments abhorrent, repugnant and ininconsistent with our values. by late this afternoon, abc remove all mentions of her from its website. as for valerie jarrett, she had been scheduled in advance to appear in tonights town hall before barrs tweet. heres how she responds to the attack. >> first of all, i think we have to turn it into a teaching moment. im fine. im worried abou...