. >> fec to do that. as we talk right now, it only has four of six members. one of the themes we follow in the film is the inefficacy how the fec is ham strung and unable to enforce campaign finance law. >> when i first got there, to the fec, i thought that we would be able to work together on issues such as disclosure. and transparency. but it didn't take long to realize that wasn't going to happen. >> at the federal level, there's the fec and then each state there's an agency that regulates money in state politics. >> in montana, the commissioner of political practices is housed in this little house really. it's a tiny, litting office. i doubt if there's a smaller office in state government. the very legislators that are investigated by the office determine its funding so it's always been grossly underfunded. they never have enough people. they never have enough equipment. it's sort of a forgotten stepchild of montana state government. >> the tendency is to polarize all of the voting issues, all of the republican members vote in a bloc and the whole enforce

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fec violations require a high standard of evidence of intent to violate fec laws.ople, may read it and say that's obvious. you know? it's not as easy to prove as it is to bring. remember john edwards argued in the end. i wasn't trying to cover up my affair for campaign finance reasons. i jut wanted to hide it from my wife. that's an argument that would resonate with a lot of lay people at least. >> what could the punishment be? seems "post" reporting is right. what's the punishment for such a violation? >> there can be criminal charges, fines. depends on the severity, and it then raises a question prosecuting a sitting president, leads us to a return to some of the mueller questions about can you indict a president? who's a sitting president, justice department general and -- so that all said, to your point, this is a southern district of new york investigation. it's separate from mueller. mueller farmed it out. no matter what happens now, the turmoil in the justice department, that will keep going forward and see where it leads. >> dig into that later in the show

i think all systems go fec outdooress today. always made me happy with temperatures in the 70's.eally nice iafternoon t should be a rain free afternoon. all right. forecast hig later today, 76. going to go backlast time we we. so, we'll see what happens here but our recorddo high 86. i t think we'll get there but should be a ne mild afternoon. speaking of mild temperature you know, comfortably cool early this morning. 58 i washington. 59.ndtow culpeper andan mas guys. 5450 mas frederick. gaithersburg 55. it's cool out but it's not uncomforbly so as we're looking at what should be a nice sunny start to the day this after oon. tnooome clouds u north and west and it will hold off for one more day. so, we'll keep high pressnoe here close eh to us that we're going to hold this system offyor f one it will movn and i think byg tomorrow mo we'll start to have a few showe aroundnd a better chance -- a best and of showers kind of late tomorrow earlys today. we'll keep the 70's around toorrrow but youecast tomorrow brings that cold hors around here ly torrow afternoonniicpa andrtul tomorrow

former president obama says she's one of the most e fec civil legislative leaders this country has seenll to come, recruits with special skills. meet two bomb-sniffing dogs. >> warriors kevin durant is being fined $25,000 for something he said during game over the weekend. >>> up first, a man face as charge of bullying and stalking that's been going on for ten years. . >>> a man from los altos who allegedly used facebook to threaten and stalk a former classmate is behind bars. police say even a previous conviction failed to stop the man from harassing the woman and her family. >> reporter: this is the mugshot of 29-year-old matthew cringle, charged with using dumb any facebook accounts to stalk a woman online for the past decade. the woman, now 27, is a former class rate of his more than ten years ago. >> one day in class he coughed and did not cover his mouth and the victim had asked him to do so. after that, unfortunately, he appeared to fixate on her and this devolved from there. >> reporter: cringle created fake profilings from facebook and sent messages to her family and friends. o

but according to the fec, we see nearly $9,000 in campaign contributions that he received while at theartment. that's raising government accountability groups, watch dog groups and even some people on capitol hill to raise questions about whether there's a potential violation here because it prevents executive branch officials from taking any contributions for campaigns while in office. >> laura jarrett, thank you very. coming up next, a british doctoral student doing research in the united arab emirates has been arrested and sentenced to life in prison after a hearing that lasted all of five minutes. this case now threatening diplomatic relations between the two countries. we have a live report on that next. also, a cnn exclusive, facebook ceo mark zuckerberg on the defensive. what he is saying about the future of the company and its leadership coming up. ♪ bum-bum-bum-bum-bum t-mobile believes it's better to give than to receive. some may disagree. (scream) no! others won't believe it. no! no! and some just won't have the words. (laugh) join t-mobile and get the samsung galaxy s9 fre

for over 30 hours, not only was he the head of his campaign finance issues, he was somebody with the fec that new issues about campaign contributions and would know about the president's thoughts about why he wanted to fire james comey and why he wanted to pursue somebody like hillary clinton. all of these things go to not just the president's words about what he said but corroboration, corroboration for the president's tweets and his interview with lester holt and everything he said since then that contradicts his original to fire the people. although the president has the prerogative to let members of the cabinet go, it can't be for nefarious and criminal hours mc intention of the prosecutors about what he knew, that should be noted as well. >> and all of this comes to light about how he wants to prosecute his rivals. we know from the president himself, here's what he said about the written answers that have taken about a year to negotiate -- or, i guess, who knows, many, many months they have been negotiating whether or not he would answer these written questions, so here is what he s

