guest: i think often times the conventional wisdom is wrong, and the conventional wisdom in money and politics you essentially have good intentioned government officials who who are being influenced or attempts to influence them by corporations or public unions and if we can only figure out a way to seal off essentially these public officials from this outside influences, everything would be great and so i call this the jimmy stewart mr. smith goes to washington scenario. and certainly that does happen. you have well-intentioned politicians being tempted by outside forces. but my experience over the last 20 years or so in washington politics researching and writing, more often than not the opposite is true. you have a lot of corporations, other lot of entities that essentially want to be left alone by the federal government, and you have politicians or people in the executive branch who are looking for ways in which to enhance their services or the needs to get corporations
guest: i think often times the conventional wisdom is wrong, and the conventional wisdom in money and politics you essentially have good intentioned government officials who who are being influenced or attempts to influence them by corporations or public unions and if we can only figure out a way to seal off essentially these public officials from this outside influences, everything would be great and so i call this the jimmy stewart mr. smith gooas i call this the jimmy stewart washington scenario and that does happen. you have well-intentioned politicians being tempted by outside forces but my experience in the washington politics in the writing is so often not the opposite is true but you have a lot of corporations into a lot of entities that essentially want to be left alone by the federal government and the executive branch looking for ways in which to have their needs to get the corporations involved. the high-tech industry as a classic example if you look back 15, 20
dangerous and posed a flight risk. he is charged with murdering kevin sundherland. accord fog the coroner s report he was stabbed more than 20 times and had additional 20 cut wounds. now the suspect was seen on video surveyillance tape fleeing the scene. you will hear from some of sutherland s friends about their loss. and police checking out a baby found in a stroller with no adults around. paramedics came to the scene and took the baby to the hospital. the child is expected to be okay. just moments later a woman was arrested about a block away. it was not the baby s mother. we re going to have updates for you as we get them. both aircraft crashed to the ground. pieces of the cesna landed on some campers in a campground. the family who owns it was not inside and no one else on the ground has been hurt. three workers were rushed to the hospital after a fire at the former shaw jr. high school building in dc today. we re now told two of them have critical injuries. this a
guest: i think often times the conventional wisdom is wrong, and the conventional wisdom in money and politics you essentially have good intentioned government officials who who are being influenced or attempts to influence them by corporations or public unions and if we can only figure out a way to seal off essentially these public officials from this outside influences, everything would be great and so i call this the jimmy stewart mr. smith the great. so i call this the june knee damage jimmy stewart mr. smith goes to washington scenario. you have well-intentioned politicians being tempted by outside forces. my experience over the last 20 years or so the opposite is true that you have a lot of corporations and entities that essentially wants to be left alone by the federal government and have politicians or people in the executive branch who are looking for ways in which to enhance their services or the needs to get corporations involved. the high-tech industry is a cl
alone. he said what are you doing with this money? i said we are going to vegas to help my sister put her house together. lisa fletcher, with the rules letting police take cash and cards, even if there s no evidence of crime. thanks for joining us, i m joie chen - innocence until proven guilty the base of our system of justice, except when things don t work out that way. consider it civil asset forfeiture allowing police to seize prop cars or cash that they think may be the ill-gotten gains of illegal activity. it s a power tool benefitting the communities but can be abused. used against those that have not been charged with crime. america tonight s lisa fletcher found unlikely voices calling for an end to it in new mexico. reporter: in september 2010 steven skinner and his son were driving from chicago to las vegas, nevada. there skinner was going to help a family member remodel her home and also they planned to do gambling. on the way the g.p.s. drove them toward