one piece of the house want one way with my mom. the other piece went one way with him. when he felt the house hit up against the tree. he was able to grab on to a branch and pull himself up into the tree to make sure, because he couldn t swim. as he reached done to grab my mom s hand. he had my mom s hand for a few minutes. he said he could tell that he was losing her. -up can t find your wif -up you can t find your wife? no, i held her hand as tight as i could. she told me, you can t hold me. i m sorry. reporter: tonie was devastated then and still is now. she misses her mom every single
seen other houses collapsing. that s exactly what happened to their house. it collapsed on top of them. one piece of the house went one way with my mom and the other went one way with him. when he felt the house hit up against the tree, he was able to grab on to a branch and pull himself up in the tree to make sure he couldn t swim. as he reached down to grab my mom s hand, he had my mom s hand for a few minutes and he said he could tell he was losing her. you can t find your wife? no. i tried. i held her hand tight as i could and she told me, you can t hold me. i m sorry.
that was entertainment. thank you. there is a serious point that we were discussing here which is you know this really does shine light on how donors in the current political system feel completely entitled by this process. donald trump has been hit up for contributions by virtually everyone across the ideological spectrum. because he s rich. if you have people continuously coming to you, begging for money, you begin to think that you re above the people. you re morally superior or politically more clever. what you ve seen on the trail with donald trump is every time someone picked a fight with him, he head ah-ha, two years you hit me up for cash and here s your phone number. fascinating why that is not entertainment. joe? the question is is this just entertainment? what is the end game here? yeah donald is going up in the polls. at the same time though, he was going up in the polls when he
actual impact of the bomb. i remember as metaphor marathon sports where everybody buys my husband just bought tenness shoes there yesterday. that s the place to go. the bomb hits right outside that store. blows out the window. becomes a triage center. the workers are tying tourniquets. they re move things out of the way. there were all these barricades set up for the marathon. they are helping people survive. they literally help one woman bleeding out in front of the store, they help her survive. they open up ten days later. i remember the opening. we were there. people waited outside quietly. the workers walked out. many of whom were the people who had helped save people s lives. and they said, sure, come on in. people have been flooding in that store. i went yesterday. got hit up for this bracelet and all these t-shirts that we ll give out next week. everything says boston strong on it. they now have just, as of yesterday, approved license plates in the state of massachuset
wealthy companies or industries, and they basically mark them for extortion. they introduce pieces of legislation or they threaten certain things that put those entities in a position to where they have to play ball. reporter: one person who knows all about this fully legal form of extortion is the former president of shell oil usa, john hofmeister. i realize that there is a price to participate in the political process. what i never knew was what a huge price it was. and how it was an endless process of continuously being hit up for money. reporter: in 2008 when oil prices were skyrocketing, hofmeister was hauled before committee after congressional committee. 18 different hearings. some members of congress even threatened to nationalize his industry. the televised hearings, all political theater, he says. when the camera lights turned off, some of the very members who criticized him in public