james ridgeway and anthony graves. anthony graves will tell his remarkable story and journey from death row, solitary confinement, for almost 18 years, to freedom after being exonerated. stay with us. ♪ [music break] ♪ [music break] >> this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with juan gonzalez. our guests are james ridgeway, the co-editor of solitary watchdog come. we're also joined by anthony graves, a former texas death row prisoner who testified tuesday at the first ever congressional hearing on solitary confinement in u.s. prisons. he was convicted along with a man named robert carter of killing a texas woman, her daughter, and her four grandchildren. graves was fully exonerated in 2010 after spending 18 years behind bars, the bulk of that time on death row and in solitary confinement. he is now an investigator the texas defender service and an active member of the movement to abolish the death penalty. anthony graves, thank you very much for coming to "democracy now!"

and look it is anthony cumea, co-host of the "opi expe anthony -- and an thon nay show." >> today in science the jennette tau cysts sequenced the genome in the hope of breeding better specimens and found that it is 30,000 genes versus 30,000 in a human being. which begs the question, who cares? and furthermore, why do we do this story to begin with? never mind. >> everything you say begs the question, who cares? i'm talking to both of you. >> making fun of an inadd met -- an inadd do met object. why go through the paces? mitt romney may have officially clinched the gop nomination. apparently the election is already over. according to a volume gist, the skies predict an obama reprize. five star stargazers assess the opponent and say barak will be back. for you know nothings, that's when the sun enters the sign of air reece. that clinches the decision. she says, quote, it is obvious obama stays where it is without a change in status. you know who is not staying where he is? no uh stroll gist predicted that. anthony, welcome to the show. >> hi, sir. >> should romney just abandon his cam

if things go the way chicago cubs brass hopes a reason to remember this at the beginning of the anthonyus just say expectations are higher and foremost. high curiosity 22 year-old first baseman on to the field for batting practice no wonder triple a/shear anthony rizzo wrote and 163 runs and 163 games 23 home runs in seven games this year the chicago cubs first baseman of the future is here hopefully tuesday. >> tried to establish myself as a major league first baseman everyday player closers i want to be there every day have my teammates coaching staff even the defense big situation up there have been confidence >> and the lineup note what date will be there all that breath of fresh air for everyone >> here was the big moment chicago cubs first at bat for anthony rizzo in the first to the clippers sharp ground ball to short ruben tejada baubles this it goes infield single and chicago cubs trailed 2-0 rally third and then luis valbuena drive into right field corner with bryan lahair scoring chicago cubs tied the game bryan lahair anthony rizzo at a big moment to drive to left school ste

somos testigos de un encuentro muy especial con marc anthony.s ahora mismo en "primer impacto." ♪ >>> esta criatura se vio obligada a arrastrar un peso, pero un equipo de expertos puso manos a la obra para librarlo del tumor. >>> les saluda tambiÉn pamela silva conde. y mÁs adelante los detalles de esta cirugÍa que le cambiÓ la vida a este pequeÑo. >>> comenzamos con el brutal acto de una madre que le quemÓ los brazos porque sacÓ dinero a escondindas para comprar u jugo. >>> juana de los santos es detenida luego que sus vecinos llamaron para denunciar el desgarrador castigo que le hizo, les quemo las manos. >>> un testigo dijo que luego de golpearlo, la despiadada mujer le pegÓ las manos a la hoguera. >>> el pequeÑo dijo que su mamÁ le quemÓ por beberse un jugo. >>> ¿por quÉ te quemaron? >>> mi mamÁ me quemÓ. >>> el niÑo agarrÓ 10 pesos, ella tenÍa un dinero ahi, y lo hizo varias veces. >>> laÍa dice que la victima lloran por la falta de su mamÁ que habÍa sido una buena mujer. >>> ella nunca lo tratÓ mal a ese niÑo, tiene tres niÑos, quien va a

also next for anthony pitch, nancy go ahead with your comment. >> caller: yes. i have an ancestor, his name was john burns and he lived in akron, new york, and he fought in the war of 1812. and i requested his war records and received a lot of documentation for where he tried to get, i guess, the land that was supposed to be granted to him. later after he died, hi wife even tried to do that, and was never granted any land. so were there a lot of those tha were not given the land amp the war of 1812 is my question? because i really don't know a lot about the his trips that you're speaking of. that's why i'm listening today. >> again that really doesn't focus on the burning of washington. which i'm here to talk about. that's not my field. >> what was the size of the u.s. military force? >> marines, 114 fought at the battle. there were according to records i found 27,000 regulars, but spread thinly from the canadian frontier right down to the gulf. >> how many would have been in washington at the time? >> very, very few. the 114 were the best, finest units amongst

