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dealing in u.s. dollars, currency abroad, business and precious metals, aluminum, steel and coal. and that's only phase one. in less than three months the administration hits iran's oil production and banking sector. >> shannon: thank you very much. those new sanctions kick in against iran at 12 oh one eastern time. lindsey graham, member of the senate armed services committee joins us now to dig in further. the sanctions kick in and iran is complain about it, senator. strong message is not just for them but also for our allies. the united states is fully committed to enforcing all of our sanctions and we will work closely with nations conducting business with iran to ensure complete complaints. individuals or entities that fail to wind down activities with our brand with severe consequences. who is that for? >> that's for anyone, particularly the iranians that prop up the ayatollah. they've made the decision that
and they are shooting their own people down in the streets. the naive person is nancy pelosi. if you think this has been a good deal, go ask the iranian people how well that has worked out for them. go ask israel how well, it's working out for them. go ask everybody in the mideast whether or not iran is a good member of the family of nations. >> shannon: so background briefing by an official, they say one purpose is to negotiate the deal and the other is to change the government's behavior. you spent the weekend having golf and having dinner, does he really want to renegotiate this deal? >> he wants to get iran to stop the behavior that is so destructive. he wants them to stop being the largest state-sponsored terrorism. he wants them to quit dismembering syria and the entirely east. he's not looking for a short-term win here.
the right track. >> shannon: i know this administration has been very precise in speaking to the iranian people. senator graham, thank you very much for joining us tonight, great to see you. >> thank you. >> shannon: can address as it's not backing down tonight in a diplomatic standoff with saudi arabia, which expelled the canadian ambassador and froze all new business with our northern neighbor over criticism of the ultraconservatives kingdoms arrest of women's rights activists. canada is renewing its call on saudi arabia to immediately free the detained women. the united states has been asking for more information and encouraging due process. the judge in the trial of paul manafort serving up some choice words for the mueller team on a day of testimony. ed henry has all the details. >> interesting day to say the least for special counsel robert mueller and his team important. remember judge ts ellis had
lashed out in may, and the judge declared that all the special counsel wanted was to get president trump, trying to get dirt from manafort that might be able to provide information that would lead to the president either being prosecuted or impeached. ellis was at it again late today lashing out at greg endres for going on and on about made a fort's to ukrainian politicians more than a decade to ago. judge ellis, growing furious when the prosecutor would not look up, and the judge while he was speaking. i want, one point he said to come look at me. he looked down as to say, that's b.s. i'm up here. ellis warned back in may that while prosecutors want to get manafort to think about it, they had to make sure they didn't compose, create songs that may or may not be true. today the star witness rick gage testified that he and manafort
committed a series of crimes including opening up 15 foreign bank accounts that they set up despite knowing all along that they were illegal. and not reporting them properly. remember, gates has already reported guilty to lying to federal investigators so his credibility is in question and none of this gets past the claims. a new frenzy whipped up over the weekend after president tweeted that the focus of the trump tower meeting in the summer of 2016 was not discussing russian adoptions but, instead was about getting dirt on hillary clinton from a russian lawyer with ties to the kremlin. you remember at that meeting, donald trump jr., gerald kushner and manafort. this is not new, the president made this admission more than a year ago at a news conference with the french president when he noted that gathering information was nothing unusual. >> i think when the russian send
an email to the president's son and say, we have dirt on your opponent, that the russian government has put together in the president's son says, i love it, and moves heaven and earth to take the meeting, that's a good sign they were willing to work with him. speak to that standard in politics. politics is not the nicest business in the world but, i think the press made a very big deal over something that really, a lot of people would do. >> former bush white house speaker claimed he was even more aggressive on getting dirt on president trump. he wrote "the root result was a salacious dossier whose sources included, yes, a senior foreign ministry figure and a former top level until officer was still active in the kremlin." the work was paid for by clinton's presidential camp and the dnc, which means a paid agent first russian officials for damaging materials on trump. that's a kind of double standard
