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have told you in past, he had two major defeats with public corrupt sh corruption cases. over at department of justice. he flew tblew the cases, supreme court identify turns bob mcdonald corruption decision, from politico in 2016, i it it says: so he takes a bribe s bribery statutes and expand its that supreme court says you cannot do, that. they set fo forth a straight forward rule, setting up a meeting, du does not qualify as an official act in return for a favor like a trip. so they destroyed mcdonald s career. bankrupted the man. ruined his marriage. then oops, 8 to 0 supreme court says this outrage out, who is behind it? jack the ripper smith, another one abc news, 2012. saying: a case in which john edwards or his people asked donors to contribute money to put up his pregnant girlfriend at a apartment. to try to cover it up during the course of his election. and what did jock t jack the ri ripper conclude, that is a crime under federal election code, how? it co ....
tonight, we speak live to the real alan bates, the man who dedicated years to bringing the post office scandal to light, and to the woman whose dramatisation for the small screen got a very big reaction. and to gwyneth hughes, the woman whose dramatisation for the small screen has had a very big reaction. wrongful convictions, more than 700 of them prison sentences, reputations trashed, bankruptcy, and now new cases. the post office scandal is only deepening. as we go on air, the petition to strip the former post office boss paula vennells of her cbe is well over a million and the prime minister has said he would support a review of it. it doesn t help the hundreds upon hundreds whose lives were all but destroyed and, in some cases, actually destroyed who will pay their compensation and when? we speak to the subpostmaster at the heart of itv s drama and the writer who s reignited an issue that had slipped from the public consciousness. and we ll be joined by the ....
and welcome to morning joe: weekend. let s dive right into the week s top stories. let s begin this morning with a new report from house democrats that alleges the first two years of donald trump s presidency. his family business received seven point $8 million from foreign governments. democrats on the republican-led house oversight committee yesterday released the findings of an investigation that began back in 2016 into violations of the constitution s foreign cause. the report finds from 2017, to 2019 alone, trump s businesses received at least seven point $8 million from 24 in governments. most of that money? according to the report came from china! whose government allegedly paid more than five and a half million dollars to rent out trump s own properties during that time. the government of saudi arabia where, trump visited on his first foreign trip as president paid his business is more than $600,000. the. information stems from documents obtained from the trum ....
an abundance of fish. but in recent years, he and thousands like him have been asking, where are they? this is the tonle sap, south east asia s largest freshwater lake. fish caught by communities here feed millions across cambodia. translation: these past few years, there is less and less i water and fewer and fewer fish. i didn t expect to get a lot of fish because when i felt the weight of the net, it was very light. i felt right around it and ijust couldn t feel many fish. if they were there, i would feel them splashing around. this is not the catch mi and his family need. this is all they have to eat for four or five days. so how difficult is it for you to earn a living byjust fishing? translation: when we were just married and we had no children, l it was ok. but now, we have children, and every day, i need to send them to school. every morning, i need around $5 to pay for school. and these days, i have no income. it s taken four or five days, and that s all i ge ....
this is uzbekistan. once part of the enormous soviet union, uzbekistan is a country of arid deserts, lush mountains and ancient cities. in its long history, it s been home to many civilisations, remnants of which can still be seen today. and now its more recent past is as much of a draw. i m starting myjourney here in tashkent, the biggest city in the whole of central asia. it s dynamic, full of young people with almost half under the age of 30 and it s booming. though wherever you look, you are reminded of its soviet past. so what s this impressive building? incredible. this is our circus. munis nur has been studying the unique blend of soviet and islamic architecture that tashkent is known for. after a massive earthquake in the 60s, the soviets rebuilt the whole city. at that time, as you know, many different architects came from the soviet union, and all the architects tried to build the ideal city here. the circus is one of the many examples of the era s moderni ....