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WPVI This Week With George Stephanopoulos June 22, 2024

This week with George Stephanopoulos begins now. Good morning, we hope we had you a great fourth of july. Thanks goodness it passed without a kind of incident that had officials so worried. Here in new york 7,000 Police Officers deployed to protect the fireworks. Pierre thomas has been tracking the threat and pierre so far so good. Reporter good morning, george. Law enforcement is breathing a sigh of relief that we made it through Independence Day without any attack. High security throughout the country. Speckly concerned about isis and the threat of lone wolves. Unfortunately the unprecedented social Media Campaign by isis which is happening now as we speak is urging its followers to carry out attacks including here in the u. S. Were at the oneyear anniversary of the formation of the islamic state. A threat that authorities are paying attention to right now were in the islamic holy month of ramadan that doesnt end until july 17th. Called on followers to make ramadan quote a month of disasters for those infidels. This will be a long uneasy summer george. Theyll keep trying. Pierre you also cover Homeland Security and immigration. That hour risk case out of San Francisco, kate steinle was killed by an inlegal immigrant, deported five times, a lot of people wondering, how could someone like that be in the United States be free . Reporter george, what a tragic case and this may be a classic example that bureaucracy can kill. They say this criminal as you said deported five times never should have been released by the city. They say Francisco Sanchez was handed over to the city because of an outstanding drug charge there. Prior to that he was in prison for a repeat illegal immigration offender. A speck request to be notified once the local case was resolved, but that did not happen. Once the drug charges were dropped, mr. Sanchez was simply free to go. San francisco is a safe haven city that does not detain undocumented immigrants. George who is right is the subject for debate. The feds said they did everything on the books. Should the locals simply notified the feds when the case ended . Or should have been closely monitoring the case . A very sad story. It sure is. Lets xweet into this debate with virginia congressman, what went wrong here and what should be done about it . Well both the government, the federal government and San Francisco are wrong here and george let me say at the outset what the tragedy for this family. But quite frankly, the federal government i. C. E. Knows about San Franciscos sanctuary policy. Its a bad policy but they know about it. They could have deported again or they could have prosecuted him for illegally reentering the country four times. The fact of the matter is, San Francisco why would they release someone back on to their streets whos illegally in the streets when they could have contacted i. C. E. And turned him back over to them for deportion and again, she would have been safe. A real tragedy. What is the answer here should the federal government should be a law that requires cities like San Francisco to turn over those who were charged in the past charged with illegal crimes . Thats the law and that was the law, the policy regarding detainers, which is a law of the United States was enforced by the bushs administration as being mandatory. The Obama Administration has converted that as something voluntary, in doing so they have eliminated a program called secure communities where individuals like this would be detained and turned over to the immigration authorities. This administration is releasing criminals back on the streets themselves theres fault to be bourn by both. The laws need to be enforced. Over the last six years, deportation of criminals is up. Theyre not deporting people in the numbers that have been deported in the past and theyre counting people they aprehend at the border and turn back around. The Bush Administration did not count that as deportation. The next day, that didnt count as deportation. The Obama Administration has started counting those. The actual deportation from the interior of the country is way down. This administration is not enforcing our immigration laws and quite frankly i dont think they care and this tragedy in San Francisco which is repeated every day around the country doesnt get this kind of know tryty is the lack of caring of the respect of the rule of law. Mr. Chairman thank you for your time. On the campaign trail, donald trump pounced on this story, saying it proves his point on illegal immigration. Hes drawing fire from his business partners. Abcs cecilia vega with more. Reporter the polls show hes still doing well despite these controversial comments. The real estate mogul saying mexicans are bringing drugs and crime. So far, trump is not backing down. Now, Networks Like nbc and univision are refusing to carry the miss usa pageant. Opponents quick to pounce. They are distancing themselves. Jeb bush whose wife is mexican, hes taking these comments personally. Take a listen. Hes doing this to inflame and to incite and to draw attention, which seems to be the organizing principle of his campaign. It doesnt represent the republican party. Reporter and others are lash lashing out, too, we heard candidates like rick perry or potential candidate rick perry, chris christie, marco rubio saying that this could prove to be a real problem for republicans, george, really illustrates ss the division of the party. On the democratic side trump dominating the republican side. Bernie sanders drawing these huge sides. Wow, Bernie Sanders is having an excellent week. People are just packing into his events. More than 10,000 people filling a stadium to hear the vermont senator speak. Clinton said she knew that this race was going to be competitive. The reality, in a poll of iowa voters clinton still ahead by a landslide. 