which may explain that the president's legal team suggested it may not be wise for him to sit down with mueller, a decision that could come any day now. >> shannon: we are standing by. henry, thank you very much. the judge and the only case brought to trial by the special counsel continuing to express skepticism daily at the mueller team. let's talk about it tonight. former pollster mark penn and fox news contributor and opinion editor charlie hearn. we've heard a lot about judge ellis and he has been described as a equal opportunity smack down artists. those are the words. but he keeps getting after the mueller folks. doesn't mean anything as to the substance of the case or how they are going about it? >> he has let the kids continue more or less as a prosecution set it out to about the real question here that's raised by this, and the judge has raised quite eloquently, after all, paul manafort would not be prosecuted if he hadn't spent two months for no pay as
campaign manager of donald trump. now maybe there would have been an audit, but you wouldn't have had the weight of a special independent counsel, 17 other lawyers and what was done here and a 6:00 a.m. raids really to intimidate him to the limit. and that's what was done. >> shannon: charlie, the judge talked about the fact that these issues came up before. he said they've probed him before and let it go and much of this is the same as what's making up the case now. >> while will come to washington. welcome to politics. all of this is manageable until you get into politics. certainly i think that clearly the prosecution is struggling to, i think, if you read between the lines and what the judge is saying, trying to train their noises back to the original intent of their mission. but i also think that beyond
that, i don't see how they are going to make a very good case involving donald trump, either. and it's kind of a strange strategy going into november, making all these promises about collusion and conspiracy and things like that. >> shannon: and the mueller team is being tight-lipped. but there is a great concern now, the president's team is making decisions about whether or not, and it's his decision whether he sits down to talk with mueller in any form or fashion. here's what jay sekulow, a key member of the president's team said. >> the president has been clear that he wants to interview, his legal team is concerned on a number of reasons. a series of the questioning goes to the heart and core of his authority as president of the united states. >> shannon: they don't want him to do this but they have routinely said, he's got to make his own decision. >> about 60% of the public wants
them to testify and when i work with president clinton we faced the same issue and we decided to testify. did it do president clinton any good? no. he got impeached. he did absolutely no good and i got him into more trouble. i think this is trouble for trump, you probably shouldn't do it and he probably will do it for the very same reason and he has to say yes. >> shannon: is convinced that he is and is negotiated with a lot of high stakes players before, he's an intelligent guy and he is innocent. that way thinking there's not much there. they worried about it and negotiated over which questions can be asked. they've reached a little bit of compromise but the special counsel wants to talk to him about all kinds of things they don't want him to talk about. >> it's not like the president hasn't opined about just about every aspect of the case, but not under oath. and that is the problem. there's no doubt in my mind that trump would love to do it, he likes to face these fights head
on. but the idea of setting up some kind of perjury trap i think is probably a good reason to steer clear. >> shannon: at the top democrat adam schiff had this to say, about whether or not there has been a case that's already been proven at least in part. >> i think there's plenty of evidence of collusion organs. see in plain sight. now that the different statement then saying there's proof beyond a reasonable doubt of criminal conspiracy, bob mueller will have to weigh in on that. >> shannon: is their overwhelming evidence of collusion and conspiracy? >> absolutely not. there is no collusion case made. they had one meeting at trump tower that turned out to be a bust by a woman who also hs fusion at the very same time that the clintons hired gps fusion. so no. and most of the american public realizes there's been no real evidence. >> shannon: if it was there one of these guys would find it. >> no doubt about it. and i also wonder if these
people aren't overpromising right now and if that doesn't end up leading to enormous disappointment. we want and it depends because if you don't have a resolution to the mueller case before the midterm camp than speculation is what they have going. mark and charlie, thanks for coming in. tonight, attorney jeff sessions is failing to keep deferred action for childhood arrival for daca. a judge ruled the program which gives certain amount of amnesty to those who arrived here as children should be restarted in full. the justice department said it will take "every lawful measure" to vindicate that plan and get rid of daca. up next, objective element late tonight and the wildfires. plus looking at the battle between president trump and california governor jerry brown over who's to blame and what's behind the spread of these devastating deadly wildfires in the golden state.
