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It's black defendants who overwhelmingly are denied the equal representation they're 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 we've been talking about a lot, the fight for black men and dawn porter is here as well, producer and director of the documentary "gideon's army," big thanks to all of you for joining me on a saturday afternoon. le...

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...

Off sequester cuts. if they can't 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 congress. this idea of obstructing everything obama stands for, filibustering every piece of legis...

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 pilot's 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 traffic controller who would staff the control towers here would fall the way of sequester cuts. i...

Between this president and the house if the corporate tax cuts are big enough? >> i think they are. we haven't seen the actual plan from the president. this was sort of unveiled in a campaign-like speech, but if it's as you described, joe, that we're going to lower the corporate tax rates and bring some money home, that will produce revenue and go toward a variety of things. if it's a false tax cut, that is, it doesn't really reduce revenue but is done in a way to increase revenue, i think that's a nonstarter. i think tax reform needs to be largely revenue neutral, as it was in '86, but then c...