how many problems there are and yet now investigations not to mention even if these weren't suicides you have to talk about the conditions that these people are being held and so thanks so much for joining us tonight thank you very much. i will take a short break we'll be right back. people calling it like you said for free and fair elections. and they're still reporting from the. as you can hear behind me a little out of civilisations.

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slapper show and tell on tonight's program now last time we spoke about the latest human rights watch report which i'd lie on the hundreds of youth that are serving life in prison sentences without parole in california and across the united states who want to know that if you thought that a sentence that severe is really appropriate for juveniles so pretty so preserved in a sentence or to the streets of d.c. to find out what you have to say. i'm on the streets of d.c. to tell people in the nation's capital what our viewers on twitter facebook and you tube had to say and see which comments we should keep or delete. to juveniles be able to be sentenced to life in prison without parole i interviewed you response from mike on facebook he said if they're old enough to knowingly kill

violently rob and ray they're old enough to pay the price or to leave it keep it to know what they're doing and they do something so far on our hands if they're old enough to knowingly kill violently rob and rape they are old enough to pay the price keep it or delete it so they keep it in my opinion it's no different than an adult making the same decision marina on facebook said no juveniles should not be sentenced to life without parole what they need is better rehabilitation and social programs for rehabilitation services they want a lot of us deserve and need it's very often not so much their fault i think it's the fault of the family or society now malke on youtube said life without parole for someone that is not considered responsible enough to vote drink have sex drive or kill for their country is just plain moronic he without kids is welcome but if you have kids you have a completely different outlook going to kill somebody then they should not have any

rights at all when you ask people if a person who committed a terrible crime deserves a second chance many of you would say no but if that person who committed the crime was under eighteen years old it seems that people in d.c. are pretty split down the middle if that person should deserve a second chance or not. i will thank you for your responses and as usual as usual and here's our next question for you earlier in the show we spoke about mitt romney's belief that for profit colleges are a way to bring costs down and higher education which as we showed you is a truth of the statistics but if politicians continue to rally for the corporate or is a shoo in of education then will for profit colleges become the way the future the norm let us know what you think on facebook twitter and you tube and no is your response just not me or. oh a new report released by the department of education raises a lot of questions about in school punishments and school related arrests as

education education secretary arnie duncan put it the sad fact is the minority students across america face much harsher discipline than non-minority even within the same school so according to the civil rights data collection statistics from two thousand and nine to two thousand and ten more than seventy percent of students involved in in school related arrests or cases referred to law enforcement or hispanic or african-american although black students made up only eighteen percent of those enroll in the school samples they counted for thirty five percent of those suspended once forty six percent of those suspended more than once and thirty nine percent of all expulsions overall black students are more than three times more likely as their white peers to be suspended or expelled and districts that reported explosions under their zero tolerance policies hispanics and blacks students are presented forty five percent of the student body but fifty six percent of those expel the statistics were gathered from seventy two thousand schools and seven thousand districts which means that they cover about eighty five percent of the

nation's students so how do you look at this issue we can explain it and how do we change it to any need to discuss it as an experiment co-host of the young turks and thanks so much for joining us tonight and i guess for starters when you hear so to six like this what's the first thing that comes to mind what's the immediate reaction that you have. well the first thing that comes to mind is obviously racism as you mentioned in those statistics seventy percent of the students they get sent to these juvenile detention centers and get harshly disciplined are either blacks or hispanics so that's the first thing becomes to mind but the a.c.l.u. has done an excellent job in really tackling this issue and it has to do with the school to prison pipeline and it's the zero tolerance policies that are used in new schools and how they affect minority students in this country and what they discovered is a lot of these high schools and middle schools throughout the country want to make sure that they have the highest standardized test scores and the way that they do

that is they find these clever ways to get rid of students that come from low income families who maybe didn't have the best education growing up and maybe do the best in the standardized tests so you don't zero tolerance policies are really great way to find excuses and find ways to get rid of these students that won't do well on standardized testing so that's one of the things another reason for happening is because look a lot of teachers i think get scared when it comes to certain situations they don't go at the proper way to discipline the students are so they think ok well ok how does your tolerance policy zero tolerance is zero tolerance we got to get rid of you because you brought scissors to school to work on your own project when i got a question about first nation from a.c.l.u. because if you look at it on the statistics that they provide are perhaps in schools where the majority of the students right are black or hispanic where whether or not the minority you also have less experienced teachers you also have

