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Behavior of the republican party and of donald trump. i have got kasie hunt standing by with me. shes at capitol hill. boy, she has been following a lot of stories today. this was not one we were actually excepting to develop today. but, an astute observer of capitol hill and of congress as you are, you may have foreseen this day coming. >> this was a rumor, ali. this was something that i have asked source about before, did you think do you think jeff flake is going to retire, do you think hes n...

Work that podesta group was doing on behalf of ukrainian clients is really troubled human rights folks and former american diplomats. they were trying to convince the lawmakers that the ukrainian electricities were above board, clean and good election. while it happened, podesta group clients had political opponents in prison. propaganda peddling that deeply frustrated human rights a activists and people who cared about good government in ukraine. >> some of that goes to lot of things in washing...

>> well, you know, the sucker cw would rather go out than actually face his destiny that way. >> reporter: suicide attempt, al delaying tactic, whatever it was it didnt work. a day later the judge ordered ralph back to court. >> people versus ralph lee candelario sentencing. >> reporter: and ralph, bandaged up, got another day in the spotlight. th >> your honor, i have maintained that i have been innocent through this whole process.. >> reporter: and then a keen observer might almost have heara ...

Were feeling. then on president george w. bush, i have to say as a democrat it was surprising to hear such -- to take such comfort in words from a guy i spent so much time disagreeing with, but he gave a powerful speech yesterday as well. >> it seemed as if there was something that moved president bush to say what he said yesterday. there was some sort of event, some impetus that perhaps we dont know about. do you have any inside knowledge about what drove him to make that emotional plea yesterd...

Potential targets pref rention treatments. >> the culture in washington, lets protect our predecessors in the hope that our successors will protect us. thats not their job. their job is to find and reveal documents that are sought unless there is some legitimate privilege claimed in which case the judge decides they stay secret. >> eric: could we get an indication by the nature of these documents whether or not theyre sensitive and the f.b.i. was trying to hide something or if theyre regular -- ...

This to me. >> i dont know how you explain it. its the most sobering of a presidents responsibilities. hes put men and women in harms way. they have fallen on behalf of their country. >> and donald trump has, too. he has ordered and greenlit missions in which people have lost their lives. >> thats absolutely right. hes like an observer. does he still not understand the job he has? >> theres a bit of a disconnect. that last clip does demonstrate that. at times the president seems removed from rea...

She if beneath her feet and mighty winds blow and we are no longer sure of where we are. margaret atwood has been a keen observer of right wing politics in the u.s. for over thirty years in more than fifty books she has taken aim at current events from the global financial crisis to womens rights. if you album i could add i think margaret atwoods work is a particularly good example of how literature must be in order to have a political impact it shows how to incorporate political and social anal...

I lost a loved one and i hear about this security guard shot in the leg, before the event, not after the event. before the shooting. not after the shooting. and im beginning to wonder, now, could something have been done before then to stop paddock from going on the carnage he was on because there were five or six minutes there. thats what people are getting into. what a lot of people get nervous about. especially those who fear legal cup pabilt. what does that mean, that development alone, ther...

Thats the response weinstein has made to this new reporting. what rowan adds to the story is tape. he has published the audio tape of a woman frankly, i mean to a lay observer, its a woman actively being sexually harassed and pesteredably harvey weinstein. a tape in which he add many mitts that in the previous day he dprabd her breast. he explained by saying "im used to it." that tape was apparently made by the nypd as they investigated sexual assault claims by one woman who says she got out of ...

Investigation, now that journalists have been able to piece it together and show some of the content, show some of what, you know, the product, what americans actually saw, i feel like that helps me as an observer, as a news consumer understand much more about how these things might have been effective. and then you can go one step further and start to talk about how far they reached and how many people they touched, how many people they may have influenced during the election. >> right. if they...