system don't know about these problems. so i wrote "chasing gideon" for those people who are ingested in justice and fairness but don't know the intricacies of our united states court system. i tried to tell the story narratively so that it's interesting to people and so that you see what it's like to go through the courts from a client's gift. i talk about an 18-year-old who was in a car accident and charged with the aqi manslaughter. i talk about a 12-year-old who accused of sexual assault because he played with the neighbor boy. allegedly. and i talk about a death penalty case and other cases like that. i try to tell the story through the perspective of those clients and what it's like for them and how important a lawyer's role is because the court system can be very overwhelming when you look at it and when you walk into any court in the country and you will see rows and rows and rows of people sitting on benches or is ending in the hallways, who are meeting their lawyers for the first time on the fly, don't know their names. they thrust out their hand and they spell out the story in five minutes and then they asked this person to go to court and defend t

system don't know about these problems. so, i wrote "chasing gideon" for those people who have interested in justice and fairness. but, don't know the intricacies of our united states court system. and i tried to tell the story narratively so it is interesting to people and so that you see what it is like to go through the courts from a client's perspective. i talk about an 18-year-old who was in a car accident and charged with vehicular manslaughter. i talk about a 12-year-old who's accused of sexual assault because he played with a neighbor boy allegedly. and i talk about death penalty case and other cases like that. and i try to tell the story through the perspective of those clients and what it is like for them and how important a lawyer's role is because, the court system can be very overwhelming when you look at it, you know, and you walk into any court in the country and you will zeros and rows and people sitting on in hallways, meeting their lawyers first tile on the fly, they don't know their name. they thrust out their hand. spill out a story in five minutes. then they ask this person to go into court and defend them. and this person is struggling so many

so, even the canadian health care system which has been proposed to be imitated here in the united stateshas a lot of problems and it would be in many ways to implement that system in the united states because the histories are very different in demint devotees to people here to get and that mentality is not like that and other countries in which people basically take what they are given. so there, we find an issue so there are a lot of problems and the canadian system. so, we go back to europe and we find similar situation in which people always think about these on the other side. and what is happening in europe many people say i went to france and i was attended there and it was freed or i didn't pay for this in this country and everything. but, if we look into this, nothing is really free. what happens is that people are paying this health care system from their own money with the taxes they paid. something is really freak you get what they could see free is something quite complicated because economically than all of these countries that are spending more and more money. succumb they

united states, we value finality. there's one trial, may be appeals, there's only one trial. in italy, this appellate process is much drawn out and we're seeing the benefits of the united states systeme amanda knox's family, meredith kercher's family, this roller coaster must be impossible. >> yeah, i can about imagine. actually, i can't, thank goodness. alex little, many thanks for your insight, appreciate it. and we'll be right back. providing technology to get more detail... ♪ detect hidden threats... ♪ see the whole picture... ♪ process critical information, and put it in the hands of our defenders. reaching constantly evolving threats before they reach us. that's the value of performance. northrop grumman. the day building a play set begins with a surprise twinge of back pain... and a choice. take up to 4 advil in a day or 2 aleve for all day relief. [ male announcer ] that's handy. ♪ we're gonna be late. ♪ ♪ ♪ oh, are we early? [ male announcer ] commute your way with the bold, all-new nissan rogue. ♪ >>> we have developing news this hour here on msnbc as we give you live pictures from the white house. any minute now, we're going to hear from the president who's meeting today

that is creating a lot of a strain not only in the united states and stress on the united states system but also in the entire world because as in the united states, as i said before, people can afford them because of their private health insurance. then what happens now, drugs become more expensive, then the premiums are higher and what happens is that not only the premiums are higher but also insurance companies create different tiers. the more sophisticated the diseases, more difficult to treat it is, the more deadly the disease is, the cure will be more and more expensive and that obviously is creating a huge problem in terms of the issues. so over the last year the pharmaceutical industry had a lot of problems especially because of expiration of drugs. what does that mean mean? here in the united states the law of, intellectual property law its covered by 20 years from date of filing. a patent lasts after 20 years, after those 20 years what happens the drugs go off patent and they become generic. so any copy can produce a copy of it. so that creates a little bit of a problem becaus

