Transcripts For WPVI This Week With George Stephanopoulos 20

WPVI This Week With George Stephanopoulos March 15, 2015

Begins now. Lets get to the controversy of Hillary Clintons emails. House Speaker John Boehner is poised to announce a new investigation. Reporter Hillary Clinton may have hoped she put the email controversy behind her with the press conference. But the investigations are now about to begin. Top House Republicans tell abc news they expect Speaker John Boehner to announce a new house investigation next week into Hillary Clintons email practices as secretary of state. Including her admitted destruction of some 30,000 emails that she determined to be purely personal. As for how mrs. Clinton has handled the controversy so far, it seemed like a case study in how not to do damage control. She did not want to have two phones. She couldnt be like hey, man, could you hold this other phone for me . Nine days of silence. And then the reason she finally gave for not using government email at all . It would have been inconvenient. I thought using one device would be simpler and obviously, it hasnt worked out that way. Reporter under state department rules, while she was secretary, if an employee used a private email account for official business, the email was to be turned over and entered into government computers. She didnt turn over any emails until 22 months after she left office. Why did not nou not go along with state department rules until nearly two years after you left office . The laws and regulations in effect aloud me to use my email for work. Reporter why did you wait two months to turn the emails over . The rules say you have to turn them over. I dont think i would be happy to have somebody talk to you about the rules. I was fully following every rule i was governored by. Reporter one former obama aide told politico you snefr quite feel like youre getting the full story. Will it matter to voters . Only 17 said theyre following the story closely. And she still has one of the highst Approval Ratings among all likely candidates 50 . Its a hiccup. I have no concerns about what she did. Reporter and the email mess has gotten more complicated. The state department is acknowledging it was not routinely preserving any emails. Not those sent to and from official state Department Email accounts. So while Hillary Clinton said the emails she was sending to employees on their state demt emails were being presired, it turns out that is not the case. Lets dig with in james carville, longtime clinton ally. Ana navarro. New yorker editor David Remnick and fox news anchor u. S. Isus is tern. The you take this all and put it together and subtract 3. 1415 from pi youre left with not have much. And thats at the end of the day, the republicans cant pass a budget we have another investigation. Just like the white water. File gate. Travel gate. You go through seven or different eight congressional committees. You wonder why the public is not follow. Because they know what sit. It was something she did. It was legal. I suspect she didnt want louis doumit rifling through her emails. It seems to be a reasonable position for someone to take. It amounts to just like Everything Else before it, it amounts to nothing a bunch of people flapping their jaws about nothing. Nothing . Not one if its illegal, it violated the spirit of the law. I cant get over. How stupid . I mean she must have known that even would being look at everything she did. What in the world was she thinking . Thats what i dont get over. She sould have known better from the get go. Frankly, last august when trey gouddy wanted to first got wind of the fact that these emails existed, why didnt someone run over and negotiate a deal with her. Instead, blows up all over her. Maybe she thought the investigations were coming no matter what. Shes always thinking. Thats why shes got this level for paranoia, need for control, this secrecy. This wasnt for convenience. Let me tell you. I want to thank james for reminding us of all of the other scandals. Part of the problem with this is it brings back the narrative that with the clintons come blurred lines. Like the song says. There comes drama and scandal. Just one more stripe on the zebra. Its made up. You take pi. You subtract 3. 1415 get very up enoughmuch. I dont get what he just said. I wish this were more convincing. You were not impressed by the press conference either . Not at all. Its one thing for a politician to be stupid which Hillary Clinton is not. Its another thing for a politician to believe were stupid. That is deflating. A lot of people that i know myself included are not likely to vote for a conservative republican come 20 months from now. A lot of our readers are in that camp. They want Hillary Clinton to be the best Hillary Clinton she can be in the absence of any competition in the democratic party. Which i also think is a bad thing. That will make it difficult for her to get into fighting shape . Yeah. Look at if obamaclinton race in 2008. That made both kptdcandidates a hell of a lot better. To have to see that spectacle, like at the press conference, it brings back a lot of mad memories and bad instincts on the part of the clintons. James is right there were a lot of false scandals. There was a lot of stuff that i dont think it will change one vote. People who hated her from the beginning. Hated her. Those who loved her from the beginning, love her. The people in the middle probably havent heard much about it. A year from now, it will probably be a lot of noise. The fatal thing is she gave am munition back to the original question to you james. Taking