rod blagojevich is the pinnacle of corruption. then he pardons people here who are lower, maybe stone, manafort. >> lying to the fbi, obstruction. >> it will seem like well, it's sort of lesser included. >> but it's not. >> right, it's different because stone and manafort and flynn relate to him, relate to donald trump. all the things rod blagojevich did in illinois have nothing to do with donald trump. these other guys, i think they're going to be the next wave of pardons. >> what about how caitlan was saying how the a.g. was over at the white house for this or part of this, and the fact that just again, reminding people just a couple of days ago bill barr was on abc news saying yeah, you know, those tweets from the president not really nideal, something i have to contend with. now you have the president weighing in majorly. >> tweeting about the mueller prosecutors today. and he's referring to these prosecutors in the roger stone case. those are the mueller prosecutors he's referring to. as to the attorney general being at the w

president trump commutes the sentence of former illinois governor and "celebrity apprentice" contestant rod blagojevich, and former nyc police chief bernie keric. and now, the president says that he is backing attorney general barr, and he says that he is allowed to get into the stone case, but he has chosen not to. >>> and now, bernie sanders is leading by double digits in a brand-new poll a couple of days before the nevada caucus. and now, michael bloomberg comes in second and qualifying for the first debate. >>> and dr. dangerous, and the coronavirus claims the life of a second key doctor as the cases are near 75,000. tonight, new concern about the risk that medical workers are facing. i'm wolf blitzer, and you are in the "situation room." >> a former illinois governor and former police commissioner and junk bond king are among a group granted clemency today as the president has declared himself the top law enforcement officer, and he is saying that he has confidence in attorney general barr, and he also says that roger stone has been treated unfairly. we are following the democratic cam

the president announced that he is commuting the sentence of former illinois governor rod blagojevich who was a one-time star on his tv show "the celebrity apprentice." he plead guilty to trying to sell a open senate seat, as he put it on one moment. >> i have this thing, and it is [ bleep ] golden. i'm just not giving it up for nothing. >> president trump also pardonning former new york police chief bernard keric who was convicted of tax fraud, and allowing his office who wanted to do business with new york city to renovate his office and a gift that keric accepted and hid. this is two of the list of seven pardons and four commutations that the president announced today and what were the actions to benefit these two well connected powerful men who abused their position might mean when it comes to possible similar actions for the felonious trump aides such as paul manafort and michael flynn and roger stone. and now as kaitlan collins is reporting that he is making the moves just two days before his friend and confidant roger stone is to be sentenced. >> reporter: today, the president

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napolitano: dear member who prosecuted rod blagojevich? fitzgerald. most celebrated person today jim comey. >> is certainly could have entered his mind. >> wow congratulations. how do hair get so white? it's been on the panel returns later, but first the constitution, once again under assault from lawmakers who want the ability just new bonner phone calls and e-mails without a warrant. so how can we stop them from extending this awful section 215 of the patriot act? west point graduate, notre dame graduate warren at davidson joins us next. napolitano: while we were all consumed by impeachment, piece of legislation was slowly and silently making its way through congress. it is a renewal of section 215 of the patriot act which authorizes the federal government to capture, without a warrant or records of all people in america held by third parties. do we really want the federal government meant to spy without warrants? think about it. after the constitution was ratified in 1789, it was amended to recognize the existence of natural rights and to keep the

napolitano: dear member who prosecuted rod blagojevich? fitzgerald.who is his most celebrated person today jim comey. >> is certainly could have entered his mind. >> wow congratulations. how do hair get so white? it's been on the panel returns later, but first the constitution, once again under assault from lawmakers who want the ability just new bonner phone calls and e-mails without a warrant. so how can we stop them from extending this awful section 215 of the patriot act? west point graduate, notre dame graduate warren at davidson joins us next. oh, hi, samantha. you look more like a heather. do you ever get that? it's nice to finally meet you in person. you're pete nocchio? oh, the pic? that was actually a professional headshot. i'm sure that's it, yeah. i, uh, i think i've lost a few pounds recently too. i'm actually doing a juice cleanse. wait! you don't... (glass breaking) (gasp) ah! oh...! with geico, the savings keep on going. just like this sequel. 15 minutes could save you 15% or more on car insurance. now you can, with shipsticks.com! no