influential and not just that one but wall street as a whole so i'm not at all satisfied our system in the united states is a quite corrupted political system a corrupted because our politicians need to work together to spend our total billions of dollars on their campaigns every two years cycle now would major and two year cycle at the federal level of the united states and maybe six or seven or eight billion dollars well we're the politicians getting that money they're getting it from rich people and from big companies and they're not getting it for free oh they're getting it because they're listening to the rich and to the corporations not to the needs of the average person in the population let's talk about tax evasion because the global community has come together and money is. a very steep climb down a net specific camp talking about swings and then saying they're going to be giving information finance banking information to us or. to his own citizens that when he sounded nice enough being done meant to clamp down on tax havens i think that did the world is waking up to the scandal of the internat

influential and not just that one but wall street as a whole so i'm not at all satisfied our system in the united states is a quite corrupted political system corrupted because our politicians need to work together to spend our total billions of dollars on their campaigns every two years cycle now would major and two year cycle at the federal level of the united states maybe six or seven or eight billion dollars well if we're the politicians getting that money they're getting it from rich people and from big companies and they're not getting it for free oh they're getting it because they're listening to the rich and to the corporations not to the needs of the average person in the population let's talk about tax evasion because the global community has come together and money. of various regulations to clamp down on net specific can talking about sways then saying they're going to be giving information finance banking information to us. to his own citizens that when he sounded nice enough being down meant he kept down on tax havens i think that did the world is waking up to the scandal of the internatio

band the united states to improve the quality of democracies abroad but despite that i think those country is a very resistant to any domestic changes especially the united states where the system is recognised by everyone to be outdated would be electoral colleges and just two parties alternating in the white house but at the same time. the chance the chances for any substantial reform seem to be very very low why do you think is that is there a sense in the west in terms of your democratic development do you i don't know the end of history yes i think i think that's true i think i think there's not much of an awareness of the fact we do we do have that certainly that sense of we have achieved the most in this in this regard other states should seek to emulate this this is as good as it gets that's really the message that it's put across again and again and again and it's very very misleading it can it can get better than this this isn't as good as it gets it would be possible to have a society where people have more of a say are indeed even complete say in a decision making process so i think that's definitely the case with kind of how the ourselves up as the you know the pin

system don't know about these problems. so i wrote "chasing gideon" for those people who are interested in justice and fairness but don't know the intricacies of our united states court system. and i tried to tell the story narratively so that it's interesting to people and so that you see what it's like to go through the courts from a climate's perspective. i talk about an 18-year-old who was in a car accident and charged with vehicular manslaughter. i talk about a 12-year-old who's accused of sexual assault because he played with a neighbor boy allegedly. and i talk about a death penalty case and other cases like that. and i try to tell the story through the perspective of those climates and what it's like for them and how important the lawyer's role is. because, um, the court system can be very overwhelming when you look at it, you know? and you walk into any court in the country, and you'll see rows and rows and rows of people sitting on benches or standing in the hallways who are meeting their lawyers for the first time on the fly, don't know their names, you know? they thrust out their hand, they fill out a story in five minutes, and then they ask this pe

. >> if he believes in the united states and the justice system, why did he take a chance with the courtse system of the united states? >> very often, it doesn't work. >> we'll leave it there, gentlemen. michael, norman, thanks to both of you. i appreciate your time. >>> still ahead, four nfl teams, four coaches, biting their nails this weekend, hoping big wins tomorrow will send them to the super bowl. wait until you hear what one of the coaches reportedly warned his teammates about in tomorrow's game. >>> plus, we'll take you live to park city, utah, for the sun dance film festival. you'll hear from actors about the new film, "love is strange." ? natural gas? nuclear? or renewables like solar... and wind? let's find out. this is where america's electricity comes from. a diversity of energy sources helps ensure the electricity we need is reliable. take the energy quiz. energy lives here. >>> police tell me the suspect in this shooting did turn himself in to police about 1:00 p.m. local time, just a short time ago. no further details were given about this suspect. we do know that he is a

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it's not the classic double jeopardy and others are saying no, in the united states legal system, certainlyrt of thing. it is very different here and this would not have happened. double jeopardy would apply. i suspect this is going to be a long road for amanda knox. bottom line is we don't know how or why the judges came down the way they came down. the judges have about 90 days until they write their decision. at that time we can discern why they made this ruling and what the next steps would be. what the basis would be for trying to fight extradition. >> it was incredible because it was the same science and evidence that proved her acquittal a couple of years ago and now we have this guilty verdict. drew griffin, we saw this documentary and you and the team put together here at cnn, you looked into this and this prosecutor had a tarnished past. he was even found guilty of abusing his position. you talked to him in your documentary, murder abroad. the story of amanda knox. tell me what he was like. what did you find out? >> this is a prosecutor who was convicted of abuse of power in yet a