the auto website reports there is a massive fec fraud probe involving momentum.the lucky ones. she got tipped off about the closure and a concerned employee helped her get her vehicle towed out of the momentum repair shop. >> i'm very angry. i'm very angry with them, how i was treated. >> now, we have a statement from the various automakers involved plus their 800 customer service lines on our website. you can check them out at abc7news.com. just look for "7 on your side". now, i want to hear from you, the "7 on your side" hotline is open monday through friday from 10:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. the telephone number is 415-954-8151. you can also reach me on my facebook page and through abc7news.com. certainly get hold of me if you don't have your car back from one of these dealerships. >> you will stay on this obviously. >> yes. >> thanks, michael. >>> let's return to the forecast. a forecast so nice and desperately needed, we can hear it many, many times because we're in for a break. >> we're saying nice and rain in the same sentence, spencer. >> exactly. i'm happy

general, was head of homeland security and has done the president well as chief of staff seems really far fecpresident likes people getting agitated, and he clearly does like to see everyone insecure and anxious, he'll like they're doing for him, but i don't think, in the long run, they're communicating anything valuable or anything that will be actionable, as far as the president is concerned. >> you brought up john kelly and corey lewandowski was on fox news this morning, was asked specifically about his relationship with the president's chief of staff. listen. >> did you get into a physical altercation with john kelly this last winter that had to be broken up by the secret service? yes or no? >> well, the secret service didn't break anything up. john and i had a very candid discussion, as he probably has many times with the president. the difference is -- >> did he grab you? >> look, i don't want to get into what john may or may not have done, but the thing is he understands that my position is to support the president and the president's agenda all the time. >> michael, does lewandowski s

whitaker's treasurer says he was paying off debt, but the fec filings show that the only expenditures made was for rent. he also said he didn't solicit these donations, so he doesn't appear to know why they were received either. >> reporter: the financial disclosure forms, which were edited at least five times in the last two weeks since whitaker was appointed acting attorney general, show $15,000 in other income as a legal analyst for cnn, while his critics now raise additional questions about his work for a conservative activist group known as fact, the foundation for accountability and civic trust. the foundation allows unlimited donations from undisclosed donors and paid whitaker roughly $1 million as executive director in the years before being tapped as sessions' chief of staff. erin, what we don't know much about these anonymous donations to this group, fact, what we do know the group was aggressively pushing for the investigation into hillary clinton and the clinton family foundation, something that whitaker, now as head of the justice department, would have the power to inves

now, even if it wasn't handled criminally, it could be handled civilly by the fec and we'll put asideestion of whether the federal election commission is functioning but the most serious part of it is there are criminal penalties. somebody can be criminally prosecuted. they can go to jail and have hefty fines. whether this would happen to a president is a different question. >> and an important one. jerry, according to the "journal," trump approached david pecker in august of 2015 and he asked him, what can you do to help my campaign? pecker in return said that he would use the enquirer to silence any women who wanted to go public with allegations of sexual encounters. you've known david pecker for years. you worked for david pecker for years. does this fit in with the man that you knew? >> it certainly does, kate. i mean, it was clear that david pecker was intoxicate katd with admiration for president trump. going back to the late '90s. there was nothing he wouldn't do to please him. >> why do you think that was? >> well, i think that you know, in david pecker, donald trump found a -

whitaker's treasurer said that he was paying off debt, but the fec filings show that the only expenditures he also said he didn't solicit these donations, so he doesn't appear to know why they were received either. >> reporter: the financial disclosure forms which were edited at least five times in the last two weeks since whitaker was appointed acting attorney general show $15,000 in other income. as a legal analyst for cnn, while his critics now raise additional questions about his work for a conservative activist group known as f.a.c.t., the foundation for accountability and civic trust. the foundation allows unlimited donations from undisclosed donors and paid whitaker roughly $1 million as executive director in the years before being tapped as sessions' chief of staff. erin, while we don't know much about these anonymous donations to this group f.a.c.t., what we do know is that the group was aggressively pushing for the investigation into hillary clinton and the clinton family foundation, something that whitaker now as head of the justice department, would have the power to investigat

is the fec going to try to do anything about these -- all gore riffles and computer trading?fec has been looking at it recently and actually had a -- had a round table just in september trying to look at the market structure. and the liquidity impact of high frequency trading in algorithm but they having looking at this for year and with high frequency trading it is difficult to find out exactly all of the trading that is occurred. but what they are looking at and which i think is most important thing here -- is the market structure and how the high frequency traders actually impact the market structure and create volatility day to day within the day of the trading. >> is there a suggestion that there's an element of manipulation? >> there can be some manipulation and there can be still not completing transactions but i think more of the concern here is the fact that the trades are based on just price changes. and so once there's a price change with a man know seconds you have ton of these transactions and buying and selling. which exasperates any minor price change, and incr

