mel weinberg doesn't care. >> i'm not a movie person, i lived the thing. why would i want to go to a movie. my whole life is one big movie. >> there is a character hollywood can play, but never invent. >> a lot of good movies. we are out of time, thank you for joining us. i'll see you in an hour for more news. >> i'm jonathan betz, live from new york city with al jazeera america. secretary of state john kerry will go to kiev on tuesday. the announcement comes as russian troops surrounded a ukrainian base. the ukrainian prime minister called it a declaration of war and is calling up army reservists. the head of ukraine's army has been fired for treesons. he swore allegiance to the russian backed leader of crimea. >> demonstrators clashed in st. petersburg over vladimir putin's request to use force. 40 were arrested. >> thailand's scaled-down protests continue. hundreds marched and camped in bangkok, vowing to topple yingluck shinawatra's government. >> egypt's president swore in a new government. with 20 ministers from the old government, including field ma

his name is mel weinberg. rooting for bail to win an os r oscar. that's you? >> yeah that's the way my hair combed over. >> reporter: weinberg's biggest complaint is the casting of his wife played by jennifer lawrence who he says seemed hotter than his miss rouse played by amy adams. >> it should have been the other way around. it should be always your wife. >> reporter: but weinberg says he is perfectly happy as he is portrayed as the great american hustler. still hoping something is in it for him now. >> maybe i'll see some money from it. >> reporter: from a true con man, that's always the bottom line. florida. >>> the real man behind the movie. our thanks to brian and much younger brian. >>> lifestyles of the niche and notorious. the escape routes revealed. the bottom of the bathtub. after that drug lord wanted in america is captured. >>> and to this country's most expensive hz stayed yuls $60 million suddenly shut down. is that money well spent when we come back? your hepatitis c.forget it's slow moving, you tell urself. i have time. after all there may be

this was something that was created out of whole cloth by mel weinberg and the fbi to entrap politiciansme. >> chuck, chuck, this is one time in our long history together i'm 180 from you. i don't want a politician representing me in congress who's a mouse that goes for the cheese. >> look, i'm saying they made idiots of themselves. >> not idiots, they took the money. >> but they were entrapped. let's remember, they were entrapped. >> so is the guy on the street corner sell drugs when the cop comes by. who is the guy who thinks it's a hooker and it's not a hooker. you tell me that these guys normally wouldn't take the money, is that what you're saying? >> well, obviously that's not the case because as -- you know, there's larry pressler, for instance, is out today. he was one of the few guys who famously turned down the money on tape and he's seen as doing that. he put up an ad but it's funny in talking to the players at the time, they do mention that while some never took the money, no member of congress truly went to the fbi and blew the whistle on this. >> let me tell you how it worke