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Located 30 miles outside the modern bustling city of tel aviv, rimonim prison houses inmates from a variety of backgrounds and ethnicities. still there are plenty of reminders that it is located in the worlds only jewish nation, a place where religion is paramount. one such reminder, the mazouzas, attached to every doorway. >> translator: it is a piece of parchment. we believe it protects the door and the place you enter. people here have fought for them to be on their door posts, so we do our b...

On any given day, there are more than 5,000 inmates incarcerated in the five facilities that make up the orange county jail system. their charges, stories, and backgrounds are as diverse as the southern california communities most of them hail from. but for the vast majority of these men and women, there is a common element that led to their troubles with the law. >> if you talk to any of the inmates in jail, most of them will have done drugs. their current crime is not drugs. theyre stealing fo...

Wide range of backgrounds. from fishermen to tax collectors. >> there was recruitment by jesus, deliberate recruitment. and he wanted a diverse group. judas may well have been one of the very first he recruited. >> jesus was a pretty good judge of character. anyone who jesus had chosen as a disciple must have had something going for him. >> judas was the treasurer of jesus 12 disciples. he was the one jesus trusted with the money. >> jesus saw in judas the kind of man that he wanted to be his fo...

His closest disciples. >> the term "disciple" simply means learner or student. so when jesus is calling disciples, hes simply gathering a group of students around to learn from him. >> the disciples come from a wide range of backgrounds. from fishermen to tax collectors. >> there was recruitment by jesus, deliberate recruitment. and he wanted a diverse group. judas may well have been one of the very first he recruited. >> jesus was a pretty good judge of character. anyone who jesus had chosen as...

>> but brown says her baby changes everything. >> people might be like snitchings not cool, but i have a child. im most definitely not going to sit in here on something like that. were first cousins. we grew up together like brother and sister. yeah, we were close. we were close. its not about me anymore. its about my child. so when i do go to court or have to do it, im going let them know the true story and what happened. i know he be upset, but it is what it is. >> brown isnt the only one in j...

It feels like an alternate universe for a number of reasons. >> anthony: michal balanes is of jewish. jakob bahrun is muslim from a nearby village. theyre partners, co-owners of mashda and also married. theyre unsurprisingly friends of yotam. together, they grow and raise much of whats used in their kitchen. their food reflects both their different backgrounds and their commonalities. >> yotam: were going to spoil you now. >> anthony: yeah, here we go. >> anthony: so you grew up in this town? >>...

>> well, i think the departure of a senior whitous oce house ol is a distraction. its not the message. hes prided himself together on putting together a senior team more quickly than barack obama did in 2009 and 2008. this is definitely a setback and as ive said, it raises the question about whether he is acting maybe too much and making some of these appointments without necessarily looking into their peoples backgrounds sufficiently. so -- >> real quickly, they are now saying that sean spacer,...

It is a bit of an embarrassment and raises the question of how thoroughly they look into the backgrounds of the appointees and a real commitment from these folks to serve and so i think that this might just be a look of whats to come. >> speaking of surprise. this is a tweet from someone else part of trump world. a.j. delgado involved in the hispanic out reach. we have the tweet. here it is, congratulations to the baby daddy on being named white house comms director. thoughts? information on tha...

On any given day, there are more than 5,000 inmates incarcerated in the five facilities that make up the orange county jail system. their charges, stories, and backgrounds are as diverse as the southern california communities most of them hail from. but for the vast majority of these men and women, there is a common element that led to their troubles with the law. >> if you talk to any of the inmates in jail, most of them will have done drugs. their current crime is not drugs. theyre stealing fo...

Early 90s and early 80s when mtv was interesting and countercultural and had shows that put people from different backgrounds together and tried to see if they could find common ground. but there are is one lesson i learned on mtv, eric, and its a lesson i learned over and over again in my 40s. thats the myth of liberal tolerance. when i lived in that house, i was far more open-minded and interested in the lives of my liberal roommates than they ever were about mine. thats why we see this kind o...