a lower level of classes or i guess you don't have a higher level of of classes that are actually available to the students for example a lot of them don't offer calculus so in cases like that it's hard to argue that what they're really fighting for in these schools are standardized test scores yeah i definitely see. you're saying i mean a lot of these schools don't offer the proper classes and a lot of that has to do with underfunding especially in areas where they use property tax in order to fund education and you know in core areas you're not really going to get as much money as rich areas like let's say in beverly hills but you know a lot of this i think has to do with laziness are on the administration's part in the schools and i think there look a lot of people want to deny that racism doesn't exist in this country anymore it's a problem that we've overcome and even if race racism isn't as overt as it was decades ago there are other ways that people participate in racist behavior and

this is a perfect example of that we don't when you look at the numbers the numbers don't lie the proof is an eighteen percent of the students are african-american but other huge majority of them get thrown into juvenile detention centers for minor offenses it's ridiculous and also keep in mind look if we have the type of juvenile detention centers or prisons jails in this country that work that actually rehabilitated people maybe maybe you could have an argument with the recidivism rate here in the united states is ridiculous so you're putting the school age children in these juvenile detention centers they're not criminals they don't deserve to be a juvenile detention centers but they're put in there and they actually become criminals as a result so it's really a harmful thing for this country right now and we have this prison culture we throw everyone in prison for everything the vast majority of people in prison right now are there for drug offenses and nonviolent offenses. well you know i wonder what

you think the federal government's role should be in this case because if you also look back at some of these policies the zero tolerance policies that we see in schools a lot of them were in acted thinks you first we saw a number of federal programs that were passed banning firearms banning drugs and alcohol in school campuses but then the schools and passed the zero tolerance policies in order to get more federal aid and so now it's almost like the government has helping to create this problem they weren't really monitoring this problem now the government is paid to gather statistics on a problem that they created and you know where do you go from there. well the first american government should do is force all of these schools to get rid of zero tolerance policies zero tolerance policies do not work it's garbage whatever happened to human judgment you have to be a human and judge every case that comes your way so if for instance i brought up the situation where student brought scissors to class in order to work on an art project that's not a criminal that student has

a great excuse for why they brought sensors to class you know you have to look at the context of the story is the student someone who has a history of violent behavior in the classroom now so why do you have zero tolerance policies when you can use human judgment when it comes to these situations so i think it's the federal government's responsibility to say zero tolerance policies don't work they're not making our schools safer in fact they're turning these innocent students into criminals so let's get rid of it that's their number one responsibility and i guess i'm jewish yeah that'll probably be a hard pill for them to swallow to say sorry i guess that we kind of told you guys to do this and turns out that we are wrong because they are going to last but i want to bring up here it is interesting is that once they started actually compiling these statistics from the civil rights data collection then during the bush administration they just stopped doing it and so only now under the obama administration have they once again for looking at these statistics have they actually expanded it to look at this prison pipeline and the kids that go to. you

know going into the excuse me to prison because of it and so you know what do you think that's about. well i think the bush administration failed on so many different things especially when it came to education in the country i mean every time you hear no child left behind you just want to laugh because it was a huge failure and right now the obama administration is doing what it can to basically repeal those no child left behind laws they just didn't make any sense and honestly you know there are so many things that the bush administration did they got rid of comprehensive sex education they stopped funding that and wanted to focus more on abstinence only education as a rock result more and more teen pregnancy started popping up all over the country so they feel they're not well they had so many different policies that were a complete failure so it doesn't surprise me that they start tracking the numbers when he came to the school to prison pipeline but i like to fuel our administration is looking at the numbers now and i really hope that they use this as an opportunity to get rid of zero tolerance policies because they just don't work. i

agree with you there i hope they do it thanks so much for joining us tonight thank you. for coming up next new counting is using in our told. to keep certain candidates off the ballot so they were told time north and on happy hour we have a breaking news update on the george washington taking make that get the least shocking survey ever prevails that americans are the worst tourists that we can back. like you said for free and fair elections. their parting from. behind.

