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Is still not different than not being a target of the investigation? >> well, it is. semantics is more than the issue here. if youre a target, it means theres likely evidence that links you to a crime. if youre a subject, your conduct is under scrutiny or in relation to the grand jurys overall investigation. the two is distinct, but its fascinating to me that rudy giuliani would be asking for donald trump to get the hillary clinton treatment. one of the things the hillary clinton treatment inclu...

Clinton treatment. remember, one of the things that the hillary treatment included is that if you were to alert the public about an ongoing investigation or that they were a target, then you had the triggering obligation to then tell the court or the congress or the american people that they are no longer a target, or if that changes again back to that. but the presidents lawyer asks for that particular allowance to say i would like the hillary clinton treatment would actually say that if there ...

A very big decision here and you know it will probably have implications for the academy and its reputation absolutely this is utterly devastating i think at first glance because this was a globally respected institution was founded over two hundred thirty years ago and has always had a stellar reputation as we know the prize has been. has been postponed for usually for war reasons sometimes because they also have an allowance in their rules that says they can postpone if there isnt a right or t...

Bushs final resting place. it will be about a 90-mile drive to college station. the home of george h.w. bushs presidential library. it is there where barbara bush will find her final resting place alongside her daughter robin who died when she was just 3 years old. victor, christie? >> caylee hartung, thank you. we have more now from washington bureau chief for "usa today" and author of "the matriarch" susan page and a presidential historian, bob naftali. both of you have sat down with this wo...

If the browser act were to pass and you get an opt in or opt out, how do you keep facebook and others honest? >> through the federal trade commission. the ftc has been our nations privacy regulator for decades. for the past 20 years, they have regulated the virtual space. theyre the ones that issued the decree on facebook and brought them in compliance in 2011. thats when we started the privacy working group, which i chaired. for four years, weve been trying to pass data security and privacy edu...

I grew up in the forests out in this area and honestly its heartbreaking to see all these trees dying. what guides me is ensuring that the public is going to be safer and that these forests can be sustained and enjoyed by the community in the future. no matter what there is always good news somewhere, and we think good news rules. so theed it we take to you pritchard, alabama, where 4-year-old is spending his allowance to buy food for the homeless. he said his motto is show love. and he shows ...

And then suddenly, brad canceled nancys credit cards. blocked her access to the bank account. put her on a cash allowance. >> i recall a time she was in the car with me and she called him and said, you know, ive got $2 and we dont have any diapers. >> reporter: nancy couldnt get a job. she had no green card. she began painting a friends house to earn extra money. when she did, brad reduced her allowance. >> she must have been furious at him. >> furious would be an understatement. >> also tried t...

Witness from either side had seen brad physically violent toward nancy. for the $300 a week allowance there was a reason, the defense argued. remember the couple had serious debt. the defense offered contrasting scenes of the cooper marriage from another set of friends. >> people who had known the couple for years, did not jump on this bandwagon to paint this as an abusive relationship. >> reporter: remember that "i hate brad" day, the day the prosecution said the marriage hit its boiling point....

>> she told me when she slept at night she slept with her jeans on and the keys in her pocket with the children and the door locked. >> reporter: he never beat her. it wasnt physical, said the prosecutors. but he used financial power to exert absolute control. this, they said, was a form of domestic violence. >> she was in this abrasive, rough relationship at that point. he trapped her. he controlled everything about her life. >> reporter: wait a minute. nancys allowance, remember, was $300 a we...

With nancys father on the stand, prosecutors played a phone message nancy left her parents after she returned home from that vacation with her family. >> the house was so dirty. there were ants infesting on the table when i got there. >> as that last week went on, the fighting escalated. on friday, her friend testified, nancy was shaking with anger when she revealed brad withheld her allowance that day because she earned her own money painting a house. >> did she tell you what kind of day this w...