the effects of this deal be how many possible ways could it go wrong joining me to discuss it is david wolman contributing editor at the daily coast and there in chief of congress matters david thanks so much for joining us tonight and i guess just right off the bat have we ever seen anything like this before me this seems like quite a big business move when you write a letter to forty eight states. well that's a pretty sweeping net that they've cast there that's just about everybody i don't think i've ever seen anything quite like that just sort of this wholesale offer to privatized an entire industry across forty eight states now that seems to me to be one of the more ambitious endeavors i've ever seen they tell us more about corrections corporation of america i mean how is it that they became the largest company in this for profit prison industry that is cash and the right time. well it's an extremely lucrative business in as you said the offer that they make is very tempting especially now this particular robber that they've made but the business model essentially is based on you know the