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Criminal justice reform. and maybe the time has never been right for a couple of reasons. the number of prisoners has grown exponentially over the last several decades. one out of every 99 americans is now behind bars either in a prison or a jail at a cost of apt $80 billion a year. and reform experts believe if we can make changes, if there could be nonviolent criminals can go to perhaps another type of punishment, maybe a drug rehab program or house arrest that we could save as much as $40 billion. so it's created these interesting bedfellows not just liberals and progressives. but conservat...

When it comes to egypt. how big of a deal is it? >> well, this is a significant factor in any administration's calculations about whether to support the reformers and how fast to go ahead with the reform process. egypt used to have a nuclear weapons program, they gave it up in 1981 when they signed the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, but they quietly were doing some experiments on the edges of this kind of weapons program until as recently as 2005 when it was discovered by the international atomic energy agency headed, ironically, by mohamed elbaradei, an description who figures prominently ...