and one of the things she did was actually petition the fec to allow babysitting fees to be, you know candidates can use their campaign candidates can use their campaign funds to reimburse. before 2018 it was not possible for parents to have these fees reimbursed. and that is massive. that is a huge deal because we have a lot of fathers who are running, a lot of fathers in congress. we have some mothers, but not a lot of mothers of small children. that's why you end up with so many women that only can run later in life. it takes them longer to get there and then they're out of politics. this has changed the landscape for all women really. >> i want to put up some graphics here because in addition to the record setting number of women who ran and the record setting number of women who run, there's also individual women who have done something else before. the youngest woman elected to congress. that was an expected victory but still one that means a lot to a lot of women. we have the first two muslim women. those two women are brand new. weave the first two native-american women electe

. >> the fec is pushing companies to meet new standards.rs to verify calls with a digital fingerprint to show the person making the call and receiving the call are who they say they are. >> the standard is essentially two have tokens with each other. and just says, i am who i am. >> t mobile says they're ready and others are working on it. in letters, the fcc wants to see the plan. >> we're pursuing them very a gue aggressively. >> reporter: some industry experts say -- >> everyone will go where they can get in. >> reporter: he says shake and stir standards are good to an extend. >> it just says that number is allowed to be called. it's absolutely not going to solve the whole robo problem. >> a lot of the other competit r competitors just say they don't want the phone to ring and that's what we differ. >> they both have a small monthly fee. we reached out that got that letter from the fcc. the majority responded and said they will tell the fcc today to what they're planning to do. whether they will be able to deploy. >> think theseuys are r

the justice department and fec are looking into allegations they misled investors.o subpoenas for request for interim -- information. that, prior toe the ipo, snap did not reveal how much competition from it to graham was hurting growth -- instagram was hurting growth. stock will be seized ahead of a long-awaited restructure. the marathon debt to equities drop will see new shares offered the following day. noble has reported a third-quarter loss, saying its core business has struggled to make money. general electric surge the most on accelerated plans to pare a stake in oilfield services company's. 160s filling more than million shares. abouteal that could raise $4 million. let's check in on mainland markets here, hong kong as well. we are seeing a slightly mixed picture. we are seeing a likes of the csi 300, at least suspending that 3200 line. the shanghai composite also about 2600 with the hang seng failing to reset. we did get that mixed bag of data we got from china, showing some signs of stabilization. this is bloomberg. ♪ >> prime paul allen with first word he

preserve the integrity of it and there's been the wall street journal that there's been a review of the fec and some of the sec comments and some of the regular tory comments to the fed have been fake and at -- no agency has really pursue that. it's great to have a dialogue. >> i think there are different kinds of transparency and also applaud the governor to the extent that you have any public official willing to engage the public about the thinking behind those decisions. there's always a tension course when you want to introduce transparency and the other aspects of administrative policy such as the transparency with the metrics behind your stress testing. one of the things that i've written about and we call it the trilemma and the innovation and difficulty of writing rules for financial innovation but here it is applicable. there's usually we talked about dilemmas with economists and there's also a dilemma between clear rules and financial innovation and you get to but not all three and that the rules and marketing integrity but it comes in the form of prohibition that impact naught bu

fec, irs has certain rules sometimes the fcc, federal communications commission is involved. but not really involved in the operations and not giving any direction. but that has changed. and we'll hear -- somewhat. and we're going to hear about that in a little bit. the result is that because the states are running the elections there's a wide variety of state and local laws. they're mutually underfunded and understaffed, too. because there's key differences in election laws across the state, there's a number of differences but they fall into a couple of main categories. one is voter registration, which really gets down to who can vote. because in this country, if you are not registered, you cannot vote. some of the differences between the states include what kind of documentation is required, who it is, what type of organization can register you. who maintains and how they maintain a list of registered voters, how they keep the data clean. there's a lot of variations there. another big area is early voting. how often, what days, number of different things. we'll find out. pe

they've revealed that they were subpoenaed by the department of justice in fec for information relatedo its ipo disclosures. the stock is down only 4 cents that's a half percentage point. >> stock cut by 3.4%. so i can't remember. more than 12. >> more than 12 -- 19. 19. that's chopped off at the knee. how about the price of oil this morning, i think around 56 dollars a barrel. that means no serious boundback from lows earlier this week but we are still seeing the price of gas keep falling. we're down to 2.66 as your national arch right now. 36 days down straight -- now we're going to get latest read are on the supply of oil that comes out at 11:00 this morning. so scott what do you think? are we going to head down on the price of crude down from 56? >> yeah. the supply number doesn't mean too much today because oil is such a downdraft with trading rumors going on about hedge funds and short naturals gas and trade going away that's wonky but things happen and traitding market it is that overright fundamentals at times so me trades need to wash out stuart that probably takes another wee