well can they learn a show or get the real headlines with none of the mercy from a lot of washington d.c. now tonight we'll speak with radley balko about the case of corey may right on death row who just got his life back and rallies reporting had something to do with it also speak with rapper marcel carty a who is releasing a new album about the war in libya and a look at the political circus that is washington d.c. we're going to have all of that and happy hour for you tonight but first let's take

a look at what the mainstream media has missed. you know yesterday i thought first second that there was some hope for this world because i thought of the casey anthony trial was finally going to add but boy did i think wrong there's been a major interruption in the casey anthony murder trial judge belvin perry calling an indefinite recess so the defense can question the prosecution's witnesses casey anthony's murder trial is in recess indefinitely that unexpected move came from the judge just two hours ago our david mattingly he's outside the courthouse in orlando david this is somewhat surprising well consider this ok the day a new issue in calls fifty nine witnesses for nineteen days and the defense called forty nine witnesses the jury never heard over eleven days there were two days where there were no witnesses who. because the thirty two days and now we're in

d.c. thirty three. how well i'm expected that was you know i almost feel like the mainstream media call that the judge called up the lawyers and just beg them to keep this circus going just they have something to talk about but then again as i predicted yesterday even if that trial were to go away they're sure to move on to the next mind numbing story that holds absolutely no relevance to what's really going on in the world and what you know they found that story prince william and kate middleton have made a trip away over to canada the big crowds gathering here the sun shines come out visible is the key thing going on in whatever company or when you're outside it's sunny because i saw straining something very old during that very successful trip so you saw the will adventure throughout our neighbor to the north continues today as you can fix a key words are drawing some big crowds as they take in the sights and sounds of canada during a week long trip through noyo so delighted to be very proud of the. kurds

and grow produce we love this country we've been looking forward to this moment for a very laudatory. concept tell me why the hell anyone in america cares if the royals are in canada why the hell that's what's being reported on the so-called news channels here in the us and let's face it there are a few bigger things going on so let me just give you one example about a month ago we saw a battle over debit card swipe fees finally come to an end breaking news from d.c. on that flight the cabs even jabbers what is it by guys all the bags that come up just about six votes short here the tester amendment has failed the final vote was fifty four forty five in favorable supporters of the test that's right we finally saw it is since where it looked like wall street lost a battle of course they only lost because they were up against another huge industry and retail industry but still some looked at the situation with a glimmer of hope the federal reserve could finally decide. it wasn't fair that

america had the highest white bees in the world for such as why not something that earned the banks a whopping twenty billion dollars a year so the federal reserve decided to lower that amount to twelve cents and of course the banks cried foul what would they do with all the extra cash that they used only for bonuses so large that one of the biggest to lobbying battles on capitol hill some lawmakers even joked and called it a full employment as every single lobbyist was working for one side or the other but of course to you and i this was sold to something that affected us the consumers and viewers for months had to put up with watching these ads that ran on every single corporate media channel. small business is competing with jobs every time you swipe your card credit card companies and big banks make big bucks for years big banks and credit card companies pushing people to use their cards is that right but then they use their more power to charge you a loan shark rates for the kurds i've been running a small business for less than here for seventeen years over fifteen years it's

a tough economy it's wired for you but it's no more than i ever heard. well guess what i've got some bad news for everybody the whole battle that was documented by the media that everyone thought was over took a giant step back this week less than twenty four hours before these new rules were to take effect which is today the fed announced that they would change that cap on the fees from twelve cents up to twenty four cents which means that at the end of the day the banks are still going to complain about the lost revenue from the original forty four cents so they'll still start charging more for checking accounts and every other place they can find to rip you off the retail industry will probably still raise their prices so this way they both win and the only people that lose are human art and after all of that hoopla after all of the talk of somebody finally taking on wall street the fed just goes and changes it and nobody nobody out there reported it you think of the corporate media that shove ads down your throat for months but it feels some tinge of responsibility to update you on how you the consumer have been screwed again but they didn't and that's what the

mainstream media has missed. well looks like the case of corey may it's coming to a close he spent ten years behind bars he has been sentenced to death by a jury and now they are going to be heading home on a silver twenty six of two thousand and one and then twenty on twenty one year old may well get home with his daughter drifting off to sleep when he heard the sounds of a group breaking into his home and i guess we could describe his fear paternal instincts confusion they fired his gun at that point he realized that he had shot. police officer after which he threw his gun down and surrendered but he didn't kill just any officer it was the police chief's son and it wasn't just any part of america it wasn't just mississippi or criminal justice and racism are known to go hand in hand he was convicted of murder for the intentional killing of a police officer and sentenced to death in january of two thousand and four but