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five. foot. pole. all right guys it's time for tonight's tool time award and this time it's going to the republican party of south carolina for trying to reach purity requirements for running for office the last week the lawrence county republican party passed a resolution regarding the qualifications of candidates for the primary ballot and

apparently that resolution included a twenty eight points pledge for potential candidates to sign the pledge would be a promise by candidates to some of them are opposing abortion in any circumstance and yours the ideas of balance state and federal budgets not have previously engaged in premarital sex remain faithful to the spouse not watch porn uphold the right to have guns all kinds of guns oppose same sex marriage have a commitment to peace through strength in foreign policy and oppose affirmative action looks like they forgot to include the white landowner or maybe that's one of the nineteen others that we don't know now initial reports suggested that any candidate running as a republican in lawrence county would be required to sign its pledge but bobby smith did you the county g.o.p. chair released a statement following those claims that they could not legally keep anybody off the ballot but smith also stated they have the right to ask if republican candidates share the same values as the party and south carolina g.o.p.

chairman chad connelly told them that some kind of vetting process definitely needs to be in place and you referred back to this moment from the ninety's as evidence of that. i did not search for this. so according to connelly clinton proved to americans that character doesn't matter but now we are finding out the character really does matter i guess because only missed this race the allegation from newt's former wife that happened just days before he congratulated newt on his victory in south carolina said to him we've been married a long. he said yes but you want me all to yourself calista doesn't care what i do. yeah totally got a lot more moral authority than clinton i love how forget of course the new the other candidate signed to marriage pledges you know to uphold the sanctity of

marriage remain faithful to your wife oppose gay marriage the years i've lived in south carolina g.o.p. believes that a politician making a promise to allow them to enter into office actually means anything but actually things of the lawrence county g.o.p. might not really believe that the evidence points to the fact of the pledge was really an attempt to just keep a local sheriff who had had an affair after this particular ballot cheer for each as dean says he had an affair with a woman who worked there on and off for two years and what started in two thousand and eight and it will probably last fall. so here we have a sheriff who ignored pressure from the lawrence county g.o.p. to step down after the affair surfaced we have a sheriff who plans to run for his fourth term in the upcoming primary as a republican and the pieces start falling into place right back to the pledge itself remaining faithful to spouses in the only know where the parts you promise to oppose affirmative action also kind of interesting right considering the lawrence county is the home of a controversial neo nazi clothing store run by a former k.k.k.

leader the store sells white robes as well as other southern memorabilia but now i'm sure the race has nothing to do with that oppose affirmative action clause obviously not and the ban on premarital sex well i mean there's no words for that so for trying to make out of the side an archaic hearing sledge then claiming that it wasn't mandatory when critics point out that it was illegal and actually just doing it all the possibly trying to keep certain candidates off the ballot the lawrence county g.o.p. is tonight's told time when. our guys it's time for happy hour and joining me this evening are two producer jenny churchill and ben cohen and they're of the daily banter hey guys thanks for coming on. so rick santorum as always kind of crazy stuff that rick santorum says recently though we've heard him say

a lot about how the breakdown of the family really is the root of all evil is the biggest problem in society here's an example. but the biggest problem with poverty in america we don't talk about here because it's an economic discussion and that is the breakdown of the american family you want to look at the poverty rate among families that have a husband and wife working in them it's five percent today a family decided by one person it's thirty percent today you can't have the wealthy society if the family breaks down that basic unit of society and that needs to be included in this economic ratio of what i think here is about wealth and stuff but i think that you just break that down and go back in one thousand nine hundred four when he was censoring himself a little bit because he was a national debate stage rick santorum actually said that we're seeing the fabric of the country fall apart but it's all in part because of single moms if they're longer just the whole family it single moms and later he accused single mothers of simply breeding more criminals yeah it's kind of funny apparently rick santorum

must've thought the ninety's didn't count because it seems like every absurd thing he ever said is like oh in the ninety's he said something even more ridiculous he also supported government run health care in the ninety's so he was off on some other planet. thing i think it's funny for republicans to talk about the values of the war and creating an economic system that makes it almost impossible to have a probably you have to have two parents working two or three jobs. where people have time to have a marriage as well or even have kids these days so profoundly brody's the news because. they're saying that if you want to succeed and you have to have two parents because they both have to work a job or business when one parent is not coming up i think it's a point on to i feel like this is on a labyrinth ploy for men to feel better about the fact that they bail on their wives and kids and you know girlfriends when they get pregnant and this makes them

