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top ♪ ♪ fill the shot, body rock rock it ♪ the ballots that are fraudulent. and if were wrong, we will be made fools of. but if were right, a lot of them will go to jail. [cheers and applause] so lets have trial by combat. [crowd clamoring] ♪ ♪ - when giuliani appeared alongside donald trump on january 6th, what came to my mind was the riot at city hall. [crowd yelling] - [whistling] - they marched around city hall park in a peaceful and orderly fashion, but then, minutes lat...

and if were wrong, we will be made fools of. but if were right, a lot of them will go to jail. [cheers and applause] so lets have trial by combat. [crowd clamoring] ♪ ♪ - when giuliani appeared alongside donald trump on january 6th, what came to my mind was the riot at city hall. [crowd yelling] - [whistling] - they marched around city hall park in a peaceful and orderly fashion, but then, minutes later, thousands of cops stormed through the barricades and ran on top of cars as the...

pence as the rioters approached. thanks to all of you for getting up way too early with us on this thursday. big day, "morning joe" starts right now. tonight i come to you with a spring in my step, a song in my heart, emotionally and spiritually refreshed because you know how as humans we have to accept the fact that sometimes bad things happen to good people. well, by the grace of god, sometimes bad things happen to alex jones, and thats a good thing. >> oh, yes, conspiracy theorist...

In the russia scandal. And of course theres a Dividing Line between the editorial page of a newspaper and the News Division of a newspaper, but its hard not to notice that hard news and investigative journalists and particularly National Security specialist journalists at the Wall Street Journal have also been flying the coop in unusual numbers recently. Just this week the Wall Street Journal lost this guy, you recognize him, from National Reporting that has been of intense interest, particularl...

Illegal acts they were committing. - it is called the commission, the inner council that runs organized crime in this country. - led by the reputed boss of all bosses, paul castellano, head of the gambino family, four of new yorks five godfathers appeared in federal court to face a wide range of racketeering charges. - this is a great day for law enforcement, but this is a bad day, probably the worst, for the mafia. - guilty verdicts today in the federal trial of a group of mobsters. - guilty on...

And it was, like, a select few in there that were more or less organized. - so i said, "what if i want to call another garbage guy?" and this guy said, "try it." - this was just widely accepted as the way things were and not something to tamper with. - the hierarchy of the cosa nostra-- the boss, the underboss-- were well insulated from most criminal activities. so it was the low-level street guys that were doing the work. they were the ones that took the rap. and you had plenty behind them to t...

And these organizations dont exist, i mean, i know from my history that there is such a thing. and i know what it does and what it can do. - the fbi, sometime several years before rudy became the u.s. attorney, had decided to focus in a big way on the five new york mafia families. they had devoted separate squads to focus on individual families. but rudy had the idea, well, lets make the biggest of all mafia cases, where our targets are the heads of the five families. - the commission case was s...

Was left staggering off his throne. - the raiders, the hostile takeovers. - once one of wall streets mightiest, ivan boesky appeared for sentencing, in the judges words, humiliated, vilified, and cut down to size. - and all of that was entwined with what was a deeply corrupt system. - you find for me in the law where the united states congress has distinguished multibillion-dollar financial firms from other institutions, and you show me where that is. - rudy created the character of himself as a...

Making sure that the white-collar criminals, as well as the mafia and organized crime, were gonna be held accountable. - maybe we cant catch all of them, but we sure as heck can deliver a message which is, if you do get caught, you are gonna lose your liberty. youre gonna go to prison. - in 1986-- i remember this vividly-- dennis levine got arrested. - the biggest insider trading deal anybodys ever heard of, dennis levine, made millions trading on insider information. - i realized that ive commi...

Trumps lawyers and the prosecutors investigating the former president is not slowing down this week. first up tomorrow morning, a hearing on former chief of staff mark meadows. theres also a hearing in jack smiths federal election case, where a trial date may be set. well be following both important hearings. so, stay with cnn for the latest throughout the day tomorrow. thank you very much for joining me this evening. its been a long afternoon and evening. reporting from washington, im jim acost...