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its 4:00 in the east. big day of news today. on capitol hill today a brutal collision between reality and delusion, a republican effort to whitewash the ex-presidents ties for russia culminating in a veteran prosecutor under oath seemingly unwilling to acknowledge basic facts in service of republican conspiracy theories. just a few weeks after releasing a 300-page report after an investigation that went on for four years, cost the taxpayers $6.5 million, a report "the washington post" ...

live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. its newsday. hi there, thank you for being with us. we start in ukraine — and the attack on a crucial dam in the south of the country. thousands of people have been forced to evacuate because of rising flood waters. the dam sits between russian—held territory to the south, and ukrainian territory to the north. kyiv says that moscow is to blame — and so do nato and the eu, which has called the destruction a "war crime." at a un ...

describing how president trump used the lies he told to raise millions of dollars from the american people. these fundraising schemes were also part of the effort to disseminate the false claims of election fraud. >> without objection -- >> i am the senior investigative counsel at the house select committee to investigate the general six attack on the united states capitol. between election day and january six, the trump campaign sent millions up fundraising emails to trump supporters,...

I have never known this woman or anything with regard to the other girls, saying this is 40 years ago, after my return from the hill temilitary, i dated a young ladies. Remember what the lady said. That in 1979 when she was 14 years old, moore met her at a courthouse where her mother was attending a child custody hearing. Moore offered to stay with her. She says moore asked for her number and days later, picked her up, took her to his home and kissed her. During a second visit, he took off her s...

Argentina. >> what is amazing about the reporting is that none of the facts are in dispute, there are documents and investigations that bolster everything, and alito is worried so much that he went to the "wall street journal." no effort to defend himself in a mainstream -- he went to a safe harbor. i wonder if you get a sense from the crushing body of reporting -- youre right. ethics advisers, and nonpartisan institutions, no one is saying that everything they did was peachy keen from an ethics...

Were aware that what they were doing was illegal and they still did it anyway. talk to us about what that means from an ethics standpoint. >> from an ethics standpoint, its obvious -- well, beyond that, which people said were ethically -- the united states government officials. the question is, whether it is criminal. and when you know what you are doing is illegal, and you proceed to do it anyway, that makes it that much easier for prosecutors to pursue criminal charges, serious criminal charge...

Equity firm. but hes also an investor and partner in companies like the chinese nuclear suppliers group which is currently blacklisted for trying to steal american nuclear technology and war head technology. we need to get to the bottom of what these dealings are from a national security standpoint as well from an ethics standpoint. it is incredibly -- people laugh. but its actually incredibly disturbing. carley: there is a group of college students at the university of south florida and they we...

Mind. while its true they say on an article on reason, that some use video games as an escape from reality, the notion that gaming is like hard drug use is asinine. the american psychiatric association doesnt even recognize it as a legitimate disorder. >> this is an emerging topic in ethics. when you design an app or device that makes you so desirous to interact with it that it overrides free will, thats a concern. and if you have a game thats geared towards children set up using psychological s...

Completely threw cohen under the bus from an ethics standpoint. >> absolutely he did. he said oh, hes my attorney, ask my attorney. the problem is as an attorney you cannot engage in a contractual obligation on behalf of your client without telling your client. you cant do that. its in violation of the professional rules of responsibility. so he definitely threw him under the bus. but, again, this is trump being consistent. he often does that with the people who work for him. >> this is trump be...

And when we, the people, dont have a meaningful voice. its about campaign finances. as much as its about sexual harassment and the other e misconduct of people who are engaged in the campaign finance arena. and i think the voters, come 2018, are going to be sick and tired of the way both parties are conducting their finance operations making their -- our elected officials dependent on the super rich. thats the core -- not just sexual harassment and not the other things that these people do. >> s...