Transcripts For KGO Good Morning America 20240714 : vimarsan

Transcripts For KGO Good Morning America 20240714

Caught on camera. The tourist attraction crumbling, sending an oil tanker crashing onto boats below trapping people on board. The air force, army and navy racing to rescue survivors. Summer scorcher in october. Temperatures topping 90 degrees for millions of americans, closing schools, as the center of the country faces a flash flooding threat, highwater rescues overnight and our live demo, how to escape a trapped car. The airport vehicle out of control on the runway getting dangerously close to a plane and the hero tarmac worker who stopped it just in time. And ballroom bombshell. The nfl star dropping out stunning fans. 9 to 5 and the office star quickstepping her way right to the top of the leaderboard. Good morning, america. Perfect song working 9 to 5 and its great to have you with us on this tuesday morning. And it was a big night at the ballroom. Ray lewis. I know. Who could have seen this coming, that surprising exit after an injury. All the details coming up later. The impeachment net is getting wider. Secretary of state mike pompeo was on that president s phone call with ukraine. The house has given him a friday deadline to turn over documents. The president s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, is facing a new subpoena and impeachment inquiry and attorney general william barr has traveled overseas to ask foreign governments about the investigation and all this as President Trump is targeting his accusers hoping to reveal the whistleblowers identity. Our senior Congressional Correspondent mary bruce starts us off. Good morning, mary. Reporter good morning, robin. This impeachment inquiry has only been under way for a week but swiftly gaining momentum and rests closest allies and new questions about whether the president hey have used his office for political gain. This morning, the pressure is heating up on President Trumps inner circle. Abc news has learned that trumps secretary of state, mike pompeo, was listening in on that july phone call between trump and the ukrainian president. The call at the center of the impeachment inquiry. The revelation comes after pompeo told our Martha Raddatz he didnt know about the whistleblower report of that call. And i want to turn to this whistleblower complaint, mr. Secretary. The complaint involving the president and a phone call with the foreign leader to the director of National Intelligence inspector general. What do you know about those conversations . So, you just gave me a report about a whistleblower complaint, none of which ive seen. Reporter congressional investigators have already subpoenaed pompeo for documents amid questions about the state departments role and whether the agency gave instructions to the president s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani. To the best of my knowledge and from what ive seen so far, each of the actions that were undertaken by state Department Officials was entirely appropriate. Reporter democrats also issuing a subpoena monday to giuliani seeking documents about his efforts to push ukraine to investigate trumps political rivals. Overnight, giuliani not sure if hell comply. I dont know. Im weighing the alternatives. Ill kind of like go through it. Ill get all my evidence together, get my charts. Reporter while the impeachment inquiry is squarely focused on trumps call to the president of ukraine, this morning, there are new questions about whether the president is using his office for personal political gain in other instances too. Abc news confirming the president recently asked the australian Prime Minister to help his attorney general bill barr dig into the origins of the Mueller Investigation which trump has long claimed was a political hit job. A theory widely debunked by the u. S. Intelligence community. In a statement the white house said the doj simply requested that the president provide introductions to facility state that ongoing inquiry and he did so, thats all. And weve learned barr himself was in italy just last week meeting with senior officials there. That trip also part of the justice departments Ongoing Investigation of the Mueller Probe. Democrats are not happy about it. The attorney general really is functioning more as the president s personal attorney than as the chief Law Enforcement officer of the United States. Reporter now, as democrats ramp up their investigation, the president is ramping up his attacks against the whistleblower. Trump says he deserves to meet his accuser but the whistleblowers Attorney Says that his client is entitled to anonymity and that retaliating against this person would be a violation of federal law. George. Okay, mary, thanks. Public opinion is key to any impeachment showdown and new polls indicate an increase in support for impeachment. In the first full poll since Speaker Pelosi announced a formal investigation, quinnipiac shows a 10 gain in removing the president from the office. The public split down the middle. A majority 52 support supporting the impeachment inquiry. Mary said targeting the whistleblower. Were trying to find out about a whistleblower. When you have a whistleblower that reports things that were incorrect as you know anyouve probably now have figured it out, the statement i made to the president of ukraine, a good man, a nice man, knew, was perfect and its a disgrace. This whole thing is a disgrace. Theres been tremendous corruption. So lets analyze all this with our chief White House Correspondent jon karl and chief legal analyst dan abrams and jon, in the intro right there, the president is front and center on this. He is his defense team. Reporter its clear, george, that the president is directing the response to all of this himself. Both through his tweeting, some 30 tweets over the weekend, but in tmsf