. >>> the president granted clemency to some well convicted criminals including rod blagojevich. who might be spared next. >>> set in stone. roger stone sentencing will happen thursday as a judge tries to ignore president trump's angry tweets and the political furor surrounding the case. he could get a new trial any way. >>> up for debate, michael bloomberg is hours away from the first face off with his democratic poeopponents. the billionaire qualifying for the debate as a new poll shows he's gaining and bernie sanders is dominating. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> tonight, president trump is declaring he's the nation's chief law enforcement officer while insisting he has confidence in his attorney general william barr. mr. trump spoke out around the controversy swirling around the justice department and his decision to grant clemency for a slew of high profile convicted criminals. he commuted the sentence of rod blagojevich and pardoned police commissioner among others. first, let's

take a listen. >> we have commuted the sentence of rod lavoie approach -- rod blagojevich. many people disagree with the sentencing. he is a democrat, not a republican. the same group. mike: what do you say to critics who say the president went too far? >> this is a common thing for presidents to commute sentences or pardon people. it is a common point of disagreement with the choices they make. president obama commuted the sentence of a terrorist and people had problems with that and people are upset about this. there is a question whether it is effective draining of the swamp to commute the sentence of someone like blagojevich even if you think the sentence was excessive. mike: your thoughts? >> i agree with molly. he has the to commute the sentence wherever he wents but if there's a definition of quid pro quo in the dictionary sitting next to a picture of rod blagojevich, the epitome of what a quid pro quo looks like but the president has the right to do this so he can do it but it does speak to the fact that he cannot run on wanting to drain the swamp when he is embolde

when it comes to rod blagojevich, it's almost all democrats. the former governors fellow democrats from illinois, dick durb durbin, jesse jackson and others. that's the point the president maid, well, this guy was a democrat, that might be, but regardless of his party i can tell you just in talking to congressional republicans as this came out, they're not happy, and i talked to one senior congressional source on the republican side who said it just looks bad. and this is somebody who kind of has their pulse on the republicans on capitol hill. now, is there anything they can do? no, but it speaks to really the core and the heart of what republicans are now and have been battling for some time, which is the notion of swampiness, of corruption. i mean, it's already a dicey thing, not just for the president running for re-election, but more importantly for these hill republicans in the senate in particular, they're facing an uphill climb to keep control of the senate, and they don't think that this particular commutation helps. >> and another one,

jillian: former illinois governor rod blagojevich back home thanks to the president. >> the most profound and everlasting gratitude to donald trump. rob: the high profile is some leniency the president gave >> reporter: joey does a chair fool! >> reporter: neither does one viral date go where. a coffee date sending the internet into an uproar. rob: "fox and friends first" continues right now. ♪ must be a lady tonight ♪ must be a lady tonight ♪ rob: you can watch the debate. jillian: i am bad luck. rob: good morning. you are watching "fox and friends first," i am rob schmidt. jillian: let's get to this, sin city showdown, 6, 2020 contenders take the debate stage in las vegas. rob: that will take aim at michael bloomberg. jillian: griff jenkins joins us with highlights from the campaign trail. >> i'm staying at the hotel, i'm terrible at the casinos. i digress, they are not rolling out the welcome mat for michael bloomberg. bloomberg along with sanders, warren, buttigieg, klobuchar and biden. any doubt the knives were out for bloomberg, listen to elizabeth for net latest tweet. it is a sham

only at wayfair.com. >>> we have commuted the sentence of rod blagoyavich.served eight years in jail. that is a long time. and i watched his wife on television. i don't know him very well. i've met him a couple of times. he was on for a short while "the apprentice" years ago. it was a prosecution by the same people, comey, fitzpatrick and the same group. very far from his children. they're growing older, they're going to high school now and they rarely get to see their father outside of an orange uniform. i saw that and i did commute his sentence. >> commuting rod blagoyavich 14-year prison sentence and he served eight years and in 2009 a former governor was impeached and removed from office and sent to prison for trying to sell, i mean sell, barack obama's vacated senate seat when he became president. trump's decision to help a former celebrity apprentice contestant is prompting a question, is he trying to send a message to another associate still wrapped up in the legal system. "the new york times" reported, in conversations with advisers mr. trump raised