the british invasion of 1814, and our guest is the author of the book, anthony pitch. we hear from princeton, new jersey, next. theresa, welcome to the program. >> caller: thank you. it's a compelling image to think about dolley saving some of her husband's papers, but i would like to know what efforts were made to save government papers in general before the attack, and was there a change in how they were kept after that? >> that's a good question. dolley did save a lot of the papers. her husband had asked her to do that. she got a carriage the day before the british arrived. it was filled mostly with government papers, as the expense of their personal property, most of which was destroyed. but on capitol hill, there was turmoil, pandemonium, fear, confusion. and most of the government agencies remained staffed, because most of the clerks were over 45 and exemption caught up to them. in the basement of the house of representatives, nearly all the offices were empty, because most of the clerks were young people, and so any j.t. foster individual was there. he had a sca

no casey anthony video. no casey anthony audio. no casey anthony.recedence-setting interview. from her perspective, in a p.r. sense, no one will be terribly empathetic but it was perfect because what she did, the first rule of public relations, you control the agenda. what she did in this interview and the people around her, they made pierce morgan their spokesman and his job was to deliver one message, and the message was, as you said, i did not kill my daughter, and i am ashamed of what i was. it was from a public relations point of view, from her perspective, perfect. >>shepard: i don't, why think i need to ask what it was from the perspective of cnn. >>guest: no, you don't. >>shepard: is casey starting a rebuilding campaign? who is to say? >>guest: now, you would talk with her if you had the chance. it is a news story. this is a first initial re-entry back into the public. no one will be sympathetic to this girl now, but, if you said to me, how should we position hero entry so she minimizes her risk of looking bad or fat or whatever, of sounding

if you are somebody like anthony whose fast money but anthony of course managing billions and stretching that out over months and months, i think what happened with germany is huge. they wore down merkel after that that tremendous victory over germany. sorry my german froends. she came in. still has it get by brenda spank and the rest of the 17 desperate nations as far as their banking authority, scott. but it is the right move. this is a very positive step going forward. will it save this quarter and earnings? no. but i think it puts new a position to see recoveries out of stongs that we have talked about with you. nike for instance. and tiffany's. i bought tiffany at the end of the quarter because they were beaten up and people were throwing the baby out with the bath water thinking we wouldn't see positive things out of europe. this is a very positive step, scott. so again, depending on what your fame frame is, you take time off if you are a short term trader like us or if you are longer term, you build big positions. >> you're not the only one buying shares of tiffany today, dock. th

marc anthony, thanks for your time.reciate it so much. >> coming up, the dilemma over natural disasters. two states need help right now. but mitt romney says they're on their own. find out why next. > to the big finish tonight. thousands of firefighters will spend another night trying to contain the wildfires just scorching colorado's high country. the weather is dry and the wind is still gusting. more than 10,000 people have evacuated their homes. the fires have blackened at least 90,000 acres. but so far, no one has been hurt. amazing. the number of firefighters and the amount of equipment required to fight the fires is staggering. colorado simply could not do it alone. the military brought in four specialized c-130 aircraft. 1400 forest service workers battling the flames in shifts. the department of the interior sent another 500 firefighters. that's on top of colorado's local resources. then there's the money. fema is releasing grants to pay 75% of the state's firefightering costs. at the same time, florida is getti

casey anthony has broken hee si.hony. repeatedly that sse did nott - kill her aughter caylee.she says, she also egrets how she handled the investigation. morgan then discussed their conversation with anthony's attorney. ((piers morgan: how would you categorize wwere she is now? well, she's in a different prison in reality. she's not in 24 hour a day ockdown like she as for three years in norris county jaal. but shh'ss in a home where she ccn't go putside. she fears ann we fear for er to go outsiie at all. she can't be seen. so she spends the day in the house.)) comment on anthony's futuree plans... but says she would probably like to be a mother again. your retirment could be delayed... if one group gets its wwy. way.a new report from a parii think-tank suggests countries around the world neee to raise the retirrment ageeas peoppe continuu to live llnger..he organization for economic co- opeeation and development says governments arr going to run out of money if something doesn't change.that's already happening in th