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>> shannon: this is a fox news alert. major development tonight in the california wildfires with two separate fires rapidly merging to become the largest active wildfire in california. cal fire now confirming the mendocino complex is now the largest wildfire in recorded history in california. burning 283,000 acres so far. meanwhile, sparks are flying tonight between the president and california governor jerry brown. both are making wildly different claims we find on what's behine rapid-fire spread of the fires. >> to begin with the federal government and california authorities are already at odds over how best to use the states of water allocation. the state water control board is about to vote on the planet would preserve more water for endangered fish and other uses that would please environmentalists. the fed say that plan will take water away from farmers, which
it well. but for two days running, president trump has taken it a step further, scolding governor jerry brown and state officials saying their misuse of water is hurting the state's firefighting effort. "california wildfires have been magnified and made so much worse by the bad environmental laws which are not allowing massive amounts of readily available water to be properly utilized. it is being diverted into the pacific ocean. must also tree clear to stop fire from spreading." but the deputy chief of california's department of forestry and fire protection because the president's first argument hogwash, saying "we have plenty of water to fight these wildfires. our changing climate is leading to more severe and destructive fire is that we are seeing this year and last, and most experts agree that california is not letting massive amounts of water flow into the ocean. but critics also point out that it's impossible to blame too bad fire seasons on climate change.
and though governor brown would not respond directly to president trump's tweets, he did weigh in on climate change. watch. >> this is part of a trend, a new normal that we have to deal with. we are dealing with it humanly, financially and governmentally. >> as for president trump's argument that california has to they and it's for us to reduce the risk of wildfire, numerous fire experts by greasing the state forests are clearly overgrown. but other state officials also blame that on the federal government, saying most of those forests are federal land which is true. ryan zinke tweeted" we must be able to manage our forest and not face litigation we try to remove these fuels, and he's right. environmental groups have blocked numerous times the removal of old dead trees. studies also show the fed's own at 640 million acres of land and does not have the resources to
fully manage them. shannon? >> thank you. a new report making bold claims about a new jersey i.c.e. employee's ties to alleged hate groups. star-ledger said it "the man who speaks for i.c.e. in new jersey, according to our help in the southern poverty law center. he was previously an editor for an anti-muslim hate group and published a piece praising and islamophobic. this has come under fire from conservatives with questionable claims relating to extremism. lieutenant general jerry boykin is here to weigh in and i should know right up front, frc and you have been listed as part of the hate groups by sclc. what do you make of the latest attempt which seems to be yet another way of going after i.c.e. and making them the bad guys? >> i think anything that comes out of the southern poverty
law center is discredited. the southern poverty law center is one of the most extreme and radical leftist groups in america. over the years it has morphed into nothing but an action arm for the left. it has a political agenda, but it is also a moneymaking machine with about $443 million. right now, about 90 million of which is in offshore accounts and that's what the southern poverty law center is about. by the way, this heat map and hate labeling has been totally discredited and the last time was just a few weeks ago, it cost them 3,000,007.5 to get out of the lawsuit that was being threatened against. >> shannon: now people can come back and say this is defamation, and trying to get them in some way thrown out of society, but that's the goal. now it's the plan to go after i.c.e.
