Transcripts For KGO Good Morning America 20170626 : vimarsan

First time. I thought he was guilty. But you didnt always feel that way. No. What changed his mind . Inside those grueling 52 hours of deliberation and the one thing they vowed thought to talk about. Only on gma. Im on my way and the sweetest swing. Jordan spieth defying the odds with this sudden death 60foot shot. The crowd going wild. What he did that only tiger woods has done before. Good morning, america. Great to have george back. Good to be back. Thank you. How about that great shot . Boy, you think of Jordan Spieth. Lets show it one more time. We were just saying we could watch this all day long. And hes normally such a cool customer but amazing what he did right after. The reaction with the caddie. That was so great. Yep. Were live for our viewers in the west. Very busy morning in washington. Summer recess starts there at the Supreme Court. Theyre handing down some final decisions. Amid speculation that Justice Kennedy may retire. The president this morning, focused his tweets on russia. Taking a new tack appearing to admit russia interfered in our election for the first time and blamed president obama. For not doing more. And the showdown in the senate. Gop still short of votes and today the Congressional Budget Office reveal its score, how much the bill will cost, how many millions will lose insurance coverage. A lot more coming up. Lets go the Supreme Court terry moran. On june 1st, President Trump had his lawyers ask the Supreme Court to take up the case of the travel ban which has been blocked by the lower courts and then the Supreme Court decided to take briefs. They said theyll make their decision this morning. So far theyre silent on it. They could be having some trouble. They could be deciding how to do this right. Its a big case. One other factor, though, last night at about 1 00 in the morning, the Justice Department sent over a message to the Supreme Court saying that the key plaintiff in this case, the man whose wife is in iran and said the travel ban will dire directly affect him. We decided to let the wife into the United States. They could throw a Monkey Wrench into their deliberations. The other thing is the retirement rumor about Justice Anthony kennedy hes the crucial swing vote on this court. Lawyers go up here and they argue at him because he holds the balance of pow ir. Rumors have been swirling for months that hes ready to retire. One sign of it perhaps, he has a reunion of his law clerks every five years. He moved that up one year. We should learn in an hour or so if Justice Kennedy is e are tiring. We should learn in the next hour whether he will retire. That would be a seismic move. Change the trajectory of the President Trumps presidency. Back to robin. Our Congressional Correspondent mary bruce has all the details and join us from capitol hill. Good morning, mary. Reporte good moing. By the end of the day we are likely to know how Many Americans could stand to lose coverage. And how premiums could be impacted but this report card is likely to complicate this race to negotiate. Republican leaders have just a few days to wheel and deal with members of their own party. This morning, they are barreling towards a selfimposed deadline and this morning now the list of republicans voicing concerns is growing. With the clock ticking, President Trump is cautiously optimistic that Senate Republicans will pass their health care plan. I dont think theyre that far off. Famous last words, right . But i think were going to get there. Reporter but members of his own party arent so sure. We should not be voting on this next week. Reporter republicans can afford to lose just two votes. But already five have said they are not onboard and at least five others have serious concerns. Conservatives say the bill doesnt go far enough to repeal obamacare. The obamacare subsidies in this bill are actually greater under the republican bill than they are under the current obamacare law. That is not anywhere close to repeal. Reporter but moderates say the bill goes too far, rolls back too much. Im also concerned about the medicaid cuts, what it means to our most vulnerable citizens. Reporter during the campaign, candidate trump promised not to trump medicaid. Save medicare, medicaid without cuts. Reporter but the white house insists this bill keeps the president s promise. We dont see them as cuts. Its slowing the rate of growth in the future. Its getting medicaid back to where it was. Reporter one republican governor disagrees. Over a tenyear period medicaid funding will be significantly curtailed. Reporter and across the aisle democrats arent budging. We are doing everything we can to fight this bill because its so devastating for the middle class. Reporter republicans are now scrambling to negotiate with both opposite ends of their party. The challenge is, can they strike the balance or will any concessions made anger and frustrate the conservatives . Robin, can they find that middle ground to finally push this over the finish line . That is the big question mary. Now blaming president obama for not doing more to stop the russian meddling in the election. Reporter President Trump said it could be russia, china, lots of other people. Now he seems to be pointing the finger directly at moscow. President trump now seems to concede what several intelligence agencies concluded, russia did, indeed, interfere with the election, but his strategy, blame president