This Week (8.14.11) - The Iowa Straw Poll

In this episode, ABC Senior’s Correspondent Jake Tapper talks with Former Governor Pawlenty to discuss his decision to withdraw from the Republican Presidential race.  Next, Jake Tapper speaks with the winner of Iowa Straw Poll, Michele Bachmann, to discuss what her next step will be in the race. In the special Iowa roundtable, Tapper speaks with George Will, Fox News contributor Laura Ingraham, Radio Iowa News Director Kay Henderson and ABC News political analyst Matthew Dowd about Former Governor Pawlenty announcement that he is dropping out of the race. Tapper also discusses how the downgrade shook the markets and raised the stakes for the Obama reelection campaign.  Speaking about this issue is George Will, Laura Ingraham and Matthew Dowd, as well as, ABC’s news political director Amy Walters.

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This Week (8.7.11) - America's Downgrade

In this episode, Christiane Amanpour sits down with ABC's Senior Foreign Affairs Correspondent Martha Raddatz to find out exactly what happened in the deadliest attack on American forces since the start of the war in Afghanistan. Next Christiane talks with S&P Managing Director John Chambers about reaction to the first ever downgrade of America's AAA credit rating.  Then she interviews the chair of the Democratic Governor's association, Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley and top Republican on the Budget Committee Senator Jeff Sessions to discuss whether the parties have the ability to make real economic progress.  In the roundtable Christiane discusses the downgrade and how it effects the American economy with ABC's George Will, former counselor to the Treasury Secretary and President Obama's one-time car czar, Steven Rattner, Senior News Analyst Cokie Roberts, Republican Congressman Jason Chaffetz of Utah, and Chicago, financial advisor Mellody Hobson, president of Ariel Investments.  Next to Syria, Christian talks about America's struggle to respond to President Bashar Assad's expanding crackdown on anti-government dissent.  

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This Week (7.31.11) - No Budget Deal Reached Yet As Default Deadline Nears

In this episode, Christiane Amanpour interviews the President's top political advisor David Plouffe about the view from the white house on the debt stalemate. Then Amanpour chats with republican senator Lindsey Graham on the search for consensus within his own party on the deficiet debate. Amanpour also hosts a roundtable with George Will, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman, Grover Norquist, President of Americans for Tax Reform, And ABC Chief Political Correspondent George Stephanopoulos to discuss the final hours of the debt ceiling debate. Finally, Amanpour talks with ABC's David Muir who reports on the country's epic famine.   

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