>> they are making the case that this is a new technology that the united states needs. the old systemd they can bring efficiencies. they are trying to talk past the previous pitfalls of using bitcoin for illicit activities and focus on what it can do for business and consumers. >> who is the opposition? is it all regulators concerned that bitcoin will be used for illicit purposes or are there industries that perceived bitcoin as a threat? >> it has been mostly regulators who are particularly worried about money laundering, about moving currencies for illicit purposes. the other industries that move money that are potentially threatened by bitcoin, they do not come out of the woodwork yet. i think it could be a while before they do. after all, this is really an embryonic industry. >> the organization we keep hearing about that is backing bitcoin is the bitcoin foundation. any sense of who is behind that? is it all investors trying to get rich on bitcoin or perhaps libertarians who do not want to deal with a central bank? who is backing bitcoin? >> the interesting thing is it is a littl

and the health care system in the united states is not really a system.whole bunch of cottage industries, and we're coming together as a system, and to drive more and more efficiency across our organization. >> so here's a question about costs. one of the big issues is not you just get enough people insured so they can get insurance in an affordable way, but what do consumers of health care now do? the number of people going into hospitals is far down. a lot of people now have insurance. we saw this week they're still going to the er to get health care, which is very expensive. or maybe they're not spending their health dollars in the way they should for their overall wellness, which could still drive costs in the future. >> there's no question that having insurance is a good step forward for everyone. but folks don't necessarily know what they've got when they go on the exchange is buy something until they get ill. preventative services may be covered but these narrow networks that likely will develop and can you keep your doctor, all of that will play o

look at our budgets closely and realized we were spending $80 billion to run our prison systems in the united statesan't think of any other industry that would have such a failure rate. two-thirds of people who come home from prison go back to prison within two to three years. our criminal justice system continues to operate, though. >> professor, from your research, how effective could a change in how kids are disciplined in schools be to arrest rates themselves? >> well, that's a difficult question. our research didn't really address that. but what we do know, i would echo the other comments, we know that arrests create serious baggage for young people as they make the transition from adolescence to adulthood. so there are lots of problems that flow from arrest experiences. and so as a society, we need to be very careful in thinking about whether this is the right response to the kinds of behaviors that many kids engage in. >> okay. thank you all for being here today. >> thank you. >>> while new jersey's governor is embroiled in bridgegate, the new mayor of the big apple is dealing with a scandal

if the united states people are not comfortable with the three bites of the apple the system has had, the unreliability of the dna. i can't imagine given it, the state would approve the extradition. stranger things have happened but it seems unrealistic. >> i want to bring you in. you've covered this from the beginning. when it comes to the legal system, it can go on and on and on. this court, in fact, had ruled last time they didn't like the acquittal. what is the -- what was new about this for them? what was the evidence that compelled them to say the acquittal was wrong? >> well, this court has 90 days in which they have to write up their reasoning and deliver their opinion, and only then will we really know why they decided to uphold the conviction for both amanda knox and raffaele sew let sollecito. they can take a look at the knife. all they had was the knife, highly contested. the defense has always argued there's not enough dna attributed to meredith kercher, not enough to decide this is the murder weapon. this court chose to take a look at the knife. this court had discounted

los angeles had the best mass transit system in the united states it was all above ground street cars and general motors and goodyear. firestone it was came in and said to give to the city council we'll take over your subway system and run it for you more efficiently less expensively and we'll take better care of it and so the city privatized it and then they proceeded to rip up the tracks and and because they've they were all about tires and cars you know and and the l.a. the then turned into this incredible monster that it is to this day although they're starting to build back their mass transit system it was there is some sort of corporate conspiracy i mean those two companies are actually convicted in court of criminal conspiracy in that case but you know was there something i lied about a lead in the suburbs or or was it just as you say early the site guys of the time was it just hey let's go out and live out in what used to be a farmland. it was it was a combination of things but there was a consortium and they did they were fined and it was a conspiracy to sort of tear up our p

united states. they set up systems to make it work, it is a very corrupt system the ncaa. i visited the academic support center, it's a three story building professors are not allowed before the first floor. it's this entire operation that the campus allows to happen that is actually independent of all the professors. and that's just one story, one state, one school. so this is happening anywhere, where frankly a school's financial success, its donor giving success its booster success lives and dice what happens on the football field. >> there goes the academics and athletics. we know who won. thanks for your time. >> thank you sheila. >> straight ahead, quitting with a marching band. we'll run over the ways workers have gone big and gone home. >>> parenting, the dark matter of love, later on. new lights use low wattage led rights, neither harmful for the trees nor dangerous for the kids that may touch them. >> many play-off spots in the n.f.l. are still to be decided. mark morgan is here to explain it all. >> hey, a lot of anxiety in dallas, wondering what the dallas cowb

