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This, or he can just turn inside here and walk this way. >> yes. this is how you do it. you do your back that way. you know what im saying? >> aint nobody gay up in here. >> few things in prison are as key to survival as having a good cell mate. >> when you live with a person 24 hours a day, you build up a brotherhood, a sense of -- you build up a rapport that you dont have with your family. and youre both dependent on each other for survival. >> but some cell mates cant get along. "lockup" crew...

>> cutting welfare wont hurt the poor? this coming from a guy who makes $13 million a year doing nothing? cutting $127 billion from food stamps wont hurt the poor. this is just the latest republican with the war on the poor as his motto and philosophy. joining me now is someone who knows how to fight for the middle class, randy wein gart r gartner. thank you for joining me tonight. how do you plan to fight these kinds of agendas? >> well, first, its a little -- the hypocrisy is a little shocking...

Ive got this under wraps. i own this drug. its not doing me. im doing it. i was way off. >> butchers latest probation violation occurred when she failed a drug test. she could be facing up to 15 years in prison, but that will be up to a judge to decide during an upcoming hearing. >> im trying to find a program that will take me, see if i can write a whole bunch and get a response by friday. >> butcher hopes to convince the judge to let her try a drug rehabilitation program instead of prison. >> ...

Point they recognize that doing nothing is not an option, that is my hope. that should be their hope, too. if they dont they will have a different set of leaders in congress. thank you very much everybody. >> thank you. >> president obama wrapping up his short statement before and about 6 questions or so from the press corps there in honolulu, hawaii where the apec summit is going on. i understand he is going to a dinner scheduled. among the things he talked about was apec but only for a couple ...

trying to present a front agreement on moving forward and a common response there. but at the same time, not a lot of specifics showing that there is still some daylight between the two. a jovial atmosphere. its certainly how do you sort of not have a smile on your face when this is the scenery around you but also touching on serious subjects here as well. >> brianna keilar, thank you very much. please stand by. also dan lothian stand by. we have to get to business for our viewers here...

Nope, you aint doing nothing. >> but at the brushy mountain correctional complex in tennessee we met two cell mates who were not only successfully living together, but doing so in a maximum security unit, locked up 23 hours per day. >> its not any kind of fun, stuck in a cell. you go out. me and him go out and work out every day, come back in the cell and watch tv and listen to the radio. thats our life every day. >> sky bishop was sent to the hole when he refused to share his cell with an inmat...

Is supported by democrats, by republicans, by independents? you know, in the past, everybody was for putting people to work to create roads -- to fix roads and bridges. that wasnt a democrat or a republican bill. democrats and republicans both support preventing teacher layoffs, preventing large and overcrowded class sizes. republicans have long supported cutting the payroll tax cut, and 50 very conservative republicans have supported previously the presidents proposal to cut payroll taxes in ha...

have a significant effect for our economy and for middle class families all across america. what these independent experts have also said is that if we dont act, the opposite will be true. there will be fewer jobs, weaker growth. so as we look towards next week, any senator out there who is thinking about voting against this jobs bill when it comes up for a vote needs to sdmran exactly why they would oppose something that we know would improve our economic situation at surnl such an ur...

positioned himself very much as the grown-up in the room, the reasonable one, something that the presidents advisors thought would help him appeal to the independent voters that he needs if hes going to win relection next year. were seeing a very different tact now. a very aggressive tact, especially after the president saw dismal approval ratings following that bruising debt ceiling battle. weve seen the president taking his message to the home turf, as you mentioned, of his rivals an...

spread to half of the country. its been linked to ground turkey. what you need to know about this recallo keep your family safe. im ashe velshi. burning up another day of searing heat. its already proving deadly on this "american morning." good morning to you. are you awake yet? >> you will be. >> happy thursday. its august 4th. this is "american morning." theres a lot going on today. >> we should get right to it. >> i want to talk first about the heat. heat is on congress to finis...