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Michael cohen a half million dollars. we know they have deep connections to the russian oligarch viktor vekselberg. but what youre reporting tonight is perhaps even more strange. shortly after hillary clinton gave a speech criticizing the alt-right, somebody at this firm, columbus nova, started registering alt-right websites? >> reporter: yes, john, and yes, it is strange. august 2016, here is that speech. >> this is not conservatism as have known it. this is not republicanism as we have known i...

Depending on what people are willing to stand up for. joining us now is ken vogel, political reporter for "the new york times," who wrote that blockbuster profile of paul manafort and his ties to konstantin kilimnik in ukraine for politico.com before the election back in august 2016. ken, thank you very much for being with us tonight. i know i keep asking you to come back and talk about this subject that you started reporting on a long time ago. i really appreciate your time. >> yeah, its great ...

Translator, work that closely aligned him with the russian intelligence services. in 1995, he landed a job in the moscow office of a u.s. group called the u.s. international republ republican institute. he did not hide his past from his new employer. when asked how he learned to speak such fluent english, he responded, quote, russian military intelligence. it was like kostya, the guy from the gru. thats how we all talked about him, said a political operative who worked in moscow at the time. wel...

Connected to involves karen mcdougal, the former playmate who says she loved donald trump and dated him for ten months in 2006. >> did you think maybe this would lead to a marriage? >> maybe. >> the white house denies the affair. mcdougal says the company called american media incorporated, the parent company of the national inquirer gave her a $150,000 contract in august 2016 ensuring her silence after passing on her story earlier in the year. her attorney for that deal, dee keith davidson. >> ...

Mcdougal says the company called american media incorporated, the parent company of the national enquirer gave her a $150,000 contract in august 2016 ensuring her silence after passing on her story earlier in the year. her attorney for that deal, keith davidson. >> youre saying ami suddenly came back to you? >> well, to keith, yes. >> mcdougal says she thought she was signing onto a deal that would buy her silence but allow her to publish a few health and fitness columns for ami publications. sh...

Made a criminal referral to the justice department. >> laura: it shouldnt matthew axelrod, i mightve missed his testimony, shouldnt he be called to testify on capitol hill about this? if thats actually how it went down? >> sure. i dont doubt that there are a number of officials. i dont believe axelrod made that telephone call on his own. i dont doubt that he didnt discuss the matter with sally yates. i dont doubt that there are emails and other text communications surrounding the call because th...

Guess what, in august of 2015, so i guess roughly a year and a half ago, there was also an engine failure, something similar happened on a different southwest airplane, so miles, does it sound like to you that this is metal fatigue and this is something that everybody needs to start taking more seriously? >> absolutely and thats why this investigation is headed. were talking about the first fatality on a u.s. airliner since 2009. its an amazing safety record and the reason were so safe in the av...

Time in august 2016. james comey facing widespread criticism after his first tv interview since being fired. that includes the people who used to work for him. >> it is not how we do business. i dont know what he was thinking by doing this. i represent a lot of members of former fbi agents were very unhappy with this lack of professionalism. these matters are under active investigation. >> a 34-year-old veteran of the fbis is comey was well-respected until he declined prosecution of hillary clin...

There was an effort by the justice department, run by the obama administration loretta lynch to squelch an investigation into the clinton foundation in august 2016. that leads to a whole host of other questions, who made that call, what was behind that call, what was said. this was the real story, not the book hes putting out which is more of a gossip girl tail. this is the corruption. he is responsible for mccabe being into and the position hes in, protecting the other misconduct that was occur...

>> million dollar question. do you think you have new evidence that could free steven avery? >> we do, yeah. >> zellner invited "dateline" into this war room she created in her office outside chicago. all dedicated to the avery case. >> do we know if that was tested? >> and she even showed us that rav4 she brougought to get a be understanding of teresas vehicle. then in august 2016, to much media fanfare, she filed a motion in manitowoc county court, seeking new testing of the evidence. >> were ...