it was my predecessor, who established the first charter high school embedded in a jail system in the united states. the five key charter school is now as if early this year we celebrated the anniversary. we celebrated the largest graduating class of incarcerated. why this is important, when this was established some years ago in san francisco, i'm sure how you can imagine how many other counties saw this as a kind of thing for san francisco to do and now we are a city and count that is experiencing the low population in jails and we are beginnings to see an incredible nexus between our efforts to try and reduce recidivism and try turn around people's lives, the five key charter school has been a healthy part of our efforts. to the point now we are the largest jail system on the planet. the department is down this department. that says a lot. the work inside the jail that is known to the communities where there is most distressed or quarrelary relationships to the criminal justice systems having the satellite of the 5 keys and partnering with the puc's is that more innovative in our endeavor about

[cheering] >> the fact is that our chemical policy system in the united states, whether it's at the state level or at the federal level, is broken. >> the toxic substances control act, my joke is it's the law that never lived up to its name. >> when they passed the law in 1976, they grandfathered in about 62,000 chemicals, called them safe because they were already in use. some of these chemicals that we knew nothing about at the time are turning out to be problematic. >> and according to the general accounting office, 85% of new chemical applications and their technical names of pre-manufacture notice include no testing data whatsoever. >> under the toxic substances control act, or tsca, the burden is on the environmental protection agency to show that an industrial chemical is unsafe. epa can only ask the company for data or require testing if epa can prove that there is a potential risk. and that's hard to do without access to the company's data in the first place. >> the burden of proof has to shift. it has to be on the companies, not on the government. the companies are making the pr

system. in the united states, the concern we have about the public health system is that we have the adequate infrastructure and support for the government aspects of public health that protect us, keep our water supplies safe, that protect us against outbreaks of new infections or new diseases, that assure that we have the best policies to protect the public health at the state and local level as well as the federal level, that we pay enough attention to that infrastructure that we can protect ourselves as a society. but for public health officials, health is no longer just a local or national concern, it has global dimensions. james curran: well, you know, certainly during my lifetime, the world has shrunken. i guess it's the same size as it's always been, but the airplanes take us as well as microbes and organisms and animals rapidly between countries and between continents. this is not the "guns, germs, and steel" environment of-- represented in the book, but rather it's an environment where there's very rapid transmission of ideas, of concepts, and of risks. for example, if it's true tha

recognize that we're in one global food system and we need to make sure that at the top of the bottom we're doing well known were incredibly wasteful here in the united states. i'm wondering also if i mean holland has had a national health care system since after world war two as has virtually all of the rest of europe and the german one goes back to the hundred ninety s. . might those countries be making decisions that result in healthier outcomes as matters of both public policy and social pressure because people don't want to be spending you know more in taxes or whatever you know for the national health system and could you know the advent of obamacare of a national health care system or the you know vested. piece of one here in the united states could that be pushing us to do this well we hope so but what you're doing is connecting health care health and food and which are often very disconnected in our lives in here in the new year and in other countries too i couldn't say whether because they have better health care system that's why the dutch are healthier and eat healthier there may be some connection there and why is saudi arabia so low on the rig

worrying about iran's intentions, that's why they bring in this missile system and test it one and one, and thanks the u.s., and united statesenators who were visiting here today for actually funding this missile system as something they believe they need to secure their state in the future. >> and nick there was somewhat of an olive branch issued to secretary kerry concerning the settlements but not much. >> not at all, as one israeli official put it to me, we were going to announce 1400 before he leaves, if we announce them after he leaves, what is the big deal, we don't really care. we get our point across, and we avoid putting our finger into kerry's eye. but the palestinians say the settlements are settlements, if you are going to expect us to have a viable, contiguous palestinian state you cannot build not only settlements, but a road in the heart of what we hope is the future palestinian state, dell. >> thank you very much. >>> iraqi security forces aided by local tribesmen striking back today. 62 al-qaeda firefighters were billed west of bagdad, but the violence has now spread to where the government had to retreat.

