Transcripts For KGO Good Morning America Weekend Edition 201

Transcripts For KGO Good Morning America Weekend Edition 20170617

His outraged family speaking out this morning. The system continues to fail black people. And royal celebration. The pomp and circumstance for Queen Elizabeths birthday. The annual trooping the color and the queens poignant message to the people. Hey, good morning and we start here with the developing story overseas involving that u. S. Navy destroyer. Seven sailors missing right now after their ship collided with a tanker off the coast of japan. Questions abound as to how this could have happened. We want you to look at this new video of the uss fitzgerald limping back into the port in japan. This as u. S. And japanese ships and aircraft are frantically conducting search and rescue missions hoping to find those missing sailors. Five people were medevacked off of the boat. Were going to kick off our coverage with abcs matt gutman reporting from los angeles. Matt, good morning to you. Reporter hey, good morning, dan and paula. Hard to overstate how serious an incident this was. Now the navy is still searching for those seven missing sailors. They have multiple search planes scouring the water, but because of the damage that you just saw, its so severe, its also possible those sailors could still be in the wreckage on board. Just minutes ago we learned that a total of five sailors had to be medevacked including the commander of the ship. This morning the uss fitzgerald has been tugged back to port, but at least seven sailors remain missing. The navy saying multiple sailors were injured in the monstrous collision with the container ship, five sailors hurt badly enough, they had to be medevacked. One of them, the ships commanding officer. The Japanese Coast Guard leading the initial rescue. You can see responders crowded near the wreckage to extract the wounded. Helicopter footage shows the destroyers mangled midsection, the damage caving in compartments, destroying ship machinery and its radio room. The navy saying damage both above and below the water line caused major flooding. Those red hoses seen pumping seawater out of the belly of the ship, which typically has a crew of nearly 300. The navy says this 30,000ton container ship and the much smaller 9,000ton u. S. Destroyer collided in open water 56 miles southwest of yokosuka, japan. The navy telling abc news this morning that the extent of the personnel injuries aboard the ship is still being assessed. Now, there are two major questions going forward. Which of the ships had the right of way and perhaps a bigger issue that even though it was the dead of night, how did a ship with some of the most sophisticated radar and sonar on the planet neither see or manage to avoid something the size of a small island bearing down on it. Dan, paula. Yeah, those are some questions well be addressing in just a moment. Matt gutman, thanks for your reporting this. Joining us now from washington is retired marine colonel and abc news contributor steve ganyard. Steve, good morning to you. And you just heard matts question, the most glaring one that we all have, these ships arent traveling swiftly. Theyre on one anothers radar. How could a collision have happened . Paula, its hard to imagine how it could have. As matt said, these are two very sophisticated ships, and they should have seen each other. On the other hand, this happened really just about ten miles outside of the mouth of tokyo bay, which is one of the busiest ports in the world. It was the middle of the night, and so oftentimes what happens in these collisions at sea, its a series of mistakes on both ships that lead to a tragic event. We are, as everybody knows, at a time of heightened fears over north korea. What kind of impact could taking a destroyer like this out of commission, what kind of impact could that have on our ability to defend ourselves and our allies . Dan, the fitzgerald is one of the most sophisticated ships in the u. S. Navy. It has a special radar and a special set of missiles that could actually intercept atmospherically in space any kind of north Korean Missile that may be shot at japan or south korea or u. S. Bases in the region, so the navy is going to want to backfill this very quickly because the fitzgerald is going to be out of service for a long, long time. Steve ganyard, thank you. Back at home this morning were hearing reports of an increasingly frustrated President Trump who is dealing with that unremitting drumbeat of news about the russia investigation. The Associated Press this morning quotes trump advisers and confidants as describing an angry president yelling at Television Sets in the white house carrying coverage of the investigation. Now, according to the ap trump has told associates he believes he has the Legal Authority to fire special counsel robert mueller. Abcs david wright is at the white house for us this morning. David, good morning to you. Reporter good morning, paula and dan. This weekend the president is off to camp david, his very first trip to the president ial retreat, and this fathers day getaway comes after a blistering week for trump, one where his frustrations do seem to be growing about the russia investigation, even as he struggles to change the subject. In miamis little havana, President Trump drove another stake into president obamas legacy signing an executive order to scrap obamas policy of detente with cuba. Effectively immediately, i am canceling the last administrations completely onesided deal with cuba. Reporter cuba blasted back rejecting what it called manipulation for political purposes and double standards in the treatment of human rights. But trump upstaged himself acknowledging for the first time in a tweet that he is, indeed, under investigation after firing fbi director james comey. I am being investigated