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Dont know if you remember when that happened when everything went down. we are -- the pandemic, if anything, has shown we are married to the internet. we are married to technology, and therefore the people who run it have a great deal of influence over our lives. if we learned nothing else from the outage and the pandemic is that these people who are unaccountable and not regulated have enormous power and we need to seize back some of that power in the correct way. >> cecilia, how important is i...

Michael cohen. what does that mean for weissle burg now? ka ra ska nel joins with us all this reporting. >> multiple sources that my colleague and i spoke with told us federal prosecutors investigating michael cohen, they had given allen weissle burg immunity for his testimony. two of those sources tell us that one of the skepticisms -- where their skepticism lies is they thought that weisselelberg gave them false testimony how the trump organization reimbursed michael cohen. they called it a le...

Lot before they finally got this guy handcuffed and in the back of the truck and hauled him away. >> the oklahoma city district attorney wont press charges against the cops, but the video grabs headlines nationwide, and bates says that was a real turning point in his friendly relationship with the oklahoma city pd. >> up to that point i think the police really looked at me as being on their side, and when i released this tape and was critical of the tape, things changed, and they changed dramati...

And thats really all i am. im just a security camera that moves around. >> it starts out as just a man and a video camera, but quickly grows into something much bigger when this regular guy turned video vigilante sees how powerful the camera can be, exposing hookers and the men who pay for them, drawing them out of the shadows. >> do you want to go to jail? i can do something that in a lot of cases an entire police force and millions of tax dollars cant do, and thats scare the bejesus out of the...

His normal rounds, shooting video, when a big delivery truck catches his eye. >> i didnt pay any attention to it. its a huge truck. except, i notice he kept circling this prostitute in this park. and so i decided to start rolling on him. well, sure enough, he pulls up to her, she gets up to the cab, starts talking to him. a minute later, boom, shes around. shes in the cab. theyre driving away. >> so he follows the truck to a popular local restaurant, where it parks. >> im thinking this is it, th...

Father with a teenaged son livg at home. if brian can see it, kids can, too. and what kind of parent would want their children to see this? >> no child should have to grow up where their memories of childhood involve prostitutes, drug dealers and pimps. >> in the mid-90s, brian bates first notices lewd behavior in his neighborhood and files reports with the police. but he feels his complaints fall on deaf ears. so he decides to do something about it. he picks up his video camera and takes to the...

They have this to say -- "the behavior we observed on the video is clearly a violation of lowes policy, and we have taken corrective measures to address this matter." as for the john, police arrest him, tow away the truck, just another day in the life of a video vigilante. >> if i was just some psychologist out there talking about how bad prostitution is, nobody would pay attention. but if ive got these over-the-top videos, people caught in the act, literally with their pants down, it becomes th...

He warns aspiring video vigilantes, this is dangerous work. he says hes very careful and takes many precautions. when he approaches a prostitute and a john, he already has 911 dialed on his phone. he keeps his camera rolling at all times. and he tries not to get into a situation without an escape route. and yet often he walks right up to people in very compromising positions. >> really wasnt thinking. >> bates catches this man on camera, with a working girl only seconds earlier and vents his fru...

Supposed to be delivered. and the rest is sort of history. >> amazingly, after this brazen act the john sticks around to talk to bates. >> are you a married man? >> yes. >> what would your wife say? and why dont you have a wedding ring on? >> i lost it in iraq. >> you lost your wedding ring in iraq. why dont you buy another one? >> i dont have the money. >> you just paid for a hooker. you can afford a hooker, but you cant afford a wedding ring? you know, its funny, these johns go out and think w...

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