Transcripts For WPVI Good Morning America 20170728 : vimarsa

Transcripts For WPVI Good Morning America 20170728

Now the 18yearold victims family speaking out desperate for answers. And an abc news exclusive. The amazing mother of three who survived an encounter with a great white shark that left these teeth marks now telling her story for the first time. I felt it grab me and pulled me down. How she fought off the shark poking its eye and fighting back for her life. And we do say good morning, america. Very busy friday morning and a late night in washington. The Senate Voting down the latest Republican Health care bill. And the senators were prepared for a long night last night. They rolled in mattresses. The protesters were also up late outside of the cap top toll and that was the moment they found out the bill did not pass. What a huge effort, seven years the republicans tried to repeal obamacare and have been fighting it out for the last seven months. This was the lastditch effort and called it skinny repeal. The deciding vote, senator john mccain, look at him right there, 21 minutes on the floor of the senate after 1 00 a. M. Talking to Vice President mike pence, pence could not prevail. Mccain voted no after giving that emotional speech, remember earlier this week when he returned to the senate with brain cancer he admonished both parties in the senate to Work Together. Now, there is a big question on the table. Will they Work Together now . What is going to happen now. Mary bruce is following all the latest and joins us from capitol hill. Good morning, mary. Reporter good morning, robin. This was a massive blow to republicans, the president and their defining pledge to the American People. In the very Early Morning hours here, their latest push no overhaul obamacare came crashing down. The amendment is not agreed to. Reporter it is a devastating defeat for republicans signature promise. Overnight their latest effort collapsing by one vote. Mr. Mccain. Reporter the final blow delivered by senator john mccain. On the floor, the Vice President spotted huddling with the war hero once attacked by President Trump on the campaign trail. Seemingly trying to convince him. But it wasnt enough. At 1 30 in the morning mccain cast his decisive vote with a thumbs down. On the senate floor, gasps and applause. In a statement mccain defended the move saying the bill offered no replacement to actually reform our Health Care System and deliver affordable, Quality Health care to our citizens. Outside the capitol protesters cheered the bills defeat. After seven years of promises and months of planning, it is an embarrassing blow for republican leader mitch mcconnell. We worked really hard. I think the American People are going to regret that we couldnt find a better way forward. Reporter the socalled skinny repeal bill would have eliminated just some parts of obamacare, like the mandate that all americans have insurance. But that could have left 16 million more americans uninsured and cause premiums for some to jump by 20 . Even some republicans who supported the bill didnt want it to become law. They are argued it was just a place holder to buy more time to negotiate. This morning, democrats say its time to move on. We are not celebrating. We are relieved that millions and millions of people who would have been so drastically hurt will at least retain their health care. Reporter leader Chuck Schumer emotional recalling mccains return to the Senate Tuesday after being diagnosed with brain cancer. Backing mccains call for the parties to now Work Together. All of us were so inspired by the speech and the life of the senator from arizona. Reporter President Trump responded to the defeat overnight again calling to let obamacare implode and then make a deal. So what comes next . Well, the senate today here is moving on to other business. Leader mcconnell seems to be throwing in the towel on health care at least for now. If republicans want to tackle it theyll have to work with democrats and until the two parties can come together and find a new solution, obamacare will remain the law of the land. George. We will see if that can happen. Thanks. This defeat comes as hes dealing with open warfare inside his white house. Take a look at this image. White house chief of staff Reince Priebus and Anthony Scaramucci there in the oval office staring each other down. It sure looks like only one can survive the showdown and the New York Post captures it, survivor, the reality show and jon karl tracking all the latest on this fastmoving story. Good morning, jon. Reporter good morning, george. It does look like allout war in the west wing and for now at least the president isnt doing anything to stop it. The president offered his embattled chief of staff a quick acknowledgement in the east room of the white house but he isnt coming to his defense as newly minted Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci unleashes a scathing personal attack. Scaramucci in a shockingly blunt interview with the new yorker called priebus a bleeping paranoid schizophrenic. The interview was done by the new yorkers ryan lizza. It was like putting Anthony Scaramucci in that job was throwing a grenade into an ongoing civil war in the white house. Reporter he directed a crude insult at white house chief strategist steve bannon and threatened to fire essentially the entire White House Communications staff over leaks to the press. Saying, theyll all be fired by me. I fired one guy the other day. I have three to four people ill fire tomorrow. He also hinted he has information on white