your child was there with me. so rosalind, doha, remind her of our top new stories. a nationwide curfew was ended in sri lanka, falling unprecedented demonstrations of the capitol. it s leader got the by roger boxer has fled the country and ordered prime minister running a week from a singer to replace him. but protest has defied a state of emergency and stoned, wicked. i m a single office. they re demanding. both leaders stepped down immediately. the face of a worsting economic crisis stepped fastened reports. ah, people are well well when these protesters are chanting, they celebrated a small moment of victory when they heard president got there by a jap bucks i had flat. but soon after his early morning escape, the mood turned to anger. thousands of people march to the office of the man they fear could be roger box. asked successor daniel, we come a singer, he s dandy in the poet can mobilize them. you know, he goes past, although it will just as hanging saw hand upon a an
Next, the discussion about the criteria u. S. Voters are using to pick a president ial candidate. From washington journal, this is just under one hour. Rick shenkman is the History News Network founder and author of political animals how our stoneage brain gets in the way of smart politics. Henkman, do shark attacks affect elections . Guest 100 years ago in 1916, the worst fear of shark attacks struck southern new jersey. That everyones had seen was based on the story of what happened then. Weeks, four people were killed in shark attacks. What does that have to do with politics . Woodrow wilson was up for reelection. But in thejersey, small beach towns devastated by the shark attacks, people heard shark and everyone went home. He was a devastating Economic Development for that area. , the peoplee vote in those towns voted against Woodrow Wilson in overwhelming numbers. In the same proportion that those people voted against Herbert Hoover at the height of the great depression. Why . Woo
You can see the lines they are on the screen. You can make a comment through social media. This is the inside page of usa today. York times onw the front page. Politico this morning, clinton and sanders for all in the brooklyn. They engaged in their most vicious debate yet. They delivered a two hour shouting match. Street,wled over wall tons, racism, the minimum wage, and fitness for the white house. Here is a little bit more of the debate. Secretary clinton have the experience to be president . Of course she does. Question her judgment. That voteda judgment for the war in iraq. The worst foreignpolicy blunder in the history of this country. Voted for every disastrous trade agreement that cost us millions of decent paying jobs. I question her judgment about running super pacs that are collecting tens of millions of dollars from special interests, including 15 million from wall street. Thats thebelieve kind of judgment we need to be the kind of president we need. That now the spotlight
Author of political animals how our stoneage brain gets in the way of smart politics. Henkman, do shark attacks affect elections . Guest 100 years ago in 1916, the worst fear of shark attacks struck southern new jersey. That everyones had seen was based on the story of what happened then. Weeks, four people were killed in shark attacks. What does that have to do with politics . Woodrow wilson was up for reelection. But in thejersey, small beach towns devastated by the shark attacks, people heard shark and everyone went home. He was a devastating Economic Development for that area. , the peoplee vote in those towns voted against Woodrow Wilson in overwhelming numbers. In the same proportion that those people voted against Herbert Hoover at the height of the great depression. Why . Woodrow wilson could not have done anything to help those people solve their shark problem. That was beyond the powers of the president. People are irrational when they vote. Particularly, political scientists
Kinds of things go, because fear makes you act rashly and what happened was that the fear was played upon, and prison was presented, and mass incarceration was presented as the opt way to deal with crime, and we know that there is no correlation between the drop in crime rates and the rise in mass incarceration. Study after study has shown this. We know there are other routes. It did not have to be this route towards mass incarceration. Host were in california, the home of the strikes and your out. That has been effective in any way . Guest hardly. Californias tree strikes and your another, we have the rock fell are drug laws in new york, a whole host of other tough sentencing laws that have landed, again, millions of people in jails and prisons and under correctional supervision, draining our resources and draining us of the value of these human beings, who could be contributing to society in all kinds of ways. You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. A History New