well can they learn or 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 on route his reporting had something to do with it also speak with rapper marcel car today who is releasing a new album about the war in libya and a look of a 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 if there was some hope for this world because i thought of the casey anthony trial was finally going to add a boy and i think wrong has 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 of this such a beast a new issue in halls fifty nine witnesses for nineteen days on the front forty nine witnesses five the jury never heard over eleven days there were two days where there are no witnesses pushed against the person to be. and now we're in the story

before we see how unexpected 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 think of 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 do you know they found that story prince william and kate middleton have made a trip all the way over to canada. big crowds gathering here in the sunshine is come out there's a key thing going on here whenever catherine and william go outside it's sunny because i saw straining something very old during that very successful trip so you saw she will adventure throughout our neighbor to the north continues today the duke and duchess of cambridge are drawing some big crowds as they take in the sights and sounds of canada during a weeklong trip across pretty annoyed i was so delighted to be very proud of the.

third story grow produce we love this country we've been looking forward to this moment for a very notorious. 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 well 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 a net breaking news from d.c. on that. the tab save jabbers what is it guys all the banks have come up just about six votes short here the tester amendment has failed the final vote was fifty four forty five in favor but supporters of the test that's right we finally saw a instance where it looked like wall street lost a battle of course they only lost because they were up against another huge industry the retail industry but still some looked at the situation with a cooler of hope the federal reserve would finally decided that it wasn't fair that . had the highest bees in the world for

a census like not something to earn 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 lobbying battles on capitol hill some lawmakers even joked and called it a full employment bill 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 consumers and viewers for months to put up with watching these ads that ran on every single corporate media channel. small business is getting real jobs every time you swipe your card credit card companies and big banks make big bucks for years to get your credit card pushing people to use their cards is that right but then they use their market power to charge you a loan shark rates for the privilege of being running a small business for less than a year for seventeen years or fifteen years it's

a tough economy it's what he repeats now more than ever. well guess what i 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 are after all of that hoopla after all of the talk of somebody finally taking on wall street i just goes and changes it and nobody nobody out there reported it you think of the corporate media that shove ads jaeger throw provides what i feel 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 it 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 december twenty sixth of two thousand and one and then twenty on twenty one year old may was at home with his daughter drifting off to sleep when he heard the sounds of a group breaking into his home and i guess we can describe his fear paternal instincts confusion may fire his gun and at that point he realized that he shot a. 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 this wasn't just any part of america it wasn't just mississippi 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 if you bloggers

a few journalists started 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 be free to join me to discuss this is radley balko senior writer an 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. thanks i mean i think i think graduations probably goes to four years. yeah i mean these are the kinds of stories these are why you why you become a journalist. very satisfied 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.

oh i found the search on the use of swat teams or the cato institute and the. scream at me i mean that was and have been reported by the a.p. the report about a new york times but nobody sort of thought to ask why the guy with no criminal record who you know basically affirmed roach and what part of didn't. write you would have decided to take on you know when we take on reading cops killed just one in the surrender with the left in the gun me approaching this from me and from the angle somebody was critical of the police tactics it just didn't add up it made no sense at all in the far more probable explanations that this guy thought he was being baited by people there to do harm to this child all right so what can you tell us more about that i think in failing some of the holes and the brief outline i gave at the beginning there that night when the police didn't rate his home he

wasn't even the one they were looking for. he looked in even looked at his girlfriend america are in a duplex and by all indications it seems like we were actually after the guy who was on the other side so i mean james. hardy had grow charges and me against them and they actually did buy them back that part of the. korean his girlfriend and girlfriend didn't know jamie. separate apartments. and you know there was. jimmy smith so this baby has never been brought to trial so. you know there was there's that aspect of it we found out later several years later actually that the whole reason the raid was conducted was because of a permanent foreman and guy named wayne county who was a drug user himself and left a incredible beat races for pain message on one of your probably going to machines

so you know this is a guy who's described as trustworthy and reliable with this. search warrants it was probably dozens hundreds of times as a woman and similar greats like this one who was you know a really unabashed racist. so i mean there was there were so many just really kind of orval things about this case. better or sort of it was certainly use that all these bad things going up the stairs that we got. and one of the things that you write about in terms of this case is when it came to the trial the medical examiner their family or their stephen haines played kind of a big role when it came to actually convincing the jury to convicting this man and you know what more can you tell us about him and his reputation and how you see that all across the country today. yeah i mean i've actually had to write writing quite a bit more about dr i mean what i'm for it may you know he gave some testimony in this case that was questionable and basically really made me look like

a liar if you're a. well do you believe me when you said you didn't know. we use. your name you know the question because well in this case i've heard of calling around and asking you know defense attorney the mississippi other medical process that they knew about this was it turns out everybody knew about this doctor and everybody knew that he had it on what were some of that. here by himself. and that you know the big question will testimony and the number one piece very justified why the but we didn't body that there were two opinions on the gun that fired the bullet. just. thought oh you know. you know this guy just. out of the basis of what you have so. you know it was fine in this case was. you know sort of what it was some of them spaced

this particular issue but really i mean it was a lot of other problems. for me just so. actually it was again. you know in two thousand and six very long. incredibly detailed he said that they have said about being there in mississippi i misspoke about the race relations in that community you know perhaps the white part of the community only trusted the police department black part of the community only trusted 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 i you know i've seen some people who got caught up in the same sort of situation. you know there's no question that race was a factor in this particular case and in that race is we kind of a suffocating part of everyday life in this part of mississippi it is going to

