Good Morning America (ABC) (partial) - 1991-08-22

Name: Good Morning America (ABC) (partial) - 1991-08-22
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[0:00] Ednesday,

[0:02] August 22nd, and Soviet President

[0:05] Gorbachov has returned to Moscow to pick

[0:08] up the reigns of government and to clean

[0:09] house at the Kremlin.

[0:11] >> But how much power will he have to share

[0:12] with the people's hero, Boris Yeltson?

[0:15] Now out to Spencer Christian in Los

[0:17] Angeles.

[0:18] >> All right, Mike. I've got some great

[0:19] maps to end the week. All of the lower

[0:21] 48 states will see some sunshine today.

[0:24] Joan and Mike.

[0:26] >> All right, and Mike's still here because

[0:27] Charlie's out for the week

[0:28] >> vacation. We'll try to get things back

[0:29] to normal as quickly as we can today.

[0:31] Things are just starting to calm down.

[0:33] >> Is it amazing? Look, this all started

[0:34] when it's all your fault.

[0:36] >> Absolutely. And I'm proud of

[0:37] >> I just thought it all started when you

[0:39] came here. Before you're gone, by the

[0:40] end of the week, it'll be

[0:41] >> make this town safe for good news again.

[0:43] >> That's right. It really truly has though

[0:45] been three days that that just shook the

[0:47] world. But now, less than 72 hours after

[0:50] the coup in the Soviet Union began,

[0:51] President Gorbachev is back. The Soviet

[0:54] people may have weathered the worst and

[0:56] may be closer to democracy than ever

[0:58] before.

[0:58] >> And coming up in this half hour, we're

[1:00] going to get more of a view of the

[1:01] today's events from the Deputy Secretary

[1:03] of State, Lawrence Eagleberger, as well

[1:05] as from Good Morning America Soviet

[1:07] analyst Marshall Goldman. Leading the

[1:08] news at this hour, we do have the latest

[1:10] developments from the Soviet Union.

[1:12] Morton Dean has that story and all the

[1:13] other news of th