52 to 33 for sanders. And they lit up twitter yesterday, the Clinton Campaign in New Hampshire by reining in the press with a rope. Reporters roped off as clinton walked in a campaign. Look Clinton Campaign spokesman said had a funny response. The gop may want to spin a good yarn on this lets not get tied up in knots. They said the move allowed reporters to have more flexibility on that parade route. Okay cecilia. Thanks very much. That brings us to our next guest the longest serving governor in texas history, now candidate for president. Today im running for the presidency of the United States of America Rick Perry is back but after that crash and burn the last campaign. Can he be a real contender this time . New glasses had a studious look hes boned up on foreperson policy. Built up Ground Forces in key states. Its good to be back in iowa. Reporter and states his claims with social conservative. Defend the border. Our rights come from god. We need to return to power to the states. Still perrys lagging in the polls and needs a breakout moment to qualify for those first debates. And governor rick perry joins us now live. Thank you for being here this morning. You have been pretty candid about your last campaign saying you botched it last time around with so many other new choices for republican why should gop voters give you a Second Chance . Think American People are taking a look at these candidates and theyre starting to focus on them now. And what i hear people care about whos going to be able to get this economy going and keep this country safe who can secure the border being a former air force pilot as we look at who has the experience who has the executive experience to run this country, and having 14 years of the experience of being a very successful chief executive of the 12th largest economy of the world, i think americans are going to look at us and see how we perform and obviously i think they have seen the preparation and the work we have done over the course of the last years and i think we have a very Good Opportunity to impress the American People thats the kind of mature leadership proven leadership with the military background and the results of our border work. American people are going to like that. Donald trump took aim at your work on the border yesterday. He said should have done a better job of protecting the border. I dont think he understands the challenge, obviously, we have been there for 14 years, the governor of that state with 1200mile border when it become clear that the president wasnt going to deal with this issue. We acted last summer. We had a 74 decrease of apprehensions in that region of the border where the real challenges are. My bet is mr. Trump doesnt know that. Again, executive experience really matters. Having run the 12th largest economy in the world is really going to matter to the American People. Is he hurting your party . Ted cruz said he salutes donald trump. The fact is i have said clearly that donald trump does not represent the republican party. I was offended by his comments. Hispanics in america and texas, have been Extraordinary People citizens of our country and of our state, they have served noble and to paint with that broad of a brush, like donald trump did, hes going to have to defend those remarks. I never will. Those are offensive, which they were. Lets talk about the economy. Last month, you said america is on course to the failed policies of detroit and greece. 6 we saw the unemployment figures thanks to texas. Thanks to texas. Think about from from 07 through 2014 george 1. 5 million jobs were created in one place, one state thats texas. The rest of the country lost 400,000 jobs. What the president should have said in the state of the union address, i want to salute texas to make sure we have a positive job growth in this country. Because without texas, this country would have been 1. 11 1. 1 million jobs below water. But can you promise this as president you would have an Unemployment Rate below 5. 3 . What i would bring to this country is a positive view on how you get americans back to work. We got an epa thats jobkilling. This piece of executive order that he put into place to force overtime thats a job killer this president has been putting jobkilling regulations into place through his agencies and through executive orders. I know how to create jobs fear people from overtaxation use the Energy Resources in north america. You can drive down electricity. Lower the Corporate Tax rate. Not only will it raise midlevel wages it will give incentives to those companies to come back onshore. With the incentive of a lower Corporate Tax rate and you can have a renaissance of manufacturer churg in this country. You have been critical with the negotiating stance of the president over iran. Do you expect to take military action against iran as president . A bad move by the media to say the only option youre going to have im just asking. Military action. I hear that all too often. Thats the first thing they go to, if you dont want to negotiate with them youre going to go