Bonus: "I Was Surprised He Said It Out Loud"

The Investigation

ABC News

News, Politics

3.6 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2019

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

In this special bonus episode of "The Investigation," ABC News Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos speaks with co-host Chris Vlasto about his exclusive sit down interview with President Trump. Stephanopoulos, who spent two days with the President, even traveling to Iowa on Air Force One, takes us behind the scenes of his explosive interview -- Trump telling Stephanopoulos, if a foreign government approached him with information on a political opponent, "there's nothing wrong with listening." Then, senior investigative producer John Santucci, who spent over a year securing this exclusive interview, joins the conversation and teases ahead to the big primetime special coming up on the ABC network.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the special bonus edition of The Investigation.
0:10.0	I'm Chris Vlasto, Senior Executive Producer, joined here by special guest, George Stephanopoulos,
0:15.7	who obviously has the newsmaking interview of the year in some ways.
0:20.5	This is the first big interview the president is given to a network other than Fox in a while,
0:25.5	so we couldn't wait to hear it.
0:27.3	And it was 30 hours that George Stephanopoulos spent with him over two days.
0:31.7	All the issues were discussed, and it's going to be a special.
0:34.1	But we actually got some clips out today.
0:36.9	George, welcome to the investigation.
0:39.4	Hey.
0:39.8	Congress is in overdrive this morning. Chuck Schumer just took to the Senate floor. Let's hear what he
0:44.7	had to say about it. That is shocking, shocking, yet sadly, par for the course of this president.
0:53.3	Later this afternoon, my friend, Senator Warner, will ask our colleagues for the unanimous
0:59.7	consent to pass his bill that says if Russia, Iran, North Korea, anyone else offers a campaign
1:05.3	help, you report it to the FBI ASAP.
1:09.2	My Republican friends should take a few hours to decide if they really want to
1:14.0	block that bill. If they do, it would be a disgrace. So you know the big news, obviously, is the
1:19.7	president saying that he would actually accept information about opponents from a foreign government.
1:26.1	What do you think made him say that?
1:28.3	Chris, I got to set the scene for you.
1:30.1	This was the beginning of the day yesterday.
1:31.8	This was, he was giving me a tour of the Oval Office.
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