what words would you use to describe rikers island hell. plain and simple hell reporter: benji lozano recently spent five months in rikers, serving the remaining sentence from a 1997 assault conviction after a recent parole from decades in state prison on a separate conviction what do you see in the pictures i see myself, everything i experienced at rikers island, inhumane conditions. look at that, it s ridiculous reporter: photos obtained by the new york post last fall show detainees jammed in a holding area. lozano says he spent weeks living like this. feces all over the wall, unoperable restrooms, toilets would not flush, sinks wouldn t work. it was disgusting. reporter: and you might be surprised who agrees with him. people were living in inhumane conditions. reporter: until last month vincent schiraldi was in charge of rikers
themselves. and they ended up overthrowing or at least seriously rocking the foundation of the gop for a long time now. again, on the big themes of this, and you noted this in your book. i find this to be so fascinating. the autopsy after the 2012 loss to barack obama. and these party leaders got together and gave a list of prescriptions about what to do going forward. and trump did the exact opposite, and they won. yeah. what was so fascinating to me about reporting that chapter is that the republicans who put that together, who were at the rnc at the time. you know, it was mostly establish-type republicans. people aligned with the bush wing of the party, right? they had in front of them all the evidence that they needed to see that the prescriptions they were laying out wouldn t work, right? there was a survey that i found in my research that said don t approach hispanics as if immigration reform say cure-all. as if it will open the door and
and he pushed me down with his hands. you let him push you under the water? yes. what did you say once he let you up? i told him that wouldn t work. why? because the force of him holding her down in the water would leave bruises. so what did you suggest? i suggested he use a towel to hold her down. yolanda said she even helped him whip up the drug-laced concoction to knock wendy out. he came over and he brought some percocet pills. and he and i started squishing them in i think it s a mortar and pestle thing. what was he going to do with the percocet pills that you ground? he was going to give it to her so she would be drugged. and then drowned, said yolanda. but she added the plan to kill wendy hit an unexpected snag. at the honeymoon hotel in key west wendy balked at the taste of the drug cocktail. so escoto tried again later
that would be a moratorium on importing of any oil, any energy from russia. that would isolate the kremlin, bankrupts the kremlin politically, economically, diplomatically. that wouldn t work, let s blame donald trump. he warned about the dangers of being reliant on russian energy. he was the one that warned nato and got in their face, replayed that tape, and told nato allies we are paying the bulk of monies. you need to step up, pay your fair share, and stop making russia and vladimir putin rich again by making $1 billion energy deals with him. he warned against north stream to and that pipeline. a new poll, harvard/paris, it finds 62% of voters say vladimir putin would never have invaded ukraine of donald trump work president. you know why?
people, don t come out. don t get arrested, don t protest, don t say what you think about the war, don t try to come against our rule and our word. and they are really trying to control the narrative here completely. and nic, countries worldwide are slapping moscow with unprecedented sanctions. we ve really never seen anything like it. how are people responding to the financial meltdown? reporter: yeah. it s here and there. it s not affecting people on the street too. . we tried to park our car using apple pay and it wouldn t work. our producer tried to park her car on the way to work and her apple pay wouldn t work. million is cards are using and some aren t. the real problem is the leadership. putin was meeting with his prime minister, the head of the central bank, other banks, trying to figure out what to do. this big randy day fund.