years later he bloggers a few journalists to look into the case and found that the word justice didn't seem to fit two years later after the regret relentless work of may's family of attorneys of journalists he's going to before he joins me to discuss this is radley balko senior writer and investigative reporter for the huffington post and someone who played a role and winning this man's freedom bradley thanks so much for joining us tonight i know you're down there in mississippi so i guess i should start off congratulating you because you did put you know quite a bit of your time over the last couple years into this case. so i mean i think regulations probably goes to. yeah i mean these are the kind of stories you know why you why you're going to journalists. it's been very satisfying also the thing is this is going to be right you talk about police raids they go wrong rates go wrong all the time you talk about the lack of justice in the criminal justice system what is it about this case specifically that during the two iterations when

you found it. i was on the use of swat teams for the cato institute and. it sort of leapt off the screen at me and it was this had been reported by the a.p. even reported by the new york times but nobody sort of thought to ask why a guy with no criminal record who you know basically affirmed roach in his apartment why he would have decided to take on knowingly take on a reading of probs kill just one instrumental in the gun me approaching this from me and from the angle somebody is critical of the sort of police tactics it just didn't that it made no sense at all in the far more plausible explanation is that this guy thought he was being you know being hit by people there to do harm to this child all right so what can you tell us more about that if you can filling us in the holes and the brief outline at the beginning there that night when the

police take greatest he wasn't even the one they were looking for. even looking at his girlfriend and their daughter in a duplex and by all indications and simply put we were actually after the guy who was on the other side of this guy named jim smith who already had broached charges pending against him and who may actually be buying drugs in that part of the people or so or even his girlfriend then girlfriend. jane. separate apartments. and you know there was there's. jimmy smith so this dating has never been brought to trial so. you know there was that aspect of it we found out later you know several years later actually that the whole reason the raid was done was because of a permanent foreman and i mean when you can't really. say it in the user himself and left incredible heat races for fame message on one of

the answering machines you know this is a guy who's described as trustworthy and and reliable. search warrant for the probably used. as an informant for similar. who was a. unabashed races and so i mean there was. there are so many really kind of horrible things about this case. that. certainly. all the bad things can happen and they probably happen to them. one of the things that. when it came to the trial the medical examiner there. played a big role when it came to actually convincing the jury to convict. him and his reputation and how you see that. i mean actually. quite a bit more about dr heymann. he gave some. questionable and basically

really made look like a liar. whether you believe what he said he didn't. believe in dr ames question but that short of calling around and asking the jury the mississippi other medical exam or the process that they knew anything about this will turns out everybody knew. everybody knew that he added legal work. by himself. and that question will testimony and a number of. the bodies that there were when the government fired the bullet. which is you know. that. you know and. so. it was i mean finding the faces. of. some of them in.

this particular issue. really i mean it's worth a lot of the problems. or make the system. actually that is you get well you know in two thousand and six you've very long extended incredibly detailed piece about this and about being there in mississippi and you spoke about the race relations in that community how you know perhaps the white part of the community only trusted the police department black part of the community only trust that the sheriff's department i think even had a line from a defense attorney there that said we don't lynch black people outside of mississippi courthouses anymore but we still lynch them on the inside so do you think that race played a role in this case. well i mean you know i've seen some of where you got caught up in the same sort of situation where i would as well but you know there's no question that race was a factor in this particular case and it raises a really kind of a suffocating part of everyday life in this part of the city. is going to

unavoidable everywhere and you talk to people and again like you said i mean not only to black people. but city police and the white people don't care if the sheriff's department the sheriff's department and the city police don't trust each other the cops themselves. so there's. yeah there's a lot of racial animosity. down there and there's also. you can you know put on a sort of a sense of where as a variation. among the black people that we're serious there's this feeling that if you're black and you want to look where the country is that it expects you know that your mail your probably won't. but you're probably going to know a little something you could do just by living or living in this part of the country so there's there's a lot of fatalism there so it's unfortunate. yeah not something that we see

a lot too but you know one of other things that we've covered a lot on this show the case of oscar grant where of course was a police officer that body was pulling out his taser and and of shooting a young man in the metro station and he served maybe eighteen months and here you have someone like may who was convicted of the death sentence right that the jury gave him the death sentence how often do we see that where police are never held accountable for those crimes where someone an innocent civilian might be killed in one of these raids and yet the opposite happens when it's the civilian that did this shooting. i mean that that. the police are given a lot of leeway because of the. little margin for error for the inherent danger. that. created the situation a billion people on the receiving end of the people who are trained don't know what's happening in the middle night they're not given that. really. huge double

