amy: barrett brown, are you able to step foot outside?ou are under house arrest. >> i can go to my front yard. i am supposed to be here unless i'm going to work or some other wholesome appointments. i really don't mind it. i'm kind of a homebody. i will be on probation. the local probation department in the northern district of texas is actually very kind. run by social worker types who wanted to get into this kind of business to help people. it just goes to show how these institutions -- they're not monolithic. there's nothing you can really say about them that they want to do this or this. it comes down to when the rule of law does not apply, when procedures can be violated when, both for good or ill, you're dealing with amorphous mass rather than pristine rule of law procedures that you can point to and say, this is a wholesome system of governance, something we can definitely practice and expect our rights will be maintained. it is more confiscated the net. amy: are you allowed to use a computer? >> that is debatable. the dop represen

journalist and activist barrett brown has been released from federal prison after he was arrested again on only one day thursday, before he was slated to be interviewed for an upcoming pbs documentary. he was imprisoned for unknown reasons. his arrest came after he served four years behind bars on charges related to the hacking of the private intelligence firm stratfor, which exposed how the firm spied on activists on behalf of corporations. last year, barrett brown won the national magazine award for a series of columns he wrote for the intercept. united ceo oscar munoz and other airline executives testified to the house of representatives transportation committee tuesday amid the ongoing fallout about the violent removal of a doctor who refused to be involuntarily rebooked from a flight. viral video shows a bloodied dr. david dao being dragged semi-conscious down the aisle of a united jet by airline security officers. dr. dao reportedly suffered a concussion, a broken nose and lost teeth during the violent removal. despite expressing outrage over the incident, lawmakers did not say th