for ted stevens. >> the federal jury here in washington found he ted stevens of alaska guilty on allcounts of making false statements. he accepted gifts. >> he said the prosecutors got 250,000 gifts from rich donors and never reported that. >> i recall believe that i've not done anything wrong. stossel: and it turns out it may not have done anything wrong. for example, he did not get $250,000 in gifts. >> an explosive report alleged misconduct against ted stevens. the report is alleging that federal prosecutors knowingly withheld evidence. >> there was clear misconduct by prosecutors in that case. stossel: they found they hid and evidence witnesses lied under oath. a judge threw out that conviction. were the prosecutors punished for their misdeeds. matthew left for a higher paying job at a private law firm. the director of the enron task force became an assistant attorney general at the justice department. &andrew weisman who helped prosecuting the merrill lynch employees was made deputy director of the fbi and merrill lynch prosecutor was promoted to deputy attorney general then pro

example is ted stevens and how -- senator ted cruz and how he started his campaign.hing he did was hold a conference call with bloggers. press releases are dead. i would recommend most politicians rethink that strategy. because most of the time people attention tog those. i get so many of those e-mails still to this day, and i always delete them. you've got to get my attention in some other creative way. do? did ted cruz he tweeted out that he was running for senate. twitter has been a huge priority for ted cruz and he does a lot of it on his own. sometimes his staff does it. he's made it a huge priority. it's made a major difference. rick perry. announced his candidacy in the same way. and in the same way, he's also a huge priority. if you look at it, ted cruz and rick perry are two of the most in the republican party right now, and that's not an accident. it's because they've made new media, twitter, social media and all of these platforms, bloggers, they've made them a priority. shows, because they bypassed the mainstream media and get their message out in the wan

impacted the careers of politicians and journalists, like anthony weiner, dan rather, george allen, ted stevensand rick perry. from the steamboat institute's annual freedom conference in colorado, this is 45 minutes. >> all right. thank you, everyone, for being here. every year, i look forward to coming to steamboat. this is my third or fourth year to get to be here. it's an honor to be here. this is an event and an organization devoted to educating americans about the principles of our founding, but having a friendly conversation here is one thing. as we mind, all too often, winning tough policy battles when pitted against the liberal ideologues is another matter. we must not only have the right information, we must be prepared to communicate them effectively. digital media presents an exciting venue to connect directly with policy influences and voters alike. insi

they say, think back to six years ago where ted stevens nearly won and he was convicted of corruptionbefore the election. they say in a republican state like alaska, we're running a candidate who won't be convicted of corruption a week before the election. so if stevens can come that close, sullivan will do that much better. so, the expectations are all over the place here. the key thing to remember is simply this, that republican theory is the theory that really both parties have held all year. democrats have quietly expected to lose this. republicans have assumed they'd win it. the most recent polls and that history from 2008 are causing a lot of people at the last minute to rethink alaska and now people are saying, mark begich might hold onto this race. or, joy, he might lose. >> if it's that interesting to poll, i can even imagine it's harder to run a turnout operation. i can't even imagine. >> the other wild card quickly in alaska, so many fishermen in alaska, this is crab season in alaska, so a lot of the fishermen in alaska vote absentee by mail, counted on november 19th. >> th

and i remember, ted stevens, sitting up there, saying, there's no problem here. the ethics process, is working, and shortly thereafter, he came under a scandal of which the committee never did anything. >>> so, we take a look in the reports and we have charts, at the end of the report. you take a look at what the senate ethics committee has done, and first of all, they're receiving fewer complaints than ever. >>> 99 complains, in 2009, and in:30:30, only 26. they get dismissed. all but for have been dismissed and the reason that is happening is because they operate in secret. even though they publish the number of cases, they're taking a look at, and publish the number of dismissals, which is almost identical every year. that's it. >>> we don't get any kind of record, as to what they were looking at, and who was being investigated. and without that type of accountability, on the senate side. the senate ethics committee is a failure, like we had, on the house side. >>> so, this report recommends first of all, that the senate institute a similar type of outside inv

