Political mastermind and reality TV star Donald Trump visited the set of Good Morning America, where he discussed GOP candidates Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich, particularly where their personal wealth is concerned.

GOP presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich gave an interview to ABC’s Good Morning America, where he told host George Stephanopoulos, where he invoked the words of none other than influential liberal magnate George Soros. RELATED: PBS’s Bill Moyers: George Soros Has Been The Victim Of ‘Fox News Assassins’ The tension between Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich [...]

ABC legal analyst and Mediaite founder Dan Abrams spoke to Good Morning America about the rape allegation against Greg Kelly, host of Good Day New York and son of New York police commissioner Ray Kelly.

In an interview with Good Morning America host George Stephanopoulos Wednesday morning, Vice President Joe Biden passed on an opportunity to call former House Speaker Newt Gingrich out over his overtly racial politicking. Asked if Gingrich is playing racial politics with references to President Obama as the “Food Stamp President,” Biden responded, “It’s hard to tell. I’m not being facetious. It’s hard to tell what Newt means. He says a lot.”

Appearing on Good Morning America to promote his critically-acclaimed film, The Descendants, movie star George Clooney told host George Stephanopoulos that he was rooting for President Obama in 2012.

With all the talk of the ongoing battle between Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum, at least one person thinks the two will be able to patch it up. That person is Rob Lowe who predicted that the two front runners would become “the new Republican ticket” when stopping by Good Morning America.

Former Massachusetts governor (oh, and the winner last night in Iowa) Mitt Romney told Good Morning America‘s George Stephanopoulos just how his experience differs from that of “runner up” candidate Rick Santorum, noting that there is “nothing wrong” with the fact that Santorum has spent “most of life in the governmental sector,” but that “it’s very different, I think, if you want to get the economy going again.”

Still shopping for the perfect gift for your loved ones? How about cosmetic surgery? On Tuesday’s Good Morning America, a woman named Nicole announced she was letting her sister Tina have a very Heidi Montag Christmas by giving her the gift of Botox injections for the Yuletide.

Recently for Good Morning America, contributor Elizabeth Hasselbeck reported a story on a growing trend of stay at home mothers supplementing their family’s income by becoming phone sex operators. Today on The View, Hasselbeck and her co-hosts discussed and Whoopi Goldberg revealed that she herself had spent some time on the other end of the phone.

Good Morning America showed a clip from yesterday’s culinary talk show The Chew, where the foodies — all snuggled up in pajamas in beds on set as they prepared to chow down on General Tso’s chicken from Chinese takeout boxes. Mario Batali joined the rest of the group and inexplicably broke the bed frame. George Stephanopoulos chuckled, and gave the ginger-bearded chef some advice. “Mario, it’s time to put down that chow mein, pick up some celery.”

Tuesday morning, Mediaite founder and ABC legal analyst Dan Abrams stopped by the set of Good Morning America to discuss the case of Florida woman Michelle Parker, who went missing after appearing on the daytime’s People’s Court television show.

Abrams shared that it’s significant that Parker’s family has decided to stand behind her ex-fiancé — with whom she had argued on the show — both where the investigation and the “court of public opinion” are concerned.

Bill Maher appeared on Monday’s Good Morning America to promote his new book “The New New Rules” and gave some surprisingly frank praise for Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney in an interview with anchor George Stephanopoulos. “You’ve got to feel very bad for Mitt Romney,” Maher observed. “I mean, he has been led so far by Trump, then Bachmann, then Perry, then Cain…I’m rooting for him. Look, because in a country with two political parties the Republican can always win. I mean — at least he eats with a knife and fork! I mean — he is all that stands between us and the rise of the apes.”

ABC News said goodbye to correspondent Ashleigh Banfield this week as she departs for a venture hosting a new morning program at CNN next week. Mediaite has learned that her colleagues toasted Banfield in the Executive Dining Room on her last day at the network yesterday, and ABC News President Ben Sherwood led a champagne toast to Banfield, commending her and wishing her luck on her new endeavor.

Sources tell Mediaite that Good Morning America has secured an exclusive interview with the mother of one of former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky‘s victims. She will appear on the morning show in a silhouette, to protect the identity of both her and her son.

