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For long, they get an allowance from the government. >> independence comes. what happens here? [ speaking foreign language ] >> so unless im mistaken, the gentleman just said that cutting edge research moved to burundi and elsewhere. the congolese who remain, their mission all these years later, has been to preserve the patrimony that existed. all this was state-of-the-art back in 50s when the library was built. but for 20 years, there hasnt been electricity to run dehumidifiers to keep out the ...

He controlled everything about her life. >> wait a minute. nancys allowance, remember, was $300 a week. would a jury think that was evidence of abuse? >> how do you tell a jury that hes depriving her? >> its difficult but the facts still remain that there are these signs of control emanating from that cooper household. >> it doesnt matter whether its $1,000 a week or $10 a week. the fact of the matter is that it caused friction between the two of them. >> so the jury heard about that last week o...

On, the fighting escalated. on the friday, friend diana duncan said nancy was shaking with anger when she revealed brad withheld her allowance that day because she earned her own money painting a friends house. >> did she tell you what kind of day this was? >> this was an i hate brad day. she said that at least three times. i hate you, brad cooper. i hate you, i hate you. >> she lived across the street. it was her party that friday at which brad and nancy fought openly, she said. >> her tone at ...

She had no green card. she began painting a friends house to earn some extra money. when she did, brad reduced her allowance. she must have been furious at him. >> furious would be on understatement. >> youd try to help and shes very proud and shed feel guilty. im not going to take your money. no, this isnt your job to support me and my kids. >> nancy began locking important papers, including the girls passports in her car. >> i went down in february of 08, and it was awful. i had never seen nan...

>> the idea that theyre in a bad marriage. that theyre contemplating divorce. it gets you to a point you say, i need to take a second look at this. >> this is howard kurtz, defense attorney. and heres what he thought about the murder case against his client, brad cooper. >> you need actual evidence to convict. and actual evidence is something they did not have. >> no physical evidence, said the defense attorneys, to tie brad to nancys murder and those awful scenes from the cooper marriage the ju...

Mr. president, you were gentleman to have mexico pay for this through the campaign. he said he was not giving up on the idea. the mechanism wont be so direct as mexico cutting a check to the united states, rather, the u.s., the trump administration is now in the midst of these complicated renegotiations of nafta and through the nafta process, there would be some kind of allowance made that would cover the cost of the wall. that was the explanation given to us. there wasnt pa lot of detail on tha...

Who is going to make iran more free, more prosperous, but there has been a lot of disappointment in there and targeting some of their ire against him as well as the mullahs who run the country and the supreme leader. really essentially at the core of this are economic concerns, particularly after the u.s. nuclear deal, the expectation among iranians was that there was finally going to be some economic growth there. they were going to stop being an international pariah and that was going to be re...

Returning to our story now, heres keith morrison. >> the idea that theyre in a bad marriage. that theyre contemplating divorce. it gets you to a point you say, i need to take another look at this. >> this is howard kurtz, defense attorney. and heres what he thought about the murder case against his client, brad cooper. >> you need actual evidence to convict. and actual evidence is something they did not have. >> no physical evidence, said defense attorneys kurtz and robert trinkel, to tie brad t...

>> she told me that when she slept at night, she slept with her jeans on and the keys in her pocket with the children and the door locked. >> he never beat her. it wasnt physical said the prosecutor, but he used financial power to exert absolute control. this 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. >> wait a minute. nancys allowance was $300 a week. would a jury think that was evidenc...

With the girls. and then suddenly brad canceled nancys credit cards, blocked her access to the bank accounts, 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." >> nancy couldnt get a job. she had no green card. so she began painting a friends house to earn some extra money. and when she did, brad reduced her allowance. she must have been just furious at him. >> furious would be an understat...