. >> mr. stein, you want to say anything at all. >> reporter: pawn shop owner michael stein was tight lipped as he left court thursday with his attorney charged in wide sweeping conspiracy to resell merchandise stolen from big box stores and retailers across the region. authorities say the scheme netted nearly half a million dollars. >> this is ultimately in a nutshell a case about greed. >> reporter: stein and four others were charged with participating in a corrupt organization after state and local investigators uncovered the multi county scheme in which so-called boosters would steal new items still in their boxes from stores like home depot, walmart, target, cvs and giant. >> the boosters stole kitchen faucets and blenders and vacuum cleaners. >> reporter: the 27 booster who's were charged brought in 5,000 stolen items to pawn shops allegedly controlled by stein. they got paid a third of the value for the items. the stolen merchandise would then be taken to a warehouse and offered for sale onli

. >> mr. stein is not accused of stealing property. he's not accused of directing anyone to steal property. it's really just he should have known that the items that were coming in were stolen. >> reporter: state investigators say the so-called boosters were professional retail thieves who are opioid dependent. many times using the money to feed their habits. >> stein and his employees profited off the addiction of others. >> reporter: four months ago fox 29 was there when the state attorney general' office raided pawn shops across the area including several in delaware county. they also seized items from this warehouse more charge charges ad arrests are expect glad at the end of the day who pays for all of this? the consumers in pennsylvania pay for it because the price of their products have gone up. >> reporter: the attorney general says schemes like this fuel opioid and heroin addiction statewide. he points out that 15 pennsylvanians od every day. 168 people died of overdoses in bucks county last year alone. that's a 43% increase.

them from their school and dumped she town in northeastern nigeria the girls say five of their from mr stein. you know when i was when they took us from the school would be sitting thinking about what we might eat them we heard a gunshot everybody was confused they asked us to come to the school gate we were in the area they picked us into the vehicle and asked who were the people fasting that they gave us a drink soup in a cake this was on the way after then they took us food there under a tree and gave us food to cook we cooked and i. ation proceeded further we continued going we entered one river then we boarded a canoe and crossed the river into a village they took us away from the village in the night we boarded another canoe to another place and remained in that place until today when they brought us back we didn't go to any other places they didn't mistreat us the dust in the distance are the boko haram vehicles which dropped off the children parents and relatives have been anxiously waiting for weeks to find out what happened to their children nina good need to do and. i so with my o

. >> mr. stein is not accused of stealing property.sed of directing anyone to steal property. it's really just he should have known that the items that were coming in stolen. >> reporter: state investigators say the so-called boosters were professional retail thieves who are opioid dependent. many times using the money to feed their habits. >> stein and his employees profited off the addiction of others. >> reporter: four months ago, fox 29 was there when the state attorney general's office raided pawn shops across the area including several in delaware county. they also seized items from this warehouse, more charges and arrests are expected. >> at the end of the day, who pays for all of this? the consumers in pennsylvania pay for it because the price of their products have gone up. >> reporter: the attorney general says schemes like this fuel opioid and heroin addiction statewide. he points out that 15 pennsylvanians od every day. 168 people died of overdoses in bucks county last year alone. that's a 43% increase. all of the defendant

mr. blake stein for 1.6 billion dollars to buy the stage.e working through them .ight now in the region david: that was our very own erik schatzker. ongoing right now even as we speak, we welcome -- who served in the state department and in bad that. he is now a senior fellow at the center for the middle east. good to have you. we heard from the prince about investment in the united states. we hear very -- a fair amount talking about investments and commercial deals here. how much of this is about commerce. how much is about geopolitics? >> it should be about both. the relationship between the u.s. and saudi arabia is a very important one. at the economic and strategic and political levels. there are a lot of serious issues. is a question of mutual investment and also iran in the , yemen.syria a lot of serious issues to be discussed. i am worried there is more hype than substance partly because there is very little transparency on either side. it is very hard to decipher exactly what takes place in the meetings already happening between the

mr. ben stein. ben, good to see you. >> good to see you. trish: it is a good day! >> it is an incredibly good day but let's not bet our lives on it. it could turn around on a dime and go down again but what we really love is the jobs number, because that means, good, hard-working americans are getting jobs. they are now able to put bread on the table for their families and children and grandparents. it is great, great stuff. as labor force participation rate where more and more people are coming off-the-shelf and going into work. that is incredibly great number. yes, something is happening. we don't know exactly what is going on but mr. trump's policies are obviously working great and i have a theory about it which is that there is an old joke when mr. eisenhower, general eisenhower had a heart attack, nixon went to visit him in the hospital, nixon was vice president and general eisenhower said, hi, dick, dick nixon said is there anything i can do for you, general? general eisenhower said, you can take your foot off my oxygen tube. what happened here mr. trump has

