and using the courts to do it, and using underhanded tactics as was pointed out in the ted stevens case, their corruption was so bad, there lies to the judge and they're hiding of evidence and witnesses was so brad that the judge -- so bad that the judge appointed a a special prosecutor to go after them. this is a problem for all of us. if they can do that to a powerful u.s. senator, a recipient of the distinguished flying cross from his service in world war ii and a genuine hero, think what they can do to the average one of us. we're going to start with sidney powell, and appellate division or for the department of justice, intimately involved in the defense of senator stevens, appalled at what she saw as the underhanded tactics used by the department of justice pitches written a terrific book, which convened a is available. it's chapter and verse on what they did to cheat and try to send to prison a man that was totally honorable and exonerated. so sydney, can you tell us a little what you came across and had to deal with? >> definitely. williams and conley were lead counsel for senat

good example was senator ted stevens of alaska. somebody should have gone to prison for what happened to that man. as a former prosecutor, judge, chief justice, we prosecuted people as a prosecutor, i sentenced people who were convicted and i was -- when i was a judge. i ruled on convictions when i was a chief justice. we had to make sure due process was followed. and that people got a fair trial. evidence was not obtained illegally. but in ted stevens' case, i know when i read that hawaii had had this addition, i can't remember now, going strictly off recollection, but 700,000 or so improvements to his home and i thought, oh, come on. you've got to know, senator, you can't have that kind of improvement free to your home. can't do that. but they came in with search warrants, took all of his documentation, they got all of his bank records. they got all of his computers, his flash drives, anything that had memory on it. they took all of his documentation the man could not defend himself. he had, as it turns out, proof that he overpai

at the time it was reported that usa gymnastics considered a national governing body under the ted stevens act and had repeatedly been notified of sexual abuse allegations against its coaches but didn't immediately report the allegations to law enforcement. these stories were heart-wrenching and involved children as young as 6-years-o 6-years-old. one such case revealed that they usa gymnastics had received at least four complaints about a member coach in 1998 ye 1998 yer reported the allegations to police. according to federal authorities, the next year, he began to molest a very young girl and in the meantime, he continued to coach children for seven more years. during this time, usa gymnastics not only avoided reporting this to police but also reassured a concerned mother that he was in good standing. he was ultimately convicted of sexual exploitation of children in 2006 after a mother went directly to the fbi. he is now serving a 30 year sentence in federal prison. following the olympic games last summer, victims from all over the country began to come forward to talk about their abuse

i remember in 1997 being hauled into ted stevens' office or daniel inouye to be reminded that there are alaskans out in the most desolate and rural parts of the country that have to be on the network. one critical part of the obligation is to be working that problem. you know, i would commend the wheeler commission and the commission before it to be looking at ways -- or and julius genachowski -- to shift money toward broadband, toward these problems, toward use of new technologies, a wireless fund, funds more targeted to broadband. i think all of that is very thoughtful and on the right track. and if i were congress, i would continue to look to working with the fcc to solve the problem as opposed to create new program, new institution, new funneling member anymore. >> host: given the economies of scale, to you see further consolidation and maybe some cross-pollination in the industry to get some of this buildout? >> guest: no, no, i don't. i don't think that consolidation or scale or the explicit purpose of more economically serving rural parts of the country is necessarily in the offi

ted stevens international airport in anchorage sits halfway between tokyo and new york city and less than nine and a half hours by air from 90% of the industrialized world. think about that. oftentimes we think about alaska as so remote and so far away, but when you look at that globe and you look at alaska's geographic position, we are in the center. the airport is number two in the u.s. for landed cargo weight and number six in the world for cargo through-put. in 2012, 71% of all asia-bound air cargo from the u.s. and 82% of all u.s.-bound air cargo from asia transited through it. it's no exaggeration to say that the significance of alaska to the airborne and the maritime trade of the united states likely exceeds even the treaty's biggest boosters dream back in 1867. alaska's strategic significance is now more important than ever. our natural resources have provided energy and minerals for our nation for decades, from the oil on our north slope to our gold, our silver, our copper, other metals. we are a storehouse of just about everything that you can think of and everything that y

ask ted stevens, senator from alaska. when it's all over and they are vindicated, they're broken, they're out of office, their lives are ruined, their reputations are shot and they are done. i totally understand that a person might say give me immunity and i'll sing like an opera star. >> sandra: what do you think of the democrats? nancy pelosi already speaking out on this. >> mike: i really care what nancy pelosi says. i just don't. >> harris: i want to ask you specifically about immunity, because there are different kinds. there are in agreement with the other side, the legal side. what about this one at the level at which it is? >> eboni: immunity is what we call a plea bargain. people don't get that bargain part of it. that makes sense. you're doing it in exchange. we do this in our legal system, whether people like it or they don't, it's a normal form of play. governor, when september 2016, when general flynn said what he said about immunity coinciding with guilt, it was political talk. i would caution people around

stevens act. under the bill, those bodies must train members and implement and enforce policies to accomplish several things. first, members must report immediately sex abuse to law enforcement. two, members must be allowed to easily report sexual abuse complaints to national governing bodies such as a 24-hour hotline and other authorities. easy for a youngster to access. it simply cannot be the case, as it is with usa gymnastics, where members' reports of sex abuse were only recognized if they were made in writing. third, adults other than parents should be prohibited from one-on-one situation with minors without being an observable and interruptible distance from another adult. and of course, whenever a team physician examines a female minor, there should be another adult in the room. just as it is in the regular population. fourth, coaches who have unresolved sex abuse allegations against them -- and there are many -- will be presevented fro continuing to work with children until there is no lo