This Week (4.22.12) Podcast

In this week’s episode, ABC’s George Stephanopoulos sits down with Maine Senator Susan Collins, the ranking member of the Homeland Security Committee and New York Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney from the House Oversight Committee to discuss the recent government scandals. Is unethical behavior in the agency assigned to protect the president casting a shadow over government?

Next, George Will, Peggy Noonan of the Wall Street Journal, ABC News political analyst Matthew Dowd, Democratic strategist Donna Brazile, and Keith Olbermann on ABC’s “This Week” sit down to discuss what the scandals within the Secret Service and General Services Administration mean for the political race.

The panelists discuss who is to blame and whether or not the president can be held responsible.

Meanwhile, the race between Mitt Romney and President Obama is tightening with the latest polls showing a dead-heat less than seven months before Election Day.

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This Week (4.15.12) Podcast

In this week’s episode, ABC’s George Stephanopoulos speaks with Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner about the country’s fiscal situation. The economy continues to add over 100,000 jobs a month, but thousands have also given up looking for work. President Obama could face an uphill battle if the unemployment rate remains above eight percent through November, but the head of the Treasury is optimistic that growth will continue. At the roundtable, Paul Gigot, editorial page editor of the Wall Street Journal, Katrina Vanden Heuvel, editor of the nation, political commentator Cokie Roberts, Romney campaign adviser Kevin Madden, and Mellody Barnes who headed domestic policy under the administration discussed the economy and politics.

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This Week (4.8.12) Podcast

In this week’s episode, ABC’s Jake Tapper interviews world-renowned Pastor Rick Warren about faith, religion, and politics. In Warren’s invocation at President Obama’s inauguration in 2009, the pastor called for civility in America, and today he says Americans still struggle to walk hand-in-hand without seeing eye-to-eye. At the political roundtable, commentator George Will, editor of Thomson Reuters digital Chrystia Freeland, The Washington Bureau Chief for Yahoo News David Chalian, Wall Street Journal Columnist Peggy Noonan, and author and Georgetown University Professor Michael Eric Dyson discuss the President’s harsh words for Congressman Paul Ryan’s budget plan and his criticism of the Supreme Court.

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