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More and more and more money. americans for prosperity is expected to channel $125 million into the midterms. and in karl roves crossroads, i read the other day is only expected to put in $10 million. so you can see where things are headed. the kochs have really only become more powerful politically since they kind of been vilified. republicans have been -- theyve attracted republicans to the cause. >> well, were going to be watching. and certainly this is a very important book youve written. da...

Want two more weeks and she gave them to them. >> so the judge allowed for the apostponement. >> yes, absolutely. its not really surprising. we have a lot of public holidays coming up so it makes pragmatic sense, and she emphasized they will get ahead of the work schedule and start reviewing what has already become an exceptionally long transcript which they will need to be intimately familiar with every page of that in reaching their decisions in this trial. so they will use this as a work brea...

Knew there was something going on. i think they were some intelligence agencies that provided an analysis that putin was not going to follow through, that it was more of a bluff and that he was not, they said 24 hours em bears before and 24 hours later, this would have been about eight or nine days ago last thursday, the thursday before, and that was briefed to law mareks on capitol hill who came away from that briefing thinking that all right, well, you know, this is brings man ship, but its no...

Any way. we now know she is notified about a potential violation of the law from the executive director of the port authority. what action was taken, what was discussed with christie, those are very much the central issues that are emerging right now. >> okay. so were talking here about the assemblys effectiveness to further the investigation. but what about the federal inquiry, mike? what does that entail at this point? >> reporter: well, look. paul fishman, u.s. attorney in newark, put out a s...

Hed ever consider? would he consider granting edward snowden some kind of clemency. >> some kind of clemency, theres a lot of room in that statement. an absolution for what is objectively an act of treason, betrayal of oath, very unlikely a commander in chief will do that for edward snowden. given that he joined as a contractor, it appears with the intention of releasing these documents. however, edward snowden has been vindicated by two federal judges who call the current system of the nsa orwe...

Lawyers that are charged with reviewing what we do, it was not torture. i dont believe it was torture. >> there are those who dispute it, that that is what caused him to give the information, but even positing that it did, it has had tremendous propaganda value for the enemy. >> we will trade propaganda value for lives. >> but cant propaganda value cost lives? >> no, i think in this case, there are bound to be critics out there. theres no question but it was controversial, it was the right thing...

How ridiculous these on-line reviews can be. >> this has gotten into a question of law enforcement. new york state investigators obtained $50,000 in fines against one of the reputation management firms. it sounds benign, but they are doing the fate reviews or trashing somebody else. >> there was a year investigation into companies that create these fake reviews and clients who buy. it charter bus operator x teeth whitening service, laser hair removal chain and an adult entertainment club. >> the...

From my reporting and the senior sources that ive spoken to on the ground, they identify that there were women there and there were -- there was, in particular, a white woman. apparently there is cctv footage of this that senior officials are reviewing, and then there was a press conference where the officials there said there were 10 to 15 gunmen, saying -- insisting that they were all men. so its really not clear whether they were men dressed as women or what. so theres, again, a question mark...

Entire specifics and components of security clearance, time frame, the depth of the clearance, kind of clearance, access different clearances give individuals, were going to give all of that. obviously, the longer clearances go without reviewing. theres some jeopardy to that. theres tho question about it. so, were going to take a look at every one of those components. >> on syria, my current role an the current role of the military is to provide some planning assistance to the prevention of chem...

The witness says i did not see a weapon on him. could he have been casing, reviewing? >> more than likely he was. >> now, the man also said he believes he had seen him before. that is a little inconsistent with information coming out from investigators, because he wasnt scheduled to start work yet, though he did have clearance. he did have the ability to go inside and youre saying that may have been skin the with preparation? >> right, yes. he absolutely would have probably walked through this. ...