to join the church of scientology. >> i was homeless, i needed a place to live! but then you quit the church of scientology and they let you go. ( laughter ) but the way you tell the story, because they don't ever let anybody go. they let you go. >> whoo, because i don't do bunkbeds, y'all. >> trevor: you tell the story in the book, and they have these bunkbeds they want you to sleep in. >> yeah, and i don't do bunkbeds. i did bunkbeds when i was in foster care. i'm not doing bunkbeds as an adult. i would rather leap in my geo metro in the cold because bad things happen in bunkbeds, brother! ( laughter ) i'm telling you. so when they told me that's where i would sleep, i started protesting going up and down the halls saying i ain't sleeping in no (bleep) bunkbeds! i was loud and obnoxious. they was trying to get me on the meters, like, we need to get that negative memory away from you about the bunkbeds! i'm, like, i don't like bunkbeds, i don't care, you ain't gonna beat my ass in no bunkbeds. ( laughter ) and they let me go, saying, we can't handle this. >> tre

from hollywood to scientology. from walt disney to billy graham to ronald reagan. in todd donald trump. in other words, epic individualism with extreme religion makes show business with everything else. and all of that deep and simmer for a few centuries. the anything goes in the internet age the result is the america we inhabit today. where reality and fantasy are weirdly and dangerously blurred and co- mingle. here is close the end of the book. after i've taken the reader through 400 years of america including the reformation. during the first 15 years the gop turned into the fantasy party with the reality -based wing. a far right counterculture the millions of followers as their extremist predecessors have succeeded in doing to evangelicalism in the lobby three decades earlier. this book have been underway for two or three years and when when the presidential campaign began. i have started paying close attention to donald trump. in many other articles about him. exposing and satirizing his life, they called us names. it was amazing to us. to turn with the on-scr

on her at a house the lapd investigating and closed the case in 2004 after the church of scientology allegedly submitted 50 affidavits in support of the actor. at least one case against masterson is being investigated according to the lapd. overnight, a hollywood legend questioning a possible rush to judgment. dustin hoffman, accused of a former intern of lewd comments and inappropriate touching on " death of a salesman" when she was 17. firing back when questioned by john oliver on monday night. >> i believe for she wrote, yes. >> why? >> because there is no point in her lying. >> well, there's a point in her not bringing this up for 40 years. >> harvey weinstein and his armer companies are facing class action lawsuit filed by six women who claim to have been subjected to unwanted sexual conduct and feared being blacklisted by weinstein and his cohorts. for battery, assault, and that weinstein's wasal enterprise organized crime. colin kaepernick honored with the muhammad ali legacy award. a surprise guest was there to introduce him. >> gentlemen, i am proud and humbled to present th

decades but after the holidays we welcome this visit by our brother the turkish president will be of scientology agreements we also agreed to form a strategic cooperation council headed by the presidents of the two countries this visit is in a leap in the relationship between us. but sudan is only one of many african countries turkey is building a stronger relationship with the visit to sudan by the turkish president maybe it's first by a turkish head of state incidentally and independence in one nine hundred fifty six but it comes in line with turkey's policy in strengthening its influence and base in africa economically politically and militarily turkey opened its first and largest military base outside turkey in somalia last the pember and over the past three years it has expanded its diplomatic relations with more than twenty seven african countries the turkish government says it's determined to clear africa of the influence of. the man it's accuses of orchestrating last year's coup attempt in turkey. and run many schools in the continent nearly all have now been transferred to wants a recen

maybe the scientology midi or bob mueller well figure that out. but i don't think they interfere with the vote on election day. which i the context in think obama confronted putin at the meeting in china. that was really what i think they were obsessing about. i think that gave a little bit of a pass to all this other activity, the propaganda, the interference, the active measures that i mentioned. --hink our experience meant the french media were more prepared for it and the french law is such that they couldn't really report it because when they finally released -- they mostly got reported on u.s. sites. because france has a law that has a dark period for the media that has 72 hours before the campaign, they can't report on do matters. >> could you have done better to advertise this is happening and discredit some of that stuff? mr. podesta: i think we were screaming from the rooftops about what was going on. media, i'm critical of the media. they like to gossip a lot better than they cover. after the election, they were scrambling to win pulitz

she was a member of the scientology.ontroversial religion whose celebrity adherence has been the focus of criticism. >> do you feel you have to explain your faith to people or is that something you would rather put to the side and keep private? >> i'm always happy to have a personal conversation with somebody off the record, but -- but in this kind of scenario, no. >> do you ever feel like you've been judged in hollywood? obviously your career is going well, it hasn't hurt you much. >> yeah, i feel like i've done okay. i feel like it's all right. >> you don't feel that in hollywood? >> i mean, i honestly don't pay much attention to anything except what people think of my work. >> that work also happens now behind the camera. elizabeth is a hands-on executive producer of "the handmade's tale." >> every actor who has tried directing and producing says, i can't go back now. now i had control and say. >> yeah, yeah. >> do you feel that way? >> definitely. definitely. they've created a monster. >> we've got to get you in a ro