the key here was ted stevens had actually just been convicted of corruption charges in federal court. the average said this is a big blow out. the baggage is on its way to the senate. then they held the election and look what happened. he goes from 11 points ahead in the average. it took two weeks to count all the votes in alaska and to declare a winner. the polls were basically ten points off in alaska in 2008. now, again, as ewe say, this is a race all year. frankly, democrats have looked at alaska, too, this year. and they say this is a state that republicans are going to win. if you look at 2008, when all of that favorable -- >> a convicted felon on corruption charges. >>. >> they say, well, look, it's a better climate in 2014. that still may be true. but if you look, the most recent poll, one came out last night, it put baggage ahead by eight points. the questions about all of these about how lively they are. there's a poll in between that puts dan sul van ahead. so in both states, we're saying maybe the democrats are going to win by a point. maybe 5:00 republicans are going to w

he did a scandal around th around the incumbent ted stevens. but he doesn't have that this year. wha >> he had a third thing going for him, a viable third party candidate who took 4% of the vote there, and 4% of the vote was more than the margin of difference between senators stevens and mark begich. it's going to be very difficult. what mark begich is organized. he has offices in 19 places in the state. he's going up against those who have offices five in the biggest cities, the biggest population centers. so he's doing a door-to-door campaign. very difficult to do in a state, in the lower 48. it's easier to do up there and requires a lot more travel because it is such a big state. alaska is about the size of the 22 smallest states of the lower 48 put together. it's requiring a lot of retail politics. his father was a congressman. we have one at large congressmen in that state. the begichs are accustomed of doing that. it's going to be very difficult because it's such a red state. it's a libertarian republican state and something that he'll have to work against. >> since he's be

and then his opponent, ted stevens, the republican incumbent in 2008 was indicted and convicted of corruption charges. >> that's a challenge. >> which if you talk to steven's people which were later overturned. >> right. in terms of the electoral impact, convicted of federal corruption charges a week before the election, it doesn't get much worse than that. and yet, with all of that going against him, only lost that race by 3,700 votes. they say, look, 2014, better climate for us. second of all, our candidates not going to get -- however, the most recent polling, and polling is tougher in alaska than any other state. but the most recent polling shows he's a lot closer in this thing than people realize. this is one, and the other quick x factor on this is a lot of mail-in voting. fishermen, crab season in alaska, they're not due until november 15th. counted until november 19th. might be a while in alaska. >> it's the african-american vote. and whether they're going to turn out. and jeremy peters in the "new york times" today has a story about how democrats are scaring african-american voters t

so compare that to the senate where we push for a similar outside office and i remember senator ted stevens sitting on a committee saying there is no problem the ethics problem is working beautifully and then of course, shortly thereafter he came under a sharp ethics scandal he said he did not do anything we have charts that are very handy to take a look at what the senate ethics committee has done compared to oce first of all, receiving fewer complaints than ever. 99 complaints were filed to the ethics committee last year there only 26 and rehearsing a steady drop because almost every single complaint gets dismissed 513 complaints and allies from 2007 through the end of 2013 all but four have been dismissed. all but four. much of the reason why that is happening is the senate ethics committee operates in secret even though they published a number of cases they look at warren the dismissals that is almost the identical number every year that is it there is no record who was investigated for what and without that type of it is a failure pryor's though this record wins the senate has a simila

when you think about tom delay for ted stevens, so many politicians whose careers have been ruined ander exonerated because of that time that it happened there were not the tools are savvy to fight back. and i think rick perry is a tremendous example of turning to a felony indictments against him into a political plus. now he is the talk of the 2016 field, and everyone is rallying behind him. i think that really, truly shows the power of the internet. we hear a lot about the digital divide, especially in the fallout from the 2008 and 2012 election. it is true, there is a major divide from the left is and where we are on line. a lot of that is not due to any lack of enthusiasm. it is the organization is not taking a advantage of and using appropriate tools to engages in campaigns or organizations. in 2008, for example, barack obama launched his own social media website. we all know he is a very humble guy. 2 million members, and he used that to organize and mobilize people. the hosted 200,000 offline events, generated millions of pieces of content on line, blog posts, tweets, facebook p