house aides telling the new yorker i nailed these guys. Ive got digital fingerprints on everything theyve done through the fbi and the bleeping department of justice. Theyre going to get prosecuted. Scaramucci even suggested it was priebus doing the leaking in a late night tweet wednesday that he later deleted. Insisting he wasnt blaming the chief of s by reporters, he issued a challenge to priebus on live television. Theyre all making the assumption its him because journalists know who the leakers are so if reince wants to explain hes not a leaker, let him do that. Reporter after the explosive interview was published the new Communications Director tweeted a statement saying, i sometimes use i will refrain in this arena but not give up the passionate fight for Donald Trumps agenda. According to the new White House Press second, the president doesnt mind the infighting among his top aides. I think the president as always enjoys healthy competition and conversation and he sees that as such. Reporter does the president have confidence in his chief of staff . If the president doesnt then hell make that decision. Asure the president and if he gets to a place where that isnt the case hell let you know. Reporter all this comes after the public humiliation of another senior official, attorney general Jeff Sessions, who is now speaking out in an interview on fox news after a week of criticism from the president himself, saying, quote, its kind of hurtful, but, george, sessions added in that interview that he stands by his decision to recuse himself from the russia investigation, that was the decision that has the president so upset with him. Yeah, not backing down on that at all. Jon, stand by. I want mary bruce to stand by as we bring in john avlon. You mentioned, john, Jeff Sessions still out there. Big criticism from the president all week long. You also heard the president gettingng that transgender ban by his joint chiefs of staff saying theyre not going to implement that bill until they get morethe president , of cours senate and the house passing russian sanctions to the president over some objections that hes had previously. Now thats on his desk as well and, john, you broaden out this week and look at the last seven months heading into the august recess and running out of an tiffs to describe whats going on here. Weve never seen anything like it before. We havent. This is a level of chaos that we have just not seen in any modern white house and cant imagine being in the past. Theres been no significant legislative achievements. Last nights high drama moment with john mccain was decisive for the republicans Core Campaign promise to repeal obamacare because they never could agree on what they would replace it with. But these internal feud, internal wounds festering and exploding into the public shows that tone comes from the top and President Trump has failed to unite his white house let alone the nation. Its hard to see how both Anthony Scaramucci and Reince Priebus survive after this open warfare playing out on the front pages of papers all across the country. Reporter yeah, i talked to a Senior Adviser to this president , both inside and outside the white house since this all broke. Some of those individualers say Reince Priebus needs to say fire scaramucci or rhame gone but also talked to officials who believe that they could both stay. One actually invoking the lord of the flies here to describe whats going on. Thats not the only tension, the president has tensions with his National Security adviser over afghanistan, with general mattis, the head of the pentagon over this transgender and with his own secretary of state. Reporter yeah, secretary of state tillerson actually had to come out and deny reports that he was on the verge of resigning. Tensions with most of the senior people advising this president , the one exception, the real bright exception to that is john kelly over at the Homeland Security department and, george, i am told he is high on the list of possible replacements for Reince Priebus as chief of staff. Meantime, mary bruce on capitol hill, one of the other things we saw, not only that vote by john mccain to stop the Obamacare Repeal effort but republicans becoming more outspoken this week in their criticism of President Trump. Reporter yeah, george, especially when it comes to Jeff Sessions. Republicans up here are taking sides. Many top republicans, in fact, drawing a red line. Senator Lindsey Graham came out swinging yesterday saying that if trump does fire sessions, there would be holy hell to pay. He said if he goes even further and tries to meddle in the investigation with bob mueller, he says that would be the beginning of the end of the trump presidency. Even if the president does move to fire sessions or if sessions steps down, you have republicans up here saying that they simply dont have enough bandwidth to give him a new one. Chairman grassley saying no way they would have a new attorney general any time soon. John avlon, that investigation still at the heart of President Trumps anger. Absolutely. And it is the highest stakes investigation weve seen. Every step of the way President Trump gives every indication of trying to shut it down one way or another but what the senate is saying if you fire Jeff Sessions we wont confirm a replacement is a strong signal that they recognize that muellers investigation cannot be derailed and these are as high stakes poker as you get right now. No question about that. Thank you all very much. Much more sunday on this week. Robin. Let me ask you this. Many people feel