unavoidable everywhere if you talk to people in these homes and again like you said i mean not only people will be the city police i'm the one people go to the sheriff's department the sheriff's department in the city police don't trust each other without them so don't get involved. so there's. yeah there's a lot of racial animosity. down there and there's also. you can't help but notice through the sense of. reservation. among the black people that we're serious there's this kind of feeling that if you're black and you look over the country that expects you know that if you're male you're part of a political. so you're probably going to be you know a little something you can do but take for a living for a living in this part of the country so there's there's a lot of fatalism there and it's unfortunate. not something that we see

a lot to but you know a lot of other things that we've covered a lot on this show the case of oscar grant where of course there's a police officer that i guess pulling out a taser and and up shooting a young man in the metro station and he served maybe eighteen months and here you have someone like me who was conveyed kid to 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 get this shooting. i mean that. the police are given a lot of leeway in this because they'll be. a little margin of inherent danger. that. simply created a situation a million people on the receiving end of the right people who aren't trained don't know what's happening or being in the middle. and that's really. a huge double

standard and you know. pretty open open and shut a lot of people will get. drug actually. shooting probably didn't even drive. you know you're going to be lucky. you're probably going to be. life in prison so i mean. i think they generally think it's another great. so you know i mean. this is a happy day for the family and. gratian. but you know. life and. all their lives the father and. you know in terms of the larger picture the general i mean there's a pretty selfish family in. the twin brother. this is

a bad. and the very predictable consequence that. the changes are going to be they're going to be more heartbreaking stories like. isolated and. i think that this story really has touched a lot of people out there and surprising amount of media attention you know when it comes to the mainstream or the internet bloggers on all sides of the political spectrum thanks so much. take place i mean. i thought a constant i the battle over reporting how much c.e.o.'s are paid birth and what employees make c.e.o.'s want to keep their pay high and we're headed into the fourth of july weekend for the overhaul a healthy for dangerous tensions between democrats and republicans in washington class we'll tell you who's at raking in the pack that funny well of actual rates for top that all down for the because they've kept me from trying to just enough.

into that only a military mechanism if you don't work 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 poorly sleep is that you understand it and then you glimpse something else here's some of the part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry for the big picture.

let's not forget that we had in the party. i think. either one well. we never government says they're going to keep him safe get ready because their freedom.

well it's no secret of the working structure for americans that's quite a few pay cuts 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 a lot of those may be 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 of the insane this parity 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 twenty seven

percent so it looks like some people out there aren't facing tough times it's a little 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 aside from the odd. 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 the inequal numbers will 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 the 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 of the legwork and this is why we've had to say adios to the middle class. all too often in politics these days first you get the money and then you get the power so in preparation for the two thousand and twelve presidential race it seems like g.o.p. candidates are already beginning to shake the thought of obama's possible one billion dollars campaign numbers are released today for how much candidates have raise so far and let's just say that it seems like mitt romney 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 the kind of money. 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 tim pawlenty is 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 then you get the entire country's money 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 katniss politico's a national political reporter thank you so much they're being heard tonight if you're their actual political or aren't you they 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 scattered 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 think 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 absolutely 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 prophetic 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 that's three times the money do you think that it's possible for the obama campaign to raise a billion dollars that people have been saying can anybody really very hundred billion dollars it's a huge amount of money and that was floated out there and then i think the obama campaign sort of brought it back to reel 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 tons of money it was a 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 over a publican's are in line with big business they've got paul street on their side and a democrat so they just have the labor unions and such but you know obama we keep

hearing about this big disappointment when it comes from the big banks and from wall street and from the business side of america does he still get our 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 it 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 the 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 when i guess i will see but 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. people who believe that she a flake but it seems like people are getting kind of excited about it i'm going to say i'm impressed with the roll out because she's got professional people around

her i've watched her in the crowds and she's really going to start that we should interact with people she's the real deal he's authentic whereas mitt romney the question is is this guy really what he's for he was you know it's a whole year sorry sale right. bachmann people are saying i mean chris wallace asked 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 this regard was around 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 a my first long fight. 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. she's going on sarah palin and she's right here

as we want to dislike the person of mud wrestle them straight i just think that's true and i guess the venue and it's a little bit about the individuals here right that are trying to be the president talk about what's actually going on because it boggles my buy that people might go away enough money that we could have a billion dollar campaign and have the same time congress is literally just in a standstill over this debt if you mean it's one month away place july first august second supposedly is when we might deep balls on our debt and then every day we hear something different says john boehner his latest. but but would you say that united states is going to walk away from its obligations. when i say 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 median sort of fish will be created by the treasury secretary. so now it's an artificial date then we heard

from some democrats that apparently it's unconstitutional i give you a freaking break well i mean has switched from where he was he knew saying we have to deal with is 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 deal with 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 that i think i think that you know the ok there are tea party members in congress but they're saying that they want to please their constituents i don't think they're being honest with these tea partiers their constituents because they're not telling them what i actually look like because nobody actually knows and it 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 for the world markets it will hurt the confidence that we have. and will and maybe i'm just going to leave before that happens and the rumor is that your partner but you have senators u.s. senators out there saying it will be that bad we don't know the consequences i mean i see the statements coming each day and these are republican senators and these are even you know the most conservative of some of these republicans are saying we don't know the consequences so that sort of lowers the bar as far as how our guy of the 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 go 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 i don't you know losing out in the long run dave thanks so much for joining us mr. i thought to come on tonight's show he's already accused of putting a fellow judge and a chuckle now more trouble for wisconsin just that night school time winner and the

power of music from the concept politics and i'll speak with a rapper who's got a lot to say about u.s. foreign policy and the war in libya play back in just a moment. into it only or we can make use of those if you don't we're going to bring justice and accountability. i have every right to know what my government should do if you want to know why i think taxes. i would characterize obama as a charismatic version of american exceptionalism. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so silly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else here's some other part of it i realized everything you saw you don't know i'm sorry is a victim.