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Joining me now, a law professor of university of baltimore and investigative reporter tom winter. welcome to both of you. tom, you reported in december about then attorney general jeff sessions inquiring about investigations into hillary clinton. this is a sort of highly unusual process in a working democracy. >> two things are going on at here. at the time, jeff sessions under congressional pressure and a lot of pressure i would say in conservative media to look into this uranium-1 which was this deal involving the russians. we could spend 40 minutes talking about this. >> we once did spend a...

Their luxury cars. these people who have been feeding at the trough essentially stealing part of the corruption in this country. >> temeshenko is loaded and the dentist son of yanukovych is loaded. they're all billionaires. >> he was on the "forbes list." this country has been plundered since it became independent. >> it takes so long to create a working democracy, democratic culture in a country. i ukraine, the communists, czars, all that hell and the oligarchs now. they have nothing good in their past to look to, do they? >> also remember in their past they do have the crimian war which russ...

Going to the parliament today pulling up in their bmws and their luxury cars. these people who have been feeding at the trough essentially stealing part of the corruption in this country. >> tymoshenko is loaded and the dentist son of yanukovych is loaded. they're all billionaires. >> he was on the "forbes list." this country has been plundered since it became independent. >> it takes so long to create a working democracy, democratic culture in a country. i feel for them. ukraine, the communists, czars, all that hell and the oligarchs now. they have nothing good in their past to look to, do th...

Ruth bader ginsburg have this advice for egypt as they try to build their own working democracy? >> i would not look to the u.s. constitution if i were drafting a constitution in the u.s. 2012. i might look at the constitution of south africa. >> oh, boy. judge andrew napolitano joins us live. so here she is. she's supposed to interpret the u.s. constitution. she's supposed to love the u.s. constitution and she says hey, egypt, if you want to build your own constitution, look to south africa or canada. >> well, south africa's constitution is very different from ours. let's start off with size,...

He's a senior fellow at the organization demos, an international recognized political theorist and professor at rutgers university. he joins us from new york. good to see you. >> good morning. >> tell us, can egypt really become a working democracy and how long do you think that might take? >> yes, it can. this has been a remarkable week. i had a research assistant who said yesterday, this is my first revolution. for many people around the world who are under 20 years old, this is their first revolution. very exciting. but we do understand that a revolution is a first step towards democracy an...