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Involved with a florida-based company that bought busted earlier this year as a gigantic fraud. it's a company called world patent marketing. matt whitaker was apparently on their advisory board. the company bragged about him being on the board to lure and assure clients that the company was aboveboard, almost in comical language. in december 2014, the company issued a press release that quoted matt whitaker as saying, quote, as a former u.s. attorney, i would only align myself with a first-class organization. world patent marketing goes beyond making statements about doing business ethically ...

Because that brings it back to the current place and time. we talked about the frat boy culture and a lot of things have gone on, and not many people are faulting a college kid for getting drunk, but it's not about drinking or what somebody has done in their past when it comes to alcohol, but why is a federal judge sitting in front of the united states senate making statements that other people are saying are not consistent with the facts. that is the issue. why is a judge, somebody who is supposed to be fair, honest and truthful being called into question. that's something we need to get to t...

Tough but also empathetic? >> again, that goes back to the mission of the questioner. if it's a cross-examination, it's always designed so that the attorney is essentially testifying and the witness is validating and the end result is to make the witness admit something they don't want to admit. if the prosecutor stays on mission, which is to develop the truth, i think people hike like looking at the structure of each question. every word counts, timing counts. in courts and trials we don't normally have a stopwatch going on the questioning. the other thing to consider too is this is not a cou...

Is this mostly because it's encroaching on don jr.? >> i know that's a meme right now or a theme or whatever word we use. i think it is certainly true that he is concerned that it will touch his son and i think that has become more concerning simply not because of some new fact set but because you had michael cohen making statements that are -- his lawyer making statements that i think became of concern to the president but i don't think it was because of some new piece of information or that mueller made some move toward don jr. that is not different. i don't think the president is in any dif...

>> reporter: they pounced on that with a cruel insult of trump. >> translator: when he says that because of foolishness and stupidity of the united states we have bad russian relations, it smells like he is a kremlin agent. >> reporter: another sign of putin's manipulation, reports of a secret offer. according to bloomberg, he proposed to hold a referendum on russia's operation in the east ukraine. the report says trump asked putin not to discuss it publicly so trump could think it over, supporting what would likely be a sham vote in ukraine would run counter to america's stance against the in...