. >> rod, you're fired. >> that's former governor rod blagojevich back home after his release from prison. that's him with the mane of silver hair we're used to seeing dyed brown. >> i feel great. >> how are you? >> what do you say to trump? >> thank you. i'm profoundly grateful. >> the longtime grateful calling himself a trump-ocrat. jeremy diamond filed this report from california. >> reporter: good morning. president trump on tuesday issuing a series of high-profile pardons and commutations. the president once again wielding that pardon power that he has really relished using at a number of points during his presidency. this time to reward several political allies and their friends who have been lobbying the president, in some cases for years, to follow through with these actions. there were 11 total pardons and commutations that the president issued on tuesday. a few especially high-profile ones that include bernie carrick, former new york police department commissioner, political ally of the president's, as well as a longtime friend and associate of rudy giuliani's. the president's p

then dropping the big one, rod blagojevich. >> the release from prison of the former illinois governoras a long time coming, his supporters have been advocating for a pardon since president trump took office. in the end, he stopped short of a full pardon, instead commuting his sentence. >> he served eight years in ja jail, long time to go, many people disagree with the sentence, he's a democrat, not a republican. >> he was tried twice and convicted once on charges mostly stemming from his attempts to sell the senate seat once occupied by president obama. >> got this thing and it's [bleep] golden. >> he was said to be on defense but decided to go ahead with it. >> i met him a couple of times he was on the apprentice years ago, he seemed like a very nice person. >> he also pardon the former new york city police commissioner bernard kerrick, financier michael milken, and former san francisco 49ers owner eddie debartolo. >> i take my hat off to donald trump for what he did, like i said, it's all about being here for eddie today. >> on his way to the west coast, president trump also respond

the president even pointed to rod blagojevich's wife. >> we have commuted the sentence of rod blagojevicht's a long time. i watched his wife on television. i don't know him very well. i met him a couple times. he was on for a short while on "the apprentice" a while ago. many don't agree with me. he is a democratic. >> with me cofounder of front page live.com. carl, so go o thank you so much. >> thank you. >> let's take a look at what has become this platform of the news and many think is the platform for him. mostly on fox, there are guests like rudy guilliani, christopher rudy and one person pushed for bernie kerik and rupert murdoch, fox personality and other pardons. what do you make of this influence and how unprecedented it is. >> this could be a two-way street. >> this could be the list the president wanted publicized on fox news or people who went to fox news to get to the president. as you saw, the president said, i saw it on news, on television. it was a fox news interview that that happened. i suppose that's fair game. in the greater picture of all of this, this is a man now pre

think the wickedness and evil that was done to me and any family can be turned to good >> reporter: rod blagojevich can go home. dan scheneman, nbc news. >>> as the justice department faces one of its greatest controversies over cutting recommended prison time for roger stone, attorney general william barr admits that he thought about calling it quits barr reportedly told people close to the president that he considered resigning over trump's tweets about the justice department investigations. a justice department spokeswoman says the attorney general has no plans to resign. there have been growing calls for his resignation, though, after interfering in the stone case >>> can a slick multimillion-dollar ad blitz translates to success on the debate stage that's the question tonight for billionaire mike bloomberg the former new york mayor will face off against his democratic rivals for the first time right here on nbc. bloomberg is already trying to get ahead of some criticism. his team announcing overnight that he would sell his company if elected president his $381 million in ad spendin

jesse: the fence had rod blagojevich on tape and that's all she wrote.onald trump parted blago from his sons from 40 years to eat years served. >> i don't know him very well, i met him a couple of times, he was on for a short while on the apprentice years ago and seems a very nice person, i do not know him but he served eight years in jail with a long time to go and many people disagree with the sense, he's a democrat, not a republican. jesse: is pretty clear one of the main reasons hee pardoned hm because he was on celebrity apprentice. >> did you raise money or did you feel it was a conflict. >> people on the other handle this. jesse: joined me now the former governor of illinois, a free man, rod blagojevich. you obvious he paid a big price, you know what you did was wrong, you served your time in a crazy sentence to begin with but that's all in thery b past. did you ever talk to barack obama about the sentence eat, did he have any knowledge about what was going on or not. >> first of all yes a crazy sentence for crimes that are routine politics and th

