>> rightb now a public corruptin investigation. what an fbi probe is searching for ins connection with las vegs city councilman ricky barlow. >> 2000 may have been another milestone in this country and increasingly becoming hyperpartisan. but i saw it backcon in the late '80s. >> what's created the political bases in our country, two top political experts who have been in the trenches. and i went to the university to explore how they're getting ready for the presidential debate they're hosting, next. >> a las vegas city councilman

public corruption. thanks for joining us. >> this is a story the i-team first broke here on channel 8 and now we're learning that the probe is widening and learning more about what the focus may be. >> reporter: what was first thought to be a campaign contribution appears to be a much deeper investigation, sources familiar with the investigation agentsus are lookg at financial leaks between roxanne mccoy and councilman ricky barlow, whether he used thow his own pockets through cash kickbacks as well as campaign contributions. mccoy's consulting firm is considered a key focal point of the federal probe, after searching through public records we found several links between mccoy's company, inspired consulting and barlow and his own consulting firm, in 2013 he listed over $30,000 in payments for consulting purposes to inspire consulting andnt mccoy directly. while that may be on the up and up, sources tell us the fbi is looking into payments going back

i-team sources tell us investigators have asked the city ofk las vegas to preserve barlow's electronic records at city hall. a city spokesperson confirms that they are cooperating with that request and tells the i-team there is) powerful audio and video evidence between an undercover operative and barlow. >> we've reached out to councilman barlow and his attorney as well as roxanne mccoy and so far have not heard back from either. a republican party the party broke. it camef from john burke, the state party's rapid response director. it featured a photo of democratic senate candidate katherine cortez masto and calvin atkinson who we apparently confused for barlow. both are black. state democratic leader aaron ford who is also black sent out a tweet saying...

apologized. steve, obviously it's not a good look. can we expect more fallout coming from this and maybe a campaign ad? probably so. i think definitely it's certainly not good. back in 2007, there was a column by patrick coolakin in the las vegas sun talking about how black lawmakers were mistaken by each other, even by veteran lobbyists in the halls the legislative. so burk wasn't the first togr me that mistake. but things got worse even t campaign. making racist comments and snohomish vile remarks on the web site read it, and joey got in trouble in 2013 when he made those comments on social media, andn a couple of formers people were court -- she held a news conference late last week to

one day really. all centered on one day for the campaign. >> right. you really don't want that kind of thing going on the an all but certainly coming in a single weak week is not a good thing. >> two top political figures disagreed and agreed this week on onee of the most vexing problems facing the nation. a lack of cooperation between republicans and democrats when it comes to running the u.s. government. >> republican pollster says he thinks things went off the rails in 2000 when suppo gore refused to accept the results of the disputed election and the supreme court's decision said lutz, that was just thea beginning of the poison. i don't think this election is the end. i think it's the beginning. but i spoke with the campaign manager about the 2000 election donna brazil. >> 2000 might have been another mild stone in -- milestone in

but i saw back in the late '80s, i saw it in the 1990s underh the leadership of the bil clinton. wasis it 1976, 80, 84, 88, it doesn't matter. the problem is that we have too many people in ourle country who believe that the only way to make progress is to have either a republican led government or a democrat led government and not a government led by the people and the values we share as americans and i think that's at stak to break the cycle of mistrust

and probably even further. those are all questions. we'll have to wait until after the election to ponder. patrick. >> all right, steve, thanks. it is u less than one month now until the presidential debate will be held october 19th. unlv no doubt will be a zoo leading up to it with thousands of journalists, strategists and surrogates claiming parts of campus in the run up to the final debate of the presidential cycle. and if the candidates each try to put their best foot forward on their final appearances together, the university will be doing t >> reporter: with one month to go until hillary clinton and donald trump square off at the thomas and mash center there are already signs that the campus is gearing up for the debate. that has students excited for what's to come. >> i think it's like a really good thing for our university, so i'm really excited. >> it's a big accomplishment fr the university. i think it's just excellent, amazing. >> reporter: but with the exposure comes the inevitable inconvenience. network producers are already

build temporary tv sets and as setup ramps up around the debate venue, there will be closures. >> we're trying to minimally disrupt campus and maximize on the incredible event that will be takingt place. >> reporter: the day before the debate and especially on debate day classes will be canceled in the buildings closest to the thomas and mack center and shuttle buses will be available in the days leading up to the debate. but senior vice-president says the inconvenience will be worth it. >> this is a great opportunity for our students to participate in the process. and that's gonnar be happening right in front of their eyes. >> reporter: more than 100 million people, or a third of the u.s. population, are expected to tunei into the unlv presidentialju debate. the ceo says that equates to tens of millions of dollars in free media exposure, not just nationwide but worldwide. >> the debates on tv, in the radio and papers, whatever, were in that mix. >> the university has also been