this chaos at the white house, its kind of like, look over here, look over here so you dont look here here at the major arnettes facing the American People. I dont think its distraction, i dont think its strategy. Its impulse and the personality of the president. I think he tolerates this to some degree, one thing were seeing play out. The question is how long can a white house go on with open warfare like this. I know youll talk about it sunday on this week. Thank you very much. Also there are flash flood warnings all the way from alabama to new jersey. A major storm is moving in for the weekend and ginger, of course, is tracking it all. Robin, this morning im concerned that scenes like this could be scene in the midatlantic later today. So this is actually kansas city, missouri, the indian creek rose 17 feet in just five hours, water rescues performed. Four to eight inches of rain and then weve got pictures coming from oklahoma of up to nearly 90mileperhour wind, thousands without power thure system that going to sit over and bring us lots of potential for flash flooding, washington, d. C. , delaware, thats also going to go into the ocean creating waves up to ten feet. There are advisories, if you have plans at the beach Atlantic City up to seaside heights, marthas vineyard, youll want to Pay Attention. Rainfall moments. Now new details about that tragic accident at the Ohio State Fair. The victims family speaking out. As concerns grow over ride safety this morning. Abcs alex perez is on the scene in columbus, ohio, with the latest. Good morning, alex. Reporter hey, good morning, michael. Investigators are going through every inch of the accident site searching for any clues that might help them figure out what went wrong here. The fireball at the ride at the Ohio State Fair broke and people went flying. Reporter this morning new details about the ride behind that fatal Amusement Park accident. It busted and people went flying. Reporter documents show the fireball passed state inspection by four different inspectors just hours before the deadly accident killed one and injured seven riders. The documents from the Ohio Department of agriculture say the ride, which earlier this month was used without incident at a state fair in new jersey passed more than 35 inspection criteria on wednesday checking off items like no visible unsecured items and motors, clutches and controls functioning. But this morning, questions about what exactly went wrong. I saw their face before death like they knew they were hitting the ground. They knew they were about to die. Reporter the rides manufacturer instructing officials everywhere to cease operation of the ride until further notice. Officials in North Carolina, illinois, california, indiana, new jersey and kentucky immediately following that order. The fireball manufactured by kmg swings riders 40 feet above the ground spinning them at 13 revolutions a minute. The company now among those investigating what happened to cause one of the six spinning gondolas to detach from its supporting arm. According to the cpsc there have been 22 known fatalities associated with amusement attractions since 2010. Whether it be bolts, it be welds, whether it be metal fatigue sr. Something along those lines it obviously had to do with the structure but what and what caused it, well have to wait for that. Reporter this morning the family of tyler jarrell, the 18yearold victim who enlisted last week to be a marine, wants answers. I would like to know why it happened. If it was supposed to be safe and everything was supposed to be inspected by everyone before the tragedy happened, then it should have never happened to begin with. Reporter and Authorities Say it could be days or weeks before the investigation here is complete. As for the other rides, Officials Say they will remain shut down until they can all be reinspected. Michael. All right, thank you very much, alex, for that. Amy, the mornings other top headlines. We begin with more than 50 people who were injured when a commuter train crashed into a barrier while entering a station in barcelona, spain. One passenger reported hearing a loud noise as the train was breaking, most of the other injury, thankfully were minor. There are new diplomatic tensions between the United States and russia. The russian government has seized two u. S. Diplomatic compounds and ordered the embassy in moscow to reduce its staff. That order is in retaliation for new economic sanctions approved by congress. President trump has not yet signed off on those sanctions. About 10,000 tourists in North Carolina are being told to evacuate the outer banks because of a widespread power outage. A construction crew cut a major cable leaving Ocracoke Island without power. The new york yankees may be hoping for a visit from the tooth fairy. Rookie aaron judge was celebrating the teams win last night when another players helmet knocked out one of his teeth and then the search was on. I know, there it is, you see it, wow. A reporter tweeted this picture of the yankees security inspecting the feel looking for the tooth. They found it and now judges missing tooth has its own twitter account because thats the world we live in. Thats the world we live in. Amy, thank you. Lets get to ginger with the heavy rain coming this weekend. It is especially tonight into southern new jersey, eastern and west virginia, this is the trouble spot. I want to show you how much rain could fall. Anywhere from 3 to 5inch. Green would be 4plus, south of dont know south of dover an

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