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KGO Nightline June 22, 2016

Formal role in a Trump White House . But first here are the nightline five. Good evening and tonight youre going to hear what some of the most powerful people say to one another when they think nobody is listening. Youll hear from the woman who revealed trading among high ranking officials and she is now facing a scandal of her own. I want you guys to be safe. Reporter pennsylvanias attorney general, Kathleen Kane, running away from danger is not her m. O. We can get out, right . I wouldnt. But youre the boss. Were getting out. Reporter on this day shes in philadelphia with the Gun Violence Task force to find the fugitive accused of attempted murder. But she says the real danger she never saw coming, not from criminals, but from colleagues. Putting her own career in jeopardy. Porngate scandal. 398 pages, much of it hard core porn. Reporter a trove of emails her Office Discovered and made public full of racism, sexism and pornography. What was your Immediate Reaction . Oh, my god. Reporter the scandal has been dubbed porngate. Some of the states highest ranking officials. A number of judges, a number of prosecutors in law enforcement. Reporter all in the states email server. I couldnt believe there was violence involved. This wasnt just some play boy photos. The real issue here is the misogyny and the racism. Reporter for veteran public defender, mark bookman, these represent something more troubling about the Justice System. If i know the judge has sent these kind of emails and i look at the prosecutor who is not only Close Friends with the judge but exchanging these emails and thinks the same way, i dont think im getting a fair shake in that court room. Reporter two of the Supreme Court justices, including michael eakin. Seamus mccaffrey could not be reached. And they lead an independent investigation sfwlp what we investigation. What were seeing is what would be offensive to any reasonably minded person. Reporter they spent months searching emails searching for things like the president s name. Even the first lady wasnt off limits. With this supposed depiction of Michelle Obamas high school reunion. You look at this and say you got to be kidding me . Reporter these are the battles Kathleen Kane grew up expecting to fight. A blue collar kid from scranton, pa. Modest. Modest. Yes. I had two brothers too, and a twin sister. Reporter she became a rising star in pennsylvanias Democratic Party, earning bill clintons endorsement while running for attorney general. I wasnt about to ask anyones permission. Reporter she won not just becoming the first states democratic attorney general but the first woman. My flaphilosophy was i am wh am. When she exposed the emails, the Good Old Boy Club was furious and out for blood, hers. The hard core pornography shared between state actors, that is not boys being boys. Its assault upon our criminal Justice System and quite honestly, its unacceptable. Reporter so what happened to the selfstyle maverick who exposed the scandal . Were here today to announce the filing of charges against Pennsylvania Attorney general, Kathleen Kane. Reporter amid calls for a resignation. Im calling on her to step aside. Reporter the Supreme Court has suspended her law license. She could face jail time when her trial starts in august. Your law license has been suspended . Yes. Reporter its kind of hard to be attorney general if youre not a lawyer . No p. Reporter when is the last time there was a attorney general who wasnt an attorney . When is the last time there was a woman and a democrat who didnt have to go through what im going through . Shes accused of lying about it under oath. Have you broken the law . Of course not. As they say, you can indict a ham sandwich. Reporter but her critics, including mark bookman say she brought it on herself. I dont defend our attorn ea general for her behavior. I think its atrocious in everywhere. Reporter when a former prosecutor from her office al j alleg allegedly leaked a potentially damaging fact against her to the press, she said in an email, this is war. Reporter by all accounts theres bad blood between you and frank fina . I think its unfair because i wouldnt know him if i fell over him. Reporter you never met him . Once at staff meeting for five minutes. Reporter kane later admitted to sharing the information but says it was not illegal. Fina declined nightlines request for comment. Hes part of a group accused of selecti selectively leaking emails. According to this kane used intimidation, attempted blackmail for the use of silencing her critics. Some would say youre admitting to boxing outside your weight class. You werent up for the challenge . You didnt know how the game was played. I dont think anyone could know how this game was played. And theyve done Everything Possible for me. Theres been a couple grand jurys, a suspension of my law license. The only thing that hasnt been done and im not being glub, out and out assassination. Reporter many of her wounds, they argue, were self inflicted. Whether theres a Good Old Boys Network or not, her own vindictiveness that appears to have brought her down. Reporter there are those who stand with the attorney general and those who stand with pundits. Where are you . I dont know how anyone could stand on either side of the issue. The attorney general has made a million missteps. Reporter according to kanes missteps, according to bookman, releasing the emails of her supposed rivals while initially minimizing the dozens sent and received by her own sister. Kane eventually released those emails, including one she received herself. The decision today i am comfortable with. Reporter in february, the attorney general announced she will not seek reelection. While i love pennsylvania, i