your points about a lot of scandals in the past have evaporated over time. The clinton camp did demonstrate, i think in the last ten days they were not up to speed. It took them a long time to figure out what the story was and to respond. This is not just spin. I actually believe this. In some ways this is good because it reminds everybody of what it is. And so this happened. And its never going to stop. All right. Because its what i call a clinton rule. The rule that applies to the clintons. And then theres a rule that applies to everyone else. We agree. They think theyre above the rules. No, again, this is what it is. There are people out there like me that dont accept that. We dont ak the standard that some rule applies to the clintons and other rules apply to everyone else. You just stepped in it james. Thats the whoil idea. The rule on the emails applied to them and not everyone else. Colin powell does the same thing, jeb bush does the same thing, you say, oh thats colin powell. What she did was completely legal. Just like powell and bush did. But we do not accept it. The jeb bush thing has been the talking point du jour. Let me say this. May i please respond . Yeah. Im a little familiar with the email because i have been emailing that email since before jeb bush was governor. Jeb bush had that email before he was governor. Hillary set hers up the week she was in confirmation. Jeb bush has been one of the most transparent, if not the most transparent. He turned only a fraction of his emails. Its a fact. 300,000 emails out there. How many of hillarys are out there . He has selfreported. The emails that hillary, at some point is going to turn over to the public, have been coming out under duress because of investigations. Lets talk about the fact of how theyve handled it politically. Forget the merit. For a minute, lets epter tan that its apples and apples. Jeb bush got ahead of the story. It took god six days to create the earth. Hillary clinton eight days to address the meeting. The simple truth of matter is jeb bush released 10 of his emails. He had a private email server. Colin powell had a private email serve every. When i say the clinton standard i mean this. The press applies, they this story came from from the benghazi republicans on the scene. The New York Times printed a story of the weapons of mass destruction story. The reason to go the war. The white water story comes from a bunch of old washed up in arkansas. I take every point you make. We have to take a quick break. The fact is the clintons are still dealing with it in the same way. Thats whats dispiriting potential supporters. If that will be the nature of the campaign in the next 20 months, with issues like violence against women all around the world. Disparities in income and the insecurity and instability of the middle east and europe at stake, peoples livelihoods at stake. If this is whats at issue in the next month, were in sad shape. We have to get to one of those other issues. The high stakes Nuclear Talks with iran. Secretary kerry back in switzerland overnight. This comes amid the controversy over the Senate Letter to the leaders of iran. Heres martha raddatz. Reporter president obama taking his latest shot at the 47 republican senators in an interview airing tomorrow on vice news. Im embarrassed for them. For them to address a letter to the ayatollah, who they claim is our mortal enemy, its close to unprecedented. Reporter the uproar over the letter growing. Just 16 days from the next deadline for leer talks between iran and the u. S. The letter warns any deal with iran must be approved by congress or the next president could revoke wit the stroke of a pen. Irans ayatollah firing back saying it was a sign of washington disindependent grating. Now some who signed it having second thoughts. That wasnt exactly the best way to do that. Reporter but the man who wrote it is not backing down. Were simply trying to say that congress has a Constitution Constitutional role to approve any deal to make sure iran never gets Nuclear Weapons. Reporter and senator marco rubio tuk it further, saying negotiations were hurting the fight against isis. The way reproceeded with our negotiations in iran have impacted the negotiations. That is flat wrong. Flat wrong. This is about a Nuclear Weapon potential. Thats it. The president has made it absolutely clear they will not get a Nuclear Weapon. Reporter the white house is firm it does not need congressional approval for a deal at this point. Down the road if the president wants to roll back sanctions against ishsran, it might be a different story. Martha raddatz, abc news washington. Were joined by blunt from missouri. John mccain saying some second thoughts. Your colleague ron johnson saying it might is bun in a different way. To you have any second thoughts . No, i really dont, george. I think what was interesting wasive the administration reacted. How aggressively the iranians reacted. It was basically an op ed. There is a for the congress. Senator bob horker did not sign the letter. He suggested this letter could backfire. This action from congress could backfire. And even if theres no deal your goal right now, it will make it tougher to get the allies to go along with the crippleing sanctions you want. Well no deal is better than a bad deal. Senator corker erer sent his own letter. The president september a letter back. The secretary of state, i think the chief of staff said well have to go the u. N. We would prefer not to go the congress. I think that denies the longterm stability that any agreement with iran needs. We have shift sod dramatically from where we