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Amid escalating threats against councillors, Nelson Mandela Bay deputy mayor Babalwa Lobishe wants a VIP protection unit to be established.

Deputy President Paul Mashatile's protectors besmirched his image this past week when video footage of his VIP protection unit assaulting members of the SA National Defence Force on the N1 in Johannesburg went viral.

Longtime personal attorney and so-called fixer michael cohen is weighing his options on cooperate with investigators. lets start with paul manafort. now he arrived at a jail in virginia on friday evening. once the head of a winning presidential campaign, he is now known as inmate number 45343 and his cell is listed in the vip unit. jessica schneider explains more for us. >> reporter: a federal judge revoked manaforts $10 million bail after prosecutors allege that he spent five weeks contacting w...

People that were in congress. and it was a concerted effort to influence a process, a process by which they would personally profit. >> the report says country wides effort to build goodwill on capitol hill worked until the housing market was full of foreclosures. harris? >> harris: yeah, thats a problem. so what are these people saying? >> the committee says there were 29 loans to 12 different members of congress and key staffers. so folks suggested they were not aware they were being given spe...

Countrywide financial in 2008. mike, explain whats in the report from the house oversight committee. >> they say this investigation clearly demonstrates countrywide offered discounted thrones members of congress key staffers and other government officials. countrywide had a v.i.p. unit to provide enhanced customer service. >> there was a reason that they were doing this. they werent just trying to be nice. they didnt offer this to the public. they went after celebrities, after people at fannie m...

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