mr. ma goo. >> then you are rosen stein. it's a complicated process.ou have rosenstein there for quite some time. you need the majority. you can't filibuster the appointee. who do you replace sessions with? >> neil: that confirmation prose woulprocess would be extremely difficult. they didn't want sessions at first. now they want him. >> i think the president is right to say if you knew you had a potential conflict early on, you should have given me a heads up or recuse yourself before i made you the a.g. choice. it is what it is. you can't change history. the latest stuff is other the investigation and specter general are look into this. seems anything jeff sessions does is a mistake. >> they want a special council appointed, and at the same time, they are talking to trump. remember, sessions did not go after lois learner of the irs scandal. every little bit will upset the president. > >> neil: does it hurt recruitment -- forget about cabinet positions, people look around to say, i don't know. that could be a real meat gripedder. >grinder. >> it's out

mr. putin and jill stein, to mark the 10th anniversary of the russian tv. in 2016 the translator project to weaponize social media information revealed their theme, to support a number of candidates. and to ruin the former secretary. march, 2016 was a critical month, too. march, 2016 was the month when the campaign manager of the former secretary had his emails hacked. march, 2016, was also when the presents president had a meeting of his national security team. present was this famous man. eorge pop dop plus papoulodous. up fortunately one of those indicted sitting in a famous meeting for great leaders of national security and foreign affairs. he was a foreign affairs aide and even mentioned publicly as a great mind of foreign affairs by the present president. in may of 2016, got drunk, at a london wine bar, and told a diplomat of a friendly country of ours that the russians had dirt on the former secretary. and then in june, 2016, we have the infamous trump tower meeting where operatives of the trump campaign were told about derogatory information about r

what can it be so what you've just heard to what mr inforce has been saying about the challenge of the above the whole idea of the nation in terms of stein i mean the u.s. the authenticity of the u.s. foreign diplomacy with augusta north korea has been based on the idea of incentives for the north koreans to abandon their program but that if the if that doesn't work then they would go for sanctions this time we don't have any idea or clarity about what is the u.s. approach when it comes to engaging the north koreans. right to be fair to the administration they undertook a very comprehensive policy review when they came into office of the first one before the iran review and so on and they developed a wide range of possible options from the one hand they consider just accepting a north korean nuclear program so you have a mutual term relationship such as we have with russia on the side that was unacceptable a previous ministrations the other extreme various first uses of military force either an all or invasion or we've heard recently about this single strike to try and intimidate them they reviewed possibly assassinating the north korean

mr. curry. dubs by two at the half. the kings would not go away. kings up three, 15 seconds to go. nick young for the tie. blocked by willie cauley-stein. 98-93 the final. kings have won both meetings at oracle this season. >>> sharks in calgary for the best night of evander cane's career. cane is going to whip it past mike smith. right there. second period, sharks now down 2-1. cane on the redirect. evens it up. his second goal of the night. still second period. now tied at three. cane comes in. his first shot is stopped but not his second. first career hat trick and the sharks lead 4-3. end of the third, joe pavelski takes a shot. cane tips it in for just the fourth four-goal game in sharks history. sharks go on to

mr. curry. dubs by two at the half. the kings would not go kings up three, 15 seconds to go. nick young for the tie. blocked by willie cauley-steine won both meetings at oracle this season. >>> sharks in calgary for the best night of evander cane's career. cane is going to whip it past mike smith. right there. second period, sharks now down 2-1. cane on the redirect. evens it up. his second goal of the night. still second period. now tied at three. cane comes in. his first shot is stopped but not his second. first career hat trick and the sharks lead 4-3. end of the third, joe pavelski takes a shot. cane tips it in for just the fourth four-goal game in sharks history. sharks go on to win. this abc sports report brought to you by river rock casino. umbc, university might be a college. or you must be cinderella. or university of a million brackets crushed. not one person now has a perfect bracket because of that loss tonight. 17 million brackets. >> that's incredible. >> what a win. >> ♪ ♪ my husband is probably going to think i'm crazy. he thinks i'm going to see my sister! ♪ ♪ sometimes the confidence to be spontaneous starts wit

