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Lawful charity from 73 to 93, for 20 years. >> hes collecting money for charities. >> hes a scam artist. >> hes a scam artist, exactly. >> and what about the dip into the movie business with the movie "deadly run" he helped make in the 1980s? >> this film where hes sending women out in the woods and killing them, hunting them -- >> i hope you like your little outfit i picked out for you, barbara. i think the look is definitely you. >> do you think thats the template for what he does decades late...

Publicly announced. meanwhile, rod rosenstein promised the investigation would continue to be managed properly. >> weve continued to manage the investigation as we have in the past, and its being handled appropriately. >> reporter: rosensteins office will manage the special counsel investigation day-to-day, but whitaker can block any significant steps mueller wants to take for now. an investigation whitaker long criticized before joining the justice department. >> the attorney general doesnt fir...

Controlling the house in just a few weeks. now gloating and telling the president you cant get any money from anywhere else in the budget. this is textbook. its a textbook example of what the drive by media calls compromise. trump gets nothing and the democrats get everything, including control of the house. jedediah: he is echoing what some people around the country are saying if not now then when? it all echos to many conservatives, republicans allowed democrats to win on this talking point of...

And the idea that everyone in high school is a misfit, that you have this deep insecurity about who youre supposed to be. >> you know how sometimes the last sentence you said echos in your brain and it keeps sounding stupider, and you have to say something else just to make it stop? >> oh, i just remembered, i, um, i owe you $30. >> my so-called life was not necessarily the show that the cheerleader or the captain of a football team were watching. they were still watching 90210. but it was the p...

Knowing anything about it. so its unclear what witnesses there would be in that case. >> do you feel like youre uncovering something that has echos of watergate, that has echos of the nixon presidency? is that what it felt like for the past two years? >> it certainly felt like we were chasing a very big scandal. and its very exciting, you know, just kind of leading straight to the president, and just -- these vociferous denials from the presidents aides. you know, we know nothing about this, whi...

In hollywood, only in hollywood, do you see evil defendants. in real life you see michael cohens, people reckless and greedy and amoral. but i dont think most prosecutors celebrate the day that someone goes to jail. does he deserve it? absolutely. no question about it. make no mistake about it. but its never a happy day. >> ken, we have more to come. just this week alone maria butina, a russian agent, unregistered agent, not a spy, coming up this week. we have yet to hear from manafort and flynn...

Lying because there was nothing else, to me this filing makes clear that they could have also charged him as being an unregistered foreign agent. you know, michael flynn retroactively registered as a foreign agent for turkey. and so he was, during the campaign, knowingly acting as an agent of a foreign power. and what this filing makes clear, in addition to undermining a sitting administration, as i mentioned before, by talking to russia secretly about sanctions, is that the filing makes clear t...

Paid by a foreign government to do that. and so i think that this is going to be a recurring theme. this sort of echos what we saw with the cohen plea that the president was negotiating a deal without disclosing it to the public while having views on russia. are these crimes? maybe, maybe not. i mean the foreign agent piece is. but, you know, transparency should be something that were concerned about from a democratic and from a national security perspective as well. >> listen, lets talk about t...

>> adding this is genuinely looking like witness tampering. doj at least with a nonfake ag prosecutes cases like this all the time. the fact its done out in the open is no defense. trump is genuinely melting down and no good lawyer can help him under these circumstances. and the vice chairman of the senate intel committee mark warner wrote this is serious. the president of the united states should not be using his platform to influence witnesses in a federal investigation involving his campaign....

Workers and jobs. this issue of the rule of law. no one in this country is above the rule of law which is vital to basic american values. paul manafort, convicted by a jury of his peers, he will get a pardon. if you are the deputy law enforcement official in the country, you go to jail. rod rosenstein. have a ordinary. if you -- extraordinary. if you attack me, you go to jail. if you are my friend, you get a pass. this echos of authoritarianism. manafort faces state charges in four states. a p...