that's what bob henderson has been fighting. >> come on, rizzo, they're spoiled. how can you tell? reporter: practicing what he breaches, henderson keeps a horse that once ran in the hills. a little on the smile side by wiley can be ridden, fed by hand, and he loves to play. >> i think people fail to see the beauty of what these truly are. >> reporter: the black bull is a purebred highland. >> reporter: this rancher loves horses, too, but he has grazing rights for his prized cattle. >> there are people on the other side of the fence who think that i'm mean spirited, we hate them and that's not the case. the fact of the matter is i want to see them managed. i think it's wise to do that. >> reporter: foaling season in the foothills the government has no plans for a round up any time soon. so this family and the rest of the herd are free to roam for now as humans try to make up their mind whether they're a national treasure or a nuisance. >> monsoon rains and overflowing rivers have flooded parts of india tuesday. people were forced to move to safer areas in the northern india. rising

let's get right to our panel and joining us now is democratic strategist and columnist bob shrum andnial malik cac hendersonhington post." bob shrum, i want to start with you. the whole chris christie versus rand paul, are they trying to get ahead of each other for the 2016 race? >> absolutely. i've been thinking about it ood today. in a way, i think rand paul is the barry goldwater of this race, and chris christie is the fell son rockefeller of this race. we know how that turned out at least in terms of primary politics. i'm strongly for rand paul. i think he's an idea did candidate for president for the democratic party. i think he would lose very badly. christie has a big problem. he's very conservative. for example, he pursues the romney economic policies. but he looks a little moderate with these primary voters because he stood next to the president during the hurricane because while he opposes marriage equality, he's for civil unions or at least he tolerates them and he accepted the expansion of medicaid under obama care. he's going to try to flip-flop his way through the primaries. he just vetoed the

with us from washington is nia-malika henderson and in los angelesing is strategist professor bob shrum, columnist for the daily beast and contributing professor at nyu. nia-malika, he said the moral cost of mass encars ration are impossible to calculate. but they do add up. $80 billion we've he spent to incarcerate prisoners in 2010 alone, 47% of those imprisoned for drug-related crimes. and some of them actually very minor. this is a situation that has long been in need of reform, isn't it? >> indeed, and you've had civil rights activists for years talking about this problem. you can measure it in terms of those, the dollar figure, but then it's not measurable in terms of the widespread impact in terms of lost connections that people have with their family members, if a father or brother or sister is in jail, lost productivity, lost economic power that's generated or not generated. >> not to say the vicious cycle of poverty, incarceration, continuing criminalization and so it goes on. >> exactly. in some ways have you had conservatives is pick up on this idea of looking at prison refo

with us from washington is nia-malika henderson, host of "on background," and in los angeles is democratic strategist and columnist for the daily beast, professor bobprofessor shrum, i don't know why eric cantor is wasting his time being berated by anous anchor. why isn't he out in virginia wearing a hard hat some place or is he worried about disturbing his magnificent head of hair? >> i think what they ought to do is send out a handbook to these guys on how to pass a bill. it could probably be about two pages long, not 31 pages long. the truth is. >> professor, they've passed a bill. it's called repeal the affordable be care act, and they passed it 40 times. >> yes, and i was going to say, how to pass a bill other than repealing obama care which is never going to become law. they're never going to repeal obama care. it's not going to happen. in fact, they're in a terrible situation. i think they know it. when the law takes effect in 2014, there are going to be tens of millions of people who are going to start getting help with health care. by the time the 2016 election comes along, that will have been in effect for almost three years. it will be p

bob? >> we still have showers south and east of us. take a lock at radar. we have a line of activity from about dover to henderson to denton. to the east of queenstown now. and just really around eastob. the strongest activity now is over southern portions of charles county. whether we have a severe thunderstorm warning until 6:15. the next few minutes, that storm is pretty strong, moving directly east at about 20 miles an hour. that's where the strongest storm is now. the rest of the region, from the city on north and west, very quiet. although there's a front hanging up across pennsylvania. we could still see a shower or thundershower later on tonight. although it looks rather isolated at best. most of the action now has slipped off to the south and southeast. and looks like tomorrow, we get that front through the area. lower humidity, dryer air moves in. a lot more comfortable this weekend. although it will be warm and pretty much sunny to partly cloudy skies. looks like a nice weekend. vic? >> okay, bob. thank you. >>> baltimore ravens are flying high against the tampa bay buccaneers. sports director mark viviano has mo