commuting the sentence of former governor rod blagojevich, a one-time "celebrity apprentice" con tes about. his wife had made repeated pleas on fox news. also on the president's list, bernard kerik. as the president declares today, he is the cleef law enforcement officer of the country. >>> the disaster at daytona. ryan newman flipping over, and tonight, news just in on his condition. >>> the alarming headline on the crow oronavirus tonight. the lead doctor in wuhan dies from the virus at just 51. here at home, retracing the steps of vacationers who had coronavirus here in the u.s. but who are now gone. >>> mayor bloomberg rising in the polls, now making the cut. he will be on the debate stage, as the other democratic candidates prepare to tame aim. >>> the storm system moving through the northeast as we're on the air tonight. and the state of emergency in the south. bracing for heavy downpours and rob marciano times this out. >>> harvey weinstein's fate now in the hands of the jury tonight. and possibly the first clues from those jurors. >>> we have breaking news tonight in the sear

but, rod, you're fired. >> i don't know him very well. i've met him a couple of times.e was on for a short wile on "the apprentice" years ago. seemed like a very nice person. don't know him. >> and so it goes. and so in that way to use a tv term, it turns out 14 seasons of a television show might have been the pilot for the trump presidency. that's our broadcast for this tuesday night. you can catch us here tomorrow evening. nicolle wallace will join me immediately after tomorrow night's democratic debate has ♪ >>> good morning. it's wednesday -- wednesday, february neither. i'm ayman mohyeldin alongside alisa menendez in for yasmin. there's new video overnight as former illinois governor rod blagojevich arrives back home to chicago after being sprung from prison by president trump. all right. hello there, everyone. as the president ramps up his criticism of federal prosecutions, trump yesterday hosted commutations, wiping away the crime o

people's backs like he had mike milken's back and bernie karik's back and rod blagojevich. i think both stone and flynn are going home by the end of the year. >> the news continues when i hand it over to chris for "cuomo prime time." >> thank you, anderson. i am chris cuomo and welcome to "prime time." we are seeing right now in realtime what a president can do. he just named a head of national intelligence who is not a day of experience in the field. think about that. not in intelligence, not in national security, not in the military. he also pardoned political friends who are clearly corrupt. and he may do the same for roger stone. but we have a juror from that case who's here to set the record straight. what do you say? let's get after it. >>> a president who once agreed no one is above the law, now post impeachment says he is in control of all law. >> i'm actually, i guess, the chief law enforcement officer of the country. >> he has to guess? and guess what, he guessed wrong. the attorney general is our country's chief law enforcement officer. but you didn't hear bill b

president trump pardoned former illinois governor rod blagojevich. >> rod, how does it feel to be home? >> this is what it looked like when blagojevich arrived home. he was also accused of trying to sell president obama's senate seat when mr. obama moved on to the white house. >>> eleven people were pardoned by president trump yesterday. including former 49er commissioner rod caring. also financeir michael milken. several politicians criticized what the president did, but president trump has remained steadfast in that decision. >> the president also granted a pardon to the former own ore of the san francisco 49ers eddie debarto lvpdo jr.. >> tuesday, president trump followed through with su board nant recommendations. he pardoned seven people. former players hail. >> he's done so much in this community. has done so much in nfl football and today is a great day for him. >> debartolo bought the 49ers in the 70s. . >> but in 1998, debartolo was involved in a scandal. >> at the end of the day, his cooperation got him a lot light lighter sentence. . >> he was fined 1 million $1 million and

in this tweet from last summer the president wrote "rod blagojevich, former governor of illinois, was sentenced to 14 years in prison. he has served seven years. many people have asked that i study the possibility of commuting his sentence in that it was a very severe one." white house staff is continuing

we are waiting to see exactly when rod blagojevich walks out of prison a free man. get a live report from the colorado lockup next. give me your hand! i can save you... lots of money with liberty mutual! we customize your car insurance so you only pay for what you need! only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ our mission is to provide complete, balanced nutrition... for strength and energy! whoo-hoo! great-tasting ensure. with nine grams of protein and twenty-seven vitamins and minerals. ensure, for strength and energy. >> bill: updating the top story. president trump handing clemency decisions including commuting the prison sentence of ex-illinois governor rod blagojevich who was convicted for trying to sell president obama's former senate seat. alicia acuna is live at the president in littleton, colorado, waiting for the release. hello. >> hi, bill. we have reached out to the federal correctional institution in englewood to see if we can get any update on when this is all going to happen. we have not heard back from the minimum-se

