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Ago and spent seven years inside the ecuadorian embassy in london. hes been a prison there for more than 18 months. the uk judge found assange to be in deteriorating mental health and feared he would kill himself here in a prison in the u.s. the department of justice says it will appeal. when we come back tonight, news this evening about that pharmacist accused of sabotages doses of covid vaccine. depressive lows. you to , or, give you unusually high energy, even when depressed. overwhelmed by...

Dining with a geisha can cost thousands of dollars. but covid has slashed spending. gatherings have been canceled. even before covid, geishas were in decline, with an aging clientele. 80-year-old ikuko, a practicing geisha and head of the akasaka geisha association, remembers working in the area 50 years ago when there were 400 geishas. she says today there are just 21. >> translator: we are struggling for survival. what we can do is train constantly to be prepared to perform at any moment. >> r...

Cary, a place where a young family would aspire to if you were someone like hanna pritchard, for example. >> theres always lots of friend making going on through someone you meet. lots of cookouts and family functions. >> reporter: like the one in the neighborhood the night before. so hanna would have heard party stories that saturday morning from her friend nancy cooper. would have. because nancy didnt show up. >> i hadnt heard from her maybe by like 10:00, i called her house. brad answered and...

A manager said, oh, i have this great script set in the advertising world in new york. its been around for eight years. and nobodys bought it. everybodys passed. >> advertising is based on one thing. happiness. >> don draper is a master of the universe ad executive in early 1960s manhattan, but he is actually secretly a man named dick whitman. hes stolen the identity of the real don draper during an incident during the korean war. so he is living another mans life but battling his own demons a t...

>> sentence, nine years. up for parole in six. >> what they were doing at hbo was exactly what the network wasnt doing. they were breaking barriers. you get to "the sopranos" and all of a sudden, the villain is the hero. >> have some eggplant. >> i told you. im not hungry. >> you wont even accept food from your own mother. >> "the sopranos" was david chases invention about this mob family, something that people hadnt seen before. the idea that a mobster is seeing a therapist. >> whatever happene...

Lets resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long. >> dear president-elect obama, i am a died-in-the-wool republican. i have voted since i was 18, the last eight elections. i may not have supported you before, but as of today, i am committed to serving you as a citizen and to praying for you daily. best regards, jeri harris. >> this is our time to reclaim the american dream and reaffirm that momentum truth tha...

Even attacking the police only serves to raise tensions and stir chaos. >> obama stumbled. you know, he was torn as to how to address race. >> theres always going to be tension when it comes to race matters and the first african-american president. there was already underneath the surface this idea that the black presidents going to look out for black people. from a political standpoint i understand that he cant give too much fuel to that fire. is it fair? no, its not fair. but its the political...

Who are they trying to make comfortable? because he said something that was obviously true. that the police officer acted stupidly. that you have to bend over backwards to make certain folk feel comfortable in this country. >> i learned two very important lessons as a result of the gates issue. first of all, that anything can serve as a distraction to your agenda. for the next week thats all that the press was talking about. the second lesson is that every single word that president obama said h...

Covering him was that both he and michelle, they had to do whatever they could to minimize the distractions that could come from being the first african-american president, particularly in the first term. he didnt want to engage on racial issues. >> almost all of what obama did was race neutral. he was rescuing the economy, he was restructuring health care, he was implementing green energy reforms. and on and on and on. but the issue of race was infusing everything he did, even when it on the su...

Who is sitting down the hall in the west wing who feels as if he is not being treated with respect and consulted on big decisions. >> there have been a lot of vice presidents who werent happy, partly because they never got the opportunity to do anything. nelson rockefeller hated his experience as vice president. i know because i was chief of staff when he was vice president, and he was unhappy completely. gerry ford was vice president, nine months. he always told me that was the worst experience...