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Welcome back. a new york state judge ruled that president trump must pay $2 million for improperly using his trump foundation charity to further his 2016 presidential campaign. the order appears to end the new york attorney general's lawsuit against trump and three of his children under the now closed foundation which was accused of being engaged in repeated wrongdoing, including quote unlawful coordination with the trump presidential campaign, and quote repeated and willful self dealing. the original petition detailed what it called a shocking pattern of illegality involving the trump foundat...

Three of his adult children, don jr., eric and ivanka pattern of consistent illegal conduct, abusing the charity's nonprofit status, violating state laws and campaign finance law. you'll remember one of the interesting details from the self dealing part of this was the $10,000 that trump through his charity used to pay for a portrait of trump himself. that portrait, as you see there, was hanging at trump's national doral golf resort in florida. they also used $100,000 from the charity to settle a legal dispute involving another resort of the president's in florida, the mar-a-lago resort. that'...

A former government minister, suspected of self-dealing, granting licenses for oil and gas concessions to help his company. and allowing burisma to evade taxes. anti-corruption watchdog doreena kalenok. >> burisma has a bad reputation. in ukraine we actually appeared when we had to fight two wars. war with russia, war with corruption. >> in an attempt to improve its image and shield itself from scrutiny, in 2014 burisma assembled a new board of directors. the company brought in several high-profile names, including vice president biden's son, hunter. >> why would burisma hire hunter biden to s...

President donald trump is now reeling from what was clearly his worst week as president, which is quite a low point for a man that's lived through a steady march of indictments of people around him. this week marked a rebuke by the majority. a full house teeing up impeachment. one reason is the evidence. unlike allegations of self-dealing or hush payments or obstruction in the mueller probe, the simple facts at the center of this ukraine bribery plot are not in dispute. trump demanded a foreign government go after joe biden. trump admitted it. trump released notes proving it. trump said he'd d...

>> how are you? >> good. >> so i want to start with this. >> by the way, this is way more fun than talking to a little lens. >> i like human beings. so let's start with this idea. that polling number really jumped out at me, because i do think it's the case that people have a lot of cynicism. they think there's a lot of corruption and self-dealing in government. they're not necessarily wrong about that. as someone who was there, as someone who was general counsel for department of defense, what is your response to people who say this is normal? >> well, you're right, it didn't start with the t...