. >> in my opinion, it's basically copied from other sources, specifically scientology, ayn rand, and est, so, there's all of that mixed together, and that becomes nxivm. very unoriginal. >> reporter: original or not, raniere's teachings were good enough for sarah and her friend mark to spend more than a decade rising through the nxivm ranks and becoming ever more willing to follow their leaders. >> if you're told, "the world could be so much better if you weren't quite so screwed up," you're like, "you're right. let me get more un -- unscrewed up." and pretty soon you're spending years unscrewing yourself. >> reporter: sarah says she devoted 12 years to nxivm, recruiting hundreds of new members, rising through the organization, even opening and running a center in vancouver. along the way, becoming best friends with nancy salzman's daughter lauren. who was maid of honor at sarah's wedding. >> she's like my therapist. and in the ranking system she's also above me. >> reporter: then, in march, after all their years together in nxivm, sarah says lauren approached her about a new and mys

masterson hoist a scientologist has denied those allegations and they were said up to boost a anti scientologyries. >>> supporters of the clean dream act were on the campus of the west chester university this afternoon to make their voices heard. >> stand with us. stand with us. >> they are calling on congress, to support legislation, that would protect undocumented immigrants who were brought to the u.s. as children, from deportation. president trump, ordered an end to the protections in september, and they will be phased out this march, unless congress comes up with a replacement. >>> tomorrow white house officials say president trump will announce his decision, to move the u.s. embassy in israel from tel aviv to jerusalem. critics say such a move would derail any chance of achieving peace in the middle east and could trigger violence in the region. >> u.s. is delivering a lethal bullet to the heart of the two state solution, that would be the kiss of death to the two state solution. >> the president i would say is, pretty solid in his thinking at this point. >> israeli's have long considere

the man who invented the word scientology, which is rather strange, interesting, and unusual. and of course, nathan bedford forrest. i could spend the whole time allotted here just listing names, but don't worry i am not going to do that. iwill give you background, got into this book. some of the things important to me in the writing of it, then i will read briefly and be very delighted to take and answer your questions if i possibly can. to go back to the book itself, i did name some names. now i want you to think for a moment about the tremendous particularly technological, but not exclusively technological, innovations during this particular period. the first that comes to mind is who livehy, many of us here in new york have probably gone to see the mets show up civil war photography, and also the civil war painting. it's interesting to think the civil war was documented in this country from beginning to end by photographers, which is shocking. often, when i thought about why it is the revolutionary war, which is in a sense also brother against brother, country against nott

the lapd investigating and closing it back in 2004 after the church of scientology of which mastersony submitted over 50 affidavits in support of the actor. at least one of the cases against masterson still being investigated according to the lapd. overnight a hollywood legend questioning a possible rush to judgment against some of those accused of sexual misconduct. oscar winner dustin hoffman accused of lewd comments and inappropriate touching on the 1985 set of the tv movie "death of a salesman" when she was 17 firing back when questioned by hbo host john oliver at an event monday night. >> do you believe this stuff that you read? >> i believe what she wrote, yes. >> why? >> because there's no point in her lying. >> well, there is is a point in her not bringing this up for 40 years. >> really? >> oh, dustin. >> now, hoffman maintains he did not wrong. when the story first broke he offered this statement. i have the utmost respect for women and feel terrible that anything i might have done could have put her in an uncomfortable situation. i am sorry. it is not reflective of who i am

have to perform in easter religious service or catholic filmmaker have to promote the church of scientologythis is much broader expands to all craivel artists not just thos just painting on a cake. ainsley: what is you're reaction when justice kennedy said tolerance is essential in a free society but important for tolerance to work in both directions? >> i was relieved because to have a commissioner who is deciding jack's fate who took the work from him that he loves and deprive him of his business circumstantial, 40%. that kind of bias put into action violates our constitution. and so i'm glad that the court is concerned about it. pete: jack, we are talking about this at the supreme court constitutional level because that's what it's come to. what has happened to you and your business since this all started? >> you know, it's been very hard on us and our business. like kristin was saying. we have had this wedding cake business which is 40% of our income. i have lost over half my employees. and we have faced death threats and harassment of all kinds. so now we just hope that the court will