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We saw today really does underscore in many ways the crisis in this country right now is no longer simply political. its moral. and i think, you know, you really see that individuals matter. the people who are in certain roles matter. i mean the drama we saw play out today in that hearing, this is all amongst republicans. >> rosenstein would normally be a towering hero. >> thats right. >> career prosecutor, a career public servant. >> but hes also a republican. >> yeah. >> and so is chris wray. ...

In the beginning? where did they come from?" >> ashley: when you meet people here, you know that youre seeing a direct descendant of a slave that was here after, um, the slaves were freed. >> anthony: ashley greene grew up on mosquito beach on james island in charleston. her mother owns the property, which has been in her family for generations. fact of the matter is in the old south back when the dishes, flavors and ingredients of southern cooking, which is to say american cooking as opposed to...

What is this? it looks good. >> b.j.: were going back to west africa. >> ashley: all right. >> anthony: soft shell crabs and conch in a decidedly west african inflected peanut stew with carolina rice, sauteed squash, and zucchini. >> anthony: oh, thats so good. >> sean: man, its been a while since ive had conch. >> anthony: clearly, i mean, correct me if im wrong, sean, theres a different kind of interest in charleston that existed 20 years ago, right? is something happening here and is it a goo...

Calling it fake news and for the first time in american history we have essentially state run media backing up the president. fox and sinclair and alex jones and all these crazy ideas. its incumbent now on the press more than ever to really hone in and to have that press conference and not pin him down is -- its incredible. i mean, our democracy is hanging in the balance. 241 years of self-rule is hanging in the balance. we open the film with a line from bill moyer who used to be lbjs press secr...

Left washington, d.c. on january 21, 1969. >> how is it not crony capitalism when you are using your position as the head of the epa to try to broker a chick-fil-a franchise for your family? all of those other ethical transgressions and misuse of government funds were appalling and upsetting but this one just really takes the cake because it is just not even trying to mooch off the government and steal government funds for bedazzled pins, its trying to get your own chick-fil-a franchise which im...

>> do you feel like you owe her an apology? >> no. i do not -- i have never talked to her. but i did say publicly on more than one occasion that i was sorry. it is important to me that everybody who has been hurt know that the sorrow i feel is genuine. first and most important, my family, monica lewinsky and her family. >> reporter: he is now on a publicity tour, promoting his new novel with best-selling author james patterson. and when the former president was asked if he owed lewinsky a privat...

Investigation into whether or not our elections were tampered with. when there have been 19 indictments. i guess -- thats the part that im -- when jon heilemann talks about poll numbers going up -- i just im really at a loss. >> when you talk about, im not trying to understand the trump voter i. not trying to defend the trump voter. think and i said it, december 7th, 2015, coy never vote for a guy who is a racist, that was going to exclude 1.5 billion people from coming -- all right, fine. im ju...

Nonconsensual encounters are saying, hey, why doesnt somebody ask him about those which is a fair question as well in this day. and by the way, he has never figured out how to cov that anger effectively. as soon as that switch turns, you can see it all over. >> to that point, h asked in the nbc interview what about an apology to monica lewinsky. >> well, i felt terrible then. and i came to grips with it. >> but you didnt apologize to her. >> i have not talked to her. >> do you feel you owe her a...

Disenfranchised. i suspect professor, having followed your work, you wrote that with a deliberate application to today? >> mr. melber, as the godfather said, you know everything. i absolutely did, i think were seeing a repeat of that in our own era, the epics are rallel. mr. trump has deliberately fassened on to the collective delusion of whiteness that somehow poor white people will be the vehicle to articulate concerns about this nation without paying attention to how theyre suffering under hi...

Trail, where hes not one of the top surrogates. >> its interesting. the opening scene of his new novel, the thriller he did with james patterson, is the president, the fictional president, doing a preparatory q and a with the before going to congress for hostile questions. and the point that he makes in the book, as president, you have to prepare for hostile questions. so after 20 years, the fact that president clinton does not have a ready answer to what is not a question that should be complet...