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Does so skillfully. >> yeah. >> but to actually subject yourself to humiliation is something that they avoid at all costs. satire is a kind of social control. >> i watched that "frontline" documentary that said that the run trump is running is because he was keelhauled by president obama at the correspondents dinner. do you think he's moved by anger and satire of your business? >> i think so. but i would be surprised if that was the moment that triggered -- >> why is he running? he didn't think he'd win, did he? >> i think what probably pushed him was in 2001, the summer of 2011 when he was on...

Meant to hold all our government agencies accountable to the people? >> the problem is historically policing has been the lightning rod of civil rights activism since the end of slavery. so when police have been the blunt instrument of social control as directed against people trying to live equal lives in a country built on inequality, you have to allow room for democracy to take hold for people to have dissent against an institution that isn't working for them. that rub, that conundrum is as old as the very struggle for freedom in this country. when i listen to scott walker in that op-ed, i'...

You can understand why. a lot of the men have been in prison for a long time and had the idea they would be released and then very close to the release date, they are told they are not leaving and they will be going to a maximum security forensic hospital, and they are not exactly sure what situation they are getting into. >> a long time advocate for the mentally ill, carla jacobs, has heard the same complaints. >> the sexually violent predator law pretends that people who have committed crimes have an illness that can be cured, when psychiatry is used to control sexually violent predators, wh...

>> what is ultimately going to be the incentive for lawmakers to act to make this system for equitable? >> i think the process we're seeing are one major part of that. but when i think of what happened in new york with the ending of the stop-and-frisk policy, it was people protesting in the street. it was a long, well thought out litigation strategy. and it was voting in a new mayor to send the political message. it's pushing against the political system and refusing to not be heard that makes a long-term difference. i just wanted to speak quickly about what bradley said. we shouldn't forget o...

Nuclear deal with the united states and the wall street. the hard liners are in control of the police and the morals police and judiciary and they're just trying to tweak the president at every opportunity they can and hang on to their own kind of little bit of social control. >> so is this an example of the president of iran not having control of his government? >> no, it's not. what happens in iran is that it's a multi-pronged hydra. you have a lot of different areas of power, centers of power. what's happening is that the president was overwhelmingly elected. now, that surprised the hard li...