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Its black defendants who overwhelmingly are denied the equal representation theyre required to receive under law. black defendants comprise just 19% of clients who can afford to hire their own if sequester is the new normal this new imbalance could ultimately prove unconstitutional. >> joshua du bois, former head of the white house office, author of a recent "newsweek" cover story weve been talking about a lot, the fight for black men and dawn porter is here as well, producer and director of the...

Msnbc.com/extrapresumedguilty. its a new tv and web series that were doing reporting on inequities in the american justice system. our latest installment zeros in on the sequester cuts weve all been talking so much about. it turns out they are punishing literally some more than others. >> its been called shared sacrifice. >> sequester was meant to be something so bad that no one would allow it to happen. i think part of what were learning is that were in a new normal. >> that new normal for our ...

Off sequester cuts. if they cant get the rest of their party to agree, they can forget about the senate. >> even when there is a situation playing out right now in kentucky, like a referendum on what is happening within congress. polls showing there minimum tch mcconnell is a dead heat with his opponent. he has a tea party challenger in this matt bevin. could this race be a good predictor what is come to happen in 2014? >> it is fascinating. you finally have a referendum on republican control of...

With the live in oshkosh, wisconsin. mike, there is the sequester latest impact on air traffic controllers, right? >> reporter: rick, pilots and aviation enthusiasts spend their years, some years waiting to make the pilgrimage to oshkosh, a private pilots mecca. with all the planes that come and go, airshows, tourist flights, private planes that come here, this becomes for the duration of the show, the busiest airport in the word. eaa, permanental aircraft association was told 7 days out the air...

Between this president and the house if the corporate tax cuts are big enough? >> i think they are. we havent seen the actual plan from the president. this was sort of unveiled in a campaign-like speech, but if its as you described, joe, that were going to lower the corporate tax rates and bring some money home, that will produce revenue and go toward a variety of things. if its a false tax cut, that is, it doesnt really reduce revenue but is done in a way to increase revenue, i think thats a no...

For the muslim brotherhood in the middle east and is not concerned about have your -- >> i think with mccain he likes this impulsiveness, he likes his ego being stroked. but the sequester cuts, half of them come out of the defense budget. idea when the sequester was conceived was that it was supposed to be so terrible for both the right and the left that it could never be allowed to become law. then the compromise was struck, was no, nobody can come up with anything they like better so well let ...

Veterans of america joins us from minneapolis. pete, we already knew sequester funding would be hitting the military hardest. whats the latest with the pharmacies? >> youre going to see reduced hours, reduced access and maybe less days of the week theyre going to have access to. also youve got these furloughs. a lot of d.o.d. civilian employees arent working on fridays now going forward. this is the type of thing youre going to see when you eindiscriminate across-the-board sequester cuts. it rol...

Following the sequester cuts. >> there are civilians back here day in, day out sent the servicemembers off to combat, taken care of families while theyre deployed and reintegrating into installations. to ask them to sacrifice again is personally very painful for me to do that. >> and tough for these employees. that amounts to 20% pay cut for 11 weeks, bill. bill: i heard that harley. the defense department is not acting broke, dan. still buying land around that base, is it not? >> well, thats th...

Job. >> did you take special precautions? >> absolutely. >> you knew the verdict would be coming down. you moved people in place to keep a lid on things. >> absolutely. we have great sheriffs and -- >> any suggestion the lid would blow? i hate to put it like that. >> were a state -- its challenging but we have had challenges in our state, and we -- law enforcement did a good job, the pastors did a good job, the communities did a good job. >> okay. let me turn to the issue of the national guard. ...

Jobs. i mean, this is crazy. you know as well as i do that proper fiscal consolidation done in the appropriate way can have a very positive impact on the income -- on the economy. >> the other side of the coin is that the sequester cuts were meant to shrink the deficit and they have played a role in shrinking the deficit. not going to be a trillion dollar this year. it will be $600 billion and change. the sequester cuts were part of the narrowing down of the deficit. so you could say that seques...