Mass incarceration in one we disproportionately punish the poor and those of color, and im concentrating on the other side where we give impunity to wealthy, powerful people who sit as c. E. O. S and chairman of the powerful corporations. Cohan charles blow, Jesse Eisinger, when we continue. Rose funding for charlie rose has been provided by the following bank of america. Life better connected. And by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and Information Services worldwide. Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Cohan good evening, charlie is away. Im william cohan, special correspondent at vanity faimplet we begin tonight with charles blow, he is a bestselling author, commentator and visual oped columnist for the new york times. His recent columns have grown increasingly critical of the trump administration. Many see him as one of the leaders of what can loosely be called the resistance. I am pleased to have charles back
Mass incarceration in one we disproportionately punish the poor and those of color, and im concentrating on the other side where we give impunity to wealthy, powerful people who sit as c. E. O. S and chairman of the powerful corporations. Cohan charles blow, Jesse Eisinger, when we continue. Rose funding for charlie rose has been provided by the following bank of america. Life better connected. And by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and Information Services worldwide. Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Cohan good evening, charlie is away. Im william cohan, special correspondent at vanity faimplet we begin tonight with charles blow, he is a bestselling author, commentator and visual oped columnist for the new york times. His recent columns have grown increasingly critical of the trump administration. Many see him as one of the leaders of what can loosely be called the resistance. I am pleased to have charles back
[inaudible conversation] [inaudible conversation] [inaudible conversation] were calling back to order the confirmation hearing of the nominee of the fbi director of Christopher Rankin will begin with senator kearns. Thank you for the opportunities to question the witness. Mr. Ray, thank you for your Prior Service in your continued willingness to serve our country, particularly at this important a difficult time. I know this may not need repeating. Let us not forget why we are having this hearing. Your predecessor, james comey was not even at the Halfway Point of his ten year term of fbi director and President Trump abruptly fired him, without cause and without warning. President trump said when he fired director, that he was thinking about the fbis investigation of russian interference in our election, and investigation that director comey was overseen. Now, more than ever i believe it to be crucial the next fbi director be prepared to be steadfastly independent. As we had a chance to
[inaudible conversation] [inaudible conversation] [inaudible conversation] were calling back to order the confirmation hearing of the nominee of the fbi director of Christopher Rankin will begin with senator kearns. Thank you for the opportunities to question the witness. Mr. Ray, thank you for your Prior Service in your continued willingness to serve our country, particularly at this important a difficult time. I know this may not need repeating. Let us not forget why we are having this hearing. Your predecessor, james comey was not even at the Halfway Point of his ten year term of fbi director and President Trump abruptly fired him, without cause and without warning. President trump said when he fired director, that he was thinking about the fbis investigation of russian interference in our election, and investigation that director comey was overseen. Now, more than ever i believe it to be crucial the next fbi director be prepared to be steadfastly independent. As we had a chance to
Chicken shit club. After reading your book i can see that you also answered why does it appear that the Justice Department fails to prosecute executives so lets begin. Why . I cant wait to have this conversation. I think it is the flipside of mass incarceration in this country where we have two tiered justice systems, one group of people is proportionally for and punished to seriously and then weve got what im writing about which is a class of people rich and powerful who seem to have impunity in crime. Im talking about executives at the highest level of Corporate America not just bankers and not just in the aftermath of the financial crisis. This has been a problem that has been building before the financial crisis that existed today and affects not just executives of the big bank. In your book you talk about the fact it never really was the golden age when Corporate Executives violate that. You talk about the silver age and so trying to figure out how we got here i noticed you said t