A great day. Welcome to the United States of america we call this. This country is whole the largest prison population in the world you have more people in prisons. More than we have colleges and universities one 3rd of all incarcerated females globally. Are locked up here in the United States put that in perspective imagine all of los angeles and all of new york combined arrested every year. On. The eve of the end of. The trip. In the. Country between the little stuff. And. The truck. As an american citizen you dont have to be a murderer or a rapist or a thief to be arrested. If you call the police in an emergency and find yourself arrested just because the officer doesnt like you. My strongest memory my mom is she was very into teaching sharing. Loved each other how to put my own life on the line to try to just say my moms had i known anything like this was going to happen. And it was a day just like any other day. I went over to my parents house normally when i went over my mom woul
Prevent antigovernment protests and on nearing a civil rights leader john lewis lies in state in the u. S. Capital. And in sport cats are has officially expressed an interest in staging a future Olympic Games the 2022 world cup hosts hope to bring the olympics to the middle east for the 1st time. We begin the news hour in israel where Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned it is quote playing with fire hes accuse the Lebanese Armed group of launching an infiltration attempt in the border region of shane bauer farms has denies its fighters tried to penetrate the border or engaged in any confrontation the United Nations is urging both sides to show restraint harry full set has more. Smoke plumes over southern lebanon after what the Israeli Military referred to as a security incident it said a cell of hezbollah fighters trying to infiltrate israeli controlled territory Israeli Soldiers tracked them and repelled them with machine gun tank and artillery fire in tel aviv where theyd ru
coming to you from msnbc world headquarters in new york city. welcome to alex witt reports . we begin with new fallout and w also the reaction to this historic verdict in donald trump s hush money trial. donald trump s attorney, acknowledging there is a chance the former president of the united states may be sentenced to jail time following his conviction on 34 felony counts. blanche telling the ap the defense will argue strenuously for a non-incarcerated tory sentence. and a short time ago new reaction from republican house speaker mike johnson s comments on saying trump s verdict will be overturned. here s what clark brewster, the attorney representing stormy daniels told me here on msnbc. the idea that they were some part of some conspiracy is nonsense and these 12 people that spent all the time in that courtroom, weeks listen to the evidence and according to the oath return a verdict is a true and honest verdict based upon the facts and evidence and i ct witnessed a cou
Punishment, and whether private prisons healthy functioning of our criminal Justice System. Prisons have been making a comeback under president trump, poised to grow under his law and order approach and his immigration policy. The trumpy, administration reversed last years of Obama Administration directive to phase out privately run federal prisons. Biggestices for the two private Prison Companies have about double to, doubled, the geo group and cca. Have a really incredible panel joining us tonight. Shane bauer spent four months as a private prison guard and brought us a firsthand account of what happened in these prisons. He is the author of sliver of light. [applause] next, we have the former warden andan quentin state prison, the former undersecretary at the California Department of corrections and rehabilitation. [applause] santos is an investigative journalist for the Marshall Project, a nonprofit News Organization covering the u. S. Criminal Justice System. She wrote an extensiv
A fake name. Then i just kept using it. Brian what is your real name . Molly my real name . Brian jennifer . Molly people can google. My real name is jennifer ca ban. Brian where did you grow up . Molly i grew up in rockaway and long island. Brian what do you do now for a living . Molly im an artist and journalist. I travel around the world and draw and write about prisons and conflict zones. About three weeks ago, i was in gaza. I also have a book coming out called drawing blood. Brian why did you go to gaza . Molly i was in palestine for a literary festival. I hadnt planned to go to gaza and then i met a journalist who walked me through the bureaucratic process by which a journalist can go there. It is under blockade, so it is difficult to visit right now. I had the opportunity, and so i went. Brian where were you in gaza . Molly i was staying in gaza city. Brian what did you see . Molly the piece i did was about a suburb of gaza city that was i saw a level of decimation that id neve