for firing the fbi director by the man who told me to fire the fbi director, witch hunt. His closest allies share his frustration. The president of the United States cannot obstruct justice. If he wants to fire the fbi director, all he has to do is fire him. Reporter former House Speaker Newt Gingrich clearly felt differently back in the 90s when he voted to impeach bill clinton for obstructing justice during the Monica Lewinsky investigation. Just in case the president and the president s men are lawyering up. Trump has added a highprofile Washington Attorney to his personal legal team. Vice president pence has hired a personal attorney. Even the president s longtime lawyer is getting a lawyer. For all its frustrations, the presidency does seem to be good for Donald Trumps bottom line. A new Financial Disclosure form released overnight lists assets worth nearly a billion and a half dollars. His golf courses, his hotels are doing a booming business. He still owns them, but one former ethics czar for the Bush Administration tells us what we still dont know is where he borrows money from. Dan, paula. All right. David wright, thanks for your reporting from the white house this morning. And joining us now from washington is political analyst and pollster Kristen Soltis anderson as dan lovingly refers to as ksa. Kristen. Good morning. She loves it. She does love it, or she will love it. Kristen, as we mentioned, the president believes he has the Legal Authority to fire the special counsel robert mueller, and according to the ap some of trumps circle are preaching caution but others including his son don jr. Say mueller must go. If he were to fire mueller how do you think that would go down . It would be very explosive if he made that decision, because as soon as it was announced there will be a special prosecutor and as soon as it was announced it would be robert mueller, a figure very respected across the political spectrum here in washington, this gave a lot of trumps allies on capitol hill, republicans, the opportunity to say, look, this is good. Hes a good investigator. This will clear this all up and then we can move on. Trumps allies on the hill continue to say this would be a good thing. This would put a big break between trump and republicans in congress. Let me ask you about this nugget from the New York Times this morning, and im quoting here, he, the president , is frustrated, friends say, and unsure what to do apart from tweeting, which he views as the most direct and effective way of defending himself and venting his anger. So in your view are these tweets hurting or helping him . I think donald trump is his own worst enemy when it comes to these tweets. Its understandable if youre him and you think youre innocent and youre frustrated with the way things are going and you want to get your message out. Donald trumps never been shy about saying hes not a fan of the media but with these tweets hes continuing to stir up trouble, keep the focus on the story when, for instance, folks in on capitol hill would rather be talking about things like infrastructure, health care, tax reform. It shifts the narrative and it makes it seem that hes continuing to struggle against this investigation, a coverup where he claims theres no crime. Now, it appears that trumps base is standing firmly behind him. In your time as a pollster, do you see any vulnerabilities . His numbers have not been great, but they have stayed fairly stable throughout the first couple of months of his presidency, and this russia investigation is one in particular where most of his supporters tend to think that hes in the right. This isnt what will break them away from him, but rather if there isnt delivery on things Like Health Care reform, tax reform, economic growth, these are the things that would make voters either come back to him or begin to leave him in bigger numbers. The base seems to be holding firm, Kristen Soltis anderson, aka ksa, thank you very much for joining us on a saturday morning. Thank you, guys. We appreciate it. Were going to turn now, though, to another story breaking overnight. The protesters out in the streets in minnesota after a jury there acquitted an officer in the Fatal Shooting of Philando Castile. Now, the case made headlines all over the world when castiles girlfriend, remember she took to Facebook Live in the aftermath of that shooting with her boyfriend dying in the seat next to her. Heres abcs eva pilgrim. Reporter overnight outrage, thousands of demonstrators marching in protest over the not guilty verdict in the manslaughter trial of a former Police Officer. A minnesota jury acquitting the officer who fatally shot Philando Castile moments before this infamous video was live streamed on facebook by his girlfriend. Hes licensed to carry. He was trying to get out his i. D. And his wallet out his pocket, and he let the officer know. Reporter the st. Anthony Police Officer holding that gun then 29yearold jeronimo yanez, castiles girlfriend calmly recording as her young daughter reassured her from the backseat. [ screaming ] its okay. Im right here with you. Reporter castile there in the drivers seat fatally wounded. Prosecutors charging yanez with Second Degree manslaughter. At trial arguing the officer panicked and lost control. I told him to not reach for it. I told him to get his hand up. Reporter castiles family claiming that he was racially profiled. Reporter the system continues to fail black people. Reporter but Defense Attorneys arguing yanez fired because he thought castile was reaching for his gun. This morning, yanezs team satisfied with the verdict while castiles family says theyve been denied justice. Castiles mother taking to Facebook Live after the verdict was announced. Now they got free rein to keep killing us any kind of way they want to. Reporter and yanez will not be returning to the