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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 about all the people out there who dont have a circle of friends and followers who come right to...

Gasparino on all of that and joining us to take measure of this. bottom line, abc sort of jumped the gun and a lot of people jumped the gun based on what abc was reporting. its a big difference, is it not? >> oh, yeah, that tape was good, baher was so tacky. neil: rooting for a constitutional crisis. you can remember how the markets erupted over the possibility of bill clinton getting kicked out of office. they were all about the green and maintaining it. you could see how this affected the mark...

Empanelled to work on this one case, thatould be a huge deal. it does not seem like a new federal grand jury has been empanelled. it seem like the same grand jury that was there all along. the real new development here, and credit to abc for getting the scoop. the new thing here is that the grand jury, sitting in newark, already looking into this matter, that grand jury has moved on to a new phase of the investigation where theyre hearing testimony. witnesses are being compelled to testify befor...

January on the matter. he said the matter was over and he was relieved to put it behind him. and the governor, this time last week, launched a media charm offensive, doing the multipart softball interview on the fox news channel and appearing on abcs "world news" this diane sawyer. this time last week. a very well staged, managed, lets put this all behind us tour. with abcs flag ship news show playing a key role. today, late-breaking news in the scandal broken in all places rks abc news. this is...

Witness is a witness, no more than that. >> in terms of the new reporting today, it does seem like it was a scoop by abc who physically was at the courthouse and saw mr. druniak. i dont mean to speculate on the way they reported this out. it feels like thats how they figured out that michael druniak was there. we have heard nothing from the u.s. attorneys office in terms of the progress of the investigation or the fact that they were interviewing witnesses. you to think its possible that other p...

>> i have no information about that. as i said, were here because we were subpoenaed to be here today. were here because we were required to cooperate. >> does mike have any information? >> im not going to comment about anything with respect to that. were here. were here to answer questions. thats what michael did today. >> that is michael druniak at the end, the big bald guy at the end of your screen. hes this famously pugnacious, aggressive spokesman. hes famous for swearing at people and scre...

For the george washington bridge backup. the tone insists chris tees press secretary is a witness and not the target of any investigation. >> 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 a preliminary inquiry had been started. we had no idea that the inquiry had gone so far that they were subpoenaing members of the christie administration to testify underoath. abc appears to have ...

The grand jury is evidence that the u.s. attorneys investigation has progressed beyond an inquiry and moved to the criminal phase. im not sure that is true. im not trying to take away from the scoop here. the way they phrased it and what theyre implying may not be true. we knew a federal grand jury was involved already. because of the subpoenas. the u.s. attorney has to get a grand jury to do that. that is not news. what abc is implying in its reporting tonight is that a new grand jury has been ...

Im not sure that is true. not trying to take away from abcs scoop here, but i think the way they have phrased this and what they may be implying here may not actually be true. we knew that a federal grand jury was involved in the bridge-gate investigation already. we knew that because people had been subpoenaed to submit documents to the u.s. attorney and when a u.s. attorney wants to send out a subpoena, he has to get a grand jury to do that. so we knew there were subpoenas and that means we kn...