Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, said Sunday on ABC’s This Week that there appears to be enough votes to pass a new round of Covid-19 relief using a process called reconciliation.
The process is used to pass budget matters in the US Senate and requires just a simple majority…
Democratic presidential frontrunner Joe Biden said Sunday on ABC’s This Week that the upcoming Democratic convention may have to be done via remote connections.
"Well, we're going to have to do a convention, may have to do a virtual convention," the former vice president and 2020 Democratic presidential frontrunner…
Trump administration officials appearing on two Sunday morning political talk shows said that a transcript of a controversial phone call between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky would not be released.
The July call between the two leaders has been the subject of an alleged…
ABC News has added former Chicago mayor and White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel as a contributor. No information was available on how he’ll be used by the network.
The announcement was made on This Week with George Stephanopoulos earlier today. Emmanuel, a Democrat, was the 55th mayor of Chicago, serving from 2011…
Political consultant Roger Stone, under indictment by the Robert Mueller Russia collusion probe and the subject of an FBI raid earlier this week, is using Mario Puzo’s The Godfather to explain some of his actions.
Appearing on ABC’s This Week with host George Stephanopoulos, Stone talked about an email exchange he had…
The explanation by the Saudi Arabian government that 60-year-old, out-of-shape Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed during a fist fight against hardened security men is being soundly dismissed by politicians and media on Sunday morning news analysis programs.
Khashoggi, a critic of the Saudi…
Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon said criticism of President Donald Trump’s border policy and foreign policies has reached a point where “The whole purpose here is to demonize Donald Trump.”
Appearing on ABC-TV’s This Week with ABC chief White House correspondent Jonathan Karl, Bannon defended the…
ABC News has said it will air its final interview with President Obama while he is in office Sunday on This Week.
It will be ABC News Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos’ 12th interview with Obama in office. Sunday’s Oval Office sit-down, ABC promises, will include Obama’s views on the transition with President-elect Do…
Sunday’s Beltway shows should be humdingers after this week’s yeasty episode of reality competition series Road Rage to the White House. NBC’s Meet the Press has booked Mitt Romney — the 2012 GOP nominee brought out of his Hyperbaric Dignity Chamber (Stephen Colbert 3/3/16) by the Republican Party on Thursday to…
NBC’s Meet The Press With Chuck Todd was the most-watched Sunday Beltway show in the news demographic, outstripping its competitors by double digits. The ratings come out the same day ABC announced Martha Raddatz has been promoted to co-anchor of This Week With George Stephanopoulos.MTP, which is rated by Nielsen for…
Martha Raddatz has been named co-anchor of ABC News’ This Week With George Stephanopoulos. Raddatz has co-anchored the Sunday Beltway show, and done reporting, and will continue to do so, ABC News President James Goldston said this morning. Chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl will be the primary substitute…
ABC’s Sunday Beltway show This Week won the second quarter of 2015 in the news demo with 875,000 viewers – its first demo win during a second quarter in 21 years. CBS’ Face The Nation, meanwhile, won the quarter in overall audience with 3.212 million viewers, while This Week clocked 2.683 million.
And what of “sleepy…