police force. The city of st. Anthony saying its not in the publics best interest. The two sides are now negotiating a voluntary separation agreement. So much anger here. Eva, thank you. Thanks,ville. And overnight bill cosby breaking his silence speaking out for the First Time Since going on trial for Sexual Assault. This as jurors are going to be reporting in for a sixth day of deliberations this morning and abcs linsey davis has more. Reporter late friday night bill cosby broke his silence with this message. I want to thank the jury for their long days, their honest work. Reporter an appeal that specifically targeted the jurors. I think bill cosby and his publicist are trying to send a subtle message to the jury to wrap things up. Reporter cosbys statement addressed a sequestered jury supposedly isolated from the media and his statement. Oftentimes in these cases, things that get played out in the media have a way of making their way back to the jurors. Reporter the jury of 12 has already deliberated for 52 hours without a verdict. The trial itself was only 36 hours. And now the defense is calling for a mistrial. The judge chastised the defense for repeatedly calling for a mistrial due to the length of deliberations, but he also added that if the jury comes back deadlocked again, he intends to act, meaning a mistrial. So far the jury has asked more than a dozen questions. On friday they asked for phone logs of calls between cosby and his accuser, Andrea Constand, along with cosbys deposition from 2005 where he talked about obtaining quaaludes to give to other women prior to sexual encounters, though he never admitted to doing so without their knowledge. The jury also asked to hear the definition of reasonable doubt. For good morning america, linsey davis, abc news, norristown, pennsylvania. And we will be following that trial every step of the way. Yes, we will. A lot of other news this morning, and for that lets get it over to dr. Ron claiborne. Good morning, sir. I knew that was coming. Diana and paula, good morning to you, adrienne. Good morning, everyone. We begin in washington, d. C. Where an investigator say they found a list of a dozen republican lawmakers on the gunman who opened fire on a group of congressmen. This happened on wednesday. Police say James Hodgkinson shot and wounded House Majority whip Steve Scalise and three others on a baseball field in alexandria, virginia. Scalise remains in critical condition, but doctors say his vital signs have stabilized after being, quote, at imminent risk of death. Hodgkinson was killed by police. This morning Dennis Rodman landing in beijing, china, after a fiveday trip to north korea. The former nba star said his thoughts and prayers are with the family of otto warmbier, an american student who was released on tuesday after 17 months of imprisonment in north korea. Its not clear if rodman met with the north Korean Leader kim jongun. In massachusetts, a woman accused of encouraging her boyfriend to kill himself before his 2014 suicide has been found guilty of involuntary manslaughter. The judge who rendered that verdict said 20yearold Michelle Carter encouraged conrad roy to get back in his vehicle as it filled with lethal gas. Carter now faces up to 20 years in prison. And new details about the death of actress carrie fisher. The l. A. County Coroners Office said she died from sleep apnea. And a combination of other factors including heart disease, but said the exact cause of death cannot be conclusively determined. Officials said fisher had multiple drugs in her system but could not say whether they contributed to the 60yearolds death, which was last december. And new this morning, video from inside a ferry after it collided with a jetty off the coast of massachusetts. The ferry carrying some 48 people were traveling from nantucket to hyannis. Rough seas made the overnight rescue difficult. Several people had to be airlifted to area hospitals, but they are expected to be okay. And finally they say if you do the crime, youll have to do the time. In this case the time served though was meant turned out to be to his extreme embarrassment, hours of extreme embarrassment. 17yearold Mark Anthony Doyle admitted he took 30,000 worth of goods from his home, his boss home. But rather than pressing charges, the boss, a texas businessman, made him wear an outfit you see there and hold a sign telling everyone that he was guilty. Doyle returned the stolen items, and check this out, his boss let him keep his job. What . And the clothes presumably. Probably optional. Rubber rainboots and a pink long tank top. Sparkle boots, i think they were. Hours of embarrassment was his sentence. Trying to figure out how i feel about this. What do you mean . You know he learned better to be incarcerated . Definitely not. Probably not. No. He learned his lesson. We just showed him in a pink shirt and sparkle boots. So there you go. Rob marciano, as you can tell, one member of our team is not here, but thats because hes in boston for us this morning. Rob. Checking in with you. Is he wearing sparkle boots . Pan down, please. No sparkle boots. No, no, were not going to do that. I know dan knows this event. And it only happens really once every couple of decades. But this is extraordinary. Its the 2017 rendezvous regatta. It is a 7,000mile race across the atlantic where 55 tall ships are convening here in boston. You line them up, stern to bow, bow to stern, at 17 football fields long, so thats a grand parade thats going to happen here in just a couple of hour, and gma is here to witness it. A little bit foggy here this morning. Want to show you whats going on around the country, though. We do have Severe Weather that broke some did some damage across eastern parts of nebraska with Straight Line winds and over 100 miles an

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