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Expected to be hard on republicans and soft on democrats. >> i want to push back on this a little bit. >> she was supposed to defer to the very senior men who were running the bank bailout. and she did none of those things. >> aig has received about $70 billion in tarp money, about $100 billion in loans from the fed. do you know where the money went? >> we just came at this very differently. and he was secretary of the treasury and i wasnt. >> we had no power over what the treasury department di...

Israel. we were a little bit amazed it was donald trump but when he came out for israel i sent the message to our people at that time which was 5 million in number and said this is the man we will w support because he is pro-israel. he has announced that jerusalem is the eternal capital of israel and moved the u.s. embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem. he has given the golan heights to israel recognizing it has been israels butt hes just sending the signal to the enemies of israel that israel has ...

Currently serving a lawn federal prison term for multiple felonies. the federal judge in manaforts case today entered an order granting the forfeiture of paul manaforts apartment in trump tower to the u.s. government, to basically make good on his ill-gotten gains and of the money he ripped off as part of his crimes. after manafort was initially convicted on aig felony counts he struck a plea deal with prosecutors in the special counsels office to try to avoid a trial on several more counts. it ...

President about this? if the president -- if you had a chance, a minute with him, and he said im thinking about pardoning him, you were in the case, you heard aller the evidence. what do you think? >> i would say president trump, thats p a big mistake. or aig huge mistake as he would say. that would send a bad message to other people. and it would make president trump look bad too. paul manafort needs to pay the price for what he did. >> and the fact that the judge said that paul manafort lived ...

>> dont forget this is the administration that didnt want to let people in facilities and on june we got in and never gave us pictures. they are limiting the transparency -- go ahead. >> i want to hammer home ow creepy this is. it is one thing to say we wont let you into the facility which is the level of transparency it is another to spy on journalists and owe to send ahead a list to people manning a border to say you should question or detain this person simply because they are practicing thei...

A bill on little east policy it was pushed by senate republicans who are increasingly critical of donald trumps foreign policies. venezuelas opposition leader why though has accused the special police unit of coming to us home and threatening his family the alleged encounter came as quite though tries to persuade venezuelan security forces to support him in a standoff with president nicolas maduro of the police deny that officers went to quell those homework you know. a panicked leopard injured ...

Joining me here the big table is alex force widing with lets start alex with the background to this tax how did it how do we get here yes so the ugandan parliament introduced it back in the summer in july really at the behest of the president president most of aig now it follows a number of criticisms that he has made about social media and open letter was sent out to residents in uganda telling him about this tax and in that letter he wrote social media chatting is a luxury by those who are enj...

Expected to be hard on republicans and soft on democrats. >> i want to push back on this a little bit -- >> she was supposed to defer to the very senior men who were running the bank bail out. and she did none of those things. >> aig has received about $70 billion in tart money. about a hundred billion dollars in loans from the fed. do you know where the money went? we just came at this very differently. and he was secretary of the treasury, and i wasnt. >> we had no power over what the treasury...

Western world. >> paulson, bernanke, tim geithner, they saw the risk that this could be not just a fire that would burn wall street down, but that could burn down our economy and burn down the world economy. >> it is uncle sam to the rescue, but oh, what a price tag. >> the federal government is saving insurance giant aig from possible collapse with an $85 billion loan, all of it your money. >> the move was designed to calm and bring stability to the financial markets. did it work? maybe down th...

Than it was the day before. >> its the latest crisis to rock the financial markets. insurance giant aig teetering on the brink of bankruptcy. this is a colossal firm. if it fails, the ripples would travel far and wide throughout the global economy. >> all of the sudden who would have dreamed this other bombshell goes off thats aig. if you think loehmann brothers was complicated to figure out, aig was monumentally bigger. >> aig is this massive insurance company, but they also had a division call...