you're a parent, anthony.g that. >> i lost my daughter in the mall for ten seconds and i completely panicked. >> she was probably 3 at the time. >> she was 5 or 6. >>> finally, brooklyn nets star has an atm in his kitchen. yes,he did shawn stevenson runs a cash-only household. the 6'5" guard paid 3500 for the machine, fills it five or six times a year with 20,000 bucks and charges friends a steep atm fee of $4.50 to use it. >> so 20,000 bucks four or five times a year, he's getting a pretty good return on that investment. >> i am the cash machine in my house for my kid, but i don't get 4.50 a pop. >>> a jolly good time is being head all over england and we'll speak with the host of this festive street party hosting the queen's diamond jubilee. stick around, you're watching "cbs this morning: saturday." >>> i like that, it's not a bble head, it's a bobble wrist. >> it's fabulous. >> i want to talk about this atm. he's charging his buddies, i guess, who use it? >> it's bizarre. >> what's the most you've paid for

he addressed anthony bologna's daughter. he said he admired her for having the courage to speak. she spoke to the jury about what she has been going through. he still did noted a nite the killings and talked about -- did not admit to the killings and talked about it. they filed a motion for a new trial but the judge tossed it out and praised the anthony bologna family. the defense was trying to say emotional outburst from the family tainted the jury's decision. the jury convicted him last month. he is 25 years old. prosecutors say he fired shots believing one of the sons was a rival gang member june 22, 2008. he has been in jail for the past four years and he will spend the rest of his life in prison. live, ktvu channel 2 news. . >> thank you. developing news minutes ago. san francisco police wrapped up a press conference to release photos of people they are looking for in connection with the killing of a bay to breakers race participate. they are looking for a group of men wearing 49ers jerseys and women who were with them on the attack of stephen martin. he suffered a critical

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first, anthony mason, our senior business correspondent. anthony? >> reporter: any way you look at them, scott, these numbers were simply ugly. after that winter of strong gains in job growth, those three straight discouraging months suggests the u.s. economy is losing speed. not since may of last year has the economy created so few jobs. and not only were the numbers this may weak, but april was revised down sharply too, from 115,000 jobs created to just 77,000. >> the labor market recovery has essentially stalled. >> reporter: millan mulraine, senior strategist with t.d. securities, says the u.s. economy has looked fundamentally solid. housing has stabilized. consumer confidence and spending are up. >> what has changed over the past month or so is a development of the escalation of the crisis in europe, and i think that's beginning to infect the u.s. economy. >> reporter: just as it did this time last year, hiring has slowed as businesses have grown increasingly concerned about a global slowdown. well, we always worry. >> reporter: uri minkoff is

en torno a este caso. >>> revuelo causÓ la detencion de anthony santos.eas corpus que viene. >>> y un abuso porque anthony logrÓ salir absuelto en el sentido, de los conceptos. >>> el pleito fue dado por y nilo que dijo que planeo dos canciones. >>> bien por ellos, no hay probles. >>> bien temprano, el ex presidente mejÍa visitÓ al cantante. >>> compromiso con algui que es un sÍmbolo en el pais. >>> otros fueron max y lenny. >>> es una falta de respeto, Él fue el que nos inspirÓ a nosotros, es un hombre bueno, y un gio en su mÚsica. >>> la fiscalÍa solicitÓ al juez que condene a santos a pagar una indemnizaciÓn de 52 mil dolares. y el bachatero pidiÓ disculpas por no presentarse en la procuradurÍa general de justicia cuando se lo requiriÓ. >>> gracias. y bien, el famoso mÚsico puertoriquiÑo, yomo toro se debate entre la vida y la muerte, gabriela polanco nos cuenta. >>> triste la noticia de yomo toro que estÁ recluido en este hospital, y gue complicado de salud. >>> un fallo renalmantiene en este hospital al famoso cuatrista yomo toro. y aunque circulÓ el

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anthony and her attorney spoke to cnn's piers morgan by phone. telling him, she spends her days indoors, cooking, cleaning and reading and watching tv. now, anthony said she was ashamed in many ways of the person that she was. but denied murdering 2-year-old caylee. >> i said to her, what are the biggest misconceptions? she said, there's several misconceptions. obviously, i didn't kill my daughter. she said that very firmly. if anything, there's nothing in this world i've been more proud of. and there's no one i loved more than my daughter. she's my greatest accomplishment. >> anthony is reading "the hunger games." that trilogy. she also said that caylee was her greatest, quote, accomplishment in life. >>> shocking video out of texas. a toddler winds up at the center of a dangerous police chase. >> officers in lubbock were chasing four teen robbery suspects, when the suspects' car flipped over, throwing an 18-month-old girl out of the back window. you see the child in that little red sweatshirt, stand up and run to the car, before someone gets up