Rick Perry appeared on Good Morning America in full damage control mode following his 53-second meltdown of an epic gaffe at yesterday’s debate. Anchor George Stephanopoulos grilled the Texas Governor about his botched answer, saying he looked like he was in pain. “I was thinking about the number of federal agencies that were coming to mind but the one that I wanted to say, the Department of Energy, would not come out!” Perry exclaimed. “In all seriousness, that is one of the problems we have in this country, that we have so many agencies in government out there, that are impacting people’s lives. Everybody makes mistakes!”

During Sharon Bialek‘s media tour this morning about her allegations against Herman Cain, she sat down with Good Morning America‘s George Stephanopoulos. Stephanopoulos questioned Bialek about whether she had called Joel Bennett, the attorney of one of the other accusers of the Republican candidate, who had said a woman from Chicago named “Sharon” had called him. Bialek hesitated. “We not going to answer who she calls,” attorney Gloria Allred interjected. “You can’t say? Why not?” pressed Stephanopoulos. “Because that’s not the issue — the issue is Herman Cain,” responded Allred.

Closing arguments began this week in the Conrad Murray case, and Good Morning America brought in their “legal dream team” to assess the situation. Mediaite founder Dan Abrams and HLN’s Nancy Grace butted heads in their analysis of the case. “Nobody’s on trial because it’s not a crime to be awake. It’s a crime to be dead by having propofol shot into your dead body until all of your organs are saturated with a powerful, surgical anesthetic that is not to be used outside the operating room. Those guys didn’t know what they were talking about!” exclaimed Grace. “It’s actually not a crime to be putting drugs into a dead body,” Abrams snarkily rebutted. “But if you put it in a live body, that is a crime.”

Brian Ross and the entire staff of Good Morning America were dancing for joy Wednesday morning (at least on the inside), as a company they had been dogging with allegations for some time were hit with a large criminal complaint. “A year after we first raised questions about the company’s sales practices here on Good Morning America,” Ross said, “local officials in Los Angeles have filed a 19-count criminal complaint alleging misdemeanor fraud and theft by the company.”

Democratic strategist James Carville appeared on Good Morning America this morning to assess the current crop of front runners in the GOP presidential field and was not shy in his both predictable and entertainingly harsh criticism of his ideological foes. Herman Cain and Mitt Romney were both targeted, but it was Texas Governor Rick Perry, who has seen a rather enormous dip in recent polls, that received the most merciless review.

On Wednesday’s edition of Good Morning America, ABC legal correspondant and Mediaite Founder Dan Abrams discussed the clash between the family and the police in the Baby Lisa case. Abrams reported that Baby Lisa’s parents will only answer questions from authorities under unusually strict guidelines e.g. if they’re asked fairly and by people who haven’t determined guilt. He noted that this was bringing a real tension into the case as police were treating them as potential suspects. “This is their child who’s missing, and people are going to hear that and say ‘I don’t care what your lawyer is telling you, you have to help them everyway that you can.’” Abrams assessed.

ABC News and Yahoo! just announced plans to launch a “strategic online news alliance” that will “blend ABC News’ global newsgathering operation and unrivaled lineup of trusted anchors and reporters with Yahoo! News’ unmatched audience, depth and breadth of content.” The announcement was just made on-air of Good Morning America, a video of which will [...]

Doctor Conrad Murray‘s trial continued yesterday with the jurors hearing testimony from the first security guard to be called to Michael Jackson‘s side by Murray. Alberto Alvarez told the court that Murray told him Jackson had a bad reaction, and asked him to hide a bag of medicine vials before calling the police.

The trial of Conrad Murray continued yesterday with testimony from the Michael Jackson‘s head of security and personal assistant, recounting the scene at Neverland the day the star was found dead. The two described, in a consistent manner, according to Dan Abrams who ran down the day on Good Morning America earlier today, a frantic and suspicious scene.

Conrad Murray‘s trial kicked off to a grim start yesterday with a photo of Michael Jackson’s lifeless body stretched out on a hospital gurney, an eerie recording of Jackson, and tears all around. ”Prosecutors want to make the jurors realize that this is about Michael Jackson‘s gruesome death,” expounded legal analyst Dan Abrams, stopping by Good Morning America early this morning to run down day one.

Former counsel for Michael Jackson, Mark Geragos and Mediaite’s own Dan Abrams stopped by Good Morning America today to preview Doctor Conrad Murray‘s trail, set to start today. Murray has been charged in Jackson’s death, and faces four years in prison and the loss of his medical license if found guilty. Proceedings will be televised and broadcast online and will play out as a somber final chapter in the media spectacle that was Jackson’s life.