feel a little better like no actually the women are terrible people who can raise their children during the system. they want to stay and help raise their kids who don't turn into a criminal if i was the logic i mean i don't want to go it is crazy logic anymore because it doesn't make any sense let's move on to another g.o.p. candidate mitt romney we've seen him try to claim that he's the every man he's unemployed a lot of times and now looks like it's rubbing off on his wife take a look at which he said. we can be poor in spirit. and i don't i don't look and i don't even consider myself wealthy which is an interesting thing. she said that this morning on what is poor in spirit i don't get it well. that take it out of context is kind of uncomfortable because she was talking about the fact that she has. and how tough it and she has realized that there's more important things in her life however no matter how poor in spirit she is she still has two hundred fifty million dollars and all of that money to put towards her treatment for

feeling better for him and it's awful she has a mask that's ridiculous jump in and. it's so fun i just think that as a couple i mean my you just every single time to have a chance to put this through and it is if you're single you do it which is you have one of the romneys is making it so far so but i do. know that it. is not. talk about how she has riding horses helps with her and well people who are actually poor can't afford to have horses oh and then she won't tell how many horses she has because guess what doesn't even know. you're a little bit between a rock and a whole place there's nothing they call really talk about any of this stuff with people jumping on them if she says you know she tries to show empathy with. people . not point the right if you're two hundred fifty million dollars and probably

nothing that you have that's a part of your life is going to be something the average american can relate to but i don't know like pretend that you like nascar instead of saying you're only friends with the owners of nascar. that's just my take. let's move on to really big breaking news update breaking news ok we did this story earlier about this chicken might not get that this woman was trying to sell on e bay because it looked like george washington but. it turns out the thing is actually sold. poor eight thousand one hundred. dollars named better would you put eight grand for the washington. but not in the box story with the phones went. out so. maybe it makes. for a frozen chicken no from. trying to find out what made the charity then without

having to. get a really cool george washington you know well there's a few discrepancies in her story she claims that she kept the mc not get in the freezer for three years there was no need to everyone knows that mcdonald's food is not to impose the european friends there i'm a little concerned about that aspect also i never figured out what camp she was sending these thirty kids to i want to know like did this person is she sending them to a scientology camp i don't. know maybe if the mcdonald camp is a question of course i mean for all. those that got good fortunes in those places or you and i maybe you agree that because you were here we originally brought up this story and you with it would likely have been last of course kevin had to ruin our part of this parade on our parade i don't understand. right. americans i guess the kind of just americans we stand out when we travel around the world apparently here's

a little clip from your trip. to the sun seems to be the crazy year six of the c. . standard girls here's this guy is like a sucker for new girls. all right so a new survey conducted by living social and mandalay research said americans are the world's worst tourists and it's not even other people are saying it four thousand out of fifty six hundred respondents of the survey were americans themselves. he said we were american so we could obviously comment on this too but as a brit you find americans annoying i'm going to disagree i'm going to disagree with this sort of it's a little just because i heard respondents one was german i'm good i'm going to confess to being a citizen of the culture of. the seen anywhere you think the brits are that we're all. merkins our partnerships most of these days offer because they spent a lot more they were just like them when they go abroad but brits on the other hand

we drink we fly. the red stripes the i've seen a lot of that abroad too but i wonder if it's just more of like the recent you know the moore's college kids who have studying abroad every year the people are just getting used to more american maybe and i was wondering was this people traveling you know like i don't know i mean i think that it depends on what area you're talking about like americans in mexico awful americans in italy maybe not so bad well you know the jersey shore people just like exactly thank you and i studied abroad in florence too when they were. maybe it's like a felt loading kind of thing right i mean i don't you know imagine that you know and i guess americans just want to be number one at everything i don't know i find it really strange that you have to get a record over thanks for joining us tonight that's a great show thanks for tuning in and make sure to come back tomorrow for a cia officer jack rice is going to be on to discuss secretary of defense leon

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