to war. Thats not correct. I think you can put a coalition together and you can use the sanctions. We had iran at a very good position from my perspective, they wanted to come to the negotiating table because of the sanctions. If we left those sanctions in place, i would suggest it would have been substantially better for america. What were seeing now, this country, heading towards having a Nuclear Weapon thats going to do nothing more than guaranteeing the development of a sunni bomb theyre not going to sit back and say were going to let iran have a bomb. I think the other countries that are involved with this the other countries are going to be impacted by this see the wiz domestic of having the sanctions in place. Lets talk about gay marriage you were critical of the Supreme Court ruling last week, but last time around you were also critical of gays in the military. Take a look. Im not ashamed to admit that im a christian. You dont need to be in the pew every sunday to know that theres something wrong in this country where gays can serve openly in the military. So if you were president would you stand by that . I agree with the four justices that were on the losing side of that decision. This issue needs to be decided by the states. I think the bigger and broader issue from my perspective, the next president of the United States may choose up to three Supreme Court justices. Im very clear in my stand that i believe in traditional marriage. Thats the bigger issue here is that the next president of the United States may choose up to three Supreme Court justices. Would you bring back dont ask dont tell. I think you know that clearly has already were beyond that. Finally what is your path to victory here youre lagging in the polls, youre not even qualifying for the debates just yet. I think the work that were doing now, clearly, both on the issues that really that American People really care about, are starting to tune us in. I feel very comfortable that im going to be on the stage and well be able to perform in a way over the course of the last months, this is an individual who has the executive experience and the vision. I think americans are looking for an optimistic individual. Someone who has a positive outlook for this country. Knows that the best years are ahead of us and economically and securitiwise securitiwise i know how to lay that out. I feel comfortable. Governor perry, thank you. Thank you, george. Roundtable up next. Plus overseas to the big stories defining the week ahead, Nuclear Talks in iran and economic talks in greece. And were live from vancouver. Announcer this week with George Stephanopoulos brought to you by cisco. Im hacking your company. Grabbing your data. Stealing your customers secrets. Theres an army of us. 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Call one reverse mortgage now and get your questions answered, and ask for your free guide roundtable standing by to round up a week of politics donald trump and Bernie Sanders. Wait means for both sides in two minutes. Le hes always hanging out with his friends. Youve got to be prepared to sit at the edge of your seat and be ready to get up. Theres no deep couch sitting. Its definitely not good for my back. This is the part i really dont like right here. doorbell whats that . A package its a swiffer wetjet. It almost feels like its moving itself. This is kind of fun. That comes from my floor . Eww this is deep couch sitting. Deep couch sitting you know your dentures can move, unlike natural teeth. Try fixodent plus true feel. The smooth formula helps keep dentures in place. Its free of flavors and colorants, for a closer feeling to natural teeth. Fixodent. And forget it. I have lost count on how many republicans are running for this job. Theyll have enough for an actual hunger games. Thats an interesting bunch. President obama having some fun in wisconsin this week out on the campaign trail. Well talk about it on the roundtable now. Were joined by congressman castor democratic from texas. Bill kristol, editor of the weekly standard. Donald trump, congressman cole youre a student of politics does this help or hurt your party. I think it helps. It helps . Yeah it doesnt hurt. I look at this this is somebody making a statement. He has a certain following. I dont think hes anybodys second choice. Anything that draws attention to the stage is fine. Hes never held an office never really been associated all that much directly with the party, so at the end of the day it adds to the color. Hes energized the latino community. In fact America Ferrera wrote an incredible thank you note to drump for doing that. Jeb bush and marco rubio took about three weeks to come out and condemn donald trump, which was absolutely surprising that they would havent the spine early on to stand up and say something. I got to believe, bill jeb bush attack and marco rubio attack dodge trump said fine. Cecilia said about the race donald trump had done well despite these controversial comments. Hes doing well because of these controversial comments. Ultimately you cant win a president ial nomination just saying outrageous things. Hes tapped into real sentiments. Rick perry hasnt handed it fine talking with you. Incorporate the trump message defend trump. When two of the top candidates take three weeks, when the head of nascar comes out before jeb bush and marco rubio, you got a problem. Meanwhile, ann, were probably going to see donald trump in the debate

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