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Support a college student per person. per person. $9.6 billion a year for just incarceration. this is a dead weight loss. these are human beings we re losing to the prison system. what are they learning? what are the skills they re coming out with? they can t work, vote, participate in society once they ve come out. this is a problem that has to be fixed. it s a problem related to lack of productivity in our economy. the incalculable cost in wasted lives. read more of dafna s reporting on msnbc.com. you ll want to do that. anthea, i will see you later in the hour. when we come back, more signs that the president s inner progressive flexing some muscle. it came at the top of this year in his press conference on friday. i will show you that next. [ male announcer ] if you re taking multiple medications, ....
Did an investigation of the story, confirmed all the findings, and wrote a scathing report last year that said ron rodgers had failed in his duties to inform the president of the united states. that s a devastating thing to say to somebody who is a government employee. exactly. the white house ordered a new review of the case of clarence aaron. ron rodgers recused himself from the case and was not fired and remains there today. although president obama has commuted the sentences of people this week, rodgers has said no to 5,000 others during this president. extraordinary, anthea, because there is the elephant in this particular room is race. seven of the eight people commuted were african-american, one latino, crack cocaine sentences, which are extraordinarily long compared to powder cocaine, which is also a racial issue. talk about what this means about the president diving back into this thorny issue of race and disparity. i hit the it means two things. one, i think it mean ....
On the floor of the house it would pass. the only reason that and enda are not on the floor of the house is because john boehner can t afford to let that happen because of the crazy caucus. and, oh, because of the crazy caucus. speaking of john boehner and the crazy caucus, we ll go to that in my letter this week. but first let me say anthea, see you in the next hour. john, thank you for coming. thanks for having me. apologizing to the jend prer the party. you can come back any time. elahe izadi, thanks for being here, karen, thank you. you can see more of karen later today at 4:00 p.m. eastern on disrupt. i m going to stop by and do a little disrupting of my own. next is my letter of the week to my favorite new breakfast club. there are cameras,, police, guards.ds us. but who looks after us online, where we spend more than 200 billion dollars a year. ....
Here. i want to ask, what difference does it make to have kerry washington on the cover of vanity fair, on the cover of a major fashion magazine like that? it makes a huge difference, especially for young people. we really need to see ourselves represented across the board. and you know, we need to see images of people like kerry washington, beautiful black women, who are positive role models. so i think it s a huge step for all of us. so, i sort of worship kerry, more than a little bit. i have scandal parties on the show and all of this kind of thing. but i do wonder, one of the things that i have learned from black women in our life which has been empowering to the extent to which we have created alternate measures of ourselves, of our own beauty, of our own worth, that don t require sort of mainstream media to tell us, you re fantastic. is there a way in which we celebrate, for example, kerry on the cover of vanity fair, but maybe not the people who appear on the cover of ....
Movements, the appearance, he s reaching forward, there s just something about trayvon martin s being was so suspicious, that you would fear him too. and the idea that we never think of the notion of fear in a young black man. i ve never heard anyone say, well, maybe he was scared of him. but people presume that black, young men are only scary, they re never scared. that is bizarre to me. for me, anthea, the whole thing turns on, because there s no question that george zimmerman pulled the trigger. that s the fact on dispute. and there s no question that trayvon martin was not armed. those things are not in dispute. so the question of threat and whether or not it was self-defense has everything to do with how we characterize trayvon martin. absolutely. and you heard it in the trial yesterday, when his mother was being questioned. you would have to hope that he didn t do anything wrong, as though, you know, that is the reason why he would get killed in the first place. so it s this ....