so the main characters charmaine and stan begin the story living in their car. so what gave you the thought to set the book in this way with these characters in this situation? - well i started off with the idea-- so stan and charmaine are living in their car it's really awful. they did have a house, they did have jobs. they ended up losing those and they're in their car and it's a very unpleasant place to be because there's also no social controls and there's people roaming around trying to get their car away from them. - right the world around them - it's very dangerous. - [evan] has really kind of fallen down. - yeah no social structure. so then they see an ad on television. and the the ad on television says sign up for our project which promises full employment for everyone. - [evan] right. - you get sort of a digital tour of what you get and you get to live in a real house again, you get fluffy white towels. now the inspiration from that was, do you remember those leona helmsley hotel ads with the towels? - [evan] oh of course. oh yes of course. - those wer

charmaine chester was peter's assistant. this was also new it territory for her. >> out of the blue one day, i get this call. you have a collect call from -- an inmate at sing sing correctional facility. like, okay. >> soon she found herself spending hours on the phone with the inmate. >> at first, it was all, you know, business, case, case. by the time you talk to somebody every day, personal things start to slip in. >> friendship. >> friendship. >> in the meantime, her boss was checking out eric's claims of innocence. did you believe at the beginning? >> i'm not going to say i didn't disbelieve him. it's just i'm practicing law for a long time. okay? >> and people lie. >> they certainly color the truth. this is a man who was convicted of murdering someone. so, of course, i approached it with some skepticism. >> once cross learned the facts, he agreed to take eric's case at no charge. representing a man who didn't seem hardened by prison but almost frightened. >> it's terrifying because you can just be walking in the yard a

messenger" 24:28"conversation is the key - we know that. the conversation starts with these cards"major charmaine mcguffey says by asking inmates to buy these cards--they'll keep them care. "this is the right thing to do - this is the right thing to do for the justice center"so many -- waiting for so long. now... a new hope they'll get the answers they deserve22:30"my prayer is that these cards touch the inmates and they come forward with ifnromation to solve these homicides" sheriff jim neil says all the money raised by selling those cards will go straight back to the 'u can speak for me' group... so they can keep printing off more of them. back to you. new information on a deadly shooting in o-t-r. police say a man shot 31-year-old james mixon out of self-defense.the shooter claims mixon was trying to rob him.this happened near the corner of vine and green. so far the shooter is facing no charges - but police are reviewing surveillance video from some o-t-r businesses as part of their investigation. two people are dead in an apparent murder-suicide at a southern indiana factory. witnesses say a

as arik prince was acting banker -- a night in charmaine -- shining armor -- a knight in shining armor officials that were sitting there with no money. what we saw, we could see, and what our sources were saying, was what this was was an opportunity -- unlike the other proposals he was offering -- the ability to be a banker for libyan officials, and that is what started to get him into some real trouble. amy: mr. scahill:, --jeremy scahill, i wanted to ask about donald trump. he originally said on the about his foreign-policy advisers -- "i'm sticking with myself, number one, because i have a very good brain," but then with "the washington post," he talked about his foreign-policy advisers and named joseph schmitz as one of them. talk about joseph schmitz was. mr. scahill: joseph schmitz was the pentagon inspector general under donald rumsfeld, and did not inspect much of anything. he was a cheerleader for most of the excessive policies of rumsfeld and the pentagon in the post-9/11 world, and when schmitz left the dod, he became an executive at blackwater. radicalchmitz is a christian

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