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He and your mom went on a tourist visit to go home? >> yes his first vacation in 15 years to see his family. eric: did he expect any trouble? was he told anything? or did this come as a total surprise? >> it was a total surprise. he had a confirmation from the judiciary system in lebanon claiming he had no legal charges against him. eric: despite that how did you find out he was taken and he's in prison? >> his passport got detained for back ground checking. and he saw his friend and it was very emotional. they told him to go back to pick up this passport and that's the last time we saw him. e...

Consensus on background checks is nearly coming to a halt. >> sources say that attorney general bill barr is signaling the hopes for the president trump's backed gun bill are dimming. let's go to cnn's sarah westwood outside the white house. sarah, what have you learned? we've heard the president say, yes, i'm behind background checking and no, i need to nok tuesday behind the scenes. what do you hear? >> the department of justice, on high levels at capitol hill has indicated that president trump is unlikely to support a package of expanded background checks. that's despite the fact that attor...

That's different from the track record we have seen? >> well, part of it i'm willing to attack the corruption head-on, including the corruption of the gun manufacturers that hire all the lobbyists that call the shots in washington. but the second part is six years ago the senate passed by a vote of 54-46 background checking. i say they passed. that was the majority, but not with a filibuster in place. it wasn't good nufds to get the job done. on the first day i'm president, the republicans want to try to block things, we get rid of the filibuster and go with the majority vote. we just can't ha...

Was hobnobbing with all the people he was hobnobbing with. your paper has undertaken an incredible investigation over the past year that seems to be related to this point. what did your reporters discover and how does it relate to the last 48 hours? >> thank you. you know, first of all, i think it has everything -- it has a lot to do with the work that julie brown has done over the past year. it started, quite frankly, as she got interested in human trafficking after doing a story about the florida prison system, particularly women's -- the women's prison system. as she started to do some back...

Your paper has undertaken an incredible investigation over the past year that seems to be related to this point. what did your reporters discover and how does it relate to the last 48 hours? >> thank you. you know, first of all, i think it has everything -- it has a lot to do with the work that julie brown has done over the past year. it started, quite frankly, as she got interested in human trafficking after doing a story about the florida prison system, particularly women's -- the women's prison system. as she started to do some background checking on human trafficking, jeffrey epstein's nam...