the bottom line is i paid for those mistakes and i think what s important right now is the content of the book the reality of our criminal justice system and how it should be changed. you know, my colleague reverend sharpton talks about this, a lot talk about this we have too many african-americans in prison a particular group that s in there. when you were in there, did you sense there was this unfairness in the way people were being put away? honestly yes, chris. and i talk about that. one, i put a lot of people in prison. people for long periods of time. but they were really bad people that did bad things. then i went to prison i meet a young 19-year-old black man, a kid, that was sentenced to ten years for a first-time low-level nonviolent drug offense. people sentenced to 15 years, 20 years. commercial fishermen that caught too many fish. we re putting way too many people in prison across this country that didn t have to be
overused in this business i limit it to the people started with james rowe. no one ever thought harry truman could win in 1948. but rowe saw the coalition and told truman how to rebuild it. he said the party spent too much on fund raiding and not enough on party building. he kept that on his desk every i think single day and this changed everything. we will hear a clear and compelling message. we ll see a successful campaign carrying it out to the voter. that s hardball for now, thank you for being with us. all in with chris hayes starts right now.
back. you think we don t whatknow what the deal is do we have partners in this? you re assuming things about the deal that you don t know. you don t know when the sanctions come off or when they get relief. neither does kerry and neither does obama. here s the thing. even with north korea 20 years ago, you didn t have a situation where both sides came out and it was almost as if they were talking about completely different let s talk about this day forward. here we are at april 6th, right? there s probably going to be a vote in the senate the next couple weeks. you want it to go down right? you want 67 senators to challenge the president on this? i think it s a bad deal yes. you want 667 senators to challenge yes, doi. what happens then? we go back to the negotiating table. the president of the united states having been defeated by his congress goes back goes back to where? in his where s this meeting? where s this meeting? chris, in this the ne
i think people are worried about defense and security. it s not the way it was even last fall when isis and diseases abroad, so to speak, were on everyone s mind. the thing about foreign policy you never know chris, exactly when it s going to become a central issue in a campaign. i know. we ve had a long time now where it wasn t really at the forefront. several campaigns now where it wasn t the main issue. the question is is this campaign going to be one with iran and isis where it comes back to the forefront for a broad section of voters and not just a big interest group in one party? yeah. try keeping up with this like you guys do for a living and i try to do. you pick up the paper today and realize the fight over tikrit you know, the shia militia are doing a hell of a job smashing and taking back territory from is jb is. what side are we on? the shia militia. this is what hurts paul. when you talk to his inner circle, they didn t think it was going to be a foreign policy e
the white house, when senator paul announces tomorrow he ll be joined by former oklahoma congressman j.c. watts who joins me now from louisville. congressman watts, it s great to have you back. you re a regular on the show for so long. i guess you will be now again. as a big surrogate for mr. paul. senator paul. why has j.c. watts of homoklahoma, evangelical man of the south, bible guy, why are you with a libertarian guy like rand paul? well rand chris obviously has some libertarian leanings but i think he has the right perspective and i think he wants to do the right thing. and over the last 2 1/2 years that i ve been talking to him, that i ve had his ear, i think he s wanted to learn, and i think the things that he s done he s not just take on just your typical conservative issues on the social side and on the economic side but he s gone much further than that and he s gone into nontraditional constituencies. i think he s tried to be very