opponents argue allowing him to practice law in the united states undermines the justice system. >> thene flu is back in marin county but this time health officials are prepared. four years ago the swine flu killed 14,000 world wide and five in marin county. the problem was that strain of swine flu was new and not in the vaccine available at the time. officials say 20 percent of the tests have come back positive for swine flu and ad everyone should be vaccinated. the flu is hard on the elderly. >> the weather has been cold and dry raising major concerns for growers in the valley. fresno county has a huge found usually hissen by water. the snow pack is just a fraction of what is normal. a grower expressed concern. >> farming is a lively hood a lot of people here and it affects a lot of people down the stream. a private spot is the people have a chance to explore parts of the lake that usually are submerged. tomorrow there will be a clear picture of the water situation. >> another round of flooding is expected for people living near the bay in mill valley and sausalito. yesterday morning,

>> all around the world in advanced nations except for the united states healthcare providers, hospitals, physicians, and the system as a whole live on a budget. they live on an expectation of what they'll be getting. it's only in the united states where the sky is the limit. and i think there is a recognition that that is a formula for a lot of financial trouble economically. so we are experimenting, but other nations are moving in that direction. they already have fixed budgets and they're moving very aggressively to award providers to do a better job keeping people healthy so they don't end up in the hospital. we have experiments around the country that are very encouraging that say this could work. we will see what happens when a whole state takes on this challenge. >> john mcdonough, director of the center for public health leadership at harvard university, john, thank you. >>> president obama says when it comes to the economy he won't wait for congress to act. he has plans for the coming year. and five years ago today a flock of birds caused the plane crash that has been known as the miracle on the hudson. ho

in the united states, our standardsization system is lead by the private sector with hundred of individuals standard developing organizations or sc, working in different technical area in the sector. it's a consensus-based and market driven process that open to participation by all effective stake hollywooders. importantly the u.s. government is one such stakeholder and federal, state, and local government are active partner in the develop of standards and codes when the activity is relevant to their needs. the government uses the standards in a variety of ways including to establish internal procedures and develop regulations for public safety and welfare. our national standardization system and the public/private partnership are reflected in the national technology transfer and advancement act of 1995 and the associated omb circular a119. the ntaa districts agencies to consider the use of private sector developed standards in lieu of the government unique standards been developing a voluntary consensus standards to a regulation federal agencies are permitted to incorporate the standards b

has taken to law into his own hands and he is unwilling to face the legal system that awaits him back here in the united states. >> mark stout would it be a mistake to make law around such a outliar case? or are we with being pushed there? >> i think by sop extent we are being pushed there, but i also don't think he will be the last case that we see along these lines. in fact, he is not even the first. bradley or chelsea manning depending on how you want to refer to that individual, basically did something very very similar, with much less sensitive information, and i think that the nature that some people are called super powers individuals is such that we will see more of this. so sooner or later there will have to be a political reckoning on how we as a society, and also we as a government or a legal system is where going to deal with this. >> if we see the system, so that somebody that works with a private company doesn't get to see the inner sang up the, will we have put it further away? >> i don't think so. i this i that's something that people can agree to disagree, but i don't think the issue here is c

politically corrupt system in the united states at the state and local and federal level i mean it's just it's happening all over the place it's very difficult for politicians these days not to be corrupted by politics in fact it's increasingly virtually impossible for them to run for office behaving in a way that could get you to this kind of trouble one of the things you mention are the loopholes and i read a excellent article and the new york times by eric lipton and which actually points out that loophole that if you just basically funnel everything through a super pac and you can get those lavish ski vacation and trips to the golf course and a lot of people don't pay this loophole any attention and it's amazing because it's just that i mean you can you can do it it's just about how you do it. you know how i just. want to shed some light on how this is being overlooked right now. well first of all our media doesn't talk about it much and we kind of sideways like during the republican primaries it was well shelly adelson has decided he's going to back rick santorum well this week

northeastern areas of the united states are in the grip of a weather system which has brought with it heavy snow to boston, new york, to some of the places to be under a link it up tick snow, which is making for perilous driving conditions, which has resulted in the cancellation of dozens of flights. we have more now from a very .hilly new york >> it is freezing cold here in new york city. a winter storm has hit the entire northeast coast of the united states. here in central park, it is about -12 degrees centigrade today, around 16 centimeters of snow have fallen. thousands or hundreds of flights have been canceled, and transport is disrupted here. however,y is working, and that's how i got here. some people are enjoying this snow. it looks like a winter wonderland here in central park. >> the retired formula one legend michael schumacher remains in a coma following a skiing accident in the french outs last weekend. a group of loyal supporters have been gathering this friday outside the hospital where he is fighting for his life. they are holding a silent tribute because today is his