for the call.u larry, covington, georgia, good morning.aller: i feel sorry for the parents of their that had kids that were killed. withare making a pact progresses. they did not go through anything. those are hot potatoes. it would be history. something like this for years. i bet you the boys are tapping. all that they can do is hop on the phone and call their buddies. now we can get some gun-control. a new one on the table, a mess of abortion. these kids, if they looked to them they would abort those children at school. host: thank you for the call. this comment on lady thatcher, margaret thatcher, a firm believer in freedom and free markets. the president believes in and either and we suffer. if you on margaret thatcher, who passed away yesterday. a look at the headlines this morning. front page of "the wall street journal." as british prime minister from 1979 to 1990. this morning, from "the financial times," "thatcher, the great transformer." from "thelly," washington post." this editorial, "she change her country's direction and its

know somebody somebody has got to lose sleep over it you know what i mean so now that he's back at covington and burling where he actually started off before the clinton administration he's now making four million dollars defending the same banks he essentially defended by his inaction so then the question is is brewer i mean the question of whether he's evil is a kind of beside the point right so but the important thing is why does he actually think that this is a legitimate perspective right why does he actually because what we've heard time and again from from just public justice officials is they've said listen maybe what the banks did was immoral but it's not in our code of laws to actually prosecute them because they didn't do anything illegal so the question here is why aren't they being creative certainly the federal prosecutors had no problem being creative in using the computer fraud and abuse act when they were going after aaron swartz but that's of course exactly it is that they have these people in there to create the legal framework to get away with the legalities i mean we see

financial crisis all earning a tidy sum of four million dollars a year brewer will now serve as covington's vice chair and according to the firm's website help clients navigate quote congressional investigations and other criminal and civil matters presenting complex regulatory political and public relations risks. and the very very ugly georgia g.o.p. chairwoman sue everhart last week was a big week for supporters of marriage equality the supreme court heard oral arguments in two cases concerning the right of same sex couples to marry and according to many reports he's poised to strike down the one nine hundred ninety six defense of marriage act some republican politicians in on this have begun to see the writing on the wall and see that marriage equality is inevitable or that supporters offer compelling arguments not sue everhart in an interview with the marietta georgia paper everhart the chairwoman of that state's republican party offered an interesting critique of gay marriage say add a great job with the government where you have this wonderful health plan i mean what would your broad

my name is sally covington and i am the executive director of community campaigns for quality care. we're a nonprofit public charity working with unionses and purchasers on health care cost control as opposed to cutting benefits, and i'm speaking briefly today on behalf of both seiu local 10 21 and the public employees committee. and i guess really what we wanted to say and just to try and broaden the perspective and acknowledge some of the comments that relate to that broader perspective, you know, 4.4, 4.3 billion is obviously a big number and as many have said, the thing that is most going to determine if that number goes up or down is the rate of medical inflation which a we -- almost all of us know is far surpassed the rate of general inflation economy and also workers wages. and, so, that's going to be the key issue here. so, from the standpoint of defining the problem, we must ask what's driving this medical inflation rate so high. and on that there's not a lot of dispute. experts widely agree that, first of all, health care spending is so high because provider prices are hig

as not to cases that got the press the death penalty case there was a local newspaper called the covington news and notes -- they covered it but nobody else no press coverage. not a single news article about this case is going on. >> what inspired you to write the book? >> guest: i was writing about this crisis in the court for several years writing it outside of d.c. and some with the incarceration rate but i have covered a couple of trials and i was struck by the fact everyone acknowledged that they understood the problem in many ways how to solve it and i was struck by the fact it was not talked about outside of that in solar world. there were blue ribbon commissions and panels and studies and reports and states all over the country but nobody had done anything and they tried to solve the problem so i started thinking about how to deal take that conversation outside the criminal justice system that with issues of fairness and constitutional rights that are not aware of the depth of the problem. >> host: who benefits from the status quo? prosecutors may be or the prison industry? >> in s

>> i was actually at my other house up near covington where my whole house up here shook which is is probably about 20 miles north. i thought there was an earthquake up here, and then i found out that near my other house four miles away this is happening. >> have you been able to get inside your home, or are you in that evacuated area? you mentioned you are four miles away so i assume your home is safe? >> i don't know. i assume it is safe, but it is evacuated. i spoke to my neighbor down the street and everybody she said but two of our neighbors, everybody else is is evacuated. this was hours ago, and i offered for them to come up to my other house. everybody is in such shock nobody knows what to do. >> what are your neighbors telling you? were any of your neighbors home at the time of the explosion? were they close to the actual incident? you were 20 miles away and you felt the blast. what about those folks who were perhaps four miles away? >> i did thought ask her. the conversation was more, are you okay? do you need a place to go, and that sort of thing. the concern was fires and

this death penalty case there was a local newspaper called the covington news. the case of the 12-year-old in washington state got no press coverage. not a single news article about the case as it was going on. >> host: what inspired you to write the book? >> guest: i had been writing about this or that are around the issue of this crisis in the courts for several years. i've been writing on them on juvenile prison outside of d.c., some restored justice programs, a little bit about the high incarceration rate of young black men. so, i have been circling around the courts and i covered a couple of the trials. and i was struck by the fact that everybody associated in the criminal-justice system acknowledged that there was a huge crisis, understood the problem, understood the nature of the problem and even in many ways how to solve it, and yet it did not get fixed and it didn't -- i was also struck by faction that it wasn't really talked about outside of that in so there weren't so it was a conversation that it had taken place. there were blue ribbon commissions an

she just wasn't any woman, she was the girlfriend of one of the mob guys from across the river in covington, kentucky. and one day to guys in a buick roadster show up at the hospital with bulges and asked for dr. amen -- dr. emanuel at the front desk. fortunately the woman at the front desk was smart enough to see that it was not something quite right about those jackets, called up the chief resident who is a very proper jet -- british sky in says she thinks dr. emanuel is in danger. he is whisked out of the hospital, stuffs money in his shirt and tells him that he ought to up by a ticket to canada. apparently he does not have a passport because it not come back to his room. my dad is a very charming guy and is one of these guys, you sit down in a restaurant and before you know what the next table is talking to you and before you know what you are invited to dinner the next night at their house. he ends up talking to some people, and they end up taking event in rochester for two weeks. he stays in rochester, new york, because economic in the canada because it is that a passport. he is it go

the abc outfield covington and all of the colorful people but they are a part.ged groceries in milwaukee in the off season. they have become millionaires. they aren't the people we can relate to as easily because they are just not as colorful that we get the bres coverage to attract the young athletes to baseball. >> pat, stop right there. because of the interest of time. >> they raises a really good point. i think, you know, in the of seasons, you used to have all of these players out interacting with the community though they lived with the community in the off season, they were there. the nfl and the players association and some of the other sports league have their players out doing things in the off season, you know, doing charitable things. maybe they need to do a little bit more of that. >> cindy thank you again for coming in. find cindy at washington post.com. >> this is "the bill press show." >> (vo) with award winning documentaries that take you inside the headlines, way inside. (vo) from the underworld, to the world of privilege. >> everyone in michae