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We ve never seen a special election like this for a lot of reasons. we ve been surprised before on election nights. you put it up there in south carolina, the south carolina 5th district, the republican leading by 3 points. republicans feeling a little better on this. i have just been told that the associated press just now called that race in south carolina for the republican, for ralph norman. the area that was outstanding, one republican county and also the rock hill area, outside charlotte. so it looks like this thing is going to tick up if this got to a 6, 7-point win for norman in this district. but as you say, this is a district, last year wu were upwards of 20 points in the presidential election. it s one that democrats will certainly want to brag about getting closer but of course the other story tonight is republicans are saying democrats when are you going to put a win on the board and again that comes back to georgia. we ll see as the votes come in. let me underscore ....
Think didn t sentence him with it after they got his guilty plea, they didn t sentence him for more than a decade. at the end of the decade, he didn t get jail time but paid a fine. there is all sorts of interesting reports about what he did during that decade and why the government waited a decade to sentence him and why at the end of it they didn t put him in prison even though they got a guilty plea for a mob related $40 million swindle. i mean, there was a bunch of there have been a bunch of interesting stories about what happened in that decade. there was the story about him knowing about stinger missiles that were for sale on the black market in russia. stinger missiles, the shoulder fired missiles that can take down a helicopter and airport, the ones that the u.s. famously covertly supplied to fight the russians in afghanistan. he supposedly told u.s. authorities about a bunch of stinger missiles being for sale on the black market and help u.s. authorities buy those ....
That s obviously controversial. there is tons of litigation about that. there is also the matter that the prosecutors kept so much so secret about this case for so long. that was the point of controversy when loretta lynch moved up from the prosecutor s office to become attorney general and litigation about the secrecy about this case, as well. but now this story that has been intriguing from the very beginning, right? this story that s been an interesting wall street story, an interesting new york story, an interesting mob informant story, an interesting russia money laundering story, an interesting law enforcement story now has been already intriguing and lots of levels but now it s about to become a big national politics story because in that decade between the mob guys getting arrested, the indictment, in that decade between those guys getting picked up because of that fraud case, in that decade between those arrests, and felix sater pleading guilty to charges in the scheme, in tha ....
City. several names associated with the financing effort have alleged tie to money laundering or russian organized crime. so that s the first reason this is about to become a big story. because this senate is yanking on this thread of the story. and according to senator ron wid widen, they are finally getting co documents that will allow them to follow that up. that s one. second reason, this is about to become a big story, is because a federal racketeering lawsuit, a rico lawsuit against felix sater s company in which he partnered with donald trump, that rico lawsuit has been al w allowed to go forward now. and the former employee who has brought that rico lawsuit against felix sater and his former company, the rico lawsuit, the guy who brought that rico lawsuit is telling a reporter named tim o brien that ....
Bigger and much more familiar story. number one, today senator on the intelligence committee announced he s giving up a hold he placed on the trump administration s nominee. he says he s giving up the hold because the financial crimes unit at the pressutreasury fina agreed to hand over on the trump russia case. they agreed to hand over the financial records they have at treasury which may be relevant to the trump russia investigation. ron widen today telling us he got briefed this morning by the department on documents getting transmitted from treasury over to the senate. senator telling us quote, i believe these documents will be sufficient to start following the money. by which he means quote, financial connections between trump associates in russia and trump s own business dealings with russian interests. and reporting on those developments today and ron widen dropping the hold and saying he s getting the documents, abc ....