love my sons first. Reporter from darling of the Democratic Party to doting mom, her boys, christopher and zack, have softened the fall. How do you explain this to christopher and zack . I explain to them that there comes a certain cost sometimes with doing the right thing and it is not always easy. Reporter her critics and supporters do agree kane is a fighter. Despite all her troubles, she still puts in a full days work. Recently making headlines covering a sex abuse scandal. Call her a casualty of a corrupt system or culpable for her own demize, shes a rising star no longer. But the thing that still drives her, the thousands of emails, the interim report is expected to be released in a few more weeks. As for kane, she has a few more months left in office. Theres a long way to go here. Reporter in harrisburg, pennsylvania. Next, why alist celebrities are on the war path over a sols. Its red lobsters new lobster and shrimp summerfest with the lobster and shrimp. 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Reporter for the owner of eight dogs and one of the real house wives of beverly hills. The campaign against the chinese dog festival began when she saw some of the photos that animal activists were able to record. You can never erase those images from your mind once youve seen them. Reporter for at least the last six years the chinese city of yulin has been home of the dog meat festival, home to tourists seeking exotic food. They had signs offering boiled dog meat and dog meat with mashed garlic. Apparently not bothered by the groeing uproar over both the idea of eating mans best friend and the gruesome techniques of slaughter houses. I think we should put pressure on china to stop it. My partner, john whos on the ground there is intracted with them. Been here for the past 12 days and two days before we arrived, we got word that our activists had stopped a dog meat truck. So, weve spent the past week working with the chinese activists to stabilize the 300 dogs and cats rescued from the dog meat truck. Reporter he says the activists are starting to have a impact. The brutal slaughtering is going on more behind the scenes but still in back alley. Its definitely still occurring on a daily basis. Reporter and now it has all been caught on camera by a team of american animal activists who found what they describe as dog slaughter houses. The slaughter happens under cover of night. Weir where ere able to obtain the dog meat slaughter that hasnt been before. Reporter they work for direct action anywhere and provided abc news with the video they recorded, much cant be broadcast under abc news standards. Many are breeds americans know very well. You walk towards the slaughter house and you just hear screams. Reporter many of the dogs waiting to be killed appear to have collars. They maraud the streets and will steal dogs off the street because they know they can get 40 or 50 if they ship then down to yulin. Reporter they claim eating dog meat on the summer solstice will bring good luck all year. Its been a tradition in china for centuries. Its not widespread. There are a few pockets of china that it is still ongoing and they believe dog is healthy for their body. Reporter the two activists said they had a close call when some of the dog meat trainers discovered what they were doing. Two of them picked up metal poles and hitting them in their hands and i remember silting there next to wayne thinking this might be where i die. Reporter the activists also found farms outside the city where dogs are raised for slaughter. For food, yeah. Reporter under chinese law it is leaggal to sell dog meat d in a statement, the Chinese Government called it the food preference of individuals. Said the government has never supported or organized any socalled dog meat festival. But they say local authorities took them into custody when they were discovered filming. They released us after approximately two days of intearigation intea intear interrogation. Reporter they were able to rescue three dogs and smuggle them out of the country. There was a little black dog, i had to walk away from him, knowing the next day i would see footage of him being beaten to death. The fact i couldnt get him out was the most difficult thing i ever faced in my life. Reporter now the three rescued dogs are in california called the boys by animal activists, living a life safe from the slaughter house. Here living in beverly hills, there are epippeople emrursed is every day. Reporter this is bryan ross, abc news, new york. Next the young people who have the ear of the man who may be our next president. The children of donald trump and what the candidate is telling abcs david muir tonight about what kind of role his kids would play in a trump administration. 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Were you in the room . Yes. How did that go down . It was a good split up, it made a lot of sense and those are the tough decisions you actually have to make. Reporter today trump down played the significance of the reshuffle. Corey, i have to say did a wonderful job. And i know the wonderful things he said about me which i think is very nice and gracious. But i say the same thing about him. Corey did an excellent job. Reporter he wouldnt be the first to put huge stock in family ties. But tonight when david muir pressed him, trump insisted he doesnt have a Major Political role in mind for his kids. Will there be a role for him, a role for ivanka in a Trump White House . Probably not. I would leave them to run the business. Theyre very much involved in the business but probably not in the white house, no. Reporter not clear who, if not them, trump will trust or how much influence theyll have. Im david wright for nightline in new york. 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