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Daughter, the former south african president's health is improving. she says he's more alert and can now sit up for minutes at a time. the 95-year-old has been in the hospital for two months now. let's turn to a deepening crisis in the courts, where the sequester is now decimating the federal public defender's program, making it even harder for a poor defendant to get a fair trial. msnbc's ari melber explains. >> reporter: it's been called shared sacrifice. >> the sequester was meant to be something so bad that no one would allow it to happen and i think part of what we're learning is that w...

Msnbc.com/extrapresumedguilty. it's a new tv and web series that we're doing reporting on inequities in the american justice system. our latest installment zeros in on the sequester cuts we've all been talking so much about. it turns out they are punishing literally some more than others. >> it's 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 we're learning is that we're in a new normal. >> that new normal for our nation's courts, a crisis of justice. in march, sequestration swept $350 million out from unde...

Tea welcome back to the second half of "outfront" where we start with stories we focus on reporting from the front lines. i want to begin in boston where the marathon bombing suspect dzhokhar tsarnaev wants to add another attorney to his legal team. not just any lawyer. he wants to add a man named david brock. this is according to the boston herald. he is a death penalty specialist who helped keep an al qaeda plane hijacker and susan smith, the mother who stramd her two children into her car and let it roll into a lake, off death row. taxpayers would food the bill as well as defending tsarna...