. >>> casey anthony surfacing overnight for the first time. speaking out about her time in hiding after her acquittal. she's pushing back against that party girl persona and claiming her innocence. >>> as we come on the air, brand-new pictures of will and kate. they are getting huge cheers, kate and the queen, as the jubilee celebrations continue. they cannot get enough of kate over there in great britain. it's still pretty cold there, robin. >> it was pretty nippy over there. >>> let's get to josh elliott and the developing stories. >> we're going to begin with breaking news in northern colorado. that killer wildfire tearing across even more land overnight, spreading across almost 70-square miles now. flames, you see there, leaping into the sky. the smoke, so thick, it has enveloped the city of denver, 60 miles away. and now, the war against this fire is about to intensify. abc's ginger zee is there in the fire zone. ginger, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, josh. more crews are being dispatched right now. we expect an army of 7

here's anthony davis, everybody. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy" anthony here. they're all proud. they're sitting over there. say hi to those guys. i mean this is a big time in your life here. thursday, what time is this draft happening? like 8 o'clock? >> i think 7:30. >> jimmy: 7:30, yeah. you're streaming it on like sprint mobile app thing? >> yeah. sprint mobile, nba mobile app. there's a phone, and it's an app, so when you go on a phone, then you can stream it live. you know, from a sprint -- >> jimmy: i can exactly how excited -- do you know how excited your face is going to be when you get drafted? >> no, i'm sure yet. >> jimmy: no, not sure yet. >> still working on it. >> jimmy: yeah, you're working on it. yeah. >> looking in the mirror. >> jimmy: yeah, just be like -- [ laughter ] there you go, yeah. now your eyebrows were a topic this year. during the -- i've got to say, well i love it. you rock the uni-brow proudly. >> yeah. >> jimmy: yeah. and no really, we're all on team uni-brow. bow down to the brow. bow to the brow, right? >> correct. >> ji

please welcome anthony bourdain! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> jimmy: anthony bourdain.eing me barbecuing in "the situation room." >> jimmy: what, you're going to hang with wolf blitzer? >> he does a mean brisket. [ laughs ] >> jimmy: what are you doing though for cnn? >> a travel show. what we know how to do. same team, same production company. >> jimmy: really? >> just a bigger world. i'm guessing that cnn can get us into a lot of the destinations that we've had trouble getting into. >> jimmy: like where do you want to get into? >> i'm obsessed with "apocalypse now" and "heart of darkness." i want to go up the congo river. libya sounds good to me. >> jimmy: oh, my god. are you crazy. >> cool places like that. >> jimmy: oh, my gosh. i love that you have the guts to do all of this stuff. i can't do half the stuff you do. >> i was, you know, standing on my feet next to a frialator for most of my life. so, given the chance late in life to have a lot of fun and see the world, i'm going to do it. >> jimmy: yeah, but so this is -- when does this start? >> we should start -- a

>> jimmy: anthony and tracy from cincinnati.way, this is why costco sells those huge bales of toilet paper, for people like laurie handler! [ booing ] we can do that every night, you know? [ laughter ] in other bad news for our country, a new reality tv dating show premiered tonight on fox, called "the choice." on it, four celebrity bachelors sit with their backs to the potential dates, whif they like how they sound, they hit a button and spin around -- it's like "thevoice" meeting dating. it's vd, is what they should call it. the first episode tonight featured celebrity bachelors, pauly d from "jersey shore," jeremy bloom, romeo and jason cook from "general hospital." at the end of the show, the celebrities turn around, if the girl recognizes any of them, she wins a date. [ laughter ] you know, i've always wondered if jason cook from "general hospital" would find love and now i get to watch it on primetime television. thank you, fox. the show is -- it's a departure for pauly d. because he's not used to meeting a girl on tv and

let's look at that now. >> anthony cornice.es christopher -- >> jimmy: now, that's -- that didn't seem like a ton of cheering to me. who was that screaming, was that you, tracy? was that mom screaming? >> that wasn't me. now, in the beginning, it was me, but the last little scream, that wasn't me. >> jimmy: so, you are just popular, there's nothing you can do about that, right? >> exactly. >> jimmy: now, because your family cheered too much, the holding yourdy phone is a, saying you need to complete 20 hours of community service, as if this was felony cheering or something. and are you going to do this community service? >> no, sir. >> jimmy: good! [ applause ] don't do it. you know, we wanted to speak to anthony last night but he couldn't do it because he had a double shift at the nursing home he works at. for real. the school superintendent actually supported this decision by the principal. does the school super intent den know you work at a nursing home? >> ah, no, sir. >> he doesn't know much. >> reporter: her name is lauri