is attack the whistleblower, it has been relentless. Of course, it is started by suggesting that the whistleblower or those who talked to the whistleblower are essentially spies and the punishment for spying used to be death and now demanding to know to out the whistleblower. His own aides have called the whistleblower part of a deep state conspiracy. George, this could well be a violation of federal whistleblower Protection Laws and is also the kind of thing that could end up being one of the articles of impeachment against the president intimidating the whistleblower. The more he tries to target him. Lets bring in dan abrams for more on this right now. We just saw Rudy Giuliani get a subpoena as well, of course, hes the president s personal attorney. He says hes deliberating whether or not hes going to comply with the subpoena but does he really have a choice . No. I mean, his arguments are likely to be very weak. First of all, to get Attorney Client privilege you have to be serving as the attorney. So, Rudy Giuliani has said i wasnt acting as a lawyer. I was acting as a straight and out if thats the case, theres no Attorney Client, period. He could argue, you know what, there are instances where i was acting as his attorney, okay. Fair enough, youve got a problem, a, that congress can typically compel even Attorney Client protected privilege, b, youve got the possibility of whats called waiver, meaning, when hes out there talking about it publicly, there is no more Attorney Client privilege. The whole point of the Attorney Client privilege is to say, we can have a private conversation. We can talk about these things. If Rudy Giuliani has been out talking about those conversations, that would also be if he doesnt comply that could become an article of impeachment. Meantime, we have this extraordinary situation where the attorney general is out traveling overseas trying to enlist foreign nations in this investigation of the russia investigation. Right, and what we thought was happening was that this respected former federal prosecutor john durham was doing his own investigation and the sense was, all right, theres a level of independence to this. Its being handed off to durham, hes going to be investigated. If barr himself is o actually interviewing witnesses and talking to people, then durham isnt really doing the investigation. Barrs doing the investigation. Thats certainly running the risk of giving the impression that this is an investigation for the president to retaliate against Robert Mueller as opposed to an independent one. Meantime, jon, any sense the white house is developing a more comprehensive coordinated strategy . Reporter it doesnt really look that way, george. In fact, one indicator of this, as late as yesterday, White House Legal Team was still trying to get a definitive answer as to whether or not secretary of state mike pompeo was on the president s call with president zelensky of ukraine. Of course, it turns out he was but they didnt know that for sure until yesterday. And, of course, he could have just told them. Jon karl, dan abrams, thanks very much. We go overseas to the showdown on the streets of hong kong. Some of the biggest prodemocracy protests yet are spreading through the city and new reports this morning one of the protesters was shot. Ian pannell is live on the scene with the latest. Good morning, ian. Reporter yeah, good morning, michael. Because of the violence on the national holiday, things are much quieter. Today, we saw largescale protests that lapsed into violence. The police came out in force. They were firing rubber bullets and teargas. Some of the crowd responded with molotov cocktails and also bricks. In one particular incident, police have confirmed a young man, 18yearold, was shot at close range. The officer said he feared for his life. Many protesters there will dispute that. The protests coincided with the 70th anniversary of the founding of beijing. Weve seen tanks, fighter jets and missiles which apparently can avoid u. S. Defenses and president xi wanted it to be a show of case of chinese power and protesters wanted to divert attention here of whats happening here and in some sense they succeeded. That terrifying bridge collapse in taiwan. Take a look at this video showing the moment that bridge crumbles. Sending an oil tanker slamming into boats below. Lama hasan has more details. Good morning, lama. Reporter and good morning to you, robin. Yes, exactly. That frightening moment caught on camera showing the 60foot steel arch bridge collapsing and crashing onto the boats below in the water trapping people on board. A terrifying bridge collapse, watch as this Oil Tanker Truck makes its way across the bridge when it suddenly gives way. Sending the truck plunging onto two boats below leaving six people trapped in the rubble and sending more than a dozen more into the water. Rescue workers leapt into action scouring the wreckage for victims. Rushing at least ten people to the hospital. Six of them with serious injuries. Officials dont yet know the cause of the collapse, but hours earlier, this crowded seaport on the north end of the island was rocked by a typhoon. Well, its not clear if the typhoon which brought strong winds and rain weakened the bridge which was built in 1998, but in previous years maintenance consultants had found that some of the cables had rusted and parts of the bridge had been damaged which, george, of course, investigators will now be taking a look at. That was such a scary moment. Thanks very much. Were going to move on now to that rough weather hitting the center of the country. The system that dumped that september snow on montana is moving east bringing heavy rain and flash floods to the midwest and ginger has the latest. Good morning, ginger. Good morning, george. Weve already seen the front squeeze out too much water too fast. Look at