that was eliot spitzer to a "t." but when new yorkers sent the sheriff of wall street to the governor's mansion, we all learned the hard way that white knights can have dark secrets. spitzer was caught breaking his own sex work laws, a level of hypocrisy we could never forget. eliot spitzer blazed a trail through new york that had him in spitting distance of the white house, right up until the moment he set himself on fire. ♪ this will sound like a setup for a bad joke, but bear with me. [cheering] the change you seek, the new york you dream of begins tonight. [cheering] so there's this honest politician named eliot spitzer, a white knight, new york official with a reputation so pristine, they called him "mr. clean." he rose up the ranks from attorney general to governor by taking down the mafia as well as wall street banks. these are people who are stealing money. they may not do it with a gun, but the result is just as criminal. he won the hearts of minds of new yorkers as if he were derek jeter made out of thin-cr

the second...is eliot spitzer. ♪ ♪ every day in every state across the country, our political systembankrolled by an army of fund-raisers, pulling in millions of dollars a race. sometimes it looks like you might imagine-- knocking on doors, calling every name in the phone book, and emails--so many emails. but for all those little fish throwing $100 to their local race, it's the whales those campaign fund-raisers really need-- powerful, rich individuals and companies. and when they donate $25,000, $100,000, a million dollars, they want a favor...or 10. it should be obvious that's corrupt, but with a wink and a nod, political deals toe the bribery line every single day. and we may never have noticed that if a certain illinois governor hadn't flung back the curtain with an unrepentant ego, a political corruption crime spree, and a set of unprecedented audio recordings that shined a bright light on the inner workings of american political power. ladies and gentlemen, meet rod blagojevich. ♪ ♪ it was early morning, 'cause i used to get up every morning and turn on the 6:00 news, and, you

s office, but eliot spitzer and i were contemporaries. if this were as a legal theory that people dream was humanly possible, eliot spitzer's conduct in new york state would have been the poster child for bringing this type of case. and they never did. and no one would ever consider bringing a case like this because it is unprecedented. and in my view you don't test the new legal theories from the d.a.'s office when you are dealing with a president of the united states, a presidential election, and what has to be described as one of the worst witnesses anyone has ever seen. >> sandra: based on that statement, eric, where do you believe the prosecution goes next with this as we do await official word that cohen is back on the witness stand? >> i think they will try to do the best they can to rehabilitate at least some part of him. to say you did get these payments and this is generally what it says in the paperwork. but i don't see a scenario where he can be rehabilitated. it's hard to understand how the judge is not going to grant a direc

>> well, i was subjected to it with elliot todd spitzer, he di same thing.closet and blatant. here it is. i'm not a defender of trump, what crime did he commit? something i can't understand. what crime did he commit he's on trial in new york city today? >> laura: would you endorse donald trump tonight on the show? i know lots of people are nikki haley supporters, you were one of them. well connected and wealthy people are haley fans. >> let me say this to you, i said on television a couple weeks ago, i was going to vote for my wife. >> laura: that is cute, does not work on the "the ingraham angle." >> i know, most important decision he's going to make is who his running mate is. running mate has best shot being next president, he's finished after this term. i think i'm going to keep my powder dry and watch and see -- >> laura: you would consider sitting out the election and not supporting trump if he picks someone you didn't think was qualified? >> i live in new york state, my vote doesn't count. >> laura: your money counts, they need your money. >> believe

. >> laura: eliot spitzer. not laughing but i remember.hest of high levels. >> now it's out of the closet. now it's -- they are blatant. >> look, i'm no a defender of trump. what crime did he commit? that's something i still can't understand, what crime did he commit that he is on trial in new york city today? would you endorse donald trump tonight on this show? i know lots of people were nikki haley supporters. you were one of them. a lot of very, very well-connected and wealthy people haley fans. what about now? >> let me say this to you. i said on television a couple weeks ago that i was going to vote for my wife. >> laura: okay. that's cute. that doesn't work on "the ingraham angle." >> i know. i think the most important decision he is going to make is who his running mate is. because his running mate has the next shot at being the best president because he is finished after this term. and i think i'm just going to keep my powder dry and watch and see what he -- >> laura: you would consider sitting out the elections and not supporting

todd spitzer joins us now. todd or mr. district attorney thank you for joining us this morning.ing. >> great to see you. >> will: great to see you as well. something is happening on the west coast. take a look at some of those d.a.s facing pushback. you got oregon mike smith voted out this week. san francisco d.a. chesa boudin voted out. george gascon faced two recalls and now he has a re-election. alameda county d.a. pamela price facing really this year. does this represent a real push back from the people, from the voters over experiencing life under the policies of these d.a.s? >> first of all, it's a push back from the left against their own. which is photographic. the left is losing the left. they are losing the middle. and they obviously never had the conservatives. our cities aren't safe. our borders aren't safe. our college campuses aren't safe. the economy is in the toilet, and the president now and the white house are scared to death. this isn't a west coast issue. you know, glen krasner in philadelphia, george gascon in los angeles only got 25% of the vote in his prim