obama. Well, i just heard today for the first time that obama knew about russia a long time before the election and he did nothing about it. Reporter the shift comes after a Washington Post report detailing russias role in the election and president obama struggled to stop them. President trump tweeting since the Obama Administration was told way before the 2016 election that the russians were meddling, why no action . Focus on them, not t now its not just the white house pointing fingers why didnt you inform candidate trump . I know you thought hillary would win. How could you not reveal Important Information about russia hacking . Reporter but democrats, too. He should have spoken out to the American People and said, this is what russia is doing. Russia has had better stop it. Reporter its not just russia that has President Trumps attention. Six months on the job, and hes still tweeting about the election and his opponent writing this weekend, Hillary Clinton colluded with the Democratic Party in order to bt crazy bernie sanders. Is she allowed to so collude . Unfair to bernie. A lot of tweets this weekend but today President Trump meets with indias Prime Minister right here at the white house. They are expected to issue statements together, but they are not expected to be taking questions from the full White House Press corps, george. The president has only had one full White House Press Conference Since taking office. Yeah, its been a long time, cecilia, thanks very much. More from our chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl and matthew dowd. Welcome to you both. Let me begin with you. So much at stake for the president right here on health care. He is up against a wall right now of Republican Opposition and its hard to figure out exactly what hes doing about it. Reporter well, i do know this, george. I am told the president made calls over the weekend to some of those wavering senators getting directly involved at least with the lobbying push if not with the negotiations over changing the bill. And im told hell be doing more of that in the coming week, of course, the stakes are incredibly high for the president. He wants to see this pass and he wants to see it pass soon. Matthew dowd, stakes incredibly high for the president for the American People as well. Absolutely. I think what weve learned even when you hold all the leverage of power in washington, which the republicans and president do, an unpopular president cant get an unpopular congress to pass an unpopular policy. The problem with this, if this fails all his other policies, tax reform is related to this because if you dont get health care you cant get tax reform, infrastructure becomes more difficult, this really is that line that if he cant get over it will hard for him to pass anything. Meantime, the president simply cant help himself on those tweets about russia. No, he has an obsession on this and i was thinking about this. The one person that questions Donald Trumps legitimacy the most for holding his office seems to be donald trump. Donald trump constantly raises questions about his own electoral victory, about whether or not russia interfered with it and im reminded of a quote, to cure one obsession you usually have to adopt another obsession so donald trump would be much better adopting another that was more beneficial for the public. Meantime, jon karl, it doesnt appear he will do that. This appearance from the president that hes accepting election now puts the ball back in his court. What is he going to do about it . Reporter yeah, hes been all over the map on this and his tweets over the weekend, i counted at least four tweets related to russia or the russia investigation, only two on obamacare. But he does now say that he does appear to be accepting the fact that the russians interfered and he is criticizing the Obama Administration or president obama for not doing more about it, which raises the question what will he do about it . You dont see much activity on that front. They are facing a possible the senate vote on sanctions for russia. The president resisting that. Reporter well, the president believes that that the administrations position is that that kind of hems them in, that they want the flexibility. They have, by the way, stepped up sanctions on russia, you know, laterally so they arent opposed to the idea of sanctions but opposed to congress telling them what to impose. Jon karl, matthew dowd, thanks very much. All right, turning to those massive wildfires out west. Forcing hundreds of families to evacuate. Its already consumed more than 40,000 acres. Abcs mat out gutman is on the ground for us in utah with the latest. Good morning, matt. Reporter officials are calling this unprecedented. Saying they never expected it to grow this big this fast so early in the fire season already consuming an area larger than washington, d. C. They have 1100 firefighters here already but say they need more. This morning, fastmoving flames in utah forcing more than 1500 from their homes. More than 1100 firefighters keeping an allout assault battling this nearly 43,000acre fire. Relatives on the west side of the valley lost everything. Reporter more than a dozen homes destroyed as firefighting planes and choppers battle it from above. A fire of this magnitude with this much energy out there just does what it wants. Reporter much like several of the 21 wildfires burning across states officials blaming tripledigit heat and dry terrain. Across