these arm sales to iran that had been illegally diverted to the contras. the white house disclosures that up to $30 million paid for arms sent to iran were secretly diverted to the contra rebels have only deepened the crises confronting president reagan. now, the stakes are not always high. sometimes it s just about whether there is some evidence that will take you beyond conflicting accounts. in the investigations into bill clinton, which spanned many topics, it was that day that the rumors about a blue dress became public. tests are underway on a navy blue cocktail dress, which lewinsky turned over as evidence. nbc has learned that lewinsky claims the dress has physical evidence to support her claim that she had a sexual relationship with the president. all these cases are different, but they have one thing in common. prosecution is not really about crime. prosecution is almost always about evidence. where is it? who finds out about it? and who can use it? and that s why th
at that point there were congressional limits on money that could be given to the contras. oliver north had a point in that two wrongs make a right. not exactly. it s an example of when you have this money around, how you launder the money. how you get the money from one place to another. that could make you do strange things like putting money from at&t in an account that s also used to pay for hush agreements bingo. you re talking about something that to the normal observer looks totally crazy. you open an account to pay stormy daniels in octoberment now you re putting other funds which look like a legitimate purpose in an account to pay off stormy daniels. it may be the bag. if he s the bag man essential consultants looks like the bag man.
rule ruhle. the nra has a newest spokesperson. let s tyake a look at oliver north. he s a retired united states marine. during his time in public service he served as a military aide to the national security council under president reagan. some ranged to sell weapons to ir iran. the money from the sales were used to illegally refund the contras. after the scandal became public north became a controversial site on television testifying before congress during the so called iran contra hearings. in 1989 he was convicted of obstructing congress during its investigation, destroying government documents and accepting an illegal gratuity. those convictions were overturned in 1991. he later ran for the united states senate as a republican candidate in virginia. he lost. he also wrote several books.
this for example is a magnifying glass an electronic one which can be used in different money for cation stages and you can always who turned the image and and hence the contras and this device is quite handy you can forward it and take it with you another way of improving reading ability would be hugh s the use of these electronic books the advantage is there you can increase the fun size and it basically gives you a very easy read thanks for having me today and thanks for sharing this information and thank you christopher sharing your story with us today we are talking about good vision if you fancy good television this is the place to be in good shape. or jus like a chance to win a backpack full of exercise gear just tell us your favorite home remedy or send us
probably getting into the shutdown mess to begin with. but now they re in it did you say that at the time? yeah. okay, good. i m checking you. okay. for specific reasons. one was to get the children health care issue taken off the ledger so it can no longer be used as a political cudgel. and two because they feel like they have a slightly more advantageous perch by which to negotiate three weeks from. now i don t know if it s going to go anywhere past the senate. you need 60 senators to joy agree on one thing and nothing else to muddy the waters. it is possible. you can imagine a bill that is possible in which it s the contras of the durbin-graham compromise that can make some wall, a lot of dreamers. more wall because you need 60. dreamer protections, something on visa lottery, something on chain migration, thaeb you can county up, get a vote in the senate, assuming mitch allows a vote and then it dies because it never gets through the house.