started. No enrichment. No Nuclear Weapon. Now were, okay we want some time and space between when you can have Nuclear Weapons and were going to let you were going to understand that you will have capacity to do that. I think the negotiations have gone in a dramatically bad direction. Senator, you say no deal is better than a bad deal. Does that really hold if the allies blame the United States for undermining the deal and dont go along with the sanctions youre calling for . I think susan rice said the other day no deal is better than a bad deal. In that case i agree. Were so far from where we started here george. I cant frankly imagine anything more destabilizing to the middle east or the decades in front of us than a nuclearcapable iran. Why we would be moving in that direction with now negotiating the months you need between the time they say we can have a Nuclear Weapon and they would have one or an end time when theres no restrictions at all. I assume what the administration is now playing for is hoping that before you get to the end date there is a better government in iran that wouldnt want to continually destabilize the world. They have impacting events in five capitals that they have control over. There are many capitals that are very, very concerned. Theyll want their Nuclear Weapon as well. Lets turn to the froefrs over Hillary Clintons emails. John boehner poised to announce a new investigation. Do you expect that in the senate as well . Inchts dont know what will happen in the senate. I think this is reminiscent what one of these campaigns will be like. The clintons can find a loophole in a stop sign, is what one of my favorite commentators said last week. How do you respond to critics that say its rich for congress to call for the investigations to level criticism like that when Congress Exempts itself from the very reporting requirements it imposes on other officials . The obligations of congress are different than the obligations for the secretary of state. The obligations for secretary of state to have a record, to maintain the record, to know what that record was are critical because that person is a critical negotiator. Just like john kerry is. Go back the other point, theyre a critical negotiator. Theres a constitutional process you have to go to. Let me turn to the situation in fegson missouri. Youre the senator from missouri. We saw the shootings. The police chief decided to resign. What should happen now in ferguson . We need to look for everything we can to move forward. Ferguson and the country. The country is better than it was. 50 years ago when john louis led the march over the Edmund Pettus bridge. Were not all with wee should be. So much sudden obligation was placed on how the police were responding to Peaceful Protesters and not so Peaceful Protesters after the unfortunate, tragic end of the life of michael and the tragedy that brought on everybody involved. We need to begin to look at how we move forward. You dont move forward by talking about the mill tarization of the. Its decisions need to be made by the police of how they protect themselves and how they protect others in the hard job they have to do. And, nobodys opposed to peaceful protest here. At some point, that protest needs to lead to what do we do about schools that need to work better than theyre working and support systems for young men and women that need to be more than they are for people who dont have all that they need. Thank you, senator. Coming up more on the manhunt in ferguson and the new effort to recall the major. And walker versus bush. What theyre sayinging over the weekend. And is jim webb ready for hillary . Were back . Just two minutes. Bring your vision for the future to life. For more than 145 years, pacific life has been helping families achieve lifelong Financial Security with innovative tools and strategies. Talk to a Financial Advisor to protect your family and plan today. Pacific life. The power to help you succeed. Hold it come with me. New dannon oikos triple zero is my go to protein snack. Cam, protein from yogurt . Yup, this greek nonfat yogurt packs 15 grams of protein punch. But what else . 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Pierre thomas with more on the city divided over racist issues reporter when shots rang out early thursday morning hitting two Police Officers in ferguson it was clear this community was far from haeld. Now the man hunt continues for the coldblooded shooter before he can strike again. Is there the was a damn punk punk, who was trying to sew discord in an area that was frying to get its act together. The county police say they have several leads but so far no suspects of persons of interest. In the meantime theres a petition circulating seeking to recall the city of fergons mayor. He says he has no plans to step down. Reporter this came after the purge of city officials. The city manager in the wake of the report that found a problem in ferguson. There was a whole structure there that indicated both raisism and just a disregard for what Law Enforcement is supposed to do. Reporter the Justice Department accusing the city of using traffic stops on minorities as a means of raising revenue for the city. Some hoped the thank you ferguson was coming to an end. Theyre Still Standing in the shadow of the death of a black unarmed teenager at the hands of a white police officer. Now, a volatile mix. A shooter on the loose as the protests go on. For this week, Pierre Thomas abc news washington. Thank you, pierre. Were join bid will yak lacy clay who represents fergu

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