i.c.e.'s response does this. the private citizen recently wrote pieces on anti-extremism and counterterrorism networks to provide the media and public with important facts about i.c.e. operations. the star-ledger would better serve the public discourse by focusing on the key acts and immigration debate rather than reckless headpieces. >> they are saying he wasn't at one time a member of "act for america." you have been around bridget, she lived for seven years in a bunker while jihadists try to kill her and her family and everyone in her village. she's not anti-muslim, she's anti-sharia, anti-g hard. she is against those things that threaten the existence of this nation and she's on the list, too. so we are in good company. >> shannon: i wanted to ask you to about this case because of your military background as well. scott squire as a chaplain and there was an assignment that he
was going to's a a to facilitae and which it was a marriage retreat. he was told a same-sex couple was coming. the department of defense would not allow that and that american mission board of the southern baptist convention said basically he's not allowed to. my understanding is, defense department policy is that you cannot go against the wishes of your endorsing body. so he made arrangements, bowed out and had someone else handle the retreat. now mikey weinstein who is always going after folks in the military on religious issues as if you are going to be using, couples as a sin against god, you can change her attitude. and he should be charged with dereliction of duty. >> i will tell you i'm very upset over this and it's because this is happening in a command that i have a number of years ago at fort bragg, north carolina. the major general, major
general sontag that is committing this command is dead wrong, because he either doesn't know the army regulations and he doesn't know about liberty and he doesn't know what the department of justice just published in the last two weeks as a memorandum on what's expected of executive branch personnel. he apparently doesn't know any of that because he's dead wrong with what he's doing. we have had a coalition, very open coalition, called restore military religious freedom and it's a lot of groups in america that are really concerned about religious liberties of young men and women. i will tell you, we are going all the way. as far as we have to go on this to help protect captain squires, but it's also his assistant chaplain as well. and we will do what we can to protect him. >> shannon: keep us updated on the case. after that ups your credit with splc, too. general, good to see you. when we return, we sent kristin fisher on the road. that will tell us a lot what to expect in the midterm as democrats try to flip a house seat in an historically public, republican district. and do millennials know what's in the constitution? we will head out and asked some students what's exactly in the first amendment. >> freedom of press, freedom of spree free speech for a free sample visit tena.us can start in the colon constipation and diarrhea and may be signs of an imbalance of good bacteria. only phillips' colon health has this unique combination of probiotics. it helps replenish good bacteria. get four-in-one symptom defense.
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>> it is a very tight race and the fact that it's a tight race is a big deal all by itself because the last time a democrat won this district was way back in 1980, almost four decades ago. president trump one very easily by 11 points and that's why he came here saturday to encourage his supporters that a vote for balderston is a vote for the trump agenda. >> i'm counting on all of you again. i need your volunteer hours, your enthusiasm and most importantly, i need your vote august 7th. so i can go to congress and represent you and fight alongside this good man, this great man, president trump. to make america great again. >> a vote for toy's opponent is a vote for open borders which equals massive crime. they don't care about it. they don't care about the crime.
they don't care about the military or the vets. >> shannon: balderston's opponent is democrat danny o'connor and at 31 years old he would be the youngest member of congress. he has outraised and outspent balderston and has also been very careful to criticize nancy pelosi and not criticize president trump. he's trying to appeal to those republicans who don't like the president and his policies. and you know, shannon, with any special election, turn out is absolutely key but especially a special election in the middle of the summer time when a lot of folks are on vacation, perhaps not fully paying attention. especially, a special election on a day when it is supposed to rain. weather is always a factor on election day. it's supposed to rain, in the middle of the summer and it's a special election so it will all be about which candidate can get their voters to the pole in the open tomorrow morning. >> shannon: will see who has
the ground game tomorrow in ohio. we will know that you are there covering up for us. two conservative commentators allegedly accosted by during breakfast. >> you are soft fascists. >> have a wonderful day and enjoy your capitalist breakfast. it's the charlie kirk and his key communications director candace owens were met by a group of profanity spewing protesters at a philadelphia restaurant today. protesters can be seen shouting and blowing whistles and their faces. one of the activists dumped a drink on kirk before police formed a protective cordon. the activists shouted at them, no good cop and erase the system. portland police chief danielle loss that her officers did not favor one group over another during a confrontation between
