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Radical socialists, liars, con artist, and conspiracy theorists. that is who they are. that is all they own peer where are the solutions for the american people? appropriately enough, you're one one-time savior, michael avenatti, is once again in serious legal trouble today. yes, he was charged with stealing money from stormy stormy stormy stormy's book deal. also facing separate extortion charges on 36 other federal indictments of perjury, theft, fraud. for months, by the way, avenatti was begging to come on this program. over and over again. and we never gave him a serious platform. he never...

Defrauding stormi daniels. prosecutors say avenatti took money daniels was supposed to get from a book deal. he was also separately indicted for extortion charges for his alleged attempt to take $20 million in payments from nike. he said yesterday he will fight the charges. strong words from the pentagon amid accusations syria is once again using chemical weapons against its own people. plus the man known as the american taliban set to be released from prison tomorrow. not without some major condition. why lawmakers are still concerned. hey, who are you? oh, hey jeff, i'm a car thief... what?!...

>> sure. >> let me find it here. he has basically said, look, in his twitter response he said i look forward to a jury hearing all of the evidence and passing judgment on my conduct, at no time was any money misappropriated or mishandled. i will be fully exonerated once the elevated emails, contract and texts and documents are presented. that is just in the past ten seconds. michael avenatti tweeted that out to the public in response to this particular indictment. one, of course, is about stormy daniels and misappropriation of money, there according to the u.s. attorney. the other is about ext...

>> mr. avenatti allegedly took nearly all that money and used it to pay for his portion of a private jet. a jet, incidentally, that we seized yesterday. >> reporter: there it is being towed away from a southern california airport. >> it is lawyer 101. you do not steal your client's money. >> reporter: one of alleged victims, geoffrey johnson, is a paraplegic. prosecutors say avenatti drained almost all of the $4 million he got in a settlement from l.a. county, giving johnson only money for rent at an assisted living facility. tonight, the man's lawyer saying avenatti's actions "have left mr. j...

Them doing that -- then they're in violation of that deal. they can go back and be prosecuted for what they do in making payments to stormy daniels and making payments on behalf of the trump campaign, this hush money that they were initially investigated for. not only did they negate that immunity deal and allow them to actually be investigated for that and prosecuted for that, but now they could have more legal trouble when they're facing these extortion charges. >> okay. ashley, lots to talk about and we'll do so again no doubt. thank you. >> thank you. it is called the most inexplicable m...