california. Look at this. Oh, my god. Reporter this brush fire near los angeles driven by wind and heat racing up hillsides. More than 750 acres burned as the fire jumped a highway and motorists trying to keep that towering thunder cloud of smoke in their rearview mirror. Officials had to shut down a major highway. The fire threatening dozens of homes. This resident frantically trying to battle the blaze using water from his pool. In arizona, the governor declaring a state of emergency, the fry fire there chewing up more than 35,000 acres. This timelap video captures the flames consuming this hillside. Be ready and get out. Now there are red flag warnings here. More wind could make this fire again into an inferno and firefighters talking about 100foothigh flames and concerns it will push it back toward residential areas. Robin. All right, matt, well keep on this. To ginger with new fire warnings across the southwest. Robin, matt is right. Its going to be the wind as we get rid of some of the heat and suppress some of it red flag warnings but phoenix has been 110 degrees plus today for ten days in a row so the heat is real and then you put on the critical fire danger not just in the rockies, parts of idaho, eastern oregon, but down through las vegas and into arizona, because that ridge is going to break down, the heat, yes, still very hot, 118 needles. 115 yuma, but as that cold front flips through thats where the wind comes from. It also is where the cooler air comes from, burbank, 111 sunday. 79 by thursday. Robin. See those digits. The latest into this weekends midair scare. The latest into an airasia flight shaking for a full two hours and the pilot asked passengers to pray and made an urgent plea. David wright with the latest. Gorge, david. Reporter something you dont want to hear from a pilot, pray, but this happened about 90 minutes into the flight, frightening times for passengers as their airbus jet started shaking. Look at the pictures. You can see the tray tables and seats all shaking. Passengers as well. This happened as theyre heading back now. It took them more than an hour and a half to get back. One pasnger described it as being in a washing machine. The pilots of the airasia jet from perth, australia, to kuala lumpur, pleaded with passengers to Pay Attention and to pray. Please, listen to everything. Our survival depends on your cooperating. Hopefully everything will turn out for the best. Reporter upon landing the pilot reportedly told passengers that he thought a fan blade broke in one of the engines. You can see the engine shaking in the video shot by one of the passengers. Airasia is just calling this an engine incident saying in a statement that it is investigating with its engine supplier, george, which is rollsroyce. They dont know for sure whether it was the air blade that broke. Reporter they dont know exactly but i got to tell you, george, that analogy of a washing machine unbalance is a pretty good idea because if a fan blade breaks the engine starts moving even though its shut down, the air is still going through and would shake like it did all the way back to perth. George. Thanks very much. Every time you see that. Speaking of video turning to that incredible moment on the golf course. Jordan spieth winning his winning the first major of the year. That shot right there, every time you see it you still cant believe it, paula faris. Still cant believe it. You know what, i dont know if it actually happened. Well show it to you again, everybody. In any sport it helps if you can actually see the target that youre aiming for. Well, Jordan Spieth couldnt. He hit a blind shot and afterwards admitted it was a whole lot of luck. Right in the hole hes done it again. Reporter it was a moment of pure celebration. Unbelievable. Reporter golfer Jordan Spieth defying the odds making an incredible 60foot blind bunker shot in the first hole of a sudden death playoff. Right at it. Reporter watch again as he makes the shot, throws his club in the air and leaps into a chest bump with his caddie as the crowd goes wild. And the place was shaking. I mean, ive never experienced a roar like that. Reporter it may have been an unbelievable shot but at least one person saw it coming. Fellow golfer Justin Thomas actually predicted the shot on twitter right before it happened. Not an easy shot here. Reporter maybe because its not the first time spieths gotten himself out of a tough spot. Back in 2013, at age 19, he pulled out from a bunker in a similar fashion winning the John Deere Classic and making him the youngest golfer to win a pga tour event in 82 years. Sunday making history. Spieth now joins tiger woods as one of only two golfers in the modern era to win ten pga tour events before turning 24. Hes an impressive kid. Its so rare to win from a bunker shot his caddie took something unusual as a memento. He took the bunker rake, you guys. That sounds like a great idea until you get it home and then what do you do with a bunker rake . It doesnt fit in with the motif . Maybe a golf ball but a bunker rake . Not going to forget that. Lets go back to ginger. Severe weather coming to the plains. Tough to put it in a shadow box, that bunker rake. New mexico, thats being shredded by hail. Lets get to the select cities brought to you by carmax. Coming up, that abc news exclusive. One of bill cosbys jurors speaking out. Why he thinks cosby should have been found guilty. 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