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>> it wasnt just about hey, look at these blockheads chilling drugs on the street. you were in the apartment with them where they had no parents, where they were taking care of their siblings, where they were trying to scrounge for food. >> wheres your bag? >> teacher aint give no homework. >> so you start to get a much more realistic, three-dimensional picture of what poverty looks like in a city. >> one of the things about "the wire" that was so interesting is, it didnt rely on this traditiona...

>> its a get to be given 12 hours on hbo to tell a story with. god help you if you dont have something to say. ♪ were down in a hole david simon was a newspaper reporter in baltimore. he spend a year embedded with the homicide unit. he and ed burns, a police officer, got attorney general and said what if we tell the whole story of the death of the american city, the futility of the war on drugs through the eyes of cops. [ laughter ] >> of drug dealers. >> yall got the best territory and no k...

Go on the raw material, the wire that is used to make nails. so mid-continent has to absorb a huge increase in the croft of making nails. the chinese make the nails at home and ship them to the united states, there is no tariff. they can easily undercut the price of any american nail producer and mid-continent is the largest nail producer in america. one consequence of this could be that there wont be any nail producers in america any more and that all of your nails will come from china. that is...

Papadopoulos and russia and ran this source at several members of the trump campaign. papadopoulos. page, flynn. they ran him pretty hard. he lured papadopoulos over to london for a meeting. he had a young woman with him. now some of our other guests can tell you i didnt work counterterrorism, having a young woman at a meeting that later on invited papadopoulos to another meeting, that is a recruitment tool. they were using aggressive tactics to look at papadopoulos and carter page and to genera...

Papadopoulos and russia and ran this source at several members of the trump campaign. papadopoulos. carter page and flynn. he lured papadopoulos over to london for a meeting. he had a young woman with him. having a new young woman at a meeting that later invited papadopoulos to a separate meeting thats a recruitment tool. they were using aggressive tactics to look at papadopoulos and carter page and to general flynn. during the time, we call that tickling the wire. trying to get conversation you...

>> absolutely. hamas is certainly a terrorist organization committed to the destruction of israel and without a doubt these protests, these demonstrations, these rights were used by the hamas in order to try and strike directly against israel. clearly hamas has no concern whatsoever for human life. as one magazine put it, the protests use sort of suicide rioters actually and hamas has absolutely no concern whatsoever for the well-being of the palestinian people. this is a terrorist organization ...

Getting something from the taco truck. and they want a sort of "the wire" experience, you know? yeah, i was in braddock, having a beer. sort of giving a little cred to their lives, i dont know. and its all sort of, you know, white businesses. >> anthony: in 1988, the state classified braddock as financially distressed. their term for bankruptcy. a status it still holds today. >> anthony: this is still working? >> tony buba: this is still working. its the only plant working in the whole mon valle...

Him from the wire. >> ill play it. it will be okay. >> isaiah whitlock, nick kristof and davies, thank you. well be right back. you might take something for your heart... or joints. but do you take something for your brain. with an ingredient originally found in jellyfish, prevagen is the number one selling brain-health supplement in drug stores nationwide. prevagen. the name to remember. you wont find relief here. congestion and pressure? go to the pharmacy counter for powerful claritin-d. whil...

When that happened? >> what do you mean? >> i was caught up in my own personal whirlwind. the wire was my breakout role. i wasnt handling my finances or that stardom very well. you know, people calming me omar was having an effect on my psyche. i wasnt using my platform the way i believe im beginning to do today to help further my community. you know, when president obama called me out, i basically had no knowledge of anything that was going on. i was one of those people that pretty much went to...

Up ahead, jay-z and letterman getting down on donald trump, and my interview with actor michael k. williams on a push for criminal justice reform youre going to want to see. im going to ask him about president obamas shout out for his character on "the wire."