that was all eliot spitzer.arted the whole prostitute thing, he was putting money into a small regional bank that was just underneath the money laundering rules, and so the bank reports him. like, the governor-- they know his name. he's the governor. i mean, he doesn't just do a transaction that would draw attention. he does it in a place where they would notice, in his own name. and spitzer was sending these shady wire transfers to an obvious shell company, which soon revealed itself to be a front for a prostitution ring that the fbi was already investigating. once those dots got connected, the former sheriff of wall street was done for. he ran the rackets bureau at the manhattan d.a.'s office, so he knows the way this works, and to the extent that he says, "oh, i thought i'd get away with it"-- either that is simply an outright lie, or it is an indication of such massive self-deception that that also says something about what's going on and not going on in this guy's mind. right. after the first press conferen

but it was his zealous belief in his own righteousness that made eliot spitzer's self-destruction inevitable, and that might be why this story's so chilling. former president trump was a steamroller in the white house, and it landed an insurrection on the steps of the capitol. if we can't shake our addiction to strongmen, to those utterly convinced of their own greatness, there will be many more like spitzer in positions of power posing even bigger threats to our fragile democracy-- crusaders wanting their portraits on the walls of history. every governor of new york has the chance to be immortalized in a painting that hangs in the new york state capitol, a self-directed monument to his or her own illustrious legacy. all of them are there-- all but two. the first served in the early 19th century and left no likenesses behind. the second...is eliot spitzer. ♪ here in the united states it's canada and around the world, i'm kim brunhuber. >> this is cnn newsroom. the united states issues a warning as hezbollah and israel trade attacks across the lebanese border a mass shooting in a us city leav

when i was at paypal, spitzer tried to take it out.or linkedin, spacex, we would not have so many companies that came out of that. that's what happened in the eu. in eu, the regulators were a little more obnoxious and powerful, and there's dozens of companies that would have existed that don't. so the government people, give them a little more power, you can smash these things. there's one side trying to do that. >> what happens to a company like apple and you have to operate in these markets or do you pull out? you can't not operate in these markets given the revenue they're bringing in, but what they are asking you to do is rip apart your system, open it up. and apple's defense is they don't think that's secure. >> no, again, it's not really apple i'm worried about, because they're worth $3 trillion. so if the eu hurts them a little bit, they'll be fine, but with all these rules, the next company competing against apple is smashed. i don't feel badly for these giant tech companies. but i feel badly for the new ones that would have ex