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On his monitored prison phone calls, manafort has mentioned that he is being treated like a spi vip." manafort also possesses a personal laptop computer that he is permitted to use in his qulunt to review materials and prepare for trial. the jail has made extra accommodations for his use of the laptop providing him an extension cord to ensure he can use it in the unit and not in the separate work room. although the jail doesnt allow him to send or receive e-mails, he has gotten a work around. he...

Undercut an appeal under way trying to get him released from jail altogether in advance of the trial, so its a pretty significant setback. hes also now going to be as you say moved up to alexandria and take out of the relatively gentle conditions he was being held in there. >> cynthia, i am always learning interesting things about you and tonights interesting thing is that you are a former member of the virginia board of corrections. my experience with virginia corrections is limited to a couple...

Couple of trips to death row and virginia and a lot of time spent covering during the years. i have not in my travel seen any -- >> nobody have been so pampered in the virginia jail system. >> i find the whole things shocking. all this time to himself and he had a work room to himself and they got a special extension cord so they can move back and forth and the phone calls are particularly shocking. in virginia jail system, there is a legitimate issue that inmate do not have access to the phones...

The rooms in the houses are just as tiny as the windows looking out from them as a rule the single storey buildings have three rooms from outside you step straight into the cage and usually there are two rooms leading off this entrance area. and a bedroom. there is also an adjacent work room its used in winter for carving figures and making cheese so the inhabitants already have to leave the building. homes in the village are crammed in sparsely furnished wealth involved cullen edge is to be fou...

That the house select intelligence should be put back together. every indication was you couldnt work together, it was all partisan. even discussions about putting a physical wall between the two sides in the work room. you couldnt get it done. you couldnt separate the politics from what was the purpose of the investigation. why go back to that? >> lets remember the wall wasnt our idea. shutting down the investigation wasnt our idea. for refusing to subpoena witnesses or allowing a gag order of ...

Get a sense of the take he has there. what do you make of all this? >> well, i was willing to just give the whole thing a pass until it somehow hit the white house podium. in which case, you know, i just thought the whole thing had gotten insane. i have been ferociously trying to defend the ability of people in journalism who worked for a large news gathering operations to say what they want on their personal social media platforms, without consequence back in the work room. i, myself, was somew...

In which case, you know, i just thought the whole thing had gotten insane. i have been ferociously trying to defend the ability of people in journalism who worked for a large news gathering operations to say what they want on their personal social media platforms, without consequence back in the work room. i, myself, was somewhat of a victim of that once. i think its a classic example of how what we now call the main stream press got caught black footed by what social media really s. i think to ...

It was womens work and we didnt value it the same way. >> these were jobs considered sub professional. and yet you have women like katherine johnson, for example, that literal lly are the reason that john glen was able to do what he dade and come home safely and we were referred to as girl >> yeah. we have to remember. the women started working at what was then called the langley memorial air nautical laboratory back in the 1930s. the first black women showed up in 1943. so the 1940s and anoth50...

Is cultural its endemic to the institution. do you agree with that? >> no. thats absurd. its just not true. the secret service i remember. there are two essentially, uniformed division and agent side. the agent side where i served i remember 3:00 in the morning in south korea walking into a workroom and seeing one of my superviseors sitting there for a rookie agent with no sleep. im not their paid spokesperson. i left three years ago. i really find it growtesquely offensive saying that they have...

Going on internally, the ig. congress is looking into it. all of the facts about whether there was alcohol involved, what exactly happened, whether or not there was a breach of protocol. thats all up in the air. >> it is. its being investigated. luckily theres lots of tape and lots of video and lots of witnesses. hopefully theyll get to the bottom of this. >> youve known these agents. >> very well. >> youve served in the secret service. what ive heard from people who i know who were there, is th...