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Ratings are a lower one? >> dontravious trying to prosecute major-league change. he is instructing a system that has been in play and in control for a long time. that is why they voted for change. im not surprised by the numbers but i am in the business as a consultant. in fact were in the business of numbers. and when you move numbers you get things done. right now you have president trump, the master builder who has in front of him legacy like items having to do with infrastructure, trade and ...

Story of their time at all. okay. theyve popped a lot of bottles, had sex with a lot of women and drove a lot of expensive cars and nothing else happened. you would never know that there was a black president. you would never know there was two wars. you would never know those things, because its not reflected in the music. and at some point, somebody was supposed to step up and make those songs. 20 years from now theyll still be talking about the message and planet rock and all the classic reco...

>> anthony: robert moses has been dead over 30 years now. and people in the bronx, for the most part, still hate him. in his role as master builder he ran the cross bronx expressway and the parkway system straight through dozens of working-class neighborhoods, seemingly uncaring about the destruction of whole communities. massive housing projects conceived as utopian solutions to stacking the poor into centralized vertical ghettos were also his bright idea. he did leave some pretty impressive da...

>> as far as hip-hop now, these guys are not trying to tell a story of their time at all. okay. theyve popped a lot of bottles, had sex with a lot of women and drove a lot of expensive cars and nothing else happened. you would never know that there was a black president. you would never know there was two wars. you would never know those things, because its not reflected in the music. and at some point, somebody was supposed to step up and make those songs. 20 years from now theyll still be talk...

To the ground and somehow they will still come back. but if you destroy their achievements, the history, then its like they never existed. >> but for as great as the cast is, that little speech seems to be the movies problem. a few reviewers like the fresno bee called it a fitting tribute to the men who put their lives on the line in the name of saving culture, but more critics agree with the l.a. times that the movie is earnest and well-intentioned but ultimately just talks a better game than i...

Her money. >> reporter: jean had been duped into pay for dominiques lavish lifestyle, rented homes, trips, fancy cadillac, business fronts including entertainment empire and cattle and construction companies. >> if he had said give me your money, im going, that wouldnt hurt me half as bad, but he had to run every credit card in the nation up on me. >> reporter: all of dominiques businesses were phony, every one. detective melcher concluded. he wasnt a cattle baron, not a master builder. he never...