mr. curry. but the king would not get away. la busier with the friendliest roll you will ever see this. one blocked by willie cauley-stein.he gets it back for the jam to seal it. 98-93 the final. the kings have won both meetings at oracle this season. >>> sharks and sal gather for the best night of evander cain's career. first period, no score. cain whips it past smith and team teal takes the lead. second period, sharks down 2an. cain on the redirect. evens it up. second of the night. still second period. tied at 3-3. first shot a stop. not his second. first career hat trick for evander and the sharks lead 4-36789 but they are not done. third period, a fourfo that's a big win this the playoff chase. that's the way the ball bounces. i'm mike shoan ma. i will see you phenomenon tonight at 5:00. >> 7:17 the official sun rye. you are looking at our east bay hills camera. the showers have been pushing out to the hills and the main tacktivity has been on the peninsula into south bay this morning. in the mountains it is still snowing. we are looking at all the advisories to be lifted. beautiful scene there. we have a couple of d

mr. curry. dubs by 2 at the half. but the kings wouldn't go away. kings up three, 15 second to go. nick young now for the tie. blocked by willie cauley-stein.for the jam to seal it. 98-93 the final. the kings have won both meetings at oracle this season. >>> sharks in calgary for the best night of cain's career. first period, no score. cane whips it past smith. and teal takes the lead. second period. sharks down 2-1. cane, his second of the night. still second period. tied at 3-3. first career hat trick for evander. and the sharks lead 4-3. but cane is not done. in the third, pavelski takes a shot. cain tips it in for the fourth four-goal game in sharks history. sharks win big, 7-4 that's a big win this the playoff chase. >>> that's the way the ball bounces. i'm mike shumann i'll see you again tonight at 5:00. have a great day. >>> now your accuweather forecast with lisa argen. >> good saturday morning. we have certainly had a lot of rain. are you through with it yet? not quite. we still have another day where we'll have some scattered showers amount of live look outside from the exploratorium camera. clouds here in san francisco. today fea

mr. curry. dubs by two at the half but the kings would not go away. skal la business yea with the friendliest roll. young, now for the tie. blocked by willie cauley-stein it. 98-93 the final. the kings have won both meetings at oracle this season. sharks in calgary for the best night of evander cain's career. first period, no score. cain whips it past mike smith and team teal takes the lead. second period, sharks now down 2-1. cain on the redirect. evens it up. his second of the night. still second period, now tied at 3. cain comes in. first shot a stop, not his second. first career hat trick for evander. and the sharks lead 4-3. but cain is not done. pavelski takes a shot. cain tips it in for the fourth four-goal game in sharks history. sharks win 7-4. a big win in the playoff chase. that's the way the ball bounces i'm mike shumann i will see you again tonight at 5:00. >>> now your accuweather forecast with lisa argen. >> spring is just a few days away. still feeling very much like winter. it will as we get into next week as well. live look outside. boy, isn't this a pretty view from our sutro tower camera where we had a little rain over san francisco

mr. trump corroborating some interactions with the president that iary. they're going to give that to special counsel mueller. >> john dodd, when he's talking about rose rose steinhe's sayg you need to control the investigation if you got it, go on from there, if you don't, end it. >> i'll tell you what i was laser focused on yesterday, that you guys conceding at the basketball court. charles payne was on yesterday and he had his pick. >> who you got on the threen shooting contest, me or ed. >> i'm going with ed. >> i love it. >> yes, yes! >> yes! >> the better man won. i was defeated by ed. >> there's the grand shot. >> you know, i'm telling you, i just have one-word reaction. >> sad. >> it is sad. i feel like i let a lot of people down. >> the question is we've gotted to pyro going out taking a polar plunge later in the show. >> we have a dunk tank and we're going to decide which one of these guys go in. >> the fact they lost the three-point contest yesterday has nothing to do with whether i get dunked today. send ed into the dunk tank on behalf of all of us. we love him. >> he's a sand-in for anderson cooper today. >> you see ed, you see rachel maddow. >> go

mr. alan loewen stein. >> sure. i mentioned that johnson was bouncing down into the mid to low 30s in the approval rating and nothing will get the attention in congress like really low approval ratings for the president. so that's part of the dump nixon movement. you mentioned allard k. lowen stein of new york. he was pushing robert kennedy to join the race as an anti-war candidate. one thing we haven't mentioned that came out in ted kennedy's oral history where we do typically presidential oral history but he came to us to do his oral history after 40 years in the senate and he told the story and being deputized to speak to eugene mccarthy, you know bobby is considering getting into the race but if you will put near or at the top of the agenda in addition to being anti-war to looking into the issues of poverty, rural and urban poverty, bobby will reconsider getting into the race and mccarthy said no, anti-war is at the top of my platform. so that was the movement trying to get bobby into the race. >> lowen stein wa