antifa and a group called the "patriot prayer." the response was called excessive and completely unacceptable. chicago police reporting total of 66 people shot and 12 people killed over the weekend in chicago. among the victims were a 17-year-old girl shot in the face and a 17-year-old boy on a bike. the mayor is partially blamed the number of firearms on the streets despite the city's gun regulations which are among the toughest in the country. >> there are too many guns on the street, too many people with criminal records on the street. and there is a shortage of values about what is right and what is wrong. >> shannon: meanwhile organizers say they have enough signatures to ask voters to consider term limits for chicago mayors. emmanuel is claiming to run for a third term. the major with a limit chicago
mayors to to. bowing to social media pressure and complaints from journalists, the museum is pulling t-shirts that say, you are very fake news. the museum's apology marks a reversal from last week when they said they would offer the shirts and other items out of respect for conflicting viewpoints. media platforms including facebook, apple and youtube remove what they consider questionable content from their sight. that lead us down at dangerous path of censorship by banning controversial opinions, and you decide what is hate speech. leading a sin is the host of the next revolution.er steve belton i was there, i never knew when my symptoms would keep us apart. so i talked to my doctor about humira. i learned humira can help get, and keep uc under control
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language to describe people or transgender, muslim and emigrants. they are saying there are specific policies in question here and that's why these posts have come down. >> before we get into this i should make clear to the audience as i do every time we talk about facebook or tech companies, i have a connection there. my wife is a senior executive there and it was actually very involved in this decision but i have my own independent view. my view is when something like this the word censorship may not be quite the right word. when we hear that word we think about the government, we talk about the chinese government censoring content in china. facebook isn't the government, nor apple or spotify, not yet anyway. so the question is, what is facebook, what are these platforms? a lot of people say they are publishers and they should take responsibility for the content on their platforms but if that is the case, it's basically an editorial decision. just like you decide what's on your show and i decide what's on my show. if you don't want to put alex
jones on your sheldon that's your decision. if they are a publisher than they say, they are not a publisher but a platform for everyone to be on. then if that's the case it's more like a utility and people say they should be regulated. within the question is by who? it's a government then that is deciding what content is there and it's really complicated. it's a new world and i think we need a much broader debate than just responding to each situation as it arises. >> wow >> shannon: if you make a good point because a lot of folks in d.c. say it as utility and they want to do some regulations with it. but i thought these were some interesting tweets. not afraid to get involved with controversy himself. he said one of the terrifying things about the facebook and apple bands and everything that the real-life alex jones has ever said, it's not based on any violation, they are just on person in him. it's not a legal approach to remedy a problem and it's not an
intellectual approach to articulate what thoughts are now banned and why. it's at the the platforming approach, and your response? >> may be, but that's their choice and that's the issue we have here. i mean i think there is a market response to this if you like which is that conservatives feel like company areas like google and facebook are basically favoring the other side. and i've made that argument myself on my show many times. one thing that you might look for is for the people who believe that not to use those platforms. then you get into the question of, is there enough competition, what's the alternative? and that's where i think regulation can be really useful. a lot of people feel like they are locked into these companies because of the data that they have and so on. so i think useful direction for regulation would be to force those companies to liberate the data so you could have competitors spring off. so you don't feel that you have
to use facebook or you've got to use google, they could be a more promising direction. >> it's interesting to me to see so many conservative groups come forward and say, we don't want to identify with alex jones at all. and some people decide they are going to be filled with hate speech and they can't be on this platform either. thank you very much for joining us. >> good to see you, shannon. see you soon. >> shannon: coming up next. >> can you name the the five freedoms protected in the first amendment? >> no i can't. >> any of them? >> shannon: cavett phillips joins us live asking millennials at columbia university questions about the first amendment and the answers may or may not surprise you. that's next you're turning onto the street