when you compared it to edwards or with spitzer, somebody had gone to a crisis management expert and go about explaining things in a way where you can salvage your career or a way you can position yourself to come back." mark didn't do any of that. and that might just be what saved him. in the wake of the scandal, jenny left mark. reporter: south carolina's first lady says she's filing for divorce. jenny: there's not room for three people in a marriage. tapper: and there were calls for his resignation across the state. mark sanford said no because he felt he could still effectively govern. critics then called for sanford's impeachment. they opened an ethics investigation in the hopes of finding that his trip to argentina contained criminal use of taxpayer dollars. i was on the judiciary committee. i was 22, 23 years old at the time, and i voted to impeach mark sanford, and i shouldn't have. when i think about it and look back at it, i don't think it rose to the level of impeachability. the majority of the state senate at the time saw it that way, too, because nothing mark sanford spe

spitzer very quietly and off the books. if you will, the possibility that they may begin an impeachment inquiry into president richard nixon. well, that was a little later that summer, that deputy assistant to president alexander butterfield became a household name. here's his testimony from mid-july of 1973 at the butterfield. are you aware of the installation of any listening devices in the oval office of the president. i was aware of listening devices. yes, sir. when were those devices placed in the oval office. approximately by the summer of 1970. i cannot begin to recall the precise date. my guess, mr. thompson, is that the installation was made between and this is a very rough guess, april or may of 1970, and perhaps the end of the summer or early fall of 1970. are you aware of any devices that were installed in the executive office building office of the president? sir. at that time, were they installed at the same time they were installed at the same time. could you tell us a little bit about how those devices worke

spitzer very quietly and off the books. if you will, the possibility that they may begin an impeachment inquiry into president richard nixon. well, that was a little later that summer, that deputy assistant to president alexander butterfield became a household name. here's his testimony from mid-july of 1973 at the butterfield. are you aware of the installation of any listening devices in the oval office of the president. i was aware of listening devices. yes, sir. when were those devices placed in the oval office. approximately by the summer of 1970. i cannot begin to recall the precise date. my guess, mr. thompson, is that the installation was made between and this is a very rough guess, april or may of 1970, and perhaps the end of the summer or early fall of 1970. are you aware of any devices that were installed in the executive office building office of the president? sir. at that time, were they installed at the same time they were installed at the same time. could you tell us a little bit about how those devices worke

at city college's spitzer school of architecture, they're pushing the limits of materials like concretem stronger and more environmentally friendly. >> the idea for architect is to explode there being a future of construction and the material that's going to be available. >> reporter: he thinks robotics will be shaping these new materials into all kinds of buildings. but stone carving even by robot will remain a luxury. >> robots and advanced manufacturing could help to bring the price a little bit lower, but still, the source is a problem. like the stone is expensive. the best market for stone carving, it would be in historical preservation, i think. >> reporter: monumental labs is moving quickly. they plan 100 robots within five years. the piece we saw take shape has now taken its place in the middle of manhattan. >> we are now limitless in what we can create, and we're creating amazing new canon of sculptures and works that don't necessarily look like they did in the past. they will look sometimes super photo realistic. they will look sometimes abstract, but it will be whatever we ca

he looks at, uses images from hubble, spitzer and even the now-deorbited compton telescopes. but he wants me to ask you specifically about chondra, the ex-gray telescope that under the current budget proposal looks like will be -- could be ending, and he's very concerned, as i know a number of astronomers are, that this could leave a blind spot in the collection of x-ray information in the future. so can you assure my 13-year- old son, jackson, that nasa is still committed to x-ray images in space and the data that you collect in that way? >> earlier i had talked about how the compromises that you all had to make which certainly understandable cost $24 and $25 to have less money. in science just in '24, it's a billion dollar cut. and so you have to make some choices. shandra has been phenomenally successful, but we have new missions that are coming on. we're going to keep it going as much as we can. you just can't sustain it at the previous funding levels. and so we are having a senior review during this year to get community impact on alternative operational scenarios for sh

things have changed the whole television show, the good wife was based on what happened with eliot spitzer and with his wife who was standing by her man. even though she just wanted to run away first, do something to him and then run away and you do see that in some cases these days, but it's not expected and it's certainly not surprising that melania trump is not there, right? and it wasn't at the time. i mean, we're thinking back to 2016, this period. it was at least three or four months, i think before melania trump moved to the white house in the wake of the access hollywood tape, in the wake of all the apps. so this is deeply personal that only they know the so of course she's not going to be there. and look, this is business. >> we talked about the courtroom being the campaign you see susie wiles there. >> she is someone who is in charge of his campaign. she's a comforting, a role to him. we saw rick scott, their other allies there so this is not necessarily about the family, this is about his reelection campaign. so i'm not really that surprised to see no family members, their we'll