former illinois governor rod blagojevich is now a free man. president commuted his 14-year prison sentence for trying to sell the senate seat vacated by president obama. >> i'm fighting against a corrupt criminal justice system that often prosecutes people who did nothing wrong. show no mercy. and who are in positions that have no accountability. >> he served eight years in jail. it's a long time. and i watched his wife on television. i don't know him very well. i met him a couple of times. he was on for a short while on "the apprentice" years ago. seemed like a very nice person. >> former san francisco 49ers owner eddie debartolo jr. was among those who received a full pardon for his conviction in a gambling fraud scandal. president trump tweeted his congratulations in a collage of photos showing debartolo at the white house with his family and several nfl greats, including jerry rice and jim brown. >>> breaking overnight, sources say attorney general barr is considering resigning over president trump's tweets. just last week barr told abc ne

but, rod, you're fired. >> i don't know him very well. i've met him a couple of times.e was on for a short wile on "the apprentice" years ago. seemed like a very nice person. don't know him. >> and so it goes. and so in that way to use a tv term, it turns out 14 seasons of a television show might have been the pilot for the trump presidency. that's our broadcast for this tuesday night. you can catch us here tomorrow evening. nicolle wallace will join me immediately after tomorrow night's democratic debate has concluded. thank you for being here with us tonight, and good night from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. >>> tonight on "all in" -- >> this whole thing is about corruption. >> a president impeached for corrupt abuse of power pardons a coterie of corrupt politicians. >> i'm only interested in corruption. >> tonight as the president continues to attack roger stone's judge, are more pardons on the way? >> thank you. >> thank you. thank you very much. >> plus, congresswoman maxine waters on what democrats can do about an out of control president. >>> then,

and he is constantly talking up criminal defendants whether it is michael flynn or rogerstone or rodvich. as someone who worked in the justice department and a republican, what do you make of it? >> it is exceptionally unfortunate and one of the many things that are unfortunate for what this president is doing. it is corrosive of the morale of the people in the department. one thing that he says that is the most telling as to the job that bill barr is doing is that the statement that he keeps making that he is the chief law enforcement officer, and he can interfere if he wants to, that is a statement that bill barr told him is the law in the memo that bill barr submitted in june of 2018 and he wrote there that the president oversees the entire government including the justice department and can't be denied the right to supervise all criminal case including the ones where he is the defendant or the subject. so, this is the problem with the justice department now and it is not a recent inconvenience and embarrassment of the president tweeting, but it is run by someone who wants to make

weijia jiang reports tonight from the white house. >> rod, you're fired. >> reporter: former illinois governor rod blagojevich lost "celebrity apprentice" but won his freedom back today when president trump commuted his 14- year prison sentence. >> it was a tremendously powerful, ridiculous sentence in my opinion. >> reporter: the president noted he had seen blagojevich's wife argue for his release on fox news. he was found guilty of trying sell an appointment to barack obama's senate seat after he became president. blagojevich bragged about it in a notorious wiretapped conversation. >> i've got this thing, and it's ( bleep ) golden. >> reporter: the president also pardoned bernie kerik, the former commissioner of the n.y.p.d. and a frequent mar-a- lago guest who served prison time for tax fraud. also insider trader michael milken, known as the "junk bond king" of the 1980s. at the white house, n.f.l. legends celebrated edward debartolo for making the list, a former owner of the san francisco 49ers. >> i take my hat off to donald trump for what he did. >> reporter: not on the pardon l

including former illinois governor, rod blagojevich. and nbc news is confirming word that the attorney general, william barr, considered stepping down because of the president's tweets about justice department investigations. we have a lot to cover this morning. let's start with nbc white house correspondent, peter alexander peter, good morning to you >> reporter: good morning to you. rod blagojevich was in prison for pay-to-play politics, the kind of corruption that president trump has vowed to end, with members of the president's own party in illinois urging him not to pardon blagojevich who's who of criminals, busted for corruption and financial crimes this morning, rod blagojevich is a free man the disgraced former governor of illinois, walking out of prison overnight, four years sooner than expected, after president trump signed off on a spree of pardons and commutations >> president trump is one who did this like i said, profoundly grateful if you're asking me what my party affiliation is, i'm a trumpocrat >> reporter: blagojevich