some of you helped reck news success in the revised ted t stevens olympic and amateur pic sports act of 1998.is this example suggests a good place to start. where ever possible, make college athletes fair and competitive. recognize the rights. uphold the rights of college athletesmp.et give them a voice and challenge universities, in turn, to make wise, straight forward decisions about the compatibility of commercialized sports with education. thank you. >> thank you very much, mr. branchtn.es the general rule around here ist that witnesses speak for five or six minutes. but i failed to make that clear. >> it says five minutes right here, but i wasn't watching. sorry. anyway, just keep it to five or six or seven minutes. and i thank you for your testimony. and it was my fault. mr. bradshaw, a former director of athletics at temple university. we welcome you, sir. >> chairman, ladies and gentlemen of the committee, good afternoon. your invitation to me to testify today about promoting the well-being and academic success of our student athletes is much appreciated. it's an honor for me

that all changed with senator ted stevens, the author of the imager sports act -- and mature sports act. it may surprise you to learn that we are a 501(c) organization. we are not a government organization. we were given complete responsibility for live export to the united states. and shortly thereafter, paralytic sport. sports.ympic we were certifying a national body for each sport. we have 48 national governing bodies, 39 of which are in olympic sports. each of those ngb's is a separate nonprofit organization responsible for their sport from the grassroots level all the way up to elite competition. what that means is we have to work hand in glove with each of those 48 or each of those 39 ngb's.s sport it is not such an easy task. tried to bethe usoc too many things to too many people. we focused our mission in 2004. we used to have a board of directors of 120 five people. we now have 16 people. an executive committee of 25 people, now we have no executive committee at all. importantly, we also focused our mission. our mission was to help olympic and paralympic athletes. how do we hel

some of you helped recognize success in the revised ted stevens olympic act of 1998.this example suggests a good place to start. wherever possible, make athletes true citizens, rather than glorified vassals. make them fair and competitive. uphold the rights of college athletes. give them a voice and challenge universities in turn to make wise, straightforward decisions about the compatibility of sports with education. thank you. >> thank you very much, mr. branch. and i want to be very critical of myself. because what, the general rule around here is that the witnesses speak for five or six minutes, but i failed to make that clear. and so we just got -- >> says five minutes right here, but i wasn't watching. sorry.

when you think about tom delay or ted stevens, there are so many politicians whose careers have beenuined and later exonerated. and that was because either the time it happened, the tools or the savvy to fight back. i think rick perry is a tremendous example of turning two felony indictments against him into a political plus. now he's the talk of the, you know, 2016 field. and everybody is rallying behind him. so i think that really, really, truly shows the power of the internet. but we hear a lot about the digital divide, especially in the fallout from the 2008 and the 2012 elections. and it's true. there is a major divide between where the left is and where we are online. a lot of that is not due to any gap in enthusiasm from the grassroots on either side. it's a lot of the organizations who aren't taking advantage and using the appropriate tools to engage us in their campaigns or their organizations. so in 2008, for example, barack obama launched his own social media website. we all know he's a very humble guy. mybarackobama.com had 200 -- 2 million members. they generated million

now represents alaska was elected wasn't until two weeks after election day that the republican ted stevensand then kansas, of course, kansas is the most suspenseful state on the map this year. pat roberts, greg orman the independent challenger, no democrat in that race, remember. polls there are basically dead even right now. so, there's a lot of possibilities here. republicans need to win two of these if they want to get to 51. so, let's say that he will lose in alaska. alaska is a tough state to poll. a very republican state. he won by the smallest possible margin in 2008 in the best possible circumstances. worst climate for a democrat now. so, if they were to get, if the republicans were to take that late at night on election night, that would put them at 50 and they would be one away. but then look at all the suspense. a runoff in georgia. the runoff in georgia is not until january 15, january 6th of next year. louisiana runoff not until december of this year. 2014. and then kansas, let's say pat roberts does not win in kansas. if greg orman the independent wins there, then at any mome

