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By contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Incarceration rate is one area in which this country shouldnt be leading the world. But we are. It is at an estimated 2. 4 million adults contributing to the profit of privatization of prisons putting profits over rehabilitation. Joining us tonight to talk about it, bryan stevenson. The founder and executive director of the alabamabased equal Justice Initiative which has won major challenges to unfair sentencing as well as for those on death row. Hes a macarthur genius, harvard law. His new book will be out in october. Professor at nyu. Im delighted to be here. Thank you for your work. First of all. Let me judgment in and make of the most time we have with a direct and forthright we. What is wrong with forprove prisons . Everything in america these days seems to be moving in the direction of privatization. Whats wrong with forprofit prisons . I think it is corrupt in our criminal justice system. Our incentive ought
The problem. Is that message bill. Well talk with the leading voice on immigration, florida senator marco rubio. With the house bill going nowhere will president obama defer millions of more deportations by executive action . Our sunday group weighs in. Plus, House Republicans vote to sue the president. Well ask two members of the house jishs committee, steve king and Hakeem Jeffries whether the president has overstepped his authority. All right now on fox news sunday. Hello, again from fox news in washington. For the first time doctors are treating a case of the deadly ebola virus here in the u. S. An manner aide worker infected in liberia was flown to atlanta saturday and is now being treated at Emory University hospital there. Another american aide worker will be flown here in the next few days. Well talk with the head of the centers for Disease Control in a moment. First we go outside of the hospital in atlanta. Jonathan . Reporter this is the first active case of ebola in north am
Senator marco rubio. With the house bill going nowhere will president obama defer millions of more deportations by executive action . Our sunday group weighs in. Plus, House Republicans vote to sue the president. Well ask two members of the house jishs committee, steve king and Hakeem Jeffries whether the president has overstepped his authority. All right now on fox news sunday. Hello, again from fox news in washington. For the first time doctors are treating a case of the deadly ebola virus here in the u. S. An manner aide worker infected in liberia was flown to atlanta saturday and is now being treated at Emory University hospital there. Another american aide worker will be flown here in the next few days. Well talk with the head of the centers for Disease Control in a moment. First we go outside of the hospital in atlanta. Jonathan . Reporter this is the first active case of ebola in north america. The disease has no known cure and kills up to 90 of those affected. But fasht arrived
New york times by andrew nassau. Look at the life and career Richard Norton smith joined us on a q a program. The program is available on www. Cspan. Org. Another comment from our viewers saying that the media will force congress to new extremes. Caller my party is certainly ready to lead. Im glad i came on after the last caller. The irony of him talking about republicans in the war, when obama just sent 1800 more troops 5100 my main concern about all this is not necessarily the willingness of republicans to lead or not, it is the kneejerk reaction from democrats, playing the race card. Give me a moment to explain my point so my point is well taking. I was almost 40 years old in january. For over 20 years, i was a democrat. Voted democrat straight down the line. Would not consider any alternatives. Now, i voted for obama in 2008. I had some of my friends him. Ign for what he asserted to do to the country, it was antithetical to what i viewed the Democratic Party to be. I did not have m