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Starting my vegetarian diet today. >> with us to discuss gutfeld and mcguirk. >> i dont think she has gone far enough. what about last meals? you have seen how fattening last meals are? they have friday chicken. they have steak, prime rib. send a positive message. healthy addition to your death row lifestyle attack the last meals. in terms of just regular old convicts i dont want ex-cons to be in better shape than me. i dont want them to outrun me. they could be on the cover of mens fitness. >> ...

Witnesses, the key witnesses anyway. this was never done. >> in 1997, beth wells appealed ducketts case to the lake county circuit court in florida, hoping to get a new trial for duckett, wells called jack edmond to the stand to account for his poor performance, edmond told the court, i blew it. >> i trusted jack edmond. i trusted that 25 years of experience as a criminal attorney, that he would correct this. and i was wrong. >> beth wells also offered alternate suspects for the crime. starting ...

Barrett attends programs to prepare him for life. >> i first started smoking, then gang banging, then being in jail at 20 years old. >> finish high school? >> i just finished last year. whats crazy, i didnt see nothing in me. >> they open the gates up tomorrow, you walk out, hit the street. whats the main issue you need to overcome? >> just learn how to say no. >> statistics show ex-cons have trouble staying out of jail. the majority of them end up back behind bars. >> you get out of jail, you n...

Public areas such as restaurants, churches and airports. the bill also authorizes school districts to appoint staff to carry guns at school and also under the law, people with a weapons permit may carry a loaded gun into a bar as long as they dont drink alcohol. the legislation now goes to the governor. nathan deal, a republican, for his signature of the well watch that story for you. prisoners are now packing their bags and they could soon get cash and a cell phone for the road. its part of a...

Of these videos emerging. were seeing the videos of alleged misconduct coming out, other kinds of videos. we see the ones of troops singing, doing their own flash mobs. no indication that this one is particularly problematic. that may well be because no one got hurt or killed, thankfully. but its becoming an issue. all of these videos years later, emerging from the war zone. we didnt see this in the decades past. this is the new age of the internet, wolf. >> certainly is. all right, barbara, tha...

>> not necessarily, a lot of the people -- i live in a sanctuary city, this is a city where you have people who put people to work and they have been to the penitentiary three, four, five times. the major reason we do that, the city of chicago is the most corrupt city in america. this state has sent governors and senators and congressmen to jail. and this city, because of corporatism, whatever you want to call it, it is an extremely corrupt city. so you cant really use that about chicago. >> bec...

>> not necessarily, a lot of the people -- i live in a sanctuary city, this is a city where you have people who put people to work and they have been to the penitentiary three, four, five times. the major reason we do that, the city of chicago is the most corrupt city in america. this state has sent governors and senators and congressmen to jail. and this city, because of corporatism, whatever you want to call it, it is an extremely corrupt city. so you cant really use that about chicago. >> bec...

Really saying something. joining me now, msnbc contributor james peterson, director of afrocono studies and associate professor of english at lehigh university. james, im of two minds about this. the entire enterprise seems doomed and preposterous, given the biography weve shown, yet his speech this weekend was better than i was anticipating. >> yeah, hes improved. hes a little bit more on message. remember, the message that i think that republican strategists believe will resonate coming from r...

>> no, thats not true. >> do you have bills? what, are you supposed to run a nonprofit organization and not get money? >> all the people donating, absolutely know where is that money goes. >> its hard to find out where your charity money really goes. we can check charity rating services like charity navigator. better than nothing. but the ratings arent perfect. some charities arent rated and rating services, they sometimes get conned, too. so i give my charity money to groups that i can check ou...

Enmate exiting the prison are signing up for obama care allowing them to shift their medical expenses to the government. >> it means higher cost for taxpayers and higher healthcare cost for taxpayers specifically for the inmate population. it is particularly a wind fall for those states that draum mat clae expanded their medicaid program from the past. >> lou you think come children and the disabled obama care expands to four single men. that means more ex-cons qualify for federally paid care as...