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ivana trump said her ex-may say silly things but he is not a racist. >>> jeff flake a fierce trump critic is expected to speak out against him on the senate floor slamming the attacks on the news media. in exerts of the speech he uses the term enemy of the people was how joseph stallen described his enemy. flake said the republican party should be ashamed of trump's actions and comments. >> there's much more ahead on "action news" at 12:30. we'll show you frightening moments the moment a floor dropped out from under a student tour from overseas. >>> a local orchestra goes around the world with its new season. those stories and more when "action news" continues. >> scary moments in indonesia this morning, a mezzanine floor gave way inside the stock exchange. rescuers rushed in and pulled out 72 people who were injured. terrorism was ruled out as the cause of collapse. >>> the mayor of san juan puerto rico says the trump administration has failed in the hurricane recovery. four months after the island was hit by two hurricanes. the federal response is moving at a crawl. she said there's a l

ivana trump is defending her ex-husband on british television she said president trump makes remarkssilly but said i don't see donald as a racist as all. >>> reverend doctor martin luther king junior was remembered at a memorial created in his honor. doctor king's son marked what would have been his father's eighty-ninth birthday by attending a wreath laying ceremony at the martin luther king memorial in washington d.c. doctor king the third or reverend martin luther king the third called the holiday a day oven gauge. and urged others to do more throughout the year. >> we must evaluate where we are 50, 50 years ago martin luther king junior was assassinated. the question becomes what will we do as communities across america to full fill and envision and make the dream become a reality. >> the martin luther king memorial opened next to the national mall in 2011. >>> another king celebration took place on the streets of phoenix arizona today hundreds of people spent the holiday participating in a martin luther king day march, event said to be symbolic of doctor king's historic march on

ivana trump has made allegations which she retracted later. triple standard here that if it's the president it's okay but if it's harvey weinstein we're rightfully mortified? >> we're at a point, i've spoken to so many women this week, who are pissed off. we don't want to be treated that way. >> on saturday another bombshell was dropped. the paper reported that last january bill o'reilly, then the network's top rated host, struck a $32 million agreement with a long-time new york annual -- long-time net work analist to settle allegations of misconduct. whatever right wing media would have you believe, it's because sexual harassment is about abuse of power and not because of partisan politics. harvey weinstein, you now have at least 58 accused, 56 accusers. bill o'reilly has seven accusations, bill cosby more than 50. but sitting right there in the middle of that little full screen we've got is donald trump. >> the fact of the matter is is that the gop put a self-proclaimed and self-admitted sexual assaulter in the white house. i mean, this is s

cambridge working for the trump campaign to reach out to wikileaks to help organize the clinton e-mails ivana trump wikileaks turned them down. cia told members of congress about russian interference later in the summer. trump received counter intelligence briefing with explicit warning. if foreign actors like the russians try to infiltrate the campaign, tell the fbi. trump continued to cast doubt. >> originally said the hacking of the democratic national committee' e-mails was a public service. do you agree. >> i don't have any opinion on it. i don't know anything about it. i don't know who hacked. i'm not sure. >> september 8, jeff sessions had yet another meeting with the russian ambassador that he forgot. >> i did not have communications with the russians. >> on september 20, wikileaks contacted donald trump junior with a password of anti-trump website. hours later trump junior responded and according to the atlantic. relayed the message to senior members of the trump campaign including bannon, digital director and kushner reportedly. october 1, roger stone tweeted wednesday, hillary clinton is

trump tower made him. it was a moment where glitz took over new york, and donald embodied that glitz. >> narrator: by his side, his wife, ivanadel. >> and that was one of the first times he really got a taste of real celebrity. and donald trump is a man who thrives in the spotlight. outside of the spotlight, i think he feels diminished. >> narrator: he had succeeded. trump tower was a reality. he had proof he was a winner, but not in everyone's eyes. >> there is an old money elite in manhattan that has never accepted donald. he was considered, i think, loud and obnoxious and too self-centered and ill-mannered and not someone who fit in. and so i think this is where donald's resentment of the elite comes from. >> narrator: as donald and ivana moved into a penthouse on the top three floors of trump tower, something was missing. >> he doesn't have a lot of friends, but how can somebody in his position have friends? how do you trust anyone that, you know, isn't working for you? what do they want out of you? it's very difficult, it's very lonely at the top, and he is the epitome of loneliness at the top. >> narrator: but trump's c