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indeed, airline and trucking deregulation, the leader in congress, was none other than ted expend his young aide, steven breyer, and one of the most influential supporters outside of capitol hill was none other than our guest today, ralph nader. flash forward to today and ralph nader once again sees interesting developments in the blind spot of partisan conventional wisdom. the prevailing picture of american politics today is that of polarization, left is left and right is right and never the twain shall meet. ralph nader sees something else. he looks past the cable news sound and fury and sees the possibilities of left-right convergence in a number of key policy areas. in particular, he sees potential for principled libertarians, conservatives and progressives, to form a left-right alliance of outsiders against a corrupt and overreaching bipartisan washington establishment. the most promising causes for such alliance that landfill identifies are, one, opposing the massive civil liberties violations of the surveillance state. two, fighting bloated pentagon spending and military overreach abroad. and, th

. >> reporter: shocking allegations around steven collins lead to his firing of "ted 2" and abrupt resignationm the screen actors guild. he is accused of child molestation in divorce papers in 2012. in the documents grant says collins admitting to molesting three underage women. two in new york and one in los angeles. according to a new york law enforcement official, in one case, a woman went to police and said, collins sexually assaulted her when she was 14. but the official says no charges could be brought against collins due to the statute of limitations and in los angeles, police did look into a case but closed it when no victim came forward. collins responded to the allegations in court documents stating this is really an attempt to extort concessions in settlement. cnn reached out repeatedly to both collins and fae's reps and did not receive comment. i'm mary muller. >> traffic stop that ended with a man being tasered led to a federal lawsuit in the state of indiana all caught on video by the driver's 14-year-old son. it's quite stunning to watch this. according to the lawsuit against th

indeed, airline and trucking deregulation, the leader in congress, was none other than ted expend his young aide, steven breyer, and one of the most influential supporters outside of capitol hill was none other than our guest today, ralph nader. flash forward to today and ralph nader once again sees interesting developments in the blind spot of partisan conventional wisdom. the prevailing picture of american politics today is that of polarization, left is left and right is right and never the twain shall meet. ralph nader sees something else. he looks past the cable news sound and fury and sees the possibilities of left-right convergence in a number of key policy areas. in particular, he sees potential for principled libertarians, conservatives and progressives, to form a left-right alliance of outsiders against a corrupt and overreaching bipartisan washington establishment. the most promising causes for such alliance that landfill identifies are, one, opposing the massive civil liberties violations of the surveillance state. two, fighting bloated pentagon spending and military overreach abroad. and, th

. >>> steven collins is dropped from the film ted two amid allegations of second you'll abuse. the 67 year-old has not yet been charged. he is currently under investigation by nypd after an alleged audio tape admission was released. actor's estrange wife secretly recorded a therapy session where collins spoke about inappropriate sexual contact with children. >>> fbi is appealing for help to identify a isis militant who they say could be american. at the same time one of the country's closest allies joins the fight, chris van cleve has more. >> as we are's here with the soldiers. >> reporter: listen closely to this voice. >> thinks the the end. >> reporter: the fbi is asking for your help to identify this masked isis fighter switching between eveningish lynn arabic he is seen organizing an execution in the the prop again avoid ohio. they posted the videos as part of the larger effort. fbi is seeking public's help to identify americans trying to join fight or who are among about a dozen americans believed to already been fighting with terrorist in syria. claire ward interviewed t