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we begin with my exclusive conversation with casey anthony. i spoke to her and her attorney just a little while ago. she's been in hiding ever since she was found not guilty in the death of her daughter caylee. what she told me was about her life now. and she says she was wrong by not being honest with officials. cheney mason. a member of the defense team. he joins me now exclusively. it was an extraordinary moment. we were in my office. you put your client on the phone. you put it on loud speaker. it was your phone. we had a sort of ten-minute conversation. a random conversation in many ways. it gave me an insight into i guess her state of mind. how she's feeling about her life now. before we get to that, how would you categorize where she is now? >> well, she's in a different prison in reality. she's not in 24 hour a day lockdown like she was for three years in norris county jail. but she's in a home where she can't go outside. she fears and we fear for her to go outside at all. she can't be seen. so she spends the day in the house and she c

please welcome, anthony mackie! >> jimmy: one of our favorites. >> hey, come on. >> jimmy: we love you, anthony mackie every time you come on. how many times have you been on? probably 11 times? >> this is five. >> jimmy: five times? >> when i hit 11, we doing a whole 'nother thing. >> jimmy: yeah. >> we're shutting it down. we're shutting it down. you have no idea what i'm going to do when i hit 11. >> jimmy: you brought on the beverage. you brought on the beverage. >> yeah. yeah. yeah. and commemorative fashion of being from new orleans i brought my beverage on with me so i could celebrate it with you. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: all right. very nice. what kind of beverage is that? >> i bought a extra cup so you could have -- [ laughter ] >> jimmy: i appreciate that. >> there's some for the people. cheers. >> jimmy: let me just try this here. >> here you go. [ applause ] don't go hard! don't go hard! just -- that's for you for the rest of the show. just sip and go. sip and go. >> jimmy: now, let's talk about

we have two reports, first anthony mason on wall street. anthony?>> reporter: scott, europe remains the number-one concern here at the new york stock exchange, but in the end, the greek vote left investors unimpressed. wall street may have breathed a sigh of relief, but there was no relief rally. the greek vote averted one crisis, but others are still lurking. ian bremmer heads the eurasia group, a global risk consulting firm. >> we have not resolved anything in greece. we have kicked the can down the road. we haven't kicked it very far. >> this is a victory for all europe. >> reporter: greece still must assemble a coalition government. and while greece is trying to regain its footing, spain is starting to wobble. nearly a quarter of workers there are unemployed and the country's borrowing costs have soared into the danger zone. more than 7%. >> soój÷ they're at a point whee they can't afford to borrow. >> reporter: economist stephen guilfoyle is with meridian equity partners. when greece, portugal and ireland saw their borrowing costs rise to 7%, a

anthony mason and bill whitaker on the economy. a congressional committee votes to hold america's top law enforcement officer in contempt of congress. what does the attorney general know about a failed gun investigation? nancy cordes and sharyl atkinson has the story. on the first day the summer, the east boils, the midwest floods, and in one town animals swim out of a zoo. and they tackled her when she snuck into the boston marathon. michelle miller with the athlete who changed history, proving a woman's place is in the race. >> there isn't a girl in this country who should grow up with a sense of limitation. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. we have been struggling through the weakest economic recovery the u.s. has seen, and today, the federal reserve projected under sluggish growth and high unemployment ahead. the fed said its last forecast back in april was too optimistic. here's how the outlook for next year, 2013, has changed. the fed had expected growth in

let's forget anthony davis is the top nba draft pick.s made headlines about the unibrow and trademarking phrases fear the brow and raise the brow. >> fear the brow. i've heard that before. sounds like a homeland security profiling slogan so the agents can figure out how to randomly frisk at the airport. you know, i mean, go for it. i think it sounds ridiculous. he should be careful. a lot of people are not unibrow tolerant. i'm pretty sure the younger romney would have tackled him a long time ago and begin him a nonconsensual threading. he's not the first one to be identified with a unibrow. frida rocked it early on. she was so associated with the look, her motto was be the brow. it was even better -- more positive than fear the brow. good luck to him. shrewd and ludicrous, brow savvy. >> might work on the court. >> wish him well. >> let's talk about something very bizarre happening in the big apple. one of america's favorite furry friends elmo, one of the elmos has been apparently terrorizing tourists in central park. is this true? look