schools that are hosting presidential debates this cycle. unlv will look at what went right, what didn't go right and apply the lessons here on campus next month. >> sounds like a goode idea. the firsto presidential debate, that's monday, you can watch it right here on channel 8 and don't forget to join us at 5:00 p.m., again atr) 11:00 as patrik and i break down the entire thing. >> sure will be a lot, i'm predicting. >> i think we'll have plenty to talk about, no question. all right, so as we talk about that, what is this year? i'm going to jump right into the middle of the controversial piece by saying for the long haul it's far more important than any of the bills. >> i sat down with a retiree that says climate change can affect the military and it's the thing we need to be watching te

>> everyone heard about how

melting glaciers and rising sea levels but could it affect military readiness? one former top navy admiral says yes. a retired colonel joined thus week to talk about climate change and how it affects the military, the vise chairman of the, virginia base cna corporation. ir asked him about china buildig artificial islands, north korea working withs toward nuclear tip missiles aboard its submarines and iran harassing u.s. ships in the persian gulf. on that list, i wonder. >> i'm going to jump right into the middle of the controversial piece by saying for the long haul, it's far g more important than any of those. why? because climate change can have devastating impact across the globe. severe weather could result in more humanitarian you missions, it could displace people, refugees fleeing war torn parts of the world. governments could weaken as droughts and severe weather

that could prompt the migration of so called climate refugees into other areas. >> those kinds of things will cause tribes and peoples to move and impinge on what the current occupants believe to be their rightful5 territory. the stresses that come from that, judicial stresses beyond what are already being felt in those parts of the world, i think will cause additional states to fail. >> gun's research has specific application in nevada, as well. he said it may become necessary agreements with canada and mexico. that'sce likely to be controversial among states that fight over scarce allocations and worry that ongoing droughts will lead them with less. he also said immigration had become an larger problem. residents of mexico and other nations displaced by climate change related problems fleed the united states forc relief. a huge influx of new immigrants

it is important for north americans, for all of us to appreciate. we're going to be under new stresses, to have to work in advance to deal with these things again before they become emergencies.e >> and gun added switching a more renewable energy more quickly than we planned is onel way tola help fight climate change. he saysht nevada is uniquely positioned for that with abundant geothermal and wind resources in various parts of the state . disagreement over climate change which still persist in politics andn he says there was skepticim even on the military panel that studied the issue but he says preparing for problems that we can see come something a prudent thing tom do. >> steve, thank you very much. another foundation is one te hot seat, this time the trump foundation. >> i think it's good that it finally came out that he's using his fundss for illegal entries and other stuff with itn too. >> the face-off panel takes on allegations raised by the

fees fort his businesses. and tim kaine back here in nevada. what he had to say about the violence in south carolina this

>> donald trump's charity has spent more than a quarter of a million dollars to settle lawsuits for his for profit companies. almost all the money came from donors not named trump. other money was used for things like a giant portrait of that story is the focus of this week's face-off. executive director annette magnus from the left and kxnt radio host alan scott on the right. >> surfacing allegations coming up this week that donald trump is using trump foundation money to pay for legal fees. i'll just leave it at that. what do you think? >> i'm not surprised. i mean, saying that he's paying off different elected officials with his foundation money doesn't surprise me.

his funds illegally. i'm sure he's done other stuff with it too. i'm not surprised. i'm glad that it finally came out on his side because everybody has been holding hillary clinton to one standard and nobody has been looking at anything his foundation has done or news tax records that still have not been released or any of his emails. i think it's about time that they're held to the same standards. >> the washington post never say this is the case at all. you're saying they said it's alleged. so to substantiate the claim behind that. some are saying it's a bookkeeping error. i'm not the defendant, i'm not going to condemn him because i don't know all the facts at this point. but i do know that it's alleged from the post -- and some people have picked it up, like ms-nbc -- saying this is fact. well, it's not fact. it's alleged at this point and i don't think it will make one wit of difference in the campaign anyway.