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constitutional lawyer here, you got this. >> he's taking that class in law school right now also, so no pressure. >> shannon: campus reform talks about the findings. getting all five i would say, that's huge. >> i don't think you can expect the average american to get all of them. >> i knew four of them but had to look up one. >> when it does become a trend it should become more concerning, especially an ivy league school, the future of our country. when people ask how has our society gone to a place where there is no free speech protected or no dialogue, or people are so willing to shut down speech, you can look at something like this. if people are unaware of what their first amendment rights are or what their free speech rights are they are more willing to shutdown the rights of others and openly give up their own rights. i have another quick paragraph of what i asked people how far
should the first amendment go? he would be surprised at what they say. here it is. >> i think the alliance are strong when you get offensive to people's culture. >> i don't think it's fair for people to use the first amendment as kind of like an excuse to say whatever they want. >> i don't have the right to hurt people. >> you do though. >> i guess, it's all very tricky. >> it makes me want to laugh though because when we start having these conversations i remind them of the westboro baptist church which has some of the most inflammatory things to say. they won their case h-1 in supreme court. >> and also, it's not meant to protect speech that everyone agrees with, but is controversial. they are teaching people to give up their freedoms and pursuit of feelings and that is a noble cause and it's hard, and it's rude. but when you apply it to
practice you are taught that your speech only goes so far and does not make others uncomfortable. we should be teaching students to protect other people speech, go out on a limb and have those tough conversations. that will begin to make civics and government courses mandatory and make people realize how important these guys are. >> shannon: these are college age students. did you feel like they were diverse on this or did they really feel like if you are hurting someone's meetings feelings that's where it's at. >> when put into practice i said, how far should i be able to go to hurt your feelings? monday said it's all about your intent. if your intent is to make me uncomfortable or disrespect to i am as a person, that's too far. my only response was who gets to decide how far is too far? a few students at the university should get to decide and we've all seen the track record of
schools allowing which speech is okay and which is in. it's important to remind people, individuals should be able to decide -- speech has ramifications for what you say. >> yes, there are limits. but again westborough baptists 8-1 in the supreme court. some of the most offensive churches in the world. kevin, we love your videos and keep us up-to-date as you find out more. hopefully this is a learning experience for all of us. >> shannon is going to get the first five right. stay with us. by midnight hero steps in told help a in need. for what you love most. >> kids: whoa! >> kids vo: ♪ safelite repair, safelite replace ♪ with proskin technology intimates overnight for two times faster absorption so you can have worry free nights, and wake up feeling fresh and free
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>> it was three days before eli's birthday. >> he would be 18. >> yeah. he wanted to go to grand forks to see his cousin and spend time there with justin. >> melissa katz's son was with his foster brother. >> what were you planning that weekend? >> not a whole lot. just hanging out, basically. >> they would find themselves hanging out and sleeping over at the hope of a cousin's boyfriend. neither had known 18-year-old adam budge. but he seemed nice. budge said he had a special treat, a bag of chocolate he had cooked with a white powder he said was extract from psychedelic mushrooms. he just gave eli and i the bag and said here you go, have fun. we just started taking bites out of it, eating it. it tasted just like chocolate. no chemical taste or anything. it was just chocolate. we just ended up splitting the bag. it was nothing like anything i've had before. i was kind of scared but i was reassuring myself that it's just mushrooms, it's just mushrooms. it wasn't just psychedelic mushrooms. it was something much worse. and for justin, it was already too late to stop what was happening. >> do you remember what was happening? what you were seeing? >> the trees looked like cauliflower dancing around. they were stationary, but they were swaying really funny and the sidewalks were swooping up and down like a roller coaster and the grass was shooting up to the sky and dropping back down. >> you were really dripping. >> yeah, ift like oh, my good, this is getting really intense. >> down stair, elijah was starting to convulse. >> adam was down there with eli. he told me that eli was going into a bad trip. i asked him, do we need to call 