Every day in every state across the country, our political system is bankrolled by an army of fundraisers, pulling in millions of dollars a race. Sometimes it looks like you might imagine knocking on doors, calling every name in the phone book, and emailsso many emails. But for all those little fish throwing 100 to their local race, its the whales those Campaign Fundraisers really need powerful, rich individuals and companies. And when they donate 25,000, 100,000, a million dollars, they want a favor. Or 10. It should be obvious thats corrupt, but with a wink and a nod, political deals toe the bribery line every single day. And we may never have noticed that if a certain illinois governor hadnt flung back the curtain with an unrepentant ego, a political corruption crime spree, and a set of unprecedented Audio Recordings that shined a bright light on the inner workings of american political power. Ladies and gentlemen, meet Rod Blagojevich. It was early morning, cause i used to get up e
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General garland, and others singled out by the fani willis expects to seek more than a dozen indictments into her Election Interference Probe of donald trump. Also tonight, a live report from maui, walls of flames sweeping the island. At least six people have already been killed. Good evening, everyone. John king sitting in for anderson. Breaking news tops our hour. The killing of a utah man by police trying to arrest him. Page af page of craig robersons social media describing who he would allegedly kill and how. Cnns Shimon Prokupecz joins us live with more. Also senior Law Enforcement analyst, deputy director, Andrew Mccabe. Shimon, walk us through what happened today. There was a lot of concern given that the president was coming to utah. And that set off a chain of events. First, the suspect here, craig robertson, on monday, the fbi saw that he posted a message on facebook saying that the president was coming to utah and that basically it was time for him to take action. He wrote
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