so to be fair, i did keep it at that. but has hillary clinton been treated unfairly and her foundation and the media? absolutely not. when you consider that as secretary of state, she was playing for pay, and that's a huge difference. when you're in office and people are paying your foundation, to have access to you to get certain things done, with democrats or a republican, doesn't matter. to me, that's the wrong thing to do. now they're saying if she becomes president they'll ban part of the foundation or no, i think it's been fair of her, and i don't think that the democrat party or the clinton campaign has successfully responded to those kind of charges. >> i completely disagree. i don't think she's been held to the same standard as donald trump. donald trump has skated by. he's not held to the same standards, even in the debates. so for me, i'm glad that it finally came out that allegedly he did pay off the florida, you

it'll come out. i believe it will come out because now facts are starting to back this up. we have to investigate it, we have to see what actually happened here and then we'll let the facts speak for themselves. in s in terms of who's being held to a higher standard, there's nobody in my memory, anybody that ran for including reagan, by the way, which would have been number 2 right after trump, where the media came out with -- and categorically for a certain candidate. i mean, they're for clinton all the way. they hate trump. >> you watch the panel preview the presidential debate on monday and talk about a potential special session for the stadium on our web site, las vegas now.com. patrick. >> all right, steve. it's time now for the race now.

airwaves saturated with political ads and we'll start seeing even more jammed in. seven new ads are airing this week just for the senate race alone. now,s clinton's vp pick tim kae was in reno on thursday. this is him during a stop at a spanish deli. kaine also spoke to a crowd of about 400 people at university of nevada's reno campus where he addressedet the recent tension between law enforcement and black communities. better bridges between law enforcement and the communities they serve. hillary and i understand that. we want to invest in training that will strengthen relationships. >> now, on the trump side of the campaign, republican congressman mark anoday was named as new state chairman for the campaign. trump says he chose him because he resisted the pull of is interest and he says he is supporting trump because the obamaea administration has damad the country and he's ready for a

jeb bush before the former florida governor quit the race and recently said trump might be, quote, a smoking black hole or, quote, an eczema sighia. all right, steve. sor does the appointment affect this race at all and does it help shore up washoe county or rules up north? i love the smoking black hole, the greatest trump depiction since the race began. i think the rules will be for whomever has got the bar after theira name. thea the trump campaign holding now, two months before the election electing them. >> late in the game. well, we were just talking about some new senate ads coming out and now the ballot initiatives are heating up, as well. i'll break down all the money being spent on the potential new

the two days ago donald trump

florida but today she is up by 5 points. of course there's a margin of error of florida. it's a freak show. no one knows what that means. >> funny because it's true. patrick. funny because it's true, steve. thank you very much. >> all right, in today's following the money, we want to talk about the ballot initiatives burying all the excitement of the presidential senate and congressional campaigns. we have four ballot questions that qualified for this-year's general election. first two, universal background checks and recreational marijuana are also the two where the money is being spent. you can see the tn spending in e

87% of nearly $7 million of those donated to the initiative since the primary election. let's take a look at how that spending breaks down as we pull up the next chart. here are the two key players in the gun debate, the nra and nevadans for background checks, backed by former new york mayor michael bloomberg super pack and spentc nearly $6 million on ads here in southern nevada, nevadans for background checks have spent here since mid-june and the nra, 2.5 million. as for question number 2, that's recreational marijuana. we'll give you a little different graph because the spending has been one-sided. so far the coalition to regulate marijuana like alcohol has dropped almost a million dollars on pro legalization ads on tv, and we haven't seen any real spending for the other two ballot questions either, or for the anti-question 2, i might ad.

monopolies. you would buy your power from your choice of companies much like you would choose your internet or phone. >> thanks, patrick. we tell you the big stories next week, monday night is the first presidential debate. you can watch it right here on channel 8 starting at 6:00. ho will be moderated by lestert will breake down everything that happened afterwards. and a special session of the nevada legislature to vote on a room tax deal in the stadium is pending. we're waiting for dates from the governor, although, it looks like thes first two weeks of october. but before that, five legislative seats left vacant by resignations or deaths in office need to -- debts in office need to be filled. >> all right, what are you expecting to see at the debate?

unexpected? >> absolutely. this is going to be an incredible debate between these two. it's going to be watched by so many people. this will be the first time they've seen him side by side, head to head, and i think it's going to be the first time a lot of people make their selections for the candidate. so it's critical for undecided voters and even people that have made up their mind to tune in and see what's going on. >> what setting considering the national polls have really tightened up? they're pretty close, all things are candidate. everybody, absolutely. no question about it. >> absolutely. well, thank you so much for watching politics now. email us at politics at las vegas now.com. and we are your local election headquarters for the next year. you can stay up to date online and watch us right here every sunday.

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