these images from duluth, minnesota, 5 1 2 inches of rain. People being pulled out. Their cars underwater and now weve got more of this to look for. This river near duluth is close to its highest levels. So were going be watching that. Watch all the states included, michigan back through wisconsin to new mexico, which today going to see the impacts from the flash flood threat. That low pressure system squeezing the deep tropical moisture thats riding along the ridge giving so many folks record highs could produce more than 4 inches of rain, george. Thanks very much. And coming up in our next hour, we have a live demonstration showing what to do if your car ever gets trapped in a flash flood. Michael. Now to a u. S. Citizen facing charges accused of being a covert agent passing classified information to china. Prosecutors say they have video of him conducting dead drops which is the kind of thing you see in spy movies. Chief justice correspondent Pierre Thomas has the details. Reporter this morning, an american citizen is in custody accused of being a covert agent for the chinese. The fbi says 56yearold edward peng living in california has been using secret dead drop locations to collect classified National Security information for delivery to his bosses in beijing. The charges unsealed today provide a rare glimpse into the efforts of the prc to obtain classified National Security information of the United States. Reporter one of those dead drop locations investigators say is this Georgia Hotel room captured by the fbis super secret surveillance cameras. What peng doesnt know according to authorities is that hes been set up by a double agent working for the u. S. Government. Watch closely, the fbi says peng is taping a white envelope containing a 20,000 payoff in the top drawer of that tv stand. The double agent would remove, would retrieve the key, retrieve the cash and tape the sd card to the same place where the money had been left. Reporter peng later returns to pick up the sd card containing classified information for delivery, authorities say, to beijing. According to the charges peng has been working for the Chinese Government since at least 2015. If convicted, he faces up to 10 years in prison. Michael. All right, thank you so much, pierre. Robin. Now to an important day in court for the former Dallas Police officer who shot and killed her neighbor saying she mistakenly entered the wrong apartment. Jury deliberations are now under way. Marcus moore has the latest from dallas. That defendant making unreasonable decisions that put her in that seat. Reporter this morning, the fate of amber guyger hanging in the balance as 12 jurors in the back room wrestle with a monumental decision. He is shot dead in his own home by her. Reporter at times on the stand the 31yearold overwhelmed with emotion recalling what transpired more than a year ago. I wish he was the one with the gun and killed me. I never wanted to take an innocent persons life. Reporter this dramatic body camera capturing the moments after guyger claims she mistakenly walked into botham jeans apartment shooting and killing the 26yearold claiming she feared for her life. He was yelling, hey, hey, hey and i yelled at him, let me see your hands. Let me see your hands. None of them heard you say that. I cant tell you why. Its because you didnt say it. Did you properly perform cpr on mr. Jean . No, i did not. You could have, right . I tried to do a little cpr. Reporter the defense arguing guyger had a split second to react like any reasonable person would, but her decision ended tragically. Her attorney urging jurors to remove emotion from their lifechanging decision. You dont as the jurors in this case decide the case on emotion and sympathy. You can hate her but you cant convict her because thats no evidence as to the decisions that were made in that apartment. Reporter and the defense has cited the castle doctrine, which is a Legal Protection for selfdefense inside your home but prosecutors say it does not apply in this case. That amber guyger was the intruder who walked into botham jeans apartment. Guys. All right, marcus, thanks so much. Were going to turn to that wild scene at ohare airport. Take a look at this. This is a Service Vehicle delivering beverages to an American Airlines plane but it went completely haywire started spinning in circles without a driver behind the wheel. Well, the coworkers, theyre sitting there trying to figure it out. Not sure how to stop it closing in on the jet when someone finally drives and comes in and knocks it on its side. There we go. Yes. A spokesman for American Airlines say they think the accelerator was something fell on the accelerator on the car and it just went out and kept spinning. I would not drink any carbonated beverages on that flight. [ laughter ] thats true. Good point. Following a lot of other stories this morning, including a major game changer for college sports. And as 11 states face a flooding threat our live demo. How to get out of a car trapped in raging water. Matt gutman is going to show us that, ginger, a little later. I have no way for you to get out of the heat. Dallas now we know had their hottest september on record, that big ridge in place again today. We saw dozens of record highs broken from huntsville and birmingham and look at the numbers today, feels like 100 from memphis to jackson, and we could break records tomorrow as it slides east, philadelphia going to 93. Columbia at 95. Even atlanta could do another record at 94. Your local weather in 30 seconds. First the tuesday trivia sponsored by carmax. October 1st, rabbit, rabbit, also the start of Breast Cancer Awareness Month and gma is going to go pink in our 8 00 hour so be back for that. Hour so be back for that. You name it. The ford f150 will tow up to 13,200 pounds of it. 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