standard. and. open and shut to a lot of people and you still get. the actual. shooting probably didn't know they were. shooting. you know you're going to be lucky to live. my. life in prison so i mean even the program. i think that they generally think it's another good thing and so you know i mean. this is a happy day family planning. but the life and. other lives of a father and. you know in terms of the larger picture the generally

selfish family is. the twin brother probably because this is a bad. and very predictable consequence that the policy changes are going to be just they're going to be more like. an isolated incident or block table i think that this story really has touched a lot of people out there and has gotten a surprising amount of tension even when it comes to the mainstream or the internet and bloggers on. the political spectrum thanks so much. take place i mean. i thought a concert i the battle over reporting how much c.e.o.'s are paid bertha's what employees make by c.e.o.'s want to keep their pay hush up and we're headed into the fourth of july weekend for a little holiday helping for dangerous tensions between democrats and republicans in washington class we'll tell you who's a great name of cap that's one of the actual rates for top that all down for the because david cantonese joins me in just a month. into the only are we with the

mechanisms to do the work up to bring justice or accountability. i have every right to know what my government should do if you want to know why i pay taxes. but i would characterize obama as a charismatic version of american exceptionalism. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so sleep you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else here see some other part of it and realize that everything is ok. i'm charged with the big picture.

let's not forget that we had an apartheid regime. i think. beautiful and one well. we have the government says never confuse safely get ready because their freedom.

well it's no secret of the working structure for americans that's quite a few everybody goes ahead on shows going to make more than the average employee but after word got out the new regulations would force corporations to report the median compensation for workers and for the chief executive all of those making companies now are lobbying to make sure that that doesn't happen in fact a group that's backed by eighty one major companies like mcdonald's general dynamics and i.b.m. are all teaming up to try to stop these new rules. i wonder why they'd be so posed to regulations that would force companies to report the pay of both boss and employee maybe it's because we in say a disparity between the two are poor from the economic policy institute shows that the average c.e.o. makes the read hundred times more than the average worker and although our

country's faced major recession c.e.o.'s pay has managed to jump up twenty seven percent so it looks like some people out there aren't facing tough times frustrating isn't it and what's more frustrating is the fact that this has become a partisan issue here in washington some republicans in congress say that posting the comparing salaries is quote useless of course they're going to say that right when they're always on the side of the corporations meanwhile also the democrats are arguing that not showing the gap between the positions only masks the growing pay disparity problem in the u.s. . but it's. live from the obvious david sirota points out in his piece on salon dot com a few more reasons why c.e.o.'s are fighting this regulation for starters there's fear of these ratios fueling shareholder activism and sort of points out the data showing that in equal numbers we're also spur new debate and ongoing discussion of corporate tax reform as in you know actually forcing corporations to pay their taxes especially c.e.o.'s the ones that get to stuff it all into their pockets but until any real change does come around it looks like the old tradition still stands

the big guys make all the money all the employees and the rest the leg work and this is why we've had to say adios to the middle class. well too often in politics these days first you get the money and then you get the power so preparation for the two thousand and twelve presidential race it seems like g.o.p. candidates are already beginning to shake and the thought of obama's possible one billion dollar campaign numbers are released today for how much candidates of race so far and let's just say that it seems like mitt romney despite leading the pack seems a little nervous. stephen have a primary opponent he is going to raise a billion dollars we're not going to raise anywhere near that kind of money. now mitt romney's campaign told n.b.c. yesterday this is his second quarter total will be less than twenty million dollars that would be less than what he raised in the first major quarter of two thousand and seven he had raised twenty three million that simple and he's expected to bring

in less than five million jon huntsman has raised a fairly a little over two million throwing his own money at four million rand paul told supporters yesterday that he's raised over four million the number now unfortunately if we look at the debate going on on capitol hill right now it looks like once you get that power and i think that the entire country is not in your hands you don't do anything about it so what can we say about the political circus that is washington d.c. trying to just if david can't needs because national political reporter thank you so much there being here tonight you were there actual political aren't you guys all political reporters at politico it's word lingo like those words. let's start off talking about money it sounds to me like mitt romney sounds a little bit scared well look this is not this is expectations game as you well know and he didn't meet expectations because he raised more money i thought this same time the first time you ran for president back in two thousand and seven so going under the twenty million dollar mark that opens it up for his primary