up comes trump with his wife ivana, who is very pregnant, and i look at him, and by this time, having worked for the humane society, i was aware of who this guy was. the trump family and everybody -- the society scene was very important to the humane society, to bring them in. so, i am remembering him. but i hand him this chip, and he looks at me, and he says i remember you. you are that -- and he used the c word -- from the airplane. amy goodman: the c-word used to refer to a woman. jessica leeds: yes, yes. and it was like -- it had been a crowded scene around the table. but it was like, all of a sudden, everybody just sort of disappeared. and it's -- not that i felt threatened, but i felt very much alone. and he took his chip, and he went -- he went on. well, fast-forward to 2015 and 2016, when i realized that trump was actually going to run for president. i started telling everybody who would stand for it -- my family, my friends, everybody and anybody, my book club, my neighbors, everybody. i would say listen, let me tell you what kind of a person donald trump's. this was my exper

and donald trump was invited to russia. so he and ivanaa and tried to make a deal to build a trump tower there. >> that deal never happened. >> there was talk of trump tower in moscow. >> but again and again trump would keep on trying. >> donald tried at least five times to build a trump tower in moscow. >> donald trump has an enormous ability to deny reality. reality is, that during the campaign, not just in ancient history, during the campaign, he was negotiating for a hotel to be built in moscow. >> aaron, we learned that michael cohn, his personal lawyer was in talks with moscow about a proposal to build a trump tower there. >> that is the definition of business dealings in russia. >> the deal, outlined in a nonbinding letter of intent signed by trump in the fall of 2015 fell through. but not before trump's attorney reached out to the kremlin for help. >> cohn said he e-mailed vladimir putin's spokesperson for help on this project on behalf of the trump organization. >> we could make deals in russia very easily if we wanted to. >> acco

trump was flush with money. and donald was invited to russia. so he and ivana went to russia and they tried to make a deal to build a trump tower there. >> i'm with cnn. >> that deal never happened. >> there was talk of a trump tower in moscow. >> but again and again, trump would keep on trying. >> donald tried at least five times to build a trump tower in moscow. >> donald trump has an enormous ability to rely reality. reality is that during the campaign, not just in ancient history, during the campaign, he was negotiating for a hotel to be built in moscow. >> we learned president trump's personal lawyer was in talks with moscow through an intermediary about a proposal to build trump tower there. >> that is the definition of business dealings in russia. >> the deal outlined in a nonbinding letter of intent signed by trump in the fall of 2015 fell through. but not before trump's attorney reached out to the kremlin for help. cohen said in a statement today he mailed russian president vladimir putin's spokesperson compete try peskov for help on behalf of the trum

trump was flush with money. and donald was invited to russia. so he and ivana went to russia. a deal to build a trump tower there. >> that deal never happened. >> there was talk of a trump tower in moscow -- >> but again and again, trump would deep on trying. >> donald's tried at least five times to build a trump tower in moscow. >> donald trump has an enormous ability to deny reality. reality is that during the campaign, not just in ancient history, during the campaign, he was negotiating for a hotel to be built in moscow. >> we've learned michael cohen, president trump's personal lawyer, was in talks with moscow through an intermediary about a proposal to build trump tower there -- >> that is the definition of business dealings in russia. >> the deal, outlined in a nonbinding letter of intent signed by trump in the fall of 2015, fell through. but not before trump's attorney reached out to the kremlin for help. >> cohen said in a statement today he e-mailed russian president vladimir putin's spokesperson dmitry peskov for help on this project on behalf of the trump organizatio

so, i'm handing out the chits for the tables and up comes donald trump and at that time, his wife, ivana? right? and ivana was very pregnant. and i hand him the hicket. and i am thinking the back of my mind, yet, that is the guy. and he looks at me and he says "i remember you. you are the woman from the airplane." only he used another term before "woman." and it cleared the room. it absolutely cleared the room. boy. thought, oh, but he went on. and i went home. and that was the end of the story. that was 1983? in 2016, when i realized that he was really serious about running for president, i started telling my story to everybody. i said, let me tell you what kind of a person this donald trump is. i told everybody that i could get to sit down. and i told my family, friends, i told my neighbors. i told everybody. some people didn't believe me, i understand completely because it was so long ago. but, i wanted to get it out. and then the debate happened. and he lied about it. and also the hollywood bus tapes came out and i just was so infuriated that i wrote a letter to the editor and they c

ivana made fun of her father's hair. she said the product was just for men, the longer it was left on, the darker it got. impatience resulted in trump'srange-blond hair color. >> all right, so much to unpack here. gloria, what stood out to you about all of that? >> well, to me the stunning thing was the food taster notion. the fact that -- first of all, it's the best excuse i've ever heard to eat at mcdonald's, if you need one, there it is, there it is. but what does it tell you about somebody who is worried about being poisoned all the time? >> not only that but thinking about being senile. >> it's interesting to me, too, i'm wondering about the sources in this book, not questioning his reporting. i'm saying there a lot of competing factions within this white house. some of whom are giving information to undercut people in the white house. i wonder to what extent that some people say the bannon wing did not like the jared kushner wing very much and how much bannon, some of the things he's feeding there, perhaps may have been done to make ivanka trump not look as good. >> i think the thing about covering the trump white house has been