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Are very vulnerable at this moment. >> yeah, you know, phillip, it becomes more complex because, you know, the sort of rationalization of the pandemic, it pings out from sort of what you might think of sort of the usual suspect groups and pings into communities of color so you wind up having these sort of, you know, cross racial challenges in terms of crime and punishment. in this case, it also enter seconds with a lot of other things. nbc news has done a piece on this person who is alleged to h...

One court hearing showed how, despite a worsening crisis at Rikers Island, prosecutors and judges keep trying to send people to the notorious jail.

winning author and new york times columnist gretchen morgenson discusses her latest book, titled "reckless endangerment." >> gretchen morgenson, in your book "reckless endangerment," next to the picture of james johnson you write of " a calculated political operative, johnson was the architect of the public-private home ownership dropped almost destroyed the economy in 2008." why so much on his shoulders? >> we have to go back in time. a crisis this large is not happen overnight. if yo...

public-private home ownership dropped almost destroyed the economy in 2008." why so much on his shoulders? >> we have to go back in time. a crisis this large is not happen overnight. if you really want to understand what happens, to create this mortgage bubble and the ensuing crisis, you have to go back to the early 1990s, when fannie mae and freddie mac were under pressure from congress because of prices. congress was concerned that maybe there were losses sitting in these mortgage pr...