911? he said no, it's just mushrooms. he's going to be find. he's just going in a bad trip. >> he started to foam at the mouth, yelling. i guess he was hitting his head, convulsing uncontrollably. finally, the police were called. >> i started to assist with cpr. with the effects of the drugs, i just wasn't able to do it. his face started to contort because of the drugs. it really messed me up. i told him i was going to wait outside for 911 to direct them in. i couldn't see them like that. >> he was dead. >> he was dead. >> we got the phone call that eli wasn't breathing. he was blue in the face. of. >> you had so call your mom? >> i called her while i was outside waiting for 911. >> and told her? >> told her eli died. >> were you able to fully tell her why? >> no. i was ashamed of myself for failing him, more or less. i felt like i failed him. >> justin was a teen when eli's family took him in. eli suffered multiple organ failures and went into cardiac arrest, cutting the oxygen supply to his brain. >> when i got to the hospital, they said he was brain dead. he was in the hospital for three days. he was on life support. we had to make the call to disconnect him. there were no two dead, dangers overdosing and dying from a deadly drug. and no one knew what it was or where it was coming from. where our next arrival is... red carpet whoa! toenail fungus!? fight it! with jublia. jublia is a prescription medicine used to treat toenail fungus. use jublia as instructed by your doctor. are you getting this?! most common side effects include ingrown toenail, application site redness, itching, swelling, burning or stinging, blisters, and pain. oh, epic moves, big j! fight it! getting ready for your close-up? 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>> for analytical and research purposes only. >> what would be that purpose other than to consume it and to experience the high? >> well, that's a good question. make no mistake, we knew people were consuming it. i honestly don't know how it grew so fast. but it got to the point where we'd process $40,000 to $50,000 a month in credit card payments. >> i mean, at that point you thought hey, i've got a legitimate shop running here? >> i did. >> it was all going so well. motion resources was up and running for eight months. >> grand forks police were called to -- >> until one day carlton saw a story on the news about drug overdoses in grand forks, north dakota. >> i saw a news story where there was an overdose death in north dakota, and then pretty quickly there was a tv news report and they showed a baggie that said 25in-bome on it. and we used very specific bags. and we had a very special label maker that printed on clear labels. and it was blatantly obvious that it was ours. >> what was your immediate reaction? >> i was in shock. i have kids. you know. that's not -- we didn't want anything like that to happen. i mean, that's the only reaction i had. i mean, i don't even know how to describe it. >> did you go to work the next day? >> well, i did. >> carlton says he didn't want to draw attention, so he continued to run motion resources as if nothing had happened. he says he was trying to sell off his supply, shut the business down. but the prosecutor says there's evidence carlton was in the process of changing the business name, allegedly to keep motion resources running. carlton admits he was sweating. with good reason. his world was about to crumble. by a betrayal on the inside. oh no... 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>> i haven't. i mean, i've thought about the moment, but i haven't necessarily thought about how i'm going to handle it. >> that will be the same moment theoretically you'll have to say good-bye to your kids. >> well, it's not -- it's not the same. me saying good-bye to my kids, i'm going to be down the street. i'll be back in a little while. is completely different than the kind of good-bye they had to give to their kids. their kids aren't coming back. >> you want to go to mommy? >> carlton's wife, susan, means even a reduced sentence will mean she will raise their two young children alone. >> you will then be there to see the mothers of the two boys who died. and hear their story about their sons who are no longer here. do you hold your husband responsible for that? >> not entirely. not entirely. i can't. i hate that he was a part of this. my heart does go out to those mothers. it just simply should have never, ever happened. >> the case is about to come to a final conclusion for charles carlton. he and his wife have arrived in grand forks and are about to head into the federal courthouse to face his fate. but with all the arrests in criminal cases, the major source of synthetic drugs remains untouched. the big fish is getting away. >> ultimately, it has to stop with the manufacturing facility over in china. >> yeah. >> and they're nothing more than industrial-grade chemicals. >> not dangerous. not poisonous. vo: know you have a dedicated advisor and team who understand where you come from. we didn't really have anything, you know. but, we made do. vo: know you can craft an investment plan as strong as your values. al, how you doing. hey, mr. hamilton. vo: know that together you can establish a meaningful legacy. with the guidance and support of your dedicated pnc wealth management team. directv is so advanced that you could put tvs anywhere without looking at cable wires and boxes in every room. how are they always one step ahead of us? 