dropped from the tv show "scandal" cut from the sequel to the movie "ted," reruns no longer airing on networks. >> there is no question, stevenw branded and is not a product that people want to buy. >> reporter: collins' lawyer who did not respond to requests for comment told us tmz has tried to peddle this to numerous people. in the divorce case she is seeking more than to which she is entitled. but grant tells nbc news to falsely characterize these requests as extortion threats is reckless and constitutes yet further abuse. >> right now these are allegations that have come out in a divorce proceeding. no criminal charges have been filed against steven collins. >>> he's a local politician who claims wi-fi is a basic human right. of we'll tell you why he thinks so. >>> plus, never got your wings? how you can get a refund of your money from red bull. >>> you're watching news4 at 4:00. >>> good afternoon. i'm chris lawrence in for jim handly. >> i'm pat lawson muse. there is increasing fear in the united states over ebola. one day after federal officials announced the u.s. will screen passengers at five airports for ebola sympt

forty years ago, since the news broke, steven collins has been dropped from the movie ted two.esigned from his position on the national board of the screening actors guild seventh heaven. also, has been pulled from several network, that have been running it in inched sayings for years. the police and the neighbors thought that he had killed himself. that's why they rushed to his home. >>> boy, more interesting news when it comes to seventh heaven. actress sarah goldberg, i remember her on the show, she is playing the character sarah glass glass. she died. she passed away late last month of natural causes but her family says they suspect a heart was responsible. sarah's character on the show fell in love with matt camden, the son of steven collins character, pastor. >> only 40 years old. >> forty years old. died what the end of september for almost a week ago but her parents hadn't told the general public. >> and i think now, yes, big focus on seventh heaven, so now a lot more coming out. bobby rydel has a setback. music lends end thought he lost thousands of dollars worth of sh

. >>> hollywood actor steven collins, best men for his role as a pastor on seventh heaven, he loses his job of tedo. to comes at the time police in new york launch an investigation into inappropriate sexual contact he have mad with children. tmz released an audio recording admissions about the at boost. collins estrange wife secret thely recorded a therapy session in 2012, where the actor admitted to exposing himself to underage girls. so far no charges have been filed. >>> well now federal investigators there are asking for your help to identified an isis militant who could be a american. this comes as one of the country's alleys joins the fight now against the islamic state. chris van cleve has more. >> we're here with the soldiers. >> reporter: listened closely to this voice. the fbi is asking for your help to identify this masks isis fighter switching between english and arab he is seen organizing an execution in this video. they posted the video on the web site as part of the larger effort. the the fbi is seeking a help seeking americans trying to join the fight or among a dozen of americans

this is the second gig steven has been let go of following the allegations, released from the sea quill ted two, audio came to light, by "tmz", that audio released by a lawyer for the 67 year old actor, told the website that collins' estranged wife tried to blackmail him with that tape. lawyer says extortion attempts were ignored, she tried to find others who may have been interested in it. collins us a lawyer says can he not comment on the tapes. much more coming out by way of published articles about this, saying, grant says that collins had admitted to her that he fantasized about having an incest too us relationship if in fact their daughter -- >> oh, it is getting worse, accused of doing this 40 years ago, right. >> well, yes. and there are i shall theus came to light evidently about himself exposing himself to under age girls, in new york state. just gross. >> this divorce thing is worth $40 million. >> yes. >> and both fighting over money. >> yes. oh, boy. all right, i thank you, i think? >> i know. >> 7:26 almost. well, as you know, doctors cents from all over the country have come

some of you helped recognize success in the revised ted stevens olympic act of 1998.this example suggests a good place to start. wherever possible, make athletes true citizens, rather than glorified vassals. make them fair and competitive. uphold the rights of college athletes. give them a voice and challenge universities in turn to make wise, straightforward decisions about the compatibility of sports with education. thank you. >> thank you very much, mr. branch. and i want to be very critical of myself. because what, the general rule around here is that the witnesses speak for five or six minutes, but i failed to make that clear. and so we just got -- >> says five minutes right here, but i wasn't watching. sorry.