reactor that's right down here in the area just near the roofs were highly radioactive spent fuel rods are stored this turn for the worse in reactor 4 after a day in which there was some evidence japan might finally be making some small progress as it struggles with the worst nuclear crisis since trolled. let's assess the risk with arnie gundersen he's a nuclear safety advocate who consults with them on state governments about the launch yankee nuclear plant mr gundersen is joining us on the telephone sir based on what you have heard this is reactor number 4 there was a fire there the other day what does that tell you mr gundersen i learned from my sources that the radiation levels in the 4th reactor are so high that they've had to evacuate the personnel from there what that indicates is that the fuel pool is running out of order and if the personnel are not there to keep it refilled it doesn't surprise me that radiation levels are increasing dramatically if the wind turns and goes the other way. i would suspect contamination not just in japan but potentially korea and china as well ho

they had rod blagojevich on wiretaps. they had tape on blagojevich on the phone trying to sell the senate seat. he couldn't have been more guilty, but donald trump, who was impeached for a phone call, doesn't believe politicians should ever get in trouble for anything they ever say on a telephone. >> he's been in jail for seven years over a phone call where nothing happens, but over a phone where nothing happened. over a phone call where -- which he shouldn't have said what he said, but it was braggadocio, you would say. i would think that there have been many things said over telephones. >> did donald trump commute blagojevich's sentence so he could take actions for a democrat who he thought got too tough a sentence? is that what he's going to say when he pardons or commutes the sentence of roger stone? i've done it for a democrat, i'm just being fair. i don't like sentences that are too tough. in trump world there's no such thing as coincidence. this happened this week for a reason. donald trump gave out some pardons to

and i what rod rosenstein does not to blink direct and there are people who have been. making threats privately and publicly against me for quite some time and i think they should understand by now the department of justice is not going to be extorted we're going to do what's required by the rule of law and any kind of threats that anybody makes are not gonna affect the way we do our job we have a responsibility and we take an oath that's the whole everybody in the department takes that over 115000 employees and if they violated they know they're going to be held accountable and i know those folks know that i'm not going to violate my oath . and mid july 2018 months capitol hosts the 1st summit between donald trump and vladimir putin. just 3 days before and washington rod rosenstein made a momentous announcement a new wave of indictments by bob muller. an afternoon indictment charges 12 russian military officers by name for conspiring to interfere with the 2016 presidential election according to the allegations in the indictment. the defendant's work for 2 units of the

but, rod, you're fired. >> i don't know him very well. i've met him a couple of times.e" years ago. seemed like a very nice person. don't know him. >> and so it goes. and so in that way to use a tv term, it turns out 14 seasons of a television show might have been the pilot for the trump presidency. that's our broadcast for this tuesday night. you can catch us here tomorrow evening. nicolle wallace will join me immediately after tomorrow night's democratic debate has concluded. thank you for being here with us tonight, and good night from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. >>> happy to have you with us. i want to say right off the bat that tomorrow night i will not be here at my usual time, not because i'm taking the day off. you know me better than that. tomorrow night i will be here an hour earlier than usual because tomorrow night at this time, we will all be

former illinois governor rod blagojevich is no longer in federal custody and his family is preparing a big welcome home reception for him in chicago. we are examining trump justice as the president continues to talk tough against career doj officials while admitting his approach makes the job that much harder for his own team, like attorney general barr. plus, the president wonders aloud whether a democratic senator broke the law by meeting with the iranian foreign minister over the weekend. mollie hemingway first broke the story a day ahead of senator chris murphy's admission. she is here with analysis on this breaking story tonight. hello and welcome to "fox news @ night," on mike emanuel, info shannon bream. lets go straight to chief breaking news correspondent trace gallagher on what is happening between the attorney general and the president. good evening, trace. >> good evening, mike. more on that breaking news, multiple reports that attorney general bill barr has told people close to the press and both and outside the white house that he is considering quitting if the presiden