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>> how dare you come into my country and sell drugs to our children? >> do you think they care? >> no. they don't care. >> cnn has learned the synthetic drugs that killed melissa's son, elijah, and christian bjerk were most likely made in china. and so far there appears to be no movement by the u.s. to find and prosecutor the manufacturer of this synthetic poison. chris myers, the federal prosecutor in this case, will not discuss the source of the chemicals. and that is not good enough for debbie and keith bjerk. >> i would like to know the name of the factory where these drugs were manufactured. >> you don't know the name of the factory? >> no. i have not been told the name of the factory. >> do they know it? >> i'm sure they do. and i would like to -- you know, i said what can i do? write letters, whatever. and i've been told that -- >> it's like -- >> -- it would be sort of pointless because it's legal in china. but the people over there need to know that these drugs are killing people. >> in north dakota the case that is now called "operation stolen youth" that began with the death of their son christian bjerk is heading back to federal court in fargo. the next chapter is about to unfold, where a nervous charles carlton, the federal prosecution's main target in this case, is about to be sentenced. >> i know that it's going to be a long time, and i know that i'm going to be severely punished, you know, for what i'm responsible for. is long to come here. expedia. technology that connects you to the people and places that matter. our cosmetics line was a hit. the orders were rushing in. i could feel our deadlines racing towards us. we didn't need a loan. we needed short-term funding fast. building 18 homes in 4 ½ months? 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"operation stolen youth," which started with five overdoses and two deaths, has so far led to 14 defendants convicted and sentenced to a total of 101 years in prison. lives ruined because of this little powder that two years ago seemed like an innocent, safe synthetic high. prosecutor chris myers believes the exhaustive case has been a success. >> the message we have sent with this prosecution is that these are dangerous substances and hopefully that can help raise awareness and save some lives. we have two families that lost young kids. kids with promise and bright futures for no reason. >> cameras are not allowed federal court. charles carlton with his wife quietly crying one row behind him is sentenced to 20 years in prison. outside court the bjerks leave for the last time. their sentence is for life. >> it's never going to be done. christian was -- he was a child. he's our flesh and blood. he's someone who was so important to us we would have given our lives for him. and you know, our job now is just to get the word out there to the rest of the people so no other families have to go through this kind of thing and to honor our son, to honor his memory. >> all the kids and young adults here today, please tell them the story -- >> since their son christian's death the bjerks have become activists, getting out the word on the dangers of synthetic drugs. thanks to their efforts north dakota has put in new legislation banning a number of synthetics, and federally the drug that killed christian and elijah is now on the list of banned substances. >> the stuff is not safe just because you can order it on the internet. don't be fooled by that. don't put yourself and your family in the position that these families in grand forks found themselves. talk to your kids, that synthetic drugs are dangerous. all drugs are dangerous. >> this was done for the memorial for eli. his friend signed that. that came. >> the family of elijah stai say they do hope their son's death can be a warning to others about the dangers of synthetic designer drugs. >> our lives were turned upside down. our lives will never be the same. i don't know if you can really put something like that into words, what your life is like after you lose a kid. it's a horrific thing to ever have to go through for any parent. eli was a good kid. this can happen to any family. >> i talk to a lot of people during the course of a day or the course of a month. and you know, if it comes up, we have this conversation, and most people still don't know what they are. they don't know what the drugs are or how badly they can impact their lives. well, we're witnessing the impact now. we've had this horrible loss. we lost a child. we didn't know about the drugs. we know about them now. and the word needs to get out there to the rest of the world that these things will -- they'll kill your kids. they're going to kill anybody who takes them. they're pure unadulterated poison. >> the following is a cnn special report. ♪ >> people are lighting up all over the country. they call it the green rush. marijuana as moved out of the back alleys and into the open. 234 some states it's legal to grow, to sell, to smoke. and marijuana could be legalized in a city near you. so easy to get, and many think so harmless. but when the smoke clears, is marijuana bad for you? or could pot actually be good for you? >> marijuana, better than all of the pills for you in terms of treating? >> yes.
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