challenger to say ok he's definitely the leader we knew mitt romney's going to the most money but we're in the game and he's not as strong as we thought and then put that against what president obama is expected to raise which is supposed to be around sixty million dollars so you can do the math that's three times a month do you even think that it's possible for the obama campaign to raise a billion dollars like people have been saying can anybody really very good billion dollar intervention says it's a huge amount of money and it was floated out there and i think the obama campaign sort of brought it back they sort of reeled in those expectations but i think it's possible it's on the table in this environment we saw the amount of money that. obama raised his first campaign both him and hillary clinton i mean tons of money so was it possible yes but we're in a very early stage but what is it about him that makes him be able to raise so much money right because normally you think and obviously this is a false way of looking at washington d.c. that people like to think that all republicans are in line with the business they've got wall street on their side and the democrats so they just have the labor

unions and such but you know obama we keep hearing about this fake disappointment when it comes from the big banks and from wall street and from the business side of america does he still get all their cash that's a big question he's not the new thing anymore the reason he was able to raise so much money the first time was let's talk about he was the first african-american viable presidential candidate he was exciting he was the young guy he was the new thing he doesn't hear right is that new shiny object that everyone's looking at that's you know it's worn off because he's actually had to go vern and make decisions and therefore upset people out all sides so there is that question out there but he is the incumbent president and historically in this country incumbent president always raises the most money and that's what i guess i will say but you know at the same time he is dealing with a tough situation in terms of the economy in terms of all the wars that we keep getting involved in i'm curious what you have to say about michele bachmann because obviously there's a lot of people making fun of or a lot of. this you know play but it seems like people are getting kind of excited about it i'm going to say i'm impressed with the rollout because she's got

professional people around her i've watched her in the crowds and she's really going to stop that we she interacts with people she's real deal she's off fantic whereas mitt romney the question is is this guy really what he's for he was able to sway a whole year sorry say all right and you can't. people are saying to me chris wallace asked her if you she was a flake some people say you know snarky things about her but i'll say this she's got some possess as you watch her out there on the trail she excites people she drawing crowds three hundred four hundred people get this crowd this really what do you think we have a clip actually of something that michele bachmann said in a survive and the other female. that may or may not be in the presidential race at some point. they want to see two girls come together and have it my friend. and i'm not going to give it to him. because i have great respect and admiration for the governor i appreciate her and i wish her well and i think that this race is wide open. he's going on sarah palin and he's right if you want to dislike the person of

mud wrestle them. just say it's true bening i guess is the venue and it's a little bit about the individuals here right that are trying to be the president's like that without actually going on because it boggles my mind that people might go away and it's money that we could have a billion dollar campaign and at the same time congress is literally just in a standstill over this debt issue i mean it's one month away place july first august second supposedly is when we might get all that on our debt and then every day we hear something different this is john boehner latest. but what he believes that united states is going to walk away from its obligations. this is the moment this is the opportunity to exactly what i mean dealing with this this debt problem and this deficit problem is far more important the medium so more of social get created by the treasury secretary. so now it's an artificial date then we heard

from some democrats that apparently it's unconstitutional i mean a prison break well i mean baker has switched from where he was he was saying we have to deal with his and you know we were going to have to raise the debt ceiling with spending cuts but now he's willing to go along with some of the tea party members and say you know what august second can come and go and we don't have to do it unless i get some concessions so there is a there is a bit of a change and it's because of the tea party i think republicans are willing to walk this up to the plank whether they're willing to jump off is another battle because i think that you know the ok time party members and. congress but they're saying that they want to please their constituents i don't think they're being honest with these tea party years their constituents because they're not telling them what i actually look like because nobody actually knows and i would indeed be catastrophic but what do you think it looks like to the rest of the world right we depend on everybody buying our debt if our lawmakers are just messing around doing absolutely nothing but a pretty invest in this country heard the business leaders you've heard secretary

geithner out there saying this is a big deal this is important is we're roiled the world markets it will hurt the confidence that we have and with and maybe i'm just going to leave before that happens if the rumor is that guy turns to partner. you have senators u.s. senators out there saying it will be that bad we don't know the consequences or mean i see the statements coming each day and these are republican senators and these aren't even you know the most conservative some of these republicans are saying we don't know the consequences so that sort of lowers the bar as far as how how dire of a situation this is and we don't know because we haven't we've always raised it right now we're getting closer i think this is a lot of brinksmanship and political posturing to go back to your supporters and say hey i fought all the way to here and then we got this but right now they're deadlocked well it sounds like a game of chicken that they're playing and i hope they were not the ones and you know losing out on the long day thanks so much for joining us tonight or. i thought to come on tonight's show he's already accused of putting a fellow judge in

a chokehold now more trouble for wisconsin just that i fool time winner and of power of music when it comes to politics and i will speak with a rapper who's got a lot to say about the foreign policy and the want to be productive just a moment. you know some good to see a story that seems so silly you think you understand it and then you give them something you know here's the part of it and realize that every single source you don't. charge is the. well we are broke. and yes oh oh .