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Reach out to an old friend. >> sunny! >> lisa! >> sunny schwartz spent her career reforming prison programs. >> do you believe that the court system is unfair to women? >> absolutely. up until recently battered women's abuse was not allowed into evidence. think about if a man was sleeping and there was a home invader with a lethal weapon, that homeowner would defend themself. he would not only be not convicted he would be hailed as a hero. one woman i talked to, she called the police 41 times in a year and a half, and she hit her husband over the head with a wine bottle and he died of his inju...

>> lisa! >> sunny schwartz spent her career reforming prison programs. >> do you believe that the court system is unfair to women? >> absolutely. up until recently battered women's abuse was not allowed into evidence. think about if a man was sleeping and there was a home invader with a lethal weapon, that homeowner would defend themself. he would not only be not convicted he would be hailed as a hero. one woman i talked to, she called the police 41 times in a year and a half, and she hit her husband over the head with a wine bottle and he died of his injuries. she got 25 to life. there are hu...

Then travel to walter reed medical center, where he will help other veterans. joining us now is president and ceo of guide dog foundation and america's vet dogs, john miller who worked alongside the training team during the placement of sully. john, thanks for spending time with us. how did sully come to work with the former president? >> well, thank you, ana. and sully is just one of america's most popular dogs at the moment. and we heard from, you know, the president's team through our connections and our programs at walter reed and determined that sully would be a good fit for the bushes an...

The u.s. they typically spent more than a decade in prison before they are executed. during this time they're generally isolated from other prisoners excluded from prison programs and restricted in terms of visitation and exercise spending as many as twenty three hours a day alone in this cells. the united states is the only western country to still uphold the death penalty last year twenty three people were executed. but execution numbers in the u.s. are declining and they pale in comparison to some other countries in the world among the fifty six countries who still have the death penalty an...

Isolated from other prisoners excluded from prison programs and restricted in terms of visitation and exercise spending as many as twenty three hours a day alone in this cells. the united states is the only western country to still uphold the death penalty last year twenty three people were executed. but execution numbers in the u.s. are declining and they pale in comparison to some other countries in the world among the fifty six countries who still have the death penalty and use it iran saudi arabia iraq and pakistan top the table. but the country with by far the most executions is china chi...