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Think its deeper than that. the 13th amendment abolished slavery except for the prison system. if you are incarcerated you are a slave in this country. how do we breakthrough that? i was reading it and felt so frommessed. and one other thing. i was under the impression that the war on drugs started under the reagan era to weed out crack in the black communities and what michelle was saying in her book is that the war on drugs happen and the crack explosion happened after it. how is that possible...

The 13th amendment abolished slavery except for prisons. if youre incarcerated youre legally a slave in this country. i was reading it and felt so depressed. how do we break through that? i was under the impression the war on drugs started, you know, under reagan era to weed out crack in the black communities and what michelle was saying in her book the war on drugs happened and then the crack, you know, explosion happened after it. how is that possible? >> yes. well, many people assumed. in fac...

primary. im fredricka whitfield. "fareed zakaria gps" starts right now. >> this is "gps, the global public square." welcome to all of you in the united states and around the world. im fareed zakaria. first up, private equity. the words are on everyones lips thanks to mitt romney. well sit down with one of the inventors private equity, the co-pounder of the legendary carlyle group, david rubenstein. then i have a lot to talk about with an all-star panel. ariana huffington, steve rattner...

carlyle group, david rubenstein. then i have a lot to talk about with an all-star panel. arianna huffington, mort zuckerman on the gop race, the economy, the euro, iran, all kinds of things. next up, what do the shipyard in tahrir square have in common? a lot. ill explain. first, heres my take. i spent the last few weeks working on an essay for "time magazine" on barack obamas foreign policy, and in association with that piece, i interviewed the president last wednesday in the oval off...

When they pulled it out of the vault at the lincoln museum a short time back was pretty well beaten up. it was pulled out of a vault, then it was written by the way in velum, a paper made of animal skin, the ink was kind of weak and flaking off, the paper was brittle, wrinkled, kind of puckered, so a chicago man who owns the paper conservation company volunteered for free to restore this thing after months and months of putting it in humidifiers to rehigh rate -- hydrate it and flattening the do...

Of that he will give the sentence, he will ask rod blagojevich to stand and he will receive that sentence. we will take you straight back to chicago, mike tobin is standing by and will get that for us as soon as it happens. >> in the meantime, this is the story that fascinates me today, extremely rare chance to see one of the documents that changed the course of our nation. a copy of the 13th amendment that was signed by president lincoln has just been painstakingly restored. it, of course, is t...

Rollers to capture and keep in line the slaves. if you look at the 13th amendment, which abolishes slavery in the country, it abolishes it with one exception, the prison system that that >> well, the drug warfare, for example, is extraordinary racist in terms of how its applied and what the impact is. thats essentially -- the problem is the last part of the book contrast with how we treat elites with ordinary americans, and its extremely racist, and it punishes the poor and so you have the most ...

also american permanent presence in the country in the year ahead. another attack in the south of the country in kandahar where two were killed by a man wearing an afghan army uniform we understand from an army commander down there. in fact, he may have been trained by the two nato personnel he killed. we hear they possibly were australian but theyre not confirming that. >> nick paton walsh, thank you so much from kabul. here in the u.s. from the mid-atlantic it to new england, a rar...

they also agreed to boost the eu bailout fund to a trillion euros, details still pretty vague. theyre requiring european banks to keep more cash reserves as a cushion against losses. so why should americans care? well i mentioned stocks but that is just the start. my colleague alison kosik has a whole lot more from the new york stock exchange. first, catch us up on the markets, both here and abroad. >> okay. randi, first stocks are at some of their best levels of the session, the dow...

you may not be surprised to hear whos behind it, peta, people for the ethical treatment of animals. it blows the whistle on unethical treatment of animals anytime it can. they are denied freedom, peta, claims and everything else that is natural and important to them while kept in small, concrete tanks and reduced to performing stupid tricks. the 13th amendment prohibits slavery and these orcas are, by definition, slaves. seaworld, of course, couldnt disagree more. i want to reed you it...