he's rod stewart. looks like rod stewart's bitter older brother? who's she? kylie. kylie minogue?!ar a name badge. is that george michael? he's amazing. apparently he can sing as well. george michael is bleep dead. i think the agencyjust sent anyone they had on the books. they should have put the ghost of george michael. you laughed all the way through that. lots of very cheesy jokes, but they did make me laugh. so steve coogan, who i'm a big fan of, directed by michael winterbottom. they have worked together before and done some very interesting films. on the one hand, this revels in the grotesquerie of the millionaire life. on the other hand, it's aiming at a wider target, which is how is it that all this wealth is produced? who are they workers that are being exploited? that's very important for his part of the story. originally, i think, sacha baron cohen was earmarked to play the central character, and you can imagine him playing it a lot more grotesquely. the thing i like about steve coogan's portrayal is that he's very good at playing characters who are essentially utterly k

rush limbaugh is on the war path, accusing the sister of rod rosen steen who served as the dep outy attorney general, as being part of a conspiracy to tank the markets. we're already in a situation where the information has been tainted, if not contaminated by trump's very powerful, in terms of reaching trump's base calling

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able to collect rent vacated the house and dumped all of collins possessions including the fishing rod into the dump the dump was shipped to germany and china to be incinerated and the keys to $6000.00 bitcoins were then lost forever. i mean it's unbelievable you have $60000000.00 worth of big coins and you can't go get a safety deposit box some place to put this in instead of keep it in a piece of junk inside of your apartment everybody wants to steal a safety deposit box so maybe he thought that hiding it in a fishing rod was apparently a good idea right i mean that apparently thought so now we know that was clearly a terrible idea but i guess the question becomes what are the steps that you take i guess the other thing you could have done is it could have put it into a google doc and sent it to exult on the internet it would have been just as unsafe to do that or you could just remember it not that hard or you could do what you do get a little tattoo that has all of your your numbers on your arm right there always and always doing that is it does actually hide in a little to the saf

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two states that president trump won in 2016, is there any world in which commuting rod blagojevich'stence helps him political politically? >> not in illinois. there are some democrats that had supported a reduction of a sentence, most notably, dick durbin, the number two democrat and senate leadership, but for the most part, democrats and republicans have been united in saying that here in this state where you have such a history of political corruption. when you have a man who was acaused of not only trying to sell barack obama's senate seat, but shaking down a children's hospital for political contributions, of trying to race down the state's horse racing for beneficial legislation. what symbol does that show? illinois, of course, heavily democratic. our corningal delegation is 13-5. when this surfaced last august, you had all of illinois's congressmen saying no, don't do this. >> will you expect or do you expect a sharply worded editorial from -- the editorial board tomorrow? >> they do their own thing, and i'll let them do that. here in these early stages, it is surprising after

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rod, i remember when you showed me the pink haul truck, a tribute to women miners and a statement to stand up to breast cancer. your community, your mine, the people who work there, are the heart and soul of wyoming. rod, know that we respect the work that your fellow miners do every day and that this governor will always have your back. [ cheers and applause ] you see, the problem we face is not burning coal. the problem is we haven't recognized or seized the opportunities to burn it cleaner, to use its byproducts more beneficially, or remember its role as the country's most reliable source of electricity for over a hundred years. we in wyoming are leading the way. the carbon valley in northeast wyoming and the test center are just part of this singular effort. we must do more. that is why my administration has taken this fight to the supreme court. oregon, california, and washington have each sought to extend the reach of environmental regulation beyond their borders, to blockade interior states like wyoming their rightful access to coastal ports. these actions are a blatant, uncon

president trump is commuting the 14-year prison sentence of former illinois governor rod blagojevich,ng it "ridiculous." he was impeached and removed from office for corruption. he was convicted of trying to auction off the u.s. senate seat left vacant when barack obama won the presidency. contracting laws are being weighed to speed construction of a wall on the u.s.-mexico border. the move is expected to spark criticism that the trump administration is overstepping its authorities, but similar legal challenges in the past have failed. a viral outbreak that began in china has infected more than 73,000 people globally. the death toll is approaching 1900. one of those fatalities is a senior doctor at a hospital in wuhan, where the outbreak began. united nations secretary-general antonio guterres says the outbreak is " not out of control" but